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A remarkable debut by one of America's premier young reporters on financial corruption, American Kleptocracy offers the first explosive investigation into how the United States of America built the largest illicit offshore finance system the world has ever known.

On the 40th anniversary of Neil Postman's prophetic book Amusing Ourselves to Death (1985), Scrolling Ourselves to Death gathers today's most incisive writers to think critically about the shaping power of contemporary technology. This book explores Postman's insights, connects them to the challenges facing Christians today, and turns difficult challenges into life-giving opportunities for the church. Stepping back from their screens, listeners will be equipped to live faithfully, and grow spiritually, in a "scrolling ourselves to death" world.

Michel Foucault takes us into the first two centuries of our own era, into the Golden Age of Rome, to reveal a subtle but decisive break from the classical Greek vision of sexual pleasure. He skillfully explores the whole corpus of moral reflection among philosophers (Plutarch, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Seneca) and physicians of the era, and uncovers an increasing mistrust of pleasure and growing anxiety over sexual activity and its consequences.

Placing the West's failure to acknowledge the most successful slave revolt in history alongside denials of the Holocaust and the debate over the Alamo, Michel-Rolph Trouillot offers a stunning meditation on how power operates in the making and recording of history...

Strategy-to-performance gaps foster a culture of under-performance. Unrealistic plans create the expectation throughout the organisation that plans simply will not be fulfilled. This book shows how to overcome such failings and implement strategy effectively. Common failings include: Companies rarely track their performance against long-term plans - less than 15% of companies make it a regular practice to go back and compare the business' results with the performance forecast for each business unit in its prior years' strategic results.

This groundbreaking audiobook by Michel Foucault, the most influential philosopher since Sartre, compels us to reevaluate our assumptions about all the ensuing reforms in the penal institutions of the West. For as Foucault examines innovations that range from the abolition of torture to the institution of forced labor and the appearance of the modern penitentiary, he suggests that punishment has shifted its focus from the prisoner's body to his soul-and that our very concern with rehabilitation encourages and refines criminal activity.

A unique and perfectly brilliant way of teaching languages. - Stephen Fry in Rescuing the Spectacled Bear Looking for a convenient intermediate language course that fits your lifestyle and gets you speaking a new language in a matter of weeks, not years? The original no-books, no-homework...

Madness, sexuality, power, knowledge—are these facts of life or simply parts of speech? In a series of works of astonishing brilliance, historian Michel Foucault excavated the hidden assumptions that govern the way we live and the way we think. The Archaeology of Knowledge begins at the level of things aid and moves quickly to illuminate the connections between knowledge, language, and action in a style at once profound and personal. A summing up of Foucault's own methodological assumptions, this book is also a first step toward a genealogy of the way we live now.

Why has there been such an explosion of discussion about sex in the West since the 17th century? Here, one of France's greatest intellectuals explores the evolving social, economic, and political forces that have shaped our attitudes toward sex. In a book that is at once controversial and seductive, Michel Foucault describes how we are in the process of making a science of sex which is devoted to the analysis of desire, rather than the increase of pleasure.

We’re asking the wrong question. “What do you want to be when you grow up?” is no longer serving our students. This question perpetuates the myth that all students need to pick one job title—for life. The world has changed. The information age has created thousands of career possibilities. Artificial intelligence is causing major disruptions in almost every industry, and will bring about seismic shifts in the way we work. To prepare students for this new reality, we need a different approach.

An "introduction to the nonfascist life" (Michel Foucault, from the Preface) When it first appeared in France, Anti-Oedipus was hailed as a masterpiece by some and "a work of heretical madness" by others. In it, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari set forth the following theory: Western...

Voici l'odyssée désenchantée d'un informaticien entre deux âges, jouant son rôle en observant les mouvements humains et les banalités qui s'échangent autour des machines à café. L'installation d'un progiciel en province lui permettra d'étendre le champ de ses observations, d'anéantir les dernières illusions d'un collègue - obsédé malchanceux - et d'élaborer une théorie complète du libéralisme, qu'il soit économique ou sexuel.

En este audiolibro se revelan, tras tres años de trabajo en colaboración con una veintena de científicos y especialistas de alto nivel, las pruebas modernas de la existencia de Dios. Con un lenguaje accesible a todos, los autores de este audiolibro relatan, de manera apasionante, la historia de los avances científicos y ofrecen un panorama riguroso de las nuevas pruebas de la existencia de Dios. A principios del siglo XX, creer en un Dios creador parecía oponerse a la ciencia. ¿No será hoy todo lo contrario? Una invitación a la reflexión y al debate.

'The thrill is that you're actually figuring it out on your own. You're engaging with another language, not just parroting it... It's an excellent way to start, and leaves the listener thinking, Hey, Ich kann do dis.' - New Yorker, David Sedaris, humorist and author, on learning Arabic with the...

Kurz vor den französischen Präsidentschaftswahlen 2027 taucht im Netz ein Video auf, das die Hinrichtung des möglichen Kandidaten Bruno Juge zu zeigen scheint. Paul Raison ist Absolvent einer Elitehochschule und arbeitet als Spitzenbeamter im Wirtschaftsministerium. Als Mitarbeiter und Vertrautem Juges fällt ihm die Aufgabe zu, die Urheber des Videos ausfindig zu machen. Im Laufe seiner Nachforschungen kommt es zu einer Serie mysteriöser terroristischer Anschläge, zwischen denen kein Zusammenhang zu erkennen ist. Aber nicht nur die Arbeit, auch das Privatleben von Paul Raison ist alles andere als einfach.

The nearest thing to painless learning. - The Times Works like a dream. - Daily Telegraph Five minutes in and you already feel like you're winning. - Time Out Looking for a beginner refresher language course that fits into your busy lifestyle and gets you speaking a new language in a matter of...

Le Pouvoir du moment présent est probablement l'un des livres les plus importants de notre époque. Son enseignement simple et néanmoins profond a aidé des millions de gens à travers le monde à trouver la paix intérieure et à se sentir plus épanouis dans leur vie. Au cœur de cet enseignement se trouve la transformation de la conscience : en vivant dans l'instant présent, nous transcendons notre ego et accédons à un état de grâce, de légèreté et de bien-être. Ce livre a le pouvoir de métamorphoser votre vie par une expérience unique.

A “fascinating psychological thriller” (Baltimore Sun), this entrancing novel introduces Isserley, a female driver who scouts the Scottish Highlands for male hitchhikers with big muscles. She herself is tiny - like a kid peering up over the steering wheel. Scarred and awkward, yet strangely erotic and threatening, Isserley listens to her passengers as they open up to her, revealing clues about who might miss them should they disappear - and then she strikes. What happens to her victims next is only part of a terrifying reality.

Discover the hidden depths of your subconscious mind and unlock the door to infinite possibilities with "Subconscious Mind Power: 21 Mind Hacks to Achieve Prosperity, Power, and Peace." This enlightening guide will take you on a transformative journey, revealing the intricate relationship between your conscious and subconscious minds, and empowering you to manifest your desires and reshape your reality. Drawing from a wealth of wisdom, spanning ancient philosophy to modern neuroscience, this book provides you with the tools and insights needed to awaken your subconscious mind. Along the way...

From the author of the "wonderfully ingenious" (Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review) novel After the Crash, a thrilling tale of a murder that takes place in Claude Monet's garden and the mystery that surrounds it. Giverny, France. During the day, the town is the home of the famous...