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In a world organised around visibility, even virtue risks becoming something we perform rather than something we live. Virtue and Visibility explores how recognition, identity, and moral aspiration have become intertwined with the social pressures of modern life. be seen is not vanity.

As an ICU nurse, Theresa Evans witnessed death and dying on a regular basis. She considered it a privilege and an honor to be with someone when they died. And then her own mother chose a date with death. So begins the extraordinary account of a mother and her three daughters preparing for death while coping with their own grief and impending loss.

Durant deux années de guerre, Delphine Horvilleur a cherché dans les textes sacrés les mots capables de résister au désastre. Qu'arrive-t-il au langage quand le monde s'effondre, s'interroge Delphine Horvilleur dans ce livre courageux, à la croisée du témoignage intime et de la réflexion spirituelle. De 2023, veille des massacres du 7 octobre, jusqu'au retour des derniers otages retenus dans un Gaza dévasté en 2025, l'auteur n'a cessé de chercher les mots pour accompagner les drames et faire dialoguer une sagesse ancestrale avec la tragédie en cours.

An American living in Sweden observes that country’s hands-on, happy approach to parenting and wonders: what if the cure to the male loneliness epidemic and burnout isn’t more friends, more faith, or even more free time…but more fathering? When Liz Kofman-Burns moved to Sweden, she...

From the author of Bad Therapy and Irreversible Damage: how a top-down effort to erode male status is leaving a generation lonely, single, and sad. The roots of our modern dating crisis run far deeper than iPhones, hookups, and dating apps. Young women have been encouraged to see themselves as...

Presence of Patriarchy is a fictional composite of the struggles, strategies, and untapped strength of the urban Black male. These accounts of the journey many men succumb to provide a glimpse of the importance of the male figure in society, western city limits, and households, at large. Presence of Patriarchy illustrates how stratified role models and understudies are due to their fundamental grapple with the fear of failure. Enter the minds of those who have overcome great adversity or given in to plights preceded by thoughtless theoretical points of view

An urban leader's sweeping and innovative journey through some of the most recognizable challenges confronting cities in America.

First published in 1928, Edward Bernays’ Propaganda may be the single most important work on public relations ever to appear. Even the most casual reading reveals that the principles he sets out in this short but compelling book remain as true as ever in the present era of social media and AI. Bernays (1891–1995), a nephew of Sigmund Freud, shaped the management of public opinion at a time when the modern media were beginning to take their present shape.

In Same Blood, Different Boats, the author explores the psychological and cultural dissonance between Caribbean immigrants and African Americans, who share a common ancestry but often experience profound disconnection. Drawing on history, sociology, and personal narrative, the book exposes the inherited naivety with which many Caribbean immigrants arrive in the United States, often unaware of the deeply rooted racial dynamics, historical trauma, and cultural undercurrents that shape the Black American experience.

Brought to you by Penguin. A moving exploration of the solace and power of listening in an unjust world, from the author of The Feminist Killjoy Handbook ‘Behind many disasters are unheard complaints’ To complain is an intimate, dangerous act. Whether it’s speaking up about racism in the...

Brought to you by Penguin. A deeply moving and insightful collection of personal essays from #1 bestselling author John Green, adapted from his critically acclaimed podcast. The Anthropocene is the current geological age, in which human activity has profoundly shaped the planet and its...

In Moral Boundaries Joan C. Tronto provides one of the most original responses to the controversial questions surrounding women and caring. Tronto demonstrates that feminist thinkers have failed to realize the political context which has shaped their debates about care. It is her belief that...

Legal scholar and architect Sara C. Bronin examines how zoning became such a prevailing force and reveals its impact. Outdated zoning codes have maintained racial segregation, prioritized cars over people, and enabled great ecological harm. But, as Bronin argues, once we recognize the power of zoning, we can harness it to create the communities we desire, and deserve. Drawing on her own experience leading the overhaul of Hartford's zoning code and exploring the efforts of activists and city planners across the country, Bronin shows how new codes are reshaping our cities.

A maioria dos homicídios no Brasil são cometidos com armas de fogo, mas sabe-se pouco sobre elas. Este é, portanto, um audiolivro indispensável. Arma de fogo no Brasil: Gatilho da violência traz um histórico sobre o uso de armas, fragilidades das leis, da fiscalização e o trágico resultado disso: mercado ilegal, mortes e lucro. O audiolivro também aponta soluções em um contexto ainda mais desafiador com a facilitação de acesso a armas e o afrouxamento do controle.

Um mergulho preciso e mordaz no mundo dos endinheirados brasileiros. Há um traço comum a boa parte dos endinheirados brasileiros: eles não se consideram ricos. Não existe um critério absoluto para a riqueza no Brasil. Sempre haverá alguém com mais dinheiro, mais pompa, mais patrimônio, mais próximo do topo da pirâmide. Logo, os ricos são sempre os outros.

Brought to you by Penguin. 'The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power - which groups have it and which do not' Beyond race or class, our lives are defined by a powerful, unspoken system of divisions. In Caste, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson gives...

America’s backstory is a whitewashed mythology implanted in our collective memory. It should come as no surprise that the dominant narrative of American history is blighted with errors and oversights—after all, history books were written by white men with their perspectives at the forefront. It could even be said that the devaluation and erasure of the Black experience is as American as apple pie. In Black AF History, Michael Harriot presents a more accurate version of American history.

Religion in Human Evolution is a work of extraordinary ambition—a wide-ranging, nuanced probing of our biological past to discover the kinds of lives that human beings have most often imagined were worth living. It offers what is frequently seen as a forbidden theory of the origin of religion that goes deep into evolution, especially but not exclusively cultural evolution. 

Centering on the seminal lockout of 20,000 workers in Dublin in 1913, Strumpet City by Irish writer James Plunkett encompasses a wide sweep of city life. From the destitution of "Rashers" Tierney, the poorest of the poor, to the solid, aspirant respectability of Fitz and Mary, the priestly life of Father O'Connor, and the upper-class world of Yearling and the Bradshaws, it paints a portrait of a city of stark contrasts, with an urban working class mired in vicious poverty. To hear the book is to immerse yourself in social and historical writing akin to Chekhov and Tolstoy.

How do British pavements remain free of dog mess? Why are paths not littered with cigarette butts or roads not lined with abandoned cars? What does the decline of the public lavatory say about us and is the national reputation for queuing still deserved today? Orderly Britain takes a topical...