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A bold argument for piracy as a system of knowledge sharing, cultural preservation, and political resistance.What if copying and sharing media, acts frequently labeled as piracy, were understood as part of a vast cultural infrastructure that sustains knowledge? The General Library dismantles the myth that piracy is theft, demonstrating how unauthorized modes of distribution and access can act as techniques for cultural preservation, political expression, and everyday resistance. Rather than reinforcing the industry narrative that piracy drains resources, Abigail De Kosnik argues that unauthorized access provides essential pathways to learning, belonging, and survivalparticularly for marginalized communities often excluded from official channels.Drawing on in-depth oral history interviews with media users who identify as fans, pirates, and intensive consumers, De Kosnik traces how Black, brown, queer, disabled, and poor communities use illicit access to explore identity, build communities of care, and imagine futures otherwise rendered inaccessible by techno-capitalism. She also examines how definitions of piracy are shifting with the rise of AI, as corporations scrape copyrighted works to train LLMsan example of illicit copying on a massive scale that dwarfs any act of appropriation committed by individual consumers.

Experience 71 landmark speeches from every US president in this keepsake book of words that have influenced and defined democracyForty-five men have addressed the American people as their president of the United States, employing words that have united, inspired, and changed the nation. This stately volume collects the most memorable speeches of every president to date, organized by Inaugural Address, Vice President Ascendent Speech, State of the Union, Policy, Veto, Declaration of War, Ceremonial, and Farewell. Smithsonian curator and scholar of presidential rhetoric Claire Jerry provides important historical context on the speeches, while 25 black-and-white images of Smithsonian presidential objects immerse readers in the time period. The books handsome features make it the perfect keepsake, including: Faux-leather case Gold foil stamping Marbled endsheets Quality hardcover binding Whether Lincolns Gettysburg Address, Grover Cleveland unveiling the Statue of Liberty, George W. Bushs Address to the Nation after 9/11, or President Obama marking the 50th Anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery marches, presidential speeches are an important lens through which to understand the country in crisis and in celebration. The Smithsonian Book of Presidential Speeches is a testament to the power of presidential rhetoric, and how it represents the nation and its people.

A behind-the-scenes, deeply reported window into Zohran Mamdanis campaign and early days as Mayor of New York, and the impact his socialist platform will have on a local and national scalefrom a New York magazine journalist with unparalleled accessOn October 23, 2024, Zohran Mamdani announced that he was running for mayor of New York City. In the year that followed, he went from anonymous political organizer to global celebrity, fundamentally shifting the landscape of local, national, and international politics. Galvanizing volunteers and voters across demographics with his unique approach to grassroots campaigning and governing, Mamdani has charted a new, populist path for an actual political revolution in America.Mamdani is the first mayor in modern New York history whose agenda is so explicitly at odds with the citys power elite and the first openly pro-Palestine politician to lead Americas largest city, earning him the support of younger voters and criticism from Democrats and Republicans alike. Will he be the hero Americans fed up with establishment politicians have been looking for or will he fall short of the enormous expectations set for him? Journalist Ross Barkan follows along as Mamdani steps into office to see if he can maintain the earnest, studied cool that won the hearts and minds of over one million New Yorkers.In sharp, keenly observed reporting, The Revolutionary documents an enormous political and cultural shift, taking the reader behind the scenes into Mamandis journey from grassroots activist to state assemblyman to mayor of the greatest city in the world.

As MAGA resurges and the Democratic Party falters, many Americans are left without moral or political direction. What We Do Now offers a roadmap for navigating this uncertain moment.This collection of essayswritten by some of the nations leading thinkersconfronts urgent challenges including housing affordability, climate change, artificial intelligence, immigration, and more.Together, these contributions propose bold policies and strategies for constitutionally protected dissent, helping a bewildered public chart a path forward amid an unprecedented disruption of Americas democratic traditions.

A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2026Totally fascinating... As compelling as a spy thrillerSIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE A truly riveting account of the most notorious act of sabotage in modern historyPETER FRANKOPANJaw-dropping... a pearl of a storyRORY CARROLLAll the elements of a fictional thriller... I can already see the blockbuster movieRORY CLEMENTSThe explosive inside story of the most daring act of sabotage in modern history: the bombing of the $20 billion Nord Stream Pipeline. Written by the award-winning Chief European Political Correspondent of the Wall Street JournalIn September 2022, Scandinavian seismologists detected what seemed to be a huge undersea earthquake or volcanic eruption. These signals were caused by several devastating explosions that destroyed Nord Stream, the $20 billion pipeline carrying cheap Russian gas to Europe under the Baltic Sea. The mysterious blasts shifted global geopolitics, disrupted European economies and triggered a manhunt that strained relations within the NATO alliance.Despite capturing the imagination of millions, the mystery of who blew up the pipeline has so far gone unsolved was it the CIA? Was it part of the shadow war between Russia and the West? Could Putin himself have been behind it? Drawing on years of first-hand reporting and exclusive access to key players including the saboteurs, the investigators and high-level intelligence this deeply reported non-fiction thriller by an award-winning Wall Street Journal correspondent reveals the true story behind one of the most remarkable geopolitical mysteries of our time.

A Montreal garbagemans sharp and funny memoir/exposé, in which he attempts to convince people to "stop imagining that your garbage magically disappears" . . .This fascinating no-bullshit account of twenty years in waste management paints a vivid portrait of the heroic labor, anarchic spirit, and violent conditions of the people who keep our cities clean.Pare-Pouparts story is atypical: he started working as a garbageman to pay for school, and after earning graduate degrees and working in more respectable fields, he is still on a truck out of love for the physical rush, for his rough-and-tumble colleagues, and for an honesty and freedom that no other job has yet given him.Includes eight black and white photographs of the author on the job. His sociology background informs his inquiry into our collective wastefulness and individual failure to confront the trash we produce. Every abstract observation comes with hilarious and hair-raising stories from the collection route to his days off spent hunting down furniture and toys for family and friends, as a committed freegan.Trash! the French edition of which is a runaway bestseller in Canada explains and questions efforts to clean up a business with longstanding conventions of its own, a last bastion of well-paid employment for people who cannot fit in anywhere else.Aligned with great books about work from Zola to Orwell to Lucia Berlin, and in dialogue with societal critiques like How To Do Nothing, Trash! will change how you think about your waste and the people who handle it.

Rare and riveting . . . Powerful personal stories are woven together to provide new insight and understandingLYSE DOUCETA must-read for anyone seeking an honest appraisal of revolutionary Iran and the bloody twists and turns of its theocratic regime . . . compulsively readable . . . unputdownable JON LEE ANDERSONThe moving, riveting and immersive story of six Iranians who, together, lived the entire arc of modern Iranian history: the promise of the 1979 revolution, its betrayal by the Islamic mafia state and a peoples undying spirit of resistance.Fuelled by Iranians dreams of social justice and political freedom, the 1979 revolution swept aside the shahs ailing, repressive monarchy. But in its place the revolutions leader Ayatollah Khomeini and his acolytes built a system that served his narrow Islamic fundamentalist faction and worsened every failing and brutality that had existed under the shah. Award-winning journalists Bozorgmehr Sharafedin and Yeganeh Torbati tell the entwined stories of six Iranians, providing a powerful new lens on Irans recent history in all its bitter twists and stubborn hope: Mehdi Karroubi: a devotee of Khomeini, he rose to the heights of power on the wave of the revolution, before being cast out of its inner circle. Hila Sedighi: a young activist, who gave voice through her poetry to her peers hopes during the reform years and ultimately immortalised their shattered dreams. Amir Moghadam: an ambitious government bureaucrat, who witnessed corruption and graft on a scale that impelled him to take enormous risks to expose the truth. Said Rahmani: a successful global tech entrepreneur who returned to Iran to spark a start-up boom in his native country, and encountered a ruthless security state that wanted his company for itself. Rozhin Yousefzadeh and Kosar Eftekhari: both born in the 1990s, they escaped their gendered destinies by leaving their hometowns for Tehran, where they joined a mass movement that confronted a ferocious state apparatus: the Woman Life Freedom protests. Each paid an enormous price.Through vivid and original reporting, Stolen Revolution offers a compulsively readable new story of Iran, centring ordinary Iranians lives, whilst providing a visceral understanding of how life is actually lived under a modern authoritarian state. This is a harrowing story of power, corruption and greed and those brave individuals who fought back.So timely, and so apposite . . . In the tradition of John Herseys classic Hiroshima, Sharafedin and Torbati tell the story of modern Iran in a compelling and accessible way. Essential readingLINDSEY HILSUM, author of I BROUGHT THE WAR WITH MEProfoundly affecting . . . One of the most incisive works on Iranian society in a generationSCOTT ANDERSON, author of KING OF KINGSExcellent . . . tells the tragic but often inspiring story of Iran over the last fifty years . . . EssentialJASON BURKE, author of THE REVOLUTIONISTS

Revisit the Salem Witch Trials, the Underground Railroad, and other resistance movements of American history to get a bold new understanding of how resistance shaped our pastand how its principles can change our future.The United States was shaped by resistancebut not in the way weve been taught. The Revolution did not secure liberty; it opened the door to either liberty or oppression, where only white men enjoyed all of the benefits and protections of citizenship.In A Resistance History of the United States, public historian Tad Stoermer shows how from the very beginning, that tensionbetween the ideals of resistance and the realities of powerhas defined America more than the Enlightenment ideals enshrined in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.Utililizing powerful storytelling to focus on keyand often lesser-knownmoments in American history, this book reveals the truth of how resistance movements from Colonial times have opposed the powers that be. Stoermer covers an impressive roster of pivotal movements, with each chapter identifying a key resistance movement and principle meant to inspire contemporary readers, including: Bacons Rebellion/Metacomets War (1676) Salem Witch Trials (1692) The Black Loyalists (1783) The Underground Railroad (1850) Through these and many more examples, Stoermer dismantles the mythologies that pass for American historyexposing the curated nostalgia, moral evasions, and institutional silences that have long protected abusive power. What emerges is an essential look at how we can take lessons from the past to understand, and effectively respond to, the injustices we face today.

Reflections and Encounters in Development Research through APPEARThe overall objective of APPEAR is to strengthen scientific foundations and institutional capacities in higher education, research, and management at the participating institutions within the thematic framework of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Since the launch of the program in 2009, 98 preparatory funding projects, 63 academic partnerships, and 11 advanced academic partnerships have been implemented in 24 countries. In all, 174 APPEAR scholarship holders have successfully completed a masters or PhD program at an Austrian University. APPEAR is funded by the Austrian Development Agency (ADA) as part of International Partnerships Austria and is implemented by OeAD Austrias Agency for Education and Internationalisation.This reader reflects, in a free and formally diverse manner, collaborations in the field of development research be it through theoretical, biographical, research-technical, or philosophical considerations or through personal encounters, impressions, feelings, reservations, or experiences. APPEAR has amassed a rich treasure trove of academic work, results, and personal experiences. The contributions presented in this book are a well-chosen selection from the wealth of experience gained in recent years. They are intended to inspire and stimulate further discussion and reflection within the scientific community and beyond. They also highlight the immensely important social aspect of development research and the effort to contribute to a sustainable and, above all, peaceful future. This book gives a voice to encounters, reflections, and criticism, as well as everyday perceptions in research practice and a room for lasting impressions and narratives about APPEAR and the people who have brought the program and projects to life in many countries and regions.

A deep exploration of the opportunities and risks a global digital economy poses for refugees.Digital Exiles opens a rare window into the world of refugees trying to survive and thrive in an increasingly digitalized and technological world of work. Often excluded from local employment and struggling to make ends meet, refugees are increasingly dependent on digital jobs and online work as a financial lifeline. Andreas Hackl offers a human-centered and global perspective to these struggles through his research into three of the most important refugee-hosting countries: Lebanon, Kenya, and Germany.The pursuit of a digital livelihoodfrom attending coding schools in Berlin to training datasets for AI in crisis-stricken Lebanon to online freelancing in Kenyas refugee campsrepresents an increasingly important income opportunity for refugees. Digital work programs by aid organizations and the private sector aim to help the forcibly displaced become self-reliant and successful workers, yet, for many, it creates new forms of exclusion, precarity, and risk. Combining human stories with insights from five years of multisited research and applied work with leading organizations, the author presents an alternative vision of an inclusive world of work that can help shape the fair digital economy of the future.

An essential look at how, throughout American history, the powerless have exercised their 1st Amendment right to free speech, informing how we can defend democracy today."Great storytelling about the history and importance of the 1st Amendment, from someone who has spent his life defendingand usingit." Mary Beth TinkerFrom the beginning of American history, free speech has been crucial for the pursuit of justice and expansion of democracy. Yet today, we are seeing growing attempts to roll back free speech protections in America: cultural warriors are banning books from library shelves at a level not seen in decades, and elected officials are attacking free speech principles to undermine other rights and consolidate their own power.Uncovering vivid and engaging stories about 1st Amendment pioneers throughout American history, historian and leading censorship expert Christopher Finan highlights how free speech has been used to advocate for change. In the 19th century, abolitionists, advocates for womens rights, and leaders of the labor movement had to fight for free speech. In the 20th century, the civil rights and anti-war movements expanded free speech, creating a shield for every protest movement that we have seen since.With sharp insight and page-turning storytelling, Finan demonstrates that the most effective antidote for the growth of hate speech, misinformation, political violence, and anti-democratic efforts by government officials is support for and cultivation of a free and robust marketplace of ideas.

A fascinating deep dive into the dynamic interplay between culture, economics, institutions, and human prosperity.In Pathway to Change, Naci Mocan investigates the economic origins of current cultural beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors, highlighting the lasting impact of historical agricultural practices and ecological conditions. He shows that cultural traits evolve in response to external shockssuch as exposure to violence, changes in institutional quality, and the laws and law enforcementand argues that culture and institutions influence each other: culture shapes the functioning of institutions, while institutions also mold cultural norms. As a result, the success of institutional reforms depends heavily on the cultural context in which they are implemented.Drawing on research from various fieldsincluding economics, evolutionary biology, psychology, linguistics, neuroscience, philosophy, anthropology, and political sciencethe author describes how cultural attributes such as trust, honesty, patience, preference for leisure, morality, individualism, and proclivity for violence shape economic outcomes and individual well-being. The book presents evidence on both intergenerational transmission of culture and horizontal transmission within the members of the same generation. It also describes how culture can be shaped and transformed, emphasizing the roles of media, education, laws and law enforcement, and role models. Finally, the book recommends that undesirable cultural attributes that are detrimental to our well-being, determined by scientific criteria, should be modified, and offers policy tools that can be deployed for cultural change.

"Au fil des années et des Gouvernements, jai laissé divaguer des pensées parfois amusées, parfois irritées, mais toujours intriguées par lineptie ambiante dune société dont je ne peux que constater, a mon grand dam et a linstar de nombre de mes contemporains, le declin programme.Jen ai fait des billets dhumeur au deroule laisse volontairement un peu anarchique. Je nai nullement la pretention de les transformer en un essai police. Ce sont de simples reflexions qui ont emaille mon quotidien et que je veux partager avec mes concitoyens, mes freres darmes, pourrais-je dire, ceux qui entendent resister aux sirenes des tactiques politiciennes nauseabondes de notre triste epoque.Ce recueil se veut le miroir - transformant, pas deformant - de nos incoherences, petites ou grandes, et du ridicule qui nous entoure et ote du sens a nos existences." Mes Absurdites est un pamphlet acide et sans concession, ou Jean-Claude Ceccarelli, auteur engage, denonce avec ironie et rage les derives dune societe française en pleine decadence. Entre declin des institutions, laxisme judiciaire, immigration incontrolee et trahisons politiques, lauteur passe au crible les incoherences dun systeme qui sacrifie le bon sens sur lautel du politiquement correct. Avec un style mordant, il interroge : jusquou irons-nous dans labsurdite avant de nous reveiller ? Un livre coup de poing, drole et desespere, qui bouscule les certitudes et invite a la revolte des consciences.

Fragilisé par une succession d’épisodes traumatiques et marqué par vingt années de hausse ininterrompue des prix du logement, le secteur de l’immobilier résidentiel se trouve aujourd’hui confronté à

The world-famous fitness expert and New York Times bestselling author delivers a bold exposé uncovering how Big Ag, Big Food, and Big Pharma profit from making us sick.Why are nearly seventy percent of Americans battling chronic illness? Why are harmful chemicals and additives that are banned in other countries still allowed in the U.S. food supply? What practical steps can individuals take to reclaim control over their diet, fitness, and healthcare in a system rigged against them?In The Toxic Triad, New York Times bestselling author and health advocate Jillian Michaels and answers these questions as she exposes the systemic corruption caused by the companies that are integral to American lives. These industriesinvolving agriculture, food production, and pharmaceuticalshave engineered a cycle of addiction, chronic illness, and environmental destruction for massive profit. From ultra-processed foods designed to hijack your brain to pharmaceuticals that treat symptoms instead of root causes, Michaels reveals how these corporate giants have rigged the system against us.But this isnt just a book about problemsits a call to action. Michaels arms readers with the knowledge and tools necessary to break free from the toxic grip these industries hold on our nation and our government. Filled with practical advice on nutrition, fitness, healthcare, and advice on activism, The Toxic Triad empowers everyone to take back control of their personal health and demand systemic change.If youre tired of feeling powerlessand aching and fatiguedin a rigged system, this book is your roadmap to revolution.

In How the Regime Rules, New York Times bestselling author Christopher Rufo delivers a bold, unflinching examination of how Americas founding spirit was transformedand, in his telling, betrayedby the rise of modern bureaucratic power.Christopher Rufo rose to prominence exposing the influence of Critical Race Theory and the corruption of DEI in Americas institutions. Now, in How the Regime Rules, he unveils the operations of The Regimean unofficial network of elite institutions that shapes opinion, allocates power, and quietly pulls the nation away from its founding ideals.For decades, politicians sold the expansion of Big Government, Big Business, and Big Academia as the natural evolution of democracy. Rufo dismantles this illusion, revealing how bureaucrats, corporate managers, and academic ideologues wield immense, unaccountable powerfar removed from the citizens they claim to serve. The faith in technocratic expertise has hardened into an ideology of control, eroding the independence of the American spirit. If left unchecked, he warns, this trajectory will hollow out the republic itself.Tracing the shift from FDRs New Deal to LBJs Great Society, Rufo shows how the state extended its grasp from the economic to the cultural realm. The New Lefts long march through the institutions became a stealth revolution, embedding new orthodoxies in media, universities, and government alike. It was not a coup of armies, but of meaningscontrol over the political software that governs how citizens think and speak.Rufos warning is clear: the emerging regime keeps the language of democracy while draining it of substance. True change, he argues, must be driven by the people

An engaging and timely essay collection on the challenges, risks, and opportunities of this historic moment in American law and governance.1,000-word essays from the countrys leading legal scholars and experts.It is the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, and the U.S. is grappling with foundational challenges to its laws, institutions of governance, and civic culture. Longstanding values of pluralism are being challenged. The nation is beset by deep political polarization, a fear that the economic order is no longer providing opportunities for all, and a technology revolution that may unsettle what it means to be uniquely human. America Unfinished brings together more than 50 legal scholars on the Harvard Law School faculty to analyze this historic moment in American law and governance.Edited by Alexandra Natapoff and Guy-Uriel Charles, the book coheres around the dramatic experiment in American legal governance that began in 1776, still highly contested after 250 years. Some essays explore the modern expansion of executive power, including its recent and dramatic willingness to use violence, both domestically and internationally. Other essays examine longstanding divides between workers, consumers, and markets, and the hard questions they raise about democratic accountability in our market-driven economy. And finally, some contributors address the future of our knowledge and governance institutions under pressure from the disruptions caused by technological and informational revolution.Dynamic and engaging, the collection does nothing less than advance the core conversations necessary for a thriving polity, both at this historic moment and for decades to come.