Politics & Social Sciences

Illuminating, enlightening, and uplifting, A New Earth is a profoundly spiritual manifesto for a better way of life—and for building a better world.

Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this piercing work distills 3,000 years of the history of power into 48 well-explicated laws....

In On Xi Jinping, former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd provides an authoritative account of the ideological worldview driving Chinese behaviour both domestically and on the world stage.

One of the most significant books ever written by a head of state, the Meditations are a collection of philosophical thoughts by the Emperor Marcus Aurelius....

Veteran war historian Paul Ham embarks on a journey that has never been attempted: to restore the idea of the soul to the human story and to show how belief in, and beliefs arising from, the soul/mind have driven human history....

In his classic guide to understanding the opposite sex, Dr. John Gray provides a practical and proven way for men and women to improve their communication and relationships by acknowledging the differences between them....

101 Essays That Will Change the Way You Think is a collection of author Brianna Wiest's most beloved pieces of writing.

Crikey owner and ex-News Corp and Fairfax editor lifts the lid on the abuse of power by media moguls—from William Randolph Hearst to Elon Musk—and on his own unique experience of working for (and being sued by) the Murdochs.

A revised and updated edition of Emily Nagoski’s game-changing New York Times best seller Come As You Are, featuring new information and research on mindfulness, desire, and pleasure that will radically transform your sex life....

Conversations we never had about sex, body image, work and relationships: This part-memoir, part feminist-manifesto meets women where they are and as they are.

Best-selling journalist Antony Loewenstein, author of Disaster Capitalism, uncovers a largely hidden world in a global investigation with secret documents, revealing interviews and on-the-ground reporting.

The Daily Stoic offers a daily devotional of Stoic insights and exercises, featuring all-new translations from Emperor Marcus Aurelius, playwright Seneca, and many more....

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs and Steel examines the rise of civilization and the issues its development has raised throughout history....

When Bridget Hustwaite blew out her thirtieth birthday candles, she had no idea of the profound changes that awaited her in this new decade...

This is the book that changed America....

Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this piercing work distills 3,000 years of the history of power into 48 well-explicated laws....

In this stunning audiobook, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers" - the best and the brightest, the most famous, and the most successful. He asks the question: What makes high-achievers different? Listen to find out more....

Today, we are told that medical interventions increased our lifespan and single-handedly prevented masses of deaths. But is this really true? Dissolving Illusions details facts and figures from long-overlooked medical journals, books, newspapers, and other sources....

Polyamorous psychotherapist Jessica Fern breaks new ground by extending attachment theory into the realm of consensual nonmonogamy. Using her nested model of attachment and trauma, she expands our understanding of how emotional experiences can influence our relationships....

From the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Publishers Weekly bestselling author of The Real Anthony Fauci comes an explosive exposé of the cover-up behind the true origins of COVID-19....

Long before the sword-wielding heroes of legend readily cut down forests, slaughtered the old deities, and vanquished their enemies, there were playful gods, animal-headed kings, mischievous lovers, trickster harpists, and vegetal magicians with flowering wands....

As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science....

Becoming Bulletproof means transforming yourself into a stronger, more confident and more powerful person....

Weapons of Mass Instruction focuses on mechanisms of traditional education which cripple imagination, discourage critical thinking, and create a false view of learning....

Journalist and author Oliver Burkeman looks at four central ills of modernity—busyness, anger, the insistence on positivity and the decline of nuance. Talking to a range of experts, he discovers how these problems became so widespread, and how we can go about tackling them....

Over the next five years, millions of more Americans are expected to take Ozempic and other GLP-1 weight-loss drugs, which are rapidly being recognized as the miracle drugs of this century. If you’re not on them, you’ll probably know someone who is. What are the implications of the widespread use of these drugs, both on our bodies and our society? In this show, you’ll meet people across America who are either taking the jab or thinking about it, and the shocking intentional and unintentional results they are seeing.

When Bridget Hustwaite blew out her thirtieth birthday candles, she had no idea of the profound changes that awaited her in this new decade. Instead of ticking off the traditional expectations (buy a house, get married, start a family), Bridget's list of early thirties life moments looked wildly different to what she anticipated. Her long-term relationship of five years had just ended, she said goodbye to her dream job, was diagnosed with ADHD and became a lockdown dog mum. And that was just the beginning . . .

Fully updated chapters continue to address how technology and increasing levels of education have exposed people to more information than ever before. These societal gains, however, have also helped fuel a surge in narcissistic and misguided intellectual egalitarianism that has crippled informed debates on any number of issues. Over the past several years, the rise of populism and conspiracy theories have taken this to new levels. All voices, even the most ridiculous, demand to be taken with equal seriousness, and any claim to the contrary is dismissed as undemocratic elitism.

In 2007, after almost 40 years of operations, the SAS ceased operations in Northern Ireland and ended the longest operational commitment in the unit's history. Starting in 1969, Mark Urban reveals the extraordinary history of the special forces' operations in Northern Ireland and the unenviable dilemmas faced by intelligence chiefs engaged in a daily struggle against one of the world's most sophisticated terrorist organisations.

At thirty years old, Gabriel Wyner speaks six languages fluently. He didn’t learn them in school—who does? Rather, he learned them in the past few years, working on his own and practicing on the subway, using simple techniques and free online resources—and here he wants to show others what he’s discovered. This is brain hacking at its most exciting, taking what we know about neuroscience and linguistics and using it to create the most efficient and enjoyable way to learn a foreign language in the spare minutes of your day.

Solo hay un escenario, aparte del impacto de un asteroide, capaz de acabar con el mundo tal como lo conocemos en cuestión de horas: una guerra nuclear. Hasta ahora, nadie fuera de los círculos oficiales ha sabido con exactitud qué sucedería si un estado rebelde lanzara una cabeza nuclear contra el Pentágono. Segundo a segundo y minuto a minuto, estos son los acontecimientos, acciones y protocolos reales que coreografían el fin de la civilización.

Amoral, inmisericorde, despiadada y, sobre todo, muy instructiva, esta incisiva obra concentra tres mil años de historia del poder en cuarenta y ocho leyes claras y concisas. Robert Greene detalla las leyes del poder en su esencia más cruda, sintetizando el pensamiento de Maquiavelo, Sun Tzu, Carl von Clausewitz y otros grandes teóricos y estrategas.

As society shifts its perspective on allyship—moving from being "not racist" to "anti-racist"—White allies are being called upon to work toward changing the status quo. However, the vast majority of resources on this topic emphasize educating allies about anti-racism without teaching them how to do anti-racism work. This leaves well-meaning allies feeling stuck, frustrated, and afraid of getting it wrong. Beyond Fragility fills this gap by providing a step-by-step approach to effective anti-racism allyship.

Meditations is a series of personal writings by Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor from 161 to 180 AD, recording his private notes to himself and ideas on Stoic philosophy. Marcus Aurelius wrote the 12 books of the Meditations in Koine Greek as a source for his own guidance and self-improvement. It is possible that large portions of the work were written at Sirmium, where he spent much time planning military campaigns from 170 to 180.

Der Krieg in der Ukraine spitzt sich weiter zu - damit nimmt nicht nur die Gefahr einer militärischen Eskalation zu. Auch die Propagandaschlacht wird von allen Konfliktparteien erbittert und mit den modernsten Manipulationswaffen geführt. Von russischer Seite wird immer wieder die Karte einer möglichen atomaren Konfrontation ausgespielt. Die Falken im Westen versuchen dagegen, die Gefahr eines Nuklearkrieges als gering und paradoxerweise den russischen Invasionshunger auf Europa gleichzeitig groß darzustellen.

In this detailed analysis, Norman G. Finkelstein uncovers the hardships endured by Palestinians, reveals the insincerity of narratives conceived against them, exposes the betrayal of noteworthy individuals and organizations in the face of Gaza's suffering, and discusses the stance of international law regarding their predicament and recourse to armed resistance.

いつかここが焼け野原になったら、何が何でも戻ってきて、杭を打とう――30年前に手渡された、祖父が残した手記。便箋に綴られていたのは、家族の来歴と、地元五反田を襲った「もうひとつの東京大空襲」の記録だった。戦時下を必死で生きた祖父の目を通して、タワーマンションの光景が町工場の記憶と重なり合う。大宅壮一ノンフィクション賞作家が描いた、東京の片隅から見た等身大の戦争と戦後。

Our competitive, service-oriented societies are taking a toll on the late-modern individual. Rather than improving life, multitasking, user-friendly technology, and the culture of convenience are producing disorders that range from depression to attention deficit disorder to borderline personality disorder. Byung-Chul Han interprets the spreading malaise as an inability to manage negative experiences in an age characterized by excessive positivity and the universal availability of people and goods

In popular mythology, the Overland Trail is typically a triumphant tale, with plucky easterners crossing the Plains in caravans of covered wagons. But not everyone reached Oregon and California. Some 6,600 migrants perished along the way and were buried where they fell, often on Indigenous land. By the 1850s, cholera epidemics, ordinary diseases, and violence had remade the Trail into an American burial ground. In subsequent decades, U.S. officials and citizens leveraged Trail graves to claim Native ground.

Bedürfnisse und Gefühle am Lebensende: Deutschlands führende Palliativmedizinerin Prof. Dr. Claudia Bausewein und der Hospizexperte und Physiotherapeut ...

国民の能力に差はないのになぜ給料が7.5倍!?その理由を知れば、日本は現状から抜け出せる!アメリカと日本の国力の差は、縮まるどころか広がる一方だ。

Wage-Labour and Capital & Value, Price, and Profit by Karl Marx is a compelling introduction to Marxist economic theory, combining two of his most influential works. In Wage-Labour and Capital, Marx explores the relationship between labor and capital, illuminating how the commodification of labor under capitalism generates profit for capitalists at the expense of workers. In Value, Price, and Profit, Marx delves deeper into the mechanisms of capitalist economies, discussing the labor theory of value, the creation of surplus value, and the inherent exploitation of wage labor.

Scrisă cu biografa sa, Sofia Stril-Rever, cartea lui Dalai Lama este un manifest al compasiunii și un testament diplomatic și spiritual pe care liderul tibetan îl lasă generațiilor viitorului. Cei născuți la începutul mileniului al treilea ajung acum la maturitate într-o lume asupra căreia planează amenințări grave: colapsul resurselor naturale, încălzirea globală, ascensiunea curentelor naționaliste și terorismul.

Harriet Beecher Stowe was appalled by slavery, and she took one of the few options open to nineteenth-century women who wanted to affect public opinion: she wrote a novel, a huge, enthralling narrative that claimed the heart, soul, and politics of millions of her contemporaries. Uncle Tom's Cabin paints pictures of three plantations, each worse than the other, where even the best plantation leaves a slave at the mercy of fate or debt. Her questions remain penetrating even today: "Can man ever be trusted with wholly irresponsible power?"

Breaking the Chains: Escaping Abuse, Cults, and Finding True Love' is a gripping memoir that showcases the triumph of the human spirit over adversity. Latoya shares her courageous journey of breaking free from an abusive relationship and escaping the clutches of a manipulative cult church. Latoya's inspiring story is a testament to the power of resilience, the pursuit of love, and the unwavering strength of the human soul.

In this new revised edition of his groundbreaking work, Professor J. Budziszewski questions the modern assumption that moral truths are unknowable. With clear and logical arguments he rehabilitates the natural law tradition and restores confidence in a moral code based upon human nature. What We Can't Not Know explains the rational foundation of what we all really know to be right and wrong and shows how that foundation has been kicked out from under western society.

Wenn schon Scheidung, dann aber günstig!

Deswegen hast du sicher auch den Spruch "Wir haben uns einen Anwalt geteilt." schon gehört?

Das ist ein echter Dauerbrenner der Falschinformation! Der Nachteil ist nur, er wird nicht richtiger, wenn er öfter wiederholt wird. Genauer gesagt, ist er schlicht und einfach falsch und verbreitet sich dennoch wie ein rasendes Feuer im Heu und richtet ähnlichen Schaden an!

Und von dieser Sorte gibt es noch mindestens 18 Irrtümer mehr. Höchste Zeit für Aufklärung mit der Anwältin der neuen Zeit,der Paragraphensylvia

Are you ready to embark on a rewarding career with the TSA? Whether you're interested in becoming a TSA officer, advancing to leadership roles, or simply looking to improve your chances of success, this comprehensive guide provides all the essential information you need to excel in your TSA career path.

America stands at the brink — an unstable economy, divided politics, and cultural chaos threaten to push us over the edge. Dethrone Davos is your compass through the coming storm. This eye-opening book uncovers the powerful undercurrents reshaping our world. From the madness of Wall Street to the partisan battles on Capitol Hill, it connects the dots between the economic, political, and social upheavals we face. Dethrone Davos doesn’t just diagnose our nation’s ills, it charts a new course for America’s future. Inside, gain a clearer view of the forces obscuring the path ahead.

Navigating Complexity: The SPARC of Behavioral Dynamics invites listeners into an exploration of one of humanity's most profound challenges: understanding the intricate interplay between choice, identity, and adaptation in a world shaped by constant change. This groundbreaking book introduces the SPARC framework—the Spectrum of Possibility and Recursive Choice—a model that bridges philosophy, cognitive science, and systems theory to redefine how we think about human behavior, autonomy, and selfhood.