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From the bestselling author of White Noise comes a riveting exploration on wealth as a man's life gradually falls to pieces over the course of one day—now a major motion picture directed by David Cronenberg and starring Robert Pattinson. It is an April day in the year 2000 and an era is about...

Eric Packer is a twenty-eight-year-old multi-billionaire asset manager. We join him on what will become a particularly eventful April day in turn-of-the-twenty-first-century Manhattan. He's on a personal odyssey, to get a haircut. Sitting in his stretch limousine as it moves across town, he...

Aprile 2000. Mattina. Sull'East River. Il giovane miliardario Eric Packer esce dal suo lussuoso attico a tre piani e sale sulla limousine bianca per andare a tagliarsi i capelli a Hell's Kitchen. È l'inizio di un viaggio lungo un giorno che lo porterà ad attraversare Manhattan per andare incontro al proprio destino. Durante il tragitto Packer, ossessionato da una folle scommessa finanziaria contro lo yen e da un'oscura "minaccia attendibile" alla propria incolumità, incontra gli uomini e le donne della sua vita sullo sfondo di scenari erotici, o tragici, o enigmatici.

A bold and all-embracing exploration of the nature and progress of knowledge from one of today's great thinkers. Throughout history, mankind has struggled to understand life's mysteries, from the mundane to the seemingly miraculous. In this important new book, David Deutsch, an award-winning pioneer in the field of quantum computation, argues that explanations have a fundamental place in the universe.

Jacqueline Wilson Raised Us is the podcast for anyone who stayed up way past bedtime reading Double Act under the covers, sprinted home after school to catch The Story of Tracy Beaker, and traded dog-eared copies of The Girls series like they were gold in the playground. Basically, if Jacqueline Wilson was your childhood fairy godmother, then you're in the right place. Jacqueline Wilson Raised Us is a collaboration between Penguin Books and Cosmopolitan UK. To pre-order Jacqueline Wilson’s new novel Picture Imperfect head here. And to enter the ‘Jacqueline Wilson Raised Me’ cap...

Il nuovo podcast di Raffaella Fanelli.

"Storie nere" è la serie podcast che racconta i delitti più cruenti della cronaca italiana e le vicende più oscure del nostro Paese con interviste inedite ai protagonisti

Il 26 agosto 2010 Sarah Scazzi scompare da Avetrana, in provincia di Taranto, in Puglia.La quindicenne viene trovata morta in un pozzo il successivo 6 ottobre. A confessare l’omicidio è lo zio Michele Misseri ma a scontare una condanna all’ergastolo ci sono la cugina, Sabrina Misseri e la zia, Cosima Serrano. Il podcast, composto da tre episodi, denuncia le illogicità di questa vicenda processuale e attraverso le voci dei protagonisti fa emergere responsabilità e menzogne.L’omicidio di Sarah Scazzi è un podcast scritto e raccontato da Raffaella Fanelli per Edizioni CosmoPolis

Cosmópolis es un programa de divulgación científica y cultural. Un espacio de entrevistas a personas notables de la cultura, la ciencia, la investigación, y la economía. #Diálogo #Música #Literatura #Historia #Viajes

The Fascism This Time elucidates a psychosocial model of fascism which predicted that Trump’s election would lead to immigrant concentration camps, an assault on democratic institutions, a global increase in authoritarianism, a massive rise in crimes against humanity, and the starvation of Yemen. It is an original and perceptive account tying the fascism this time to the overwhelming challenges with which the world is now faced.

The breakdown of the liberal international order over the course of the last decade unleashed a string of crimes against humanity, culminating in the election of rightwing nationalists and fascists the world over. It might be said to have begun with Putin’s land grab in Ukraine in 2014. However, it was half a year later that Isis’s terror-state in the heart of the Middle East, Israel’s annihilation of Gaza, and Assad’s ongoing mass murder in Syria would culminate in a summer of hate that would transform our very conception of the world.