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Un viaggio eccezionale nell'Italia degli anni ottanta, attraverso i luoghi e le esperienze degli operai della Fiat. Un reportage che va oltre l'universo metallico delle grandi fabbriche automobilistiche, qui descritte in "presa diretta", per raccontare la vita nei casermoni di periferia, le metamorfosi avvenute nei paesini meridionali degli emigranti, gli operai divisi tra robot e lavoro contadino, le patetiche gite aziendali in cui si ricerca la socialità un tempo vissuta nel sindacato.

Brought to you by Penguin. The spellbinding new book by the prizewinning writer Kapka Kassabova tells the story of her time with the last moving pastoralists in Europe: a gripping portrayal of human-animal interdependence, and a plea for a different way of living. Living with one of these...

A heady blend of international intrigue, social theory, botanical lore, and ecological study, The Cactus Hunters offers complex insight into species extinction, conservation, and more-than-human care.

We think we know Betty and Veronica, but we don’t. Far more than just Archie’s girlfriends, the girls have grown beyond simple archetypes to become compelling, relevant characters for each new generation over the past eighty years.

In 1994, Rwanda was the scene of the first acts since World War II to be legally defined as genocide. Two years later, Clea Koff, a twenty-three-year-old forensic anthropologist, left the safe confines of a lab in Berkeley, California, to serve as one of sixteen scientists chosen by the United Nations to unearth the physical evidence of the Rwandan genocide. Over the next four years, Koff’s grueling investigations took her across geography synonymous with some of the worst crimes of the twentieth century.

From the author of the best-selling Feminist City, this urbanite’s guide to gentrification knocks down the myths and exposes the forces behind the most urgent housing crisis of our time.

Everything All at Once is an exciting, inspiring call to unleash the power of the nerd mindset that exists within us all. Nye believes we'll never be able to tackle our society's biggest, most complex problems if we don't even know how to solve the small ones. Step by step, he shows his listeners the key tools behind his everything-all-at-once approach: radical curiosity, a deep desire for a better future, and a willingness to take the actions needed to make it a reality.

Two million years ago, Africa: A skinny, long-limbed creature who walks on two legs, can’t sprint, and has no weapons turns away from his under-nourished friends, and runs down a much stronger antelope. Dinner. Over succeeding generations, this creature evolves into one of the best distance runners on the planet: the human being. Yet in the age of modernity, we find ourselves unable to run without more than half of us suffering injury. This book looks at the injury epidemic in running and what the barefoot running movement believes are the causes of injury.

Inequality, social immobility, and political polarization are only a few crucial phenomena driven by the inevitability of social structures. Social structures determine who has power and influence, account for why people fail to assimilate basic facts, and enlarge our understanding of patterns of contagion - from the spread of disease to financial crises. Despite their primary role in shaping our lives, human networks are often overlooked when we try to account for our most important political and economic practices.

Join Biologist Ashley Ward as he takes listeners into the intimate worlds of social animals. Journeying from Aysgarth Falls to the Great Barrier Reef, it becomes clear that animals are not so far removed from us as we might imagine. In a time where humans are struggling to navigate cityscapes, isolation and a loneliness epidemic, Ward shows us that studying the social behaviour of animals offers insights valuable in their own right as well as a window into the evolutionary basis of our own species.

When Donald Johanson found a partial skeleton, approximately 3.5 million years old, in a remote region of Ethiopia in 1974, a headline-making controversy was launched that continues today. Bursting with all the suspense and intrigue of a fast-paced adventure novel, here is Johanson’s lively account of the extraordinary discovery of “Lucy.” By expounding the controversial change Lucy makes in our view of human origins, Johanson provides a vivid, behind-the-scenes account of the history of paleoanthropology and the colorful, eccentric characters who were, and are, a part of it.

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of The Descent of Man by Grayson Perry, read by Jonny Phillips. 'GRAYSON PERRY FOR KING AND QUEEN OF ENGLAND. Imagine how BRILLIANT our country would look if he was.' Caitlin Moran Grayson Perry has been thinking about masculinity...

Writer John Howard Griffin (1920-1980) decided to perform an experiment in order to learn from the inside out how one race could withstand the second class citizenship imposed on it by another race. Through medication, he dyed his skin dark and left his family and home in Texas to find out.

Now a global best seller, the remarkable life of Rigoberta Menchú, a Guatemalan peasant woman, reflects on the experiences common to many Indian communities in Latin America. Menchú suffered gross injustice and hardship in her early life: her brother, father, and mother were murdered by the Guatemalan military. She learned Spanish and turned to catechistic work as an expression of political revolt, as well as religious commitment. Menchú vividly conveys the traditional beliefs of her community and her personal response to feminist and socialist ideas. 

Zmień codzienny pośpiech i frustrację w naturalną współpracę, ucząc się sprawdzonych metod wychowania bez presji. Kiedy przytłaczają cię obowiązki, a ciągłe przypominanie o sprzątaniu zawodzi, ten ciepły poradnik daje realne wsparcie. To kojąca podróż od wyczerpujących...

从远古化石中的基因密码到人工智能驱动的未来重塑，这场震撼人心的人类起源科普之旅将彻底颠覆你对自身存在的认知。漫长的自然选择并非以我们为终极目标，每一次直立行走与大脑扩张的背后，都是早期祖先在残酷史前...

Reis door oeroude mythologie en epische sagen die de menselijke geschiedenis blijvend vormgaven. Deze sfeervolle en meeslepende vertellingen bieden de perfecte ontsnapping voor tijdens je dagelijkse woon-werkverkeer of een rustige avond. Ontdek hoe universele legendes over dappere helden, sluwe...

استمع إلى لغز أقدم معبد أثري في فجر الحضارة الإنسانية، في رحلة صوتية آسرة تعيد صياغة تاريخ البشرية. سواء كنت تتنقل في زحام مدينتك أو تسترخي في مساء هادئ، فإن هذا...

那些静默陈列在玻璃柜中的历史文物，不仅仅是时光的标本，更是地缘权力博弈、殖民扩张与文化霸权激烈角逐的最终战利品。无论你是在拥挤的晨间通勤列车上，还是正计划一场周末的文化探访，这段沉浸式的人文历史之旅...

انطلق في رحلة تطورية ملحمية عبر مليوني عام من البقاء القاسي، حيث صاغ أسلافنا الأوائل تاريخنا البيولوجي. يغوص هذا السرد التاريخي المذهل في أعماق السافانا...