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A century ago, it was a given that a woman with a college degree had to choose between having a career and a family. Today, there are more female college graduates than ever before, and more women want to have a career and family, yet challenges persist at work and at home. This book traces how generations of women have responded to the problem of balancing career and family as the twentieth century experienced a sea change in gender equality, revealing why true equity for dual career couples remains frustratingly out of reach.

Liv Reese wakes up in the back of a taxi with no idea where she is or how she got there. When she’s dropped off at the door of her brownstone, a stranger answers—a stranger who claims to live in her apartment. She reaches for her phone to call for help, only to discover it’s missing. In its place is a bloodstained knife. Her hands are covered in scribbled messages, like graffiti on her skin: STAY AWAKE. Two years ago, Liv was thriving as a successful writer for a trendy magazine. Now, she’s lost and disoriented in a New York City that looks nothing like what she remembers.

The process by which nations escape poverty and achieve economic and social progress has been the subject of extensive examination for hundreds of years. The notion of development itself has evolved from an original preoccupation with incomes and economic growth to a much broader understanding of development. In this Very Short Introduction, Ian Goldin considers the contributions that education, health, gender, equity, and other dimensions of human well-being make to development.

Terence Bailey is about to be released from prison for breaking and entering, though investigators have long suspected him in the murders of six women. As his release date approaches, Bailey gets a surprise visit from Maddison Logan, a hot, young influencer with a huge social media following. Hours later, Maddison disappears, and police suspect she’s been kidnapped—or worse. Is Maddison’s disappearance connected to her visit to Bailey? And why was she visiting him in the first place?

From the global impact of the coronavirus to exploring the vast spread of the Australian bush fires, join authors Ian Goldin and Robert Muggah as they trace the ways in which our world has changed and the ways in which it will continue to change over the next hundred years. Map-making is an ancient impulse. From the moment Homo sapiens learnt to communicate we have used them to make sense of our surroundings. But as Albert Einstein once said, ‘You can’t use old maps to explore a new world.’

London, 1854. Tweny-one-year-old Ben Canaan attracts trouble wherever he goes. His father wants him to be a good Jewish son, working for the family business on Whitechapel Road, but Ben and his friends, the 'Good-for-Nothings', just want adventure. Then the chance discovery of an enigmatic letter and a photograph of a beautiful woman bring Ben an adventure more dangerous than anything he'd imagined.

In Thinking with Your Hands, esteemed cognitive psychologist Susan Goldin-Meadow argues that gesture is vital to how we think, learn, and communicate. She shows us, for instance, how the height of our gestures can reveal unconscious bias or how the shape of a student’s gestures can track their mastery of a new concept—even when they’re still giving wrong answers. She compels us to rethink everything from how we set child-development milestones to what’s admissible in a court of law to whether Zoom is an adequate substitute for in-person conversation.

From centres of antiquity like Athens or Rome to modern metropolises like New York or Shanghai, cities throughout history have been the engines of human progress and the epicentres of our greatest achievements. Now, for the first time, more than half of humanity lives in cities, a share that continues to rise. In the developing world, cities are growing at a rate never seen before. In this book, Professor Goldin and Tom Lee-Devlin show why making our societies fairer, more cohesive and sustainable must start with our cities.

I due mesi che i pittori Vincent van Gogh e Paul Gauguin vissero insieme nella Casa Gialla ad Arles, dal 23 ottobre al 23 dicembre 1888, restano tra i momenti più intensi e decisivi dell'intera storia dell'arte. Intensi e talvolta anche drammatici: Vincent si taglierà un orecchio alla vigilia del Natale, Paul fuggirà a Parigi... Sessanta giorni che questo romanzo ricostruisce attingendo alle fonti, dai giornali alle lettere tra i due artisti, e restituendo con sensibilità non solo la storia ma le atmosfere, le ispirazioni, i moti dell'anima.

Pirate Queen Anne Bonny has a secret--a baby daughter named Kate! Anne, afraid that motherhood will undermine her fearsome reputation as the scarlet-haired scourge of the 18th-century Caribbean, is having the baby raised by friends in the Spanish colony of Cuba, unknown to the crew of the Tigress--and that Kate's father, Captain Calico Jack Rackam. But when Anne wants to go to her daughter's first birthday--now behind enemy lines in the middle of Great Britain's latest war with Spain--she turns for help to the only person she can trust: fellow female freebooter Mary Read.

Il podcast in 5 puntate di Marco Goldin, uno tra i maggiori studiosi dell’opera di Van Gogh, ripercorre le ultime settimane della vita dell’artista olandese. Dal momento in cui il pittore, il 15 maggio 1890, lascia la casa di cura per malattie mentali a Saint-Rémy, in Provenza, passa tre giorni a Parigi a casa del fratello Theo e arriva infine a Auvers-sur-Oise, un villaggio a nord di Parigi. È in questo luogo che Van Gogh dipingerà gli ultimi capolavori, fino alla sua morte. Naturalmente le lettere restano un elemento cardine per poter raccontare quel tempo conclusivo.

Für ihren True-Crime-Podcast reist Investigativjournalistin Rachel in die beschauliche Küstenstadt Neapolis, um über einen dortigen Vergewaltigungsprozess zu berichten. Kaum angekommen, erhält sie anonyme Briefe, die auf einen Cold Case hindeuten, der große Parallelen zum aktuellen Fall aufweist: Vor 25 Jahren ertrank nachts eine junge Frau im Meer. Obwohl ihr Körper Spuren von Misshandlung zeigte, wurde ihr Tod schließlich als Unfall deklariert. Rachel beginnt, auf eigene Faust Nachforschungen anzustellen, und gerät dabei in einen gefährlichen Sumpf aus Lügen und Geheimnissen.

Clues, quips, and cocktails...that's how Mr. and Mrs. Key always solved crimes. But what happens when their "perfect marriage" falls apart...in the middle of postwar Washington, DC's, most baffling murder?

Kara Goldin, Founder of Hint and Author of the WSJ Best Seller Undaunted, brings listeners real, unfiltered conversations with today’s boldest entrepreneurs, leaders, disruptors, and change-makers on The Kara Goldin Show. From overcoming setbacks to building iconic brands, Kara dives deep into the stories of those who dared to do things differently. Guests like Tony Robbins (entrepreneur, author), Chip Wilson (Lululemon), Guy Kawasaki (Apple, Canva), Mindy Grossman (WW), and Amy Errett (Madison Reed) share the mindset, lessons, and raw truth behind building what others said was impossible....

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An optimistic vision of the future after Covid-19 by a leading professor of globalisation at the University of Oxford. We are at a crossroads. The wrecking-ball of Covid-19 has destroyed global norms. Many think that after the devastation there will be a bounce back. To Ian Goldin, Professor of Development and Globalisation at the University of Oxford, this is a retrograde notion. He believes that this crisis can create opportunities for change, just as the Second World War forged the ideas behind the Beveridge Report.

Century after century, war after war, Hawker and his comrades were resurrected over and over to fight on alien planets with ever more advanced weapons. The reasons for the wars were incomprehensible, but that didn't matter. All that counted was the fighting itself. From incarnation through incarnation, one goal remained in Hawker's mind. Somewhere, somehow, there had to be a way out of the loop. And he was determined to find it.

Anni `80. Il mondo è sconvolto. La società statunitense è crollata a causa della carenza di cibo, combustibili, tensioni razziali e miriadi di altri problemi, Un gruppo di persone vuole fuggire su un altro pianeta e fondare un nuovo mondo... se riescono ad attraversare sani e salvi la nazione, rubando benzina e combattendo contro i banditi, e a raggiungere la navicella prima che parta.

When a body is found buried near the desolate forest road of Kellers Way, Detective Melanie Carter must identify the victim if she is to have any chance of finding the killer. That's no easy task with fragmentary evidence from a crime committed years earlier and a conspiracy of silence from anyone who might have information. The one person who may be able to help is Julie West.

Deborah Rabinowitz è una broker letteraria. Viaggia in mondi alieni tramite la realtà virtuale e vende su altri pianeti i diritti editoriali dei libri della Terra. Ma quando un alieno viene assassinato proprio davanti ai suoi occhi, non c'è modo per lei di non essere coinvolta e cercherà di risolvere il delitto. Poi, quando un vecchio amico viene accusato di un omicidio in un mondo diverso, Deborah dovrà risolvere anche quello.