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Would our lives, relationships and careers be better if we just STFU for a while? We live in a world that doesn’t just encourage overtalking, but practically demands it. When success is measured by how much attention we can attract, how long we can hold on to the mic, it’s no wonder that we...

Mit feiner Beobachtungsgabe, sprachlicher Präzision und einem unverwechselbaren Stil verbindet er Philosophie, Literatur und Kulturkritik zu dichten, oft fragmentarischen Texten. Mit Berliner Kindheit um 1900 entwirft Benjamin ein poetisches Erinnerungsbuch. In kurzen Prosastücken beschwört er seine Kindheit in Berlin – nicht als lineare Erzählung, sondern als Folge von Momenten, Bildern und Atmosphären. Erinnerung wird hier zu einem Raum, in dem Vergangenheit und Gegenwart ineinander übergehen. Die Denkbilder schließlich versammeln eine Vielzahl kurzer, oft aphoristischer Texte.

Bloomsbury presents The Ultimates by Ted Adams, read by Mack Sanderson. Explore the Stories Behind the Legends The 1990s and early 2000s were a time of intense change and experimentation for Marvel Comics. Out of this emerged The Ultimates—a comic that would have an explosive impact on Marvel...

अपने वक़्त में दुनिया का सबसे बड़ा और सुविधाओं से लैस माना जाने वाला टाइटैनिक अपनी पहली ही यात्रा के दौरान एक आइस...

Soziale Medien bergen Gefahren für Kinder und Jugendliche, die weit über Mediensucht hinausgehen. Sie wirken vielmehr tief hinein in das soziale Verhalten und die politische Identität Heranwachsender – und beeinflussen, wie sie diese Beziehungen pflegen und ihre Persönlichkeit entwickeln. Nina Kolleck bringt die sozialen und politischen Abgründe von Social Media auf den Punkt.

Professeure de chant de la Star Academy, Adeline Toniutti est LA révélation, sur TF1, de l'émission culte. Chaque semaine, sa flamboyance, son énergie, son expertise ont touché des millions de téléspectateurs. Derrière les feux des projecteurs, celle qu'on surnomme la « fille du facteur » ou la « soprano rock'n'roll » a réalisé un véritable parcours du combattant pour traverser les épreuves que la vie lui a infligées et pour retrouver le bonheur.

La desinformación en salud no nació con la pandemia, pero sí encontró en las plataformas digitales el ecosistema perfecto para echar raíces. En este audiolibro, Jessica Lakshmi, Lakishimishi, se adentra en el terreno donde la salud se cruza con el miedo, el mercado y la tecnología para seguirle la pista a un fenómeno que ya no vive solo en teorías extravagantes, sino también en cadenas de WhatsApp, videos de 90 segundos, cuentas de influencers y redes cimentadas en la desconfianza.

From Whitewash, the first critical book on the Warren Report, through numerous Freedom of Information (FOIA) lawsuits, to Never Again!, his last published work, Harold Weisberg worked tirelessly to lift the veil of secrecy and deceit from the investigation of the assassination of President Kennedy. Based on the government’s own evidence, he demonstrated beyond question that the accused assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, did not kill President Kennedy. In his final years, Weisberg focused on making a record for history, producing over two dozen unpublished manuscripts on the subject.

We are never really taught how to make sense of the torrent of news we face every day, writes Alain de Botton (author of the best-selling The Architecture of Happiness), but this has a huge impact on our sense of what matters and of how we should lead our lives. In his dazzling new book, de Botton takes twenty-five archetypal news stories - including an airplane crash, a murder, a celebrity interview and a political scandal - and submits them to unusually intense analysis with a view to helping us navigate our news-soaked age.

In Indie Porn, Zahra Stardust examines the motivations and interventions of independent porn producers as they navigate criminal laws, risk-averse platforms, discriminatory algorithms, and rampant piracy. Herself a porn performer and participant, Stardust takes listeners behind the scenes, offering intimate insights into this sociopolitical movement. She finds politicians who watch porn in parliament, protesters leading face-sitting demonstrations, sex workers making COVID-safe pornography, and artists reverse-engineering porn detection software.

How did the newspaper, music, and film industries go from raking in big bucks to scooping up digital dimes? Their customers were lured away by the free ride of technology. Now, business journalist Robert Levine shows how they can get back on track. On the Internet, “information wants to be...

Brought to you by Penguin. The new book from the Orwell Prize-Winning author of Poverty Safari and The Social Distance Between Us Today, trauma permeates media, from music and television to films and books – my own included. While the increasing openness is welcome, I’ve observed that this...

From the moment there was an “online,” there was sex online. The famous test image used by software engineers to develop formats like the jpeg was “Lena,” taken from Playboy’s November 1972 centerfold. Early bulletin boards and multi-user domains quickly came to serve their members...

From the authors of Quackery, a visual and narrative history of popular ideas, phenomena, and widely held beliefs disproven by science. From the easily disproved to the wildly speculative, to straight-up hucksterism, Pseudoscience is a romp through much more than bad science—it’s a...

Working with thousands of previously unreleased documents and drawing on more than one thousand interviews, with many witnesses speaking out for the first time, Joan Mellen revisits the investigation of New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison, the only public official to have indicted, in 1969, a suspect in President John F. Kennedy's murder. Garrison began by exposing the contradictions in the Warren Report, which concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald was an unstable pro-Castro Marxist who acted alone in killing Kennedy.

“Engrossing and suspenseful." —The New York Times “Expertly pulls readers in.” —The Guardian “Smith sharply chronicles the revolutionary moment.” — Financial Times The origin story of the post-truth age: the candid inside tale of two online media rivals, Nick Denton of Gawker...

Virus of the Mind is the first popular work devoted to the science of memetics, a controversial new field that transcends psychology, biology, anthropology, and cognitive science. Memetics is the science of memes, the invisible but very real DNA of human society. Here, the author carefully...

A remarkable analysis linking the assassination of JFK and 9/11, and how both events were used to influence war policy. Peter Dale Scott examines the many ways in which war policy has been driven by “accidents” and other events in the field, in some cases despite moves toward peace that were directed by presidents. This book explores the “deep politics” that exerts a profound but too-little-understood effect on national policy outside the control of traditional democratic processes.

In YouTubers: How YouTube Shook Up TV and Created a New Generation of Stars, author Chris Stokel-Walker delves into the world of YouTube influencers and the impact they have had on entertainment and media. Focusing on the rise of YouTubers as a new breed of celebrities, Stokel-Walker explores the evolution of the platform from a simple video-sharing site to a powerhouse of influence and creativity.

Bestselling author Jim Marrs steps once again to the cutting-edge of research into conspiracies and hidden truths. In Our Occulted History, Marrs goes beyond the revelations of his classic Alien Agenda and illustrates how human civilization may have originated with non-humans who visited earth...