Smart Politics

If you're the parent of a "smart but scattered" teen, trying to help him or her grow into a self-sufficient, responsible adult may feel like a never-ending battle. Now you have an alternative to micromanaging, cajoling, or ineffective punishments. This positive guide provides a science-based program for promoting teens' independence by building their executive skills - the fundamental brain-based abilities needed to get organized, stay focused, and control impulses and emotions.

“A journey as epic, and varying, as the Silk Road itself...[The Fabric of Civilization is] like a swatch of a Florentine Renaissance brocade: carefully woven, the technique precise, the colors a mix of shade and shine and an accurate representation of the whole cloth” (The New York Times)...

Many scientific and philosophical ideas are so powerful that they can be applied to our lives at home, work, and school to help us think smarter and more effectively about our behavior and the world around us. Surprisingly, many of these ideas remain unknown to most of us. In Mindware, the world-renowned psychologist Richard Nisbett presents these ideas in clear and accessible detail, offering a tool kit for better thinking and wiser decisions.

El pensamiento crítico te permite evaluar situaciones de forma clara y racional, ayudándote a comprender las causas subyacentes, cuestionar suposiciones y explorar soluciones. Al aplicar la lógica, estructuras tu proceso de pensamiento, lo que te permite analizar problemas metódicamente y tomar decisiones sólidas y fundamentadas. Este libro te dota de herramientas prácticas para tomar decisiones acertadas con confianza, tanto en tu trabajo como en tu vida personal.

Raise a Street-Smart, Confident Child Who Makes Wise Decisions, Sets Strong Boundaries, and Stays Safer in Today's World. Do you worry that your child is kind, trusting, and polite, but may not recognize danger, manipulation, peer pressure, or unsafe situations when it matters most? Do you want to raise a confident child who can trust their instincts, speak up, think independently, and make wise choices, even when you are not there? If so, this book is for you.

The New York Times bestselling author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor uses the same skills to teach how to access accurate information in a rapidly changing 24/7 news cycle and become better readers, thinkers, and consumers of media. We live in an information age, but it is...

'A sober but devastating skewering of cancel culture and the moral certainties it shares with religious fundamentalism' Sunday Times 'Andrew Doyle has written a masterful broadside against the woke that will also discomfit the anti-woke, proposing to both the radical notion that rather than...

An unflinching look at the aspiring city-builders of our smart, mobile, connected future. We live in a world defined by urbanization and digital ubiquity, where mobile broadband connections outnumber fixed ones, machines dominate a new "internet of things," and more people live in cities than in the countryside.

'This is an important and necessary book by a superb and subtle writer. There's no one more qualified to write it than Jake Wallis Simons, both as ground-breaking Middle East security correspondent and Editor of the Jewish Chronicle. It analyses the often prejudiced coverage and intense scrutiny...

How Are You Going to Pay for That? is filled with engaging discussions and detailed strategies that policymakers and citizens alike can use to assail even the most entrenched lines of neoliberal logic and start to undo these long-held misconceptions. Equal parts economic theory, history, and political polemic, this is an essential roadmap for winning the key battles to come. 

What if the most dangerous manipulation no longer looked aggressive? What if it sounded supportive, reasonable, and helpful? The Invisible Manipulator is a practical guide to hidden manipulation, gaslighting signs, emotional manipulation, and psychological control in work, relationships, and everyday social life. It explains why smart, capable people can be controlled without noticing, how toxic people use guilt, confusion, selective kindness, and quiet pressure, and why subtle power dynamics can wear down self-trust over time. This book helps readers recognize workplace manipulation, read ...

Will Rogers once said he never met a man he didn’t like. I feel the same about beer. George Wendt and beer have shared a lot over the years: good times, great stories, useless trivia, and a successful show business career. In Drinking with George, Wendt invites readers to crack open a cold one...

An old social phenomenon known today as "cancel culture" is largely responsible for America's incessantly high crime, incarceration, and recidivism rates. It began with the unreasonable discrimination and disenfranchisement of virtually all ex-prisoners being enshrined into national law by the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution. The nefarious wording within these post-Civil War amendments paved the way for the federal government, state governments, and mainstream society to basically declare that any person convicted of a "felony" is effectively no ...

Can a football game affect the outcome of an election? What about shark attacks? Or a drought? In a rational world the answer, of course, would be no. But as best-selling historian Rick Shenkman shows in Political Animals, our world is anything but rational. This isn't because we aren't smart. Instead, modern cues are setting off ancient, instinctive responses that worked to keep us safe in the Stone Age but lead us astray today.

President Bill Clinton gives us his views on the challenges facing the United States today and why government matters—presenting his ideas on restoring economic growth, job creation, financial responsibility, resolving the mortgage crisis, and pursuing a strategy to get us "back in the future...

The first title in a thrilling, fiery and powerful Caribbean-inspired YA fantasy duology. Trust no witch . . . Iraya Adair has spent her life in a cell. Heir of an overthrown and magically-gifted dynasty, she was exiled from her home on the island nation of Aiyca when she was just a child. But...

Bestselling author and economist Jay W. Richards makes the definitive case for how the free market and individual responsibility can save the American Dream in an age of automation and mass disruption. For two and a half centuries, America has been held together by the belief that if you work...

Bloomsbury presents Smart Money by Brunello Rosa with Casey Larsen, read by Richard Burnip. A FINANCIAL TIMES ECONOMICS BOOK OF THE YEAR 'An excellent book' VINCE CABLE | 'A must read' JO JOHNSON | 'A fascinating read' BILL DUDLEY A timely manifesto on how digital currencies will win the New...

Bloomsbury presents The Leviathan by Rosie Andrews, read by Rupert Farley. THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER SELECTED AS ONE OF THE OBSERVER'S 10 BEST DEBUT NOVELISTS OF 2022 'It’s hard to believe that such an accomplished novel could be a debut... Superb' Susan Stokes-Chapman, number one...

What nobody tells you about power, money, and winning in business There is a moment most executives recognize but rarely talk about. You’re sitting in a meeting where the language is polite, the slide deck is professional, and everyone in the room knows someone is about to get destroyed. The...