{"product_id":"9780008706531-great-wave","title":"The Great Wave","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Era of Radical Disruption and the Rise of the Outsider\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn urgent examination of the great wave of change breaking over today’s world – from the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and \u003cem\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/em\u003ebestselling author of \u003cem\u003eThe Death of Truth\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e                    \u003cp\u003e            \u003cstrong\u003e‘A profoundly inspiring and prophetic perspective on the contemporary world’ Ai Weiwei\u003c\/strong\u003e          \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn urgent examination of the great wave of change breaking over today’s world – from the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and \u003cem\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/em\u003ebestselling author of \u003cem\u003eThe Death of Truth\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e                    \u003cp\u003e            \u003cstrong\u003e‘A profoundly inspiring and prophetic perspective on the contemporary world’ Ai Weiwei\u003c\/strong\u003e          \u003c\/p\u003e          \u003cp\u003eIn the twenty-first century, a wave of political, cultural and technological change has capsized our old certainties and assumptions, creating both opportunity and danger.\u003c\/p\u003e          \u003cp\u003eAs people lose their faith in old institutions and elites, radical voices at the margins and the grassroots are disrupting the status quo. This is the time of the outsider – the protester, the populist, the hacker. Some of these outsiders have sown chaos, like Donald Trump, and others have provided inspirational leadership, like Volodymyr Zelensky. But all have grasped this precarious moment to make something new.\u003c\/p\u003e          \u003cp\u003eWriting with a critic’s incisive understanding of cultural trends, Michiko Kakutani outlines the consequences of these new asymmetries of power, and looks back to similar hinge moments in history, from the waning of the Middle Ages to the aftermath of the Second World War, to find a way forward.\u003c\/p\u003e          \u003cp\u003eFor there is, Kakutani argues, always the promise of transformation in times of turmoil. We can surrender to the waters, give in to the gathering chaos, or we can use the wave’s momentum to propel us into a more stable and sustainable future.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55656220983670,"sku":"9780008706531","price":8.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_34526906_3448a3bd-29b1-46d9-a497-7c3d76ca054b.jpg?v=1747979908","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780008706531-great-wave","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}