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A successful former defense attorney exposes the raw truth about the courtroom “game” and a career spent defending the guilty. As an advocate for the accused in Newark, New Jersey, criminal lawyer Seymour Wishman defended a vast array of clients, from burglars and thieves to rapists and murderers. Many of them were poor and undereducated, and nearly all of them were guilty. But it was not Wishman’s duty to pass moral judgment on those he represented. His job was to convince a jury to set his clients free or, at the very least, to impose the most lenient punishment permissible by law.

Part memoir, part popular science, and part social commentary, Bottled Up probes breastfeeding politics through the lens of Barston’s own experiences as well as those of the women she has met through her popular blog, The Fearless Formula Feeder. Incorporating expert opinions, medical literature, and popular media into a pithy, often wry narrative, Barston offers a corrective to our infatuation with the breast. Impassioned, well-reasoned, and thoroughly researched, Bottled Up asks us to think with more nuance and compassion about whether breastfeeding should remain the holy grail of good parenthood.

One of the great minds of the 20th century, Bertrand Russell explored philosophy, mathematics, and a variety of other intellectual, political, historical, and social issues in his lifetime. In this indispensable and easily accessible guide, drawn from his books and essays, readers will find Russell’s fundamental principles, from objectivity to ontological arguments to logical certainty, in his own words. Russell also explored topics such as war, evil, and the purpose and goal of human existence.

What will planet Earth be like in 20 years? At mid-century? In the year 2100? Prescient and convincing, this book is a must-read for anyone concerned about the future. Never has the world offered more promise for the future and been more fraught with dangers. In this powerful and sometimes terrifying work, Attali analyzes the past and pinpoints nine distinct periods of human history, each with its world center of power and prestige, and predicts what the tenth will bring by the end of this century.

Per oltre sessant'anni, Ngugi wa Thiongb ha scritto dell'Africa con indomito coraggio, affrontando domande, ponendo sfide, raccogliendo storie e provando a immaginare un futuro possibile per il suo continente. Nella sua ampia produzione letteraria, "Scrivere per la pace" rappresenta il punto più alto della sua riflessione saggistica, raccogliendo per la prima volta i testi scritti dall'autore in oltre tre decenni su una vasta area di tematiche.

"Noi italiani non facciamo niente in maniera normale" scrive Beppe Severgnini. "Facciamo tutto da italiani, e questo non è necessariamente un difetto". Anche quando partiamo, ci portiamo dietro le nostre qualità e le nostre squisite leggerezze. Se in Italia ci diamo un contegno, varcata la frontiera viene fuori di tutto: l'incoscienza e la generosità, l'intuito e il pressapochismo, la rustica astuzia che porta al furto sistematico dei bottiglini di shampoo dalle stanze d'albergo.

One third to one half of Americans are introverts in a culture that celebrates - even enforces - an ideal of extroversion and a cult of personality. Political leaders are charismatic, celebrities bask in the spotlight, and authority figures are assertive. It is no surprise that a quiet revolution has begun to emerge among the invisible half of the population, asserting that they are just as powerful in their own unique ways. The Irresistible Introvert embodies the spirit of this revival and breaks down the myth that charisma is reserved for extroverts only.

«He creuat mitja Europa intentant conèixer l’enemic, però com més respostes trobo més preguntes em faig. Segueixo convençut dels meus ideals, però ara tinc clar que la nit serà molt més fosca del que ens pensem. Som just en aquell punt tan ben definit per Antonio Gramsci: “El vell món es mor. El nou triga a aparèixer. I en aquest clarobscur, sorgeixen els monstres”.»

A la Terra Alta, davant la descoberta d’una bomba nazi que havia llençat la Legión Cóndor, un Jordi Borràs adolescent pren consciència que la memòria i la justícia són els millors antídots contra el feixisme...

Examinando retórica, normas políticas, literatura popular y las teorías científicas a lo largo de 400 años, Nacny Isenberg rechaza las suposiciones sobre la sociedad libre de clases de Estados Unidos, donde la libertad y el trabajo duro te garantizan una verdadera movilidad social. Los blancos pobres miserables y sin tierra han existido desde la época del primer asentamiento colonial británico hasta los actuales "hillbillies".

Ogni settimana, per un anno, Susanna Tamaro scrive a un'amica lontana, Mathilda, che è tornata a vivere nel suo paese natale, l'Africa. Sono lettere che raccontano la vita quotidiana in campagna e parlano di amicizia, responsabilità, violenza, guerra, speranza, affrontando i temi fondamentali dell'esistenza. Ne nasce un diario che, con sguardo semplice e diretto, attraverso ricordi, incontri, pensieri, esortazioni e denunce, invita alla riflessione sulle piccole grandi questioni di cui la vita di ogni giorno è costellata. Con una nuova introduzione dell'autrice.

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Reunião dos principais artigos de um dos mais influentes especialistas em tecnologia e em internet do mundo, Evgeny Morozov. Big tech problematiza a lógica do chamado "solucionismo" tecnológico, que enxerga a tecnologia como panaceia para problemas que instituições falharam em resolver.

Smart, humorous, and strikingly original essays by one of “America’s most bracing thinkers on race, gender, and capitalism of our time.” (Rebecca Traister) In these eight piercing explorations on beauty, media, money, and more, Tressie McMillan Cottom - award-winning professor and acclaimed author of Lower Ed - embraces her venerated role as a purveyor of wit, wisdom, and Black Twitter snark about all that is right and much that is wrong with this thing we call society.

Through much of the 20th century, federal policy toward Indians sought to extinguish all remnants of native life and culture. That policy was dramatically confronted in the late 1960s when a loose coalition of hippies, civil rights advocates, Black Panthers, unions, Mexican-Americans, Quakers and other Christians, celebrities, and others joined with Red Power activists to fight for Indian rights. In Hippies, Indians and the Fight for Red Power, Sherry Smith offers the first full account of this remarkable story.

Questo libro che il Mulino ripubblica in una nuova edizione rivista è un'opera importante sulla guerra: non solo e non tanto dal punto di vista dell'evoluzione tecnica e strategica ma anche e soprattutto da quello dell'ideologia e della mentalità: insomma della sua "cultura": com'era, quale posto aveva nella vita delle società, come la vivevano gli uomini che la facevano e la subivano.

À la fois témoignage, enquête de terrain et réflexion philosophique, cet essai contribue à renouveler le regard québécois sur le religieux par son approche libre et hors de tout dogme.

Este volumen recoge las sorprendentes respuestas que philosophers separados por veinticinco siglos de historia nos ofrecen a cuestiones que siempre nos han interesado y que hoy están de más actualidad que nunca. Ninguno de estos grandes pensadores conocieron las redes sociales pero sus ideas permanecen flamantes y son tan lúcidas que merecerían ser viralizadas.

In a rarified world of scientific research, a revolution has been brewing. Its activists are not anarchists, but rather Nobel Laureates in physics and economics and pony-tailed graduates, mathematicians, and computer scientists from all over the world. They have formed an iconoclastic think-tank and their radical idea is to create a new science: complexity. They want to know how a primordial soup of simple molecules managed to turn itself into the first living cell--and what the origin of life some four billion years ago can tell us about the process of technological innovation today.

Tim Wise is one of America's most prolific public intellectuals. His critically acclaimed books, high-profile media interviews, and year-round speaking schedule have established him as an invaluable voice in any discussion on issues of race and multicultural democracy. In Under the Affluence, Wise discusses a related issue: economic inequality and the demonization of those in need.

In this book, two distinguished scientists tackle common misconceptions about race, human biology, and racism. Using an accessible question-and-answer format, Joseph L. Graves Jr. and Alan H. Goodman explain the differences between social and biological notions of race. Although there are many meaningful human genetic variations, they do not map onto socially constructed racial categories. Drawing on evidence from both natural and social science, Graves and Goodman dismantle the malignant myth of gene-based racial difference.