Sociology

Procrastination. Disorganization. Distractibility. Millions of adults have long considered these the hallmarks of a lack of self-discipline. But for many, these and other problems in school, at work and in social relationships are actually symptoms of an inborn neurological problem: ADD, or...

Now available as an unabridged recording for the first time NATIONAL BESTSELLER Discover the game-changing theory of the cycles of history and what past generations can teach us about living through times of upheaval—with deep insights into the roles that Boomers, Generation X, and...

Imagine you are dying with a secret. Something you've never had the courage to tell your friends and family. Or a last wish - a task you need carried out before you can rest in peace....

“If you want to know why Harriet Lerner is one of my great heroes, Why Won’t You Apologize? is the answer. This book is a game changer.” —Brené Brown, PhD, LMSW, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Rising Strong “Harriet Lerner is one hell of a wise woman. She draws you in with...

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....

Written after his wife's tragic death, A Grief Observed is C.S. Lewis's honest reflection on the fundamental issues of life, death, and faith in the midst of loss....

Campbell outlines the Hero's Journey, a universal motif of adventure and transformation that runs through virtually all of the world's mythic traditions....

This audiobook narrated by Erin Bennett offers an engaging look at the mental labor that keeps families afloat—and why women do most of it.

Navigating the challenges of long-term commitment takes effort - and it just got simpler, with this empowering, step-by-step guide to communicating about the things that matter most to you and your partner....

What Seems to Be the Problem with Adam Kay and Mark Watson reveals the intriguing and hilarious ways the body can go wrong - and the amazing stories that unfold when the medical world tries to help....

Since the original publication of Nudge more than a decade ago, the title has entered the vocabulary of businesspeople, policy makers, engaged citizens, and consumers everywhere....

From Malcolm Gladwell’s hit podcast Revisionist History comes a compendium about one of his greatest obsessions: education....

Many of us grew up believing in a meritocracy, where hard work and a good education brings rewards. Go to university, get a job, put in the hours and things will be OK.

First published in 2003 to great acclaim, this fully revised and updated edition seeks to increase the listener's understanding of birth order theory....

Exploring the sometimes hilarious, sometimes devastating impact of crowd behavior and trading trickery on the financial markets, this book brilliantly combines two all-time investment classics....

In July 1995, San Jose Mercury-News reporter Gary Webb found the Big One - the blockbuster story every journalist secretly dreams about - without even looking for it....

An engaging, polemical romp through economic theory, computational complexity, and the history of planning, The People's Republic of Walmart revives the conversation about how society can extend democratic decision-making to all economic matters....

Heterosexuality is in crisis. Reports of sexual harassment, misconduct, and rape saturate the news in the era of #MeToo. Straight men and women spend thousands of dollars every day on relationship coaches, seduction boot camps, and couples' therapy in a search for happiness....

“Excellent.”—The Wall Street Journal Since its publication ten years ago, businesspeople, investors, doctors, parents, students, athletes, and musicians at every level have adopted the maxims of Talent Is Overrated to get better at what they’re passionate about. Now this classic has been...

With unequaled insight and brio, David Brooks, the New York Times columnist and bestselling author of Bobos in Paradise, has long explored and explained the way we live. Now, with the intellectual curiosity and emotional wisdom that make his columns among the most read in the nation, Brooks...

When New Zealand’s prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, announced her pregnancy, the headlines raced around the world....

This is a book that is going to rock you back on your heels and get you thinking along new lines. It will enable you to lift up your life and get free of social conditioning that has been crippling us all for thousands of years....

The Nature of Drugs: History, Pharmacology, and Social Impact, Volume 1, presents lectures from Alexander “Sasha” Shulgin’s popular course on what drugs are, how they work, how they are processed by the body, and how they affect our society.

Presenting a wide scope of problems caused by B12 deficiency, this comprehensive guide provides up-to-date medical information about symptoms, testing, diagnosis, and treatment....

It is six years since Jake's daughter Grace hanged herself. Jake's wife, Beth, has left him, his son Nig was killed in a gangland fight - his only consolations are drink and his memories....

Attraverso una lente decoloniale e di genere, le autrici rivendicano l'esigenza di un femminismo terrone: una rivoluzione culturale che sfida le convinzioni radicate sull'identità meridionale e sovverte l'asse Nord-Sud su cui si fonda la narrazione egemonica non solo italiana. Un viaggio di emancipazione e scoperta di identità altre, di lotte e di esperienze, uno spunto prezioso per chiunque voglia comprendere e combattere le ingiustizie che ancora oggi colpiscono il Sud e i sud.

福岡県警VS工藤會　情報収集、駆け引き、交渉 etc.武闘派に頭脳で迫った歴史的闘いの全貌全国の指定暴力団の中で、唯一、特定危険指定暴力団に指定された、北九州を拠点とする工藤會。

Während die Freundinnen eine nach der anderen schwanger werden, nagen die Zweifel: Werde ich es bereuen, wenn ich keine Kinder bekomme? Verena Kleinmann geht ihren Gefühlen nach und findet überraschende und beruhigende Antworten auf eine der größten Fragen im Leben.

Was ist der Tod, wie bereite ich mich vor und was kommt danach? Was passiert genau beim Vorgang des Sterbens? Wie beeinflusst mein gelebtes Leben bzw. vor allem meine aktuelle Bewusstheit und innere Reife den Prozess des Übergangs? Wie besteht unser Bewusstsein im Jenseits weiter fort und welche Wege kann es einschlagen nach dem Übergang? Welche Bedeutung hat Reinkarnation in diesem Zusammenhang?

After many years during which it languished in relative obscurity, in remote classrooms of computer science departments and in small prototype projects for tech companies, artificial intelligence (AI) is now a searingly hot topic across the media. Yet much of the public discussion is so feverish that an understanding of the basic scientific and engineering elements of the field is easily lost, often resulting in exaggerated claims, as well as dangerously neglected threats.

Desde el Bagdad y la Casita Blanca hasta el Fetish Café y la Órbita de IO, Adaia bucea en las sexualidades menos convencionales de su ciudad y los lugares que las albergan. Barcelona ha sido mi lugar desde hace más de dos décadas. La ciudad donde me he desmadrado de joven, me he hecho adulta, me he desarrollado como periodista y he creado mi propia familia. Quiero saber cómo es la vida sexual de mi ciudad, la que no cabe en titulares clicbait. Aquí viven casi dos millones de personas, es imposible captar su esencia en una frívola estadística.

Deshacer el género recoge reflexiones recientes de la autora sobre el género y la sexualidad, centrándose en el nuevo parentesco, el psicoanálisis y el tabú del incesto, el transgénero, el intersexo, las categorías de diagnóstico, la violencia social y la labor de transformación social. A partir de la teoría feminista y la teoría queer, Butler considera las normas que rigen –y no lo consiguen– el género y la sexualidad en tanto que vinculadas a las restricciones de una categoría reconocible de persona.

Peter F. Drucker may be best known as a writer on business and management, but these subjects were not his foremost intellectual concern. Drucker's primary concerns were community, in which the individual has status, and society, in which the individual has function. Here he has assembled selections from his vast writings on these subjects. This collection presents the full range of Drucker's thought on community, society, and political structure and constitutes an ideal introduction to his ideas.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, The Denial of Death explores how people and cultures around the world have reacted to the concept of death from celebrated cultural anthropologist Ernest Becker. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1974 and the culmination of a life’s work, The Denial of Death is...

Over the past five years, medical aid-in-dying (also known as assisted suicide) has expanded rapidly in the United States and is now legally available to one in five Americans. This growing social and political movement heralds the possibility of a new era of choice in dying. Yet very little is publicly known about how medical aid-in-dying laws affect ordinary citizens once they are put into practice.

¿Qué tienen ellas para dar de comer de su mano a auténticas fieras humanas? ¿Con qué poderosa luz los deslumbran hasta hacerles olvidarse de sí mismos? ¿Cómo esos dragones son sometidos por las que parecen llevarlos atados con un lazo de sutileza? Estas páginas buscan acercarse a ese secreto, conmovedor o perturbador, aunque para ello debamos primero descubrir las condiciones que producen unos monstruos con rostro humano, mezcla de terror y poesía, lo mejor y lo peor de la civilización.

What if your therapist’s business model depends on you never getting better? In this hard-hitting exposé, Dr. Hugh Brisbane pulls back the curtain on the mental health industry and reveals how compassion itself has been commodified. From Freud’s “talking cure” to TikTok therapists, the empathy economy has grown into a billion-dollar machine where the incentives reward endless sessions, quick prescriptions, and patient dependence—not healing.

En todo el mundo se han fundado movimientos de ideología antigénero dedicados a hacer circular la fantasía de que el género es una amenaza peligrosa para las familias, las culturas locales, la civilización, e incluso para el propio «hombre». Inflamados por la retórica de figuras públicas y operando en tándem con los engañosos relatos de la teoría crítica de la raza y el pánico xenófobo a la migración, estos movimientos han intentado derogar la justicia reproductiva, socavar las protecciones contra la violencia y despojar de sus derechos a las personas trans y queer demonizando las luchas por la igualdad.

El género en disputa, obra fundadora de la llamada teoría queer y emblema de los estudios de género como se conocen hoy en día, es un volumen indispensable para comprender la teoría feminista actual. Constituye una lúcida crítica a la idea esencialista de que las identidades de género son inmutables y encuentran su arraigo en la naturaleza, en el cuerpo o en una heterosexualidad normativa y obligatoria.

En la convincente crítica que aquí presenta, Martha C. Nussbaum argumenta que las teorías del desarrollo actualmente imperantes han producido políticas que ignoran nuestras necesidades más fundamentales de dignidad y respeto personales. Nussbaum ha trabajado durante los últimos 25 años en la elaboración y el perfeccionamiento de un modelo alternativo de evaluación del desarrollo humano: el llamado «enfoque de las capacidades». Ella y sus colegas parten de una pregunta sumamente simple: ¿qué es capaz de hacer y de ser cada persona?