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A blend of autobiography, business, politics, and personal philosophy, his book offers a unique vantage point on corporate and political life in Africa, Europe, the United States and Asia. In a story that spans from his father’s politically motivated imprisonment to the business principles that took Thiam to the top of global finance, he shares a personal and professional story that is equal parts inspirational and aspirational.

D Esperanza tenía solo trece años cuando fallecieron sus cuidadores, su querida abuela y su tío. Ya que ambos de sus padres se encontraban trabajando y viviendo en Estados Unidos, D quedó solo en su pequeño pueblo en Honduras. Rápidamente se dio cuenta de que simplemente no podía ganar suficiente dinero para sobrevivir, por lo que tomó la difícil decisión de emprender el viaje al norte acompañado de sus primos con la esperanza de reunirse con sus padres en Estados Unidos.

Fly, Wild Swans is, in many ways, Jung’s love letter to her mother set against China’s development from the relative freedoms of the late-1970s and untrammelled capitalism of the 1990s to the current authoritarian repressive rule of Xi-Jinping. With vivid flashbacks to her family’s experience in communist China, the book offers an extraordinary account of Jung’s research into the genocidal regime of Mao Tse-Tung, the many fictions she uncovered and the political consequences of publishing her subsequent biography.

TikTok boasts 1.6 billion active users worldwide and wields unprecedented power over our culture. Its crown jewel is the most addictive algorithm ever invented. As a result, it has become a political football all over the world. In Every Screen on the Planet, Harvard-trained lawyer and investigative journalist Emily Baker-White charts TikTok’s rise from its Chinese founders’ early ambitions to its emergence as the world’s most valuable startup.

Sophie is the definitive biography of the life of Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh, written by Sunday Times bestselling royal and celebrity biographer Sean Smith. Using his long standing royal contacts, Sean explores Sophie and Edward's relationship, the challenges they have faced as a couple as well as their best achievements, how Sophie became the cherished companion to the late Queen and assesses the impact she is having on the public profile of the Royal Family in these turbulent times.

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In 1985 Mark Litchfield, ex-Naval Officer, millionaire, member of Lloyd’s, asked Nicholas Ridley, Transport Minister, to allow his ship, the Marques, to enter the Tall Ship’s Race without an inspection. Fatally, Ridley agreed. His decision was the start of a series of events that ended in the tragic sinking of the Marques and the death of 19 people. Unbeknownst to Shirley, her 18-year-old son, Ben, was one of them. Following the tragic death of her son, Shirley went through further torment throughout the investigation, cover up and court case.

From the popular and award-winning staff writer for The Atlantic, an eye-opening look at how the current media landscape has incentivized us to see our fellow citizens as characters in an ongoing entertainment—and how we can fight back against this phenomenon.

Prefaced by lauded French historian Pierre Nora and translated from the French by award-winning Matt Reeck, these two texts return us to Kundera’s much-missed living presence. Subtle, alive, and full of wit and irony, 89 Words followed by Prague: A Poem that Disappears is an homage to a literary legend and a reminder of just how prescient his words and insights are today.

Revolting Indolence makes a case for laziness as an aesthetic-political strategy for countering the oppressive logics of cisheteronormative racial capitalism. Focusing on ways in which queer and trans Latinx people demonstrate the unwillingness of their participation in "productivist" ethics and allied respectability politics, Marcos Gonsalez argues that slacking off, lounging, daydreaming, and partying are liberatory practices.

1993. Shortly after his father’s death, six-year-old Kayo is smuggled out of Zambia onto a plane bound for Newcastle. Soon he learns that his father died from an HIV-related illness, a fate suffered by many Zambians, and later, he becomes a young carer to his mother as the virus takes her, too. 2017. Now a celebrated young poet, Kayo receives a message from a cousin in Zambia he has not heard from in almost 25 years. He realises it is time to go back.

In Motherland, Ioffe turns modern Russian history on its head, telling it exclusively through the stories of its women. From her own physician great-grandmothers to Lenin’s lover, a feminist revolutionary; from the hundreds of thousands of Soviet girls who fought in World War II to the millions of single mothers who rebuilt and repopulated a devastated country; from the members of Pussy Riot to Yulia Navalnaya, wife of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, she chronicles one of the most audacious social experiments in history and how it failed the very women it was meant to liberate.

ポリティカル コレクトネスの衣を纏った共産主義という“からごころ"を見破れ!耳当たりの良いスローガン、今を否定する未来志向、実現不可能なアジェンダ。文化、歴史、秩序を破壊する新たな共産主義革命が日本で着々と進行している──。

Wie Schulen aussehen, die unsere Kinder stark machen für eine fordernde Welt. Der Physiker und leidenschaftliche Wissenschaftsvermittler Harald Lesch bemüht sich seit vielen Jahren darum, aktuelles naturwissenschaftliches Wissen etwa zum Klimawandel besonders auch in Schulen zu tragen, weil er das Verständnis naturwissenschaftlicher Zusammenhänge für gesellschaftlich wichtig hält. Dabei erlebt er oft frustrierte Lehrkräfte, Schülerinnen und Schüler, die an den Verhältnissen und starren Lehrplänen scheitern.