This book by David Harvey was published in English in 2016 under the title "The Ways of the World". The title accurately reflects, but also ambiguously, its content. The title of the Greek edition, "Δρόμοι και τρόποι του κόσμου" (Roads and Ways of the World), highlights both the accuracy and the ambiguity. On the one hand, it indicates the author's relationship with his scientific subject, geography, the social organization of space, and the changes that occur in both the global and local scales. Harvey charts paths in space and time and invites us to follow him. He takes us on journeys to cities and countries, from the Paris Commune to the deindustrialization of Britain and present-day China.

On the other hand, the title of the book reflects the author's personal journey in his field of study, the starting point, the influences he received, the searches, the turns, and the revisions, his apprenticeship, ultimately, theoretical and applied. Harvey proposes ways of a different texture: routes through theories and concepts, retrieving, analyzing, reassembling, rejecting, and modifying a rich legacy, a theoretical arsenal judged by its ability to "enchant" the world, to transcend the constraints of phenomena and make it intellectually accessible and understandable.