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Vintage Saints and Sinners

by Karen Wright Marsh • 2017

Saints were stubborn, anxious, doubting people. Their flaws are not a scandal; they are the point.

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🕯️ Lives Of The Saints 📜 Spiritual Biography 💔 Flawed Believers ☀️ Everyday Spirituality 🌧️ Faith And Doubt

Vintage Saints and Sinners

Saints were stubborn, anxious, doubting people. Their flaws are not a scandal; they are the point.

by Karen Wright Marsh 2017 212 pages

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🕯️ Lives Of The Saints 📜 Spiritual Biography 💔 Flawed Believers ☀️ Everyday Spirituality 🌧️ Faith And Doubt

How We Got the Bible

by Neil R. Lightfoot • 1962

5,300 manuscripts, two millennia: how the Bible reached you, and why it still holds up.

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📜 Biblical Manuscripts 🔍 Textual Criticism 📚 Canon Formation 📖 Bible Translation 🏺 Dead Sea Scrolls

How We Got the Bible

5,300 manuscripts, two millennia: how the Bible reached you, and why it still holds up.

by Neil R. Lightfoot 1962 236 pages

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📜 Biblical Manuscripts 🔍 Textual Criticism 📚 Canon Formation 📖 Bible Translation 🏺 Dead Sea Scrolls

The Long Alliance

by Gabriel Debenedetti • 2022

What held the Obama presidency together was the partnership nobody expected to work.

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🏛️ Obama Era 🤝 Political Partnerships 🇺🇸 American Presidency ⚡ Governing Through Crisis 🏥 Healthcare Politics

The Long Alliance

What held the Obama presidency together was the partnership nobody expected to work.

by Gabriel Debenedetti 2022 421 pages

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🏛️ Obama Era 🤝 Political Partnerships 🇺🇸 American Presidency ⚡ Governing Through Crisis 🏥 Healthcare Politics

Diagnosis

by Jane M. Hightower • 2008

Your tuna sandwich contains a neurotoxin, and the government knew it long before your doctor did.

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🔬 Environmental Toxicology 🏛️ Public Health Policy 💼 Regulatory Capture 🍽️ Food Politics 🔍 Medical Detective Stories

Diagnosis

Your tuna sandwich contains a neurotoxin, and the government knew it long before your doctor did.

by Jane M. Hightower 2008 328 pages

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🔬 Environmental Toxicology 🏛️ Public Health Policy 💼 Regulatory Capture 🍽️ Food Politics 🔍 Medical Detective Stories

Strategy without Design

by Robert C.H. Chia • 2009

Planned strategy destroys itself. Wins that last emerge from everyday coping, not grand designs.

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🧩 Emergent Strategy 🌊 Spontaneous Order 🔄 Systems Thinking 🏛️ Austrian Economics 🎯 Indirect Action

Strategy without Design

Planned strategy destroys itself. Wins that last emerge from everyday coping, not grand designs.

by Robert C.H. Chia 2009 262 pages

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12 ratings

🧩 Emergent Strategy 🌊 Spontaneous Order 🔄 Systems Thinking 🏛️ Austrian Economics 🎯 Indirect Action

9 Lessons in Brexit

by Ivan Rogers • 2019

Nine lessons on why the UK lost the Brexit negotiations, from a diplomat who was there.

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🇬🇧 Brexit 🇪🇺 Eu Politics 🤝 Trade Negotiations 🏛️ Sovereignty Debates 🦊 Realpolitik

9 Lessons in Brexit

Nine lessons on why the UK lost the Brexit negotiations, from a diplomat who was there.

by Ivan Rogers 2019 46 pages

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🇬🇧 Brexit 🇪🇺 Eu Politics 🤝 Trade Negotiations 🏛️ Sovereignty Debates 🦊 Realpolitik

Growth

by Vaclav Smil • 2019

The math of growth is the same everywhere: a curve that bends toward limits, not infinity.

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🌍 Limits To Growth 📈 Scaling Laws ⚡ Energy History 👥 Demographic Transition 🔧 Techno-Skepticism

Growth

The math of growth is the same everywhere: a curve that bends toward limits, not infinity.

by Vaclav Smil 2019 664 pages

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🌍 Limits To Growth 📈 Scaling Laws ⚡ Energy History 👥 Demographic Transition 🔧 Techno-Skepticism

Collusion

by Nomi Prins • 2018

Central banks print trillions from nothing to prop up the rich, with no way to stop.

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🏦 Central Banking 📈 Monetary Policy 💸 Quantitative Easing 📉 Financial Crises 💲 Dollar Hegemony

Collusion

Central banks print trillions from nothing to prop up the rich, with no way to stop.

by Nomi Prins 2018 384 pages

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🏦 Central Banking 📈 Monetary Policy 💸 Quantitative Easing 📉 Financial Crises 💲 Dollar Hegemony

How to Make Bread

by Emmanuel Hadjiandreou • 2011

Master the science behind flour and water, and transform your kitchen into an artisan bakery.

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🍞 Bread Baking 🫙 Sourdough 🥐 Pastry Making 🌾 Gluten-Free Baking 🔬 Ingredient Science

How to Make Bread

Master the science behind flour and water, and transform your kitchen into an artisan bakery.

by Emmanuel Hadjiandreou 2011 176 pages

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🍞 Bread Baking 🫙 Sourdough 🥐 Pastry Making 🌾 Gluten-Free Baking 🔬 Ingredient Science

Bankrupting the Third World

by James Morcan • 2015

The global poverty industry: why aid, loans, and conflict minerals ensure poor nations stay poor.

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🛢️ Resource Extraction 💰 Aid Critique ⛏️ Conflict Minerals 🌍 Economic Colonialism 💸 Debt And Dependency

Bankrupting the Third World

The global poverty industry: why aid, loans, and conflict minerals ensure poor nations stay poor.

by James Morcan 2015 102 pages

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🛢️ Resource Extraction 💰 Aid Critique ⛏️ Conflict Minerals 🌍 Economic Colonialism 💸 Debt And Dependency

Karl Marx

by 50Minutes • 2015

Profit is unpaid labor: Marx's case that capitalism exploits workers and is headed for collapse.

🏛️ Political Economy 🔨 Marxist Economics ⚔️ Class Struggle 🔍 Class Analysis 💸 Critique Of Capitalism

Karl Marx

Profit is unpaid labor: Marx's case that capitalism exploits workers and is headed for collapse.

by 50Minutes 2015 36 pages

🏛️ Political Economy 🔨 Marxist Economics ⚔️ Class Struggle 🔍 Class Analysis 💸 Critique Of Capitalism

Chasing Ghosts

by Marc Hartzman • 2021

Séances, spirit photos, ghost-hunting gadgets: every era invents a new way to reach the dead.

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🏚️ Ghost Lore 📞 Spiritualism History 🔦 Paranormal Investigation 🔍 Skeptical Inquiry 👻 Haunted Places

Chasing Ghosts

Séances, spirit photos, ghost-hunting gadgets: every era invents a new way to reach the dead.

by Marc Hartzman 2021 272 pages

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🏚️ Ghost Lore 📞 Spiritualism History 🔦 Paranormal Investigation 🔍 Skeptical Inquiry 👻 Haunted Places

The Faithful Preacher

by Thabiti M. Anyabwile • 2007

Three forgotten black pastors built ministry on character, not noise. Their words still confront.

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⛪ Black Church Tradition 📖 Pastoral Ministry 🕊️ Christian Character 📣 Biblical Preaching 🤝 Racial Reconciliation

The Faithful Preacher

Three forgotten black pastors built ministry on character, not noise. Their words still confront.

by Thabiti M. Anyabwile 2007

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⛪ Black Church Tradition 📖 Pastoral Ministry 🕊️ Christian Character 📣 Biblical Preaching 🤝 Racial Reconciliation

The New York Times Book of Mathematics

by Gina Kolata • 2013

Seven riffle shuffles, three hundred years, and one question: is math discovered or invented?

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🏛️ History Of Mathematics 📝 Scientific Essays 🤔 Philosophy Of Math 👤 Mathematicians 🏠 Everyday Math

The New York Times Book of Mathematics

Seven riffle shuffles, three hundred years, and one question: is math discovered or invented?

by Gina Kolata 2013 498 pages

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🏛️ History Of Mathematics 📝 Scientific Essays 🤔 Philosophy Of Math 👤 Mathematicians 🏠 Everyday Math

The Alchemists

by Jim Ratcliffe • 2018

Four out of five acquisitions fail. INEOS bet on the opposite and built a global industrial empire.

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🏭 Corporate Turnarounds 💰 Mergers And Acquisitions 🌐 Decentralized Management 🔒 Private Company Strategy ⚙️ Industrial Manufacturing

The Alchemists

Four out of five acquisitions fail. INEOS bet on the opposite and built a global industrial empire.

by Jim Ratcliffe 2018 344 pages

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🏭 Corporate Turnarounds 💰 Mergers And Acquisitions 🌐 Decentralized Management 🔒 Private Company Strategy ⚙️ Industrial Manufacturing

The Triumph of Doubt

by David Michaels • 2020

Tobacco wrote the manual for burying inconvenient science. Every other industry now uses it.

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🏭 Corporate Malfeasance 🩺 Public Health Policy 🤥 Science Denialism 📢 Disinformation Campaigns 🏛️ Regulatory Capture

The Triumph of Doubt

Tobacco wrote the manual for burying inconvenient science. Every other industry now uses it.

by David Michaels 2020 344 pages

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🏭 Corporate Malfeasance 🩺 Public Health Policy 🤥 Science Denialism 📢 Disinformation Campaigns 🏛️ Regulatory Capture

Ghosts

by Roger Clarke • 2012

Ghosts have a natural history: five centuries of sightings show how the dead reflect the living.

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👻 Paranormal History 🔎 Skeptical Inquiry 🕯️ Spiritualism 🎭 Ghost Hoaxes 💥 Poltergeist Cases

Ghosts

Ghosts have a natural history: five centuries of sightings show how the dead reflect the living.

by Roger Clarke 2012 368 pages

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👻 Paranormal History 🔎 Skeptical Inquiry 🕯️ Spiritualism 🎭 Ghost Hoaxes 💥 Poltergeist Cases

Domesticated

by Richard C. Francis • 2015

Selecting for tameness remakes body, brain, and behavior. The same force may have shaped us.

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🧬 Evolutionary Biology 🐄 Domestication Science 🏗️ Niche Construction 🧠 Self Domestication 🧪 Evo Devo

Domesticated

Selecting for tameness remakes body, brain, and behavior. The same force may have shaped us.

by Richard C. Francis 2015 498 pages

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🧬 Evolutionary Biology 🐄 Domestication Science 🏗️ Niche Construction 🧠 Self Domestication 🧪 Evo Devo

Winner Sells All

by Jason Del Rey • 2023

In 1999, Walmart bet e-commerce didn't matter. The bill for that mistake is still unpaid.

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🥊 Corporate Rivalry 🏪 Retail Industry 📱 Big Tech 📦 E-Commerce Disruption 🔄 Digital Transformation

Winner Sells All

In 1999, Walmart bet e-commerce didn't matter. The bill for that mistake is still unpaid.

by Jason Del Rey 2023 304 pages

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🥊 Corporate Rivalry 🏪 Retail Industry 📱 Big Tech 📦 E-Commerce Disruption 🔄 Digital Transformation

Order of Assassins

by Colin Wilson • 1972

Violence as self-fulfillment: how stagnation and passivity breed the modern assassin.

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🧠 Criminal Psychology 🔍 Psychological True Crime 💭 Existential Psychology 👊 Psychology Of Violence 🏙️ Modern Alienation

Order of Assassins

Violence as self-fulfillment: how stagnation and passivity breed the modern assassin.

by Colin Wilson 1972 326 pages

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🧠 Criminal Psychology 🔍 Psychological True Crime 💭 Existential Psychology 👊 Psychology Of Violence 🏙️ Modern Alienation

Supernatural

by Colin Wilson • 2011

A skeptic's tour of the paranormal evidence that defies explanation.

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🕵️ Paranormal Investigation 🔮 Psychic Phenomena 🌙 Altered States 👻 Spiritualism History 🧠 Consciousness Studies

Supernatural

A skeptic's tour of the paranormal evidence that defies explanation.

by Colin Wilson 2011 600 pages

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71 ratings

🕵️ Paranormal Investigation 🔮 Psychic Phenomena 🌙 Altered States 👻 Spiritualism History 🧠 Consciousness Studies

A Concise History of the Middle East

by Arthur Goldschmidt Jr • 1979

Three faiths, a dozen empires, one century of oil, and a conflict the world can't quit.

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📜 Middle Eastern History 🕌 Islamic Civilization 🏛️ Colonial Legacy 🏰 Ottoman Empire 🏴 Arab Nationalism

A Concise History of the Middle East

Three faiths, a dozen empires, one century of oil, and a conflict the world can't quit.

by Arthur Goldschmidt Jr 1979 576 pages

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📜 Middle Eastern History 🕌 Islamic Civilization 🏛️ Colonial Legacy 🏰 Ottoman Empire 🏴 Arab Nationalism

Human Universe

by Brian Cox • 2014

The galaxy should teem with life. The silence hints we might be alone in asking why.

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🌌 Cosmology 🧬 Astrobiology 👽 Fermi Paradox 🦴 Human Origins 🌍 Cosmic Perspective

Human Universe

The galaxy should teem with life. The silence hints we might be alone in asking why.

by Brian Cox 2014 288 pages

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🌌 Cosmology 🧬 Astrobiology 👽 Fermi Paradox 🦴 Human Origins 🌍 Cosmic Perspective

Fight Oligarchy

by Bernie Sanders • 2025

Three billionaires behind one president. The diagnosis of American oligarchy, and the cure.

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🏛️ American Oligarchy 💰 Wealth Inequality 🏢 Corporate Power ✊ Grassroots Organizing 👷 Working Class Politics

Fight Oligarchy

Three billionaires behind one president. The diagnosis of American oligarchy, and the cure.

by Bernie Sanders 2025 160 pages

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🏛️ American Oligarchy 💰 Wealth Inequality 🏢 Corporate Power ✊ Grassroots Organizing 👷 Working Class Politics

The Sources of Social Power

by Michael Mann • 1986

Why do empires rise and fall? The answer isn't one force but four overlapping power networks.

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🏛️ Historical Sociology 🌍 Comparative History 🏗️ State Formation 📜 Ideology And Power 💰 Capitalism Origins

The Sources of Social Power

Why do empires rise and fall? The answer isn't one force but four overlapping power networks.

by Michael Mann 1986 560 pages

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🏛️ Historical Sociology 🌍 Comparative History 🏗️ State Formation 📜 Ideology And Power 💰 Capitalism Origins

The Case That Never Dies

by Lloyd C. Gardner • 2004

The Lindbergh conviction hung on a ladder, marked money, and witnesses. None of it held.

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🕵️ Historical True Crime 🏚️ Depression Era 📰 Trial By Media 🌟 Celebrity Justice 🔍 Forensic Evidence

The Case That Never Dies

The Lindbergh conviction hung on a ladder, marked money, and witnesses. None of it held.

by Lloyd C. Gardner 2004 480 pages

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🕵️ Historical True Crime 🏚️ Depression Era 📰 Trial By Media 🌟 Celebrity Justice 🔍 Forensic Evidence

Facts and Other Lies

by Ed Coper • 2022

The internet runs on outrage, our brains are built for bias, and facts never stood a chance.

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🗳️ Political Disinformation 📡 Media Ecosystems 💻 Digital Politics 🧠 Cognitive Biases 📖 Media Literacy

Facts and Other Lies

The internet runs on outrage, our brains are built for bias, and facts never stood a chance.

by Ed Coper 2022 394 pages

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🗳️ Political Disinformation 📡 Media Ecosystems 💻 Digital Politics 🧠 Cognitive Biases 📖 Media Literacy

Political Order and Political Decay

by Francis Fukuyama • 2014

Build democracy before the state, and politics becomes clientelism, not good government.

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🌐 Comparative Politics 🏛️ State Building 🏚️ Institutional Decay ⚙️ Bureaucracy 🤝 Clientelism

Political Order and Political Decay

Build democracy before the state, and politics becomes clientelism, not good government.

by Francis Fukuyama 2014 672 pages

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🌐 Comparative Politics 🏛️ State Building 🏚️ Institutional Decay ⚙️ Bureaucracy 🤝 Clientelism

by Michael Lewis • 2001

Amateurs with modems started beating the experts. The market didn't fight back; it invested.

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🌐 Internet Disruption 🔄 Creative Destruction 📚 Democratized Knowledge 🔗 Peer-To-Peer Networks 🕸️ Flattened Hierarchies

Amateurs with modems started beating the experts. The market didn't fight back; it invested.

by Michael Lewis 2001 240 pages

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🌐 Internet Disruption 🔄 Creative Destruction 📚 Democratized Knowledge 🔗 Peer-To-Peer Networks 🕸️ Flattened Hierarchies

The Great Derangement

by Amitav Ghosh • 2016

Fiction cannot hold a cyclone. Politics cannot hold a planet. A novelist names the cultural refusal.

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🏛️ Climate Politics 📚 Environmental Humanities 🌏 Postcolonial Critique 🌍 Anthropocene Critique 🌿 Ecocriticism

The Great Derangement

Fiction cannot hold a cyclone. Politics cannot hold a planet. A novelist names the cultural refusal.

by Amitav Ghosh 2016 196 pages

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🏛️ Climate Politics 📚 Environmental Humanities 🌏 Postcolonial Critique 🌍 Anthropocene Critique 🌿 Ecocriticism

Free Speech

by Jacob Mchangama • 2022

Free speech has a 2,500-year losing streak, and the playbook for silencing it hasn't changed.

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📚 Intellectual History 🗣️ Free Speech 🚫 Censorship 🏛️ Classical Liberalism ⛓️ Authoritarianism

Free Speech

Free speech has a 2,500-year losing streak, and the playbook for silencing it hasn't changed.

by Jacob Mchangama 2022 528 pages

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📚 Intellectual History 🗣️ Free Speech 🚫 Censorship 🏛️ Classical Liberalism ⛓️ Authoritarianism

Why I am a Hindu

by Shashi Tharoor • 2018

Hinduism demands no dogma and has no founder. Hindutva, its political impostor, insists on both.

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🕉️ Hindu Philosophy 🧘 Advaita Vedanta 🤝 Religious Pluralism 🚩 Religious Nationalism 🇮🇳 Indian Politics

Why I am a Hindu

Hinduism demands no dogma and has no founder. Hindutva, its political impostor, insists on both.

by Shashi Tharoor 2018 320 pages

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🕉️ Hindu Philosophy 🧘 Advaita Vedanta 🤝 Religious Pluralism 🚩 Religious Nationalism 🇮🇳 Indian Politics

Hauntings

by Paul Roland • 2008

She testified from beyond the grave and her killer was convicted. What the famous hauntings reveal.

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🏚️ Ghost Lore 🔍 Paranormal Investigation 🏰 Haunted Locations 🧠 Parapsychology 🔮 Mediumship

Hauntings

She testified from beyond the grave and her killer was convicted. What the famous hauntings reveal.

by Paul Roland 2008 208 pages

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201 ratings

🏚️ Ghost Lore 🔍 Paranormal Investigation 🏰 Haunted Locations 🧠 Parapsychology 🔮 Mediumship

The Infernal Machine

by Steven Johnson • 2024

Dynamite was meant to destroy governments. It built the most powerful one: the surveillance state.

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🏴 Anarchist History 💣 History Of Terrorism 🔬 Forensic History 🕵️‍♂️ Surveillance History 🏭 Labor History

The Infernal Machine

Dynamite was meant to destroy governments. It built the most powerful one: the surveillance state.

by Steven Johnson 2024 368 pages

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🏴 Anarchist History 💣 History Of Terrorism 🔬 Forensic History 🕵️‍♂️ Surveillance History 🏭 Labor History

The Art of Political Murder

by Francisco Goldman • 2007

Bishop Gerardi proved the Army's guilt. Two days later he was dead, his garrison floor mopped.

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🇬🇹 Guatemalan Civil War 🎯 Political Assassination 📋 Truth Commissions 🔒 State Impunity ⚖️ Transitional Justice

The Art of Political Murder

Bishop Gerardi proved the Army's guilt. Two days later he was dead, his garrison floor mopped.

by Francisco Goldman 2007 396 pages

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🇬🇹 Guatemalan Civil War 🎯 Political Assassination 📋 Truth Commissions 🔒 State Impunity ⚖️ Transitional Justice

The Age of Reason

by Thomas Paine • 1794

God's word is the universe, not a book. Everything else is hearsay passed off as revelation.

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🏛️ Deism 📜 Religious Criticism 💡 Enlightenment Philosophy 📖 Biblical Criticism 🔭 Natural Theology

The Age of Reason

God's word is the universe, not a book. Everything else is hearsay passed off as revelation.

by Thomas Paine 1794 180 pages

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🏛️ Deism 📜 Religious Criticism 💡 Enlightenment Philosophy 📖 Biblical Criticism 🔭 Natural Theology

No One Cares About Crazy People

by Ron Powers • 2017

Two sons, schizophrenia, and a journalist's investigation into why America jails the mentally ill.

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🏛️ Psychiatric History 📋 Mental Health Policy 👨‍👩‍👦 Family Memoir 🏚️ Deinstitutionalization 💊 Pharmaceutical Ethics

No One Cares About Crazy People

Two sons, schizophrenia, and a journalist's investigation into why America jails the mentally ill.

by Ron Powers 2017 360 pages

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🏛️ Psychiatric History 📋 Mental Health Policy 👨‍👩‍👦 Family Memoir 🏚️ Deinstitutionalization 💊 Pharmaceutical Ethics

And Then They Stopped Talking to Me

by Judith Warner • 2020

Middle school and its signature misery were both invented in the 1960s. Knowing why heals.

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🧠 Adolescent Development 📜 History Of Childhood 👨‍👩‍👧 Parenting Teens 🔍 Cultural Criticism 🪜 Social Hierarchies

And Then They Stopped Talking to Me

Middle school and its signature misery were both invented in the 1960s. Knowing why heals.

by Judith Warner 2020 320 pages

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🧠 Adolescent Development 📜 History Of Childhood 👨‍👩‍👧 Parenting Teens 🔍 Cultural Criticism 🪜 Social Hierarchies

Lonely Planet Georgia, Armenia & Azerbaijan

by Tom Masters • 2000

Three countries, one guide: ancient wine, mountain monasteries, and the minibus routes between them.

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🏔️ South Caucasus 🎒 Lonely Planet 🗺️ Offbeat Destinations 🚐 Overland Travel 🍷 Ancient Wine Regions

Lonely Planet Georgia, Armenia & Azerbaijan

Three countries, one guide: ancient wine, mountain monasteries, and the minibus routes between them.

by Tom Masters 2000 834 pages

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🏔️ South Caucasus 🎒 Lonely Planet 🗺️ Offbeat Destinations 🚐 Overland Travel 🍷 Ancient Wine Regions

The Spartacus War

by Barry S. Strauss • 2009

Before six thousand crosses lined the Appian Way, a Thracian gladiator humiliated Rome's generals.

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🏛️ Ancient Rome ⚔️ Roman Military 🔗 Slave Revolts 🌿 Guerrilla Warfare 🛡️ Gladiators

The Spartacus War

Before six thousand crosses lined the Appian Way, a Thracian gladiator humiliated Rome's generals.

by Barry S. Strauss 2009 264 pages

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🏛️ Ancient Rome ⚔️ Roman Military 🔗 Slave Revolts 🌿 Guerrilla Warfare 🛡️ Gladiators

Christianity and Critical Race Theory

by Robert Chao Romero • 2023

Racism is pervasive, not rare. A theologian argues CRT and Christianity share that core insight.

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📚 Critical Race Theory ⚖️ Racial Justice ✝️ Christian Theology 🔍 Systemic Racism 🗳️ Faith And Politics

Christianity and Critical Race Theory

Racism is pervasive, not rare. A theologian argues CRT and Christianity share that core insight.

by Robert Chao Romero 2023 209 pages

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100 ratings

📚 Critical Race Theory ⚖️ Racial Justice ✝️ Christian Theology 🔍 Systemic Racism 🗳️ Faith And Politics

We Need New Stories

by Nesrine Malik • 2021

The stories we tell about free speech, gender, and national virtue protect power, not truth.

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🎭 Political Myths 📰 Media Criticism 🌐 Cultural Myths ⛓️ Systemic Inequality 🗣️ Free Speech Debates

We Need New Stories

The stories we tell about free speech, gender, and national virtue protect power, not truth.

by Nesrine Malik 2021 304 pages

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500+ ratings

🎭 Political Myths 📰 Media Criticism 🌐 Cultural Myths ⛓️ Systemic Inequality 🗣️ Free Speech Debates

Helen Keller

by Helen Keller • 1902

Before the water pump, words were just shapes. After, they held the world.

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🦯 Blindness Memoir 🍎 Transformative Teaching 🌱 Resilience Narratives ⏳ Early 20th Century ✋ Alternative Communication

Helen Keller

Before the water pump, words were just shapes. After, they held the world.

by Helen Keller 1902 295 pages

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🦯 Blindness Memoir 🍎 Transformative Teaching 🌱 Resilience Narratives ⏳ Early 20th Century ✋ Alternative Communication

Taste of Persia

by Naomi Duguid • 2016

A food writer crosses five borders to find what politics cannot erase: the Persian table.

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🍽️ Persian Cuisine ✈️ Culinary Travel 🥘 Culinary Traditions 🏠 Regional Home Cooking 📜 Food History

Taste of Persia

A food writer crosses five borders to find what politics cannot erase: the Persian table.

by Naomi Duguid 2016 400 pages

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495 ratings

🍽️ Persian Cuisine ✈️ Culinary Travel 🥘 Culinary Traditions 🏠 Regional Home Cooking 📜 Food History

Confident Women

by Tori Telfer • 2021

The fake heiresses, false survivors, and phantom psychics who built empires on other people's hope.

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🎭 Con Artists 👩‍⚖️ Female Criminals 🕰️ Historical Crime 🧠 Deception Psychology 🪪 Impostors

Confident Women

The fake heiresses, false survivors, and phantom psychics who built empires on other people's hope.

by Tori Telfer 2021 352 pages

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🎭 Con Artists 👩‍⚖️ Female Criminals 🕰️ Historical Crime 🧠 Deception Psychology 🪪 Impostors

Sound Within Sound

by Kate Molleson • 2022

A microtonal Mexican, an Ethiopian nun, and eight more composers the classical canon erased.

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🧪 Experimental Music 🗓️ 20th Century Music 👩 Women Composers 📜 Forgotten Composers 🔌 Electronic Music

Sound Within Sound

A microtonal Mexican, an Ethiopian nun, and eight more composers the classical canon erased.

by Kate Molleson 2022 312 pages

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181 ratings

🧪 Experimental Music 🗓️ 20th Century Music 👩 Women Composers 📜 Forgotten Composers 🔌 Electronic Music

Glory Days

by Dave Marsh • 1987

The contract was signed on a car hood. The battle to control his music nearly broke him.

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🎤 Music Biographies 📰 Rock Criticism 🏭 Working Class Life 💰 Music Industry 🎨 Artistic Integrity

Glory Days

The contract was signed on a car hood. The battle to control his music nearly broke him.

by Dave Marsh 1987 424 pages

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🎤 Music Biographies 📰 Rock Criticism 🏭 Working Class Life 💰 Music Industry 🎨 Artistic Integrity

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz • 2014

Genocide, not liberty, built America. The counterinsurgency tactics born here now circle the globe.

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🏚️ Settler Colonialism 🪶 Native American History 📚 Revisionist History 🕯️ Genocide Studies 🌱 Decolonial Thought

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

Genocide, not liberty, built America. The counterinsurgency tactics born here now circle the globe.

by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz 2014 320 pages

4.37

20k+ ratings

🏚️ Settler Colonialism 🪶 Native American History 📚 Revisionist History 🕯️ Genocide Studies 🌱 Decolonial Thought

After the Fall

by Ben Rhodes • 2021

The foreign policy that won the Cold War ended up arming the next generation of dictators.

4.19

4k+

🔻 Democratic Backsliding 📡 Disinformation Warfare 🌐 Globalization Backlash 🏛️ American Foreign Policy 🎭 Identity Politics

After the Fall

The foreign policy that won the Cold War ended up arming the next generation of dictators.

by Ben Rhodes 2021 339 pages

4.19

4k+ ratings

🔻 Democratic Backsliding 📡 Disinformation Warfare 🌐 Globalization Backlash 🏛️ American Foreign Policy 🎭 Identity Politics

Letters from Burma

by Aung San Suu Kyi • 1995

Compassion beats brutality in politics: a Nobel laureate's letters from house arrest in Burma.

3.90

1k+

🇲🇲 Burmese Politics ☸️ Engaged Buddhism ✊ Nonviolent Resistance 🔒 Political Prisoners ⛓️ Authoritarian Regimes

Letters from Burma

Compassion beats brutality in politics: a Nobel laureate's letters from house arrest in Burma.

by Aung San Suu Kyi 1995 209 pages

3.90

1k+ ratings

🇲🇲 Burmese Politics ☸️ Engaged Buddhism ✊ Nonviolent Resistance 🔒 Political Prisoners ⛓️ Authoritarian Regimes

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