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As Martin Luther King, Jr. prepared for the Birmingham campaign in early 1963, he drafted the final sermons for Strength to Love, a volume of his best-known lectures. King had begun working on the sermons during a fortnight in jail in July 1962 and A Gift of Love includes these classic sermons, along with two new lectures • Drawing inspiration from both his Christian faith and the non-violent philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi, A Gift of Love illustrates King's vision of love and peaceful action as social and political forces for change

'Far from being the pious injunction of a Utopian dreamer, the command to love one's enemy is an absolute necessity for our survival' • Advocating love as strength and non-violence as the most powerful weapon there is, these sermons and writings from the heart of the civil rights movement show Martin Luther King's rhetorical power at its most fiery and uplifting • One of twenty new books in the bestselling Penguin Great Ideas series. This new selection showcases a diverse list of thinkers who have helped shape our world today, from anarchists to stoics, feminists to prophets, satirists to Zen Buddhists

Почему все человеческие культуры - сегодня и на протяжении всей истории - создавали музыку? Почему музыка вызывает такие сильные эмоции? Как мы воспринимаем музыкальный звук? • Это вопросы, которые до недавнего времени оставались загадочными. Теперь "Музыкальный инстинкт" исследует, как последние исследования в области музыкальной психологии и науки о мозге складывают воедино головоломку о том, как наш разум понимает музыку и реагирует на нее. Начиная от фуг Баха и заканчивая детскими стишками и тяжелым роком, Филип Болл переплетает философию, математику, историю и неврологию, чтобы показать, почему музыка так сильно волнует нас • Не требуя каких-либо специальных знаний, музыкальный инстинкт одновременно углубит ваше понимание музыки, которую вы любите, и откроет двери для музыки, которая когда-то казалась чуждой, скучной или пугающей, предлагая страстный призыв к важности музыки в образовании и в повседневной жизни

From the brilliant psychoanalyst behind Strictly Bipolar and What is Madness, a short and fascinating guide to the history of human sleep - and why we can't seem to sleep any more • 'Persuasive, absorbing and refreshingly sane... [A] bracing and important intervention in the debate... Leader points the way to a richer and more humane understanding of our problems with sleep' Guardian • One in four adults sleeps badly • Sleeping pill prescriptions have increased dramatically over the last three decades, as have the incidence of sleep clinics • Sleep used to be a natural state, easy as breathing, but increasingly it is an insecure commodity • Isn't it? • Our relationship to sleep surfaces and resurfaces throughout human history, each time telling us something new about our indivudual and collective psychology

We've all heard the golden rule: eat less, exercise more and you'll lose weight. But what if it isn't that simple? • For over two decades, weight loss surgeon Dr Andrew Jenkinson has treated thousands of people who have become trapped in the endless cycle of dieting. Why We Eat (Too Much), combines case studies from his practice and the new science of metabolism to illuminate how our appetite really works • Debunking myths of about body and systematically explaining why dieting is counter-productive, this unflinching book investigates every aspect of nutrition: from the 'set weight point' that is unique to all of us, to good and bad fats, and from how genes impact our weight to how our hormones are affected after a diet ends • With a new chapter about the link between obesity and COVID-19, this incredible book will help you understand your body better than ever before

Back in 1930, the economist John Maynard Keynes prophesied that by the century's end, technology would see us all working fifteen hour weeks. But instead, something curious happened. Today, average working hours have not decreased, but increased. And now, across the developed world, three-quarters of all jobs are in services or admin, jobs that don't seem to add anything to society bullshit jobs. In Bullshit Jobs, David Graeber explores how this phenomenon - one more associated with the 20th century Soviet Union, but which capitalism was supposed to eliminate - has happened. In doing so, he looks at how we value work, and how, rather than being productive, work has become an end in itself; the way such work maintains the current broken system of finance capital; and, finally, how we can get out of it

What is phantom limb pain? Can words actually hurt? Why do we experience pain, even after we've healed? • We know pain when we feel it. We fear it and try to avoid it. But do we know what it really is? We're currently experiencing a Renaissance in pain science. In recent years our understanding of pain has altered so radically it's fair to say that everything we thought we knew about pain is wrong. As Dr Monty Lyman reveals, we misunderstand pain - with harmful consequences • Exploring cutting-edge research that encompasses everything from phantom aches to persistent pain, as well as interviews with survivors of torture and those who have never felt pain, Dr Lyman not only provides hope for reducing and managing pain but takes us to a deeper understanding of what it means to be human

She killed two people in cold blood . . . But why? • Susan is the woman who walked in a doctor's surgery one day and committed murder • Beth is the lawyer assigned to defend Susan. But her client is uncooperative • Until both women realise that twenty-nine years earlier, they were childhood friends • While the evidence mounts up, their friendship starts to regrow • But for one of them, there can be no happy ending

'Art is not a luxury. Art is a basic social need to which everyone has a right' • This extraordinary collection of 100 artists' manifestos from across the globe over the last 100 years brings together activists, post-colonialists, surrealists, socialists, nihilists and a host of other voices. From the Negritude movement in Africa and Martinique to Brazil's Mud/Meat Sewer Manifesto, from Iraqi modernism to Australia's Cyberfeminist Manifesto, they are by turns personal, political, utopian, angry, sublime and revolutionary. Some have not been published in English before; some were written in climates of censorship and brutality; some contain visions of a future still on the horizon. What unites them is the belief that art can change the world

Imprisoned on 2 December 2020 for the third time, read Joshua Wong's urgent and powerful story - the Hong Konger fighting for democracy • INTRODUCTION BY AI WEIWEI, FOREWORD BY CHRIS PATTEN • Unfree Speech is Joshua's urgent call for us to defend our democratic values, whoever we are • It chronicles Joshua's path to activism, collects the letters he wrote as a political prisoner, and closes with a powerful and urgent manifesto for us to defend our democracies at time of global flux and change • Joshua Wong made history when he was 14. While the adults stayed silent, Joshua staged the first ever student protest in Hong Kong to oppose National Education - and won • Since then, he led the Umbrella Movement, founded a political party, and rallied the international community around the Hong Kong protests, which saw 2 million people take to the streets

In a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession-scarred America, a struggling businessman pursues a last-ditch attempt to stave off foreclosure, pay his daughter's college tuition, and finally do something great. In A Hologram for the King, Dave Eggers takes us around the world to show how one man fights to hold himself and his splintering family together in the face of the global economy's gale-force winds. This taut, richly layered, and elegiac novel is a powerful evocation of our contemporary moment - and a moving story of how we got here

Has something gone wrong with your parents? • There are hundreds of books for parents about how to deal with their teenagers. For the first time, neuroscientist and international bestselling author, Dean Burnett has written a book for YOU to understand just what on earth is going on. From why parents are obsessed with tidiness, to why they won't let you get enough sleep and generally why they don't seem to get anything, this guide covers all the major parental dramas • imagine what you'd be capable of if you weren't wasting all that time and energy arguing about tidying your room