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Drug Lord, a firsthand account of drug dealing, murder, and corruption, tells of drug kingpin Pablo Acosta, who smuggled up to 20 tons of cocaine each year into the United States before treachery brought about his downfall and grisly death.

Os quilombos são muito mais do que histórias de resistência do passado; eles são a alma viva de uma luta por justiça que atravessa séculos e reverbera nos dias de hoje. Atualmente, segundo o Censo do IBGE de 2022, o Brasil abriga cerca de 7.666 comunidades quilombolas – e, com elas, um movimento que sustenta séculos de luta. Quilombolas estão na linha de frente em pautas essenciais como as mudanças climáticas, a educação e a justiça social, transformando diálogos sobre igualdade e antirracismo no país e no cenário internacional.

Dopo una inchiesta durata circa 23 mesi, si sono chiuse, con la notifica dell’atto relativo a quanto previsto dall’articolo 415bis del Codice di Procedura Penale, le indagini a carico di tre attiviste, Carlotta Vagnoli, Valeria Fonte e Benedetta Sabene, definite dalla testata on line “Open” “influencer e attiviste impegnate su temi come il femminismo e i diritti della persona”.

Everything, well, almost everything, you know about American history is wrong because most textbooks and popular history books are written by left-wing academic historians who treat their biases as fact. But fear not; Professor Thomas Woods refutes the popular myths in The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History.

A história do Brasil contada ano a ano – porque o passado está sempre presente. A violência profunda é uma antiga realidade que representa o país mais que farofa, futebol e samba. Na primeira temporada do Não é de Hoje, a gente escolhe 10 anos decisivos da história brasileira e fala de polarização, conflitos e disputas, para quebrar com a ideia de que tudo sempre foi pacífico por aqui.

Recent years have seen the introduction of concepts from the new and exciting field of complexity science that have captivated the attention of economists, sociologists, engineers, businesspeople, and many others. These include tipping points, the wisdom of crowds, six degrees of separation (or Kevin Bacon), and emergence. Complexity science can shed light on why businesses or economies succeed and fail, how epidemics spread and can be stopped, and what causes ecological systems to rebalance themselves after a disaster.

Philosophical Investigations was published in 1953, two years after the death of its author. In the preface written in Cambridge in 1945 where he was professor of philosophy he states: ‘Four years ago I had occasion to re-read my first book (the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus) and to explain its ideas to someone. It suddenly seemed to me that I should publish those old thoughts and the new ones together: that the latter could be seen in the right light only by contrast with and against the background of my old way of thinking.’

The top 1 percent of Americans control 40 percent of the nation's wealth. And, as Joseph E. Stiglitz explains, while those at the top enjoy the best health care, education, and benefits of wealth, they fail to realize that "their fate is bound up with how the other 99 percent live." Stiglitz draws on his deep understanding of economics to show that growing inequality is not inevitable. He examines our current state, then teases out its implications for democracy, for monetary and budgetary policy, and for globalization. He closes with a plan for a more just and prosperous future.

At a time when many people around the world are living into their 10th decade, the longest longitudinal study of human development ever undertaken offers some welcome news for the new old age: Our lives continue to evolve in our later years and often become more fulfilling than before. Begun in 1938, the Grant Study of Adult Development charted the physical and emotional health of over 200 men, starting with their undergraduate days. The now-classic Adaptation to Life reported on the men's lives up to age 55 and helped us understand adult maturation.

For some people, high school is life's best years. For others, those four years are, well, happily forever in the past. But at any rate, once high school is over, you can't go back—at least, not as a student.

Joseph E. Stiglitz has had a remarkable career. What brought him to economics were his concerns about the inequality and discrimination he saw growing up. Wanting to understand what drives it and what can be done about it has been his lifelong passion. This book gathers together and extends to new frontiers this lifelong work, drawing upon the challenges and insights of each of these phases of his career.

Joseph Campbell famously compared mythology to a kangaroo pouch for the human mind and spirit: “a womb with a view.” In Myths to Live By, he examines all of the ways in which myth supports and guides us, giving our lives meaning. Love and war, science and religion, East and West, inner space and outer space - Campbell shows how the myths we live by can reconcile all of these pairs of opposites and bring a sense of the whole.

How did humans, a species of self-centered apes, come to care about others? Since Darwin, scientists have tried to answer this question using evolutionary theory. In The Kindness of Strangers, psychologist Michael E. McCullough shows why they have failed and offers a new explanation instead. From the moment nomadic humans first settled down until the aftermath of the Second World War, our species has confronted repeated crises that we could only survive by changing our behavior.

Increasingly, political parties have adopted not only different policies, but different sets of facts. As E. J. Fagan argues, partisan think tanks have helped create these alternate realities in their capacity as de facto formal party organizations. Through the analyses generated by aligned think tanks, political elites on both the left and right frequently offer radically different assessments of a policy's consequences.

We have released the genie from the bottle: climate change is coming, and there's no stopping it. The question, according to Matthew Kahn, is not how were going to avoid a hotter future but how were going to adapt to it. In Climatopolis, Kahn, one of the worlds foremost experts on the economics of the environment, argues that cities and regions will adapt to rising temperatures over time, slowly transforming our everyday lives.

Thoughtful Cinema explores how films raise and suggest answers to philosophical questions through an in-depth analysis of how seven films engage with various philosophical traditions, ranging from the nineteenth-century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche to the twentieth and twenty-first century American philosopher Judith Jarvis Thomson.

Shortlisted for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year award A renowned climate scientist shows how fossil fuel companies have waged a thirty-year campaign to deflect blame and responsibility and delay action on climate change, and offers a battle plan for how we can save the planet. Recycle...

È il maggio del 2012. Un uomo è solo in una stanza e sta scrivendo a una scrivania. Quella, però, non è una normale scrivania è un tavolo imbullonato al muro bianco. Quella stanza è la cella di una prigione. E quell'uomo non è come gli altri. Otto mesi prima ha colpito a Oslo e sull'isola di Utøya. Ha ucciso settantasette persone in nome di una sola fede: il nazismo. L'uomo verga veloce le ultime righe di una lettera. «Siamo le prime gocce della tempesta purificatrice che sta per abbattersi sull'Europa» scrive Anders Behring Breivik.

Crisi climatica e negazionismo; siccità e alluvioni; transizione ecologica e greenwashing; sviluppo e decrescita; spopolamento e ripopolamento delle aree interne e montane. Temi, questioni, fenomeni, diversi tra loro - talvolta contraddittori - eppure interconnessi da una linea, tanto sottile da sembrare invisibile. Da qui la necessità di trovare un modo nuovo di parlare di problemi nuovi, di dare spazio a forme di interpretazione del mondo più elastiche, complesse e complessive.Reticoli è un podcast pensato per avvicinare il pubblico al mondo dell’ecologia politica: una disciplina, o ...

Podcast assíncrono da Escola Brasileira de Atuação nos Tribunais Superiores com foco nas mais altas Cortes do país.