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A vital call to disrupt systemic forces that impoverish families and to reimagine accessible higher education, empowering parents to thrive in college and at home From the former teen mom and award-winning founder of Generation Hope, a nonprofit committed to expanding education access for young...

From award-winning journalist Jessica Barrett, an honest and urgent look at our housing crisis and lessons from around the world that will make better homes for all Canadians. After living in Vancouver for her entire adult life, Jessica Barrett packed up her apartment, quit her dream job as a...

Why are millions of young Americans turning away from organized religion—yet leaning harder than ever into spirituality? Faith Unbound delivers the answer through a powerful blend of research, storytelling, cultural analysis, and honest reflection.

Racismo en Estados Unidos. Una visión histórica ofrece una mirada lúcida y profunda sobre uno de los problemas más persistentes y dolorosos de la nación norteamericana. Este libro revela cómo el racismo se ha tejido desde el origen mismo de la república en sus estructuras políticas, económicas y sociales.

En este manifiesto, Safia El Aaddam—activista, divulgadora y creadora de la comunidad Hija de Inmigrantes—da voz a lo que las instituciones silencian.

Desde ancestrales ritos mortuorios hasta los juegos de la ouija, la humanidad siempre ha buscado atravesar el velo de lo visible y asomarse a aquello que parece extender la conciencia más allá de la vida. ¿Cómo exploran otras culturas estos conceptos? ¿Cómo lo hacemos nosotros? En este libro, Mado Martínez emprende un viaje por las múltiples formas en las que la humanidad ha intentado comprender -o desafiar- la idea de lo que ocurre en ese territorio que se mueve entre la ciencia, la fe y lo inexplicable.

SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, MARCH 2026 'I devoured it.' - NIGELLA LAWSON 'Few people have aged so gracefully and enterprisingly as Prue. How she's done it is a revelation, full of humour and practical advice.' - DELIA SMITH 'Oh my days, this book is an absolute JOY! It is like sitting down with...

'The twenty-first century’s counterpart to Hobbes’s Leviathan.’ EMMANUELE COCCIA What has happened to the nation-state? From a prizewinning writer, After Nations offers a sweeping history of this most unquestioned of modern structures and a bold speculation about its future. Until recently...

日本の政官財の裏側で蠢く怪物たち。「カルト宗教」統一教会、「闇の帝王」許永中、国家を動かす「国商」葛西敬之、ロッキード事件で暗躍した児玉誉士夫や小佐野賢治、そして「総利権化」の権化、竹中平蔵……。この社会の裏側に巣食うのはだれか。

„Essais" bedeutet „Versuche" – und genau das unternahm Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592) mit seinem gleichnamigen Werk: Er begründete ein neues literarisches Genre, in dem er sich den großen Fragen seiner Zeit mit persönlichem Blick und philosophischer Offenheit widmete. In stilistisch brillanter Prosa denkt Montaigne über das menschliche Maß, die Grenzen des Wissens und das Wesen des guten Lebens nach. Seine Reflexionen sind zugänglich, zeitlos und überraschend modern.

The 1965 film Poverty in Rural America by the U.S. Department of Agriculture offers a documentary portrait of impoverished rural communities across the United States during the early years of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s "War on Poverty." The film highlights the economic and social hardships faced by families in isolated regions, including Appalachia, the rural South, Native American reservations, and agricultural areas in the Southwest.

Some ideas behave like slow weather. They gather quietly, almost invisibly, in the background of ordinary life. You hear them now, and then, you sense them in passing, and you notice them taking shape in conversations that do not yet sound like conclusions. Then, one day, the sky seems to change all at once. A phrase is suddenly everywhere. A new habit feels normal overnight. A once-unthinkable opinion becomes mainstream. A slight movement becomes a crowd.

A vida afinal é uma obra corajosa e comovente que enfrenta as conversas que a maioria evita: aquelas sobre doenças graves, o fim da vida e a morte. Misturando relatos pessoais, reflexões filosóficas, análises jurídicas e médicas, Cynthia Araújo — advogada da União e pesquisadora em Bioética — convida o ouvinte a repensar a forma como lidamos com a finitude, o adoecimento e as decisões que cercam os tratamentos médicos em estágios avançados de câncer.

In the early twenty-first century, environmental risks such as climate change, biodiversity loss, resource scarcity, large-scale migrations, and conflicts over critical resources have become our lived reality in a world where nearly 8 billion people struggle to thrive. These crises have proven impossible to address without fundamental transformations of our economic institutions—exactly as predicted in this groundbreaking work. First published in 1994, Taming the Dragon offers a careful investigation of the processes that have led to global environmental change.

Grounded in her experience as a blackbelt, self-defense instructor, and globally recognized organizer, Rana Abdelhamid offers a bold, urgent roadmap to a safer world Abdelhamid wants every woman and survivor of gender-based violence to be able to defend themselves, and every community to build...

疑問を持たず、素直に従い、人を信じて疑わず、何でも「お任せ」にする習慣を私たちは身につけてきた。だが、グローバル化で人を疑うことを基本とする価値観が流入し、これまでのモラルを裏切るような犯罪も多発している。

Foreign Policy managing editor and former CNN South Asia bureau chief Ravi Agrawal takes listeners on a journey across India, through remote rural villages and massive metropolises, to highlight how one tiny device - the smartphone - is changing all facets of Indian life. The rise of smartphones, and with them access to the internet, has caused nothing short of a revolution in India. In the West, technological advances have progressed step-by-step, starting with landline phones.

Ao longo de quase dois anos, entre 2021 e 2023, o sociólogo Domenico De Masi e o jornalista Giulio Gambino reuniram-se para debater os grandes dilemas do mundo do trabalho contemporâneo. Conversas sobre o futuro captura a essência desses encontros, num diálogo fluido e apaixonante sobre a alienação, o estresse, o trabalho remoto, a redução da jornada e, claro, sobre o ócio criativo, conceito que De Masi criou e popularizou.

東大病院救急部で多くの「死」を見届けた医師が語る「死」と「生」の処方箋「死」はただの通過点、命は終わらい「死ぬこと」は終わりではありません。もといたところに帰ることです。

＜本書の内容の一部＞2025年夏の参議院選挙でも各党がアピールする、就職氷河期世代の支援策。だが、筆者は「現実を無視して“世代”で括ることは、政策をゆがめる」と批判する。