Sociology

Instant #1 New York Times bestseller! #1 Washington Post bestseller! #1 Indie Bestseller! USA Today Bestseller! John Green, acclaimed author and passionate advocate for global healthcare reform, tells a deeply human story illuminating the fight against the world’s deadliest...

A Best Book of the Year: The Financial Times, Bloomberg, Chicago Tribune, and Detroit Free Pres Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Outliers, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers -- and why they...

**Selected by Bill Gates as One of Five Books to Read This Winter** From one of the world’s most celebrated intellectuals, a brilliantly insightful work that explains how we think about each other’s thoughts about each other’s thoughts, ad infinitum. It sounds impossible, but Steven Pinker...

The #1 New York Times-bestseller from the author of The 48 Laws of Power Each one of us has within us the potential to be a Master. Learn the secrets of the field you have chosen, submit to a rigorous apprenticeship, absorb the hidden knowledge possessed by those with years of experience, surge...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A practical, heartfelt guide to the art of truly knowing another person and fostering deeper connections at home, at work, and throughout our lives—from the author of The Road to Character and The Second Mountain “More than a guide to better conversations...

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER Oprah Daily Best Self-Help Books for Personal Growth in 2025 – New York Post Best of the Month The beloved relationship coach, teacher, and host of the top relationship podcast Jillian on Love reveals nine core truths about love and...

Do you wish you could decode people? Do you want a formula for charisma? Do you want to know exactly what to say to your boss, your date or your networking partner? You need to know how people work. As a human behavior investigator, Vanessa Van Edwards studies the hidden forces that drive...

ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES AND THE ATLANTIC’S TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR Through the “revelatory and gut-wrenching” (Associated Press) stories of five Atlanta families, this landmark work of journalism exposes a new and troubling trend—the dramatic rise of the working homeless in...

In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein explodes the myth that America's cities came to be racially divided through de facto segregation....

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST OVER TWO MILLION COPIES SOLD This inspiring, exquisitely observed memoir finds hope and beauty in the face of insurmountable odds as an idealistic young neurosurgeon attempts to answer the question, What makes a life worth living?...

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER A modern American classic, this huge and galvanizing biography of Robert Moses reveals not only the saga of one man’s incredible accumulation of power but the story of his shaping (and mis-shaping) of twentieth-century New York. One of the Modern Library’s hundred...

An oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem....

Antifragile is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don’t understand. The other books in the series are Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, and...

Being Mortal asserts that medicine can comfort and enhance our experience even to the end, providing not only a good life but also a good end....

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NEW YORK TIMES READERS PICK: 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK “An instant American classic and almost certainly the keynote nonfiction book of the American century thus far.”—Dwight Garner, The New York Times The Pulitzer...

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

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....

"Hosts of all kinds, this is a must-read!" --Chris Anderson, owner and curator of TED From the host of the New York Times podcast Together Apart, an exciting new approach to how we gather that will transform the ways we spend our time together—at home, at work, in our communities, and...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER The astonishing and hugely entertaining story that completely changed the way we run. An epic adventure that began with one simple question: Why does my foot hurt? “Equal parts quest, physiology treatise, and running history.... The climactic race reads like a sprint...

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....

Terence McKenna hypothesizes that as the North African jungles receded, a branch of our arboreal primate ancestors left the forest canopy and began living in the open areas beyond....

A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK "A hands-on, real talk guide for navigating the hot-button issues that so many families struggle with."--Reese Witherspoon Tired, stressed, and in need of more help from your partner? Imagine running your household (and life!) in a new way... It started with the Sh*t I...

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...

My Big TOE: Awakening, written by a nuclear physicist in the language of contemporary culture, unifies science and philosophy, physics and metaphysics, mind and matter....

James Baldwin galvanized the nation in the early days of the civil-rights movement with his eloquent manifesto....

Addiction by Design takes listeners into the intriguing world of machine gambling, an increasingly popular and absorbing form of play that blurs the line between human and machine, compulsion and control, risk and reward.

The Ghost Lab tells the astonishing story of the wild ecosystem of paranormal profiteers and consumers. But it also reveals how the twin scourges of declining scientific literacy and eroding trust in institutions have created space for armies of pseudoscientists to step into the minds of an increasingly credulous public.

La obra más emotiva de Julia Navarro es un homenaje lleno de amor y ternura por los animales. Aquellos que han vivido con un perro saben que su presencia aligera los días y los llena de felicidad. Amigos fieles, cariñosos e inteligentes, cada instante a su lado supone una lección de todo lo que merece la pena ser aprendido. Es posible rastrear el especial vínculo entre perros y hombres desde el principio de los tiempos, pero uno de los ejemplos más hermosos y emocionantes lo encontramos en la Odisea.

The legendary bestseller that made millions look at the world in a radically different way returns in a beautiful 20th anniversary edition featuring a new foreword Which is more dangerous: a gun or a swimming pool? Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? What do real estate agents and...

Housing dominates headlines, yet few truly understand how affordable housing works—or why it’s failing. Bittersweet Lane is the first book to demystify America’s housing crisis from both a professional and deeply personal perspective. Spanning from Ireland to America, from the Bittersweet Lane Apartments to M.I.T., Bittersweet Lane also carries the stories and deep scars of intergenerational poverty while offering a bold vision for change.

A powerful memoir of a woman plunged into fraudulent debt that explores America’s broken student loan system and illuminates the ways that debt shapes every aspect of our lives. At 22 years old, Kristin Collier was on the verge of college graduation, applying for a credit card to cover...

How we can meet the challenges of our age by moving away from the political and economic philosophies of both the left and right to a more equitable re-organization of society, economy, land and food production, driven by the local community rather than a central government.

Aquí, Adrián Chávez pone su experiencia en la lingüística y en la divulgación al servicio de desenmarañar el entramado de fake news, teorías conspirativas y pseudociencias que pueblan el entorno digital, donde las certezas se multiplican como cabezas de Hidra. Estas páginas —más que un dedo acusatorio— son la pausa antes de dar clic en un titular: una exploración de qué se dice y cómo, de quién enuncia y con qué fin, de la diferencia entre malinformar y desinformar, y de cómo la posverdad se delata con la lengua.

Chaos in the Human World: Psychology, Economics, Social Systems, and the Limits of Prediction is a comprehensive and accessible exploration of how chaos theory helps explain the unpredictable patterns that shape modern life. Drawing from psychology, behavioral economics, institutional analysis, social networks, and crowd dynamics, this book reveals why small events can spark large consequences and why human systems often defy simple forecasts. Each chapter explains a different domain of complexity, showing how sensitive dependence, nonlinear feedback, and shifting thresholds influence ...

Transcending in the 21st Century: The Human Who Saw the Future Coming By Alexious Fiero We are living through the greatest psychological, political, and biological upheaval in human history — and most people don’t know what’s happening to them. Transcending in the 21st Century is the first book to map the forces reshaping our minds, our bodies, our nations, and our future — and reveal the path forward. This cinematic intellectual autobiography begins with a prophetic warning: in 2003, Alexious Fiero predicted the Internet would either elevate humanity or fracture it. Two decades ...

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.

In March 1946, scientists began to track thousands of children born in one cold week as part of a birth cohort study. No one imagined that this would become the longest-running study of human development in the world, growing to encompass five generations of children. Today, they are some of the best-studied people on the planet, and the simple act of observing human life has changed the way we are born, schooled, parented, and die.

En abril de 2023, Byung-Chul Han viajó por primera vez a Portugal e impartió unas conferencias en Oporto y Lisboa. Días después ofreció, también por primera vez, una conferencia musical en Leipzig. La tonalidad del pensamiento nace de estas conferencias. La conferencia musical de Leipzig, «La tonalidad del pensamiento», que contó con la interpretación al piano de las piezas favoritas del autor, da título a esta obra y en ella Han expone los tonos y temas que atraviesan su filosofía y repasa la importancia de la música en su obra.

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.

Do you ever feel like making friends as an adult is harder than it should be? You’re not alone. In today’s world, millions struggle with loneliness, shallow connections, and social isolation—but building genuine friendships is absolutely possible with the right strategies.

Why does your ear heat up at the exact moment you feel watched Why do small sensations trigger strong stories Why does your mind react before you know what it is reacting to This book demonstrates the clear link between sudden body signals and the fast interpretations your mind creates. Learn how a simple sensation travels from biology to belief and why human behaviour has not changed as much as people think. "Are Your Ears Burning" reveals how ancient superstition shaped modern reactions, how culture influenced meaning and how digital life increases the urge to track judgement. Find ...

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.

突如自由を奪われ，独裁体制下で生きた二四年．北朝鮮からの「帰国」を後押ししたのは，現地に暮らすある人の言葉だった――．私はなぜ拉致されたのか．

¿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.

「事故調査報告書・別冊」の片隅に記された「異常外力着力点」の存在――数々の証拠から「後部圧力隔壁説」の矛盾を読み解き、驚くべき墜落原因が明らかになる。第一人者による、告発のノンフィクション。

For centuries, people have argued about whether humans are moral animals—good or bad, cooperative or competitive, altruistic or selfish. The debates continue today, dressed up in the language of modern science. In this book, Jonathan R. Goodman makes the case for synthesizing the two sides. Drawing on insights from anthropology, evolutionary biology, and philosophy, he argues that rather than being fundamentally cooperative or competitive, we are capable of being both—and of exploiting each other when there is an opportunity to do so.

In the 1970s, scientist John B. Calhoun created a “mouse utopia.” A world without hunger, disease, or danger. Food was endless, water was clean, shelter was plentiful. It was meant to be paradise. Instead, it became a nightmare. Violence, neglect, and sterility spread until the entire colony died out. The project became infamous as Universe 25—a chilling lesson about the dangers of comfort without purpose.

How do myths and stories influence culture? What is the difference between one culture and another, and how did these differences come to be? Are cultures fixed or do they change over time?Devdutt Pattanaik, India's leading mythologist, breaks down the complex maze of stories, symbols and...

We have always been told that work defines us, and serves as the foundation of our dignity as human beings. So why, all over the world, are more and more people quitting their jobs? In recent years, we have had several opportunities to ask ourselves whether the life we are living is the one we truly desire. For many, the answer has been no. This is due to a growing unwillingness to submit to the toxic and vexatious rules imposed by many work contexts. Even prior to the pandemic, a survey conducted in 140 countries revealed that 80 percent of the employed population disliked their jobs.

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