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The End of the World As We Know It: Social Science for the Twenty-First Century
- Author: Immanuel Wallerstein
- Year: 2001
- Pages: 288
Readers on perLibre: 8
This book is nothing short of a state-of-the-world address, delivered by a scholar uniquely suited to the task. Immanuel Wallerstein, one of the most prominent social scientists of our time, documents the profound transformations our world is undergoing. With these transformations, he argues, come equally profound changes in how we understand the world.
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