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Author
Publisher
Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
You know less than you think you do - about what makes you healthy, what makes you rich, who you should date, where you should live. You know less than you think you do about how to raise your children, or, for that matter, whether you should have children in the first place. Seth Stephens-Davidowitz showed how big data is revolutionising the social sciences. He shows how big data can help us find answers to some of the most important questions we...
Author
Publisher
The Overlook Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"This book considers the intrinsic yet often forgotten role of time in creating the flavors and textures we love. Through a series of encounters with ingredients, producers, cooks, artisans, and chefs, we see how time and again, time itself is the invisible ingredient in our most cherished recipes. Including vignettes from the immediacy of taste (seconds), the exactitude of pasta (minutes), and smoking and barbecuing meats (hours), to maturing cheese...
Author
Publisher
Editorial OB STARE
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
Esta nueva edici̤n de ±El Beb̌ es un Mam̕fero» representa una oportunidad para analizar la historia reciente del nacimiento. En otras palabras, una oportunidad para echar la vista atr̀s. Y debe ser as̕ porque miramos al futuro. Esta reedici̤n aparece ahora que no podemos dar un paso m̀s all̀ sin asimilar la enorme cantidad de datos cient̕ficos acumulados durante los ︢ltimos veinte ąos. En primer lugar, debemos preguntarnos c̤mo, a cierto...
66) The happiness myth: why what we think is right is wrong : a history of what really makes us happy
Author
Publisher
HarperSanFrancisco
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
68) Formerly known as food: how the industrial food system is changing our minds, bodies, and culture
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
In this book, Kristin Lawless argues that, because of the degradation of our diet, our bodies are literally changing from the inside out. The billion-dollar food industry is reshaping our food preferences, altering our brains, changing the composition of our microbiota, and even affecting the expression of our genes. Lawless chronicles how this is happening and what it means for our bodies, health, and survival, going beyond nutrition to issues of...
Author
Publisher
Current
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
"Only one generation in history (ours) will experience life both with and without the Internet. For everyone who follows us, online life will simply be the air they breathe. Today, we revel in ubiquitous information and constant connection, rarely stopping to consider the implications for our logged-on lives. Michael Harris chronicles this massive shift, exploring what we've gained--and lost--in the bargain. In this eloquent and thought-provoking...
Author
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"More and more people are starting to discuss mental health in today's workplace and how finances affect our mental wellbeing. The lingering affects of the pandemic has lead to continuous and robust discussion on meaning and purpose leading to the Great Resignation. The news on the economy and job market are all in the minds of people who are thinking about money and its affect in their life"--
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The acclaimed editor of The New York Times Book Review takes readers on a nostalgic tour of the pre-Internet age, offering powerful insights into both the profound and the seemingly trivial things we've lost. Remember all those ingrained habits, cherished ideas, beloved objects, and stubborn preferences from the pre-Internet age? They're gone. To some of those things we can say good riddance. But many we miss terribly. Whatever our emotional response...
Author
Publisher
Verso, an imprint of New Left Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In the nineteenth century, English textile workers responded to the introduction of new technologies on the factory floor by smashing them to bits. For years the Luddites roamed the English countryside, practicing drills and maneuvers that they would later deploy on unsuspecting machines. The movement has been derided by scholars as a backwards-looking and ultimately ineffectual effort to stem the march of history; for Gavin Mueller, the movement...
Author
Publisher
MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Combining the expertise and insight of a leading journalist and a pioneering designer, Kuang and Fabricant provide a definitive, thoughtful, and practical perspective on a topic that has rapidly gone from arcane to urgent to inescapable.
Author
Publisher
Lumen, 2022
Pub. Date
2022
Language
Español
Description
Con la lectura de su poema "La colina que ascendemos" en la ceremonia de investidura del presidente Biden, la joven Amanda Gorman ofreció a un mundo herido un nuevo lenguaje de esperanza. En Mi nombre es nosotros, la autora explora la memoria, el dolor y la identidad, y parte de la reciente experiencia colectiva de la pandemia para tratar de arrojar luz sobre el futuro. Sus versos nos hablan de marginalidad, crisis climática, justicia social, desigualdad...
Author
Publisher
Broadside Books [an imprint of] HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Marriage expert Brad Wilcox provides the evidence for why marriage is the most fundamental and worthwhile social institution"--
"What's the recipe for happiness? If you listen to liberal elites or red pill influencers, you'd say it's making money, living for yourself, and staying single without kids--and you'd be wrong. Nothing predicts happiness better than a good marriage. According to new research by the University of Virginia sociologist Brad...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A historical exploration of the history of miscarriage and the development of the current childbearing culture in America, with its expectation of carefully planned, assiduously tended, and emotionally precious pregnancies.
Author
Publisher
Abrams Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The automobile was one of the most miraculous inventions of the 20th century. It promised freedom, style, and utility. But sometimes, rather than improving our lives technology just makes everything worse. Over the past century cars have filled the air with toxic pollutants and fueled climate change. Cars have stolen public space and made our cities uglier, dirtier, less useful, and more unequal. Cars have caused tens of millions of deaths and injuries....
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nev Schulman provides millenial readers with an essential roadmap to better connect their digital personas with their true selves. Woven throughout with his personal stories, this book explores relationships in the era of social media. Nev explores the pressing issue of connectivity versus genuine connection which is plaguing our relationships.
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