What if the cruelty you call "inhuman" is actually your factory setting?We're taught that kindness is our nature and cruelty a malfunction. Pablo Guzmán argues the opposite — and makes the case with unsettling clarity: under the suit, the manners, and the morality, an ancient animal is still running the same code it was built with hundreds of thousands of years ago.Natural vs Human is the conversation most books avoid. In the voice of the friend wh...

Would you board an airplane where you have to vote on who gets to land it?Probably not. Yet, this is exactly how modern democracy operates. We change the pilots every few years, but the plane, the cockpit instruments, and the catastrophic flight path remain entirely the same.In Democracy 2.0: A Citizen's Proposal, Pablo Guzmán cuts through the noise of political polarization to deliver a radical, clear-eyed diagnosis of why our ins...

Are you living your life — or the one someone else wrote for you?Just 2 hours of reading can change your life. This life manual delivers engaging lessons and practical exercises.Too many of us spend our years reacting to society's demands, checking off boxes of generic success, and putting our raw talents on hold for a 'tomorrow' that never arrives. We have become spectators in our own lives.

When was the last time someone taught you something crucial without saying a single word?This is not a book about animals. It is a book about you — using them as the most honest mirror that exists. Because your dog and your cat practice effortlessly, every single day, what we spend a lifetime trying to learn.We look for mentors in predictable places: business books, success podcasts, expensive seminars. We take notes, store them with good ...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Entertainment Computing (IFIP-ICEC 2024) which was held in Manaus, Brazil, during September 30 – October 3, 2024.The 13 full papers, 8 short papers and 17 papers of other types presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 60 submissions. The works collected in this volume discuss latest findings in the areas of Game Experience, Player Engagement and Analysis, Serious Gamepla...

This instant New York Times bestseller proves humanity thrives in a crisis and that our innate kindness and cooperation have been the greatest factors in our long-term success as a species.If there is one belief that has united the left and the right, psychologists and philosophers, ancient thinkers and modern ones, it is the tacit assumption that humans are bad. It's a notion that drives newspaper headlines and guides the...

Tyler Cowen’s controversial New York Times bestseller—the book heard round the world that ignited a firestorm of debate and redefined the nature of America’s economic malaise.America has been through the biggest financial crisis since the great Depression, unemployment numbers are frightening, media wages have been flat since the 1970s, and it is common to expect that things will get worse before they get better. Certainly, the multidecade stagnation is no...

"If Sapiens was a testament to human sophistication, this history of failure cheerfully reminds us that humans are mostly idiots." —Greg Jenner, author of A Million Years in a DayNow an International BestsellerA Toronto Star–Bestselling Book of the YearModern humans have come a long way in the seventy thousand years they've walked the earth. Art, science, culture, trade—on the evolutionary food chain, we're true winners. But ...

FT Recommended Book on the Global Trade War'It succeeds both in explaining how global trade works and how it affects things many voters actually care about' – Financial Times'My hero on this is Dmitry Grozoubinski, who has written the most beautiful book'– author Rory StewartWhy Politicians Lie About Trade – and What You Need to Know About It is your clear, witty crash‑course in how gl...

Today only, get Body Language: The Secrets Of Body Language, Learn How To Read Body Language & Understand Body Language In Life And BusinessThis book contains proven steps and strategies on how to understand the hidden meanings of body language. "Body Language: The Secrets Of Body Language, Learn How To Read Body Language & Understand Body Language In Life And Business" helps you decode some of the most common nonverbal forms of communication that you might have been overlooking fo...

The three-volume set LNCS 9746, 9747, and 9748 constitutes the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Design, User Experience, and Usability, DUXU 2016, held as part of the 18th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2016, in Toronto, Canada, in July 2016, jointly with 13 other thematically similar conferences. The total of 1287 papers presented at the HCII 2016 conferences were carefully reviewed and selected from 4354 submissions. These papers address th...

From New York Times bestselling author Sarah Wilson comes a deeply moving, wise guide to finding joy and meaning in a world that seems to be falling apart.Things are not going back to ‘normal’. How we choose to live will shape the next era.“A book for dark times that is filled with light and hope.”— Peter FrankopanIt's hard to escape the feeling that something is deeply wrong . . . that life has be...