Títulos em Ciências Sociais

Our ability to make a fist is what distinguishes humans from every other species, including primates. The fist has played a crucial role in the birth of language and appears in nearly every form of nonverbal communication. We use our fist to protest oppression, give pleasure, knock on doors, give daps, and (inaccurately) measure our heart. Yet the fist is also a sign of someone on the edge. This book asks what happens when we lean over the edge of what a fist can do and symbolize.

Who wears lipstick today – as a matter of routine? And for those who do, is it out of obligation to a strict feminine standard, or some other reason entirely? Lipstick reconsiders the beauty world’s most conspicuous – and contentious – tool of artifice. Tossing expired ideas about femininity like so many tubes of melting wax, Lipstick explores how self-adornment can be a source of play, pleasure, and transformation, as well as how lipstick can knock gender norms off balance.

No matter how much you fight against it, dust pervades everything. It gathers in even layers, adapting to the contours of things and marking the passage of time. In itself, it is also a gathering place, a random community of what has been and what is yet to be, a catalog of traces and a set of promises: dead skin cells and plant pollen, hair and paper fibers, not to mention dust mites who make it their home. And so, dust blurs the boundaries between the living and the dead, plant and animal matter, the inside and the outside, you and the world.

A classic teenage fetish object, the American driver’s license has long symbolized freedom and mobility in a nation whose design assumes car travel and whose vastness rivals continents. It is youth’s pass to regulated vice—cigarettes, bars, tattoo parlors, casinos, strip joints, music venues, guns. In its more recent history, the license has become increasingly associated with freedom’s flipside: screening. The airport’s heightened security checkpoint. Controversial ID voting laws...

Giulia Zollino ha vissuto questa educazione - o, sarebbe meglio dire, diseducazione - sulla propria pelle. Poi, però, ha incontrato il femminismo. È successo a Bologna, durante gli anni burrascosi dell'università, tra gruppi di discussione, letture e orgasmi. Ed è stato amore a prima vista. Questo incontro ha segnato uno spartiacque tra un prima e un dopo, da qui è partito il suo percorso di ribellione e riscoperta di sé. Il femminismo le ha insegnato a distruggere i miti nocivi, come quello della bellezza, permettendole di accettare e riappropriarsi del suo corpo.

In The Serpent's Empire: Unmasking the Demonic Power Behind Racial Hatred, Dr. Michael J. Henderson delivers a fearless and prophetic exposé on the spiritual and systemic roots of racism in America. This is not just a book—it is a spiritual weapon, cutting through centuries of lies upheld by whiteness, weaponized Christianity, and silent complicity.

Bringing together quantitative and qualitative data, Proximity Politics shows that even in today's interconnected world, we are still profoundly influenced by what happens next door.

In 1949, the year of the Berlin airlift and the founding of the two post-war German states, Elisabeth Kusian (nurse, black marketeer, morphine and methamphetamine addict, and pathological liar) garroted and dismembered two people in a mini crime spree. Her actions both fascinated and terrified the public—how could this woman, a nurse, commit such a violent act?

Incel Rebellion pulls back the curtain on one of the most misunderstood and dangerous online movements of our time. This audiobook takes listeners inside the hidden digital world where isolation, resentment, and extremist beliefs mix together and create a perfect storm for radicalization. Through clear storytelling and real case studies, it explains how lonely young men get pulled into toxic online forums, how digital misogyny grows into violent belief systems, and how these ideas lead to real world acts of terror.

Gli episodi di violenza di genere che occupano le cronache non sono fatti isolati, ma l'espressione estrema di un sistema radicato. Ilaria Ramoni e Fabio Roia mettono in luce un parallelismo scomodo ma necessario: quello tra la subcultura patriarcale e quella mafiosa. Entrambe si reggono sul silenzio, sulla complicità, sull'idea che le donne non siano soggetti, ma oggetti da possedere o scambiare.

Le isole greche sono terre del mito. Sono palcoscenici per avventure di eroi e divinità. L'Egeo è un mare di prodigi, un paesaggio di labirinti e di colossi, di vulcani e di palazzi. Ospita terre sacre, come la divina Delo, isola-ninfa che ha propiziato la nascita miracolosa di Apollo. Accoglie luoghi arcani, come Santorini, spezzata in due da un cataclisma, in tempi remoti, ma anche patria, secondo il folklore moderno, dei primi vampiri. Ogni isola ha la sua mitologia: a Creta è cresciuto Zeus, a Naxos si sono amati Arianna e Dioniso, a Serifos è apparsa la testa di Medusa.

In 1902, Morris and Rose Michtom invented the Teddy Bear in the back room of their Brooklyn candy store. Together they launched the Ideal Toy Corporation, joining a set of other poor, first-generation Jewish toymakers. Playmakers reveals how the toy industry created the idealized American childhood: an enchanted world, full of wild creatures and eternal struggles between good and evil, with endless realms of fantasy and beauty.

Across centuries and continents, real love stories unfolded quietly behind palace doors, in secret letters, and across battlefields unseen by history textbooks but etched in time. Scandalous and Sacred dives deep into the lives of real couples who dared to love beyond society’s rigid lines of race, class, gender, and religion.

What would drive someone, to such desperate measures, as to stowaway in the wheel well of an airplane? We have seen and heard the stories, of people who embarked upon this dangerous journey, and many have lived to recount their stories, and others have not been so fortunate, this audiobook will seek to highlight what are some of the issues that drives people to such desperate measures.

« J’ai décidé, avec ce livre-testament, de ne jamais brider ma plume. J’écris sans scrupule. Je livre, sans aucune précaution pour les âmes sensibles, le fond de ma pensée, avec l’obsession de relever le pays, de le redresser, de le sortir du cloaque. Je suis hanté par la disparition du peuple auquel j’appartiens. Je vois le gouffre s’ouvrir.

His mother called him “Bobby Mountain.” Elders called him “Great Man.” His people called him “Chief.” Oil men called him “Mr. Cree.” But the government called him “Number 53.” Robert Cree was all of these while facing his people’s oppressors and freeing the ghosts of tortured spirits. The Many Names of Robert Cree is his first-person account of survival in a brutally racist residential school system designed to erase traditional Indigenous culture, language, and knowledge.

كان جرجي زيدان على دراية واسعة بالحقل اللغوي نظريًّا وعمليًّا، فمن الناحية النظرية اهتم زيدان بالدراسات المتعلق بفلسفة اللغة وتاريخها، بالإضافة إلى دراسته لفقه اللغة المقارن، كما أنه كان على اطلاع بالنظريات اللغوية الحديثة في زمنه، أما من الناحية العملية، فقد أجاد العربية، والعبرية، والسريانية، واللاتينية، والإنجليزية، والفرنسية، الألمانية، كما كان على دراية بالإيطالية والإسبانية تمكنه من فهم ما يقرأ، وقد دفعه هذا الإلمام الكبير بالميدان اللغوي، إلى تقديم هذا الكتاب الذي يتناول فيه تاريخ اللغة العربية، وما طرأ عليها من التغيير بالتجدد أو الدثور، فبين لنا كيف تندثر ألفاظ وتراكيب وتولد أخرى، وكي

From the suffragettes who fought for the vote to the leaders of today’s global equality movements, feminism has always been about more than rights—it’s about reshaping society. Feminism: When It Began, Where We Are Now, and Where We Are Going takes listeners on a powerful journey through the history of feminist thought, the challenges still facing women, and the vision for a more inclusive future.

Accidental Rebel: My Story of Interracial Love and Loss is a poignant and courageous memoir that chronicles Annie Waxman’s journey of love, self-discovery, and resilience against the backdrop of 1960s Kentucky, a time of racial tension and rigid social norms.

In Gather, anthropologist Ashanté M. Reese argues for a new vision of food justice that centers the resilience of Black communities and argues that community nourishment deserves as much consideration as individual health. Highlighting four spaces of gathering—gardens, family reunions, repasts, and protests—Reese offers rich, on-the-ground studies of the places and people who make up the food justice movement.