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The definitive translation of Plato's Republic, the most influential text in the history of Western philosophy. “To read The Republic as Bloom means it to be read is to question everything we think we know about government, politics, the best human life, and the nature of truth.” —Adam...

ఎవరు చదివినా చదవకపోయినా కాలం నిజాయితీగా తన చరిత్రను తాను రాసుకుంటూనే ఉంటుంది. అక్కడక్కడ కొన్ని సంఘటనలను...

The essential account of geopolitics right now, from one of our greatest living intellectuals - including a new afterword on President Donald Trump Noam Chomsky: philosopher, political writer, fearless activist. No one has done more to question the hidden actors who govern our lives, calling the...

పతంజలిగా ప్రసిద్ధుడైన కాకర్లపూడి నారసింహ యోగ పతంజలి పుట్టడం, పెరగడం, చదవడం, పాత్రికేయ వృత్తిలో కాలూనడం...

We live in the age of the algorithm. Increasingly, the decisions that affect our lives—where we go to school, whether we get a loan, how much we pay for insurance—are being made not by humans, but by mathematical models. In theory, this should lead to greater fairness: everyone is judged according to the same rules and bias is eliminated. And yet, as Cathy O'Neil reveals in this urgent and necessary book, the opposite is true. The models being used today are opaque, unregulated and incontestable, even when they're wrong. Most troubling, they reinforce discrimination. 

Penguin presents the audiobook edition Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World written and read by Anand Giridharadas. *The New York Times bestseller* 'Entertaining and gripping . . . For those at the helm, the philanthropic plutocrats and aspiring "change agents" who believe...

India’s Five-Year Plans were one of the developing world’s most ambitious experiments. After nearly two centuries of colonial rule, planning the economy was meant to be independent India’s route from poverty to prosperity. Planning Democracy explores how India married liberal democracy to...

Brought to you by Penguin. 'I asked him how much it would take for him to sell FTX and go do something other than make money. He thought the question over. "One hundred and fifty billion dollars," he finally said-though he added that he had use for "infinity dollars"...' Sam Bankman-Fried wasn't...

Random House presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, written and read by Timothy Snyder. History does not repeat, but it does instruct. In the twentieth century, European democracies collapsed into fascism, Nazism and...

Brought to you by Penguin. WINNER of the Nobel Peace Prize 2021 and the UNESCO Press Freedom Award 2021 What will you sacrifice for the truth? Maria Ressa has spent decades speaking truth to power. But her work tracking disinformation networks seeded by her own government, spreading lies to its...

The principles of the French Revolution remain the only possible basis for a just society - even if, after more than 200 years, they are more contested than ever before. In A New World Begins, Jeremy D. Popkin offers a riveting account of the revolution that puts the listener in the thick of the debates and the violence that led to the overthrow of the monarchy and the establishment of a new society. 

Domina el análisis político y descifra por qué la revuelta populista amenaza constantemente a las democracias modernas. Ya sea que escuches las noticias rumbo al trabajo o busques claridad intelectual lejos del ruido partidista, esta guía objetiva transforma la confusión en conocimiento...

血と暴力、そして激しい階級闘争が渦巻く古代ギリシャの小さな都市国家はいかにして民主主義という奇跡を生み出したのか。完成された理想郷ではなく、泥臭い試行錯誤の末に勝ち取られた自治の真の姿がここにありま...

国家による極限の人種隔離政策といかにして決別し、血塗られた分断から歴史的転換を経て民主主義を勝ち取ったのか、その痛ましくも力強い軌跡を体感する社会派ノンフィクション。毎日の通勤時間や知的好奇心を満た...

古代の神々への畏れは、いかにして現代へと続く民主主義という熱狂的で残酷なシステムを生み出したのか。三千年に及ぶ地中海世界の興亡を辿り、私たちが無意識に信じる社会の前提を根本から揺さぶる、壮大な歴史と...

La opresión brutal del apartheid y la intensa lucha por la democracia forjaron un legado de resistencia histórica. Para quienes buscan comprender la política global y reflexionar sobre la justicia social, este relato inmersivo desentraña las complejas raíces del racismo institucionalizado y...

日常の意思決定から国家の政治制度まで、私たちが当たり前と信じる「民主主義」という思想がいかに壊れやすく急進的であるかを浮き彫りにし、社会への眼差しを根本から揺さぶります。通勤電車に揺られながらニュー...

Descifra la democracia indígena que desafió al colonialismo y mantuvo unida a una poderosa alianza durante siglos. Si buscas nutrir tu curiosidad con una perspectiva histórica reveladora durante tus trayectos, este viaje sonoro transformará tu visión sobre las estructuras de poder. El...

La democracia en la antigua Grecia nació de feroces tensiones sociales y arriesgados experimentos políticos. Ideal para acompañar tu trayecto diario con un aprendizaje profundo, este relato histórico te sumerge en una urbe al borde de la guerra civil. Aquí, el espectro de la tiranía y la...

Dalla prigionia alla libertà: una biografia storica che svela la lotta all'apartheid e la vera leadership. Ideale per chi cerca profonda ispirazione durante gli spostamenti quotidiani, questo racconto offre uno sguardo realista sulle tensioni di una società segregata. Segui il percorso di un...