"Is it the world that's busy, or my mind?" The world moves fast, but that doesn't mean we have to. In this timely guide to mindfulness, Haemin Sunim, a Buddhist monk born in Korea and educated in the United States, offers advice on everything from handling setbacks to dealing with rest and relationships, in a beautiful book combining his teachings with calming full-colour illustrations. Haem…
What happens to human reading when AI bots can do it for us? Explosive developments in artificial intelligence have awed everyday users with the technology's ability to draw, do computer coding, and especially to write. Those AI-generated essays and poems, legal briefs and responses to requests for information are all visible evidence of large language models at work. What we don't see is th…
From legendary investor Ray Dalio, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Principles, who has spent half a century studying global economies and markets, Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order examines history’s most turbulent economic and political periods to reveal why the times ahead will likely be radically different from those we’ve experienced in our lifetimes—and …
This groundbreaking open access volume introduces eco-social contracts as a bold and actionable vision for addressing the major, interconnected crises of our time—climate change, biodiversity loss, rising inequality, and the erosion of public trust and democratic legitimacy. At its heart lies a fundamental realization that can no longer be ignored: the social contract has been broken for …
Public understanding of, and outcry over, the dire state of the climate and environment is greater than ever before. Parties across the political spectrum claim to be climate leaders, and overt denial is on the way out. Yet when it comes to slowing the course of the climate and nature crises, despite a growing number of pledges, policies and summits, little ever seems to change. Nature is being…
Why the market will never solve the Climate Crisis RECENT TECHNICAL ADVANCES mean it is typically cheaper to produce electricity from renewable sources than from fossil fuels. Yet, around the world, the transition to green energy is happening too slowly if it is happening at all. As Brett Christophers argues, the problem is rooted in the absurdist nature of capitalist priorities: saving the …
An urgent examination of how disruptive politics, technology, and art are capsizing old assumptions in a great wave of change breaking over today’s world, creating both opportunity and peril—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning critic and author of the New York Times bestseller The Death of Truth. “In this dazzling and brilliant book, Michiko Kakutani explains the cascading chaos of our …
Apa yg terjadi dengan suara “lokal” ketika globalisasi menyingkap para musisi dan penikmat musik pada pengaruh budaya dari seluruh dunia? Jeremy Wallach menyelidikinya sebagaimana pertanyaan ini “dipermainkan” pada perkembangan eklektik dunia musik Indonesia pasca runtuhnya rezim Soeharto yg represif. Dilatarbelakangi transisi kaotis negara-bangsa Indonesia menuju demokrasi, Wallach mem…
“Hanya pendengar yang dapat mengubah dunia—bukan penampil” Itu adalah kesimpulan instan dari penelitian dalam buku ini. Beberapa ilmuwan percaya bahwa penelitian soal impak dan keberhasilan karya musik menciptakan perubahan perlu lebih berpijak pada audiens. Soni Triantoro mencari kasus-kasus serupa, lalu mencoba mengenali polanya. Menggunakan analisis fenomenologi, ia lantas menel…
Kamu mungkin merasa takut sekaligus malu ketika pertama kali mengalami menstruasi. Takut karena ini adalah pengalaman “asing” yang akan terus datang di bulan-bulan berikutnya. Malu karena semua orang menganggap menstruasi adalah hal “kotor” sehingga kamu harus menyembunyikannya baik-baik. Padahal, menstruasi adalah pengalaman yang unik dan patut dirayakan. Menstruasi bukan pengalaman…