Global Exploration

How we live is shaped by how we eat. You can see this in the vastly different approaches to growing, preparing and eating food around the world, such as the hunter-gatherer Hadza in Tanzania whose sustainable lifestyle is under threat in a crowded planet, or Western societies whose food is...

In the fifth edition of his best-selling Very Short Introduction work, Manfred B. Steger considers the major dimensions of globalization: economic, political, cultural, ideological, and ecological. He looks at its causes and effects, and engages with the hotly contested question of whether globalization is, ultimately, a good or a bad thing.  

Sweeping from the ancient world to the struggles that will shape the twenty-first century and beyond, Peter Frankopan puts Antarctica where it belongs: at the heart of the story of our world. Antarctica is one of the great blind spots in how we see the world. Remote, frozen and supposedly empty...