Politics & Social Sciences

Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this piercing work distills 3,000 years of the history of power into 48 well-explicated laws....

From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity’s creation and evolution - a number one international best seller - that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be “human”....

In his classic guide to understanding the opposite sex, Dr. John Gray provides a practical and proven way for men and women to improve their communication and relationships by acknowledging the differences between them....

This series of talks is on one of the most esoteric treatises in the world. It will show you the way to become more than the body and the way to bloom....

Fifteen Brave Men and Women of Bharat who Never Succumbed to the Challenges of Invaders But were Lost and Forgotten in the Annals of History. These are the stories of those Bravehearts who Fought to Protect their Rights, Faith and Freedom....

The author Sri "M" is an extraordinary individual. At the young age of 19 and a half, he travelled to snow-clad Himalayas from Kerala, and there he met and lived for several years with a "real-time" yogi, Babaji....

From the New York Times best-selling author of The Black Swan, a bold new work that challenges many of our long-held beliefs about risk and reward, politics and religion....

A bold and all-embracing exploration of the nature and progress of knowledge from one of today's great thinkers....

The authors of the best-selling Bold and The Rise of Superman explore altered states of consciousness and how they can ignite passion, fuel creativity, and accelerate problem solving....

The writings and lectures of Swami Vivekananda on meditation, its advantages, and its practices are collected in this book. It is a book that offers lessons drawn from Swami Vivekananda's life to help audiences navigate their own personal turbulence....

In this stunning audiobook, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers" - the best and the brightest, the most famous, and the most successful. He asks the question: What makes high-achievers different? Listen to find out more....

Authors MichaelBar-Zohar and Nissim Mishal take us behind the closed curtain with riveting, eye-opening, boots-on-the-ground accounts of the most dangerous, most crucial missions....

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs and Steel examines the rise of civilization and the issues its development has raised throughout history....

Eckhart Tolle presents listeners with an honest look at the current state of humanity....

With Dark Psychology: 3 Books in 1, I give a complete picture of the most dangerous aspects of dark psychology (mental manipulation, psychological persuasion and dark NLP techniques) to provide you the tools you need to feel safe and secure in navigating what can be a scary world....

Written in Greek by an intellectual Roman emperor without any intention of publication, the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius offer a wide range of fascinating spiritual reflections and exercises developed as the leader struggled to understand himself and make sense of the universe....

Easwaran’s best-selling translation of the ancient wisdom texts called the Upanishads is reliable, enjoyable, and profound....

In his landmark best seller The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell redefined how we understand the world around us....

 Arthashastra is one of the oldest books with immense historical significance written by Kautilya, or Arya Chanakya, as he was popularly known. This book is one of the most effective books ever written on the art of statecraft and the science of everyday living....

The life story of India's 11th President, Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, who started off as an insignificant little boy Rameswaram, but ended up becoming the president....

Now a number-one international best seller, Billion Dollar Whale is "an epic tale of white-collar crime on a global scale" (Publishers Weekly), revealing how a young social climber from Malaysia pulled off one of the biggest heists in history....

Call Me by Your Name is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his parents' cliffside mansion on the Italian Riviera....

As the intellectual fountainhead of the ideology of Hindutva, which is in political ascendancy in India today, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar is undoubtedly one of the most contentious political thinkers and leaders of the 20th century....

When high speed Internet became widely available a few years ago, growing numbers of people began to worry that their porn use was running out of control....

Nick Bostrom lays the foundation for understanding the future of humanity and intelligent life....

Saison 1 : le coming-out. Ça commence par soi, puis par les autres. Mais ça peut aussi être l'inverse, parfois. Elles sont homosexuelles, bies ou trans, elles habitent en Île-de-France, en Loire-Atlantique ou dans les Alpes-Maritimes et elles disent haut et fort ce cheminement et ce moment charnière de leur vie qui leur a apporté soulagement, joie, mais qui a aussi été parfois source de violence et de rejet.

◆人の直感はパワフルで本能的で、まるでゾウのよう。◆ゾウを【ナッジ】で後押しすれば、人の心も動きはじめる

Cien años perpetuando la Leyenda Negra. El cine bélico surgió en 1898 con motivo de la guerra que Estados Unidos provocó contra España. La prensa, los cineastas y los políticos justificaron esa agresión recurriendo a los clichés de la Leyenda Negra, que ha sido utilizada por Hollywood y el cine británico para perpetuar la vindicación de los continuos ataques anglosajones a España durante siglos para arrebatarle dominios y riquezas.

Verdades y leyendas de nuestra historia. Nadie pone en duda que durante tres siglos España dominó el mundo conocido y fue objeto de numerosos embates de todo tipo por parte de potencias rivales, pero ¿cómo se defendió de los ataques de sus enemigos? "Para estas batallas que nos amenazan", explicó don Quijote a Sancho Panza, "menester será estar bien mantenidos". Y España, ciertamente, estaba "bien mantenida": los recursos a los que tenía acceso eran ma­yores que los de cualquier otra nación, ya que no provenían solo de la Península, sino de todos los rincones del planeta.

Uno de los libros más celebrados de Séneca. Este es uno de los libros más celebrados de Séneca. Los sabios consejos dirigidos a su discípulo Lucilio tienen una validez que traspasa las fronteras del tiempo. Séneca nos habla sobre la conveniencia de una relación de equilibrio con la naturaleza, sobre la importancia de las cosas que hacemos a diario, cómo llevar una vida sana y honesta, qué es licito y qué no, lo que nos enriquece y nos empobrece, lo que es bueno y lo que es malo sin caer en el maniqueísmo, sobre la importancia y el cultivo de la amistad.

Introducción en clave divulgativa a la vida y la obra del mayor filósofo de la razón que abrió la puerta de la modernidad. Se ha comparado la importancia del autor de Crítica de la razón pura con la de los clásicos griegos y figuras como Descartes y Newton. A excepción de Aristóteles y Nietzsche, es probable que no se haya hablado y escrito tanto acerca de ningún filósofo como de Kant. En ese sentido, si hay que volver a su obra es para dedicarle una relectura calma y paciente, con el fin de recordar aquello que hoy peligra – la libertad, la moral, el ser humano – y encontrar las claves para sostenerlo.

Ron Leshem ist Autor, Journalist und ehemaliger israelischer Geheimdienstoffizier, Verwandte von ihm wurden ermordet oder entführt. Hier schildert er ein zutiefst gespaltenes Land, den Tag des Terrors und seine unabsehbaren Folgen. Am 7. Oktober 2023 überzog die Hamas Israel mit Terror, seither hält die Welt den Atem an – und überschlagen sich die Ereignisse. Ron Leshem zeichnet in seinem bewegenden Text jenen Tag und die Entwicklungen seither nach – und führt ein zutiefst gespaltenes Land vor Augen. Gerade der liberale, auf Verständigung bedachte Teil der Gesellschaft wurde getroffen.

一触即発、本音激論対談！　元明石市長・泉房穂×90歳ジャーナリスト田原総一朗「田原さん、そろそろ辞め時では？」

2040年には働き手が1100万人足りなくなる――　テレビ、新聞、ネットで大反響の衝撃の未来予測シミュレーション、待望の書籍化‼

マックス・ウェーバーとニクラス・ルーマン――科学技術と資本主義によって規定された産業社会の謎に挑んだふたりの社会学の巨人。

【ひろゆき氏も参戦！全く新しい哲学入門書！】「人生、親ガチャで決まる？」「勝ち組に入るのがすべて？」現代人の気になるテーマ、哲学者とディベートしたらどう答える！？

「強く願うだけでは夢は叶わない。なにひとつ攻略法を知らなければ、いつまでもレベル1のままだ」ーーベストセラー『言ってはいけない』シリーズの著者が提言する、新時代の人生戦略。

高齢者だけでなく若く元気な人でも事故で突然命を落とすことがあります。そんなとき、配偶者や子供が困らないように、50代60代から行っておくべき生前の整理と手続きがたくさんあります。

Arsuaga en su máximo esplendor. El primer libro sobre la evolución de la anatomía humana, y que une ciencia y arte. 4.ª edición. Más de 40.000 lectores. En el museo del Prado, un científico recorre con la vista la escultura del Diadúmeno de Policleto; en su anatomía puede leer una historia evolutiva de siete millones de años. En la sala contigua hay otra algo más tardía que muestra la figura desnuda de la Venus del delfín, el canon helenístico de la belleza femenina. El científico aprecia las diferencias entre ambos y se pregunta por su significado.

Zehn kurze Biografien berühmter Menschen werden präsentiert, das Wichtigste kurz und knapp auf den Punkt gebracht. Unterhaltung und Wissen in einem! Mit dabei: Platon, Marcus Aurelius, Sokrates, Aristoteles, Epikur, Epiktet, Pythagoras, Diogenes, Zenon, Chrysippos.

Over the past few years, Brianna Wiest has gained renown for her deeply moving, philosophical writing. This new compilation of her published work features pieces on why you should pursue purpose over passion, embrace negative thinking, see the wisdom in daily routine, and become aware of the cognitive biases that are creating the way you see your life. Some of these pieces have never been seen; others have been read by millions of people around the world. Regardless, each will leave you thinking: This idea changed my life.

Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this piercing work distills 3,000 years of the history of power into 48 well-explicated laws. This bold volume outlines the laws of power in their unvarnished essence, synthesizing the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun Tzu, Carl von Clausewitz, and other infamous strategists. The 48 Laws of Power will fascinate any listener interested in gaining, observing, or defending against ultimate control.

Human beings are primates, and primates are political animals. Our brains, therefore, are designed not just to hunt and gather but also to help us get ahead socially, often via deception and self-deception. But while we may be self-interested schemers, we benefit by pretending otherwise. The less we know about our own ugly motives, the better - and thus, we don't like to talk, or even think, about the extent of our selfishness. This is "the elephant in the brain".

The 13 chapters of The Art of War, each devoted to one aspect of warfare, were compiled by the high-ranking Chinese military general, strategist, and philosopher Sun-Tzu. In spite of its battlefield specificity, The Art of War has found new life in the modern age, with leaders in fields as wide and far-reaching as world politics, human psychology, and corporate strategy finding valuable insight in its timeworn words.

In My Gita, acclaimed mythologist Devdutt Pattanaik demystifies The Bhagavad Gita for the contemporary reader. His unique approach - thematic rather than verse by verse - makes the ancient treatise eminently accessible. In a world that seems spellbound by argument over dialogue, vi-vaad over sam-vaad, Devdutt highlights how Krishna nudges Arjuna to understand rather than judge his relationships.

This audiobook is about luck, or more precisely, how we perceive and deal with luck in life and business. It is already a landmark work, and its title has entered our vocabulary. In its second edition, Fooled by Randomness is now a cornerstone for anyone interested in random outcomes.

In Meri Gita, acclaimed mythologist Devdutt Pattanaik demystifies The Bhagavad Gita for the contemporary listener. His unique approach - thematic rather than verse-by-verse - makes the ancient treatise eminently accessible.In a world that seems spellbound by argument over dialogue, vi-vaad over sam-vaad, Devdutt highlights how Krishna nudges Arjuna to understand rather than judge his relationships. This becomes relevant today when we are increasingly indulging and isolating the self.

In this explosive book, best-selling author Shashi Tharoor reveals with acuity, impeccable research, and trademark wit, just how disastrous British rule was for India. Besides examining the many ways in which the colonizers exploited India, he demolishes the arguments of Western and Indian apologists for Empire on the supposed benefits of British rule.

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.

"All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind...” in the quest for understanding one’s own mind, body, and soul, and to attain liberation, each man seeks spirituality as per his own means and understanding. Yoga, with its origin dating back to ancient India, has always been considered a pathway of achieving moksha. This edition combines the four paths of yoga as expounded by Swami Vivekananda in the nineteenth century.

Language defines us as a species, placing humans head and shoulders above even the most proficient animal communicators. But it also beguiles us with its endless mysteries, allowing us to ponder why different languages emerged, why there isn't simply a single language, how languages change over time and whether that's good or bad, and how languages die out and become extinct.

“One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in bed he had been changed into a monstrous verminous bug.” With this startlingly bizarre sentence, Kafka begins his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis. It is the story of a young traveling salesman who, transformed overnight into a giant, beetle-like insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in his own home, a quintessentially alienated man. Rather than being surprised at the transformation, the members of his family despise it as an impending burden upon themselves.