This intersectional and future-orientated textbook examines the challenges facing the world economy as a result of climate change and rising inequality. It presents and explains key concepts and theories from Global Political Economy, showing how these can be used to design a reconstruction of the global political economy.
The romantic trials of the owner of a London record shop, after his girlfriend leaves him for another man.
Bengt Worm ist Schriftsteller und hat schon eine ganze Reihe von Romanen geschrieben. Doch leider will sie kaum jemand lesen. Das beeindruckt den Autor selbst wenig, im Gegensatz zu seinen Nachbarn auf der kleinen Insel im Schärengarten vor Göteborg ...§§Ein wunderbarer Roman darüber, was Bücher eigentlich sind und was ihren Charme ausmacht: Unterhaltsam, liebenswert und auch ein wenig eigensinnig.
'I am in a car park in Leeds when I tell my husband I don't want to be married to him any more.' London GP Katie Carr always thought she was a good person. With her husband David making a living as 'The Angriest man n Holloway', she figured she could put up with anything. Until, that is, David meets DJ Goodnews and becomes a good person too. A far-too-good person who starts committing crimes of charity like taking in the homeless and giving their kids' toys away. Suddenly Katie's feeling very bad about herself, and thinking that if charity begins at home, then maybe it's time to move . . . 'Pins you in your armchair and won't let go . . . How to be Good? How to be bloody marvellous, more like.' Mail on Sunday 'It does exactly what it says on the cover Hornby's prose is artful and effortless, his spiky wit as razored as a number-two cut.' Independent 'The writing is so funny, and the set-pieces so brilliant . . . Hornby's best book sine Fever Pitch.' Lynne Truss, The Times 'Hilarious, sophisticated, compulsive.' Sunday Times