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No Is Not Enough

by Naomi Klein • 2017

Chaos as political strategy: its roots in neoliberal failure, and the coalition that can defeat it.

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🏦 Political Economy ✊ Progressive Activism 🌀 Crisis Politics 🌍 Climate Justice 💸 Economic Inequality

No Is Not Enough

Chaos as political strategy: its roots in neoliberal failure, and the coalition that can defeat it.

by Naomi Klein 2017

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🏦 Political Economy ✊ Progressive Activism 🌀 Crisis Politics 🌍 Climate Justice 💸 Economic Inequality

Don't Wait for the Next War

by Wesley K. Clark • 2014

A retired general's strategy: America, united by energy, not enemies.

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🧭 Grand Strategy 🛢️ Energy Geopolitics 💼 Economic Statecraft 🌎 Climate Security 🌏 Us China Relations

Don't Wait for the Next War

A retired general's strategy: America, united by energy, not enemies.

by Wesley K. Clark 2014 271 pages

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🧭 Grand Strategy 🛢️ Energy Geopolitics 💼 Economic Statecraft 🌎 Climate Security 🌏 Us China Relations

Can’t We Just Print More Money?

by The Bank of England • 2022

Why can't we just print more money? A central bank answers this, and nine other economic puzzles.

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🎓 Introductory Economics 🏦 Central Banking ⚠️ Market Failures 👷 Labor Economics 💸 Inflation And Money

Can’t We Just Print More Money?

Why can't we just print more money? A central bank answers this, and nine other economic puzzles.

by The Bank of England 2022 311 pages

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🎓 Introductory Economics 🏦 Central Banking ⚠️ Market Failures 👷 Labor Economics 💸 Inflation And Money

Our Vicious Oaths

by N.E. Davenport • 2025

A princess general's night with a disguised enemy king leaves her captive after a wedding massacre.

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⚔️ Enemies To Lovers 💫 Fated Mates 🗡️ Warrior Heroine 🕸️ Court Intrigue 🖤 Morally Grey Hero

Our Vicious Oaths

A princess general's night with a disguised enemy king leaves her captive after a wedding massacre.

by N.E. Davenport 2025 528 pages

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⚔️ Enemies To Lovers 💫 Fated Mates 🗡️ Warrior Heroine 🕸️ Court Intrigue 🖤 Morally Grey Hero

Wealth and Power

by Orville Schell • 2013

Modern China's one obsession: reclaiming power after humiliation, even when freedom was the cost.

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🇨🇳 Modern Chinese History 🏛️ Chinese Political Thought 🏭 Authoritarian Development 🔄 National Rejuvenation 📚 Intellectual History

Wealth and Power

Modern China's one obsession: reclaiming power after humiliation, even when freedom was the cost.

by Orville Schell 2013 478 pages

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🇨🇳 Modern Chinese History 🏛️ Chinese Political Thought 🏭 Authoritarian Development 🔄 National Rejuvenation 📚 Intellectual History

Drawdown

by Paul Hawken • 2017

100 existing solutions, modeled and ranked: the plan to reverse global warming is already here.

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🌍 Climate Reversal 💰 Environmental Economics 🌱 Regenerative Agriculture 🍃 Carbon Sequestration 🔄 Circular Economy

Drawdown

100 existing solutions, modeled and ranked: the plan to reverse global warming is already here.

by Paul Hawken 2017 240 pages

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🌍 Climate Reversal 💰 Environmental Economics 🌱 Regenerative Agriculture 🍃 Carbon Sequestration 🔄 Circular Economy

Keynes

by Robert Skidelsky • 2009

The 2008 crash was an indictment of an economics that abandoned Keynes. Markets don't self-correct.

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💰 Keynesian Economics 📉 Financial Crises 📋 Financial Regulation 📊 Macroeconomic Policy 🏛️ Political Economy

Keynes

The 2008 crash was an indictment of an economics that abandoned Keynes. Markets don't self-correct.

by Robert Skidelsky 2009 256 pages

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💰 Keynesian Economics 📉 Financial Crises 📋 Financial Regulation 📊 Macroeconomic Policy 🏛️ Political Economy

How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything

by Rosa Brooks • 2016

War, law, and state fray together. A Pentagon insider on where the seams gave way.

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🪖 Military Policy ⚖️ Laws Of War ⚔️ Asymmetric Warfare 🏛️ Executive Power 🛸 Drone Warfare

How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything

War, law, and state fray together. A Pentagon insider on where the seams gave way.

by Rosa Brooks 2016 448 pages

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🪖 Military Policy ⚖️ Laws Of War ⚔️ Asymmetric Warfare 🏛️ Executive Power 🛸 Drone Warfare

The Psychology of Conspiracy Theories

by Jan-Willem Van Prooijen • 2018

Big events need big causes. That single bias makes our minds vulnerable to conspiracy theories.

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🧠 Cognitive Biases 🕵️ Conspiracy Psychology 👥 Social Identity 🗳️ Political Psychology 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology

The Psychology of Conspiracy Theories

Big events need big causes. That single bias makes our minds vulnerable to conspiracy theories.

by Jan-Willem Van Prooijen 2018 108 pages

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🧠 Cognitive Biases 🕵️ Conspiracy Psychology 👥 Social Identity 🗳️ Political Psychology 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology

The Battle For Syria

by Christopher Phillips • 2016

Syria's uprising became a proxy war: six outside powers picking sides and arming their own factions.

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🌍 Middle East Politics ⚔️ Syrian Civil War 🌸 Arab Spring ♟️ Proxy Warfare 🕌 Sectarian Conflict

The Battle For Syria

Syria's uprising became a proxy war: six outside powers picking sides and arming their own factions.

by Christopher Phillips 2016 320 pages

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🌍 Middle East Politics ⚔️ Syrian Civil War 🌸 Arab Spring ♟️ Proxy Warfare 🕌 Sectarian Conflict

Factory Man

by Beth Macy • 2014

John Bassett III bet against offshoring. The survival of his Virginia town hung on it.

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🏭 American Manufacturing 🌍 Globalization Impact 🏘️ Small Town America ⚖️ Trade Policy 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Business

Factory Man

John Bassett III bet against offshoring. The survival of his Virginia town hung on it.

by Beth Macy 2014 451 pages

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🏭 American Manufacturing 🌍 Globalization Impact 🏘️ Small Town America ⚖️ Trade Policy 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Business

Too Big to Know

by David Weinberger • 2012

Knowledge on paper was settled and scarce. Online, it is abundant, linked, and never finished.

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🕸️ Networked Knowledge 📚 Information Overload 🏛️ Authority And Expertise 🔬 Open Science 🐝 Collective Intelligence

Too Big to Know

Knowledge on paper was settled and scarce. Online, it is abundant, linked, and never finished.

by David Weinberger 2012 256 pages

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🕸️ Networked Knowledge 📚 Information Overload 🏛️ Authority And Expertise 🔬 Open Science 🐝 Collective Intelligence

Why Race and Culture Matter in Schools

by Tyrone C. Howard • 2010

Race predicts who gets suspended, tracked, and left behind. The best schools don't ignore it.

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⚖️ Educational Equity 📉 Achievement Gap 🧑‍🏫 Culturally Responsive Teaching 🏛️ Critical Race Theory In Education ✊ Social Justice Education

Why Race and Culture Matter in Schools

Race predicts who gets suspended, tracked, and left behind. The best schools don't ignore it.

by Tyrone C. Howard 2010 208 pages

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⚖️ Educational Equity 📉 Achievement Gap 🧑‍🏫 Culturally Responsive Teaching 🏛️ Critical Race Theory In Education ✊ Social Justice Education

Blind Ambition

by John W. Dean • 1976

At 31, Nixon's counsel ran the Watergate cover-up. Then he told prosecutors everything.

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🏛️ Presidential Scandals 🤐 Political Cover-Ups 📢 Whistleblowers 📖 White House Memoirs 🇺🇸 Nixon Era

Blind Ambition

At 31, Nixon's counsel ran the Watergate cover-up. Then he told prosecutors everything.

by John W. Dean 1976 614 pages

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🏛️ Presidential Scandals 🤐 Political Cover-Ups 📢 Whistleblowers 📖 White House Memoirs 🇺🇸 Nixon Era

The Unexpected Spy

by Tracy Walder • 2020

Inside the CIA's most secret unit, a young woman hunted the world's most dangerous men.

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🕵️ Spy Memoirs 👩‍✈️ Female Spies 💣 Counterterrorism ⚖️ Workplace Sexism 🧠 Vicarious Trauma

The Unexpected Spy

Inside the CIA's most secret unit, a young woman hunted the world's most dangerous men.

by Tracy Walder 2020 272 pages

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🕵️ Spy Memoirs 👩‍✈️ Female Spies 💣 Counterterrorism ⚖️ Workplace Sexism 🧠 Vicarious Trauma

Aid on the Edge of Chaos

by Ben Ramalingam • 2013

Aid agencies build blueprints for a clockwork world, but poverty is a tangled, living system.

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🏳️ Foreign Aid 🌍 International Development 📉 Aid Effectiveness 🔬 Complexity Theory 🧠 Systems Thinking

Aid on the Edge of Chaos

Aid agencies build blueprints for a clockwork world, but poverty is a tangled, living system.

by Ben Ramalingam 2013 472 pages

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🏳️ Foreign Aid 🌍 International Development 📉 Aid Effectiveness 🔬 Complexity Theory 🧠 Systems Thinking

The Green New Deal

by Jeremy Rifkin • 2019

The fossil-fuel economy is a bubble. Green tech will pop it by 2028.

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💚 Green New Deal ⚡ Energy Transition 💰 Green Economics 🛢️ Fossil Fuel Divestment 🏙️ Smart Cities

The Green New Deal

The fossil-fuel economy is a bubble. Green tech will pop it by 2028.

by Jeremy Rifkin 2019 304 pages

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💚 Green New Deal ⚡ Energy Transition 💰 Green Economics 🛢️ Fossil Fuel Divestment 🏙️ Smart Cities

America's Bank

by Roger Lowenstein • 2015

In 1907, one elderly banker had to save the American financial system from his private library.

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🏦 Central Banking 💰 Monetary History 📉 Financial Panics 🎩 Gilded Age Banking 🗳️ Progressive Era

America's Bank

In 1907, one elderly banker had to save the American financial system from his private library.

by Roger Lowenstein 2015 368 pages

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🏦 Central Banking 💰 Monetary History 📉 Financial Panics 🎩 Gilded Age Banking 🗳️ Progressive Era

Small Wonder

by Barbara Kingsolver • 2002

A novelist watches hummingbirds and dying rivers and finds the lesson America keeps ignoring.

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🍃 Nature Writing 🌍 Environmental Ethics 🌱 Sustainable Living 🌸 Ecofeminism ✍️ Writing Life

Small Wonder

A novelist watches hummingbirds and dying rivers and finds the lesson America keeps ignoring.

by Barbara Kingsolver 2002 300 pages

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🍃 Nature Writing 🌍 Environmental Ethics 🌱 Sustainable Living 🌸 Ecofeminism ✍️ Writing Life

Some People Need Killing

by Patricia Evangelista • 2023

The president told police to kill. The crowd cheered. A journalist reports the dead and asks why.

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🇵🇭 Philippine History 💊 Drug War ⚰️ Extrajudicial Killings 👮 Police Violence 🛡️ Impunity

Some People Need Killing

The president told police to kill. The crowd cheered. A journalist reports the dead and asks why.

by Patricia Evangelista 2023 428 pages

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🇵🇭 Philippine History 💊 Drug War ⚰️ Extrajudicial Killings 👮 Police Violence 🛡️ Impunity

Lies of Silence

by Brian Moore • 1990

IRA gunmen hold his wife. Her ransom: a car bomb delivered to his own hotel.

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⚔️ The Troubles 📚 Literary Thriller 🏠 Home Invasion 💔 Love Triangle ⚖️ Moral Ambiguity

Lies of Silence

IRA gunmen hold his wife. Her ransom: a car bomb delivered to his own hotel.

by Brian Moore 1990 192 pages

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⚔️ The Troubles 📚 Literary Thriller 🏠 Home Invasion 💔 Love Triangle ⚖️ Moral Ambiguity

Rewriting the Rules of the American Economy

by Joseph E. Stiglitz • 2015

A Nobel economist reveals which rules broke the American economy, and how to fix them.

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🏛️ Political Economy 📉 Inequality Economics 💰 Rent-Seeking 👷 Labor Markets 🏦 Financialization

Rewriting the Rules of the American Economy

A Nobel economist reveals which rules broke the American economy, and how to fix them.

by Joseph E. Stiglitz 2015 256 pages

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🏛️ Political Economy 📉 Inequality Economics 💰 Rent-Seeking 👷 Labor Markets 🏦 Financialization

The Founding Fathers on Leadership

by Donald T. Phillips • 1997

Beat an empire with better teamwork: the leadership manual hidden in the American Revolution.

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📚 Applied History 🤝 Team Building ⚡ Crisis Leadership 🔭 Visionary Leadership ♟️ Strategic Thinking

The Founding Fathers on Leadership

Beat an empire with better teamwork: the leadership manual hidden in the American Revolution.

by Donald T. Phillips 1997 274 pages

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📚 Applied History 🤝 Team Building ⚡ Crisis Leadership 🔭 Visionary Leadership ♟️ Strategic Thinking

Strange Rites

by Tara Isabella Burton • 2020

Americans didn't quit religion. They replaced church with SoulCycle, fandom, and social justice.

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🇺🇸 American Religion 📊 Sociology Of Religion 🌱 Secular Spirituality 🧩 Personalized Faith 🛒 Spiritual Marketplace

Strange Rites

Americans didn't quit religion. They replaced church with SoulCycle, fandom, and social justice.

by Tara Isabella Burton 2020 301 pages

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🇺🇸 American Religion 📊 Sociology Of Religion 🌱 Secular Spirituality 🧩 Personalized Faith 🛒 Spiritual Marketplace

Pay Up

by Reshma Saujani • 2022

The workplace broke mothers, and the pandemic proved it. Nine fixes employers refuse to make.

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👩‍💼 Working Mothers ⚖️ Workplace Equity 💰 Unpaid Labor 🍼 Intensive Parenting 🔥 Burnout Culture

Pay Up

The workplace broke mothers, and the pandemic proved it. Nine fixes employers refuse to make.

by Reshma Saujani 2022 234 pages

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👩‍💼 Working Mothers ⚖️ Workplace Equity 💰 Unpaid Labor 🍼 Intensive Parenting 🔥 Burnout Culture

The Economics Book

by Niall Kishtainy • 2012

Economic ideas from Aristotle to the 2008 crisis, decoded in pictures and plain language.

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🏛️ History Of Economic Thought 🏭 Political Economy 📖 Accessible Economics 🎨 Illustrated Economics 📊 Visual Reference

The Economics Book

Economic ideas from Aristotle to the 2008 crisis, decoded in pictures and plain language.

by Niall Kishtainy 2012 352 pages

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🏛️ History Of Economic Thought 🏭 Political Economy 📖 Accessible Economics 🎨 Illustrated Economics 📊 Visual Reference

A History of the Crusades, Vol. II

by Steven Runciman • 1987

The crusaders won Jerusalem. They spent the next 87 years proving they couldn't keep it.

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🏰 Crusader States 🗺️ Medieval Levant ⚔️ Medieval Warfare 🛐 Religious War 🛡️ Knightly Orders

A History of the Crusades, Vol. II

The crusaders won Jerusalem. They spent the next 87 years proving they couldn't keep it.

by Steven Runciman 1987 538 pages

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🏰 Crusader States 🗺️ Medieval Levant ⚔️ Medieval Warfare 🛐 Religious War 🛡️ Knightly Orders

The Invention of Russia

by Arkady Ostrovsky • 2015

Television became the new Kremlin: how post-Soviet Russia was built on air, not on law.

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🏚️ Post-Soviet Russia 🏛️ Russian Politics 📺 State Propaganda 📰 Media Manipulation 🏭 Manufacturing Consent

The Invention of Russia

Television became the new Kremlin: how post-Soviet Russia was built on air, not on law.

by Arkady Ostrovsky 2015 378 pages

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🏚️ Post-Soviet Russia 🏛️ Russian Politics 📺 State Propaganda 📰 Media Manipulation 🏭 Manufacturing Consent

Joseph Anton

by Salman Rushdie • 2012

A novelist with a bounty on his head. A decade in hiding. The books he wrote to survive.

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📖 Literary Memoir ✍️ Writers Under Threat 🗣️ Free Speech Advocacy 🕌 Religious Fundamentalism 🌍 Cultural Identity

Joseph Anton

A novelist with a bounty on his head. A decade in hiding. The books he wrote to survive.

by Salman Rushdie 2012 656 pages

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📖 Literary Memoir ✍️ Writers Under Threat 🗣️ Free Speech Advocacy 🕌 Religious Fundamentalism 🌍 Cultural Identity

Black Garden

by Thomas de Waal • 2003

One Soviet province started an ethnic war in 1988 by voting to secede. The stalemate remains.

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⚔️ Caucasus Conflicts 🔥 Post-Soviet Wars 💔 Ethnic Conflict 📜 Competing Histories ❄️ Frozen Conflicts

Black Garden

One Soviet province started an ethnic war in 1988 by voting to secede. The stalemate remains.

by Thomas de Waal 2003 400 pages

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⚔️ Caucasus Conflicts 🔥 Post-Soviet Wars 💔 Ethnic Conflict 📜 Competing Histories ❄️ Frozen Conflicts

No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

by Greta Thunberg • 2019

Eight years of carbon budget left. The speeches that turned one school strike into a global alarm.

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🌍 Climate Science ✊ Climate Activism 🧒 Youth Activism ⚖️ Climate Justice 🧭 Climate Ethics

No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

Eight years of carbon budget left. The speeches that turned one school strike into a global alarm.

by Greta Thunberg 2019 112 pages

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🌍 Climate Science ✊ Climate Activism 🧒 Youth Activism ⚖️ Climate Justice 🧭 Climate Ethics

Behind the Screen

by Sarah T. Roberts • 2019

The open internet is a myth: a hidden workforce decides what you see, for a hidden price.

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🛡️ Content Moderation ⚖️ Platform Governance 🖥️ Digital Labor 👻 Invisible Labor 🩹 Vicarious Trauma

Behind the Screen

The open internet is a myth: a hidden workforce decides what you see, for a hidden price.

by Sarah T. Roberts 2019 280 pages

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🛡️ Content Moderation ⚖️ Platform Governance 🖥️ Digital Labor 👻 Invisible Labor 🩹 Vicarious Trauma

Making Globalization Work

by Joseph E. Stiglitz • 2006

Rich nations wrote global trade rules for themselves. A Nobel economist's plan to rewrite them.

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🌍 International Development 📊 Development Economics ⚡ Anti-Neoliberalism 🏛️ Global Governance 🚢 Trade Policy

Making Globalization Work

Rich nations wrote global trade rules for themselves. A Nobel economist's plan to rewrite them.

by Joseph E. Stiglitz 2006 384 pages

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🌍 International Development 📊 Development Economics ⚡ Anti-Neoliberalism 🏛️ Global Governance 🚢 Trade Policy

Nelson Mandela

by Martin Meredith • 1997

They put him on trial to silence him. His dock statement made apartheid the defendant instead.

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🇿🇦 South African History ✊ Anti-Apartheid Movement 🔗 Political Imprisonment ⛓️ Colonial Resistance 🗽 Freedom Fighters

Nelson Mandela

They put him on trial to silence him. His dock statement made apartheid the defendant instead.

by Martin Meredith 1997 596 pages

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347 ratings

🇿🇦 South African History ✊ Anti-Apartheid Movement 🔗 Political Imprisonment ⛓️ Colonial Resistance 🗽 Freedom Fighters

The Darwin Economy

by Robert H. Frank • 2011

Darwin explains tax policy better than Adam Smith: the evolutionary case for taxing the top.

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🏛️ Political Economy 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology 💎 Conspicuous Consumption ⚠️ Market Failures 🤝 Collective Action

The Darwin Economy

Darwin explains tax policy better than Adam Smith: the evolutionary case for taxing the top.

by Robert H. Frank 2011 240 pages

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🏛️ Political Economy 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology 💎 Conspicuous Consumption ⚠️ Market Failures 🤝 Collective Action

The Age of Turbulence

by Alan Greenspan • 2007

A Fed chair's map of the invisible machinery that makes economies prosper or stall.

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🏦 Monetary Policy 📈 Economic Development 🏛️ Institutional Economics 🔑 Property Rights 🛢️ Resource Curse

The Age of Turbulence

A Fed chair's map of the invisible machinery that makes economies prosper or stall.

by Alan Greenspan 2007 575 pages

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🏦 Monetary Policy 📈 Economic Development 🏛️ Institutional Economics 🔑 Property Rights 🛢️ Resource Curse

A Higher Loyalty

by James B. Comey • 2018

The president wanted a loyalty oath; the FBI director wrote memos instead. A front-row account.

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📖 Political Memoir 🤝 Ethical Leadership 🏢 Institutional Integrity 🏛️ Presidential Accountability ⚖️ Rule Of Law

A Higher Loyalty

The president wanted a loyalty oath; the FBI director wrote memos instead. A front-row account.

by James B. Comey 2018 290 pages

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📖 Political Memoir 🤝 Ethical Leadership 🏢 Institutional Integrity 🏛️ Presidential Accountability ⚖️ Rule Of Law

How to Win an Election

by Quintus Tullius Cicero

Cicero's brother wrote the campaign playbook: flatter, promise, know your enemy's secrets.

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🗳️ Political Campaigns 🔍 Opposition Research 🧠 Voter Psychology 🏛️ Classical Rhetoric 📜 Ancient Wisdom

How to Win an Election

Cicero's brother wrote the campaign playbook: flatter, promise, know your enemy's secrets.

by Quintus Tullius Cicero 128 pages

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🗳️ Political Campaigns 🔍 Opposition Research 🧠 Voter Psychology 🏛️ Classical Rhetoric 📜 Ancient Wisdom

May Contain Lies

by Alex Edmans • 2024

Why bad statistics and success stories feel convincing, and a systematic way to see through them.

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🧠 Cognitive Biases 🤔 Critical Thinking 📰 Misinformation 📊 Statistical Literacy 🛒 Behavioral Economics

May Contain Lies

Why bad statistics and success stories feel convincing, and a systematic way to see through them.

by Alex Edmans 2024 322 pages

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🧠 Cognitive Biases 🤔 Critical Thinking 📰 Misinformation 📊 Statistical Literacy 🛒 Behavioral Economics

Devil's Bargain

by Joshua Green • 2017

Bannon assembled a network of money and outrage to destroy the Clintons. Trump became the weapon.

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🗳️ Right-Wing Populism 🏛️ Political Campaigns 📰 Media Manipulation 🕵️ Conspiracy Politics ⚖️ Political Polarization

Devil's Bargain

Bannon assembled a network of money and outrage to destroy the Clintons. Trump became the weapon.

by Joshua Green 2017 302 pages

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🗳️ Right-Wing Populism 🏛️ Political Campaigns 📰 Media Manipulation 🕵️ Conspiracy Politics ⚖️ Political Polarization

The Fires of Heaven

by Robert Jordan • 1993

To reclaim a stolen kingdom, a prophesied champion leads desert warriors into an immortal's trap.

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🏹 Chosen One Prophecy 💔 Mentor Sacrifice 🫂 Found Family ⚔️ Military Fantasy 🏜️ Desert Fantasy

The Fires of Heaven

To reclaim a stolen kingdom, a prophesied champion leads desert warriors into an immortal's trap.

by Robert Jordan 1993 912 pages

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🏹 Chosen One Prophecy 💔 Mentor Sacrifice 🫂 Found Family ⚔️ Military Fantasy 🏜️ Desert Fantasy

The Wolf Age

by Tore Skeie • 2018

Two Viking kings, one North Sea empire. The winner ruled three realms; the loser became a saint.

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⚔️ Viking Age 🏴 Anglo-Saxon England 👑 Kingship And Conquest 🛡️ Medieval Warfare ✝️ Christianization

The Wolf Age

Two Viking kings, one North Sea empire. The winner ruled three realms; the loser became a saint.

by Tore Skeie 2018 384 pages

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⚔️ Viking Age 🏴 Anglo-Saxon England 👑 Kingship And Conquest 🛡️ Medieval Warfare ✝️ Christianization

Ama y no sufras

by Walter Riso • 2003

From homeless vagrant to Führer: how Hitler exploited fear, built an empire, and burned Germany.

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☠️ Nazi Germany ⚔️ World War Ii 👑 Rise Of Dictators ⛓️ Totalitarianism 📢 Political Propaganda

Ama y no sufras

From homeless vagrant to Führer: how Hitler exploited fear, built an empire, and burned Germany.

by Walter Riso 2003

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500+ ratings

☠️ Nazi Germany ⚔️ World War Ii 👑 Rise Of Dictators ⛓️ Totalitarianism 📢 Political Propaganda

American Kompromat

by Craig Unger • 2021

The KGB spent decades turning a developer into a candidate; money was the kompromat.

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🕵️ Russian Intelligence 🕸️ Political Conspiracy 💸 Money Laundering 🕶️ Espionage Tradecraft 🔍 Investigative Journalism

American Kompromat

The KGB spent decades turning a developer into a candidate; money was the kompromat.

by Craig Unger 2021 368 pages

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🕵️ Russian Intelligence 🕸️ Political Conspiracy 💸 Money Laundering 🕶️ Espionage Tradecraft 🔍 Investigative Journalism

India’s Railway Man

by Rajendra B. Aklekar • 2017

Bridge: 46 days. Mountain railway: 7 years. The values that built modern India on schedule.

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📋 Project Management 🧱 Civil Engineering 🚂 Railways 🏗️ Infrastructure ⚖️ Public Sector Integrity

India’s Railway Man

Bridge: 46 days. Mountain railway: 7 years. The values that built modern India on schedule.

by Rajendra B. Aklekar 2017 273 pages

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📋 Project Management 🧱 Civil Engineering 🚂 Railways 🏗️ Infrastructure ⚖️ Public Sector Integrity

Who Speaks for Islam?

by Dalia Mogahed • 2008

Gallup asked Muslims what they believe. The data upends most Western assumptions about Islam.

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🕌 Muslim Societies 🌍 Islam And The West 📊 Empirical Sociology ⚠️ Political Radicalization 🏛️ Foreign Policy Critique

Who Speaks for Islam?

Gallup asked Muslims what they believe. The data upends most Western assumptions about Islam.

by Dalia Mogahed 2008 240 pages

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🕌 Muslim Societies 🌍 Islam And The West 📊 Empirical Sociology ⚠️ Political Radicalization 🏛️ Foreign Policy Critique

The Sociology Book

by Sam Atkinson • 2015

From Marx to Foucault: the ideas that reveal why power, class, and culture run your life.

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📘 Introductory Sociology 🏛️ Classical Sociology 🧠 Social Theory ⚖️ Social Inequality ⚡ Power Structures

The Sociology Book

From Marx to Foucault: the ideas that reveal why power, class, and culture run your life.

by Sam Atkinson 2015 352 pages

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📘 Introductory Sociology 🏛️ Classical Sociology 🧠 Social Theory ⚖️ Social Inequality ⚡ Power Structures

The Red Web

by Andrei Soldatov • 2015

The Soviet Union fell but its surveillance state survived, rewired for the internet age.

3.95

500+

🏛️ Digital Authoritarianism 🇷🇺 Putin's Russia 👁️ Surveillance State 🌐 Internet Governance ⚔️ Information Warfare

The Red Web

The Soviet Union fell but its surveillance state survived, rewired for the internet age.

by Andrei Soldatov 2015 384 pages

3.95

500+ ratings

🏛️ Digital Authoritarianism 🇷🇺 Putin's Russia 👁️ Surveillance State 🌐 Internet Governance ⚔️ Information Warfare

Lombard Street

by Walter Bagehot • 1873

All England's credit rests on one institution. When it wobbles, the money market panics.

3.89

435

🏦 Central Banking 🚨 Financial Panics 🔄 Credit Cycles 🧠 Market Psychology 📚 Classical Economics

Lombard Street

All England's credit rests on one institution. When it wobbles, the money market panics.

by Walter Bagehot 1873 188 pages

3.89

435 ratings

🏦 Central Banking 🚨 Financial Panics 🔄 Credit Cycles 🧠 Market Psychology 📚 Classical Economics

Griftopia

by Matt Taibbi • 2010

From the ballot box to the commodities pit, one unified hustle is picking every American pocket.

4.16

9k+

📰 Financial Journalism 🫧 Bubble Economics 🏛️ Systemic Corruption 🎛️ Regulatory Capture 💸 Predatory Finance

Griftopia

From the ballot box to the commodities pit, one unified hustle is picking every American pocket.

by Matt Taibbi 2010 253 pages

4.16

9k+ ratings

📰 Financial Journalism 🫧 Bubble Economics 🏛️ Systemic Corruption 🎛️ Regulatory Capture 💸 Predatory Finance

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