-Titulo Original : The Island Of Missing Trees: A Novel-Fabricante : Bloomsbury Publishing-Descripcion Original: A REESES BOOK CLUB PICK A wise novel of love and grief, roots and branches, displacement and home, faith and belief. Balm for our bruised times. ?David Mitchell, author of Utopia Avenue A rich, magical new novel on belonging and identity, love and trauma, nature and renewal, from the Booker-shortlisted author of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World. Two teenagers, a Greek Cypriot and a Turkish Cypriot, meet at a taverna on the island they both call home. In the taverna, hidden beneath garlands of garlic, chili peppers and creeping honeysuckle, Kostas and Defne grow in their forbidden love for each other. A fig tree stretches through a cavity in the roof, and this tree bears witness to their hushed, happy meetings and eventually, to their silent, surreptitious departures. The tree is there when war breaks out, when the capital is reduced to ashes and rubble, and when the teenagers vanish. Decades later, Kostas returns. He is a botanist looking for native species, but really, he’s searching for lost love. Years later a Ficus carica grows in the back garden of a house in London where Ada Kazantzakis lives. This tree is her only connection to an island she has never visited--- her only connection to her family’s troubled history and her complex identity as she seeks to untangle years of secrets to find her place in the world. A moving, beautifully written, and delicately constructed story of love, division, transcendence, history, and eco-consciousness, The Island of Missing Trees is Elif Shafak’s best work yet...

-Titulo Original : Going Into Town A Love Letter To New York-Fabricante : Bloomsbury Publishing-Descripcion Original: The Washington Post 10 Best Graphic Novels of the YearNew York magazine The Years Most Giftable Coffee-Table BooksNewsday Best Fall BooksThe Verge 10 Best Comics of the YearOklahoman Best Graphic Novels of the YearWinner of the New York City Book AwardFrom the #1 NYT bestselling author of Cant We Talk About Something More Pleasant?, Roz Chast, an absolutely laugh-out-loud hysterical (AP) illustrated ode/guide/thank-you to Manhattan.New Yorker cartoonist and NYT bestselling author Roz Chast, native Brooklynite-turned-suburban commuter deemed the quintessential New Yorker, has always been intensely alive to the glorious spectacle that is Manhattan--the daily clash of sidewalk racers and dawdlers, the fascinating range of dress codes, and the priceless, nutty outbursts of souls from all walks of life. For Chast, adjusting to life outside the city was surreal (you can own trees!? you have to drive!?), but she recognized that the reverse was true for her kids. On trips into town, they would marvel at the strange visual world of Manhattan--its blackened sidewalk gum wads, those West Side Story-things (fire escapes)--its crazily honeycombed systems and grids. Told through Chasts singularly zany, laugh-out-loud, touching, and true cartoons, Going into Town is part New York stories (the overheard and overseen of the island borough), part personal and practical guide to walking, talking, renting, and venting--an irresistible, one-of-a-kind love letter to the city. Review “A meandering map of Chasts hilarious mental approach to her beloved town, with all of its oddball shops, subterranean secrets and an abundance of visual stimulation.” The Washington Post“A whimsical, discursive paean to the city.” O, The Oprah Magazine“A wide-eyed love letter to New York.” New York Magazine“Chasts voice and vision make this a singular love letter to a singular city.” Kirkus Reviews“The New Yorker magazine cartoonist has a style and sensibility like no one elses. Here she employs it in a graphic memoir of and tribute to New York City. Though she now lives in the Connecticut suburbs, Chast grew up in Brooklyn . . . As her own daughter prepared to move to the city for college, Chast compiled this volume that lets readers see New York through the artists eyes.” Newsday, Best Fall Books“[Chasts] Big Apple cityscapes burst with jumbled buildings, oddities of every variety, and her trademark loose-edged-drawn people.” TimeOut NY“For New Yorkers, former New Yorkers and wannabe New Yorkers: Going into Town is absolutely laugh-out-loud hysterical.” Associated Press“Observations and advice on making ones way through the citys diversions are mixed with the quirky character that oozes from the metropoliss every concrete pore. Its all delivered with obvious and knowing affection and captured with a keenly observant pen.” Publishers Weekly“Chast applies her appealingly shaggy drawing style and ever-so-slightly skewed worldview to New Yorks subways, museums, ethnic restaurants, and other attributes.” Booklist“For New Yorkers past and present, as well as those who admire the city from afar, this book is sure to delight.” Bookish, The Must-Read Books of Fall 2017“Love New York? So does Roz Chast, and were the luckier for it . . . A handy reminder of what makes the city lovable, maddening and a little gross.” The Forwards These Are the 23 Books You Need to Read this Summer“Fans of Chasts bestselling memoir, Cant We Talk About Something More Pleasant?, will recognize and enjoy the unique blend of affection and sarcasm that Chast brings to her work while getting to know one of the worlds most famous cities.” BookPage“Feels like a companion piece to E.B. Whites seminal Here is New York. Her illustrated compendium is packed with off-kilter but still useful advice . . .” Conde Nast Traveler“[A] guide book full of wonder and optimism, a polar opposite of most current-affairs tomes about N...

-Titulo Original : Things I Dont Want To Know On Writing-Fabricante : Bloomsbury Publishing-Descripcion Original: About the Author Deborah Levy writes fiction, plays, and poetry. Her work has been staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company, broadcast on the BBC, and widely translated. The author of highly praised novels, including The Man Who Saw Everything (longlisted for the Booker Prize), Hot Milk and Swimming Home (both Man Booker Prize finalists), The Unloved, and Billy and Girl, the acclaimed story collection Black Vodka, and two parts of her working autobiography, Things I Dont Want to Know and The Cost of Living, she lives in London. Levy is a Fellow of The Royal Society of Literature. A shimmering jewel of a book about writing from two-time Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy, to publish alongside her new work of nonfiction, The Cost of Living.Blending personal history, gender politics, philosophy, and literary theory into a luminescent treatise on writing, love, and loss, Things I Dont Want to Know is Deborah Levys witty response to George Orwells influential essay Why I Write. Orwell identified four reasons he was driven to hammer at his typewriter--political purpose, historical impulse, sheer egoism, and aesthetic enthusiasm--and Levys newest work riffs on these same commitments from a female writers perspective.As she struggles to balance womanhood, motherhood, and her writing career, Levy identifies some of the real-life experiences that have shaped her novels, including her familys emigration from South Africa in the era of apartheid; her teenage years in the UK where she played at being a writer in the company of builders and bus drivers in cheap diners; and her theater-writing days touring Poland in the midst of Eastern Europes economic crisis, where she observed how a soldier tenderly kissed the women in his life goodbye.Spanning continents (Africa and Europe) and decades (we meet the writer at seven, fifteen, and fifty), Things I Dont Want to Know brings the reader into a writers heart. Review A lively, vivid account of how the most innocent details of a writers personal story can gain power in fiction. - New York Times Book ReviewProfound. - Los Angeles Times[Levy] is a skilled wordsmith and creates an array of intense emotions and moods in precise, controlled prose. - The Independent (UK)A vivid, striking account of a writers life. - The Spectator (UK)Powerful. - New Statesman (UK)An up-to-date version of A Room of One’s Own, and, like the Virginia Woolf essay, I suspect it will be quoted for many years to come. - Irish ExaminerLevy successfully weaves historical, political, and personal threads together to form a nuanced account of her life and why she writes. Her graceful memoir/essay emphasizes a woman’s need to speak out even if she has to use a quiet voice. For feminists and memoir enthusiasts. - Library JournalRather than, say, telling the reader to show rather than tell, [Levy] declines to tell us anything and then shows us a great deal. What results is much more valuable than any literal writing guide or any literal response to Orwell would have been. It certainly has greater political import. - BiographileFew essayists have the courage and talent to go head-to-head with George Orwell. Deborah Levys response to Orwells iconic piece Why I Write is at once a feminist call to arms, a touching memoir of small moments, and a guide to writing fiction from one of literatures bravest rulebreakers. - Barnes & Noble Revie...

-Titulo Original : Dancing With The Octopus A Memoir Of A Crime-Fabricante : Bloomsbury Publishing-Descripcion Original: About the Author Debora Harding grew up in the Midwest and then spent three decades immersed in Washington politics. While cycling across America she met her English husband. She is mother of two children and is now a full-time writer and activist. She splits her time between the United States and Great Britain. For readers of Educated and The Glass Castle, a harrowing, redemptive and profoundly inspiring memoir of childhood trauma and its long reach into adulthood, named one of the Best True Crime Books by Marie Claire.One Omaha winter day in November 1978, when Debora Harding was just fourteen, she was abducted at knifepoint from a church parking lot. She was thrown into a van, assaulted, held for ransom, and then left to die as an ice storm descended over the city.Debora survived. She identified her attacker to the police and then returned to her teenage life in a dysfunctional home where she was expected to simply move on. Denial became the family coping strategy offered by her fun-loving, conflicted father and her cruelly resentful mother.It wasnt until decades later - when beset by the symptoms of PTSD- that Debora undertook a radical project: she met her childhood attacker face-to-face in prison and began to reconsider and reimagine his complex story. This was a quest for the truth that would threaten the lie at the heart of her family and with it the sacred bond that once saved her.Dexterously shifting between the past and present, Debora Harding untangles the incident of her kidnapping and escape from unexpected angles, offering a vivid, intimate portrait of one familys disintegration in the 1970s Midwest.Written with dark humor and the pacing of a thriller, Dancing with the Octopus is a literary tour de force and a groundbreaking narrative of reckoning, recovery, and the inexhaustible strength it takes to survive. Review “Bravely looks at her family trauma and the hope of restorative justice-combining wit, drama, and deep self-reflection to investigate the aftershocks of a devastating crime.” Oxygen, “The Best True Crime Books Of 2020 For Holiday Gifting”“This moving story of grit and resilience will resonate with readers long after the final page is turned.” Publishers Weekly, Starred Review“A gripping memoir, Dancing With the Octopus is both a heartbreaking reconstruction of a crime and a powerful account of healing from trauma.” Electric Lit, Most Anticipated Debuts of the Second Half of 2020“Hardings writing is exquisite, often funny… This book is personal, deeply and bravely thoughtful, and creatively expressed. . . . it can serve as a tool for the politically engaged.” New York Journal of Books“Darkly humorous . . . Harding draws a complex web of interlinked experiences to show how suffering can set up shop for good in a family and a town. Dancing With the Octopus joins a host of recent true crime memoirs dedicated to grounding crimes in a wider framework of social and familial contexts.” CrimeReads “Most Anticipated Crime Books of 2020”“Dancing with the Octopus is a brave and authentic picture of the tailwinds of trauma, the limits of human forgiveness and what it takes to maintain hope in a world bent on breaking us. Highly readable, and deeply moving.” Rachel Louise Snyder, award-winning author of NO VISIBLE BRUISES“An incredible book … Debora writes with a lightness of touch that belies the heavy lifting in a work of such magnitude and power.” Philip Selway of Radiohead on Twitter“This is a fantastic memoir . . . beautifully written and its an excellent example of traumas long hold on people. . . . An incredible look at depression and parenthood and forgiveness. . . . It is excellent.” Bookriots All the Books Podcast“A gripping account of one womans confrontation with the terror and heartbreak of her past. Harding combines true crime and family saga to illustrate the aftershocks of trauma, and the courage, tenderness, and humor that recovery requi...

-Titulo Original : The Price We Pay What Broke American Health Care--and How To Fix It-Fabricante : Bloomsbury Publishing-Descripcion Original: About the Author Dr. Marty Makary is a professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Bloomberg School of Public Health and the author of the New York Times bestseller, Unaccountable. He is a leading voice for physicians in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and USA Today, and is Editor-in-Chief of Medpage Today. Marty has published extensively on medical innovation, quality measurement, special issues of vulnerable populations, and health care costs. He served in leadership roles at the W.H.O. and has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine. He leads several national grants on health care transparency and the re-design of health care. Marty is the chief of the Johns Hopkins Center for Islet Transplantation Surgery and is the recipient of the Nobility in Science Award from the National Pancreas Foundation. Previously he served as founding director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Surgical Trials and Outcomes Research. Marty currently serves as chair of the advisory board of African Mission Healthcare. He lives in the Washington, DC area. New York Times bestsellerBusiness Book of the Year--Association of Business JournalistsFrom the New York Times bestselling author comes an eye-opening, urgent look at America’s broken health care system--and the people who are saving it--now with a new Afterword by the author.A must-read for every American. --Steve Forbes, editor-in-chief, FORBESOne in five Americans now has medical debt in collections and rising health care costs today threaten every small business in America. Dr. Makary, one of the nation’s leading health care experts, travels across America and details why health care has become a bubble. Drawing from on-the-ground stories, his research, and his own experience, The Price We Pay paints a vivid picture of the business of medicine and its elusive money games in need of a serious shake-up. Dr. Makary shows how so much of health care spending goes to things that have nothing to do with health and what you can do about it. Dr. Makary challenges the medical establishment to remember medicine’s noble heritage of caring for people when they are vulnerable.The Price We Pay offers a road map for everyday Americans and business leaders to get a better deal on their health care, and profiles the disruptors who are innovating medical care. The movement to restore medicine to its mission, Makary argues, is alive and well--a mission that can rebuild the public trust and save our country from the crushing cost of health care. Review “Dr. Makary takes a deep dive into the real issues driving up the price of health care and explains how we can all take action to restore medicine to its noble mission.” Don Berwick MD, senior fellow, Institute for Healthcare Improvement“[The Price We Pay] is a fascinating look at people and communities throughout America--Dr. Makary blends reportage, research, and personal anecdotes about how money is really spent in healthcare, how we got to where we are today, and who is affected the most. I just started this one, and I already want to tell everyone to read it.” BookRiot, What to Read for #ScienceSeptember“A must-read for every American.” Steve Forbes, editor-in-chief, FORBES magazine“The Price We Pay is stuffed with examples of predatory billing, confusing costs and statistics that could make you despondent. But theres plenty of honesty, problem-solving and hope to leaven all that despair.” Washington Post“As Democrats turn on the Affordable Care Act in favor of Medicare for all and Republicans seem split on how to fix the American health care system, surgeon and health policy professor Dr. Marty Makary addresses the systems brokenness and offers a hopeful take on how it can be solved in his upcoming book The Price We Pay.” The Daily Caller“Brimming with true accounts that put faces on the numbers, The Price We Pay tours the landscape of contemporary American health care, with ...

-Titulo Original : The Anarchy The East India Company, Corporate Violence, And The Pillage Of An Empire-Fabricante : Bloomsbury Publishing-Descripcion Original: About the Author William Dalrymple is the bestselling author of In Xanadu, City of Djinns, From the Holy Mountain, The Age of Kali, White Mughals, The Last Mughal and, most recently, Nine Lives. He has won the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award, the Sunday Times Young British Writer of the Year Award, the Ryszard Kapuscinski Award for Literary Reportage, the Hemingway Prize, the French Prix dAstrolabe, the Wolfson Prize for History, the Scottish Book of the Year Award, the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize, the Asia House Award for Asian Literature, the Vodafone Crossword Award and has three times been longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize. In 2012 he was appointed Whitney J. Oates Visiting Fellow in Humanities at Princeton University. He lives with his wife and three children on a farm outside Delhi. Finalist for the Cundill History PrizeONE OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMAS FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEARNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY The Wall Street Journal and NPR“Superb … A vivid and richly detailed story … worth reading by everyone.” The New York Times Book ReviewFrom the bestselling author of Return of a King, the story of how the East India Company took over large swaths of Asia, and the devastating results of the corporation running a country.In August 1765, the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and set up, in his place, a government run by English traders who collected taxes through means of a private army.The creation of this new government marked the moment that the East India Company ceased to be a conventional company and became something much more unusual: an international corporation transformed into an aggressive colonial power. Over the course of the next 47 years, the company’s reach grew until almost all of India south of Delhi was effectively ruled from a boardroom in the city of London.The Anarchy tells one of history’s most remarkable stories: how the Mughal Empire which dominated world trade and manufacturing and possessed almost unlimited resources fell apart and was replaced by a multinational corporation based thousands of miles overseas, and answerable to shareholders, most of whom had never even seen India and no idea about the country whose wealth was providing their dividends. Using previously untapped sources, Dalrymple tells the story of the East India Company as it has never been told before and provides a portrait of the devastating results from the abuse of corporate power.Bronze Medal in the 2020 Arthur Ross Book Award Review As William Dalrymple shows in his rampaging, brilliant, passionate history, The Anarchy, the East India Co. was the most advanced capitalist organization in the world . . . Mr. Dalrymple gives us every sword-slash, every scam, every groan and battle cry. He has no rival as a narrative historian of the British in India. The Anarchy is not simply a gripping tale of bloodshed and deceit, of unimaginable opulence and intolerable starvation. It is shot through with an unappeasable moral passion. - The Wall Street JournalSuperb. . . a vivid and richly detailed story . . . the greatest virtue of this disturbingly enjoyable book is perhaps less the questions it answers than the new ones it provokes about where corporations fit into the world, both then and now. . . Dalrymple’s book [is] worth reading by everyone. - The New York Times Book ReviewA great story told in fabulous detail with interesting, if at times utterly rapacious or incompetent, characters populating it. - NPRGripping . . . Drawing richly from sources in multiple languages, The Anarchy is gorgeously adorned with luminous images representing a range of perspectives . . . Delightful passages abound, including of the duel between Warren Hastings and Philip Francis, Shah Alam as ‘the sightless ruler of a largely illusory empire,’ and action-packed scenes of battle . . . Dalrymple has taken us to the limit of what page-turning history can be and do. - Los A...

-Titulo Original : The Price We Pay What Broke American Health Care--and How To Fix It-Fabricante : Bloomsbury Publishing-Descripcion Original: About the Author Dr. Marty Makary is a professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Bloomberg School of Public Health and the author of the New York Times bestseller, Unaccountable. He is a leading voice for physicians in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and USA Today, and is Editor-in-Chief of Medpage Today. Marty has published extensively on medical innovation, quality measurement, special issues of vulnerable populations, and health care costs. He served in leadership roles at the W.H.O. and has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine. He leads several national grants on health care transparency and the re-design of health care. Marty is the chief of the Johns Hopkins Center for Islet Transplantation Surgery and is the recipient of the Nobility in Science Award from the National Pancreas Foundation. Previously he served as founding director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Surgical Trials and Outcomes Research. Marty currently serves as chair of the advisory board of African Mission Healthcare. He lives in the Washington, DC area. New York Times bestsellerBusiness Book of the Year--Association of Business JournalistsFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Unaccountable comes an eye-opening, urgent look at Americas broken health care system--and the people who are saving it.A must-read for every American. --Steve Forbes, editor-in-chief, FORBESOne in five Americans now has medical debt in collections and rising health care costs today threaten every small business in America. Dr. Makary, one of the nation’s leading health care experts, travels across America and details why health care has become a bubble. Drawing from on-the-ground stories, his research, and his own experience, The Price We Pay paints a vivid picture of the business of medicine and its elusive money games in need of a serious shake-up. Dr. Makary shows how so much of health care spending goes to things that have nothing to do with health and what you can do about it. Dr. Makary challenges the medical establishment to remember medicine’s noble heritage of caring for people when they are vulnerable.The Price We Pay offers a road map for everyday Americans and business leaders to get a better deal on their health care, and profiles the disruptors who are innovating medical care. The movement to restore medicine to its mission, Makary argues, is alive and well a mission that can rebuild the public trust and save our country from the crushing cost of health care. Review “Dr. Makary takes a deep dive into the real issues driving up the price of health care and explains how we can all take action to restore medicine to its noble mission.” Don Berwick MD, senior fellow, Institute for Healthcare Improvement“A must-read for every American and business leader.” Steve Forbes, editor-in-chief, FORBES magazine“I absolutely loved this book. Insightful, sharp, and essential reading-one of the top 5 books Ive ever read.” Jay Newton-Small, TIME Magazine contributor and author of BROAD INFLUENCE“Marty Makary is a great storyteller, making accessible the business of medicine and the new ideas disrupting it without losing the important details. Everyone should read this book, and then demand a more transparent and fair system.” Shantanu Agrawal MD, President and CEO, the National Quality Forum“A valuable and illuminating read, full of intriguing insights into the use of decision-making in medicine and health care and how to make things work for all.” Cass Sunstein, co-author of NUDGE and Professor, Harvard Law School“Marty Makary is one of the great thought leaders in medicine and his new book, The Price We Pay, brilliantly lifts the veil on the state of modern medicine and the new ideas that are disrupting it.” Senator William H. Frist, MD“Over the course of decades, American health care lost the care component and devolved to a big, wasteful business. In his new book, Marty Makary und...

-Titulo Original : 23 Things They Dont Tell You About Capitalism-Fabricante : Bloomsbury Publishing-Descripcion Original: INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERFor anyone who wants to understand capitalism not as economists or politicians have pictured it but as it actually operates, this book will be invaluable.-Observer (UK) If youve wondered how we did not see the economic collapse coming, Ha-Joon Chang knows the answer: We didnt ask what they didnt tell us about capitalism. This is a lighthearted book with a serious purpose: to question the assumptions behind the dogma and sheer hype that the dominant school of neoliberal economists-the apostles of the freemarket-have spun since the Age of Reagan.Chang, the author of the international bestseller Bad Samaritans, is one of the worlds most respected economists, a voice of sanity-and wit-in the tradition of John Kenneth Galbraith and Joseph Stiglitz. 23 Things They Dont Tell You About Capitalism equips readers with an understanding of how global capitalism works-and doesnt. In his final chapter, How to Rebuild the World, Chang offers a vision of how we can shape capitalism to humane ends, instead of becoming slaves of the market. Review Chang, befitting his position as an economics professor at Cambridge University, is engagingly thoughtful and opinionated at a much lower decibel level. - TimeChang presents an enlightening precis of modern economic thought-and all the places its gone wrong, urging us to act in order to completely rebuild the world economy - Publishers WeeklyI doubt there is one book, written in response to the current economic crisis, that is as fun or easy to read as Ha-Joon Changs 23 Things They Dont Tell you About Capitalism. - AlterNet Executive Editor Don HazenMyth-busting and nicely-written collection of essays. - Independent (UK)A lively, accessible and provocative book. - Sunday Times (UK) About the Author Ha-Joon Chang, a Korean native, has taught at the Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge, since 1990. He has worked as a consultant for numerous international organizations, including various UN agencies, the World Bank, and the Asian Development Bank. He has published 11 books, including Kicking Away the Ladder, winner of the 2003 Myrdal Prize. In 2005, Ha-Joon Chang was awarded the 2005 Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought.Ha-Joon Chang teaches economics at Cambridge University. His books include Reclaiming Development (Zed 2004) and 23 Things They Dont Tell You about Capitalism (2010)...

-Titulo Original : Climate Justice Hope, Resilience, And The Fight For A Sustainable Future-Fabricante : Bloomsbury Publishing-Descripcion Original: About the Author Mary Robinson is president of the Mary Robinson Foundation-Climate Justice. She served in two capacities as the United Nations Secretary-Generals Special Envoy on Climate Change. She is the former President of Ireland and United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, and is now Chair of the Elders and a member of the Club of Madrid. In 2009, she was awarded the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom. “As advocate for the forgotten and the ignored, Mary Robinson has not only shone a light on human suffering, but illuminated a better future for our world.” -Barack Obama“The antidote for your climate change paralysis.” -Sierra“Insightful and optimistic.” -The GuardianFormer President of Ireland Mary Robinsons mission to bring together the fight against climate change and the global struggle for human rights has taken her all over the world. It also brought her to a heartening revelation: that that an irrepressible driving force in the battle for climate justice could be found at the grassroots level, mainly among women, many of them mothers and grandmothers like herself. Robinson met with ordinary people whose resilience and ingenuity had already unlocked extraordinary change: from a Mississippi matriarch whose campaign began in her East Biloxi hair salon and culminated in her speaking at the United Nations, to a farmer who transformed the fortunes of her ailing community in rural Uganda. In Climate Justice, she shares their stories, and many more. Powerful and deeply humane, this uplifting book is a stirring manifesto on one of the most pressing humanitarian issues of our time, and a lucid, affirmative, and well-argued case for hope. Review As advocate for the forgotten and the ignored, Mary Robinson has not only shone a light on human suffering, but illuminated a better future for our world. - Barack ObamaAddressing climate phenomena is the way to ensure justice for humanity. Mary Robinson, as UN Special Envoy on climate change & as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, has been a global champion to bring justice for all. Her book inspires & guides us on what to do to protect humanity & our only world. - Ban Ki-moon, 8th UN Secretary General, Member of the EldersThe most dramatic symptoms of our changing global climate--rising sea levels, extreme weather events, increasing desertification, and water scarcity--disproportionately affect vulnerable communities that are often far removed from the causes of human greenhouse gas emissions. Mary Robinson has been their champion for many years, and Climate Justice gives them a voice that we all should hear. Robinson makes a powerful and compelling case that the climate crisis is a crisis of humanity, requiring far more than mitigation and adaptation, but a renewed sense of shared destiny. Simply put, climate action must work for the good of all, or it won’t work for anyone. - Richard BransonRobinson’s lucid, direct style works because it gives a voice to those who have taken it upon themselves to tackle Earth’s most pressing problems. The book’s central message is a mantra worth repeating: individual local action can grow into a global idea, producing positive change. - ObserverSustainable development is at the heart of climate justice--protecting the planet, now and for generations to come. The stories in this book reveal the lived experience of people doing just that, adapting and strengthening their resilience in the face of climate change. They are courageous men and women whose lessons we all should heed. - Gro Harlem BrundtlandThis is a book about people: farmers and activists in Africa, Asia, and the Americas, people whose livelihood is ruined by climate change and climate injustice. Yet it is also a celebration of their fight back. I was moved by Mary Robinson’s account of amazing women leading the fight for their communities. - Mo IbrahimMary Robinson brings the power of the voice of those heavily ...

-Titulo Original : The Anarchy The East India Company, Corporate Violence, And The Pillage Of An Empire-Fabricante : Bloomsbury Publishing-Descripcion Original: About the Author William Dalrymple is the bestselling author of In Xanadu, City of Djinns, From the Holy Mountain, The Age of Kali, White Mughals, The Last Mughal and, most recently, Nine Lives. He has won the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award, the Sunday Times Young British Writer of the Year Award, the Ryszard Kapuscinski Award for Literary Reportage, the Hemingway Prize, the French Prix dAstrolabe, the Wolfson Prize for History, the Scottish Book of the Year Award, the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize, the Asia House Award for Asian Literature, the Vodafone Crossword Award and has three times been longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize. In 2012 he was appointed Whitney J. Oates Visiting Fellow in Humanities at Princeton University. He lives with his wife and three children on a farm outside Delhi. ONE OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMAS FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEARNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY The Wall Street Journal and NPRThe epic story of how the East India Company took over large swaths of Asia, and the devastating results of the corporation running a country.In August 1765, the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and set up, in his stead, a government run by English traders who collected taxes through means of a private army. Over the course of the next 47 years, the companys reach grew until almost all of India south of Delhi was essentially ruled from a boardroom in the city of London.The Anarchy tells one of historys most remarkable stories: how the Mughal Empire-which dominated world trade and manufacturing and possessed almost unlimited resources-fell apart and was replaced by a multinational corporation answerable only to shareholders, most of whom had never even seen India and no idea about the country whose wealth provided their dividends. Using previously untapped sources, William Dalrymple provides a devastating portrait of the brutality that results when a company becomes a colonial power. Review “As William Dalrymple shows in his rampaging, brilliant, passionate history, The Anarchy, the East India Co. was the most advanced capitalist organization in the world . . . Mr. Dalrymple gives us every sword-slash, every scam, every groan and battle cry. He has no rival as a narrative historian of the British in India. The Anarchy is not simply a gripping tale of bloodshed and deceit, of unimaginable opulence and intolerable starvation. It is shot through with an unappeasable moral passion.” The Wall Street Journal“Superb. . . a vivid and richly detailed story . . . the greatest virtue of this disturbingly enjoyable book is perhaps less the questions it answers than the new ones it provokes about where corporations fit into the world, both then and now. . . Dalrymples book [is] worth reading by everyone.” The New York Times Book Review“A great story told in fabulous detail with interesting, if at times utterly rapacious or incompetent, characters populating it.” NPR“Gripping . . . Drawing richly from sources in multiple languages, The Anarchy is gorgeously adorned with luminous images representing a range of perspectives . . . Delightful passages abound, including of the duel between Warren Hastings and Philip Francis, Shah Alam as the sightless ruler of a largely illusory empire, and action-packed scenes of battle . . . Dalrymple has taken us to the limit of what page-turning history can be and do.” Los Angeles Review of Books“An energetic pageturner that marches from the counting house on to the battlefield, exploding patriotic myths along the way … Dalrymples spirited, detailed telling will be reason enough for many readers to devour The Anarchy. But his more novel and arguably greater achievement lies in the way he places the companys rise in the turbulent political landscape of late Mughal India.” The Guardian“How timely [The Anarchy] feels, how surprisingly of the moment … It serves as a reminder that early capitalism was just as perverse, predatory,...

-Titulo Original : Lead Yourself First Inspiring Leadership Through Solitude-Fabricante : Bloomsbury Publishing-Descripcion Original: Lead Yourself First makes a compelling argument for the integral relationship between solitude and leadership. --The Wall Street JournalThroughout history, leaders have used solitude as a matter of course. Martin Luther King found moral courage while sitting alone at his kitchen table one night during the Montgomery bus boycott. Jane Goodall used her intuition in the jungles of central Africa while learning how to approach chimps. Solitude is a state of mind, a space where you can focus on your own thoughts without distraction, with a power to bring mind and soul together in clear-eyed conviction. But these days, handheld devices and other media leave us awash with the thoughts of others. We are losing solitude without even realizing it.To find solitude today, a leader must make a conscious effort. This book explains why the effort is worthwhile and how to make it. Through gripping historical accounts and firsthand interviews with a wide range of contemporary leaders, Raymond Kethledge (a federal court of appeals judge) and Michael Erwin (a West Pointer and three-tour combat veteran) show how solitude can enhance clarity, spur creativity, sustain emotional balance, and generate the moral courage necessary to overcome adversity and criticism. Anyone who leads anyone--including oneself--can benefit from solitude. With a foreword by Jim Collins (author of the bestseller Good to Great), Lead Yourself First is a rallying cry to reclaim solitude--and all the benefits, both practical and sublime, that come with it. Review “A thoughtful new book Lead Yourself First . . . tells the stories of many inspiring leaders throughout history who relied on solitude at crucial moments in their lives, from Winston Churchill and Pope John Paul II to Martin Luther King Jr. and Aung San Suu Kyi . . . But as the authors point out, you dont have to lead armies, corporations, or artistic movements to benefit from solitude.” The Washington Post“Lead Yourself First makes a compelling argument for the integral relationship between solitude and leadership.” Wall Street Journal“This thoughtful self-improvement guide from Kethledge, a Sixth Circuit judge, and Erwin, founder of the nonprofit Positivity Project, is a must-read for leaders who take their leadership roles seriously. It is a book to digest slowly, a powerful narrative . . . . This book is a rare gem, offering an optimistic message.” Publishers Weekly About the Author Raymond M. Kethledge is a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and was a candidate for the Supreme Court in 2018. He formerly served as a law clerk to Justice Anthony Kennedy and founded his own law firm. He lives near Ann Arbor, Michigan.Michael S. Erwin is a graduate of West Point and served three tours in Afghanistan and Iraq. He is now the CEO of the Character & Leadership Center, the president of the Positivity Project, and the founder and chairman of Team Red, White & Blue. He lives in North Carolina...

-Titulo Original : Secondhand Travels In The New Global Garage Sale-Fabricante : Bloomsbury Publishing-Descripcion Original: About the Author Adam Minter grew up in a family of scrap dealers in Minneapolis. He became a professional journalist and now serves as the Shanghai correspondent for Bloomberg World View, in addition to making regular contributions to the Atlantic, Foreign Policy, and other publications. He now lives in Shanghai and blogs at shanghaiscrap . Junkyard Planet is his first book. Revelatory, terrifying, but, ultimately, hopeful. Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of THE SIXTH EXTINCTIONFrom the author of Junkyard Planet, a journey into the surprising afterlives of our former possessions.Downsizing. Decluttering. Discarding. Sooner or later, all of us are faced with things we no longer need or want. But when we drop our old clothes and other items off at a local donation center, where do they go? Sometimes across the country or even halfway across the world to people and places who find value in what we leave behind.In Secondhand, journalist Adam Minter takes us on an unexpected adventure into the often-hidden, multibillion-dollar industry of reuse: thrift stores in the American Southwest to vintage shops in Tokyo, flea markets in Southeast Asia to used-goods enterprises in Ghana, and more. Along the way, Minter meets the fascinating people who handle and profit from our rising tide of discarded stuff, and asks a pressing question: In a world that craves shiny and new, is there room for it all?Secondhand offers hopeful answers and hard truths. A history of the stuff we’ve used and a contemplation of why we keep buying more, it also reveals the marketing practices, design failures, and racial prejudices that push used items into landfills instead of new homes. Secondhand shows us that it doesnt have to be this way, and what really needs to change to build a sustainable future free of excess stuff. Review It’s [Minter’s] vibrant sketches of entrepreneurial characters and his dives into obscure industrial histories that make a persuasive case: discarded goods are becoming a big environmental problem. - Los Angeles Review of BooksWith grace, a keen eye for detail, an interesting cast of characters who spend their life reselling used things, and the perennially curious mind of a great journalist, Minter takes readers from the backs of thrift stores all across the United States to small apartments and vintage shops in Tokyo, and from a truck in Mexico to an office in Mumbai, to show the inner workings of one of the worlds largest market . . . Secondhand is a gripping narrative. Minter is a superb storyteller who knows empathy is easier to connect with than numbers. In this book, there are plenty of both, but the people he interviews and the stories he tells are what make it an enthralling read . . . Its a book Id recommend buying now instead of waiting for it to show up at your local thrift store. - NPR.orgAn anthem to decluttering, recycling, making better quality goods and living a simpler life with less stuff. The book is a compelling argument for tempering acquisitions, especially now that global warming compels people to rethink how they live. - Associated PressIn an accessible and engaging style, Secondhand unravels the complexities of a vast yet mostly hidden and often secretive enterprise of used clothes and goods . . . The result is an unparalleled look at the lifespan of everyday things and the unexpected ways our societys abundance of discarded items are, refreshingly, being repurposed for a second life. - Shelf AwarenessA sprawling, insightful travelogue through the world of repair, reuse and waste, Secondhand takes readers deep inside the consumer economy’s back end. In exploring the vast global tide of used and discarded goods, Adam Minter delivers a book as crammed with oddities and gems as the second-hand shops he loves to haunt. - NatureThis is a fascinating, eye-opening look at a dynamic, largely unseen world that only starts when one drop...

-Titulo Original : The Spirit Level Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger-Fabricante : Bloomsbury Publishing-Descripcion Original: Groundbreaking analysis showing that greater economic equality-not greater wealth-is the mark of the most successful societies, and offering new ways to achieve it.Get your hands on this book.-Bill MoyersThis groundbreaking book, based on thirty years research, demonstrates that more unequal societies are bad for almost everyone within them-the well-off and the poor. The remarkable data the book lays out and the measures it uses are like a spirit level which we can hold up to compare different societies. The differences revealed, even between rich market democracies, are striking. Almost every modern social and environmental problem-ill health, lack of community life, violence, drugs, obesity, mental illness, long working hours, big prison populations-is more likely to occur in a less equal society. The book goes to the heart of the apparent contrast between material success and social failure in many modern national societies.The Spirit Level does not simply provide a diagnosis of our ills, but provides invaluable instruction in shifting the balance from self-interested consumerism to a friendlier, more collaborative society. It shows a way out of the social and environmental problems which beset us, and opens up a major new approach to improving the real quality of life, not just for the poor but for everyone. It is, in its conclusion, an optimistic book, which should revitalize politics and provide a new way of thinking about how we organize human communities. Review This is a book with a big idea, big enough to change political thinking. - John Carey, Sunday Times (UK)Might be the most important book of the year. - John Crace, GuardianAnyone who believes that what society is the result of what we do, rather than who we are, should read The Spirit Level because of its inarguable battery of evidence, and because its conclusion is simple: we do better when were equal. - Lynsey Hanley, GuardianThe importance of the Spirit Level is that it provides a vital part of the intellectual manifesto on which the battle for a better society can be fought. - Roy Hattersley, The New StatesmanAn eloquent case that the income gap between a nations richest and poorest is the most powerful indicator of a functioning and healthy society - Publishers Weekly About the Author Richard Wilkinson has played a formative role in international research in inequalities in health and his work has been published in 10 languages. He studied economic history at the London School of Economics before training in epidemiology and is Professor Emeritus at the University of Nottingham Medical School and Honorary Professor at University College London. Kate Pickett is a Professor of Epidemiology at the University of York and a former National Institute for Health Research Career Scientist. She is the co-founder of The Equality Trust. She studied physical anthropology at Cambridge, nutritional sciences at Cornell and epidemiology at Berkeley before spending four years as an Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago...

-Titulo Original : Economics The Users Guide-Fabricante : Bloomsbury Publishing-Descripcion Original: From the internationally bestselling author and prizewinning economist--a highly original guide to the global economy.In his bestselling 23 Things They Dont Tell You About Capitalism, Cambridge economist Ha-Joon Chang brilliantly debunked many of the predominant myths of neoclassical economics. Now, in an entertaining and accessible primer, he explains how the global economy actually works--in real-world terms. Writing with irreverent wit, a deep knowledge of history, and a disregard for conventional economic pieties, Chang offers insights that will never be found in the textbooks. Unlike many economists, who present only one view of their discipline, Chang introduces a wide range of economic theories, from classical to Keynesian, revealing how each has its strengths and weaknesses, and why there is no one way to explain economic behavior. Instead, by ignoring the received wisdom and exposing the myriad forces that shape our financial world, Chang gives us the tools we need to understand our increasingly global and interconnected world often driven by economics. From the future of the Euro, inequality in China, or the condition of the American manufacturing industry here in the United States--Economics: The User’s Guide is a concise and expertly crafted guide to economic fundamentals that offers a clear and accurate picture of the global economy and how and why it affects our daily lives. Review “The dismal science rendered undismally, even spryly . . . lively, intelligent, and readily accessible.” Kirkus Reviews“This excellent economics primer is written in plain terms for a college-educated reader; it follows efforts by some academics to seek a readership market beyond the classroom.” Booklist“A practical guide that shows the importance of the subject as a worldview and how it fits into everyday life.” Library Journal“This book should be the poster child for the word tweener. Not quite an introductory text (although that is the category into which the author places it), the book is a mile wide and an inch deep and includes everything but the kitchen sink in terms of level of detail and scope of coverage [ . . . ] an interesting, entertaining, and worthwhile contribution that offers a picture of the global economy and how and why it affects daily life. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-level undergraduates and above; general readers.” A. R. Sanderson, University of Chicago CHOICE About the Author Ha-Joon Chang, a Korean native, has taught at the Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge, since 1990. He has worked as a consultant for numerous international organizations, including various UN agencies, the World Bank, and the Asian Development Bank. He has published 11 books, including Kicking Away the Ladder, winner of the 2003 Myrdal Prize. In 2005, Ha-Joon Chang was awarded the 2005 Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought.Ha-Joon Chang teaches economics at Cambridge University. His books include Reclaiming Development (Zed 2004) and 23 Things They Dont Tell You about Capitalism (2010)...

-Titulo Original : Bad Samaritans The Myth Of Free Trade And The Secret History Of Capitalism-Fabricante : Bloomsbury Publishing-Descripcion Original: Lucid, deeply informed, and enlivened with striking illustrations. -Noam ChomskyOne economist has called Ha-Joon Chang the most exciting thinker our profession has turned out in the past fifteen years. With Bad Samaritans, this provocative scholar bursts into the debate on globalization and economic justice. Using irreverent wit, an engagingly personal style, and a battery of examples, Chang blasts holes in the World Is Flat orthodoxy of Thomas Friedman and other liberal economists who argue that only unfettered capitalism and wide-open international trade can lift struggling nations out of poverty. On the contrary, Chang shows, todays economic superpowers-from the U.S. to Britain to his native Korea-all attained prosperity by shameless protectionism and government intervention in industry. We have conveniently forgotten this fact, telling ourselves a fairy tale about the magic of free trade and-via our proxies such as the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and World Trade Organization-ramming policies that suit ourselves down the throat of the developing world. Unlike typical economists who construct models of how the marketplace should work, Chang examines the past: what has actually happened. His pungently contrarian history demolishes one pillar after another of free-market mythology. We treat patents and copyrights as sacrosanct-but developed our own industries by studiously copying others technologies. We insist that centrally planned economies stifle growth-but many developing countries had higher GDP growth before they were pressured into deregulating their economies. Both justice and common sense, Chang argues, demand that we reevaluate the policies we force on nations that are struggling to follow in our footsteps. Review Lucid, deeply informed, and enlivened with striking illustrations ... [Changs] incisive analysis shows how, and why, prescriptions based on reigning doctrines have caused severe harm, particularly to the most vulnerable and defenseless, and are likely to continue to do so. - Noam ChomskyI recommend this book to people who have any interest in these issues - i.e. everyone. - Bob GeldofA smart, lively, and provocative book that offers us compelling new ways of looking at globalization. - Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel laureate in economics, 2001 The resulting polemic about the shortcomings of neoliberal economic theorys belief in unlimited free-market competition and its effect on the developing world is provocative and may hold the key to similar miracles for some of the worlds most troubled economies. - Publishers Weekly, starred review About the Author Ha-Joon Chang, a Korean native, has taught at the Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge, since 1990. He has worked as a consultant for numerous international organizations, including various UN agencies, the World Bank, and the Asian Development Bank. He has published 11 books, including Kicking Away the Ladder, winner of the 2003 Myrdal Prize. In 2005, Ha-Joon Chang was awarded the 2005 Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought.Ha-Joon Chang teaches economics at Cambridge University. His books include Reclaiming Development (Zed 2004) and 23 Things They Dont Tell You about Capitalism (2010)...

-Titulo Original : This Is How They Tell Me The World Ends The Cyberweapons Arms Race-Fabricante : Bloomsbury Publishing-Descripcion Original: About the Author Nicole Perlroth is an award-winning cybersecurity journalist for the New York Times, where her work has been optioned for both film and television. She is a regular lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a graduate of Princeton University and Stanford University. She lives with her family in the Bay Area, but increasingly prefers life off the grid in their cabin in the woods. THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER of the 2021 Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award“Part John le Carre and more parts Michael Crichton . . . spellbinding.” The New YorkerWritten in the hot, propulsive prose of a spy thriller (The New York Times), the untold story of the cyberweapons market the most secretive, government-backed market on earth and a terrifying first look at a new kind of global warfare.Zero day: a software bug that allows a hacker to break into your devices and move around undetected. One of the most coveted tools in a spys arsenal, a zero day has the power to silently spy on your iPhone, dismantle the safety controls at a chemical plant, alter an election, and shut down the electric grid (just ask Ukraine).For decades, under cover of classification levels and non-disclosure agreements, the United States government became the world’s dominant hoarder of zero days. U.S. government agents paid top dollar first thousands, and later millions of dollars to hackers willing to sell their lock-picking code and their silence.Then the United States lost control of its hoard and the market.Now those zero days are in the hands of hostile nations and mercenaries who do not care if your vote goes missing, your clean water is contaminated, or our nuclear plants melt down.Filled with spies, hackers, arms dealers, and a few unsung heroes, written like a thriller and a reference, This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends is an astonishing feat of journalism. Based on years of reporting and hundreds of interviews, The New York Times reporter Nicole Perlroth lifts the curtain on a market in shadow, revealing the urgent threat faced by us all if we cannot bring the global cyber arms race to heel. Review An intricately detailed, deeply sourced and reported history of the origins and growth of the [cyberweapons] market and the global cyberweapons arms race it has sparked . . . This is no bloodless, just-the-facts chronicle. Written in the hot, propulsive prose of a spy thriller, Perlroth’s book sets out from the start to scare us out of our complacency. - Jonathan Tepperman, The New York TimesThe best kind of reportage . . . a rollicking fun trip, front to back, and an urgent call for action before our wired world spins out of our control. Ive covered cybersecurity for a decade and yet paragraph after paragraph I kept wondering: How did she manage to figure *that* out? How is she so good?’ - Garrett M. Graff, Wired, author of New York Times bestseller THE ONLY PLANE IN THE SKYA vivid and provocative chronicle of Perlroth’s travels through the netherworld of the global cyberweapons arms trade. - The New York Review of BooksTold in an enthrallingly cinematic style . . . This is How They Tell Me the World Ends is a stark, necessary, thoroughly reported reminder that no matter how strong the safe is, there’ll always be someone who can come along and crack it. - LitHubA stemwinder of a tale of how frightening cyber weapons have been turned on their maker. Perlroth takes a complex subject that has been cloaked in techspeak and makes it dead real for the rest of us. - Kara Swisher, co-founder of Recode and host of the New York Times podcast SwayAn engaging and troubling account of ‘zero-day exploits’ . . . This secretive market is difficult to penetrate, but Ms. Perlroth has dug deeper than most and chronicles her efforts wittily. - The EconomistPossibly the most important book of the year . . . Perlroth’s precise, lucid, and compelling presentatio...

-Titulo Original : Girlhood-Fabricante : Bloomsbury Publishing-Descripcion Original: About the Author Melissa Febos is the author of the memoir Whip Smart, the essay collection, Abandon Me, and a craft book, Body Work. A 2022 Guggenheim Fellow, she is also the inaugural winner of the Jeanne Cordova Nonfiction Award from LAMBDA Literary and the recipient of fellowships from The National Endowment for the Arts, MacDowell, Bread Loaf, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, The BAU Institute, Vermont Studio Center, The Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, and others. Her essays have appeared in The Paris Review, The Believer, McSweeney’s Quarterly, Granta, Sewanee Review, Tin House, The Sun, and The New York Times. She is an associate professor at the University of Iowa, where she teaches in the Nonfiction Writing Program. National Book Critics Circle Award WinnerNational BestsellerLambda Literary Award FinalistNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TIME * NPR * The Washington Post * Kirkus Reviews * Washington Independent Review of Books * The Millions * Electric Literature * Ms Magazine * Entropy Magazine * Largehearted Boy * Passerbuys“Irreverent and original.” -New York Times“Magisterial.” -The New Yorker“An intoxicating writer.” -The Atlantic“A classic!” -Mary Karr“A true light in the dark.” -Stephanie Danler“An essential, heartbreaking project.” -Carmen Maria MachadoA gripping set of stories about the forces that shape girls and the adults they become. A wise and brilliant guide to transforming the self and our society.In her powerful new book, critically acclaimed author Melissa Febos examines the narratives women are told about what it means to be female and what it takes to free oneself from them.When her body began to change at eleven years old, Febos understood immediately that her meaning to other people had changed with it. By her teens, she defined herself based on these perceptions and by the romantic relationships she threw herself into headlong. Over time, Febos increasingly questioned the stories she’d been told about herself and the habits and defenses she’d developed over years of trying to meet others’ expectations. The values she and so many other women had learned in girlhood did not prioritize their personal safety, happiness, or freedom, and she set out to reframe those values and beliefs.Blending investigative reporting, memoir, and scholarship, Febos charts how she and others like her have reimagined relationships and made room for the anger, grief, power, and pleasure women have long been taught to deny.Written with Febos’ characteristic precision, lyricism, and insight, Girlhood is a philosophical treatise, an anthem for women, and a searing study of the transitions into and away from girlhood, toward a chosen self. Review “Febos’s own voice is so irreverent and original. The aim of this book, though, is not simply to tell about her own life, but to listen to the pulses of many others’. In her author’s note, Febos writes that she has ‘found company in the stories of other women, and the revelation of all our ordinariness has itself been curative.’ This solidarity puts Girlhood in a feminist canon that includes Febos’s idol, Adrienne Rich, and Maggie Nelson’s theory-minded masterpieces: smart, radical company, and not ordinary at all.” - The New York Times Book Review“Anyone who has ever been a girl or a woman will recognize the patterns Febos uncovers: the unwanted touch, the expectations of our bodies, the way we become complicit in the traps laid out for us along the way by the patriarchal structures that govern so many of our social, professional, and interpersonal spheres… By following Feboss distinct paths between the past and present, we might realize theres room to forge our own, and that weve just been handed a flashlight that helps illuminate the way.” - NPR“The harrowing nature of transformation is Girlhood’s core subject, and in seven chapters Febos explores the interconnected aspects of patriarchy and the marks that they’ve left on h...

-Titulo Original : We Are Bellingcat Global Crime, Online Sleuths, And The Bold Future Of News-Fabricante : Bloomsbury Publishing-Descripcion Original: About the Author Eliot Higgins is the founder of Bellingcat, an international collective of researchers, investigators, and citizen journalists using open-source and social media investigation to probe some of the worlds most pressing stories. Higgins also sits on the technical advisory board of the International Criminal Court in The Hague. In 2018 he was a visiting research associate at Kings College London and at the University of California, Berkeley.@EliotHiggins INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER“Fascinating … A powerful, exhortatory call to arms.” New York Times Book Review“A David-and-Goliath story for the digital age … Thrilling.” Foreign PolicyThe page-turning inside story of the global team wielding the internet to fight for facts and combat autocracy revealing the extraordinary ability of ordinary people to hold the powerful to account.In 2018, Russian exile Sergei Skripal and his daughter were nearly killed in an audacious poisoning attempt in Salisbury, England. Soon, the identity of one of the suspects was revealed: he was a Russian spy. This huge investigative coup wasn’t pulled off by an intelligence agency or a traditional news outlet. Instead, the scoop came from Bellingcat, the open-source investigative team that is redefining the way we think about news, politics, and the digital future.We Are Bellingcat tells the inspiring story of how a college dropout pioneered a new category of reporting and galvanized citizen journalists working together from their computer screens around the globe to crack major cases, at a time when fact-based journalism is under assault from authoritarian forces. Founder Eliot Higgins introduces readers to the tools Bellingcat investigators use, tools available to anyone, from software that helps you pinpoint the location of an image, to an app that can nail down the time that photo was taken. This book digs deep into some of Bellingcat’s most important investigations the downing of flight MH17 over Ukraine, Assad’s use of chemical weapons in Syria, the identities of alt-right protestors in Charlottesville with the drama and gripping detail of a spy novel. Review If you dont know what Bellingcat is, this is your chance to learn: We Are Bellingcat tells the story of the most innovative practitioners of open-source intelligence and online journalism in the world. They have told the true stories of the missiles that downed the MH17 airplane in Ukraine and the chemical weapons used by the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad. They have identified the neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, exposed a Kremlin hit team, found ISIS supporters in Europe. In this book their founder, Eliot Higgins, describes how and why they do it. - Anne Applebaum, author of TWILIGHT OF DEMOCRACY and GULAGIn a world of disrupters, Eliot Higgins and Bellingcat have turned the world of intelligence gathering on its head and put to shame the intelligence services of the biggest and most powerful countries in the world. We Are Bellingcat tells the gripping story of how the Bellingcat team used innovative investigation techniques to expose some of the gravest state crimes of our era. Their success is a wake-up call to governments who have been asleep at the wheel about what is needed to fight dictators and kleptocrats. - Bill Browder, author of RED NOTICEBellingcat has pioneered a new field of investigation that has proven key to understanding the clandestine criminal actions of Russia and other nations both at home and abroad. They have exposed numerous war crimes, human rights violations, and much more. If there were a Nobel Prize in uncovering war crimes, Bellingcat would receive it. No wonder authoritarian and criminal regimes hate them so. - Toomas Hendrik Ilves, former President of EstoniaA David-and-Goliath story for the digital age … Like Bellingcat’s work, this book is both straight to the point and thrilling. It is a balm for the soul of anyone who has grown weary of the c...

-Titulo Original : Family Of Secrets The Bush Dynasty, Americas Invisible Government, And The Hidden History Of The Last Fifty Years-Fabricante : Bloomsbury Publishing-Descripcion Original: How did the deeply flawed George W. Bush ascend to the highest office in the nation, what forces abetted his rise, and-perhaps most important-have those forces really been vanquished by Obamas election? Award-winning investigative journalist Russ Baker gives us the answers in Family of Secrets, a compelling and startling new take on the Bush dynasty and the shadowy elite that has quietly steered the American republic for the past half century and more. Baker shows how this network of figures in intelligence, the military, oil, and finance enabled-and in turn benefited handsomely from-the Bushes perch at the highest levels of government. As Baker reveals, this deeply entrenched elite remains in power regardless of who sits in the Oval Office. Family of Secrets offers countless disclosures that challenge the conventional accounts of such central events as the JFK assassination and Watergate. It includes an inside account of George W.s cynical religious conversion and the untold real background to the disastrous response to Hurricane Katrina. Bakers narrative is gripping, sobering, and deeply sourced. It will change the way we understand not just the Bush years, but a half century of postwar history-and the present. Review “One of the most important books of the past ten years.” Gore Vidal“A tour de force … Family of Secrets has made me rethink even those events I witnessed with my own eyes.” Dan Rather“Shocking in its disclosures, elegantly crafted, and faultlessly measured in its judgments, Family of Secrets is nothing less than a first historic portrait in full of the Bush dynasty and the era it shaped. From revelation to revelation, insight to insight--from the Kennedy assassination to Watergate to the oil and financial intrigues that lie behind todays headlines--this is a sweeping drama of money and power, unseen forces, and the emblematic triumph of a lineage that sowed national tragedy. Russ Bakers Family of Secrets is sure to take its place as one of the most startling and influential works of American history and journalism.” Roger Morris, former senior staff member, National Security Council, and author of Richard Milhous Nixon: The Rise of an American Politician and Partners in Power: The Clintons and Their America“Left-wing paranoia? Baker, a solid investigative journalist, works hard to back up his claims - a reader could choke on the complex, interwoven details in Family of Secrets. Hes a man on a mission, desperate to stop the methods of stealth and manipulation that ... reflect a deeper ill: the American publics increasingly tenuous hold upon the levers of its own democracy.” San Diego Union-Tribune“Prodigiously industrious investigative journalist Russ Baker…. connects the dots between the Bushes and Watergate.” Lev Grossman, Time Magazine About the Author Russ Baker is an awardwinning investigative journalist. He has written for the New Yorker, Vanity Fair, the New York Times, the Nation, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, the Village Voice, and Esquire, and has served as a contributing editor to the Columbia Journalism Review. He is the founder of WhoWhatWhy/the Real News Project, a nonpartisan, nonprofit news organization, operating at whowhatwhy ...

-Titulo Original : The Doomsday Machine Confessions Of A Nuclear War Planner-Fabricante : Bloomsbury Publishing-Descripcion Original: About the Author In 1961, Daniel Ellsberg, a consultant to the White House, drafted Secretary Robert McNamaras plans for nuclear war. Later he leaked the Pentagon Papers. A senior fellow of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, he is the author of Secrets and the subject of the Oscar-nominated documentary The Most Dangerous Man in America. He is also a key figure in Steven Spielberg’s film about the Pentagon Papers, The Post, and the winner of the Olof Palme Prize for profound humanism and exceptional moral courage. He lives in Kensington, California, with his wife, Patricia. Shortlisted for the 2018 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in NonfictionFrom the legendary Pentagon Papers whistle-blower, an eyewitness expose of Americas Top Secret, seventy-year nuclear policy that continues to this day.Here, for the first time, former high-level defense analyst Daniel Ellsberg reveals his shocking firsthand account of Americas nuclear program in the 1960s. From the remotest air bases in the Pacific Command, where he discovered that the authority to initiate use of nuclear weapons was widely delegated, to the secret plans for general nuclear war under Eisenhower, which, if executed, would cause the near-extinction of humanity, Ellsberg shows that the legacy of this most dangerous arms buildup in the history of civilization--and its proposed renewal under the Trump administration--threatens our very survival. No other insider with high-level access has written so candidly of the nuclear strategy of the late Eisenhower and early Kennedy years, and nothing has fundamentally changed since that era.Framed as a memoir--a chronicle of madness in which Ellsberg acknowledges participating--this gripping expose reads like a thriller and offers feasible steps we can take to dismantle the existing doomsday machine and avoid nuclear catastrophe, returning Ellsberg to his role as whistle-blower. The Doomsday Machine is thus a real-life Dr. Strangelove story and an ultimately hopeful--and powerfully important--book about not just our country, but the future of the world. Review The Doomsday Machine is being published at an alarmingly relevant moment, as North Korea is seeking the capability to target the United States with nuclear missiles, and an unpredictable president, Donald Trump, has countered with threats of fire and fury. - New York MagazineA groundbreaking and nightmare-inducing account of how the whole mad system works. - EsquireOne of the best books ever written on the subject--certainly the most honest and revealing account by an insider who plunged deep into the nuclear rabbit holes mad logic and came out the other side. - Fred Kaplan, SlateDaniel Ellsbergs The Doomsday Machine (Bloomsbury) unpacks the power of our atomic arsenal. - Vanity FairEllsberg, the dauntless whistle-blower, has written a timely plea for a reassessment of a weapons program that he describes as institutionalized madness. - Best Books of the Year 2017, The San Francisco ChronicleA passionate call for reducing the risk of total destruction . . . Ellsbergs effort to make vivid the genuine madness of the doomsday machine, and the foolishness of betting our survival on mutually assured destruction, is both commendable and important. - Editors Choice, New York Times Book ReviewBrilliantly and readably tackles an issue even more crucial than decision-making in the U.S. intervention in Vietnam, which is policy on the handling of nuclear weapons. - 10 Excellent December Books, Huffington PostThis candid and chilling memoir describes how Ellsberg came to recognize that the U.S. military’s approach to preparing for nuclear war was terrifyingly casual. If war came, the United States was ready to obliterate not only the Soviet Union but also China--a plan that would have immediately produced 275 million fatalities and then led to another 50 million, owing to the effects of radiation. - Foreign Affair...

-Titulo Original : The Savior Generals How Five Great Commanders Saved Wars That Were Lost - From Ancient Greece To Iraq-Fabricante : Bloomsbury Publishing-Descripcion Original: About the Author Victor Davis Hanson is the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow in Residence in Classics and Military History at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, a professor of Classics Emeritus at California State University, Fresno, and a nationally syndicated columnist for Tribune Media Services. His many books include the acclaimed The Father of Us All, A War Like No Other, The Western Way of War, Carnage and Culture, and Ripples of Battle. Stirring portraits of five commanders whose dynamic leadership changed the course of war and history by prominent military historian Victor Davis Hanson.Victor Davis Hanson has written another outstanding and eye-opening book--The Washington ExaminerProminent military historian Victor Davis Hanson explores the nature of leadership with his usual depth and vivid prose in The Savior Generals, a set of brilliantly executed pocket biographies of five generals (Themistocles, Belisarius, William Tecumseh Sherman, Matthew Ridgway, and David Petraeus) who single-handedly saved their nations from defeat in war. War is rarely a predictable enterprise-it is a mess of luck, chance, and incalculable variables. Todays sure winner can easily become tomorrows doomed loser. Sudden, sharp changes in fortune can reverse the course of war.These intractable circumstances are sometimes mastered by leaders of genius-asked at the eleventh hour to save a hopeless conflict, one created by others and frequently unpopular politically and with the public. The savior generals often come from outside the established power structure, employ radical strategies, and flame out quickly. Their careers regularly end in controversy. But their dramatic feats of leadership are vital slices of history-not merely as stirring military narrative, but as lessons on the dynamic nature of consensus, leadership, and destiny. Review “An instructive series of portraits of five military outsiders called in to turn defeat into victory.” Kirkus Reviews“It is not really news that Victor Davis Hanson has written another outstanding and eye-opening book. He has done that before and repeatedly, on a variety of subjects.” The Washington Examiner“Students of military leadership will be intrigued by Hansons astute set of cases.” Booklist“Mr. Hansons fluency with a broad range of historical epochs, which has made him one of his generations most notable historians, is on full display in The Savior Generals.” Wall Street Journal, Mark Moya...

-Titulo Original : Walking To Listen 4,000 Miles Across America, One Story At A Time-Fabricante : Bloomsbury Publishing-Descripcion Original: Review -Soulful . . . [Forsthoefels] openness provides a window into the extraordinary lessons to be learned from ordinary people. This is a memorable and heartfelt exploration of what it takes to hike 4,000 miles across the country and how one young man learned to walk without fear into his future.- - Booklist-A remarkable book that calls to mind William Least--Heat Moons Blue Highways.- - Starred Review, Library Journal-In this moving and deeply introspective memoir, Forsthoefel writes about the uncertainties, melodramas, ambiguities, and loneliness of youth . . . Forsthoefels walk becomes a meditation on vulnerability, trust, and the tragedy of suburban and rural alienation . . . [his] conversation with America is fascinating, terrifying, mundane, and at times heartbreaking, but ultimately transformative and wise.- - Publishers Weekly-Forsthoefel offers moments of genuine kinship and transcendence . . . An intriguing portrait of America.- - Kirkus Reviews-Whoever you are, wherever youre from, you need to read this book. You need to read it for its searing honesty, its hopefulness, and its grace. You need to read it because its story is your story, too. Andrew Forsthoefel walked across a continent to listen to strangers and learn from them. There is great wisdom in his footfalls, and you are holding it in your hands.- - Sue Halpern, author of A DOG WALKS INTO A NURSING HOME-In a world of congestion and noise Andrew Forsthoefel has written a book that opens up an ocean of sublime reflective space. As refreshing as it is timeless and endearing, Forsthoefel deftly shifts between his inner being and the peoples lives that flow through him, mile by mile. His enduring determination to understand others is infectious, and like the many walks of life who embrace him into their homes and hearts, we cannot help but be disarmed of any lingering cynicism or distrust. Ultimately Forsthoefel inspires us to be more curious in life and less offended - a virtuous philosophy in what appears to be an age of increasing polarity in American society.- - Tim Cope, award winning author of ON THE TRAIL OF GENGHIS KHAN-If you look at Andrew Forsthoefels journey on a map, its a tiny thread, an infinitesimal crack, yet its enough to break loose Americas stories: The open hearts and closed minds, the love and the fear, the beauty and danger, the wisdom.- - Jay Allison, Producer of The Moth Radio Hour-With a name like Forsthoefel, it had better be good. . . And it is, combining the best humanistic aspects of Walt Whitman, Barry Lopez, John Steinbeck, William Least Heat-Moon, and Marco Polo.- - Albert Podell, author of AROUND THE WORLD IN 50 YEARSSoulful . . . [Forsthoefels] openness provides a window into the extraordinary lessons to be learned from ordinary people. This is a memorable and heartfelt exploration of what it takes to hike 4,000 miles across the country and how one young man learned to walk without fear into his future. - BooklistA remarkable book that calls to mind William Least--Heat Moons Blue Highways. - Starred Review, Library JournalIn this moving and deeply introspective memoir, Forsthoefel writes about the uncertainties, melodramas, ambiguities, and loneliness of youth . . . Forsthoefels walk becomes a meditation on vulnerability, trust, and the tragedy of suburban and rural alienation . . . [his] conversation with America is fascinating, terrifying, mundane, and at times heartbreaking, but ultimately transformative and wise. - Publishers WeeklyForsthoefel offers moments of genuine kinship and transcendence . . . An intriguing portrait of America. - Kirkus ReviewsWhoever you are, wherever youre from, you need to read this book. You need to read it for its searing honesty, its hopefulness, and its grace. You need to read it because its story is your story, too. Andrew Forsthoefel walked across a continent to listen to strangers and learn from them. There is great wisdom in his footfalls, and you are holding...

-Titulo Original : Real Estate A Living Autobiography-Fabricante : Bloomsbury Publishing-Descripcion Original: About the Author Deborah Levy writes fiction, plays, and poetry. Her work has been staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company, broadcast on the BBC, and widely translated. The author of highly praised novels, including The Man Who Saw Everything (longlisted for the Booker Prize), Hot Milk and Swimming Home (both Man Booker Prize finalists), The Unloved, and Billy and Girl, the acclaimed story collection Black Vodka, and two parts of her working autobiography, Things I Dont Want to Know and The Cost of Living, she lives in London. Levy is a Fellow of The Royal Society of Literature. Winner of the Los Angeles Times Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical ProseNamed a Best Book of the Year by NPR, the Washington Post, TIME, and KirkusA Millions Most Anticipated Book of the YearA USA Today Book Not to MissA LitHub Best-Reviewed Book of the YearReal Estate is the third and final installment in three-time Booker Prize nominated Deborah Levy’s Living Autobiography series: an exhilarating, thought-provoking and boldly intimate meditation on home and the specters that haunt it in our patriarchal society.“Three bicycles. Seven ghosts. A crumbling apartment block on the hill. Fame. Tenderness. The statue of Peter Pan. Silk. Melancholy. The banana tree. A love story.”Virginia Woolf wrote that in order to be a writer, a woman needs a room of one’s own. Now, in Real Estate, acclaimed author Deborah Levy concludes her ground-breaking trilogy of living autobiographies with an exhilarating, boldly intimate meditation on home and the specters that haunt it.In this vibrant memoir, Levy employs her characteristic indelible writing, sharp wit, and acute insights to craft a searing examination of womanhood and ownership. Her inventory of possessions, real and imagined, pushes readers to question our cultural understanding of belonging and belongings and to consider the value of a woman’s intellectual and personal life.Blending personal history, gender politics, philosophy, and literary theory, Real Estate is a brilliant, compulsively readable narrative. Review “Wonderful… Levy, whose prose is at once declarative and concrete and touched with an almost oracular pithiness, has a gift for imbuing ordinary observations with the magic of metaphor… the ordinary stuff of modern life, made radiant by Levy’s clarifying prose. But Levy never lets us lose sight of how extraordinary, both historically and personally, her casual, roving freedom truly is.” - Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker“Excellent … playful, candid … a supremely elegant exploration …. It is vibrant and kinetic, never predictable and yet always direct. Like all Levy’s books, it is as good on the second read as the first, if not better. Few writers are able to give so much so swiftly. Levy’s hospitality on the page is a delight.” - Lily Meyer, NPR.org“What a particular pleasure it is to meet [Levys] nuanced work on the page through a voice that is witty and bold, masterfully drawing connections between the charged moments of her life.” - Michele Filgate, The Washington Post“Sparkling with humor and Levy’s zest for life, it’s a read for everyone who understands that home, though always familiar, can be found in the most unexpected of places.” - TIME“[A] delightful, ruminative memoir...[Levys] writing is elliptical and episodic, as if tracing the movement of her mind. But it’s clearly crafted, with ideas recurring and expanding as the book goes on. And for all we see of her moving through the world and her work, her discussion of the places she writes and mentions of the machines she’s written on, she doesn’t portray herself in the act of writing. The book feels as if we’re listening in on her very thoughts, and yet those thoughts are composed off-screen.” - Carolyn Kellogg, Boston Globe“Her bracing trio of memoirs which began with ‘Things I Don’t Want to Know’ in 2013, continued with ‘The Cost of Living’ in 2018, and now concludes in fin...

-Titulo Original : Jefferson And Hamilton The Rivalry That Forged A Nation-Fabricante : Bloomsbury Publishing-Descripcion Original: From the award-winning author of Almost a Miracle and The Ascent of George Washington, this is the rare work of scholarship that offers us irresistible human drama even as it enriches our understanding of deep themes in our nations history. The decade of the 1790s has been called the “age of passion.” Fervor ran high as rival factions battled over the course of the new republic-each side convinced that the others goals would betray the legacy of the Revolution so recently fought and so dearly won. All understood as well that what was at stake was not a moments political advantage, but the future course of the American experiment in democracy. In this epochal debate, no two figures loomed larger than Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton. Both men were visionaries, but their visions of what the United States should be were diametrically opposed. Jefferson and Hamilton is the story of the fierce struggle-both public and, ultimately, bitterly personal-between these two titans. It ended only with the death of Hamilton in a pistol duel, felled by Aaron Burr, Jeffersons vice president. Their competing legacies, like the twin strands of DNA, continue to shape our country to this day. Their personalities, their passions, and their bold dreams for America leap from the page in this epic new work from one of our finest historians. Review “Jefferson and Hamilton is another masterpiece penned by the eminent Revolutionary War historian John Ferling.” New York Journal of Books“The authors comparative study is bold, brisk and lucid . . . Ferling draws crisp, sharp delineations between his two subjects.” Kirkus Reviews“Ferling provides valuable perspective not only on the Founding Fathers and their accomplishments but, overtly, on today, when fierce differences divide people who say they are seeking to preserve their nation and its values. Highly recommended.” Library Journal“With moments of exciting clarity, Ferlings account of two of the most famous American revolutionaries offers gossip, intrigue, and a window into their heated and turbulent relationship . . . As personalities clash and egos are wounded, Ferling gives readers a chance to rediscover the birth of the United States through the characters who helped craft its most vital institutions.” Publishers Weekly“Mesmerizing. Masterful. History written with the gravitation pull of a good novel.” Dan Rather on Independence“John Ferling is a national resource, and Almost a Miracle is a splendid combination of subject with a superb historian writing at the peak of his powers.” Michael Beschloss on Almost a Miracle About the Author John Ferling is Professor Emeritus of History at the State University of West Georgia. A leading authority on American Revolutionary history, he has appeared in many documentaries and has written numerous books, including Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War for Independence, Adams vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, The First of Men: A Life of George Washington, Setting the World Ablaze: Washington, Adams, and Jefferson in the American Revolution, and the award-winning A Leap in the Dark: The Struggle to Create the American Republic...