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All About Love - New Visions

by bell hooks

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 A New York Times bestseller and enduring classic, All About Love is the acclaimed first volume in feminist icon bell hooks' "Love Song to the Nation" trilogy. All About Love reveals what causes a polarized society, and how to heal the divisions that cause suffering. Here is the truth about love, and inspiration to help us instill caring, compassion, and strength in our homes, schools, and workplaces. “The word ‘love’ is most often defined as a noun, yet we would all love better if we used it as a verb,” writes bell hooks as she comes out fighting and on fire in All About Love. Here, at her most provocative and intensely personal, renowned scholar, cultural critic and feminist bell hooks offers a proactive new ethic for a society bereft with lovelessness--not the lack of romance, but the lack of care, compassion, and unity. People are divided, she declares, by society’s failure to provide a model for learning to love. As bell hooks uses her incisive mind to explore the question “What is love?” her answers strike at both the mind and heart. Razing the cultural paradigm that the ideal love is infused with sex and desire, she provides a new path to love that is sacred, redemptive, and healing for individuals and for a nation. The Utne Reader declared bell hooks one of the “100 Visionaries Who Can Change Your Life.” All About Love is a powerful, timely affirmation of just how profoundly her revelations can change hearts and minds for the better.

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Digital Labour Platforms - Representing workers in Europe

by António B. Moniz, Bettina-Johanna Krings, Csaba Makó, Nuno Boavida e Pablo Sanz de Miguel

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 «Workers and organised labour are being challenged by the increasing expansion of digital labour platforms in most countries worldwide. Such digital platforms and their algorithms create controversial forms of work relationships and undermine traditional labor organisation, leading to extensive public and scientific debate. […] Through our empirical fieldwork and cross-country analysis, we hope to bring new insights and uncover new ground in this emerging field of study.» (From the Introduction)
Educação Sociedade & Culturas 59 - Tecnologias digitais e educação escolar em contexto de pandemia (Covid-19)

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 A pandemia Covid-19, e a consequente exigência de isolamento social, causou efeitos avassaladores em todo o mundo e em todas as áreas da sociedade. No campo da educação, de acordo com relatórios da UNESCO (2020), mais de 1,5 bilhões de estudantes foram afetados/as pelo encerramento de escolas e universidades. Foi a maior interrupção na história da educação escolar (Engzell et al., 2020) e o recurso às tecnologias digitais tornou-se essencial para enfrentar as emergências da pandemia. Contudo, este número também contribui para, em coletivo, podermos fazer o que Cynthia Selin (2008) considera ser a produção de conhecimento antecipatório, prestando atenção ao modo como socialmente lidamos com acontecimentos disruptivos e de incerteza, mas sobretudo como nos podemos tornar cada vez mais capazes de contruir de forma colaborativa cenários futuros. Será este, talvez, um dos grandes estímulos deste número, o de como nos responsabilizamos pelo futuro possível para as próximas gerações, influenciando também as próprias respostas sociotécnicas.
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Men Who Hate Women - From Incels To Pickup Artists, The Truth About Extreme Misogyny And How It Affects Us All

by Laura Bates

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 A ground-breaking investigation into extreme misogyny.

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How The World Really Works - A Scientistâ€™S Guide To Our Past, Present And Future

by Vaclav Smil

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 * THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * We have never had so much information at our fingertips and yet most of us don't know how the world really works. This book explains seven of the most fundamental realities governing our survival and prosperity. From energy and food production, through our material world and its globalization, to risks, our environment and its future, How the World Really Works offers a much-needed reality check - because before we can tackle problems effectively, we must understand the facts. In this ambitious and thought-provoking book we see, for example, that globalization isn't inevitable and that our societies have been steadily increasing their dependence on fossil fuels, making their complete and rapid elimination unlikely. Drawing on the latest science and tackling sources of misinformation head on - from Yuval Noah Harari to Noam Chomsky - ultimately Smil answers the most profound question of our age: are we irrevocably doomed or is a brighter utopia ahead?

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Inverting The Pyramid - The History Of Football Tactics

by Jonathan Wilson

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 The fifteenth anniversary edition, fully revised and updated, of Jonathan Wilson's modern classic.
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Why We'Re Polarized - A Barack Obama Summer Reading Pick 2022

by Ezra Klein

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 Polarisation is often invoked as proof that our societies are broken but what if it's really the system working as intended?
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The Divide - A Brief Guide To Global Inequality And Its Solutions

by Jason Hickel

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 Poor countries are poor because they are integrated into the global economic system on unequal terms, and aid only helps to hide this.
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Nice Girls Don'T Get The Corner Office - Unconscious Mistakes Women Make That Sabotage Their Careers

by Lois P., Phd Frankel

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 The New York Times bestseller, which has become a must-have for women in business, is now revised and updated in celebration of its 10th anniversary.

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The Suffragettes

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 Gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.

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The Anthropocene Reviewed - The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller

by John Green

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 A deeply moving and mind-expanding collection of personal essays in the first ever work of non-fiction from #1 internationally bestselling author John Green. The Anthropocene is the current geological age, in which human activity has profoundly shaped the planet and its biodiversity. In this remarkable symphony of essays adapted and expanded from his ground-breaking, critically acclaimed podcast, John Green reviews different facets of the human-centered planet - from the QWERTY keyboard and Halley's Comet to Penguins of Madagascar - on a five-star scale. Complex and rich with detail, the Anthropocene's reviews have been praised as 'observations that double as exercises in memoiristic empathy', with over 10 million lifetime downloads. John Green's gift for storytelling shines throughout this artfully curated collection about the shared human experience; it includes beloved essays along with six all-new pieces exclusive to the book.
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My Body

by Emily Ratajkowski

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 A deeply honest investigation of what it means to be a woman and a commodity from Emily Ratajkowski, the archetypal, multi-hyphenate celebrity of our time.
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Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How

by Ted Kaczynski

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 There are many people today who see that modern society is heading toward disaster in one form or another, and who moreover recognize technology as the common thread linking the principal dangers that hang over us… The purpose of this book is to show people how to begin thinking in practical, grand-strategic terms about what must be done in order to get our society off the road to destruction that it is now on.
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The Year Of Living Danishly - Uncovering The Secrets Of The Worldâ€™S Happiest Country

by Helen Russell

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 Denmark is officially the happiest nation on Earth, so when journalist Helen Russell finds herself spending a year in rural Jutland, she decides she'll do all she can to uncover the secrets of the Danes' happiness. But will the long, dark winters and pickled herring take their toll?
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Everyday Sexism

by Laura Bates

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 A manifesto for change; a ground breaking examination of sexism in modern day society.

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Woke, Inc. - A Sunday Times Business Book Of The Year

by Vivek Ramaswamy

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 A young entrepreneur makes the case that politics has no place in business, and sets out a new vision for the future of capitalism.
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All Of The Marvels - An Amazing Voyage Into Marvelâ€™S Universe And 27,000 Superhero Comics

by Douglas Wolk

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 A revelatory guide to the 'epic of epics' from a beloved authority, who has read all 27,000 Marvel comics.
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Millennial Love

by Olivia Petter

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 Have you ever been ghosted? Found yourself stalking your partner's ex for days on Instagram? Spent hours swiping right (or left) to no avail? Yep, us too. Finding love today is overwhelming. Thanks to apps, social media, and even reality TV, the way we date is constantly changing. But how is it possible that, despite having so much technology designed to aid connection, it feels harder to meet someone now than ever before? In Millennial Love, journalist Olivia Petter expertly investigates this question, providing a reassuring and relatable exploration of modern dating.
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The Chaos Machine - The Inside Story Of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds And Our World

by Max Fisher

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 Reveals how social media is hacking our minds, our societies and the world - and what we can do about it.

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Backlash - The Undeclared War Against Women

by Susan Faludi

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 What has made women unhappy in the last decade? Faludi writes 'is not their equality' - which they don't yet have - but the rising pressure to halt, even worse, women's quest for that equality.
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The Tipping Point - How Little Things Can Make A Big Difference

by Malcolm Gladwell

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 THE TIPPING POINT is the biography of an idea, and the idea is quite simple. It is that many of the problems we face – from crime to teenage delinquency to traffic jams – behave like epidemics. They aren't linear phenomena in the sense that they steadily and predictably change according to the level of effort brought to bear against them. They are capable of sudden and dramatic changes in direction. Years of well-intentioned intervention may have no impact at all, yet the right intervention – at just the right time – can start a cascade of change. Many of the social ills that face us today, in other words, are as inherently volatile as the epidemics that periodically sweep through the human population: little things can cause them to 'tip' at any time and if we want to understand how to confront and solve them we have to understand what those 'Tipping Points' are. In this revolutionary new study, Malcolm Gladwell explores the ramifications of this. Not simply for politicians and policy-makers, his method provides a new way of viewing everyday experience and enables us to develop strategies for everything from raising a child to running a company.
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The Devil You Know - Encounters In Forensic Psychiatry

by Eileen Horne e Gwen Adshead

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 A fascinating window into criminal minds, suffused with compassion.
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Novacene - The Coming Age Of Hyperintelligence

by James Lovelock

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 The creator of the Gaia hypothesis and the greatest environmental thinker of our time has produced an astounding new theory about the future of life on Earth. James Lovelock argues that the anthropocene - the age in which humans acquired planetary-scale technologies - is, after three centuries, coming to an end. A new age - the novacene - has already begun. New beings will emerge from existing artificial intelligence systems. They will think 10,000 times faster than we do and will regard us as we now regard plants. The cruel, violent machine takeover imagined by sci-fi writers will not happen: these hyper-intelligent beings will be as dependent on the health of the planet as we are. They will need the planetary cooling system of Gaia to defend from the increasing heat of the sun. Gaia depends on organic life. We will be partners in this project. It is crucial, Lovelock argues, that the intelligence of Earth survives and prospers. We are at present the only beings capable of understanding the cosmos, but he speculates that the novacene could be the beginning of a process that will see intelligence suffusing the entire cosmos. At the age 100, Lovelock has produced the most compelling work of his life.
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Stressilient - How To Beat Stress And Build Resilience

by Dr.ª Sam Akbar

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 A short, sharp guide to managing your mind.' THE SUNDAY TIMES STYLE 'If I could inject it, I would.' REFINERY29 'Brilliant' THE TELEGRAPH Manage your mind. Handle your emotions. Concentrate on what matters in life. So many of us feel stressed in our daily lives but lack the ability to respond to life's hurdles effectively and overcome these challenges. We can build resilience to stress by taking action to live our lives in a more meaningful way. The answer is to become stressilient. Dr Sam Akbar will show you how. As a clinical psychologist with over ten years of experience, Dr Sam draws from her own professional expertise to provide sensitive and realistic guidance to feel calmer, less stressed, and more resilient to life's challenges. From understanding how your brain works, managing your emotions and challenging your thought-processes, to opening up your perspective and having more self-compassion, Stressilient offers an indispensable, easy and effective go-to guide to help you get from surviving to thriving.

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