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Humankind challenges the widespread belief that humans are naturally selfish. Rutger Bregman argues that cooperation, trust, and kindness have deep evolutionary roots and that assuming the worst leads to harmful politics and economics. Reexamining famous studies and historical events, he offers a new perspective on human nature and shows how belief in altruism can inspire meaningful social change.

The indigenous history of Colombia is key to understanding citizenship today. Camino y ruptura sheds light on the present through its reading of the past. Based on Karla Luzmer Escobar Hernández’s doctoral research, it depicts the tireless struggle of southwestern Colombian indigenous peoples in the late 19th and early 20th centuries for land rights. Their experiences reveal the complexities of politics, war, and law in a culturally diverse region. Created with talented artists, the work explores Law 89 of 1890 and its interpretations by indigenous leaders and state officials, and extends into transmedia storytelling with audiovisual resources.

Redesigning Social Inquiry provides a substantive critique of the standard approach to social research—namely, assessing the relative importance of causal variables drawn from competing theories. Instead, Ragin proposes the use of set-theoretic methods to find a middle path between quantitative and qualitative research.

In this groundbreaking book, leading economist Steven Levitt—Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago and winner of the American Economic Association’s John Bates Clark medal for the economist under 40 who has made the greatest contribution to the discipline—reveals that the answers. Joined by acclaimed author and podcast host Stephen J. Dubner, Levitt presents a brilliant—and brilliantly entertaining—account of how incentives of the most hidden sort drive behavior in ways that turn conventional wisdom on its head.