Award-winning broadcaster and journalist John Kampfner has had a front-row seat at some of the most seismic turning-points in modern history - from the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of Soviet communism, to the consequences of the Iraq war and the killing fields of Rwanda. He also written several acclaimed books including the bestselling conversation-starter Why The Germans Do It Better: Notes from a Grown-up Country.Braver New World is Kampfners most timely and urgent book to date. At a moment when it feels the world is falling apart, he reports from ten countries that are forging new paths forward and coming up with innovative solutions to the questions that ultimately we all want answers for: Where am I going to live? What happens when I get sick? Am I learning the right skills? Are there ways of ensuring my children arent being brainwashed with disinformation? How is my environment going to be protected without costing me my livelihood?From Austria to Taiwan, and Estonia to India, Kampfner introduces us to the people and places where the most daring things are happening. A book of hope for hard times, Braver New World shows us that it is when countries have their backs against the wall that they come up with the best and bravest solutions - and reminds us never to lose hope, as the answers are out there if we look for them.

An evocative and inspiring exploration of the lives of women who refuse to be tied indoors by domesticity. The Hard Way is a powerful manifesto for women who long to walk alone - and safely - in the countryside Dr Sharon Blackie, author of If Women Rose Rooted Why is it radical for women to walk alone in the countryside, when men have been doing so for centuries? The Hard Way is a powerful and illuminating book about addressing this imbalance, reclaiming fearlessness and diving into the history of the landscape from a womans point of view.Setting off to follow the oldest paths in England, the Ridgeway and the Harrow Way, Susannah Walker comes across artillery fire, concern from passing policemen and her own innate fear of lone figures in the distance: a landscape shaped by men, from prehistoric earthworks to todays army bases.But along the way, Susannah finds Edwardian feminists, rebellious widows, forgotten writers and artists, as well as all their anonymous sisters who stayed at home throughout history. They become her companions over 135 miles of walking, revealing how much, or how little, has changed for women now.

In this bold and intimate semi-autobiographical novel, La Maison, Emma Becker transports the reader behind the closed doors of a Berlin brothel, where she worked for two years not only to earn a living, but to immerse herself in a world she wanted to understandand to write about with unflinching honesty. What emerges is a deeply personal, unsentimental, and often surprising account of life inside the brothel, where Becker explores not just the physical aspects of sex work, but the emotional, psychological, and social complexities that shape it.With frankness and literary insight, she recounts her encounters with clients, her growing self-awareness, and, most poignantly, the friendships and solidarity she finds among the other women who work there. Far from reducing sex work to cliche or voyeurism, Becker gives space to the quiet routines, shared laughter, private pain, and hard-won dignity of a profession often misunderstood and rarely written about from the inside.Part memoir, part sociological study, and wholly literary, La Maison challenges preconceptions about sex, agency, and femininity, offering a provocative and compassionate exploration of what it means to inhabit multiple identitiesas worker, writer, woman, and witness.

Freya Indias writing is compassionate, gripping, and deeply psychological Jonathan Haidt, author of The Anxious GenerationComing of age has always been a time of angst and inner turmoil, especially for girls. But today girls have to contend with those worries in a world of AR filters, TikTok plastic surgeons, dating apps, hook up culture, online porn, modern sex-positivity, profit-driven online therapy apps, direct-to-door medication and even fully customisable AI girlfriends. All personalised by algorithms to play on their innermost fears and insecurities. It is an onslaught of advertising, it is on portable platforms designed to be maximally addictive, and it is far beyond what any previous generation of girls have ever faced.Girls teases out and traces both technological and cultural shifts in the last decadefrom social media to shifting family structures, waning religious attachment and the collapse of communal spaces. And Girls exposes the sinister and rapid intensification and ruthless commercialisation of the inner lives of girls and young women which leads to the loss of their authentic selvesa loss that corporations are all too ready to exploit.Girls is a personal journey and intimate portrait of girls today, in all their mystery and torment: one that captures the soul of the most complex and misunderstood generation so far, and that empowers them to see their lives through a different lens.

This nationally important book reveals the untold story of the Irish tricolour: its true origins, a forgotten heroine, and the emblems it replaced. For the first time, a fully referenced history corrects long-standing myths and slurs surrounding Irelands national flag. It also reinterprets iconic Irish symbols from the harp and shamrock to the tri-spiral placing them within the broader journey toward Irish nationhood and national identity. Along Irelands road to a republic, key figures are restored to their rightful place from Owen Roe ONeill and Wolfe Tone to Thomas Meagher and Padraig Pearse.The book explores crucial turning points the rise of green as Irelands colour, the rebellions of 1642, 1798, 1848, and 1916, Catholic Emancipation, and the flags later use and misuse. A bold, insightful retelling of Irelands story through its symbols.

«Ni la euforia ni el escepticismo en relación con una nueva Europa ampliada pueden hacernos olvidar que Europa todavía no ha sido verdaderamente comprendida, entendida. Esta forma históricamente únic

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Scotlands Stone of Destiny is the most famous symbol of both Scottish nationhood and the British monarchy. Nick Aitchison has produced the first fully researched and illustrated study of its history, mythology and cultural significance.Having first traced the origin, evolution and function of myths surrounding the Stone and the ancient prophecy that gives the Stone its name, he examines the stone itself and for the first time reveals the Stones original function and the origins of its symbolic sanctity. The Stones historic contexts and its role in royal inauguration and coronation rituals are also discussed, including an analysis of the rich symbolism surrounding the Stone and its changing nature over time. The book concludes with a discussion of the Stones symbolic significance with the creation of the Scottish parliament.

Cómo piensa, opera y se organiza la extrema derecha: las claves del éxito político más inesperado y preocupante del siglo XXIEn apenas una década, la ultraderecha ha pasado de ser un fenómeno marginal a disputarse el poder en medio mundo. De Donald Trump a Javier Milei, de Giorgia Meloni a Viktor Orban, una nueva generacion de lideres gobierna a traves de la retorica populista y el nacionalismo identitario. Pero ¿que explica que millones de votantes hayan conectado con sus ideas?Basado en el exitoso podcast Epidemia Ultra, Franco Delle Donne, experto en autoritarismos, rastrea los origenes y la evolucion de esta ola reaccionaria desde finales de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. De la Francia que llevo a Jean-Marie Le Pen a las puertas del poder a la propaganda neorreaccionaria de Silicon Valley y Peter Thiel, pasando por casos tan emblematicos y preocupantes como el modelo Bukele en El Salvador o el nacionalismo hindu de Narendra Modi.

Cuando Hitler se suicidó, dejó dicho que en el futuro llegaría un IV Reich… ¿Ha llegado ese tiempo? ¿Es Donald Trump el líder de esa nueva corriente de Ilustración oscura?Después de su llegada al pod

Una respuesta frente a las tendencias parciales y reaccionarias que recurren al pasado para justificar la desigualdad.¿Y si la historia que nos contaron estaba incompleta? Bajo los cimientos de nuestras sociedades laten siglos de un desequilibrio milenario. La raiz del poder es un viaje revelador a traves del tiempo, desde las primeras civilizaciones hasta hoy, para comprender las profundas raices de la desigualdad entre hombres y mujeres. Desde el Neolitico, la autora examina mitos fundacionales, codigos, tradiciones, leyes, religiones y relatos que aun resuenan. Desde Lilith hasta la interpretacion cristiana, desde las leyes romanas hasta la educacion de nuestras abuelas o hijas, desde la tutela y las vestales hasta las noticias mas recientes que desvelan aun viejos patrones. Paginas que dan respuesta a por que persisten patrones que nacieron hace miles de años. La raiz del poder es tambien una respuesta frente a las tendencias parciales y reaccionarias que usan el pasado clasico para justificar el sexismo o el racismo. Un libro para quienes buscan respuestas, pero tambien para quienes desean ser parte del cambio. Desde la documentacion historica y la narrativa humanista, esta obra es una brujula esencial para comprender por que la igualdad real es todavia un desafio y una deuda historica.

Los sueños (y las pesadillas) surgidos del pensamiento, la literatura y el arte durante el siglo XX.En agosto de 1883, la erupción, al este de Java, del volcán Krakatoa repercutió en lugares tan alejados como la ciudad alemana de Hamburgo. Aquel cataclismo constituye para Peter Neumann un extraordinario simbolo de las poderosas energias que algunas esperanzas y sueños utopicos iban a desencadenar a lo largo del siglo xx, comenzando con la inquietante figura del Superhombre nietzscheano y terminando con la quimera de una paz universal propuesta por Susan Sontag en el año 2003. Entre ambos momentos, Peter Neumann nos brinda portentosos retratos de los artistas, pensadores y escritores que revolucionaron las ideas y el modo de expresarlas y que, en tiempos de crisis e incertidumbre, fueron capaces de pensar sobre la realidad de formas ineditas y a menudo revolucionarias. Con trazo preciso y enorme talento narrativo, el autor describe atmosferas y paisajes, y descubre insospechadas constelaciones y mutuas influencias entre autores y creadores de la talla de Ludwig Wittgenstein, Hannah Arendt, Sigmund Freud, Salvador Dali, la pintora Kathe Kollwitz, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin o Christa Wolf.

***LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NON-FICTION***IN SEPTEMBER 2022, in response to the death of Mahsa Jina Amini in police custody, after being arrested and beaten for not wearing her hijab properly, thousands of Iranians - mostly women - took to the streets in one of the countrys largest uprisings in decades: the Woman, Life, Freedom movement.Despite the threat of imprisonment or death for her work as a journalist, Fatemeh Jamalpour joined the throngs of people fighting to topple Irans religious extremist regime. Meanwhile, Nilo Tabrizy was covering the protests from New York, knowing that spotlighting the brutality of the Iranian government meant she would not be able to safely return to her birth country.Though they had only met once, united by sisterhood and shared purpose, Nilo and Fatemeh corresponded constantly as they worked to shed light on what was happening on the ground. For the Sun After Long Nights is their extraordinary and deeply moving chronicle of the spirit and legacy of this historic movement, as well as the history, geopolitics and influences that led to this pivotal moment.

Marshall McLuhan, a pioneering media theorist, explored how media shape perception, society, and culture. His concepts, like the medium is the message and the global village, emphasize media as extensions of human senses that profoundly influence communication and social structures. He analyzed transitions from oral to print culture and the impact of electronic media on thought and interaction. This volume seeks global contributions applying McLuhans theories to AI, digital media, knowledge, creativity, and body-mind relations in todays networked world.In this volume, edited by Lars C. Grabbe, Andrew McLuhan and Tobias Held, scholars from diverse fieldsmedia theory, philosophy, sociology, art, game studies, and moreare examining McLuhans enduring relevance in analyzing contemporary technological and cultural transformations.

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En este siglo ha crecido el movimiento que interpelaa las antiguas potencias imperiales, en pos de su«descolonización». Museos y universidades han comenzadoa revisar sus colecciones y a programar exp