Titoli in Scienze sociali

What's the best podcast about Netflix's Orange is the New Black? Of course it's the Orange Is the New Black Podcast hosted by Martha Southgate & Rob Southgate. If you're an OITNB fan, this is the podcast you've been looking for.

Until very recently, scientists believed our brains were fully developed in childhood. Now, thanks to imaging technology we know that the brain goes on developing and changing right through adolescence into adulthood. So, what makes the adolescent brain different? Why does an easy child become a...

“One of those life-changing reads that makes you see—or, in this case, hear—the whole world differently.” —Megan Angelo, author of Followers “At times chilling, often funny, and always perceptive and cogent, Cultish is a bracing reminder that the scariest thing about cults is that...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A former Wall Street quant sounds the alarm on Big Data and the mathematical models that threaten to rip apart our social fabric—with a new afterword “A manual for the twenty-first-century citizen . . . relevant and urgent.”—Financial Times NATIONAL BOOK...

Misha Glenny's groundbreaking study of global organized crime is now the inspiration for an 8-part AMC crime drama starring James Norton (War and Peace), Juliet Rylance, and David Strathairn. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the deregulation of...

The legendary bestseller that encouraged millions of readers to look at the hidden side of everything | Read by author Stephen J. Dubner! Which is more dangerous: a gun or a swimming pool? Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? What do real estate agents and the KKK have in common?...

Ever notice that all watch ads show 10:10 as the time? Or that all fast-food restaurants use red or yellow in their logos? Or that certain stores are always having a sale? You may not be aware of these details, yet they’ve been influencing you all along. Every time you purchase, swipe, or click, marketers are able to more accurately predict your behavior. These days, brands know more about you than you know about yourself. Blindsight is here to change that. 

Now available as an unabridged recording for the first time NATIONAL BESTSELLER Discover the game-changing theory of the cycles of history and what past generations can teach us about living through times of upheaval—with deep insights into the roles that Boomers, Generation X, and...

Viaggio in Italia è un omaggio alla nostra terra. Insieme viaggeremo tra la nostre meravigliose città grazie agli scritti di importanti autori, a poesie a canzoni, brevi racconti o articoli di giornale. Il titolo è un omaggio a due importanti "viaggi in italia" quello di Goethe nei primi dell'ottocento e quello di Piovene a metà degli anni cinquanta. Ma non mancano citazioni di autori contemporanei, cantanti e poeti. Pronti? Iniziamo da Bologna!

Friederike und Sarina lesen viel, schauen Filme und Serien und führen dann ausgiebige Diskussionen. Das soll jetzt auch ins Internet rein. Jede Folge hat ein übergeordnetes Thema, mit dem die Kunstwerke, über die die beiden sprechen zu tun haben. 

Kara King's controversial dating and relationship advice book, The Power of the P*ssy shares twelve powerful secrets that will transform any woman into the type of strong, desirable woman who can effortlessly obtain what she wants from men—including the love, respect, and relationship she desires.

"SmartLess" with Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes, & Will Arnett is a podcast that connects and unites people from all walks of life to learn about shared experiences through thoughtful dialogue and organic hilarity. A nice surprise: in each episode of SmartLess, one of the hosts reveals his mystery guest to the other two. What ensues is a genuinely improvised and authentic conversation filled with laughter and newfound knowledge to feed the SmartLess mind. Subscribe to SiriusXM Podcasts+ to listen to new episodes of SmartLess ad-free and a whole week early. Start a free trial now on Apple Podcasts ...

India is in transition. Since the publication of Culture Smart's first guide to India in 2003, the nation has been transformed from a developing third-world country into the world's fastest growing economy. This completely new and up-to-date volume by American author Becky Stephen is unrivalled.

The definitive account of the Lizzie Borden murders—the subject of Netflix’s Monster anthology series from Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan. In Cara Robertson’s “enthralling” book, The Trial of Lizzie Borden, “the reader is to serve as judge and jury” (The New York Times). Based on...

Celebrate the life and legacy of the 35th President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, with this expansive illustrated book which includes interviews, recordings and other exclusive materials. To mark John F. Kennedy's centennial, celebrate the life and legacy of the 35th President of the...

Sexual abuse, human trafficking, drug addiction, rape, prison, and domestic violence—Barbara Amaya experienced it all on first on the streets of Washington D.C., and then New York City, most of it before her sixteenth birthday. In Nobody's Girl she shares her journey from trafficking victim to...

"Stiamo vivendo un neo-medioevo culturale e occorre ricominciare a credere nella bellezza." "Come nel Medioevo le tradizioni e le superstizioni avevano prodotto una quasi impenetrabile rete di vincoli e remore, così oggi le nuove superstizioni, prodotto artificiale della moderna civiltà ipertecnologica e postmoderna, si calano sulla realtà nella forma di una ragnatela ugualmente fitta di nuove infinite regole e inutili e sovrapposte servitù, di artificiose e forzose convenzioni ideologiche, politiche, culturali.

What makes us conscious beings and why does it matter that we are? In his first ever podcast, Deepak Chopra welcomes a far-ranging group of guests, including Jane Goodall, Russell Brand, Dan Savage, Christopher Wylie, Jean Houston, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, and many more, who have paved new paths for understanding our present and future. How do we define, harness, and elevate our minds? How can we live creatively and purposefully? What makes you…you? Join Deepak as he delves into this moment of great transformation to answer these questions…and explore our infinite potential.

This New York Times bestseller intimately depicts urban life in a gripping book that slips behind cold statistics and sensationalism to reveal the true sagas lurking behind the headlines of gangsta glamour. One of The New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century In her extraordinary...

"Buon appetito ai pesci!": ecco l'augurio di qualcuno che si sente autorizzato a sfogare liberamente il suo rancore quando annega un migrante. E intanto vengono chiusi i porti alle navi che prestano soccorso, mettendo in discussione i principi rispettati dagli uomini di mare di ogni tempo. Mentre era in corso la prima di queste nuove emergenze, il caso della nave Aquarius, Edoardo Albinati ha scioccato l'opinione pubblica: "Ho desiderato che su quella nave morisse qualcuno, morisse un bambino", così sarebbe cessato il gioco cinico di scommettere sulla vita altrui per pura propaganda.