"She signed up for the sisterhood, free cars, and the promise of a successful business of her own. Instead, she ended up with an addiction, broken friendships, and the rubble of a toppled pyramid . . . scheme. Hey, Hun: Sales, Sisterhood, Supremacy, and the Other Lies Behind Multilevel Marketing is the eye-opening, funny, and dangerous personal story of author Emily Lynn Paulson rising to the top of the pyramid in the multilevel marketing (MLM) world,...

"Fear of a Microbial Planet, a wonderfully accessible book on the Covid era published by Brownstone institute, offers desperately needed clarity and science on the organization and management of individual social life in the presence of pathogenic infection. It can be read as a definitive answer to expert arrogance, political overreach, and population panic. For three years following the arrival of the virus that causes Covid, the dominant response...

Science is incomplete. It always has been and might always be. It has been right some of the time but wrong way too much of the time. Most of the theories of the the greatest scientists of all time have been met initially with skepticism, accusations of incompetence and baffoonery, and some put in jail for herecy. There is the quintessential quest for the 'Theory of Everything' among physicists to equivicate the known science of the macro world

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Nuestro mundo está lleno de colores. En todas partes encontramos hermosos tonos que nos hacen la vida más agradable. Sin embargo, pocas veces somos conscientes del origen de los colores que vemos. ¿Qué son realmente los colores? ¿Por qué podemos ver en colores? Más importante aún, es saber de qué forma los colores pueden cambiar nuestra percepción de las cosas, nuestro juicio sobre algo o alguien, y de qué manera pudieran estar siendo usados...

Xinyi Yuan is assistant professor of mathematics at Princeton University. Shou-wu Zhang is professor of mathematics at Princeton University and Columbia University. Wei Zhang is assistant professor of mathematics at Columbia University. This comprehensive account of the Gross-Zagier formula on Shimura curves over totally real fields relates the heights of Heegner points on abelian varieties to the derivatives of L-series. The formula will have new...

Get the Summary of M. Mitchell Waldrop's Complexity in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Brian Arthur, a Stanford University professor, felt disillusioned with traditional economics, which he found static and disconnected from the dynamic complexities of real-world markets. His concept of "increasing returns" suggested that success breeds further success in certain markets, challenging the equilibrium-focused theories...

Home decorators rejoice! Interiors can now be brightened with confidence using color combos from the international color experts at Pantone. Selected specifically for décor, these palettes are perfect for color coordinating every room in the house.

In capitalism human beings act as if they are mere animals. So we hear repeatedly in the history of modern philosophy. Indifference and Repetition examines how modern philosophy, largely coextensive with a particular boost in capitalism's development, registers the reductive and regressive tendencies produced by capitalism's effect on individuals and society. Ruda examines a problem that has invisibly been shaping the history of modern, especially...

"The Public and Its Problems" by John Dewey is a seminal work in political philosophy and social theory that explores the nature of democracy, the challenges it faces, and the role of the public in addressing societal problems. In this thought-provoking book, Dewey examines the relationship between democracy, individualism, and the collective responsibility of the public. Dewey begins by critiquing the traditional notion of the public as a mere aggregation...

Este libro recoge las conversaciones mantenidas entre John Berger, John Christie, sor Lucia Kuppens y sor Telchilde Hinckley tras visitar en 2009 la capilla de Ronchamp de Le Corbusier. En este viaje de peregrinaje espiritual y arquitectónico, los diálogos afloran como un homenaje en vivo a la capilla y a su arquitecto. Los cuatro visitantes acuden a Notre-Dame-du-Haute desde trayectorias muy distintas, cuatro miradas que se cruzan en ricos diálogos...