Titoli in Sociologia

Il crollo del Ponte Morandi a Genova e le conseguenze per le autostrade italiane. Il racconto e l'analisi in sei articoli di Repubblica: Crollo ponte Morandi: Genova ferita si cura ricucendo, non strappando, di Mario Calabresi; La stagione di avvoltoi e coccodrilli, di Massimo Giannini; Il nodo delle privatizzazioni e il padrone imperfetto, di Fabio Bogo; Il miraggio del monopolio di Stato, di Michele Ainis; Crollo Ponte Morandi, commissione d'inchiesta: tre investigatori del ministero rischiano di saltare, di Tommaso Ciriaco; Autostrade, governo spaccato. Lega: "No alla statalizzazione", di Tommaso Ciriaco.

Thirty years after its publication, The Death and Life of Great American Cities was described by The New York Times as "perhaps the most influential single work in the history of town planning....[It] can also be seen in a much larger context. It is first of all a work of literature; the...

Brought to you by Penguin. A witty and humane account of one man, multiple jobs and what it means to live Hu AnYan has held nineteen different jobs since he graduated. He’s been a convenience store clerk, a bicycle salesman, a security guard and a delivery driver (among many other things)...

La obra más emotiva de Julia Navarro es un homenaje lleno de amor y ternura por los animales. Aquellos que han vivido con un perro saben que su presencia aligera los días y los llena de felicidad. Amigos fieles, cariñosos e inteligentes, cada instante a su lado supone una lección de todo lo que merece la pena ser aprendido. Es posible rastrear el especial vínculo entre perros y hombres desde el principio de los tiempos, pero uno de los ejemplos más hermosos y emocionantes lo encontramos en la Odisea.

Was ist der Tod, wie bereite ich mich vor und was kommt danach? Was passiert genau beim Vorgang des Sterbens? Wie beeinflusst mein gelebtes Leben bzw. vor allem meine aktuelle Bewusstheit und innere Reife den Prozess des Übergangs? Wie besteht unser Bewusstsein im Jenseits weiter fort und welche Wege kann es einschlagen nach dem Übergang? Welche Bedeutung hat Reinkarnation in diesem Zusammenhang?

The Ghost Lab tells the astonishing story of the wild ecosystem of paranormal profiteers and consumers. But it also reveals how the twin scourges of declining scientific literacy and eroding trust in institutions have created space for armies of pseudoscientists to step into the minds of an increasingly credulous public.

An award-winning poet’s “beautifully written” (The Seattle Times) portrait of an American family and his own coming of age in the 1960s and 1970s in the wake of his father’s suicide. This memoir “belongs on the special shelves we keep for the books we cannot quite forget” (George...

"Factfulness" handler om verden, og hvordan vi kan blive bedre til at forstå den, som den virkelig er. Når man stiller folk simple spørgsmål om globale tendenser, giver de altid de forkerte svar. Hvor mange piger går for eksempel i skole? Hvor stor vil Jordens befolkning være i 2050? Og lever størstedelen i rige eller fattige lande? I "Factfulness" forklarer Hans Rosling sammen med Ola Rosling og Anna Rosling Rönnlund, hvorfor misforståelserne sker. De beskriver 10 fundamentale menneskelige instinkter, som konsekvent forhindrer os i at have et faktabaseret verdenssyn.

Каждый человек рано или поздно узнает, что он смертен, более того, что умрут все, кто его окружает. Смерть в современном обществе максимально табуированная тема. Мария Рамзаева и Елена Фоер раскрывают перед нами страницы истории развития отношения к смерти и умершим, рассказывают о ритуалах и традициях, которые были приняты в нашем обществе, и как в процессе развития городов люди перестали воспринимать смерть как естественное явление, а страх перед этим событием стал причиной множества психологических расстройств.

En un mundo hiperconectado y condicionado por los mandatos de belleza, ¿cómo prevalece la autenticidad y el respeto por la imagen y el cuerpo propio y ajeno? En este audiolibro, Esther Pineda G. nos guía en el laberinto algorítmico de los ideales de belleza en las redes sociales, con el...

Black people are exhausted. The toll of living within systems designed to exclude them devastates minds, bodies, and spirits. Award-winning diversity, equity, and inclusion leader Mary-Frances Winters—now joined by Mareisha Winters Reese—addresses this ongoing crisis with an urgent update to her bestselling book.

Saying No to Hate grounds listeners contextually in the history of antisemitism in America by emphasizing the legal, political, educational, communal, and other strategies American Jews have used through the centuries to address high-profile threats. Norman H. Finkelstein shows how antisemitism...

L'America al bivio 'Floyd': Michael Moore: "La gente non si fida più del governo. Troppi abusi non puniti", di Antonio Monda; Il caso Floyd e la "generazione sfortunata": i Millennial bianchi si saldano alla rivolta, di Federico Rampini; "Onestà e giustizia, non tagli". La scelta di Biden divide i Dem, di Federico Rampini; Perdonaci Rossella ti cancelliamo, di Natalia Aspesi; LeBron contro Trump, via alla sfida per il voto degli afroamericani, di Massimo Basile; Wall Street, il capitalismo al bivio "Floyd", di Francesco Guerrera; Anna Wintour: la rivolta e la sconfitta, di Natalia Aspesi.

A deep dive into the institutional racism and prejudice in the sport of hockey that persists across all levels - and how it will impact the future of the sport While professional sports leagues claim to promote diversity and inclusivity, institutional racism remains apparent in all sports, but...

In this groundbreaking book, Anita Hannig brings us into the lives of ordinary Americans who go to extraordinary lengths to set the terms of their own death. Faced with a terminal diagnosis and unbearable suffering, they decide to seek medical assistance in dying—a legal option now available to one in five Americans. The Day I Die tackles one of the most urgent social issues of our time: how to restore dignity and meaning to the dying process in the age of high-tech medicine. 

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.

In che modo la dimensione digitale amplifica il razzismo? Perché le disuguaglianze sociali, ancora più evidenti dopo la pandemia, hanno riacceso i fuochi dell'America? Quali possono essere le nostre responsabilità di fronte allo scatenarsi della violenza contro gli immigrati? Sono solo alcune delle domande che si pongono Eraldo Affinati e Marco Gatto in questo animato dialogo sulla crisi socioculturale che ha travolto l'Occidente negli ultimi vent'anni.

Covid, la corsa al vaccino spezza il fiato: Le Rsa vanno a rilento. Immunizzato uno su dieci e le famiglie protestano, di Alessandra Ziniti; Piano vaccini, pronte 40 milioni di dosi, ma forse solo per gli under 55, di Michele Bocci; Le nuove varianti spingono il virus. Mortalità nel mondo mai così alta, di Elena Dusi; L'Europa e il caso Pfizer, il dovere della trasparenza sui vaccini anti-covid, di Andrea Bonanni; La pandemia e la scoperta della scuola, di Massimo Recalcati.

In London in the Time of Dickens, you’ll get the unique opportunity to experience the British capital through the eyes of a literary master whose work is inextricably tied to the city and its rich history. Throughout 12 lectures taught by Professor Lillian Nayder of Bates College, you’ll tour the city of London in a time of rapid transformation through the life and work of Charles Dickens, uncovering the history of the metropolis, while also witnessing the everyday experiences of Londoners from all walks of life as Dickens represents them.

The unmissable account of how science can help us live better and longer - loved by Bill Bryson, Stephen Fry, Siddhartha Mukherjee and more 'Changed my perspective on the whole living world' - Chris Van Tulleken We are living through an exciting revolution in biology. Giant strides are being...