Títulos em Política e Ciências Sociais

It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century: two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mother's coffin as the world watched in sorrow - and horror. As Diana, Princess of Wales, was laid to rest, billions wondered what the princes must be thinking and feeling - and how their lives would play out from that point on. For Harry, this is that story at last.

Dos costumes ancestrais às violentas reviravoltas do comunismo, a China passou, em algumas décadas, por uma das mais radicais e amplas transformações já vistas na história da humanidade. Mergulhando nas memórias familiares de três gerações de mulheres, Cisnes selvagens é o relato verdadeiro, com todos os acentos do drama épico, de uma família que tenta preservar a própria humanidade em meio à vertigem e ao horror da trajetória da China neste século.

Neste audiolivro curto e ágil, Roger Scruton apresenta uma defesa radical e original da singularidade humana. Confrontando a visão dos psicólogos evolucionistas, moralistas utilitários e materialistas filosóficos como Richard Dawkins e Daniel Dennett, o autor argumenta que seres humanos não podem ser explicados simplesmente como objetos biológicos.

In Teaching to Transgress, Bell Hooks - writer, teacher, and insurgent black intellectual - writes about a new kind of education, education as the practice of freedom. Teaching students to "transgress" against racial, sexual, and class boundaries in order to achieve the gift of freedom is, for Hooks, the teacher's most important goal. Bell Hooks speakes to the heart of education today: how can we rethink teaching practices in the age of multiculturalism? What do we do about teachers who do not want to teach, and students who do not want to learn? How should we deal with racism and sexism in the classroom? Full of passion and politics, Teaching to Transgress combines a practical knowledge of the classroom with a deeply felt connection to the world of emotions and feelings. This is the rare book about teachers and students that dares to raise questions about eros and rage, grief and reconciliation, and the future of teaching itself.

Racismo, sexismo e desigualdade no Brasil reúne, pela primeira vez, os melhores textos desse período. Neles, a autora nos convida a refletir criticamente sobre a sociedade brasileira, explicitando de forma contundente como o racismo e o sexismo têm estruturado as relações sociais, políticas e de gênero no nosso país.

Derrière les façades de luxueux immeubles parisiens, les immenses grilles de châteaux, les baies vitrées de vastes villas de la Côte d'Azur, se cache un personnel invisible mais présent quotidiennement au service des grandes fortunes. Gouvernantes, majordomes, femmes de chambre et de ménage, lingères, nannies, cuisiniers ou chauffeurs travaillent du matin au soir, et souvent la nuit, pour satisfaire les besoins et désirs des millionnaires qui les emploient à leur domicile.

Recent years have seen a revival of the heated culture wars of the 1990s, but this time its battleground is the Internet. On one side the alt-right ranges from the once obscure neo-reactionary and white separatist movements, to geeky subcultures like 4chan, to more mainstream manifestations such as the Trump-supporting gay libertarian Milo Yiannopolous. On the other side, struggle sessions and virtue signaling lurk behind a therapeutic language of trigger warnings and safe spaces. The feminist side of the online culture wars has its equally geeky subcultures.

In the US and Canada, spiritualism's primary focus was on communication between the living and the dead. The spiritual tradition traveled around the world, especially in Latin America, where it evolved in different ways. The Puerto Rican influence on modern Western magic is profound but largely unheralded. Beginning in the early 20th century, Puerto Rican immigrants to the US introduced espiritismo to the US spiritual landscape, strongly affecting the way magic was practiced. Hector Salva's book places Puerto Rican espiritismo in this broader perspective.

O que sabemos sobre as mulheres pré-históricas? Historiadores, antropólogos, arqueólogos, etnólogos, geneticistas tentam responder a essa questão há décadas, e a descoberta da estatueta Vênus de Renancourt, em 2019, pôs em xeque as mais diversas certezas sobre o tema. Amplamente amparado em evidências científicas, cada capítulo deste livro desconstrói ideias preconcebidas e preconceitos, desenhando um retrato inédito da mulher no período pré-histórico ― uma figura mais próxima de nós e do nosso tempo do que poderíamos imaginar.

Something new entered our world in November 2022—the first general purpose AI that could pass for a human and do the kinds of creative, innovative work that only humans could do previously. Wharton professor Ethan Mollick immediately understood what ChatGPT meant: after millions of years on our own, humans had developed a kind of co-intelligence that could augment, or even replace, human thinking. Through his writing, speaking, and teaching, Mollick has become one of the most prominent and provocative explainers of AI.

Every generation, a journalist has looked deep into the heart of the nuclear military establishment: the technologies, the safeguards, the plans, and the risks. These investigations are vital to how we understand the world we really live in—where one nuclear missile will beget one in return, and where the choreography of the world’s end requires massive decisions made on seconds’ notice with information that is only as good as the intelligence we have. Pulitzer Prize finalist Annie Jacobsen’s Nuclear War: A Scenario explores this ticking-clock scenario.

On May 18, 1860, William H. Seward, Salmon P. Chase, Edward Bates, and Abraham Lincoln waited in their hometowns for the results from the Republican National Convention in Chicago. When Lincoln emerged as the victor, his rivals were dismayed and angry. Throughout the turbulent 1850s, each had energetically sought the presidency as the conflict over slavery was leading inexorably to secession and civil war.

Here, anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom: He shows that before there was money, there was debt. For more than 5,000 years, since the beginnings of the first agrarian empires, humans have used elaborate credit systems to buy and sell goods - that is, long before the invention of coins or cash. It is in this era, Graeber argues, that we also first encounter a society divided into debtors and creditors.

In We Who Wrestle with God, Jordan Peterson guides us through the ancient, foundational stories of the Western world, analyzing the Biblical accounts of rebellion, sacrifice, suffering and triumph that stabilize, inspire and unite us, culturally and psychologically.

Se existe uma crença que une a esquerda e a direita, psicólogos e filósofos, pensadores antigos e modernos, é a suposição de que os seres humanos são maus – e ponto final. É uma noção que pode ser vista diariamente nas manchetes dos jornais. De Maquiavel a Hobbes, de Freud a Pinker, essa crença moldou o pensamento ocidental. O ser humano é egoísta por natureza e age, na maioria das vezes, pensando no interesse próprio.

Com sólida carreira acadêmica e diplomática, Kishore Mahbubani avalia os dois lados do embate e mostra como a China tem pensado em escala global, lançando iniciativas ambiciosas junto aos líderes mais pragmáticos e competentes do mundo.

Epicteto acreditava que a meta principal da filosofia é ajudar as pessoas comuns a enfrentar positivamente os desafios cotidianos e a lidar com as inevitáveis perdas, decepções e mágoas da vida. A arte de viver prega a liberdade pessoal e a serenidade e demonstra que virtude e felicidade estão estreitamente relacionadas.

Meditações, clássico escrito por Marco Aurélio, traz reflexões que servem como exercícios espirituais em tempos turbulentos, conselhos a si mesmo que o imperador buscou registrar e cujas ideias ecoam até hoje. O pensamento estoico, longe de ser mero objeto de estudo de helenistas, encontra-se mais vivo do que nunca na sociedade contemporânea. Seus propagadores, como Sêneca e Marco Aurélio, chegam a uma nova geração de leitores aproximando a filosofia da vida prática.

"Errar é humano." Essa afirmativa tão comum encerra uma verdade mais profunda que muitas vezes se perde no clichê: o pecado e o perdão são duas faces da mesma moeda—sem um não pode haver o outro. É exatamente dessa duplicidade que o historiador Leandro Karnal trata em Pecar e perdoar—Deus e o homem na história

Levitt and co-author Stephen J. Dubner show that economics is, at root, the study of incentives: how people get what they want, or need, especially when other people want or need the same thing. In Freakonomics, they explore the hidden side of...well, everything. The inner working of a crack gang...the truth about real-estate agents...the secrets of the Klu Klux Klan. What unites all these stories is a belief that the modern world is even more intriguing than we think. All it takes is a new way of looking, and Freakonomics will redefine the way we view the modern world.