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Humans used to be embedded in the natural world, but today many of us live sedentary screen-based lives indoors, treating nature as something distant – to be watched on television or reached by flying elsewhere.

Why do you make such a mess when you're cooking? Will you ever stop nagging me about the hoovering? When did you last help the kids with their homework? I did the shopping like you asked, but you're still giving me that look. While it's often women doing more than men, inequality and arguments about fairness can upset the lives of couples of every stripe and flavour. Sometimes it's just annoying, sometimes it can feel much, much worse. Repeating the same arguments over and over doesn't change anything.

Una obra innovadora e integral que nos confirma que es posible disfrutar de una vida poderosa, saludable y feliz, no a pesar de ser soltero... sino gracias a ello. Con demasiada frecuencia, la sociedad emite advertencias nefastas sobre los riesgos de vivir solteros. Sin embargo, ¿es realmente...

El fin del sesgo es un análisis innovador y transformador sobre el gran desafío de nuestra época: cómo erradicar el sesgo y la discriminación no intencionales. Sesgo inconsciente: comportamiento prejuicioso persistente e involuntario que entra en conflicto con nuestras creencias conscientes...

Una obra innovadora e integral que nos confirma que es posible disfrutar de una vida poderosa, saludable y feliz, no a pesar de ser soltero... sino gracias a ello. Con demasiada frecuencia, la sociedad emite advertencias nefastas sobre los riesgos de vivir solteros. Sin embargo, ¿es realmente...

The household is the center of daily life, where relationships thrive through shared work and leisure. Yet for decades, we have not lived as though this were true. The result: Widespread unhappiness, isolation, and meaninglessness. Philosopher John Cuddeback invokes timeless wisdom to help breathe new life into our homes. Focusing on eight simple principles, The Intentional Household gives profound directions for crafting the shared life we naturally crave for ourselves and our loved ones. Our souls were made for a living community at every phase of life.

Taking on the thorny ethics of owning and selling property as a white woman in a majority Black city and a majority Bangladeshi neighborhood with both intelligence and humor, this memoir brings a new perspective to a Detroit that finds itself perpetually on the brink of revitalization. In 2016, a Detroit arts organization grants writer and artist Anne Elizabeth Moore a free house—a room of her own, à la Virginia Woolf—in Detroit’s majority-Bangladeshi “Banglatown.”

Black people are exhausted. The toll of living within systems designed to exclude them devastates minds, bodies, and spirits. Award-winning diversity, equity, and inclusion leader Mary-Frances Winters—now joined by Mareisha Winters Reese—addresses this ongoing crisis with an urgent update to her bestselling book.

The outrageous, jaw-dropping true story of the man who took on a corporate giant – and won. A dedicated and experienced Amazon employee, Chris Smalls had begun to feel frustrated by the inner workings of the retail giant – he kept being passed over for promotion, with little to no...

In 2007, as the fiftieth anniversary of the fight to integrate Little Rock Central High School approached, veteran sportswriter and native son of Little Rock Jay Jennings returned to his hometown to take the pulse of the city and the school. He found a compelling story in Central High's football team, where Black and white students toiled under longtime coach Bernie Cox, whose philosophy of discipline and responsibility and punishing brand of physical football had led the team to win seven state championships.

Ein Manifest gegen den Perfektionszwang Zu dick, zu schlaff, zu faltig, zu unperfekt: Vor dem Spiegel beginnt für viele der tägliche Kampf. Als ehemalige Fitnessinfluencerin kennt Louisa Dellert diesen Blick auf den eigenen Körper. Lange war sie selbst gefangen in Vergleichen und mit der...

Humanitarian crises are a central problem of modern history and contemporary international relations. Since the 1990s, the aid sector has ballooned in size and is now a multi-billion-dollar industry. In this book, historian Julia F. Irwin traces the events and trends that defined modern...

En un mundo hiperconectado y condicionado por los mandatos de belleza, ¿cómo prevalece la autenticidad y el respeto por la imagen y el cuerpo propio y ajeno? En este audiolibro, Esther Pineda G. nos guía en el laberinto algorítmico de los ideales de belleza en las redes sociales, con el...

Every disaster is a disability disaster, argues Angela Frederick. Disabled Power tells the stories of Texans with disabilities who endured the 2021 Texas power crisis, which forced millions of Texas residents to endure a dayslong winter storm without heat or water. Frederick highlights how disabled people and those with chronic health conditions are uniquely harmed when basic infrastructure such as power and water systems fail.

Каждый человек рано или поздно узнает, что он смертен, более того, что умрут все, кто его окружает. Смерть в современном обществе максимально табуированная тема. Мария Рамзаева и Елена Фоер раскрывают перед нами страницы истории развития отношения к смерти и умершим, рассказывают о ритуалах и традициях, которые были приняты в нашем обществе, и как в процессе развития городов люди перестали воспринимать смерть как естественное явление, а страх перед этим событием стал причиной множества психологических расстройств.