Yeong-hye and her husband are ordinary people. He is an office worker with moderate ambitions and mild manners; she is an uninspired but dutiful wife. The acceptable flatline of their marriage is interrupted when Yeong-hye, seeking a more \''plant-like\'' existence, decides to become a vegetarian, prompted ...
Exploring more than 100 of the most important ideas, organizations, and events to have defined the feminist movement, this is an essential introduction to feminism. The latest entry in DK''s bestselling Big Ideas series, The Feminism Book is a complete study of feminism. Trace the subject from its origins, ...
Who were the Norse gods – the mighty Æsyr, led by Óðinn, and the mysterious Vanir? In The Norse Myths we meet this passionate and squabbling pantheon, and learn of the mythological cosmos they inhabit. Passages translated from the Old Norse bring this legendary world to life, from the myths of creation ...
The classic account of the Columbine school killings and its shocking aftermath, now more relevant than ever. ''The tragedies keep coming. As we reel from the latest horror.'' So begins the epilogue, illustrating how Columbine has become the template for nearly two decades of "spectacle murders." It ...
When we are born, we are each assigned a gender based on our physical anatomy. But why is it that some people experience such dissonance between their biological sex and their inner identity? Is gender something we are or something we do? Is our expression of gender inborn or does it develop as we grow? ...
A crucial new guide to one of the most urgent political phenomena of our time: the rise of national populism. Across the West, there is a rising tide of people who feel excluded, alienated from mainstream politics, and increasingly hostile towards minorities, immigrants and neo-liberal economics. Many ...
New York Times Notable Books of 2018 Financial Times Book of the Year Award-winning journalist Rania Abouzeid presents reportage of unprecedented scope in this engaging, character-driven investigation that exposes the secret dealings that armed and betrayed an uprising. Taking readers deep into Assad''s ...
A collection of history\''s greatest speeches, with commentary from internationally bestselling historian Simon Sebag Montefiore. Updated with new speeches from John Boyega, Queen Elizabeth II and othe.
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEARA NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR'' This book is about a whole new way of studying the mind. Endlessly fascinating'' Steven Pinker''A whirlwind tour of the modern human psyche'' EconomistEverybody lies, to friends, lovers, doctors, pollsters - ...
''A breeze of a read, makes you see our male-manufactured world a little differently'' Matt Haig ''GRAYSON PERRY FOR KING AND QUEEN OF ENGLAND. Imagine how BRILLIANT our country would look if he was'' Caitlin Moran Grayson Perry has been thinking about masculinity - what it is, how it operates, why little ...
O chudobě se dobře diskutuje. Nechceme se na ni ale doopravdy podívat. Měli se víc snažit. Jsou líní. Bez zájmu o vlastní rozvoj. Chybí jim vzdělání. Tyto a spoustu podobných vět si o sobě mohou vyslechnout nezaměstnaní a chudí lidé všech vyspělých demokratických společností. Včetně rodičů německé novinářky ...
Kniha historika a slavisty Petra Kalety se zabývá otázkami politického života lužickosrbského etnika v době od vzniku NDR v roce 1949 až po sjednocení obou německých států v roce 1990. Jde o první monografii, která se souhrnně věnuje problematice lužickosrbských poslanců v období NDR. Publikace, jejíž ...
Osudy sekularizačních teorií v moderní sociologii náboženství vykazují pozoruhodnou proměnu: od dříve dominantního postavení, jež umožnilo některým autorům hovořit o "sekularizačním paradigmatu, k dnešnímu statusu téměř nechtěného dítěte sociologické rodiny. Předložená kniha se na pozadí sekularizační ...
