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Both thoughtful and thought-provoking, Finding Purpose aims to challenge our understanding of how humanity interacts with planet Earth, and our role within this. This book is an invitation: would you like to participate in one of the most important projects of imagination, perhaps the greatest...

Cyberattacks are the ultimate geopolitical weapon of the twenty-first century. They are used to damage presidential campaigns, shut down electric grids, sway public sentiment, and cost businesses and governments alike billions of dollars. Popular culture portrays cyberattacks as unstoppable and...

Britain is in the grip of a housing crisis. It has, in fact, been in the grip of a housing crisis since the Industrial Revolution, when the population soared and people crammed into towns and cities in search of work. What followed is a tale of suburbia, green belts and, since the 1980s, the...

The machines are already here. They diagnose diseases, trade stocks, drive trucks, and manage the supply chains that keep civilization running. Most of us barely notice. But the quiet accumulation of autonomous capability is approaching a threshold beyond which everything changes: the nature of work, the distribution of wealth, the quality of our collective decisions, and even what it means to be a person.

En los dos tomos que componen Los engranajes de Occidente, Fabián C. Barrio analiza desde una perspectiva psicosociológica el declive de una civilización que ha pasado de alzar catedrales a cancelar panaderos. Del humanismo al algoritmo. Del sacrificio a la sobreexposición emocional.

In the summer of 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court decided in Dobbs v. Jackson that it had made a mistake in the early 1970s when it found in Roe v. Wade that the constitution guaranteed a right to abortion. Everyone but the faithful, and the fearful, were stunned. In the years that will follow, Americans will surely come to doubt the wisdom of the ruling, to doubt the need to have ended abortion, and maybe even to doubt the fact that over 64 million unborn Americans died before Roe was overturned. Those who can remember must not forget, and must forever remind those with eyes to see and ears to...

The father of three sons, a journalist, and a Brookings Institution scholar, Richard V. Reeves has spent twenty-five years worrying about boys both at home and work. His new book, Of Boys and Men, tackles the complex and urgent crisis of boyhood and manhood. Reeves looks at the structural challenges that face boys and men and offers fresh and innovative solutions that turn the page on the corrosive narrative that plagues this issue. Of Boys and Men argues that helping the other half of society does not mean giving up on the ideal of gender equality.

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In Hands Off My Food!, Dr. Sina McCullough exposes the hidden forces manipulating what ends up on your plate—from unelected bureaucrats making top-down decisions about your food, to multinational biotech corporations pushing untested technologies into the food supply, to regulatory frameworks that prioritize industry profits over public health. With clarity, urgency, and meticulously sourced research, this book reveals how the basic right to choose what we eat is being undermined—often without our knowledge or consent.

Renowned investor and climate champion Tom Steyer has been on the forefront of the climate war for well over a decade, leveraging his investment expertise, business knowledge, and community-organizing skills to support sustainable climate solutions. In this accessible book, he explains how capitalism is an effective tool for scaling climate progress, offers his candid take on fossil fuel enablers, and explains why immediate action on the climate front will be an investment in our economy and our key to a healthy and viable future.

Following the tremendous success of Pulitzer Prize nominee A Child Called "It", this book continues the extraordinary tale of author Dave Pelzer's childhood. On the verge of adolescence, Dave is rescued from his terrifyingly abusive, alcoholic mother and made a permanent ward of the court. Then the real journey begins. He is moved from one foster home to another, searching for identity and family.

The world is in turmoil. From India to Turkey and from Poland to the United States, authoritarian populists have seized power. As a result democracy itself may now be at risk. Two core components of liberal democracy - individual rights and the popular will - are at war with each other. As the role of money in politics soared and important issues were taken out of public contestation, a system of "rights without democracy" took hold. Populists who rail against this say they want to return power to the people. But in practice they create a system of "democracy without rights."

The 40-year history of how Democrats chose political opportunity over addressing inequality—and how the poor have paid the price For decades, the Republican Party has been known as the party of the rich: arguing for “business-friendly” policies like deregulation and tax cuts. But this...

 An indictment of the American educational system criticizes the fact that the system has discarded the traditional goals of transmitting knowledge and fostering cognitive skills in favor of building self-esteem and promoting social harmony. 

Having conquered all the major institutions of our culture, the left is closing in on its final frontier—your children. In this new book, Liz Wheeler exposes where the forces of wokeness are at work and explains how parents can fight back for a change. Everything is on the line.

An exuberant, hilarious, and profound memoir by a mailman in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, who found that working for the post office saved his life, taught him who he was, gave him purpose, and educated him deeply about a country he loves but had lost touch with. Steve Grant was laid...

Organizations have invested $30–40 billion in AI. According to MIT (2025), 95% produced no measurable return. Only 5% made it into daily workflows. If you're reading this, you're trying not to become that statistic—or you already are. The problem isn't bad technology. Most AI failures don't begin at scale. They begin during pilots, when early success builds confidence without revealing risks that surface once AI enters real workflows and decisions under pressure.

What happens when the systems that feed eight billion people break? The Food Shock Atlas is the first comprehensive, country-by-country analysis of twelve disruption scenarios that could reshape global food security within the next decade. Drawing on trade data, agricultural production statistics, climate projections, and geopolitical risk assessments current through March 2026, this atlas maps the vulnerabilities of all 195 countries across twelve distinct shock pathways — and scores each nation's resilience. The twelve scenarios span the full spectrum of food system fragility: Black Sea...

The inside story of how Big Tech catalyzed, co-opted and ultimately came to capture computer science and AI education in America. Fourth graders doing Google-branded coding lessons. Amazon schooling seventh graders on its warehouse robots. High school AP computing courses from Microsoft and...

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