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AI and the Great Ontological Transformation How did we get to this horrific moment when life itself may be snuffed out on this once animated planet? For 98 per cent of the time our species has inhabited the Earth, we adapted to the temporal processes, patterns, and flows of an environment alive...

From acclaimed journalist Anand Giridharadas, a groundbreaking feat of reporting on a tragic encounter in a New York subway car that held up a mirror to a troubled and divided nation “A tour de force of sharp-eyed reporting, powerful narrative, and heartbreaking tragedy. . . . Brilliant and...

Träume kennen keine Herkunft: die Geschichte eines unwahrscheinlichen Aufstiegs Mahmut Martin Yüksel wächst als Kind jesidisch-kurdischer Eltern in einem Dorf in Niedersachsen auf. Am Küchentisch fliegt eine bunte Mischung aus Sprachen hin und her: Georgisch,Türkisch und Kurdisch – und...

Bloomsbury presents Peasants: Makers of the Modern World by Maryam Aslany, read by Kristin Atherton. 'A fascinating book, and a must-read' THOMAS PIKETTY 'Peasants is not just an extraordinary debut, it is that most precious rarity: an out-and-out masterpiece’ WILLIAM DALRYMPLE 'Miraculous...

Wir beobachten Stars. Ihre Erfolge. Ihre Abstürze. Ihre Wiederauferstehungen. Wir beneiden und bemitleiden, supporten oder canceln, scrollen durch Kommentarspalten oder blättern durch Klatschmagazine. Dabei vergessen wir oft, dass Stars nicht im luftleeren Raum existieren. Sie sind nicht einfach nur talentiert, sondern werden geschaffen von PR-Strategen, Stylisten, mächtigen Hintermännern – und uns. Gizem Celik entschlüsselt das System dahinter. Was steckt hinter den Schlagzeilen? Wer profitiert? Und was sagt das über unsere Gesellschaft aus?

In Racist by Design, award-winning historian Kelly Lytle Hernández reveals how generations of lawmakers and law enforcers built the American immigration system to encourage white immigrants while targeting nonwhite migrants for exclusion, punishment, and removal. The goal, often explicitly...

Antisemitism, as hatred of Jews and Judaism, has been a central problem of Western civilization for millennia, and its history continues to invite debate. This Very Short Introduction untangles the history of the phenomenon, from ancient religious conflict to 'new' antisemitism in the...

Jeder kann alles schaffen, wenn er sich nur anstrengt? Schön wär's. Ramona Wuttig zeigt in diesem Debattenhörbuch eindrücklich: Sozialer Aufstieg gelingt in Deutschland oft trotz – und nicht wegen – der bestehenden Strukturen. Ihre eigene Geschichte beginnt im ländlichen Thüringen in extremer Armut: ohne fließendes Warmwasser, geprägt von Arbeitslosigkeit der Nachwendezeit und gesellschaftlicher Ausgrenzung.

Bloomsbury presents The Perfect Birth Myth by Avital Norman Nathman with Deborah Wage, read by Julie Rogers. In a nation where more than 3.5 million births occur each year, the experience of giving birth reveals who is valued, who is heard, and who is left behind. The Perfect Birth Myth offers a...

Rebecca Solnit untersucht, wie sich der Mensch angesichts der größten Katastrophe verhält, und zeigt, dass uns der Ausnahmezustand in eine vorübergehende Utopie versetzen kann – in Zustände neuer Bewusstheit und sozialer Möglichkeiten. Sie entlarvt die Mythen vom gesellschaftlichen Verfall in Krisenzeiten, wie sie etwa in dem Klassiker »Lord of the Flies« postuliert werden.

This extraordinary New York Times bestseller reexamines a pivotal event of the civil rights movement—the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till—“and demands that we do the one vital thing we aren’t often enough asked to do with history: learn from it” (The Atlantic). * A New York Times Notable...

Ordinarily, women are more religious than men. But these are no ordinary times. In America, where Christianity is still the most common religion, women are vacating churches. In the past decade, 16 million women have left the church. Younger women are disaffiliating from religion faster than men...

This book explores extreme experiences in psychoanalysis and examines how to work with and understand such experiences both theoretically and practically. It invites listeners into new, transformative quantum frontiers of psychoanalytic thought and clinical experience. Taking her profound work...

From two leading economists comes a groundbreaking new portrait of the hidden fortunes of Main Street business owners—ordinary Americans who built extraordinary wealth and are quietly rewriting the rules of money and power. Most people think the path to great wealth runs through Wall Street or...

'When you finish, you'll know yourself better, you'll understand the people you care about better' ANGELA DUCKWORTH, author of Grit 'Teeming with wisdom, insight, empathy, and sparkle. One of the best books I have ever read' CASS R. SUSNSTEIN, co-author of Noise A founding father of behavioural...

'I realised that time is precious, and what we do with it matters, especially if we want to create change. And that begins with conversation.' Growing up the son of a Black father and white mother in 1980s Britain, Alex Beresford has always known that identity isn't straightforward. From the...

もう、けっして若くはない。でも、「お金のために生きよう」とは割り切れない、あなたへ―― 家庭は大事だがキャリアもあきらめたくない プライベートを犠牲にせず働きたい 60歳までを消化試合にしたくない 40代は「人生の理想」を実現する適齢期 「自分が真にやるべき仕事」で収入を安定的に増やしつつ自由に働くための具体的な方法。

Bloomsbury presents Don't Shoot: One Man, a Street Fellowship, and the End of Violence in Inner-City America by David M. Kennedy, narrated by Patrick Lawlor. The remarkable story of David Kennedy's crusade to combat America's plague of gang- and drug-related violence - with methods that have...

Bloomsbury presents Don't Shoot: One Man, a Street Fellowship, and the End of Violence in Inner-City America by David M. Kennedy, narrated by Patrick Lawlor. The remarkable story of David Kennedy's crusade to combat America's plague of gang- and drug-related violence - with methods that have...

From the acclaimed author of Awake, Not Woke comes this incisive exposé of the widespread, politically motivated no-contact movement that deconstructs the ideology behind this trend and equips readers to avert estrangement and repair broken relationships. “Refusing easy villains or easy...