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Upends entrenched thinking about cities, demonstrating how urban economies are defined—or constrained—by the fiscal imagination of policymakers, activists, and residents. Many local policymakers make decisions based on a deep-seated belief: what's good for the rich is good for cities...

An eye-opening look at the relationship between students' majors and their entry-level jobs. Humanities majors are used to answering the question, "So, what are you going to do with that degree?" The common misconception is that students in humanities programs don't learn any useful skills for...

Most of us assume that public schools in America are unequal—that the quality of the education varies with the location of the school and that as a result, children learn more in the schools that serve mostly rich, white kids than in the schools serving mostly poor, black kids. But it turns...

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.

Banaras Ka Masaan chronicles the everyday realities of the Doms, a Dalit sub-caste in Banaras designated by tradition to perform the Hindu rite of cremation. Despite their role in this crucial work, the community is condemned to the lowest order in caste hierarchy, and its members continue to be...

From fringe conspiracy theories to 'alternative facts', a timely look at how we arrived in the 'fake news' era. Would your younger self believe the news of today? An entire city block blown up by a suicide bomber on Christmas Day because he believed phone towers spread disease. A Representative...

Dementia, heart failure and cancer are now the leading causes of death in industrialised nations, where life expectancy is mostly above 80. A century ago, life expectancy was about 50 and people died mainly from infectious diseases. In the Middle Ages, death was mostly caused by famine, plague...

Our society worships at the fountain of youth, but are we missing out on an extraordinary stage in life? Daniel Klein ponders whether it is better to be forever young or to grin toothlessly and live an authentic old age. He journeys to the Greek island of Hydra to discover the secrets of ageing...

A multi-layered memoir of love, acceptance, finding home and the redemptive power of nature. In early 2006, Mike Parker and his partner Peredur were witnesses at the first civil partnership ceremony in the small Welsh town of Machynlleth. The celebrants were their friends Reg and George, who had...

In Stop Being Reasonable, philosopher and journalist Eleanor Gordon-Smith tells six lucid, gripping stories that show the limits of human reason. From the woman who realised her husband harboured a terrible secret, to the man who left the cult he had been raised in since birth, and the British...

An impassioned defence of progress and innovation and an argument for social responsibility from engineer, business leader and former CEO of BP Lord John Browne. Today's unprecedented pace of change leaves many people wondering what new technologies are doing to our lives. Has social media...

Spite covers psychology, economics, genetics, literature and current affairs to examine why humans inflict self-harm just to get one over on someone else. Why do we secretly want our friends to fail? Lots of irresistible stories about toxic behaviour in supermarkets and over the privet hedge...

Una guía para identificar a los mentirosos que te rodean y acabar con sus engaños de una vez por todas. Los estudios sugieren que dos personas que se conocen por primera vez se dirán hasta tres mentiras durante los primeros cinco minutos de su conversación. ¿Cómo se explica un dato tan...

El nou llibre del reconegut historiador i autor del fenomen global Sàpiens. Una obra que analitza com les xarxes d'informació han conformat el món i a nosaltres mateixos A Nexus, Y. N. Harari contempla la humanitat des de l'àmplia perspectiva de la història per analitzar com les xarxes...

Young people are told that college is a place where they will “find themselves” by engaging with diversity and making friendships that will last a lifetime. This vision of an inclusive, diverse social experience is a fundamental part of the image colleges sell potential students. But what...

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...

An ethnographic analysis of how insecurity is at the heart of contemporary higher education. Institutions of higher education are often described as "ivory towers," places of privilege where students exist in a "campus bubble," insulated from the trials of the outside world. These metaphors...

Ce livre est la lettre de démission que vous avez forcément rêvé d'écrire un jour... Un « ciao » féroce, drôle et cathartique adressé à la comédie du travail moderne. Réunions absurdes, menace de remplacement par l'IA, grandes valeurs creuses, mails passifs-agressifs, management en roue libre, yoga comme sparadrap sur le burn-out : chapitre après chapitre, les raisons de tout envoyer balader s'enchaînent.

Après Servir les riches, la nouvelle enquête de terrain d'Alizée Delpierre. Comment devient-on un ou une « esclave » aujourd'hui en France ? Comment y survivre, y résister, en sortir ? Ce récit d'enquête, à la fois sensible et accessible, interroge les frontières souvent floues entre contrainte et consentement, vie et survie, logiques de profit et surexploitation.

Warum fühlen sich manche Menschen ihr ganzes Leben lang anders, ohne genau sagen zu können, warum? "Ein Zebra unter Pferden" ist ein Buch für neurodivergente Menschen – für Menschen mit ADHS, Autismus, Hochbegabung oder AuDHD und für alle, die sich oft zu viel, zu empfindlich oder einfach...