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Un ensayo para pensar el futuro de la cultura y cómo esta puede cambiar el mundo. En pocos momentos como en el actual, la cultura ha gozado de tanto crecimiento como de tan mala consideración o indiferencia. Parece que ha sido relegada a un mero acto de consumo, en vez de ser un espacio de...

Vivir sin jefes, trabajar desde la playa, ser tu propia marca… ¿La utopía de la generación online o la distopía de los algoritmos? Internet nos prometió un sueño: trabajar desde cualquier lugar, tener horarios flexibles y convertir nuestras pasiones en una profesión. Pero bajo esa...

Un ensayo radical y provocador sobre el negocio del deseo femenino en la era del empoderamiento y el pacto patriarcal. ¿Es el consumo de servicios eróticos por parte de mujeres una forma de empoderamiento? ¿Pagar es consentir? A través del análisis de productos culturales y entrevistas con...

Deutschland–man muss dich lieben. Wirklich? Ein Land, in dem Termine heilig sind, Regeln Sicherheit geben und Small Talk eher gemieden wird. Klingt nüchtern? Vielleicht. Und doch steckt genau darin ein ganz eigener Charme. Dieses Buch ist eine humorvolle, ehrliche und überraschend liebevolle Reise durch den deutschen Alltag–mit all seinen Eigenheiten, Widersprüchen und leisen Stärken.

La introspección nos ayuda a clarificar lo que parece oscuro. Nos ilumina y contribuye a nuestra sensación de estar vivos. Acciones más que cotidianas, como montar en bici, ir al cine, leer o visitar un museo adquieren en este libro un sentido y una dimensión especial, simplemente...

Read by Rory Kinnear (Black Mirror, James Bond, Toxic Town) From political journalist Daniel Trilling, If We Tolerate This is a vital look at Britain's alarming shift towards far-right politics and what can be done to reverse it. The language of the far right is now in the mouths of our...

The All-American Way™ is a book about how we can rebuild a better society—one where dignity responsibility, and helping others matter most. In a world where old systems are falling apart, this book offers a hopeful plan. Not by destroying everything, but by pulling the right string—fixing what's broken and creating something better. With compassion, courage, and a strong belief in the future, this book invites readers to think differently about leadership, government, and what it truly means to serve others. The All-American Way™ isn't just a dream—it's a real effort to change things.

Available for the first time in audio, America’s most revered novelist reflects on the themes that preoccupy her work and increasingly dominate national and world politics: race, fear, borders, the mass movement of peoples, the desire for belonging. What is race and why does it matter? What motivates the human tendency to construct Others? Why does the presence of Others make us so afraid?

Marx has returned, but which Marx? Recent biographies have proclaimed him to be an emphatically nineteenth-century figure, but in this book, Mike Davis's first directly about Marx and Marxism, a thinker comes to light who speaks to the present as much as the past. In a series of searching...

The Story of One William Foraker is a deeply moving, true account of a family's battle with the devastating impact of untreated mental illness. Written by parents Phyllis and David Michael Foraker, this gripping narrative follows the life of their son, William, whose bright future was slowly derailed by the insidious grip of paranoid schizophrenia. Told with raw honesty and compassion, the book sheds light on the heartbreaking realities faced by families navigating a fractured mental healthcare system.

ABUNDANCE IS COMING. THE QUESTION IS WHO IT'S COMING FOR. Artificial intelligence is not just automating tasks. It is reshaping the economic foundations of society. Jobs that took years to master are now done in minutes. Productivity is accelerating beyond the limits of human labor. And the institutions built on the assumption that people must produce value to earn a living are beginning to crack. What happens to work when machines do it better? What happens to wealth when productivity no longer depends on human effort?

What happens when Boomers and Gen Z finally sit at the same table, only to realise they've been speaking different languages all along?

Brought to you by Penguin. Violence is often regarded as an unavoidable fact of life. The truth is far more hopeful: violence is a disease that can be cured. Drawing on decades spent fighting infectious disease before founding Cure Violence Global, Dr Gary Slutkin shows that violence behaves...

In 1968, the United States government released a report that attempted to explain a wave of unrest across American cities—and issued a warning about the nation’s future. That warning has largely faded from public awareness.

An Autopsy of Urban Collapse. In late September 2013, a road crew buried 150-year-old cobblestones under fresh asphalt on Baldwin Avenue in the Jersey City Heights. Something durable was concealed beneath something disposable, for the convenience of the least permanent users of the road. That institutional habit, the preference for covering failure rather than studying it, is the subject of this audiobook.

The bestselling author of What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20's engaging and practical guide to how to become lucky, based on her classes at Stanford University and her popular TED talk. Much of what we call luck is the result of deliberate actions and consistent efforts. As Tina Seelig shared in...

A paradigm-shifting new approach to ending the epidemic of violence in our lifetime, using the same epidemic control playbook that has rid the world of other contagious diseases. “Leads us down an entirely new path to a world beyond violence” —Nicholas Kristoff Violence is often described...

Economistas, sociólogos, antropólogos e historiadores, cada um do seu jeito, vêm tentando explicar o Brasil. Eles nos desnudam, querendo nos mostrar quem somos e por que somos assim, com nossa riqueza e nossa pobreza. Cada autor tenta explicar como é que um país no qual “em se plantando tudo dá” conseguiu chegar ao grau de desigualdade e de pobreza que hoje nos acomete.

Los años 50 constituyen la época más desconocida de la historia reciente de España. Entre los terribles años 40 de la posguerra y los cambios que trajeron los 60. Manuel Espín acude al rescate de esos tiempos en La España resignada (1952-1960) para devolvernos la imagen de un país que quiere dejar atrás los terribles recuerdos de la guerra y la posguerra para empezar a mirar hacia el futuro con esperanza.

In Song for a Hard-Hit People, Beth Howard shares her story of growing up in Appalachian Kentucky—the economic struggles, trauma, and ever-present sexism along with the loving care of her close-knit rural community. These complex people shaped Howard’s sense of justice and solidarity, and taught her about the inextricable bonds working-class people share, despite our differences. But her childhood also left her with emotional wounds that threatened to destroy the life she built for herself.