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Most people are baffled by how computers work and assume that they will never understand them. What they don't realize - and what Daniel Hillis' short book brilliantly demonstrates - is that computers' seemingly complex operations can be broken down into a few simple parts that perform the same simple procedures over and over again. Computer wizard Hillis offers an easy-to-follow explanation of how data is processed that makes the operations of a computer seem as straightforward as those of a bicycle. 

私たちが無意識に従う親密さのルールとタブーを解体し、セクシュアリティと権力構造の歴史を鮮やかに紐解く知的な探求の旅が今始まります。通勤の移動中や、一人の静かな夜にじっくりと耳を傾ければ、日常の喧騒か...

Kapitalismuskritik ist wieder in Mode, prägt den Zeitgeist und bleibt doch meist an der Oberfläche. Anders bei Karl Marx: Ihm ist es wie keinem anderen Ökonomen vor bereits 150 Jahren gelungen, die aberwitzigen Bewegungen des Kapitals und seinen Hang zur Selbstzerstörung zu beleuchten, vor...

未曾有の経済成長がもたらしたきらびやかな繁栄と、その陰で深く静かに進行した深刻な格差社会という、19世紀アメリカの光と影の歴史を紐解き、現代に通じる不平等の構造を解き明かします。南北戦争後の荒れた大地...

The last book written by King his final reflections after a decade of civil rights struggles In 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., isolated himself from the demands of the civil rights movement, rented a house in Jamaica with no telephone, and labored over his final manuscript. In this...

Slavoj Žižek's first book is a provocative and original work looking at the question of human agency in a postmodern world. In a thrilling tour de force that made his name, he explores the ideological fantasies of wholeness and exclusion which make up human society. 

Death teaches lessons most people spend a lifetime avoiding. In The Business of Goodbye, Jim L Dobbins shares a rare, unfiltered look into a profession most people truly never understand. Through years spent guiding families through loss, he discovered something unexpected–death has a way of clarifying life. With honesty, humor, and hard-earned perspective, Dobbins reveals the lessons learned not in moments of comfort, but in moments of finality. This is not a book about dying. It’s a book about living–while you still can.

"La muerte no existe, es un hecho normal y no duele". Morir bien es de vital importancia y la forma en que nos vamos deja un gran legado a los que se quedan. Acompañar a un ser querido en este «viaje» es una lección absolutamente transformadora. El niño que se enfadó con la muerte es fruto del conocimiento clínico de Enric Benito, un médico que tras una crisis existencial abandonó la oncología para dedicarse a acompañar a enfermos y familiares en sus últimos días.

Una invitación a plantearnos la vida que llevamos. ¿Por qué cuando aparentemente tenemos tanto nos sentimos tan vacíos? ¿Qué nos lleva a la soledad justamente cuando vivimos en un mundo hiperconectado? ¿Qué pasa cuando crecemos sin valores espirituales? ¿Por qué el suicidio es la causa...

AudioLearn’s Mental Health has been designed by experienced professors and professionally narrated for easy listening. This crash course is a valuable tool both during school and when preparing for the USMLE. You can listen to it even if you’re simply interested in the subject. The audio is focused and high-yield, covering the most important topics you might expect to learn in a typical medical school mental health course.

Chekhov’s masterpiece in a full-cast performance starring Tessa Thompson, Jennifer Westfeldt, Sarah Zimmerman and Jon Hamm. Meet Olga, Masha, and Irina, warm and cultured young sisters who were reared in the exciting hubbub of Moscow, but have been living in the dull, gossipy backwaters of Russia for far too long.

The issues of poverty, inequality, racial injustice, and climate change have never been more pressing or paralyzing. Current approaches to social change, which rely on linear thinking and traditional power dynamics to "solve" social problems, are not helping. In fact, they may only be entrenching the status quo. This book draws on stories of committed social changemakers to uncover a set of principles and practices for social change that dramatically depart from the industrial approach. Simple yet profound, these stories distill timely lessons for leaders, scholars, and policymakers.

What is poverty? What is inequality? How are they connected? How are they reproduced? How might they be overcome? Why should we try?The way we frame our questions shapes the way we see solutions. This book does what appears to be a no-brainer task, but one that is missing and important: it asks...

In Survival of the Richest, Rushkoff traces the origins of The Mindset in science and technology through its current expression in missions to Mars, island bunkers, AI futurism, and the metaverse. In a dozen urgent, electrifying chapters, he confronts tech utopianism, the datafication of all human interaction, and the exploitation of that data by corporations. Through fascinating characters, Rushkoff explains why those with the most power to change our current trajectory have no interest in doing so.

Drawing together many histories - of anatomical evolution and city design, of treadmills and labyrinths, of walking clubs and sexual mores - Rebecca Solnit creates a fascinating portrait of the range of possibilities presented by walking. Arguing that the history of walking includes walking for pleasure as well as for political, aesthetic, and social meaning, Solnit focuses on the walkers whose everyday and extreme acts have shaped our culture, from philosophers to poets to mountaineers.

Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative as Guy Debord's Society of the Spectacle. From its publication amid the social upheavals of the 1960s to the present, the volatile theses of this work have decisively transformed debates on the shape of modernity...

在资本狂飙突进的历史十字路口，前所未有的国家暴富与深不见底的阶层撕裂竟然遵循着同一套残酷的经济逻辑。当你深陷当下的财富焦虑，试图理解为何经济不断扩张却依然难以跨越阶层壁垒时，这部节奏明快的社会经济史...

数千年の沈黙を破り、古代ヨーロッパの泥炭湿地から完全な姿で現れた死者たちが、生と死の境界を超えて、私たちの知的好奇心を深く刺激する歴史と考古学の真実を語り始めます。通勤の喧騒を離れて深い教養の世界に...

War is no way to resolve our most problematic group, community, and societal issues, but neither is a peace that simply sweeps our problems under the rug. To create lasting change, we have to learn to work fluidly with two distinct, fundamental drives that are in tension: power - the single-minded desire to achieve one's solitary purpose - and love - the drive toward unity.... They are seemingly contradictory but in fact complimentary.

Capitalism as a system has spawned deepening economic crisis alongside its bought-and-paid-for political establishment. Neither serves the needs of our society. Whether it is secure, well-paid, and meaningful jobs or a sustainable relationship with the natural environment that we depend on, our society is not delivering the results people need and deserve.