«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

The highly anticipated second poetry book by one of the UKs most innovative poets, following the Forward Prize shortlisted Comic Timing. A utopian, stylish and completely unique anti-epic long poem that moves through the history of the cafe space, exploring workers rights, foodie culture, the importance of the third space and bohemian and artistic histories. A contribution to the growing body of contemporary literature around food and restaurant culture, for readers of Vittles, Ruby Tandoh, Rebecca May Johnson, and readers of caffs not cafes Comps: Gunslinger by Ed Dorn, Fourth Person Singular by Nuar Alsadir, How to Wash a Heart by Bhanu Kapil.

Fascism is back. This time no swastikas, Nazi flags, or deadly bureaucracy, but MAGA hats, right-wing extremist memes, and a triumphant fist held high. For the first time in modern history, far right parties in some European countries have won a larger share of the votes than the Conservatives and the Social Democrats.Fascism hollows out democracies from within. It starts with language, not tanks. With democratic elections, not a coup.But how do fascists mobilise citizens? How has fascism become normalised in Europe again? And how do we stop it?

The exciting story of the queer talents, beats and personalities that have fantastically shaped the James Bond phenomenon in all its forms. Blending historical insight with new observations, interviews, understanding and exploration, Bond scholar Mark OConnell deftly examines the fascinating gay forces behind the openly straight 007.At a time when fierce debate rages about identity politics versus cultural visibility, what if the world of Bond and its diverse myriad of creators, artists and influences were already a fierce bastion of queer?Bond, Queer Bond is not just the fascinating story about how LGBTQ creativity, temperaments, battles, and voices stretched into Bond from the gay map pins of San Francisco, London, New York, Paris, and beyond. It is also a rich chronicle of rainbow artistry, fortitude and visibility featuring Commander Bond alongside some of the most iconic names and pivotal beats of all LGBTQ history.It is a distinctive, energetic, and original compendium about identity in pop culture, the difference between gay history and queer expression, and how the deceptively diverse Bond world has always operated alongside both.In Bond, Queer Bond what might begin as a thoughtful new dive into an adjacent world of 007 fast becomes a rich, colourful, compelling, and fun manifesto about the vital and varied queer DNA of a cultural icon.

The recent revelations regarding secret payments to star presenter Ryan Tubridy werent the first time Irelands national broadcaster has found itself caught up in scandal.Shane Ross, author of #1 bestsellers The Bankers and Mary Lou McDonald, winds the clock back to examine RTEs history of broadcasting excellence alongside the accusations of corruption, waste and ineptitude it has faced along the way, while also considering what the future might hold for this formerly beloved institution.

Este libro nace de una necesidad profunda de ir más allá de los indicadores económicos para descifrar los valores, aspiraciones y contradicciones que subyacen en la experiencia de moverse —o no— dent

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 understand and 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.

As memórias impactantes de Virginia Roberts Giuffre, a mulher que teve a coragem de enfrentar a rede de abuso sexual criada por Jeffrey Epstein e Ghislaine Maxwell. Livro mais vendido do New York Times, escrito em colaboraço com a jornalista Amy Wallace."No se enganem: este e um livro sobre poder, corrupço, abuso sexual em escala industrial e sobre como as instituiçes ficaram ao lado do agressor, no das vitimas. () Mas tambem e um livro sobre como uma jovem se torna uma heroina. () Importante e corajoso."The GuardianAos dezesseis anos, Virginia Roberts Giuffre foi recrutada por Ghislaine Maxwell para trabalhar no circulo de Jeffrey Epstein, financista multimilionario que, anos depois, seria revelado como responsavel por um dos maiores casos de trafico humano dos Estados Unidos. Por mais de dois anos, foi vitima de abusos e manipulaçes, ate conseguir escapar aos dezenove.Em Garota de ninguem, ela reconstroi essa trajetoria com franqueza e coragem. Da infancia dificil a luta contra figuras poderosas, sua historia expe como instituiçes e pessoas influentes ignoraram crimes graves e protegeram agressores.Escrito em colaboraço com a jornalista Amy Wallace, o livro foi preparado ao longo de anos e concluido antes da morte de Virginia, em 2025. O resultado e um relato sem concesses uma denuncia poderosa e um gesto de coragem de quem decidiu enfrentar a impunidade e lutar por justiça para si e para outras vitimas.

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.

10 einfache Regeln, die endlosen Diskussionen und Streitereien ein Ende setzenSmartphones und Bildschirme komplett aus dem Leben unserer Kinder zu verbannen, ist keine sinnvolle Zukunftsoption. Aber was ist das richtige Alter und was das richtige Ma digitaler Mediennutzung? Basierend auf ihren Forschungsergebnissen und ihrer personlichen Erfahrung als Mutter von drei Teenagern, liefert die Psychologin Jean Twenge zehn klare und umsetzbare Regeln fur den Alltag. Dieses dringend benotigte Handbuch gibt Eltern und Padagogen nicht nur Werkzeuge an die Hand, um digitale Gefahren zu bannen, sondern hilft ihnen auch, wichtige Lebenskompetenzen zu fordern, damit Kinder und Jugendliche zu selbststandigen, gesunden und glucklichen Menschen heranwachsen.Jean Twenge gehort zu den fuhrenden Stimmen der Entwicklungspsychologie, die seit langem die Schaden der Smartphone-Kindheit analysieren. Wer auch nur eine einzige ihrer zehn Regeln befolgt, starkt bereits seine Familie und seine Kinder. Jonathan Haidt, Autor des Bestsellers Generation Angst

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.

Una novela histórica absorbente, emotiva y perturbadora, que entrelaza pasión, conspiración política y una valiente denuncia de los abusos silenciados por la religión y el poder.El verano de 1936 en España. Un pais al borde del abismo. Un secreto que podria destruirlo todo.Entre los dolorosos meses de mayo y junio de 1936, se cierne sobre España la sombra de la guerra. La maquinaria que busca encender la mecha del conflicto es orquestada por el cabecilla de los nazis en todo el territorio, Hans Hellermann, quien debera reunir a sus aliados para poner en marcha el plan que conducira a la destruccion de la Republica.El escenario elegido para su siniestra reunion no podria ser mas engañoso: El Milano, una apacible casa de baños en La Mancha, refugio de descanso y serenidad hasta que la llegada de sus nuevos huespedes convierte aquel remanso en un campo de intrigas, pasiones, locura y muerte.Alli coinciden Julia, marcada por el deseo y la culpa; Rosauro, anarquista; Sergio, un hombre poderoso corrompido por la ambicion y la lujuria; Dolores, devota y atormentada; Alejandra, una psiquiatra compasiva y decidida a hacer justicia, y el doctor Patrocinio, obligado a proteger su casa y su conciencia frente a las fuerzas del mal que se ciernen sobre todos.Y en medio de un inminente levantamiento militar, mujeres como Marcela y la Cierva, aguerridas y arrojadas, se enfrentaran en una epica lucha contra las fuerzas del mal en una batalla silenciosa que decidira el destino de los habitantes mas vulnerables de El Milano.

Since the 1990s, contemporary art in the Arab world has experienced exponential growth and numerous changes. With the appearance of artists from the region in international exhibitions, the dynamics within the art scenes changed significantly. Museums & art foundations began to collect, biennials were launched, contemporary art galleries, fairs, residencies and schools emerged in many countries, and the governments of the Gulf states launched megaprojects. This reader serves as a guide for anyone interested in the foundations, structures and growth of these art scenes. It also functions as an anthology of what is now considered established in the Arab world, with contributions covering all aspects of the subjectboth from across the region and from a Western perspective.

Since the 1990s, contemporary art in the Arab world has experienced exponential growth and numerous changes. With the appearance of artists from the region in international exhibitions, the dynamics within the art scenes changed significantly. Museums & art foundations began to collect, biennials were launched, contemporary art galleries, fairs, residencies and schools emerged in many countries, and the governments of the Gulf states launched megaprojects. This reader serves as a guide for anyone interested in the foundations, structures and growth of these art scenes. It also functions as an anthology of what is now considered established in the Arab world, with contributions covering all aspects of the subjectboth from across the region and from a Western perspective.

¿Cuánto dura la juventud en el siglo XXI? ¿Hasta cuándo podemos prolongarla? ¿Cómo pasó de ser una etapa a convertirse en mandato?Juvencolía explora el deseo de ser joven para siempre: de los mitos que nos formaron al vertigo de la edad adulta, cuando la enfermedad irrumpe como grieta que ya no puede ignorarse y, a la vez, como revelacion. Desde ahi, la narradora teje un abecedario intimo, erudito y pop, que va de Nunca Jamas a la contracultura, de la beca Erasmus a Instagram, de la crisis de la mediana edad a la quimioterapia, pasando por la doctora Luella Day, que juro haber encontrado la fuente de la eterna juventud en su jardin.Un libro brillante y audaz sobre la perdida, el anhelo y la juvencolia que nos sostiene.La critica ha dicho:Pocas veces se escribe sobre la juventud con tanta claridad y tanta herida. [] En un mundo que se niega a envejecer, la enfermedad aparece como un fracaso, como una mancha, como un estigma. Con esta carga de profundidad que da la perspectiva de la muerte, [Silvia Herreros de Tejada] ha compuesto un ensayo en forma de abecedario, que une la erudicion culta con la cultura pop, la autobiografia con la autoficcion, la lucidez con el humor. Javier Gallego Crudo

Una exploración de la noción de identidad en el mundo contemporáneoMientras lidiamos con la inseguridad y la incertidumbre propias de la modernidad líquida, Bauman sostiene que nuestras identidades —

Neste ensaio afiado, Sophie Gilbert apresenta uma denúncia contundente da misoginia que sustentou a cultura pop da virada do século — e que continua a moldar os nossos dias.O que aconteceu com o femi

Una crítica imprescindible a la despolitización de las tecnologías digitales.¿De verdad esperábamos que internet favoreciera la convivencia democrática cuando cedimos su diseño y gestión a algoritmos opacos, propiedad de las mayores empresas del planeta? Internet, que se presento como una promesa de libertad y democracia, ha desembocado en un paisaje grotesco de irracionalidad, ultramercantilizacion, violencia y descomposicion de lo comun.Cesar Rendueles analiza el fetichismo tecnologico y defiende la urgencia de imaginar otras formas de socializacion digital mas libres y democraticas.

Un viaje fascinante por la historia cultural del miedo, desde los oráculos griegos hasta los monstruos posmodernos, que revela cómo nuestras sociedades han dado forma a sus terrores para comprender (y controlar) el mundo.Desde los oraculos de la antigua Grecia hasta los monstruos de la cultura contemporanea, La oscuridad de la razon propone un fascinante recorrido por la historia del miedo y sus representaciones historicas. Inspirado en la celebre estampa de Goya El sueño de la razon produce monstruos, Marcos Fernandez plantea que la razon no elimina los temores humanos, sino que los moldea, los amplifica y les da nuevas formas. El miedo aparece asi como una constante historica que atraviesa religiones, mitologias, folklore y supersticiones, y que define, todavia hoy, como nos relacionamos con el mundo.A lo largo de las tres partes en las que se divide la obra, el autor analiza la evolucion del miedo en Occidente: la adivinacion griega y los augurios romanos; las supersticiones medievales y el imaginario sobrenatural en torno a brujas y demonios; y, finalmente, la mutacion del monstruo en la modernidad y la posmodernidad, estudiando el monstruo a partir del cine de terror, la literatura o los videojuegos. Con erudicion y un estilo narrativo evocador, Fernandez combina historia, antropologia, arte y filosofia para mostrarnos la forma en que cada epoca ha reflejado sus temores mas profundos.La oscuridad de la razon es un ensayo que invita a pensar el miedo no como una debilidad, sino como una clave fundamental mediante la que comprender nuestra cultura y nuestro presente. Un libro que interesara tanto a quienes disfrutan de la historia y las humanidades como a quienes buscan una mirada que conecte pasado con el presente. Una lectura imprescindible para entender que los monstruos que nos acechan, ayer y hoy, y que fueron y seran siempre un espejo de nosotros mismos.

Revisiting a transformative era of Chinese contemporary art through essays, archives, and striking visual documentation. The China Moment explores one of the most dynamic turning points in global art history. Published to accompany the exhibition at the documenta Institut Kassel (JanuaryMarch 2026), the book sheds new light on the radical shifts in Chinese art during the 1990s and 2000s. This richly illustrated volume stands out through:In-depth essays by leading scholars and curators analyzing art, politics, and society Rare archival materials that reveal the cultural transformations of the time Visual documentation capturing the diversity and intensity of artistic practices A critical reader and catalogue in one, the publication rethinks individualism as a key concept shaping the relationship between art, state, and public life in Chinas rapidly changing cultural landscape.