{"title":"Joad Raymond Wren","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJoad Raymond Wren\u003c\/strong\u003e explores the intricate intersections of history, philosophy, and culture in early modern Europe. His works, such as \u003cem\u003eThe Great Exchange: Making the News in Early Modern Europe\u003c\/em\u003e, delve into the evolution of communication and the shaping of public knowledge during a transformative era.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect thoughtful examinations of utopian thought and its impact on society, as exemplified in titles like \u003cem\u003eThe Uses of Utopia\u003c\/em\u003e. Wren’s writing invites reflection on the ways historical ideas continue to influence contemporary perspectives within the realms of history and philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-great-exchange-making-the-news-in-early-modern-europe-by-joad-raymond-wren-9780241188538","title":"The Great Exchange: Making the News in Early Modern Europe","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Great Exchange: Making the News in Early Modern Europe\u003c\/em\u003e is an epic history of the birth of news in Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNews moves. It is a battle, a scandal, a disaster. It is a letter, a newspaper, a proclamation. News is a material thing, but also something between us, something we take into us and feel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis book tells the story of news from the sunset of the Middle Ages to the rise of mass media in modern times. It begins in Renaissance Italy, with the envoys and merchants who drew in and disseminated news across Europe, establishing its channels and conventions. Following the beat of news around the continent, it uncovers a vast, invisible network traversing the boundaries of geography and politics, religion and language.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJoad Raymond Wren allows the reader to see news—of the battle of Lepanto, the siege of Vienna—spreading around this network in real time. Dispelling the tenacious myth that news was, until the printing press, scarce and unreliable, and until the telegraph, slow and provincial, he opens up windows onto a world buzzing with news from faraway. News brought the distant closer, and provided the means for Europe to know itself. The continent was, for a time, held together by that most essential of human acts—communication.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46549187592428,"sku":"9780241188538","price":120.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780241188538.jpg?v=1749887784"},{"product_id":"the-uses-of-utopia-by-joad-raymond-wren-9780241761083","title":"The Uses of Utopia","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA beguiling tour of utopian ideas and the pursuit of thinking differently.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eUtopia is not somewhere you can go. But neither is it an idle fantasy. It runs through history and literature from Plato to Thomas More, Margaret Cavendish to Ursula Le Guin. \u003cem\u003eUtopia\u003c\/em\u003e, this book shows, was for them a tool for exploring the horizons of thought, asking the unaskable and challenging entrenched assumptions about how society has to be.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Uses of Utopia\u003c\/em\u003e travels not only to the remote islands, parallel realities and distant planets where this played out, but also the places where those inspired by visions of perfection tried to establish them, from the egalitarian communities built in colonial Mexico to the novelist Étienne Cabet's disastrous attempt to realise socialism on the Mississippi. We see the groundbreaking ideas, about liberty and the law, sex and the sexes, work and wealth, that imagining an ideal society made possible. We hear the voices of radicals of many kinds talking freely to each other — and also to us. Here, in our imperfect world, how will you use utopia?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47976839381228,"sku":"9780241761083","price":65.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780241761083-the-uses-of-utopia.jpg?v=1784700993"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/collections\/joad-raymond-wren.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}