Society

What does everyone in the modern world need to know? Renowned psychologist Jordan B. Peterson's answer to this most difficult of questions uniquely combines the hard-won truths....

One of the most important and influential books of the past half-century, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance tells the iconic story of a father and son's motorcycle trip across America in the 1960s....

The New York Times best-selling coauthor of Sex at Dawn explores the ways in which “progress” has perverted the way we live — how we eat, learn, feel, mate, parent, communicate, work, and die....

Amoral, inmisericorde, despiadada y, sobre todo, muy instructiva, esta incisiva obra concentra tres mil años de historia del poder en cuarenta y ocho leyes claras y concisas.

Whenever we worry about what to eat, how to love, or simply how to be happy, we are worrying about how to lead a good life....

From the New York Times best-selling author of The Black Swan, a bold new work that challenges many of our long-held beliefs about risk and reward, politics and religion....

The Declaration of Independence was adopted on July 4, 1776, marking the founding of the United States. Following its adoption by the Continental Congress, this declaration declared the thirteen American colonies' independence from British domination.

A stevedore on the San Francisco docks in the 1940s, Eric Hoffer wrote philosophical treatises in his spare time while living in the railroad yards.

An economist explores the five laws that confirm our worst fears: Stupid people can and do rule the world....

Violence and the Sacred is Rene Girard's landmark study of human evil. Here Girard explores violence as it is represented and occurs throughout history, literature, and myth.

From the author of the critically acclaimed Interior States comes a strikingly original exploration of what it might mean to be authentically human in the age of artificial intelligence....

Have you heard that language is violence and that science is sexist? Have you read that certain people shouldn't practice yoga? Or been told that being obese is healthy, that there is no such thing as biological sex, or that only White people can be racist? Listen to find out more....

This audiobook narrated by Zeb Soanes takes an entertaining and enlightening look at how ancient peoples dealt with death—and what we might learn from them.

Misogyny is a hot topic, yet it's often misunderstood. Who deserves to be called a misogynist? How does misogyny contrast with sexism, and why is it prone to persist even when sexist gender roles are waning? This book is an exploration of misogyny in public life and politics....

A piercing examination of our current social and political situation through the lens of Integral Theory—by the framework’s founder, cutting-edge philosopher Ken Wilber.

Niccolò Machiavelli's brutally uncompromising manual of statecraft, The Prince....

Whether you’re a seasoned veteran of the game or have never set foot on a court, How Basketball Can Save the World will empower you to become more resilient, tolerant, and wise in your relationship with yourself, others, and the world around you....

Society is broken. We can design our way to a better one.

Award-winning author, Jeremy Lent, investigates humanity's age-old questions - Who am I? Why am I? How should I live? - from a fresh perspective, weaving together findings from modern systems thinking....

In this sequel to The History of Sexuality, Volume I: An Introduction, the brilliantly original French thinker who died in 1984 gives an analysis of how the ancient Greeks perceived sexuality....

What is work that’s worth doing in a life worth living? A revealing exploration of the questions we ask and the stories we tell about our work....

Un poderoso llamamiento a abandonar la vida hiperactiva para recuperar el sentido de nuestras vidas, el equilibrio y la riqueza interior....

Author and professional dating coach Alan Roger Currie goes into detail explaining the difference in the appeal of an alpha male versus a beta male in the eyes of women....

Un análisis sagaz del régimen de la información, el nuevo gobierno al que estamos sometidos, por el filósofo más leído del siglo XXI....

We normally don’t have any time, but when we finally do, we lack energy. On those rare occasions when we have energy outside of work, it is restless and difficult to harness towards meaningful goals.

Wherever there’s a rule, there is someone with the power to apply or ignore it—or add to it, in the interest of justice. From enforcing chores to issuing life sentences, decision-makers deliver flawed and sometimes arbitrary outcomes. But is their use of discretion good or bad overall? As a society, should we seek to minimize or maximize discretion, with all its potential for bias and other kinds of human error? Reframing our understanding of justice and ethics, philosopher Barry Lam argues that while use of discretion can never be perfect, removing it has even more problematic effects.

What to Expect When You're Dead chronicles the ways ancient peoples answered questions such as: How to achieve a good death and afterlife? What's the best way to dispose of a body? Do the dead face a postmortem judgement—and where do they end up? Do the dead have bodies in the afterlife—and can they eat, drink, and have sex? And what can the living do to stay on good terms with the nonliving?

南北戦争以来の「内戦」は起こるのか。ウクライナは見放されるのか。日米安保は破棄されるのか。第一次トランプ政権の終焉、バイデン当選、「Qアノン」による連邦議事堂襲撃から約4年。

The book is intended to describe America’s longing for a more perfect union and its frustration in achieving the metaphorical level playing field.

In a time when division is treated as a given, The Sovereign Perspective challenges the assumption that conflict and polarization are unavoidable. HRH Prince Gharios El Chemor of Ghassan Al-Nu’Man VIII dissects the root causes of today’s fractured world—political extremism, ideological rigidity, media manipulation, and the erosion of critical thinking. Rather than taking sides, he explores how societies can foster cooperation without compromising individuality or reason.