Drawing from scientific research, marketing campaigns, and exclusive documents and interviews, Vice reporter Gabrielle Bluestone delves into the irresistible hype that fuels our social media ecosystem, whether it’s from the trusted influencers that peddled Fyre or the consumer reviews that sold Juicero. A cultural examination that is as revelatory as it is relevant, Hype! pulls back the curtain on the manipulation game behind the never-ending scam season—and how we as consumers can stop getting played.

La rhétorique est partout. Dans les discours politiques comme dans les spots publicitaires. Dans les réunions professionnelles comme dans les dîners de famille. Dans les entretiens d’embauche comme dans les rendez-vous galants. Pas un jour ne passe sans que nous ayons à défendre une idée, un projet, un produit ; et à nous protéger contre d’éventuelles fourberies. Que cela nous plaise ou non, convaincre est un pouvoir. À nous d’apprendre à le maîtriser. Et de savoir y résister. Car la rhétorique n’est ni innée, ni inexplicable. Elle repose sur une technique, obéit à des règles, mobilise des procédés, des stratagèmes, des outils. Dans ce traité accessible et concret, ponctué d’exemples et de cas pratiques, Clément Viktorovitch nous en révèle tous les secrets. Au fil des pages, il nous montre comment produire et décrypter les discours, mener les débats et les discussions, déjouer les manipulations. L’art de convaincre est un pouvoir trop grand pour ne pas être partagé ! Clément Viktorovitch est docteur en science politique. Il enseigne la rhétorique et la négociation à Sciences Po depuis plus de dix ans. Il a dispensé ses cours à l’ESSEC, l’ENA, l’École de Guerre, l’Université Paris 13. Pédagogue passionné, soucieux de vulgarisation, il s’est fait connaître par ses chroniques dans les médias, où il analyse sans complaisance les discours politiques.

Class Dismissed reveals the entrenched inequities that harm our most vulnerable students and what colleges can do to help them excelElite colleges are boasting unprecedented numbers with respect to diversity, with some schools admitting their first majority-minority classes. But when the twin pandemics of COVID-19 and racial unrest gripped the world, schools scrambled to figure out what to do with the diversity they so fervently recruited. And disadvantaged students suffered. Class Dismissed exposes how woefully unprepared colleges were to support these students and shares their stories of how they were left to weather the storm alone and unprotected.Drawing on the firsthand experiences of students from all walks of life at elite colleges, Anthony Abraham Jack reveals the out-of-sight and unequal worlds students navigated before and during the pandemic closures and upon their return to campus. He shows how COVID-19 exacerbated the very inequalities that universities ignored or failed to address long before campus closures. Jack examines how students dealt with the disruptions caused by the pandemic, how they navigated social unrest, and how they grappled with problems of race both on campus and off.A provocative and much-needed book, Class Dismissed paints an intimate and unflinchingly candid portrait of the challenges of undergraduate life for disadvantaged students even in the elite schools that invest millions to diversify their student body. Moreover, Jack offers guidance on how to make students’ path to graduation less treacherous—guidance colleges would be wise to follow.

Ancient Mesopotamia, a land between two rivers, is known as the 'cradle of civilisation'. At the height of its influence, this region saw the birth of the world's first cities, the first writing system, the first historical records, as well as myths, medicine, literature, astronomy and religion that went on to revolutionise societies around the world. In Between Two Rivers , historian Dr Moudhy Al-Rashid brings us closer to this ancient past and the lives of the people who lived in this extraordinary society. The hundreds of thousands of clay tablets from ancient Mesopotamia tell wonderfully relatable stories - from a parent desperately trying to soothe a baby, or a bored teenager doodling during class, to a brewer collecting ingredients to make beer and a slave trying to negotiate their freedom. Through the contents of a 2,500-year-old museum, collected together by a princess from the 6th century BC, Al-Rashid introduces us to different periods of Mesopotamia's history, revealing aspects of society and culture that resonate with us today, from war to education and language, and from women's rights to religion and the divine. These artefacts not only bring this region to life, but also show us that people we think of as 'ancient' in fact had a highly developed sense of their own history. Breathing life and colour into a complex and surprisingly modern society, Between Two Rivers investigates what history meant back then, what it means today, and what we can learn from the distant past.