Editorial Sceptre
Fecha de edición junio 2021 · Edición nº 1
Idioma inglés
EAN 9781529329278
416 páginas
Libro
encuadernado en tapa blanda
Dimensiones 129 mm x 198 mm
Even before a global pandemic introduced us to terms like social distancing, loneliness was already becoming the defining condition of the twenty-first century. But it's also one we have the power to reverse. Combining a decade of research with first-hand reporting, Noreena Hertz takes us from a 'how to communicate in real life' class for smartphone-addicted university students to bouncy castles at Belgian far-right gatherings, from 'renting a friend' and paying for cuddles in the U.S. to nursing home residents knitting bonnets for their robot caregivers in Japan. Packed with bold solutions that we can apply at home, at work and in our neighbourhoods, and with a clear vision for what businesses and governments must do, she explores how our increasing dependence on technology, radical changes to the workplace and decades of policies that have placed self-interest above the collective good, are making us more isolated than ever before. Noreena Hertz helps us to understand why this is the lonely century, how we got here and what each of us can do to help reduce loneliness for ourselves and our communities.
Noreena Hertz es una reconocida líder intelectual, académica y presentadora, nombrada por The Observer como una de las pensadoras más relevantes del mundo y por Vogue como una de las mujeres más inspiradoras del mundo . Sus éxitos de ventas anteriores, The Silent Takeover, The Debt Threat y Eyes Wide Open, se han publicado en más de veinte países, y sus artículos de opinión han aparecido en The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian y Financial Times. Presentadora de su propio programa en SiriusXM, ha sido conferenciante en TED, en el Foro Económico Mundial en Davos y en Google Zeitgeist. Hertz ostenta un MBA por la Wharton School de la Universidad de Pensilvania y un doctorado por la Universidad de Cambridge; actualmente es profesora en el University College de Londres, donde ostenta una cátedra honoraria.
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