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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>

<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>

<p>Från det romerska torget till digitala valutor hur har marknaden utvecklats under historiens gång och hur kan den komma att se ut i framtiden? Denna antologi gör en djupdykning i marknadsutvecklingen och tittar närmare på marknaders avgörande roll i att utforma samtiden men tar också upp den brännande frågan om hur vi ska navigera fram till en hållbar framtid. </p><p>I tankeväckande essäer skrivna av internationella forskare, politiker och sakkunniga utforskas marknadens dynamik under tre kritiska faser: i går, i dag och i morgon. Med utgångspunkt i det antika Greklands torg och i det medeltida Europas marknader undersöker författarna hur tekniska framsteg, konsumentbeteende och geopolitisk strategi till exempel den politik som utövades under Reagan-eran har format nutida marknader. Slutligen tar boken upp de utmaningar för stabiliteten på marknaden som utgörs av till exempel auktoritära stater och AI.</p>

<p>In January 2023, Johann Hari started to inject himself once a week with Ozempic, one of the new drugs that produces significant weight loss. He wasn&apos;t alone &ndash; some predictions suggest that in a few years, one in four of the British population will be taking these drugs. While around 80 per cent of diets fail, someone taking one of the new drugs is likely to lose up to a quarter of their body weight in six months. To the drugs&apos; defenders, this is a moment of liberation from a condition that massively increases your chances of diabetes, cancer and an early death. Still, Hari was wildly conflicted. Can these drugs really be as good as they sound? Are they a magic solution &ndash; or a magical illusion? Finding the answer to this high-stakes question led him on a journey from Iceland to Minneapolis to Tokyo, and to interview the leading experts in the world on these issues. He found that along with the drugs&apos; massive benefits come twelve significant potential risks. He also learned that these drugs radically challenge what we think we know about shame, willpower and healing. These drugs are about to change our world, for better and for worse. Everybody needs to understand how they work &ndash; scientifically, emotionally and culturally. Magic Pill is an essential guide to the revolution that has already begun &ndash; and which one leading expert argues could be as transformative as the invention of the smartphone.</p>