Títulos em Política e Ciências Sociais

In this new audiobook, Stubborn Attachments: A Vision for a Society of Free, Prosperous, and Responsible Individuals, Cowen argues that our reason and common sense can help free us of the faulty ideas that hold us back as people and as a society. Stubborn Attachments, at its heart, makes the contemporary moral case for economic growth and delivers a great dose of inspiration and optimism about our future possibilities. 

In her memoir, a work of deep reflection and mesmerizing storytelling, Michelle Obama invites listeners into her world, chronicling the experiences that have shaped her - from her childhood on the South Side of Chicago to her years as an executive balancing the demands of motherhood and work to her time spent at the world's most famous address. With unerring honesty and lively wit, she describes her triumphs and her disappointments, both public and private, telling her full story as she has lived it - in her own words and on her own terms.

As a Hillary voter, a New York Times reporter, and frequent attendee at her local gay bars, Nellie Bowles fit right in with her San Francisco neighbors and friends—until she started questioning whether the progressive movement she knew and loved was actually helping people. When her colleagues suggested that asking such questions meant she was “on the wrong side of history,” Bowles did what any reporter worth her salt would do: she started investigating for herself. The answers she found were stranger—and funnier—than she expected.

Em ensaios lúcidos e ponderados, um debate sobre a tragédia no sentido mais antigo do termo: a batalha entre o certo e o certo. Em Como curar um fanático, Amós Oz oferece uma visão única sobre a natureza do extremismo e propõe uma aproximação respeitosa e ponderada para a solução do conflito entre Israel e Palestina. A brilhante clareza desses ensaios, ao lado da habilidade do autor para iluminar questões tão complexas, confere fôlego novo a esse antigo debate.

John Taylor Gatto's Weapons of Mass Instruction focuses on mechanisms of traditional education which cripple imagination, discourage critical thinking, and create a false view of learning as a byproduct of rote-memorization drills. Gatto's earlier book, Dumbing Us Down, introduced the now-famous expression of the title into the common vernacular. Weapons of Mass Instruction adds another chilling metaphor to the brief against conventional schooling.

Explicando o princípio feminino divina metafísica e física, e cerca de vinte mulheres manifestado atributos. Esta edição traduzida na língua Portuguesa explica o princípio divino feminino como a fonte da creação, tanto metafisicamente quanto fisicamente; a relação (e unicidade) dos princípios feminino e masculino; esclarece sobre cerca de vinte divindades femininas como sendo as manifestações dos atributos femininos; o papel ideológico de Isis em todo o mundo; e muito mais.

Neste trabalho, Villa oferece ao ouvinte uma análise das constituições do país e seus contextos. Em sete capítulos acompanhamos os embates políticos, os conflitos do governo e os costumes de cada época. As emendas constitucionais do longo período da ditadura também são examinadas. O quadro se completa com um capítulo dedicado ao Supremo Tribunal Federal e seu papel na República. O historiador Marco Antônio Villa nos leva a dar um passeio pela História, onde desfilam figuras notórias e nem sempre tão ilustres.

Superintelligence asks the questions: What happens when machines surpass humans in general intelligence? Will artificial agents save or destroy us? Nick Bostrom lays the foundation for understanding the future of humanity and intelligent life. The human brain has some capabilities that the brains of other animals lack. It is to these distinctive capabilities that our species owes its dominant position. If machine brains surpassed human brains in general intelligence, then this new superintelligence could become extremely powerful - possibly beyond our control.

"Errar é humano." Essa afirmativa tão comum encerra uma verdade mais profunda que muitas vezes se perde no clichê: o pecado e o perdão são duas faces da mesma moeda—sem um não pode haver o outro. É exatamente dessa duplicidade que o historiador Leandro Karnal trata em Pecar e perdoar—Deus e o homem na história

Challenging leading scientific theories that claim that our senses report back objective reality, cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman argues that while we should take our perceptions seriously, we should not take them literally. How can it be possible that the world we see is not objective reality? And how can our senses be useful if they are not communicating the truth? Hoffman grapples with these questions and more over the course of this eye-opening work.

How can we make intelligent decisions about our increasingly technology-driven lives if we don’t understand the difference between the myths of pseudoscience and the testable hypotheses of science? Pulitzer Prize-winning author and distinguished astronomer Carl Sagan argues that scientific thinking is critical not only to the pursuit of truth but to the very well-being of our democratic institutions.

Atemporal para muitas gerações, A origem da família, da propriedade privada e do Estado é uma obra fundamental para entender a concepção do materialismo, a filosofia marxista, a institucionalização da família e o aparecimento do Estado Capitalista Moderno.

Este módulo traz a Lei de Introdução ao Código Civil já com a redação da lei nº. 12.036, de 2009. Abrange temas como a capacidade civil, domicílio, bens, posse e muitos outros tópicos relevantes no direito Civil, com artigos, comentários, conceitos e muitas explicações, em linguagem de fácil assimilação. Esta obra tem o propósito de auxiliar, de forma eficaz, estudantes de direito e candidatos a cargo público através de concursos.

Every generation, a journalist has looked deep into the heart of the nuclear military establishment: the technologies, the safeguards, the plans, and the risks. These investigations are vital to how we understand the world we really live in—where one nuclear missile will beget one in return, and where the choreography of the world’s end requires massive decisions made on seconds’ notice with information that is only as good as the intelligence we have. Pulitzer Prize finalist Annie Jacobsen’s Nuclear War: A Scenario explores this ticking-clock scenario.

"How do you deal with jealousy?" It's the first question many people ask when they hear about polyamory. Tools for dealing with jealous feelings are among the most basic resources in a well-equipped polyamory toolkit. Eve Rickert and Franklin Veaux, authors of the popular polyamory book More Than Two: A Practical Guide to Ethical Polyamory, present Polyamory and Jealousy, part of the More Than Two Essentials series.

Este curso prima pela linguagem simples e objetiva de fácil assimilação, com explicações e comentários dos artigos. O módulo III abrange o crime receptação, os crimes contra o respeito aos mortos, contra os costumes, corrupção de menores, rapto, lenocínio, ultraje ao pudor, falsificação de papéis públicos, falsidade documental, crimes contra administração pública e contra administração da justiça.

The Emperor of All Maladies reveals the many faces of an iconic, shape-shifting disease that is the defining plague of our generation. The story of cancer is a story of human ingenuity, resilience, and perseverance but also of hubris, arrogance, paternalism, and misperception, all leveraged against a disease that, just three decades ago, was thought to be easily vanquished in an all-out "war against cancer".

Nate Silver built an innovative system for predicting baseball performance, predicted the 2008 election within a hair’s breadth, and became a national sensation as a blogger - all by the time he was 30. He solidified his standing as the nation's foremost political forecaster with his near perfect prediction of the 2012 election. Silver is the founder and editor in chief of the website FiveThirtyEight. Drawing on his own groundbreaking work, Silver examines the world of prediction, investigating how we can distinguish a true signal from a universe of noisy data.

Taking us back to that exhilarating - and often dangerous - moment when scientists tried to work out exactly what it was they'd discovered, we see gases as the formative substances of our modern world. From how nitrous oxide and chloroform get into our bloodstream and affect our neural pathways to the gases that make plants grow and flowers smell through to the carbon-fuelled climate crisis, Mark Miodownik masterfully reveals this invisible world through his unique brand of scientific storytelling.

In 1990, a country disappeared. For the previous forty-one years, East Germany had existed in Western minds as more of a metaphor than a place, more of a grey communist blur than a land of real people with friends and families, workplaces and homes. As Germany once again became a single state, the history of the GDR was simplified and politicised. It was nothing but Stasi spies and central planning, nothing but a wall in Berlin. In Beyond the Wall, acclaimed historian Katja Hoyer looks past these outdated conceptions and toward a more comprehensive history.