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<p>Now filmed by Steven Spielberg, starring Mark Rylance as the Pope. The extraordinary story of how the Vatican's imprisonment of a six-year-old Jewish boy helped to bring about the collapse of the popes' worldly power in Italy. Bologna: nightfall, June 1858.</p><p>A knock sounds at the door of the Jewish merchant Momolo Mortara. Two officers of the Inquisition burst inside and seize Mortara's six-year-old son, Edgardo. As the boy is wrenched from his father's arms, his mother collapses.</p><p>The reason for his abduction: the boy had been secretly `baptized' by a family servant. According to papal law, the child is therefore a Catholic who can be taken from his family and delivered to a special monastery where his conversion will be completed. With this terrifying scene, prize-winning historian David I.</p><p>Kertzer begins the true story of how one boy's kidnapping became a pivotal event in the collapse of the Vatican as a secular power. The book evokes the anguish of a modest merchant's family, the rhythms of daily life in a Jewish ghetto, and also explores, through the revolutionary campaigns of Mazzini and Garibaldi and outside leaders like Napoleon III, the emergence of Italy as a modern national state. Moving and informative, The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara reads as both a thriller and an authoritative account of a moment that changed Europe forever.</p>

<p>Hard work is irrelevant. Be radically honest. Adequate performance gets a generous severance.</p><p>And never, ever try to please your boss. These are some of the ground rules if you work at Netflix. They are part of a unique cultural experiment that explains how the company has transformed itself at lightning speed from a DVD mail order service into a streaming superpower - with 125 million fervent subscribers and a market capitalisation bigger than Disney.</p><p>Finally Reed Hastings, Netflix Chairman and CEO, is sharing the secrets that have revolutionised the entertainment and tech industries. With INSEAD business school professor Erin Meyer, he will explore his leadership philosophy - which begins by rejecting the accepted beliefs under which most companies operate - and how it plays out in practice at Netflix. From unlimited holidays to abolishing financial approvals, Netflix offers a fundamentally different way to run any organization, one far more in tune with a fast-paced world.</p><p>For anyone interested in creativity, productivity and innovation, the Netflix culture is something close to a holy grail. This book will make it, and its creator, fully accessible for the first time.</p>

<p><b>A powerful, candid, and richly detailed memoir from an American icon, revealing what life looks like after the presidency: triumphs, tribulations, and all.</b><br/><br/>On 20th January 2001, after nearly thirty years in politics - eight of them as President of the United States - Bill Clinton was suddenly a private citizen. Only fifty-four years old, full of energy and ideas, he wanted to make meaningful use of his skills, his relationships with world leaders, and all he'd learned in a lifetime of politics, but how? Just days after leaving the White House, the call came to aid victims of a devastating earthquake in India, and Clinton hit the ground running. Over the next two decades, he would create an enduring legacy of public service and advocacy work, from Indonesia to Louisiana, Northern Ireland to South Africa, and in the process reimagine philanthropy and redefine the impact a former president could have on the world.<br/><br/><i>Citizen </i>is Clinton's front-row, first-person chronicle of his post-presidential years and the most significant events of the twenty-first century, including 9/11 and the runup to the Iraq War, the Haiti earthquake, the Great Recession, COVID-19, the January 6th insurrection, and the enduring culture wars of our times. Yet <i>Citizen</i> is more than a presidential memoir. These pages capture Clinton in a rare and unforgettable light: not only as celebrated former president and foundation leader, but also as a father, grandfather, and husband. He shares his support for Hillary Clinton during her tenure as senator, secretary of state, and presidential candidate, and openly details the frustration and pain of the 2016 election.<br/><br/>With clarity and compassion, President Clinton also weighs in on the unprecedented challenges brought on by a global pandemic, ongoing inequality, a steadily warming planet, and authoritarian forces dedicated to weakening democracy. In this landmark publication, the highly anticipated follow-up to the best-selling <i>My Life,</i> Clinton pens a clear-sighted account of American democracy on a global stage, offering a frank reflection on the past and, with it, a fearless embrace of our future. <i>Citizen</i> is a testament to one man's unwavering commitment to family and nation, a self-portrait of equal parts eloquence, insight, and candor.</p>

<p>We hear all the time that we're moments from doomsday. Around us, crises interlock and escalate, threatening our collective survival: Russia's invasion of Ukraine, with its rising risk of nuclear warfare, is taking place against a backdrop of global warming, ecological breakdown, and widespread social and economic unrest. Protestors and politicians repeatedly call for action, but still we continue to drift towards disaster. We need to do something. But what if the only way for us to prevent catastrophe is to assume that it has already happened-to accept that we're already five minutes past zero hour?<br/><br/><i>Too Late to Awaken</i> sees Slavoj Zizek forge a vital new space for a radical emancipatory politics that could avert our course to self-destruction. He illuminates why the liberal Left has so far failed to offer this alternative, and exposes the insidious propagandism of the fascist Right, which has appropriated and manipulated once-progressive ideas. Pithy, urgent, gutting and witty, Zizek's diagnosis reveals our current geopolitical nightmare in a startling new light, and shows how, in order to change our future, we must first focus on changing the past.</p>

<i>Infantilised: How Our Culture Killed Adulthood</i> is the definitive grown-up's guide to a cultural landscape predicated on the primacy and constancy of youth.

<p> <strong>In this shining, powerful polemic, Minna Salami opens up a new view of gender equality through two simple questions. What happens when we consider feminism through an African lens, and Africa through a feminist one?</strong> </p> <p>Why does feminism matter in Africa and how does African feminism relate to black liberation and global feminism? What does African feminism show about the individual and belonging? What are the challenges and opportunities of African feminism? Can African feminism transform society, or does postcolonial African identity clash with women's freedom? Is there a tension in the very notion African feminist?</p> <p>In its short but impactful history, the feminist movement of Africa has been met with a vicious backlash and antagonism. The backlash has both strengthened and derailed the ambitions of African heritage feminists. Bringing social criticism and personal narrative together, <em>Can Feminism be African?</em> shows how patriarchy and culture stifle feminist spirit - and how we search through language, history, and soul to reawaken it.</p> <p>Written in the tradition of <em>The Right to Sex</em>, <em>The Soul of a Woman</em>, <em>Of Africa</em> and other books that unwaveringly ask the hard questions about feminist- and/or African revolution, <em>Can Feminism be African?</em> exactingly explores feminist awakening in relation to Africa.</p> <p>In a first of its kind book, author and social critic Minna Salami guides readers through a thought-provoking and emerging world of feminist thought.</p>

<p>Sverige uppfattades länge som ett samhälle präglat av jämlikhet, social sammanhållning och en ambitiös välfärdspolitik. Med sin självständiga utrikespolitik stod man utanför stormaktskonflikterna. På senare år har gängkriminalitet och skjutningar fått stor uppmärksamhet i medierna, ett högerpopulistiskt parti har blivit en del av regeringsunderlaget och vi har avslutat 200 år av alliansfrihet genom att bli medlemmar av Nato. Hur har det förändrat bilden av vårt land och oss själva?<br/><br/>I denna antologi diskuterar ett antal skribenter Sverigebilden förr och nu, både innanför och utanför landets gränser. Svante Nordin skriver om Sverige och Luther, Elisabeth Braw om utlandssvenskarnas betydelse, Mikael ­ Wiberg om teknikundret, Fraser Nelson om gängbrottsligheten och Sofia Bard om Sveriges mjuka makt. Per Enerud, Anna von Bayern och Nathan Shachar tar upp Sverigebilden i Ryssland, Tyskland och Spanien och Richard Swartz kritiserar det svenska språkets förfall.</p>