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"Mordantly wonderful." —CARL HIAASEN "I almost died laughing." —ROZ CHAST "My own departure would not be so bad if only Mr. Roberts could write the obit!" —KAI BIRD From celebrated New York Times obituarist Sam Roberts, the art of the obit: Who we remember, how we forget, and where we find...

'Aruna Roy reflects on [a] life of deep engagement, weaving the personal and [the] political. A great inspiration.' - Amartya Sen & Jean Dreze 'A brilliant and riveting feminist manifesta for social change.' - V (Formerly Eve Ensler) 'There are many who speak, but very few who act. This book is...

Why are so many of our fellow citizens disentangling from the political and economic future of India to invest in the destiny of other nations? Are Non-Resident Indians turning irreversibly into Non-Returning Indians? Is enhancing soft power a fair trade off for losing priceless human capital?...

Jesus Hasn't Given Up on Small, Exploited, and Overlooked Places—and Neither Should We Many young people entering ministry and starting careers believe success requires them to leave their communities. After all, the fastest-growing congregations, the highest-profile ministries, and the best...

In this seminal book, award-winning filmmaker, civil rights attorney, and television personality, Brooke Goldstein, offers a groundbreaking and pragmatic strategy for ending Jew-hatred globally.

For readers seeking solutions to finally end the gun violence that kills tens of thousands of people each year in the United States— from a Harvard-trained trauma surgeon treating victims in Chicago If hope for ending gun violence can take hold in Chicago’s South Side, then it can take hold...

An engrossing and macabre exploration of the folklore and early medical practices that led to the New England Vampire Panic in the 1890s, from critically acclaimed podcaster and bestselling author Aaron Mahnke. What would drive a man to exhume the body of his daughter and remove her heart? That...

二〇二四年OECD報告書によれば世界で最も女性が子どもを産まない国は日本である．出生数は六八万となり，地方では若者が流出，税収減による上下水道などインフラ維持の困難，産業の担い手不足と，人口減の影響は深刻だ．

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the Civil War to our combustible present, White Rage reframes the continuing conversation about race in America, chronicling the history of the powerful forces opposed to black progress. Since the abolishment of slavery in 1865, every time African Americans...

Bloomsbury presents White Rage by Carol Anderson, read by Veronique Olin THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the Civil War to our combustible present, White Rage reframes the continuing conversation about race in America, chronicling the history of the powerful forces opposed to black progress...

'A significant piece of work' Diane Abbott 'A rigorous and fearless development and dissection of the Black Middle Class in Britain' Derek Owusu A landmark portrait of modern Britain, The Good, the Black and the Boujee is a critical reckoning with the pursuit of 'black excellence'. From...

Welcome to the wild, wacky and wonderful world of outback Aussie festivals! Bill 'Swampy' Marsh has travelled far and wide to capture the true stories behind Australia's most unconventional festivals. You'll meet the larrikin locals, dedicated organisers and competitive spirits who turn cockroaches into champions, guinea pigs into thoroughbreds and dunnies into racing machines.

A gripping story of political idealism, disillusionment, and new hope, Nothing Left exposes how the Democratic Party was hijacked by out-of-touch activists, coastal elitists, and powerful special interests. Packed with insider revelations and razor-sharp commentary, Evan Barker takes readers...

Bloomsbury presents The Road Taken by Henry Petroski, read by Michael Butler Murray A renowned historian and engineer explores the past, present, and future of America's crumbling infrastructure. Acclaimed engineer and historian Henry Petroski explores our core infrastructure from both...

Postwar New York City famously expired in a tableau of burning Bronx tenements, subway graffiti, crushing debt, and the tabloid headline “Ford to City: Drop Dead.” The city reemerged from the ashes to reach new heights, whether in stock averages or the gleaming pencil towers punctuating midtown. But at ground level, the city’s basic institutions—its housing, its schools, its public safety—were cracking. The city was rebuilt on a foundation of deep inequality.

A Pulitzer-finalist historian charts a 250-year-old intellectual and political tradition—the conviction that all Americans are NOT created equal. We think of the United States as a nation committed, at least on paper, to ideals of human equality, under God and/or under the law. But as robust...

新自由主義の台頭で日本社会に格差が定着した。非正規労働者層が誕生し、人口の三割が経済的理由から家庭を持つことができないという、膨大な貧困層を形成した。人々は格差の存在をはっきりと感じ、豊かな人々は豊かさを、貧しい人々は貧しさをそれぞれに自覚しながら日々を送る。

奇書『土葬の村』から５年！日本に、最古の弔いの風習「風葬」が残っていた！！ 琉球諸島に今も続く「風葬」や、アイヌの「土葬」など伝統的な自然葬から、１９９０年代に始まった「散骨、樹木葬」、最近生まれたばかりの「循環葬」まで。

Olśniewająca i zabójczo niebezpieczna: jak wiele można poświęcić w pogoni za modowym trendem? Zieleń o jadowitym, szmaragdowym odcieniu to jedno z najbardziej niezwykłych odkryć chemicznych przełomu XVIII i XIX wieku. Pożądana przez artystów i miłośników piękna, zyskała formę, której trudno było się oprzeć. Jednak jej niewątpliwy czar krył mroczną tajemnicę – związki arsenu. Zielony pigment w różnych wariantach – od zieleni Scheelego, szwajnfurckiej po paryską, choć niezwykle atrakcyjny, niósł ze sobą śmiertelne zagrożenie.

Are you frustrated by a world that seems increasingly irrational? Do politics, dating, and modern culture feel like they are spinning out of control? In The Why Behind Things, Hunter Trace reveals the hidden evolutionary forces driving human behavior. We are running twenty-first-century software on Pleistocene hardware. Our brains were built for small nomadic bands and scarce calories, yet we are using them to navigate global networks, infinite information, and algorithms designed to hijack our deepest instincts.