It is an essay on the history of ideas that examines an apparently simple but decisive element of human life: rules. From a broad perspective that spans from Antiquity to the contemporary world, the author...
It is an ambitious essay that attempts to describe the shift from an economy focused on efficiency and growth to one based on adaptation and resilience in the face of ecological, energy, and social crises...
It is a business outreach essay that seeks to explain why well-intentioned, competent, and professional people fail when working with international teams. The author proposes eight “scales”—communication,...
It is an ambitious essay that seeks to explain why the modern world—with its democracies, complex economies, organized religions, and powerful states—emerged as it did. The author draws on evolutionary...
Policies in Western countries promoting gender equality have, in recent years, favored the recognition of women as a highly valuable asset in the labor market, although there are still some gaps regarding...
It is a practical and straightforward guide to learning how to think better and make more sensible decisions in everyday life. The author, a former Canadian intelligence officer and founder of the...
The author provides a detailed study of sources in an attempt to show what we can know about the Library of Alexandria. Its beginning seems to coincide with the Ptolemies, after the death of Alexander the...
It is a pioneering work that is being republished after decades. It deeply addresses how people face the process of dying, both the patients themselves and those around them: family members, medical staff,...
In this essay, Byung-Chul Han addresses the fear of pain in contemporary society. People seek to avoid pain at all costs, whether physical or psychological.
This avoidance is evident in several...
Chekhov decided in 1890 to visit Sakhalin Island in the Pacific, a place where Russian criminals had been exiled since 1857, partly due to a debt he had with medicine that would serve as the basis for his...