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In 2007, as the fiftieth anniversary of the fight to integrate Little Rock Central High School approached, veteran sportswriter and native son of Little Rock Jay Jennings returned to his hometown to take the pulse of the city and the school. He found a compelling story in Central High's football team, where Black and white students toiled under longtime coach Bernie Cox, whose philosophy of discipline and responsibility and punishing brand of physical football had led the team to win seven state championships.

Humans used to be embedded in the natural world, but today many of us live sedentary screen-based lives indoors, treating nature as something distant – to be watched on television or reached by flying elsewhere.

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...

En un mundo hiperconectado y condicionado por los mandatos de belleza, ¿cómo prevalece la autenticidad y el respeto por la imagen y el cuerpo propio y ajeno? En este audiolibro, Esther Pineda G. nos guía en el laberinto algorítmico de los ideales de belleza en las redes sociales, con el...

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...

Каждый человек рано или поздно узнает, что он смертен, более того, что умрут все, кто его окружает. Смерть в современном обществе максимально табуированная тема. Мария Рамзаева и Елена Фоер раскрывают перед нами страницы истории развития отношения к смерти и умершим, рассказывают о ритуалах и традициях, которые были приняты в нашем обществе, и как в процессе развития городов люди перестали воспринимать смерть как естественное явление, а страх перед этим событием стал причиной множества психологических расстройств.

Why do you make such a mess when you're cooking? Will you ever stop nagging me about the hoovering? When did you last help the kids with their homework? I did the shopping like you asked, but you're still giving me that look. While it's often women doing more than men, inequality and arguments about fairness can upset the lives of couples of every stripe and flavour. Sometimes it's just annoying, sometimes it can feel much, much worse. Repeating the same arguments over and over doesn't change anything.

'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...

Taking on the thorny ethics of owning and selling property as a white woman in a majority Black city and a majority Bangladeshi neighborhood with both intelligence and humor, this memoir brings a new perspective to a Detroit that finds itself perpetually on the brink of revitalization. In 2016, a Detroit arts organization grants writer and artist Anne Elizabeth Moore a free house—a room of her own, à la Virginia Woolf—in Detroit’s majority-Bangladeshi “Banglatown.”

Every disaster is a disability disaster, argues Angela Frederick. Disabled Power tells the stories of Texans with disabilities who endured the 2021 Texas power crisis, which forced millions of Texas residents to endure a dayslong winter storm without heat or water. Frederick highlights how disabled people and those with chronic health conditions are uniquely harmed when basic infrastructure such as power and water systems fail.

This is the story of a crime that reverberated around the world. The victim is a tree. For more than a century, the tree at Sycamore Gap stood along Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland. Planted in the nineteenth century, it became an iconic local landmark. It was immortalised in the 1991 film...

陰謀論、フェイクニュースから真実を見抜け。「安易なレッテル張り」で、見えなくなるものがある。「円安は“国力の低下”」「就職氷河期世代は“老害”」「神宮外苑再開発は“破壊”」「首相暗殺犯は“悲劇の主人公”」

Faced with the ceaseless stream of news about war, crime, and terrorism, one could easily think we live in the most violent age ever seen. Yet as New York Times bestselling author Steven Pinker shows in this startling and engaging new work, just the opposite is true: violence has been diminishing for millennia and we may be living in the most peaceful time in our species's existence.

怖いのは誤嚥だけじゃない！「足腰に力が入らない」のも、「のど」が弱ったせいだった！？誰でもいますぐできる「声を出すだけ」健康長寿法！

終身雇用制が崩れても、なぜ先輩・後輩の関係は変わらないのか？　日本の組織で上司の上司に告げ口をするのが許されない理由とは？　なぜ序列の意識なしに席に着くこともできないのか？　

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Included in "The Nonfiction Books Everyone Will Be Reading This Summer" by The New York Times A novelist once wrote, “There are stories one must tell, and years when one must tell them.” Jill Biden’s time to discuss her four years in the White House is now...

麻布競馬場氏（作家）推薦！ーーーー生きづらい現代日本の「意外な正体」を暴いてくれる。三宅香帆氏（文芸評論家）推薦！ーーーーこれは「テーマパーク化する日本」の予言書だ！

2024年12月12日「大麻取締法」改正法施行！改正のポイントは３つ。医療大麻の合法化、THC濃度による規制、使用罪の適用で最長懲役7年の厳罰化!

Robert Greene is a master guide for millions, distilling ancient wisdom and philosophy into essential texts for seekers of power, understanding and mastery. Now he turns to the most important subject of all - understanding people's drives and motivations, even when they are unconscious of them themselves.