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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.

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.

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.

United in Grace, Beyond DebateConversations about abortion often center on the question: Are you pro-life or pro-choice? But what if thats the wrong question? Drawing upon the life and teachings of Jesus, Becoming ProGrace invites Christians to ask new questions, such as: What if conversations about abortion didnt have to feel so tense, divided, or dehumanizing? What does it mean to affirm the image of God in every person involved? How do we navigate tension we may feel when our deepest Christian values seem to conflict? What would it take for Christian communities to become spaces of empathy, listening, and grace? Including insights and personal stories from Christians of diverse denominational backgrounds and political perspectives, Becoming ProGrace articulates a uniquely Christian response to abortion that calls us to take on the character of Christ rather than trying to change others, offering a much-needed message of hope for our divided world.Jesus led with grace. As we reimagine our approach to the abortion conversation, so can we.

Você já se perguntou quantas vezes silenciou a própria voz para caber em espaços que nunca foram seus?Quantas vezes confundiu amor com migalhas?Quantas vezes acreditou que era menos do que realmente

El gran éxito de Piketty, economista francés y especialista en desigualdad económica, ahora en cómicEn esta obra, Thomas Piketty presenta la evolución a largo plazo de las desigualdades entre las clases sociales en las sociedades humanas, brindando una nueva perspectiva sobre la historia de la igualdad.Tras el gran exito de Capital e ideologia de Claire Alet y Benjamin Adam, esta adaptacion al comic de Una breve historia de la igualdad permitira a un publico mas amplio comprender el pensamiento de Thomas Piketty y hacerlo suyo.

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.

Un libro para leer, aprender y disfrutar sobre el fascinante mundo de la moda¿Sabías que los marineros británicos popularizaron la trenca? ¿Que la bomber nació para rescatar pilotos caídos? ¿O que el smoking empezo como una chaqueta para fumar en casa? ¿Por que los romanos vestian a sus hijos con collares protectores? ¿Que tiene que ver Audrey Hepburn con el origen de las bailarinas?La moda no es solo pasarelas y tendencias: es historia, geografia, identidad, guerra, revolucion y hasta ciencia ficcion. En este libro lleno de sorpresas, Ana Velasco Molpeceres recorre con humor, inteligencia y muchisima curiosidad el fascinante mundo de la ropa y los accesorios. Desde el sari hasta las chanclas, pasando por la corbata, el mono, el kimono, el chandal o el reloj de pulsera, cada prenda tiene un pasado insolito y un relato que contar.

Una crítica posmodernista del capitalismo y el catolicismo.Don Quijote cabalga de nuevo. Pero ahora es una mujer, dama andante que vagabundea entre Londres y Nueva York. No son los libros de caballeria los que la han enloquecido y lanzado al mundo, sino la experiencia transfiguradora de un aborto. Y no tiene que verselas con molinos de viento, sino con los hechiceros de su tiempo: con la historia americana y con Richard Nixon, aun lider de un mundo de pesadilla poblado por dueñas de prostibulos, transexuales y sacerdotes masoquistas. ¿Y que busca esta imprevisible Don Quijote? El amor, o quiza solo el conocimiento de lo que es el amor, para asi salvar el mundo. Pero que los lectores no se engañen: en el universo de Kathy Acker el amor no es mas que una dialectica de amo y esclavo, una mitologia cruel, una ficcion del lenguaje inventada por los hombres a espaldas de las mujeres, un conflicto entre poderes.Como su Quijote, Acker vivio entre Nueva York y Londres y se movio en la escena de vanguardia, con gente como David Byrne o Laurie Anderson. La publicacion del libro, en 1986, marco un punto de inflexion en su obra. Con el, Acker emprendio una reescritura radical del deseo, entendido como estructura que desestabiliza la identidad o juego de dominacion y resistencia.Hasta ese momento, el sexo en su obra habia sido tratado como una parodia del poder o una mercancia dentro del capitalismo tardio; sin embargo, Don Quijote, que fue un sueño fue el primer libro en el que la autora abordo frontalmente las relaciones sexuales entre mujeres y la fluidez del genero. A lo largo del texto van asomando sus influencias, como la apropiacion textual de William S. Burroughs, la performatividad de Gertrude Stein o la teoria feminista de Helene Cixous, que Kathy Acker no solo absorbio, sino que subvirtio, ganandose los calificativos de estrella de la vanguardia postpunk y primera pornografa feminista.

Una mirada crítica a la ley contra la Violencia de Género.Las mujeres maltratadas recibieron un escudo necesario con la Ley Orgánica de Medidas de Protección Integral contra la Violencia de Género de 2004. En veinte años de vigencia, muchas se han salvado gracias a el, pero nadie ha querido mirar a esas otras mujeres que, fingiendose victimas, emplean el escudo como espada. La sociedad ha respondido siempre con un Esto no existe a cada denuncia falsa que estas mujeres han utilizado como arma arrojadiza.Hay quien dice que es mejor no hablar de esto. Pero no se hace daño diciendo la verdad, sino callando. Si ayer se callaba sobre la vida oculta y martirizante de las mujeres maltratadas y encerradas con un bestia, hoy se calla sobre la vida oculta y martirizante de los hombres enganchados en los resortes puntiagudos de un mecanismo de proteccion empleado como trampa mortal.Es un fracaso palmario de un pais en su lucha por la igualdad. Se ha tachado de negacionista a quien mencionaba este fenomeno y se ha impuesto una espiral de silencio. Este libro, donde todas las victimas tienen su lugar con independencia de su sexo, pretende contribuir a destruirla.Sobre NADIE SE VA A REIR se dijo:La literalidad achica el mundo, lo convierte en un claustro de gente cognitivamente plana y perezosa, insensible a la ironia y al humor. La critica de Soto Ivars a este mundo literal es su nuevo libro, Nadie se va a reir, publicado en Debate, en el que cuenta la extravagante historia de Anonimo Garcia, un artista que acabo enfrentandose a una pena de carcel por una satira y una critica que los medios y la sociedad española se tomaron de forma literal.Carlos Granes, The ObjectiveSobre LA CASA DEL AHORCADO se dijo:Soto Ivars desmonta la simpleza de los debates binarios y demuestra que el duelo a garrotazos de Goya es un fenomeno global. No contento con eso, reivindica el valor del pensamiento critico e individual frente a las obcecaciones grupales, ideologicas y casi ecumenicas como nuevas formas de persecucion y censura.Karina Sainz Borgo, VozpopuliSobre ARDEN LAS REDES se dijo:Soto Ivars toma la palabra y lleva a cabo, a fuer de buen periodista, una investigacion encaminada a desvelar los entresijos del sucio asunto de los linchamientosdigitales.Fernando AramburuSi has escrito tuits y los has borrado antes de publicarlos, Soto Ivars te explica el porque.Jordi Evole

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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