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Kategorier: Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap
President Joe Biden tells the story of his extraordinary life and career prior to his emergence as Barack Obama’s beloved, influential Vice-President. With his customary honesty and wit, Biden movingly and eloquently recounts growing up in a staunchly Catholic multigenerational household, overcoming personal…
Overwhelmed with conflicting advice about pregnancy and parenting? You are not alone. But don’t worry, two of Sweden’s leading doctors are here to help, debunking myths and offering practical advice in this fact-based, no-nonsense approach to birth, child health, and shared child-rearing from the…
Published for the first time in English, the debut novel by the author of international bestseller The Eighth Life.
In 1953, a teenage girl, Jeanne Sare, jumps in front of a train at the Gare du Nord station in Paris. She leaves behind writings that to some are unreadable, but to others tell universal, unspoken truths…
From New York Times bestselling author and Mountain Goats singer/songwriter John Darnielle, an epic, gripping novel about murder, truth, artistic obsession, and the dangers of storytelling.
Gage Chandler is a true-crime writer, with one grisly success – and movie adaptation – to his name, along with a…
Kategorier: Ekonomi, finansväsen, näringsliv och management
A Nobel Peace Prize-winner outlines his radical economic vision for tackling inequality, joblessness and environmental degredation, and describes the worldwide movement already working to make it a reality.
Winner of the Uruguayan National Literature Prize for Fiction, the Bartolome-Hidalgo Fiction Prize, and the Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz Literature Prize.
A port city is in the grips of an ecological crisis. The river has filled with toxic algae, and a deadly ’red wind’ blows through its streets; much of the…
Open like a flower to the song of life and the magic that surrounds and flows through all. Acknowledge, reaffirm, understand and celebrate your connection with Gaia. This journal holds sacred space. It is free of judgement and blossoming with a loving invitation to liberate, release and express all you are meant to be.…
A joyful family saga about free will, forgiveness, and how we are all interconnected.
In October 1989, triplet babies are born into chaos in a Swedish hospital. Over two decades later, the siblings are scattered around the world, barely speaking. Sebastian is in London working for a mysterious scientific organisation…
This is a landmark in science writing. It resurrects from the vaults of neglect the polymath Jerome Cardano, a Milanese of the sixteenth century. Who is he? A gambler and self-harmer, inventor and chancer, plagued by demons and anxieties, astrologer to the kings, emperors and popes, stubborn and unwordly, the son of a…
A mesmerising novel set in Japan, by the author of Rainbirds and The Perfect World of Miwako Sumida, about a young man trying to escape his past.
When Shoji Arai crosses one of his company’s most powerful clients, he must leave Akakawa immediately or risk his life. But his girlfriend Yoko is nowhere to be…
A Sunday Times bestseller The key to living a happier, healthier life is inside us. Our gut is almost as important to us as our brain or our heart, yet we know very little about how it works. In Gut, Giulia Enders shows that rather than the utilitarian and – let’s be honest – somewhat embarrassing…
A celebrated international bestseller that exposes the ticking time-bomb underneath our new technological order.
The resources race is on. Powering our digital lives and green technologies are some of the Earth’s most precious metals – but they are running out. And what will happen when they do? The…
Boken reder ut konsekvenserna av åratals användande av konstgödning och sprutning. Hon beskriver varje mineral och vitamins betydelse både i jorden och kroppen. Boken förklarar hur man förebygger dyrbara sjukdoms utbrott och hur man odlar utan konstgödning. Hon skriver om hur man återställer beten och åkrar, hur man…
Kategorier: Informationsteknik
A gripping new investigation into the underbelly of digital technology, which addresses the pressing question of the carbon footprint it leaves behind. In a sort of news thriller, the author reveals not only how costly the virtual world is, but how damaging it is to the environment.
A simple ’like’ sent…
Kategorier: Informationsteknik
Traditional media is over. The internet reigns. And in the attention economy, influencers are royalty. But who are they and how do you become one?
Break the Internet takes a deep dive into the influencer industry, tracing its evolution from blogging and legacy social media such as Tumblr to today’s world in…
Spring, summer, autumn, and winter: wherever you are, the seasons come and go, bringing changes both welcome and unexpected.
Japanese by birth, but transplanted to Europe in adulthood, Miki Sakamoto has spent a lifetime tending her garden and reflecting on its mysteries. Why do primulas bloom in snow? Do the trees…
Kategorier: Åldersgrupper och generationer Åldersgrupper: vuxna Psykologiska thrillers Samhälle och kultur: allmänt Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap Skönlitteratur Sociala grupper Thrillers
När ditt starkaste begär blir din mörkaste mardröm …
Adam är förändrad. Han överlevde experimenten som tog honom till den undermedvetna värld där våra innersta väsen lever sida vid sida, styrda av drifter och fasor. Nu är sinnet dunkelt och han förföljs av en mörk gestalt. När professor Wiesler vill återuppta…
A radical vision for a better future: an economy that works for us, rather than the other way around.
As this major German bestseller reports, our world is at a tipping point, and we feel it every day. Costs are rising, the gap between the rich and poor is increasing, natural resources are depleted, and the effects of…
`There are no stupid questions, nor any forbidden ones, but there are some questions that have no answer.’Hedi Fried was nineteen when the Nazis snatched her family from their home in Eastern Europe and transported them to Auschwitz, where her parents were murdered and she and her sister were forced into hard…
A haunting debut novel where dreams, family, and spirits collide.
Night after night, Mackenzie – a young Cree woman living in Vancouver – has dreams that return her to a memory from before her sister Sabrina’s untimely death. But when the waking world starts closing in, too – crows stalk her…
Quadratic equations, Pythagoras’ theorem, imaginary numbers, and pi – you may remember studying these at school, but did anyone ever explain why? Never fear – bestselling science writer, and your new favourite maths teacher, Michael Brooks, is here to help. In The Maths That Made Us, Brooks reminds us…
Kategorier: Biografi: allmänt Biografier och litteraturvetenskap Biografier, sanna berättelser, essäer etc.
An incisive and deeply candid account that explores autistic women in culture, myth, and society through the prism of the author’s own diagnosis.
Until the 1980s, autism was regarded as a condition found mostly in boys. Even in our time, autistic girls and women have largely remained invisible. When portrayed in…
Kategorier: Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap
After her previous book, Rethinking Our World, eloquently untangled the complex world we live in, Maja Goepel delivers the encouragement and the tools we need to go into action and build the world we want to live in.
Humanity is undergoing a massive process of transformation, and the way we live will change…
Previously unpublished stories by the bestselling author of Alone in Berlin. In September 1925, Hans Fallada handed himself in to the police. Not yet a bestselling author, Fallada had repeatedly embezzled funds to finance his alcohol and morphine addictions.
Desperate to escape his demons, he sought a prison cell. Now…
Kategorier: Barnböcker, ungdomsböcker och läromedel Personliga och sociala frågor barn och ungdom Sociala frågor barn och ungdom
A young readers’ edition of the bestselling book from Auschwitz survivor Hedi Fried that answers lasting questions about the Holocaust.
Hedi Fried was nineteen when the Nazis arrested her family and transported them to Auschwitz. While there, apart from enduring the daily terror at the camp, she and her sister…
Kategorier: Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap
From Northern Ontario to Nunavut, Norway, Brazil, Australia, and the United States, the Indigenous experience in colonised nations is startlingly similar and deeply disturbing. It is an experience marked by the violent separation of Peoples from the land, the separation of families, and the separation of individuals…
Minor is the desiring body that runs, rises, gravitates towards larger, brighter, more dazzling bodies, that bestows on other bodies the status of suns and planets, fires to be orbited, the reason for everything. There is no centre of the universe except the one we invent for ourselves.
Jonathan is twenty years old,…
The body as a measuring tool for planetary harm. A nervous system under increasing stress. In this urgent collection that moves from the personal to the political and back again, writer, activist, and migrant Jessica Gaitan Johannesson explores how we respond to crises.
She draws parallels between an eating disorder…
For fans of The Black Swan and written by a veteran Wall Street Journal reporter, this is a fascinating deep dive into the world of billion-dollar traders and high-stakes crisis predictors who strive to turn extreme events into financial windfalls.
There’s no doubt that our world has gotten more extreme.…
Plunge into the depths of the unknown in this thrilling work of nonfiction, combining history, science, nature writing, and environmentalism, that invites its reader to explore the deepest recesses of our natural world.
The ocean has shaped and sustained life on Earth for billions of years. Its waters contain our…
From one of Brazil’s rising literary stars, an acclaimed novella about the violation of a woman and a city, based on true events.
It is 2014. There is euphoria in Brazil, especially in Rio de Janeiro. The World Cup is about to take place and the Olympics are in sight. It is a time of hope and frenzied…
Kategorier: Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap