Titoli in Sociologia

**Narrated by Stephen J. Dubner** The legendary bestseller that made millions look at the world in a radically different way returns in a beautiful 20th anniversary edition featuring a new foreword Which is more dangerous: a gun or a swimming pool? Why do drug dealers still live with their moms?...

Immediate New York Times Best Seller . . . The Challenge to Religious Dogma that has Sparked a National Debate! "Forty-four percent of the American population is convinced that Jesus will return to judge the living and the dead sometime in the next fifty years," writes Sam Harris. "Imagine the...

In these turbulent times when wars, religious strife, stifling bureaucracy, and urban decay threaten our very humanity, reducing us to social statistics, a fresh approach to the creation of a truly viable society is desperately needed. In this intellectual tour de force J. Donald Walters analyzes with deep insight the views expressed by many of the great thinkers in the West, including Plato, Copernicus, Machiavelli, Malthus, Adam Smith, Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, and Sigmund Freud.

In an eye-opening exploration of the most powerful force that drives our species, Kinsey Institute Director Dr. Justin Garcia illuminates the mysteries of how we date, mate and navigate our love lives. "The best book on modern mating.” - David M. Buss, author of The Evolution of Desire. Why do...

A moving, eye-opening polemic about the US-Mexico border and what happens to the tens of thousands of unaccompanied Mexican and Central American children arriving in the US without papers ‘We are driving across Oklahoma in early June when we first hear about the waves of children arriving...

When first published in 2001, it divided female critics and readers. One famous columnist wrote a piece demanding that Cusk's children were taken into care, that was she was unfit to look after them. Oprah Winfrey invited her on the show to defend herself and the book as protests grew about its honest, gritty account of the misery of those early months. It is a seminal, stand-out book on the complications of being an ambivalent mum in an age of white-washed, Annabel Karmel'd new families.

Religion in Human Evolution is a work of extraordinary ambition—a wide-ranging, nuanced probing of our biological past to discover the kinds of lives that human beings have most often imagined were worth living. It offers what is frequently seen as a forbidden theory of the origin of religion that goes deep into evolution, especially but not exclusively cultural evolution. 

Genova, due mesi dopo. Il racconto in sei articoli di Repubblica: Il veleno nel decreto Genova, di Sergio Rizzo; I cantieri senza regole del partito dell'onestà, di Gianluca Di Feo; Ponte, il muro di Castellucci: "Non so perché è crollato", di Marco Mensurati e Fabio Tonacci; Ponte Morandi, gli sfollati a casa per recuperare gli oggetti della vita, di Maurizio Maggiani.

A vital call to disrupt systemic forces that impoverish families and to reimagine accessible higher education, empowering parents to thrive in college and at home From the former teen mom and award-winning founder of Generation Hope, a nonprofit committed to expanding education access for young...

When faced with a loved one’s serious illness, many families find themselves overwhelmed, uncertain, and afraid. In this compassionate guide, hospice nurse and educator Maureen Groden, RN, offers a sympathetic and deeply human glimpse into one of life’s most challenging passages.

The care of creation is the responsibility of all Christians. Join Sequola Dawson in her insightful exploration of death rituals as she examines funerals, memorials, and burial practices, urging us to take ownership and recognize the vital interdependence between humanity, the earth, and all living organisms, advocating for a more ecologically responsible approach to caring for creation.

The abridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Tom Vanderbilt's informative work, Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (And What it Says About Us), read by David Slavin. Why does the other lane always seem to be moving faster? What does the way you drive say about you? Is the road a microcosm of...

From intelligence to emotion, for centuries science has told us that men and women are fundamentally different. But this is not the whole story. Shedding light on controversial research and investigating the ferocious gender wars in biology, psychology and anthropology, Angela Saini takes...

Brought to you by Penguin. Beautifully written and full of wonderful descriptions and intriguing tales, In Patagonia is an account of Bruce Chatwin's travels to a remote country in search of a strange beast and his encounters with the people whose fascinating stories delay him on the road. 

New York Times bestselling psychologist Dr. Meg Jay uses real stories from real lives to provide smart, compassionate, and constructive advice about the crucial (and difficult) years we cannot afford to miss. Our "thirty-is-the-new-twenty" culture tells us the twentysomething years don't matter...

One of The Economist’s Best Books of 2023 The secrets to successfully planning and delivering ambitious, complex projects on any scale—from home renovation to space exploration—by the world's leading expert on megaprojects. Nothing is more inspiring than a big vision that becomes a...

The world-renowned philosopher and author of the best-selling Justice explores the central question of our time: What has become of the common good? World-renowned philosopher Michael J. Sandel argues that to overcome the crises that are upending our world, we must rethink the attitudes toward success and failure that have accompanied globalization and rising inequality. Sandel shows the hubris a meritocracy generates among the winners and the harsh judgment it imposes on those left behind, and traces the dire consequences across a wide swath of American life.

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...

Offener Judenhass durch Migranten auf unseren Straßen. Schülerinnen werden von islamistischen Jugendlichen drangsaliert. Zwangsverheiratungen gehören längst zum Alltag. Jetzt fällt in Berlin auch das Kopftuchverbot für Lehrerinnen. Hamas und Hizbullah nutzen Deutschland als Rückzugsraum zur Terrorfinanzierung. Gleichzeitig verfolgen die Führer des politischen Islams – aus dem Ausland finanzierte Moscheeverbände – eine erfolgreiche Strategie, unsere Politik, unsere Medien und unsere Kultur zu unterwandern.

I dolori del giovane Di Maio. I grattacapi del Movimento in sei articoli di Repubblica: Cambio dopo le Europee, di Carmelo Lopapa; Dietro gli attacchi alla maggioranza di Bankitalia, di Claudio Tito; Fantasma ministero Sviluppo, di Francesco Manacorda; Tav, ritorno al passato, di Sergio Rizzo; Di Maio, un uomo solo al comando, di Stefano Cappellini; Tav, il jolly del rinvio altri tre mesi di tempo per non perdere i fondi, di Alberto D'Argenio e Carmelo Lopapa.