Setting off on an ocean voyage on a yacht with his wife Caroline, Peter Harden is unaware of the misfortune that awaits him. During a storm, the Hardens' yac...

Walter Benjamin is one of the most prominent and at the same time enigmatic intellectuals of the 20th century. His work—a mosaic that includes philosophy, li...

Why are some countries so rich and others so poor? Why did the Industrial Revolution—and the unprecedented economic growth that came with it—occur in England...

June 1941. Crimea, parallel reality. President Wrangel, a superbomb, spies, monarchist conspirators, German paratroopers... And in the very center of this ta...

You have in your hands the main work of the Italian economist and historical sociologist Giovanni Arrighi. He wrote it for fifteen years, from 1979 to 1994, ...

The main character of the novel, fleeing from ruthless killers, lands on a planet lost in the depths of space, where a tourist spaceship lands at the same ti...