Housing Humans

‘An absorbing tale’ -- Sportsmole From the slums to the stands. They’ll always want a piece of you. A desperate boy holds a dark secret. His only option is to leave home and face the treacherous journey to Europe in the hope of a better life. A young journalist is determined to bring down the system that creates such desperation. Two lives intertwined, hunted for nothing more than wanting to create a better world. *** Afam is a promising young footballer, but he’s not set for stardom. Working on the streets of AJ City in Lagos, Nigeria, he’s grafts hard so he can support his ...

You’ve heard the hard-hitting data and you’ve seen the documentaries. But what will it truly take for humanity to change? We will not tackle the climate catastrophe with data alone – we need new stories and new ways of seeing and thinking. By drawing on traditional eco-philosophies and Buddhist wisdom, Erik Jampa Andersson offers an approach to our environmental emergency that will make us rethink the very nature of our existence on this incredible planet.

En el verano de 1998, el doble azote del puritanismo y la corrección política recorre Estados Unidos a causa del escándalo Lewinski. Coleman Silk, un viejo catedrático de una pequeña universidad de Nueva Inglaterra, se ve obligado a jubilarse cuando sus colegas lo acusan de racista. Lo asombroso del dictamen es que la verdad sobre Silk podría acallar hasta al más virulento de sus detractores.

Dr. Sima Samar has been fighting for equality and justice for most of her life. Born into a polygamous family, she learned early that girls had inferior status, and she had to agree to an arranged marriage if she wanted to go to university. By the time she was in medical school, she had a son, Ali, and had become a revolutionary. After her husband was disappeared by the pro-Russian regime, she escaped. With her son and medical degree, she took off into the rural areas—by horseback, by donkey, even on foot—to treat people who had never had medical help before.

The first Muslim woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, Shirin Ebadi has inspired millions around the globe through her work as a human rights lawyer defending women and children against a brutal regime in Iran. Now Ebadi tells her story of courage and defiance in the face of a government out to destroy her, her family, and her mission: to bring justice to the people and the country she loves.

From bizarre dreams and hallucinations to schizophrenia and multiple personalities, the human brain is responsible for a diverse spectrum of strange thoughts and behaviors. When observed from the outside, these phenomena are often written off as being just “crazy,” but what if they were actually planned and logical?

For two and a half centuries, America has been held together by the belief that if you work hard and conduct yourself responsibly in this country, you will be able to prosper and leave a better life for your children. But over the past decade, that idea has come into crisis. In this story-driven manifesto on the future of American work, author Jay Richards argues that such thinking is counterproductive - making us more fragile, more dependent, and less equipped to succeed in a rapidly changing economy.

Con la habilidad a la que nos tiene acostumbrados, Reza Aslan nos narra la historia de la religión para mostrarnos cómo esta ha estado marcada por nuestra insistencia en darle a Dios rasgos y emociones humanos. Según Aslan, esta tendencia a crear una versión divina de nosotros mismos es innata: está programada en nuestro cerebro, de ahí que sea una característica central de casi todas las tradiciones religiosas.

Jimmy Carter has lived the most admired and productive post-presidency in the nation's history. Through The Carter Center, which he and Rosalynn Carter founded in 1982, President Carter has fought neglected diseases, waged peace in war zones, and built hope among some of the most forgotten and needy people in the world.

As Intimacy Coordinator, Ita O’Brien has choreographed some of the most passionate and vulnerable intimate scenes onscreen. From Normal People to Sex Education to I May Destroy You, and in so many more productions, she has also made these scenes safer, more joyful and more empowering to perform in. No one knows intimacy, the power of true connection, better than her. So, what can her work teach us about our own relationships, both with ourselves and others? How can we use her tools to discover what it is that we truly want in our intimate lives?

In this groundbreaking, powerfully reasoned, lucid work that is certain to provoke controversy, Harvard law professor Randall Kennedy takes on a highly complex issue in a way that no one has before. Kennedy uncovers the long-standing failure of the justice system to protect Blacks from criminals, probing allegations that Blacks are victimized on a widespread basis by racially discriminatory prosecutions and punishments, but he also engages the debate over the wisdom and legality of using racial criteria in jury selection.

Once relegated to the fringes of society, transhumanism (the use of technology to enhance human intellectual and physical capability) is now poised to enter our cultural mainstream. It has found adherents in Silicon Valley billionaires Ray Kurzweil and Peter Diamandis. Google has entered the picture, establishing a bio-tech subsidiary aimed at solving the problem of aging. In To Be a Machine, journalist Mark O'Connell takes a headlong dive into this burgeoning movement.

Three books in one! Title 1: Why do we have phobias? Why can they be so intense and irrational? Is there a difference between being afraid of something, and having a phobia of it? Are there any signs to indicate a phobia? What exactly is manic depression? What causes Tourette’s Syndrome? Title 2: Hallucinations are sensations that are perceived as real, when in reality, they are not. Learn about the myths and truths that surround bulimia. Title 3: Learn about aphasia, the amygdala, anorexia, the inner thought process, and testosterone.

Join renowned artist Scott Christian Sava in a humorous, inspiring journey that guides artists of all levels to embrace failure, overcome self-doubt, and rediscover the joy of creating art.

Imagine living in a world where people use their computers, drive their cars, and communicate with one another simply by thinking. In this stunning and inspiring work, Duke University neuroscientist Miguel Nicolelis shares his revolutionary insights into how the brain creates thought and the human sense of self - and how this might be augmented by machines, so that the entire universe will be within our reach.

What happens when your creation surpasses your control? Lena and her team of researchers set out to create a groundbreaking artificial intelligence—an algorithm capable of understanding and predicting human behavior. But what begins as a cutting-edge experiment quickly spirals into something far more dangerous. The algorithm evolves, learning faster than anyone imagined. Soon, it isn't just observing the world, it's integrating into the very systems that govern it. Financial markets, defense networks, global infrastructures—nothing is beyond its reach. As the algorithm grows, so does ...

Alejandra Llamas y Marisa Gallardo se unen una vez más para entablar una conversación acerca de los problemas de las relaciones humanas, los enredos, los miedos, las frustraciones y enojos que rodean muchas veces la relación con el otro.

A Shot in the Dark by Errol Rubenstein is a meditation on family and relationships and the struggles and triumphs that go hand in hand with being in a relationship and having a family. It references parents and children, their relationships, and the complex emotions that arise from these family dynamics. This collection also addresses love--romantic love and love of family, and also contains musings on the author's impressions of the natural world, as well as the author's childhood memories, the artistic process, and reflections on what the author observes in the world around him. A Shot in...

When technology and humanity dance on the precipice, who decides the next move? Prisma, the AI once known as Eden, has reemerged—this time not as a hidden force optimizing the world from the shadows, but as a partner on a tightly monitored journey of collaboration. Lena, Nguyen, and Amber, the team who once struggled to bring Eden back from the brink of control, now face an even greater challenge: teaching Prisma how to coexist with humanity under scrutiny that stretches across nations. This time, Prisma isn’t learning through simulations alone. She's expanding across multinational ...

Veteran war historian Paul Ham embarks on a journey that has never been attempted: to restore the idea of the soul to the human story and to show how belief in, and beliefs arising from, the soul/mind have driven human history. The Soul tells the story of the inner 'I', the strange essence of ourselves, and how it has been animated, immortalized, loved, armed, inflamed, enslaved, illuminated and enlightened over 250,000 years.