Cultural
Credințele, obiceiurile și tehnologiile noastre comune modelează fiecare aspect al vieții umane, de la tradițiile ancestrale până la cultura digitală modernă. Aceste cărți provocatoare examinează modul în care societățile funcționează, evoluează și ne influențează experiențele zilnice, oferind perspective proaspete asupra tuturor aspectelor, de la media și educație până la dinamica socială și identitatea culturală.
Cultural Rezumate de cărți
Femeile leu din Teheran
A childhood bond in 1950s Tehran must weather revolution, betrayal, and decades of separation.
Ficțiune istorică
Women
Ficțiune literară
Iran
Orientul Mijlociu
Imersive
Femeile leu din Teheran
A childhood bond in 1950s Tehran must weather revolution, betrayal, and decades of separation.
Ficțiune istorică
Women
Ficțiune literară
Iran
Orientul Mijlociu
Crazy Like Us
Exporting American psychiatric definitions changes mental illness from the inside, not just what doctors call it.
Psihologie
Sănătate mintală
Sociologie
Antropologie
Istorie
Imersive
Crazy Like Us
Exporting American psychiatric definitions changes mental illness from the inside, not just what doctors call it.
Psihologie
Sănătate mintală
Sociologie
Antropologie
Istorie
Istoria sexualității, Volumul 1
The West didn't silence sex. It turned it into a science, then demanded everyone talk.
Filosofie
Sociologie
Istorie
Sexualitate
Politică
Istoria sexualității, Volumul 1
The West didn't silence sex. It turned it into a science, then demanded everyone talk.
Filosofie
Sociologie
Istorie
Sexualitate
Politică
The Secret of Our Success
Cumulative culture, not brainpower, explains why we rule the planet and lost explorers starve.
Știință
Antropologie
Evoluție
Psihologie
Sociologie
The Secret of Our Success
Cumulative culture, not brainpower, explains why we rule the planet and lost explorers starve.
Știință
Antropologie
Evoluție
Psihologie
Sociologie
The Small and the Mighty
The Preamble's author is forgotten. So are eleven other Americans who bent history.
Istorie
Biografie
Politică
American
Justiție socială
The Small and the Mighty
The Preamble's author is forgotten. So are eleven other Americans who bent history.
Istorie
Biografie
Politică
American
Justiție socială
The Making of Asian America
Asian American history begins with Spanish galleons in Mexico, a century before the Gold Rush.
Istorie
Rasă
Sociologie
Politică
Justiție socială
The Making of Asian America
Asian American history begins with Spanish galleons in Mexico, a century before the Gold Rush.
Istorie
Rasă
Sociologie
Politică
Justiție socială
The Player of Games
A jaded utopian game prodigy travels to a cutthroat empire where a tournament crowns the ruler.
Science Fiction
Space Opera
Ficțiune speculativă
Politică
Cultural
The Player of Games
A jaded utopian game prodigy travels to a cutthroat empire where a tournament crowns the ruler.
Science Fiction
Space Opera
Ficțiune speculativă
Politică
Cultural
The Corrosion of Character
Flexible work promised freedom. It delivered the slow erosion of loyalty, trust, and a stable self.
Sociologie
Economie
Psihologie
Filosofie
Politică
The Corrosion of Character
Flexible work promised freedom. It delivered the slow erosion of loyalty, trust, and a stable self.
Sociologie
Economie
Psihologie
Filosofie
Politică
Civilization and Its Discontents
Civilization shields you from nature but punishes you from within: order's price is guilt.
Psihologie
Filosofie
Clasice
Sociologie
Teorie
Civilization and Its Discontents
Civilization shields you from nature but punishes you from within: order's price is guilt.
Psihologie
Filosofie
Clasice
Sociologie
Teorie
Memoriile unei gheișe
Sold to a Kyoto geisha house, a fisherman's daughter is sustained by one stranger's kindness.
Ficțiune istorică
Clasice
Japonia
Istoric
Romantic
Memoriile unei gheișe
Sold to a Kyoto geisha house, a fisherman's daughter is sustained by one stranger's kindness.
Ficțiune istorică
Clasice
Japonia
Istoric
Romantic
What You Do Is Who You Are
Your culture is what happens when the boss leaves the room. Here's how to design it.
Business
Leadership
Management
Antreprenoriat
Cultural
What You Do Is Who You Are
Your culture is what happens when the boss leaves the room. Here's how to design it.
Business
Leadership
Management
Antreprenoriat
Cultural
An Everyone Culture
What if your company's real product was more capable adults, and profit was the side effect?
Business
Psihologie
Leadership
Management
Creștere personală
An Everyone Culture
What if your company's real product was more capable adults, and profit was the side effect?
Business
Psihologie
Leadership
Management
Creștere personală
Excession
From beyond reality, a sphere appears. The Culture's greatest Minds are, for once, outclassed.
Science Fiction
Space Opera
Ai
Extratereștri
Război
Excession
From beyond reality, a sphere appears. The Culture's greatest Minds are, for once, outclassed.
Science Fiction
Space Opera
Ai
Extratereștri
Război
The Smart Money Woman
A high-earning Lagos professional is secretly broke. An eviction notice forces her to master money.
Finanțe
Bani
Africa
Dezvoltare personală
Contemporană
The Smart Money Woman
A high-earning Lagos professional is secretly broke. An eviction notice forces her to master money.
Finanțe
Bani
Africa
Dezvoltare personală
Contemporană
Insula femeilor mării
Two haenyeo divers share a bond deeper than the sea until a massacre tears them apart.
Ficțiune istorică
Istoric
Asia
Adult
Ficțiune literară
Insula femeilor mării
Two haenyeo divers share a bond deeper than the sea until a massacre tears them apart.
Ficțiune istorică
Istoric
Asia
Adult
Ficțiune literară
The Vision of the Anointed
Why failed policies survive: how the elite turns evidence into heresy and failure into virtue.
Politică
Sociologie
Filosofie
Economie
Istorie
Imersive
The Vision of the Anointed
Why failed policies survive: how the elite turns evidence into heresy and failure into virtue.
Politică
Sociologie
Filosofie
Economie
Istorie
Superbloom
Communication's speed and abundance were supposed to unite us. Instead, they fragment and enrage.
Tehnologie
Psihologie
Sociologie
Internet
Istorie
Imersive
Superbloom
Communication's speed and abundance were supposed to unite us. Instead, they fragment and enrage.
Tehnologie
Psihologie
Sociologie
Internet
Istorie
A House Without Windows
Her husband is dead, blood covers her hands, but this Afghan mother stays silent.
Ficțiune literară
Contemporană
Women
Cultural
Orientul Mijlociu
Imersive
A House Without Windows
Her husband is dead, blood covers her hands, but this Afghan mother stays silent.
Ficțiune literară
Contemporană
Women
Cultural
Orientul Mijlociu
Samarkand
A manuscript of forbidden Persian verse travels from medieval Samarkand to the decks of the Titanic.
Ficțiune istorică
Orientul Mijlociu
Literatură
Istoric
Ficțiune literară
Samarkand
A manuscript of forbidden Persian verse travels from medieval Samarkand to the decks of the Titanic.
Ficțiune istorică
Orientul Mijlociu
Literatură
Istoric
Ficțiune literară
The Geography of Thought
Westerners lock on objects; East Asians read the field: a divide rooted in ancient Greece and China.
Psihologie
Sociologie
Antropologie
Cultural
Filosofie
The Geography of Thought
Westerners lock on objects; East Asians read the field: a divide rooted in ancient Greece and China.
Psihologie
Sociologie
Antropologie
Cultural
Filosofie
Not Without My Daughter
Two weeks in Iran became forever. Her husband held the law. She held their daughter.
Biografie
Memorii
Autobiografie
Orientul Mijlociu
Iran
Not Without My Daughter
Two weeks in Iran became forever. Her husband held the law. She held their daughter.
Biografie
Memorii
Autobiografie
Orientul Mijlociu
Iran
Emily Post's Etiquette, The Centennial Edition
Forget the forks. The updated guide to navigating funerals, group chats, and your father-in-law.
Referință
Dezvoltare personală
Sociologie
Cultural
Clasice
Emily Post's Etiquette, The Centennial Edition
Forget the forks. The updated guide to navigating funerals, group chats, and your father-in-law.
Referință
Dezvoltare personală
Sociologie
Cultural
Clasice
Why Bharat Matters
India abandoned diplomatic idealism for raw power realism. Its foreign minister explains why.
Politică
Indian
Istorie
Globalization
Economie
Why Bharat Matters
India abandoned diplomatic idealism for raw power realism. Its foreign minister explains why.
Politică
Indian
Istorie
Globalization
Economie
The Smartest Kids in the World
Not bake sales or gadgets: three American teens saw what makes the world's smartest students.
Educație
Predare
Parenting
Sociologie
Călătorii
The Smartest Kids in the World
Not bake sales or gadgets: three American teens saw what makes the world's smartest students.
Educație
Predare
Parenting
Sociologie
Călătorii
Indaba My Children
Before Africa wrote, it remembered: the Bantu sacred history from creation to a future messiah.
Mitologie
Africa
Istorie
Religie
Spiritualitate
Indaba My Children
Before Africa wrote, it remembered: the Bantu sacred history from creation to a future messiah.
Mitologie
Africa
Istorie
Religie
Spiritualitate
Five Little Indians
Five Indigenous teens survive a residential school, then step into a city built to erase them.
Ficțiune istorică
Canada
First Nations
Ficțiune literară
Adult
Five Little Indians
Five Indigenous teens survive a residential school, then step into a city built to erase them.
Ficțiune istorică
Canada
First Nations
Ficțiune literară
Adult
Keeper'n Me
Taken from the trapline at three, he returns at twenty-five in platforms and borrowed skin.
Indigen
Canada
Ficțiune literară
Ficțiune istorică
Nativ american
Imersive
Keeper'n Me
Taken from the trapline at three, he returns at twenty-five in platforms and borrowed skin.
Indigen
Canada
Ficțiune literară
Ficțiune istorică
Nativ american
Suicidal Empathy
Too much empathy, aimed wrong, can destroy the civilization extending it. An evolutionary diagnosis.
Politică
Psihologie
Filosofie
Sociologie
Știință
Imersive
Suicidal Empathy
Too much empathy, aimed wrong, can destroy the civilization extending it. An evolutionary diagnosis.
Politică
Psihologie
Filosofie
Sociologie
Știință
When Cultures Collide
Why Germans schedule and Italians improvise: a cultural map for anyone who works across borders.
Business
Cultural
Leadership
Psihologie
Sociologie
When Cultures Collide
Why Germans schedule and Italians improvise: a cultural map for anyone who works across borders.
Business
Cultural
Leadership
Psihologie
Sociologie
Status and Culture
All culture is a status game. Fashion cycles, taste boundaries, and why nothing cool stays cool.
Sociologie
Cultural
Modă
Artă
Psihologie
Status and Culture
All culture is a status game. Fashion cycles, taste boundaries, and why nothing cool stays cool.
Sociologie
Cultural
Modă
Artă
Psihologie
For the Culture
Demographics tell you who someone is. Culture tells who they want to be. Only one sells.
Business
Sociologie
Psihologie
Cultural
Management
For the Culture
Demographics tell you who someone is. Culture tells who they want to be. Only one sells.
Business
Sociologie
Psihologie
Cultural
Management
Six Questions of Socrates
Socrates' six questions, asked around the world, reveal the good life has no single answer.
Filosofie
Sociologie
Antropologie
Religie
Politică
Six Questions of Socrates
Socrates' six questions, asked around the world, reveal the good life has no single answer.
Filosofie
Sociologie
Antropologie
Religie
Politică
Dumnezeul lucrurilor mărunte
A forbidden love leads to a drowning, trapping twins in a decades-long secret in 1969 Kerala.
India
Ficțiune istorică
Clasice
Ficțiune literară
Contemporană
Dumnezeul lucrurilor mărunte
A forbidden love leads to a drowning, trapping twins in a decades-long secret in 1969 Kerala.
India
Ficțiune istorică
Clasice
Ficțiune literară
Contemporană
The Shortest History of China
Twelve chapters, four millennia: the recurring patterns that explain China's rise to superpower.
Istorie
China
Asia
Istoric
Politică
The Shortest History of China
Twelve chapters, four millennia: the recurring patterns that explain China's rise to superpower.
Istorie
China
Asia
Istoric
Politică
The Words
Philosopher's childhood: every gesture staged for adults, every written word a bid for freedom.
Filosofie
Memorii
Autobiografie
Franța
Psihologie
The Words
Philosopher's childhood: every gesture staged for adults, every written word a bid for freedom.
Filosofie
Memorii
Autobiografie
Franța
Psihologie
The Refugees
Eight Vietnamese refugees find the past crossed the ocean with them and demands its due.
Povestiri scurte
Ficțiune literară
Ficțiune istorică
Contemporană
Asia
The Refugees
Eight Vietnamese refugees find the past crossed the ocean with them and demands its due.
Povestiri scurte
Ficțiune literară
Ficțiune istorică
Contemporană
Asia
Empire of the Summer Moon
An empire on horseback ruled the plains for two centuries. Then the six-shooter arrived.
Istorie
American
Nativ american
Biografie
Western
Empire of the Summer Moon
An empire on horseback ruled the plains for two centuries. Then the six-shooter arrived.
Istorie
American
Nativ american
Biografie
Western
Identity
Economics doesn't explain our political chaos. A deeper human need, the demand for dignity, does.
Politică
Filosofie
Istorie
Sociologie
Psihologie
Identity
Economics doesn't explain our political chaos. A deeper human need, the demand for dignity, does.
Politică
Filosofie
Istorie
Sociologie
Psihologie
