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The Lion and the Dragon
Britain and China: A History of Conflict
2024 || Paperback || Lawrence James || Orion
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
2024 || Paperback || Bettany Hughes || Orion
Their names still echo down the ages: The Great Pyramid at Giza. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon. The Temple of Artemis. The statue of Zeus at Olympia. The mausoleum of Halikarnassos. The Colossus at Rhodes. The Lighthouse of Alexandria. The Seven Wonders of the World were staggeringly audacious impositions on our planet. They were also brilliant adventures of the mind, test cases of the reaches of human imagination. Now only the pyramid remains, yet the scale and majesty of these seven wonder...
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How Degrowth Communism Can Save the Earth
2024 || Paperback || Kohei Saito || Orion
Karl Marx called religion "the opium of the masses" because of the illusory relief it offered from the cold realities of capitalism. Today, the hard reality that we must face is that we have fundamentally and irrevocably damaged life on Earth, and while distracting opiates are everywhere, it is clear that the root cause is none other than capitalism itself.
Building upon a completely unexplored facet of Marx's thought that has been lying dormant for more than a century, Japanese sta...