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When Ryan Dennis’s father was crushed by heavy machinery on their New York dairy farm, both men accepted the accident as a risk of agricultural life. But it was harder to comprehend being crushed by low milk prices, big banks, and the policies that destroyed America’s family farms.

Esta es la historia de una España que pudo haber sido y no fue. ¿La razón? La indecisión de quien tuvo que autorizar que contase con su propia fuerza de disuasión nuclear, con lo que se hubiera ganado el respeto de todos y el temor de algunos, pero sobre todo que hubiera propiciado ulteriores logros científicos y tecnológicos. Y todo ello sucedió cuando ya se había concluido el proyecto y desarrollado algunos de los componentes de una bomba atómica de plutonio.

Called “the best kind of nonfiction” by Michael Connelly, this riveting new book combines true crime, brain science, and courtroom drama. In 1991, the police were called to East 72nd St. in Manhattan, where a woman's body had fallen from a twelfth-story window. The woman’s husband, Herbert...

The complete text of the landmark encyclical letter from Pope Francis that, as Time magazine reported, “rocked the international community” In the Encyclical on Climate Change and Inequality, the beloved Pope exhorts the world to combat environmental degradation and its impact on the poor...

In an illuminating analysis, Dr. Genevieve Guenther shows that the climate debate is not, in fact, neatly polarized, with Republicans obstructing climate action and Democrats advancing climate solutions. Partisans on the right and the left often repeat the same fossil-fuel talking points, and this repetition produces a centrist consensus upholding the status quo, even as global heating accelerates. Weaving this analysis through fascinating critical histories of the terms that dominate the language of climate politics Dr. Guenther shows how this consensus is established.

Americans in the twenty-first century are becoming increasingly untethered from both reality and the essential principles and traditions that have shaped the nation’s historic success. A big part of why America isn’t working is because far too many Americans neither know nor care how it’s supposed to work.

When two Stanford graduate students set out to create a new kind of cigarette that wouldn’t kill them, they didn’t foresee all the obstacles that lay ahead — or the powerful forces their invention would unleash. Nearly 10 years after the launch of the JUUL, Backfired: The Vaping Wars asks: Could e-cigarettes have been the solution to one of the world’s most pressing public health problems—or was this technology doomed to introduce a whole new generation to nicotine, and end up perpetuating an intractable addiction?

In this important book, an eminent authority presents a new perspective on affirmative action, investigating its actual consequences in the United States and in other countries where it has been in effect. Evaluating his empirical data, Thomas Sowell concludes that race preference programs worldwide have not met expectations and have often produced the opposite of what was originally intended.

The environmental crisis under way is unique in human history. It is a true existential crisis. Those alive today will decide the fate of humanity. Meanwhile, the leaders of the most powerful state in human history are dedicating themselves with passion to destroying the prospects for organized human life. At the same time, there is a solution at hand, which is the Green New Deal.

"The National System of Political Economy" by Friedrich List, first published in 1841, is a seminal work that advocates for economic nationalism and the strategic use of protectionist policies to foster a country's economic development. List argues against the prevailing doctrine of free trade and presents a comprehensive framework for promoting domestic industry and infrastructure. His ideas have had a lasting impact on the development of industrial policy and international trade theory. The book remains a significant contribution to the understanding of economic development.

Your job. Your health. Your family. All targeted by a radical plan YOU don't even know about. Project 2025 is a blueprint for a future that's not yours. It threatens your right to choose, your financial security, and the very fabric of American life.

Drawing on his twenty years as a teacher, hundreds of interviews and his experience on the UK Government's Social Mobility Commission, Sammy Wright shows that schools are - and should be - so much more than this. Filled with funny, tender encounters and an unflinching focus on the profound challenges of daily life for both teachers and pupils, his book argues that we need urgently to think of school differently: as something more like a home than a factory, a community hub rather than a boot-camp or testing ground.

Was wäre, wenn Künstliche Intelligenz nicht nur ein technisches Werkzeug, sondern ein echter Partner in unserem Leben sein könnte, der uns inspiriert, unterstützt und den Alltag erleichtert? KI-Experte Bilal Zafar zeigt praxisnah und leicht verständlich, wie KI zu einem echten Alltagshelfer wird. Ob im Beruf, in der Medizin, in Beziehungen oder der Politik – KI eröffnet ungeahnte Möglichkeiten, Routinen zu vereinfachen, Prozesse zu optimieren und uns mehr Zeit für die wirklich wichtigen Dinge im Leben zu verschaffen.

The world may have committed at Paris to hold back dangerous climate change, but Australia's fossil-fuel giant Woodside is doubling down: it has bold new plans to keep producing gas out to 2070. Support from the major parties is locked in, so something has to give. This is a story of power and influence, pollution and protest. How does one company capture a country? How convincing is Woodside's argument that gas is a necessary transition fuel, as the world decarbonises? And what is the new "energy realism" narrative being pushed by Trump's White House?

Essa pergunta intriga pais e pedagogos do mundo inteiro, e a resposta mais comum tende a ser que o potencial de sucesso de uma criança varia de acordo com sua inteligência. Mas, nas últimas décadas, pesquisadores vêm constatando que notas altas e testes de QI não são indicadores de uma educação de qualidade — e muito menos uma garantia de sucesso na vida. O jornalista Paul Tough coloca em debate o atual paradigma da educação e questiona o valor dado à ideia de que uma criança bem-sucedida é aquela capaz de memorizar todo o conteúdo transmitido na sala de aula.

Fact Forward: The Perils of Bad Information and the Promise of a Data-Savvy Society explores how a growing deluge of data has led to a data-rich world with abundant new opportunities and a precipitous decline in trust due to the problems we face in producing, communicating, and consuming data.

Auf eine Welt voller Ungerechtigkeit mit einer zynischen Haltung zu reagieren, ist verständlich. In Wirklichkeit hilft sie aber nicht weiter, sie verschlimmert vielmehr die bestehenden Probleme, sei es mit uns selbst, in unseren Beziehungen oder Gesellschaften: Der Stanforder Psychologe Dr. Jamil Zaki untersucht die Geschichte, Ursachen und Folgen von Zynismus und vermittelt einen Weg, wie wir ihm entgegentreten können.

Susanne Krammer ist jahrelang selbst in diese Falle getappt. Als Mode- und Beautyjournalistin hat sie diese Ideale selbst befeuert, und der Wunsch, noch »perfekter« auszusehen, hätte sie fast das Leben gekostet, als eine völlig unnötige Beauty-OP schiefging und sie nach einer schweren Sepsis nur durch eine Notoperation gerettet werden konnte. In ihrem Hörbuch widmet sie sich der Frage, wie es dazu kommen konnte – und warum fast alle Frauen trotz Feminismus und Aktivismus noch nicht weiter zu sein scheinen und es uns einfach nicht gelingt, uns so anzunehmen, wie wir sind: schön.

But what prompts their involvement in international affairs, and what are some of the impacts of their efforts? Can Scientists Succeed Where Politicians Fail? recounts Nobel laureate Dr. Peter Agre's career as a physician-scientist who went from studying malaria and other diseases to meeting with Fidel Castro in Cuba, discoursing with North Korean officials, and traveling into the Islamic Republic of Iran.

This illuminating book offers an extensive, expert analysis of a school system that bears the legacy, hallmarks, and consequences that lie at the intersection of race and education. Urban education scholar Camika Royal deftly analyzes decades of efforts aimed at improving school performance within the School District of Philadelphia (SDP), in a brisk survey spanning every SDP superintendency from the 1960s through 2017.