Tác giả: David Wengrow

It has often been claimed that ‘monsters’–supernatural creatures with bodies composed from multiple species–play a significant part in the thought and imagery of all people from all times. The Orig …

Cognition Switch: An Artefact for the Transmission of New Ideas Issue #2: January 2019 Featuring Ideas by:  Michael Shermer, Peter Staudenmaier, Sabine Hossenfelder, Kate Raworth, Benjamin G Martin, …

The targeted destruction of ancient sites and monuments in the Middle East provokes widespread outrage in the West. But what is our connection to the ancient Near East? In this updated edition of Wha …

The targeted destruction of ancient sites and monuments in the Middle East provokes widespread outrage in the West. But what is our connection to the ancient Near East? In this updated edition of Wha …

Commodity branding did not emerge with contemporary global capitalism. In fact, the authors of this volume show that the cultural history of branding stretches back to the beginnings of urban life in …

Commodity branding did not emerge with contemporary global capitalism. In fact, the authors of this volume show that the cultural history of branding stretches back to the beginnings of urban life in …

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND SUNDAY TIMES, OBSERVER AND BBC HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEARFINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2022’Pacey and potentially revolutionary’ Sunday Times ‘Ic …

‘Faszinierend, provozierend, bahnbrechend. Ein Buch, das in den kommenden Jahren für Diskussionen sorgen wird.’  Rutger Bregman, Autor von »Utopien für Realisten« Ein großes Buch von gewaltiger intel …

Wie der Alte Orient dem Westen die Zukunft weist. Unsere heutige Welt hat ihren Ursprung im Alten Orient und in Ägypten. David Wengrow zeigt anschaulich, wie die Zukunft des Westens untrennbar mit de …

Why read non-fiction? Is it just to find things out? Or is it for pleasure, challenge, adventure, meaning? Here, in seventy new pieces, some of the most original writers and thinkers of our time give …