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2023.
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English
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"What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you and yet not you at all? What if that double shared many of your preoccupations but, in a twisted, upside-down way, furthered the very causes you’d devoted your life to fighting against? Not long ago, the celebrated activist and public intellectual Naomi Klein had just such an experience―she was confronted with a doppelganger whose views she...
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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'Paris Review contributor Katy Kelleher explores our obsession with gorgeous things, unveiling the fraught histories of makeup, flowers, perfume, silk, and other beautiful objects. April recommended reading by the New York Times Book Review, Vanity Fair, Goodreads, Jezebel, and Next Big Idea Club One of Curbed’s best architecture, design, and urbanism books of the spring A most anticipated book of 2023 by The Millions Katy Kelleher has spent much...
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Publisher
Debate
Pub. Date
2023.
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Español
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Un sincero y revelador análisis de las posibilidades energéticas de nuestro futuro. «Si te preocupael futuro y te enfurece que no se esté haciendo suficiente al respecto, por favor, lee este libro». Paul Collier Vaclav Smil lleva cincuenta años estudiando las posibilidades que tenemos a nuestro alcance para garantizar el futuro energético de nuestro planeta. Debido a la complejidad de las interacciones que mueven el mundo, la atomización...
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"In today's world, the acceleration of megatrends - increasing longevity and the explosion of technology among many others - are transforming life as we now know it. In The Perennials, bestselling author of 2030 Mauro Guillaen unpacks a sweeping societalshift triggered by demographic and technological transformation. Guillaen argues that outmoded terms like Boomers, Gen X, Millennials, and Gen Z have long been used to pigeonhole us into rigid categories...
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Paidós
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
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"BESTSELLER: Wall Street Journal Bestseller, Publishers Weekly Bestseller,Amazon: Best Books of 2022 El metaverso va a cambiar tu vida. Descubre cómo. El término metaverso está en todas partes, desde las portadas de los periódicos hasta los discursos de los directores ejecutivos de las Big Tech, incluidos Sataya Nadella y Mark Zuckerberg, quienes revelaron en octubre de 2021 que Facebook estaba cambiando su nombre a Meta. Pero ¿qué es exactamente...
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English
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"A call to reform our antiquated political institutions before it's too late-from the New York Times bestselling authors of How Democracies Die. America is undergoing a massive experiment: It is moving, in fits and starts, toward a multiracial democracy,something few societies have ever done. But the prospect of change has sparked an authoritarian backlash that threatens the very foundations of our political system. Why is democracy under assault...
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Anchor Books
Pub. Date
1989.
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English
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"The history of disease is the history of humankind: an interpretation of the world as seen through the extraordinary impact—political, demographic, ecological, and psychological—of disease on cultures. "A book of the first importance, a truly revolutionary work." —The New Yorker From the conquest of Mexico by smallpox as much as by the Spanish, to the bubonic plague in China, to the typhoid epidemic in Europe, Plagues and Peoples is "a brilliantly...
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Seal Press
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"From Joan of Arc to Queen Elizabeth I, to Harriet Tubman and Susan B. Anthony, to Sally Ride and Jennifer Aniston, history is full of women without children. Some chose to forgo reproduction in order to pursue intellectually satisfying work-a tension noted by medieval European nuns, 1970s women's liberationists, and modern professionals alike. Some refused to bring children into a world beset by famine, pollution, or climate change. For others, childlessness...
9) Outrage machine: how tech is amplifying discontent, disrupts democracy, and what we can do about it
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Legacy Lit
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Over the last two decades, there has been an inescapable rise of anger and aggression across our planet. Hate speech has become increasingly prevalent online, Western governments are turning towards authoritarianism and populism, and extremist groups arerising across both the left and the right ends of the political spectrum. Every day, it seems, we're hearing more angry voices and fearful opinions, we're seeing more threats and frightening news,...
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Faber & Faber
Pub. Date
[2011]
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English
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We live in a pop age gone loco for retro and crazy for commemoration. Band re-formations and reunion tours, expanded reissues of classic albums and outtake-crammed box sets, remakes and sequels, tribute albums and mash-ups ... But what happens when we runout of past? Are we heading toward a sort of cultural-ecological catastrophe, where the archival stream of pop history has been exhausted? Retromania is the first book to examine the retro industry...
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DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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The founders of Female Invest, Europe's largest financial educator for women, present a guide to choosing sustainable investments, funds, stocks and shares that can have a positive impact on both personal wealth and the future of the planet.
"What if building your own personal wealth didn't have to come at the expense of the planet? Put your money where your mouth is when it comes to handling your finances and join the Female Invest trio on a mission...
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Black Dog & Leventhal
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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From the photographer behind the Instagram sensation Brown Girls Do Ballet, this stunning coffee-table book showcases breathtaking images of ballerinas of color of all ages and levels that reflect today’s beautifully diverse world of dance. For decades the prominent image of a ballet dancer has been a white body with pale clothing. It took 75 years for American Ballet Theatre to have its first African American female principal dancer, Misty Copeland....
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Page Street Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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The Ultimate Handbook for Success on the Spectrum – Written by and for Autistic People! I feel like everyone else got a handbook with all the answers, and I never got my copy. This is a common thought among autistic people, because society is built with neurotypical people in mind―but that handbook has finally arrived. Even better, it was written by an autism activist who is on the spectrum himself. Autistic influencer Daniel M. Jones is an...
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Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"In 1941, when German armies were marching towards Moscow, Lenin's body was moved from his tomb on Red Square and taken to Siberia. By 1945, a victorious Stalin had turned a poor country into a victorious superpower. Over the course of those four years, Stalin, at Churchill's insistence, accepted an Anglo-American press corps in Moscow to cover the Eastern Front. To turn these reporters into Kremlin mouthpieces, Stalin imposed the most draconian controls--unbending...
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The New Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"An eloquent and passionate call for educational reparations, from the New York Times bestselling author"--
"When Jonathan Kozol's Death at an Early Age appeared in 1967, it rocked the education world. Based on the Rhodes Scholar's first year of teaching in Boston's Black community, the book described the abuse and neglect of children for no reason but the color of their skin. Since that National Book Award���winning volume, Kozol has spent...
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ECW Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"An unflinching reimagining of Legacy: Trauma, Story, and Indigenous Healing for young adults Written specifically for young adults, reluctant readers, and literacy learners, Killing the Wittigo explains the traumatic effects of colonization on Indigenous people and communities and how trauma alters an individual’s brain, body, and behavior. It explores how learned patterns of behavior ― the ways people adapt to trauma to survive ― are passed...
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