From the Journal of World-Systems Research, David Scott (Brunel): The 21st Century as Whose Century?; and a review of The World System and the Earth System: Global Socioenvironmental Change and Sustainability Since the Neolithic. The introduction (and Problems 1 and 2) to Digital Dice: Computational Solutions to Practical Probability Problems by Paul J. Nahin. The introduction to One Day That Shook the Communist World: The 1956 Hungarian Uprising and Its Legacy by Paul Lendvai. MBAs in Madrid: An article on the rise of the European B-School. From the latest issue of Foucault Studies, Timothy O'Leary (Hong Kong): Foucault, Experience, Literature; an interview with Colin Gordon on The Foucault Effect in the English-speaking world; a review of On the Use and Abuse of Foucault for Politics by Brent Pickett; a review of Foucault, Freedom and Sovereignty by Sergei Prozorov; a review of Foucault on Freedom by Johanna Oksala; and a review of The Modern Self in the Labyrinth: Politics and the Entrapment Imagination by Eyal Chowers. A review of The Economic Naturalist by Robert H Frank; The Logic of Life by Tim Harford; and The Dismal Science by Stephen A Marglin. Whether denouncing France's art establishment, shocking 19th century sensibilities or challenging Napoleon III, Gustave Courbet never held back.