Human Culture

This is a book for those willing to see the human without its usual disguises — not as a hero of its own story, but as a creature shaped by difference, trapped in form, and always speaking through structures it cannot fully name. It does not offer reassurance. It offers clarity. Taking its cue from Claude Lévi-Strauss but refusing to remain in the comfort of academic distance, the book brings structural anthropology into direct confrontation with contemporary society.

The Art of Managing Humans replaces work relations with working relationships, improving leadership through open communication, promoting welfare, worker involvement, and transparency. It is aimed at any manager, executive, and HR person who wants to identify the crucial balance between management and employees and the practical differences it bridges between mediocre companies and successful organizations.

Ciencia, arte y oportuniades en la madurez. Un estudio audaz y apasionante de las nuevas investigaciones que replantean un futuro mejor y más prometedor para las personas de mediana edad. Reimaginar la vida nos enseña que lo que se ha dado en llamar la «crisis de la mediana edad» no existe...

Culture is complex. It has its own language and nuances that can change in an instant. To build a thriving, sustainable company, business leaders must be intentional in crafting cultures that reflect their core values- well beyond creating posters that simply profess them.

Stell dir vor, es ist Arbeit – und keiner muss hin. Denn deinen Job übernimmt die Künstliche Intelligenz. Schon heute koordiniert KI die Bevorratung im Lager, baut für uns Präsentationen oder diagnostiziert Tumore. Und das ist erst der Anfang. Längst ist klar: Künstliche Intelligenz hat das Potential für sehr große Veränderungen. KI plant nicht nur unsere Reisen und schlägt uns die nächste Serie vor, sondern schmeißt auch unsere Arbeitswelt um. Ein bedeutender und durchaus besorgniserregender Umbruch, aber einer, der genau zum richtigen Zeitpunkt kommt.

Organized in keeping with our knowledge of the migration of human groups through history, with statistics and a cultural portrait of each ethnic group, People of the World becomes a fascinating round-the-world tour of customs and traditions, as well as a go-to source for background information to round out one's own family history. From the Tuvans of Siberia to the Samoans and Tahitians of Polynesia, from the Mapuche of Chile to the Sami of Scandinavia, 222 of the world's 10,000-plus ethnic groups are featured.

From the acclaimed author of The Shakespeare Wars and Explaining Hitler comes a stirring manifesto on love in the modern age. Who wrote the book of love? In an impassioned polemic, Ron Rosenbaum—who has written books on the mysteries of Hitler’s evil, the magic of Shakespeare’s words, and...

Head down the rabbit hole and feed your fascination for conspiracy and controversy. Conspiracy theories-they're influential and spread to sometimes irrational extremes. Why do people cling to conspiracy theories so powerfully? Is there a way to separate the possible from the impossible? Yes...

This book will open your eyes to the pitfalls of perception, and help you build a foundation for trust that elevates organizational performance... so you can make your data and AI initiatives succeed where others fail. Data, Strategy, Culture & Power is a must-listen for anyone who works with (or uses) data, analytics, and AI in today's complex organizations.

The rise of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was much more than an ordinary electoral phenomenon: it brought to the fore two contrasting views of nationhood: between those who saw modern India in terms of secular republicanism and on the other hand were those who sought to blend technological...

Spread over fifteen of the country’s twenty-eight states, India’s Maoist movement is now one of the world’s biggest and most sophisticated extreme-left movements. Hardly a week passes without people dying in strikes and counter-strikes by the Maoists—interchangeably known as the...

The Maria girls from Bastar practise sex as an institution before marriage, but with rules-one may not sleep with a partner more than three times; the Hallaki women from the Konkan coast sing throughout the day-in forests, fields, the market and at protests; the Kanjars have plundered, looted...

The coauthors of the seminal book The Virtual Corporation describe how the rise of artificial intelligence and virtual environments are ushering in an epic cultural transformation - and how we can thrive in this new era. We are at the dawn of the Autonomous Revolution, a turning point in human history as decisive as the Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions. More and more, AI-based machines are replacing human beings, and online environments are gathering our data and using it to manipulate us.

"A timely, practical resource on creating teams and organizations where everyone has the opportunity to succeed." --Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again and host of the podcast WorkLife A step-by-step guide for managers, teams, and DEI leaders looking to create...

A comprehensive history of school choice in the US, from its birth in the 1950s as the most effective weapon to oppose integration to its lasting impact in reshaping the public education system today. Most Americans today see school choice as their inalienable right. In The Choice We Face...

A direct counterpoint to fear mongering headlines about shariah law—a Muslim American legal expert tells the real story, eliminating stereotypes and assumptions with compassion, irony, and humor Through scare tactics and deliberate misinformation campaigns, anti-Muslim propagandists insist...

En Más agudo, más rápido y mejor, elperiodista ganador del premio Pulitzer Charles Duhigg nos desvela los avances de la ciencia de la productividad de forma clara y práctica, y nos explica por qué es más importante controlar cómo pensamos que el propio contenido de nuestras reflexiones...

An insightful look at how cross-racial friendships work and fail within American society. In a U.S. national survey conducted for this book, 70% of respondents strongly agreed that friendships across racial lines are essential to making progress toward improving race relations. However, further...

The Business of Excellence offers a unique and compelling perspective on the drivers of excellence in teams and organizations. The challenges of high performance and leadership are explored in depth and are illustrated with insights, interviews, and case studies from the military, sporting, and corporate worlds. The material includes a proprietary performance model that can be applied to a wide spectrum of organizations.

What is the relevance of morality today? Eden Collinsworth enlists the famous, the infamous, and the heretofore unheard-of to unravel how we make moral choices in an increasingly complex—and ethically flexible—age. To call these unsettling times is an understatement: our political leaders...