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The next space race has arrived—driven by rival nations, billionaire-funded ventures, and breakthrough technologies all vying to alter the balance of power on Earth and beyond. "This isn’t science fiction; it’s the blueprint for the world we’re about to inherit.” —Ali Velshi, NBC...

We’re often told that disinformation is everywhere and that it’s endangering our democracy. But what if the war on disinformation itself is really just a weapon to squash any and all legitimate dissent? This program is read by the author. The Information State is an incisive examination of...

La ciencia no deja lugar a dudas: la crisis climática y medioambiental nos sitúa en un punto devinflexión histórico en el que debemos actuar de forma firme y rápida. Es nuestro bienestar y el devotras muchas especies lo que está en juego. Necesitamos estar plenamente concienciados de la urgencia para emprender una transformación de paradigma socioeconómico y cimentar este cambio a través de una adecuada educación ambiental y aportando soluciones.

Humans to the Power of AI is a guide for leaders who sense the urgency to scale AI, yet feel unsure where to begin or how to make this digital transformation different from the past. It's a guide for leaders who refuse to accept slow progress, mounting complexity, and unrealized innovation as the status quo. AI is accelerating faster than our ability to adopt it, creating a gap between what’s possible and what’s actually happening in the healthcare industry.

Billions lack safe water. AI drives energy demand. Resources and time are scarce. Climate anxiety rises; old solutions can't keep up What if the answer is a technology set aside decades ago—not for failure, but because gas was cheap and this fuel wasn't weaponized? Thorium.

The machines are already here. They diagnose diseases, trade stocks, drive trucks, and manage the supply chains that keep civilization running. Most of us barely notice. But the quiet accumulation of autonomous capability is approaching a threshold beyond which everything changes: the nature of work, the distribution of wealth, the quality of our collective decisions, and even what it means to be a person.

Surgeons and health care professionals are trained to fix the human body, but they are poorly prepared for the nonclinical realities that accompany their careers—complications, harsh criticism, difficult personalities, leadership failures, and the silent weight of moral injury. Most try to push through by imitating senior colleagues who were never taught the nontechnical skills either, and the result can lead to guilt, anxiety, shame, and the belief that they’re the only ones struggling.

As government offices, corporations, and campuses dismantle Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs amid intensifying political backlash, a new book from Yale University Press argues that public debate has lost sight of DEI’s origins. In The Diversity Principle: The Story of a Transformative Idea, Berkeley Law Professor David B. Oppenheimer reconstructs the two-century history of diversity as an intellectual and institutional principle, one rooted in the origins of the modern research university, the development of free speech doctrine, and the science of decision making.

Bloomsbury presents Fentanyl: Fighting the Mass Poisoning of America and the Cartel Behind It by Jake Braun, read by Jeff Harding. Fentanyl is a first-person, insider account of how the crisis consumed the Biden Administration amid a series of other national security emergencies. It follows Jake...

Bloomsbury presents Tackling Poverty and Disadvantage in Schools: Understand more deeply and better address inequalities in your school by Sean Harris and Katrina Morley read by George Potts Actionable, road-tested approaches to understanding and tackling poverty in schools The stark reality of...

Offener Fremdenhass, rechtes Gedankengut, das salonfähig geworden ist, eine heillos zerstrittene bürgerliche Mitte – Bestsellerautor und Fernsehmoderator Michel Abdollahi durchleuchtet die Abgründe der deutschen Gegenwart und zeichnet das Lagebild einer Gesellschaft, in der Menschen mit Migrationsgeschichte mehr und mehr als Fremdkörper wahrgenommen werden. Abdollahi geht dahin, wo es wehtut und benennt Missstände deutlich und pointiert. Zugleich zeigt er auf, wie eine Wende gelingen kann hin zu einem friedvollen und vielfältigen Miteinander ohne Rassismus und Populismus.

Bloomsbury presents Radically Reframing Climate Change by Will Hackman, read by Sophie Boettge. An inspirational guide to discussing and fighting climate change for millennial and GenZ voters that cuts through the usual myths and scare tactics to provide practical advice. Will Hackman is a...

For millennia, human societies have viewed the ocean as a dumping ground for waste products of all kinds. The sources of marine pollution are extensive, including oil spills, sewage, fertilizers, pesticides, industrial wastes, heavy metals, ocean acidification, plastics, and even invasive...

We're Number One!?: America's Uncertain Standing in the World compares the domestic policies of the United States to other countries across a wide variety of social, political, and economic metrics. This book demonstrates conclusively that despite America's wealth, its strong economy, its...

Ab 2030 droht eine komplette Überlastung unseres Gesundheitssystems und ein gravierender Sozialkollaps. Deshalb braucht Deutschland eine dringende Neuorientierung: Weg von der teuren Pille und hin zu Vorbeugung, Prävention, Gesundheitsvorsorge und Gesundheitskompetenz. Prof. Dr. Ingo Froböse legt mit dem Journalisten Stefan Sauerzapf den Finger provokant in diese Wunde und zeigt zugleich Lösungen und Strategien auf der gesellschaftspolitischen, aber auch auf der individuellen Ebene jedes einzelnen Bürgers auf, die allesamt aus der Misere führen könnten.

“The go-to guy on minimum wage” (Nobel Laureate and New York Times bestselling author Paul Krugman) tackles one of the thorniest social issues of our times—income inequality—from a new vantage point with field-leading economics. How did the labor market stop working for so many in the...

Your grocery bill has jumped 40% in the last decade. Your paycheck buys less every month. You work harder, earn more, and still seem to fall further behind. You've probably wondered — is this just the way things are? Is anyone actually in charge of this? And if so, why isn't anyone fixing it? The answers are hiding in plain sight, inside the banking system most of us were never taught to understand.

Organizations have invested $30–40 billion in AI. According to MIT (2025), 95% produced no measurable return. Only 5% made it into daily workflows. If you're reading this, you're trying not to become that statistic—or you already are. The problem isn't bad technology. Most AI failures don't begin at scale. They begin during pilots, when early success builds confidence without revealing risks that surface once AI enters real workflows and decisions under pressure.

A healthcare AI expert examines how artificial intelligence can either undermine or enhance the doctor-patient relationship, offering frameworks to keep medicine human-centered. Subjects to Sovereigns explores what happens when the most powerful AI systems in medicine make decisions about patients who are never really heard? For most of modern medicine, patients have been treated as data points inside someone else’s system. Artificial intelligence risks locking that pattern in forever.

Nuclear energy stands at the crossroads of fear and necessity, science and public imagination, catastrophe and promise. This book offers a clear, penetrating examination of one of humanity’s most consequential technologies—its origins in cosmic processes, its role in the modern energy landscape, the accidents that shaped its reputation, and the profound ethical questions that surround its use. Rather than taking sides, it illuminates the hidden mechanisms, political pressures, psychological forces, and historical legacies that form the real structure of the nuclear debate.