{"title":"Matthew Godfrey","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"insanity-of-ideas-book-matthew-godfrey-9789811802928","title":"The Insanity Of Ideas","description":"A mind-blowing examination on where our society has come from, where it is going and why things today seem increasingly insane. All the through the lease of incredible surge of ideas and choices, driven by population growth, technology and social interaction. It is a provocative exploration of both the innovators, such as Elon Musk and others and the methods that have used to create the transformative ideas, that frame our world. As the speed of our ideas infinitely accelerates, and the impact of them becomes increasingly powerful, it asks whether we are best placed to make the right choices for future generations. Or will our ideas fail, create confusion and drive division? Will emerging artificial intelligence ultimately, generate its own independent ideas, and then action the ones that will govern the future of humanity. Will ideas evolve to not obey our commands and live completely out of our control?\u003cbr\u003eWelcome to the Insanity of Ideas.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49516256493841,"sku":"GOR013738395","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9811802920.jpg?v=1751319900"},{"product_id":"religion-politics-and-sugar-book-matthew-godfrey-9780874216585","title":"Religion, Politics, and Sugar","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eOne famous target of Progressive Era attempts to rein in monopolistic big business was the eastern Sugar Trust. Less known is how federal regulators also tried to break monopoly control over beet sugar in the West by going after the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company, a business supported and controlled by the Latter-day Saints church and run by Mormon authorities. As sugar beet agriculture boomed, the Mormon church's involvement led directly to monopolistic practices by Utah-Idaho Sugar and to federal investigations. Church leaders encouraged members, a majority population in much of the intermountain West, to patronize the company exclusively, as suppliers and consumers. As early as 1890, Mormon church president Wilford Woodruff had called missionaries to raise money for the fledgling company and asserted divine inspiration for church support.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Utah-Idaho bridged the cooperative, theocratic, self-sufficient economic model of nineteenth-century Mormonism and the integration of the Mormon West into the national market economy. Religion, Politics, and Sugar shows, through the example of an important western business, how national commercial, political, and legal forces in the\u003cbr\u003e early twentieth century came west and, more specifically, how they affected the important role the Mormon church played in economic affairs in the region.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50200836997393,"sku":"CIN0874216583G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52477520576785,"sku":"NLS9780874216585","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0874216583.jpg?v=1751297747"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-matthew-godfrey.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}