Libros más populares en España●Sociedad

'Essential and instructive, hopeful and enraging' Ann Patchett 'Desmond is utterly convincing: we must all become poverty abolitionists' Emily Kenway *A searing study of American poverty from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Evicted* The United States is the richest country on earth, yet has more poverty than any other advanced democracy. One in seven Americans live below the poverty line, a line which hasn't shifted over the last fifty years, despite the efforts of successive governments an...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2023-03-21 Género:No ficción > Ciencias sociales 17,99 €

**THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER** Sapiens showed us where we came from. In our increasingly uncertain times, Homo Deus shows us where we're going. 'Spellbinding' Guardian The world-renowned historian and intellectual Yuval Noah Harari envisions a near future in which we face a new set of challenges. Homo Deus explores the projects, dreams and nightmares that will shape the twenty-first century and beyond - from overcoming death to creating artificial life. It asks the fundamental questions: how ca...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2016-09-08 Género:No ficción > Ciencias sociales 9,49 €

When you love someone, how does it feel? And when you desire someone, how is it different? In Mating in Captivity, Esther Perel looks at the story of sex in committed couples. Modern romance promises it all - a lifetime of togetherness, intimacy and erotic desire. In reality, it's hard to want what you already have. Our quest for secure love conflicts with our pursuit of passion. And often, the very thing that got us to into our relationships - lust - is the one thing that goes missing from them...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2012-02-16 Género:No ficción > Ciencias sociales 5,99 €

A personal and powerful essay from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the bestselling author of ‘Americanah’ and ‘Half of a Yellow Sun’, based on her 2013 TEDx Talk of the same name. An eBook short. What does “feminism” mean today? That is the question at the heart of We Should All Be Feminists, a personal, eloquently-argued essay – adapted from her much-viewed Tedx talk of the same name – by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the award-winning author of ‘Americanah’ and ‘Half of a Yellow Su...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2014-10-09 Género:No ficción > Ciencias sociales 3,49 €

*THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER* *OVER HALF A MILLION COPIES SOLD* Discover the shocking gender bias that affects our everyday lives. ' HELL YES. This is one of those books that has the potential to change things - a monumental piece of research' Caitlin Moran Imagine a world where... · Your phone is too big for your hand · Your doctor prescribes a drug that is wrong for your body · In a car accident you are 47% more likely to be injured. If any of that sounds familiar, chances are yo...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2019-03-07 Género:No ficción > Ciencias sociales 9,49 €

* THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* A deeply honest investigation of what it means to be a woman and a commodity from Emily Ratajkowski, the archetypal, multi-hyphenate celebrity of our time. _______________ 'This is the book for every woman trying to place their body on the map of consumption vs control, and every woman who wants to better understand her impulses. It left me much changed' - Lena Dunham 'I read these pages, breathless with recognition, and the thrill of reading a new voice telling ...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2021-11-09 Género:No ficción > Ciencias sociales 5,99 €

In this completely revised and updated edition of international bestseller WATCHING THE ENGLISH, anthropologist Kate Fox takes a revealing look at the quirks, habits and foibles of the English people. Now with new survey data to add weight to her original fieldwork findings, and more extensive field-research and experiments to back up earlier observations, Kate Fox has deciphered yet more enigmatic behaviour codes, adding new rules, new subcultures, new chapters and over 100 updates. If you're E...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2014-04-24 Género:No ficción > Ciencias sociales 5,49 €

'An indispensable resource for white people who want to challenge white supremacy but don't know where to begin' Robin DiAngelo, author of WHITE FRAGILITY 'It should be mandatory reading ... Buy the book, do the work and then push more copies into the hands of everyone you know' Emma Gannon 'Confrontational and much-needed' Stylist 'She is no-joke changing the world and, for what it's worth, the way I live my life.' Anne Hathaway ___________ Me and White Supremacy shows readers how to dismantle ...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2020-01-28 Género:No ficción > Ciencias sociales 5,99 €

Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz explains why we are experiencing such destructively high levels of inequality - and why this is not inevitable The top 1 percent have the best houses, the best educations, the best doctors, and the best lifestyles, but there is one thing that money doesn't seem to have bought: an understanding that their fate is bound up with how the other 99 percent live. Throughout history, this is something that the top 1 percent eventually do learn - too late. In this timely bo...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2012-06-28 Género:No ficción > Ciencias sociales 9,49 €

En un lenguaje cercano y divertido, este innovador libro propone un nuevo paradigma para comprender las relaciones íntimas contemporáneas. El Dr. Ferrer propone que, al igual que el movimiento transgénero hizo con la dicotomía hombre/mujer, ha llegado el momento de superar la dicotomía monogamia/poliamor. Con este fin, este libro presenta una variedad de estilos de relación novógamos , abriendo nuevas posibilidades de vivir el amor, la sexualidad y el género. Ilustrado con numerosos ejem...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2022-02-03 Género:No ficción > Ciencias sociales 8,99 €

Discover Jonathan Safran Foer's eye-opening and life-changing account of the meat we eat. 'Should be compulsory reading. A genuine masterwork. Read this book. It will change you' Time Out Eating Animals is the most original and urgent book on the subject of food written this century. It will change the way you think, and change the way you eat. For good. Whether you're flirting with veganuary, trying to cut back on animal consumption, or a lifelong meat-eater, you need to read this book. From th...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2010-03-04 Género:No ficción > Ciencias sociales 9,49 €

Desde 2012, Carme Chaparro viene desarrollando una gran actividad en distintos medios escritos, como Yo Dona , GQ o VozPópuli , y en redes sociales, publicando casi a diario artículos y reflexiones en los que queda patente su opinión aguda, certera, sin medias tintas, sobre los asuntos de la actualidad que la interpelan y que nos afectan a todos, y especialmente a todas, en su denodada defensa de la igualdad. Y lo hace con mano maestra y un espíritu fresco, crítico, que pone el foco en háb...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2019-10-22 9,99 €

An updated edition of the Sunday Times Bestseller Britain's best-known classicist Mary Beard, is also a committed and vocal feminist. With wry wit, she revisits the gender agenda and shows how history has treated powerful women. Her examples range from the classical world to the modern day, from Medusa and Athena to Theresa May and Hillary Clinton. Beard explores the cultural underpinnings of misogyny, considering the public voice of women, our cultural assumptions about women's relationship wit...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2017-11-02 Género:No ficción > Ciencias sociales 3,99 €

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'Compelling, haunting, tragic stories . . . resonate long after you put the book down' James McConnachie, Sunday Times Book of the Year The routine traffic stop that ends in tragedy. The spy who spends years undetected at the highest levels of the Pentagon. The false conviction of Amanda Knox. Why do we so often get other people wrong? Why is it so hard to detect a lie, read a face or judge a stranger's motives? Using stories of deceit and fatal errors to cast doubt ...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2019-09-10 Género:No ficción > Ciencias sociales 9,49 €

The international bestseller 'A manual for thinking clearly in an uncertain world. Read it.' Daniel Kahneman, author of Thinking, Fast and Slow _________________________ What if we could improve our ability to predict the future? Everything we do involves forecasts about how the future will unfold. Whether buying a new house or changing job, designing a new product or getting married, our decisions are governed by implicit predictions of how things are likely to turn out. The problem is, we're n...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2015-09-24 Género:No ficción > Ciencias sociales 9,49 €

Fleischhauer in Hochform: Das Beste aus dem »Schwarzen Kanal« und darüber hinaus Jan Fleischhauer ist der Meister der politischen Kolumne: Er ist nicht nur bissig, provokant und sehr unterhaltsam. Seine Fans lieben ihn vor allem deshalb, weil er sich die Freiheit nimmt, eine eigene Meinung zu vertreten – selbst wenn die meisten in seinem Gewerbe etwas ganz anderes richtig finden. Ob über die Ökoträume der Grünen, den Rudeltrieb in den Medien oder die neue Kultur der Empfindlichkeit: Fle...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2020-10-12 Género:No ficción > Ciencias sociales 9,99 €

'We need this message more than ever' – Malala Yousafzai Hard-hitting and uplifting true stories of the women around the world facing extreme gender inequality who, when the wider community supports them to challenge the status quo, improve life for the whole of society. A Sunday Times bestselling debut from Melinda Gates, The Moment of Lift is a timely and necessary call to action for women's empowerment. The right to: Spend your own money. Go to school. Earn an income. Access contraceptives....

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2019-04-25 Género:No ficción > Ciencias sociales 5,99 €

Why do underdogs succeed so much more than we expect? How do the weak outsmart the strong? In David and Goliath Malcolm Gladwell, no.1 bestselling author of The Tipping Point , Blink , Outliers and What the Dog Saw , takes us on a scintillating and surprising journey through the hidden dynamics that shape the balance of power between the small and the mighty. From the conflicts in Northern Ireland, through the tactics of civil rights leaders and the problem of privilege, Gladwell demonstrates ho...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2013-10-03 Género:No ficción > Ciencias sociales 9,49 €

«Este debería ser un libro sobre lenguaje inclusivo . Y lo es. Como también es un libro que se pregunta quién incluye a quién y dónde », dice Brigitte Vasallo.En este texto investiga sobre el lenguaje inclusivo, no a partir de las palabras, sino a partir de los métodos de producción del discurso y de las restricciones de acceso a esa producción.

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2021-03-11 Género:No ficción > Ciencias sociales 7,49 €

Una investigación sobre varios casos de violación en Estados Unidos que muestra los mecanismos que pone el descrédito sobre las víctimas. Marie es una adolescente que se ha criado en casas de acogida. Nada más alcanzar la independencia, denuncia haber sufrido una violación. Pero nadie la cree. Dos años más tarde, unas investigadoras trabajan para resolver unos casos de violación ocurridos a miles de kilómetros, pero que siguen el mismo patrón que la de Marie. Los autores de Creedme re...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2019-06-06 Género:No ficción > Ciencias sociales 8,99 €

Foreword by Steven Pinker Blending the informed analysis of The Signal and the Noise with the instructive iconoclasm of Think Like a Freak, a fascinating, illuminating, and witty look at what the vast amounts of information now instantly available to us reveals about ourselves and our world—provided we ask the right questions. By the end of an average day in the early twenty-first century, human beings searching the internet will amass eight trillion gigabytes of data. This staggering amount o...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2017-05-09 Género:No ficción > Ciencias sociales 10,99 €

Vintage Feminism: classic feminist texts in short form WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY NATALIE HAYNES When this book was first published in 1949 it was to outrage and scandal. Never before had the case for female liberty been so forcefully and successfully argued. De Beauvoir’s belief that ‘One is not born, but rather becomes, woman’ switched on light bulbs in the heads of a generation of women and began a fight for greater equality and economic independence. These pages contain the key passages o...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2015-03-05 Género:No ficción > Ciencias sociales 6,99 €

A WALL STREET JOURNAL, WASHINGTON POST, AND FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR In this ground-breaking blend of imaginative storytelling and scientific forecasting, a pioneering AI expert and a leading writer of speculative fiction join forces to answer an imperative question: How will artificial intelligence change our world within twenty years? AI will be the defining development of the twenty-first century. Within two decades, aspects of daily human life will be unrecognizable. AI will gen...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2021-09-16 Género:No ficción > Ciencias sociales 11,99 €

NOW A NETFLIX SERIES STARRING MARGARET QUALLEY & ANDY MACDOWELL. BARACK OBAMA'S SUMMER READING PICK, 2019. BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK. Educated meets Nickel and Dimed in Stephanie Land's memoir about working as a maid. A beautiful and gritty exploration of poverty in the western world. Includes a foreword by international bestelling author Barbara Ehrenreich. 'My daughter learned to walk in a homeless shelter.' As a struggling single mum, determined to keep a roof over her daughter's head,...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2019-01-24 Género:No ficción > Ciencias sociales 5,49 €

¿Cómo saber si tienes una relación sana o no? ¿Te doy una pista? Si duele, no es amor. Cuando te sientes atrapado/a en el Triángulo de las Bermudas : la culpa, la vergüenza y el miedo... ¡Houston, tienes un problema! Un amor insano es de todo menos amor. Se trata de un espacio emocional intenso donde pierdes el control sobre ti mismo/a y las circunstancias. Una montaña rusa extrema donde te topas con subidas increíbles y bajadas estrepitosas que te acabarán por comportar importantes se...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2022-03-03 Género:No ficción > Ciencias sociales 8,99 €

El nuevo libro de Gabriel Rolón echa anclas en las aguas profundas de la pasión. Esa fuerza primitiva que grita en nosotros desde el principio de los tiempos, y nos lleva a un límite en el que la distancia entre el placer y el dolor es nada más que una respiración. Un territorio habitado por dioses y demonios, por héroes épicos que han dado batallas antológicas, y esos otros cotidianos y de a pie, héroes anónimos que dan pelea poniendo en juego su piel con la misma intensidad, con el m...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2019-10-01 4,99 €

The International Bestseller 'With clarity and compassion, DiAngelo allows us to understand racism as a practice not restricted to "bad people." In doing so, she moves our national discussions forward. This is a necessary book for all people invested in societal change' Claudia Rankine Anger. Fear. Guilt. Denial. Silence. These are the ways in which ordinary white people react when it is pointed out to them that they have done or said something that has - unintentionally - caused racial offence ...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2019-02-07 Género:No ficción > Ciencias sociales 9,49 €

'Pink is my favourite colour. I used to say my favourite colour was black to be cool, but it is pink – all shades of pink. If I have an accessory, it is probably pink. I read Vogue , and I’m not doing it ironically, though it might seem that way. I once live-tweeted the September issue.' In these funny and insightful essays, Roxane Gay takes us through the journey of her evolution as a woman ( Sweet Valley High ) of colour ( The Help ) while also taking readers on a ride through culture of t...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2014-08-21 Género:No ficción > Ciencias sociales 2,99 €

In What the Dog Saw Malcolm Gladwell covers everything from criminology to spaghetti sauce to show how the most ordinary subjects can illuminate the most extraordinary things about ourselves and our world. Looking under the surface of the seemingly mundane, he explores the underdogs, the overlooked, the curious, the miraculous and the disastrous, and reveals how everyone and everything contains an incredible story. What the Dog Saw is Gladwell at his very best - asking questions and finding surp...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2009-10-20 Género:No ficción > Ciencias sociales 9,49 €

SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER The creator of the Gaia hypothesis and the greatest environmental thinker of our time has produced an astounding new theory about the future of life on Earth. James Lovelock argues that the anthropocene - the age in which humans acquired planetary-scale technologies - is, after three centuries, coming to an end. A new age - the novacene - has already begun. New beings will emerge from existing artificial intelligence systems. They will think 10,000 times faster than we do...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2019-07-04 Género:No ficción > Ciencias sociales 9,49 €

Harari racconta sogni e incubi che daranno forma al XXI secolo in una sintesi audace e lucidissima di storia, filosofia, scienza e tecnologia, e ci mette in guardia: il genere umano rischia di rendere sé stesso superfluo. Nella seconda metà del XX secolo l'umanità è riuscita in un'impresa che per migliaia di anni è parsa impossibile: tenere sotto controllo carestie, pestilenze e guerre. Oggi è più probabile che l'uomo medio muoia per un'abbuffata da McDonald's piuttosto che per la siccit...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2017-05-19 Género:No ficción > Ciencias sociales 9,99 €

En los últimos años, una nueva teoría de género se va imponiendo internacionalmente como marca de progresía en medios de comunicación, artículos académicos, encendidas discusiones en las redes sociales y hasta en leyes o en proyectos de ley. Esta teoría abandona la distinción entre sexo (biológico) y género (cultural) que ha servido al feminismo para luchar contra los prejuicios y la discriminación de las mujeres. El objetivo proclamado es loable: conseguir la inclusión plena de la...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2021-11-11 Género:No ficción > Ciencias sociales 17,99 €

THE CONTROVERSIAL SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. Candid, fearless and provocative – the author of American Psycho on who he is and what he thinks is wrong with the world today. Bret Easton Ellis is most famous for his era-defining novel American Psycho and its terrifying anti-hero, Patrick Bateman. With that book, and many times since, Ellis proved himself to be one of the world’s most fearless and clear-sighted observers of society – the glittering surface and the darkness beneath. In White , h...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2019-04-18 Género:No ficción > Ciencias sociales 5,99 €

'A seminal meditation on race by one of our greatest writers' Barack Obama 'We, the black and the white, deeply need each other here if we are really to become a nation' James Baldwin's impassioned plea to 'end the racial nightmare' in America was a bestseller when it appeared in 1963, galvanising a nation and giving voice to the emerging civil rights movement. Told in the form of two intensely personal 'letters', The Fire Next Time is at once a powerful evocation of Baldwin's early life in Harl...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 1990-01-25 Género:No ficción > Ciencias sociales 8,99 €

En 2018 fui por primera vez a Mfangano (Kenia), una pequeña isla en el lago Victoria. Fui como un voluntario más con ganas de ayudar en un pequeño proyecto solidario en una casa de acogida. Lo que no sabía es que esos niños me robarían el corazón y que ese primer viaje cambiaría mi vida. Después de mi estancia en la casa me di cuenta de que a través de mis redes sociales podía influenciar a mucha gente y gracias a mis seguidores ayudar a mejorar la vida de los niños. Con este libro m...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2019-09-03 7,99 €

'This book is brilliant. Utterly, utterly brilliant. Apart from the epilogue, which is idiotic' Jeremy Clarkson 'F*cking brilliant' Sarah Knight AN EXHILARATING JOURNEY THROUGH THE MOST CREATIVE AND CATASTROPHIC F*CK-UPS OF HUMAN HISTORY In the seventy thousand years that modern human beings have walked this earth, we've come a long way. Art, science, culture, trade - on the evolutionary food chain, we're real winners. But, frankly, it's not exactly been plain sailing, and sometimes - just occas...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2018-07-26 Género:No ficción > Ciencias sociales 3,99 €

Este manual es un compendio de normativa resumida y elaborada, que trata de facilitar la búsqueda de información de contenidos para el ascenso a diversas categorías del CNP. Dedicado a todos los compañeros del CNP, con los cuales comparto el orgullo de ser policía, a la UFP, Institución a la que también represento, a Sera y a mis padres.

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2015-06-24 5,99 €

Endymion, Pelops, Daedalus, Pygmalion – what are the stories behind these and the hundreds of other familiar names from Greek mythology – names that recur throughout the history of European culture? In a two-volume work that has become a classic reference book for both the serious scholar and the casual inquirer, Robert Graves retells the adventures of the important gods and heroes worshipped by the ancient Greeks. Drawing on an enormous range of sources, he has brought together all the elem...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 1990-09-27 Género:No ficción > Ciencias sociales 8,99 €

In The 50th Law, hip hop and pop culture icon 50 Cent (aka Curtis Jackson) joins forces with Robert Greene, bestselling author of The 48 Laws of Power, to write a “bible” for success in life and work based on a single principle: fear nothing. With stories from 50 Cent's life on the streets and in the boardroom as he rose to fame after the release of his album Get Rich or Die Tryin’, as well as examples of others who have overcome adversity through understanding and practicing the 50th Law,...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2009-09-08 Género:No ficción > Ciencias sociales 15,99 €

How identity politics failed one particular identity. ‘a must read and if you think YOU don’t need to read it, that’s just the clue to know you do.’ SARAH SILVERMAN ‘a masterpiece.’ STEPHEN FRY Jews Don’t Count is a book for people who consider themselves on the right side of history. People fighting the good fight against homophobia, disablism, transphobia and, particularly, racism. People, possibly, like you. It is the comedian and writer David Baddiel’s contention that one typ...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2021-02-04 Género:No ficción > Ciencias sociales 6,99 €

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER The complete history of the world, from the beginning of time to the present day, based on the beliefs and writings of the secret societies. Jonathan Black examines the end of the world and the coming of the Antichrist. Or is the Antichrist already here? How will he make himself known and what will become of the world when he does? Willl it be the end of Time? Having studied theology and learnt from initiates of all the great secret societies of the world, Jonathan B...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2013-05-30 Género:No ficción > Ciencias sociales 3,99 €

Sugar. It is killing us. Why do we eat so much of it? What are its hidden dangers? In 1972, when British scientist John Yudkin first proved that sugar was bad for our health, he was ignored by the majority of the medical profession and rubbished by the food industry. We should have heeded his warning. Today, one in four adults in the UK are overweight. There is an epidemic of obese six-month-olds around the globe. Sugar consumption has tripled since the Second World War. Using everyday language ...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2012-11-01 Género:No ficción > Ciencias sociales 9,49 €

Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg - an awkward maths prodigy and a painfully shy computer genius - were never going to fit in at elite, polished Harvard. Yet that all changed when master-hacker Mark crashed the university's entire computer system by creating a rateable database of female students. Narrowly escaping expulsion, the two misfits refocused the site into something less controversial - 'The Facebook' - and watched as it spread like a wildfire across campuses around the country, along...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2009-11-24 Género:No ficción > Ciencias sociales 6,99 €

El filósofo y miembro de la Academia Francesa Alain Finkielkraut analiza, de la mano de algunos de sus autores favoritos como Milan Kundera y Philip Roth, la manera en que el poder otrora formativo de los grandes autores y obras del canon literario de Europa se va disolviendo bajo la sobra del pensamiento único de lo políticamente correcto de la sociedad actual: un recorrido por la «cultura de la cancelación» desde el impacto del #MeToo al movimiento Black Lives Matter y los nuevos ecologi...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2023-01-12 Género:No ficción > Ciencias sociales 13,99 €

Si hay algo más difícil que tener un adolescente en casa, es ser ese adolescente. Su apariencia física se suele asemejar más a la de un adulto que a la de un niño y por ello, muchas veces, se les exige que actúen como tal. La etapa de las rabietas típica de los dos años es ahora conocida como A(dos)lescencia. A priori, puede parecer un nombre muy ingenioso e incluso divertido, pero inconscientemente lo que estamos transmitiendo son prejuicios respecto a la etapa de la adolescencia que va...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2022-03-24 Género:No ficción > Ciencias sociales 9,99 €

Sharp, in-depth and highly visual, this is the fully revised textbook and teaching aid for students, tutors and in-house learning and development teams keen to know more about the world of trends, forecasting, innovation thinking and strategic foresight. Designed and written as a practical ‘how to’ guide for design, marketing, brand and innovation studies students, updated chapters include the latest research and industry case studies on superforecasting, three horizon scanning, scenario pla...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2019-07-29 Género:No ficción > Ciencias sociales 3,99 €

If there's one piece of invaluable advice for women and girls of all ages, it is that there is nothing more important than creating and maintaining strong, positive and happy friendships with other women. In a culture that largely pits women against each other, I want to celebrate female friendships... all strings attached! If my 1998 diary is anything to go by, female friendships are incredibly complex and emotional but they're the mini love stories that make us who we are. For many women, frie...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2018-03-08 Género:No ficción > Ciencias sociales 2,49 €

'Breathtakingly entertaining, endlessly instructive, irresistibly enjoyable' THE TIMES 'A tour de force ... breathtaking' SPECTATOR 'A magnificent achievement' LITERARY REVIEW TERRIBLE BEAUTY presents a unique narrative of the twentieth century. Unlike more conventional histories, where the focus is on political events and personalities, on wars, treaties and elections, this book concentrates on the ideas that made the century so rich, rewarding and provocative. Beginning with four seminal ideas...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2013-10-17 Género:No ficción > Ciencias sociales 3,99 €

Robert Bly writes that it is clear to men that the images of adult manhood given by popular culture are worn out, that a man can no longer depend on them. Iron John searches for a new vision of what a man is or could be, drawing on psychology, anthropology, mythology, folklore and legend. Robert Bly looks at the importance of the Wild Man (reminiscent of the Wild Woman in Women Who Run With the Wolves ), who he compares to a Zen priest, a shaman or a woodman. 'This book needs to be read, I belie...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2013-03-31 Género:No ficción > Ciencias sociales 10,99 €

Now the subject of a film by Richard Linklater, Eric Schlosser's explosive bestseller Fast Food Nation: What the All-American Meal is Doing to the World tells the story of our love affair with fast food. Britain eats more fast food than any other country in Europe. It looks good, tastes good, and it's cheap. But the real cost never appears on the menu. Eric Schlosser visits the lab that re-creates the smell of strawberries; examines the safety records of abattoirs; reveals why the fries really t...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2002-04-04 Género:No ficción > Ciencias sociales 9,49 €