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España partida en dos

by Julián Casanova • 2026

A failed coup became Europe's longest civil war, then its longest surviving fascist dictatorship.

4.39

🛡️ Spanish Civil War 🌍 Interwar Europe 💥 Political Violence 🔨 Social Revolution 🌐 Proxy Wars

España partida en dos

A failed coup became Europe's longest civil war, then its longest surviving fascist dictatorship.

by Julián Casanova 2026 162 pages

4.39

64 ratings

🛡️ Spanish Civil War 🌍 Interwar Europe 💥 Political Violence 🔨 Social Revolution 🌐 Proxy Wars

Issues in Cultural Tourism Studies

by Melanie Smith • 2003

Tourism is a cultural battlefield: heritage, authenticity, and power in every destination.

3.47

🌍 Cultural Tourism 🏛️ Heritage Studies 🌀 Postmodernism 🎭 Authenticity 🔗 Neo-Colonialism

Issues in Cultural Tourism Studies

Tourism is a cultural battlefield: heritage, authenticity, and power in every destination.

by Melanie Smith 2003 208 pages

3.47

15 ratings

🌍 Cultural Tourism 🏛️ Heritage Studies 🌀 Postmodernism 🎭 Authenticity 🔗 Neo-Colonialism

The Politics of Cultural Despair

by Fritz Stern • 1961

The anti-modern rage of three German thinkers readied the ground for the Third Reich.

4.13

167

🖤 Cultural Pessimism 🏭 Antimodernism ⚡ Conservative Revolution 🌾 Volkisch Movement 🚫 Anti-Liberalism

The Politics of Cultural Despair

The anti-modern rage of three German thinkers readied the ground for the Third Reich.

by Fritz Stern 1961 367 pages

4.13

167 ratings

🖤 Cultural Pessimism 🏭 Antimodernism ⚡ Conservative Revolution 🌾 Volkisch Movement 🚫 Anti-Liberalism

Remaking Modernity

by Julia Adams • 2004

Modernity was never a European solo act. Colonies, gender, and culture built it from the margins.

3.75

🏛️ Historical Sociology 📖 Social Theory 🏗️ State Formation 🌐 Multiple Modernities 🏴 Nationalism Studies

Remaking Modernity

Modernity was never a European solo act. Colonies, gender, and culture built it from the margins.

by Julia Adams 2004 632 pages

3.75

12 ratings

🏛️ Historical Sociology 📖 Social Theory 🏗️ State Formation 🌐 Multiple Modernities 🏴 Nationalism Studies

The War on Science

by Lawrence M. Krauss • 2025

Lysenko's ghost walks the university: 39 scholars on how ideology is eating science from the inside.

3.22

121

🎓 Higher Education 🔗 Ideological Capture 🔬 Science Policy 🏛️ Academic Freedom 🔍 Free Inquiry

The War on Science

Lysenko's ghost walks the university: 39 scholars on how ideology is eating science from the inside.

by Lawrence M. Krauss 2025 480 pages

3.22

121 ratings

🎓 Higher Education 🔗 Ideological Capture 🔬 Science Policy 🏛️ Academic Freedom 🔍 Free Inquiry

Progressive Myths

by Michael Huemer • 2024

The statistical case against ten progressive orthodoxies, from police racism to the gender pay gap.

4.01

128

🎯 Political Polemics 📰 Media Criticism 🎓 Academic Capture 📊 Statistical Debunking 👮 Police And Race

Progressive Myths

The statistical case against ten progressive orthodoxies, from police racism to the gender pay gap.

by Michael Huemer 2024 277 pages

4.01

128 ratings

🎯 Political Polemics 📰 Media Criticism 🎓 Academic Capture 📊 Statistical Debunking 👮 Police And Race

We Will Not Cancel Us

by Adrienne Maree Brown • 2020

Cancel culture mimics the prisons we oppose. Transformative justice offers a different path.

4.28

3k+

🦋 Transformative Justice 📢 Cancel Culture Critique 🤝 Community Accountability ⛓️ Abolitionist Movement ✊🏽 Black Feminism

We Will Not Cancel Us

Cancel culture mimics the prisons we oppose. Transformative justice offers a different path.

by Adrienne Maree Brown 2020 88 pages

4.28

3k+ ratings

🦋 Transformative Justice 📢 Cancel Culture Critique 🤝 Community Accountability ⛓️ Abolitionist Movement ✊🏽 Black Feminism

Who Really Rules? New Haven and Community Power Reexamined

by G. William Domhoff • 1978

The pluralists said nobody ruled New Haven. Three club rosters and Yale's board minutes disagree.

3.75

🏛️ Community Power Studies 🏙️ Urban Politics 👑 Elite Theory 📊 Political Sociology 🏗️ Urban Renewal

Who Really Rules? New Haven and Community Power Reexamined

The pluralists said nobody ruled New Haven. Three club rosters and Yale's board minutes disagree.

by G. William Domhoff 1978 204 pages

3.75

8 ratings

🏛️ Community Power Studies 🏙️ Urban Politics 👑 Elite Theory 📊 Political Sociology 🏗️ Urban Renewal

The Tacit Dimension

by Michael Polanyi • 1966

Every explicit rule, theorem, and formula floats on a vast sea of knowledge you cannot articulate.

4.04

478

🔬 Philosophy Of Science 🧠 Embodied Knowledge 👁️ Phenomenology 🧩 Gestalt Psychology 📐 Limits Of Formalism

The Tacit Dimension

Every explicit rule, theorem, and formula floats on a vast sea of knowledge you cannot articulate.

by Michael Polanyi 1966 119 pages

4.04

478 ratings

🔬 Philosophy Of Science 🧠 Embodied Knowledge 👁️ Phenomenology 🧩 Gestalt Psychology 📐 Limits Of Formalism

Orhan Pamuk, Secularism and Blasphemy

by Erdağ M. Göknar • 2012

Pamuk's novels defy Turkey's secular state, resurrecting the Islamic past the nation tried to bury.

4.13

📚 Turkish Literature 🏛️ Turkish Secularism 📜 Religion And Literature 🚩 Literary Nationalism 🌍 Orientalism Critique

Orhan Pamuk, Secularism and Blasphemy

Pamuk's novels defy Turkey's secular state, resurrecting the Islamic past the nation tried to bury.

by Erdağ M. Göknar 2012 314 pages

4.13

16 ratings

📚 Turkish Literature 🏛️ Turkish Secularism 📜 Religion And Literature 🚩 Literary Nationalism 🌍 Orientalism Critique

Uncomfortable Conversations with a Jew

by Emmanuel Acho • 2024

The world's oldest conspiracy theory, dissected by a Black Christian and an Israeli Jew.

4.4

3k+

🕎 Jewish Identity 🔥 Modern Antisemitism 🗺️ Zionism Explained 🤝 Black-Jewish Relations ✊ Allyship Practices

Uncomfortable Conversations with a Jew

The world's oldest conspiracy theory, dissected by a Black Christian and an Israeli Jew.

by Emmanuel Acho 2024 320 pages

4.4

3k+ ratings

🕎 Jewish Identity 🔥 Modern Antisemitism 🗺️ Zionism Explained 🤝 Black-Jewish Relations ✊ Allyship Practices

American Struggle

by Jon Meacham • 2026

Democracy doesn't run on autopilot. The documents that show what happens when Americans forget.

4.18

500+

🏛️ American Democracy ⚠️ Democratic Fragility 📜 Primary Sources 🗳️ Civic Engagement 📝 Founding Ideals

American Struggle

Democracy doesn't run on autopilot. The documents that show what happens when Americans forget.

by Jon Meacham 2026 544 pages

4.18

500+ ratings

🏛️ American Democracy ⚠️ Democratic Fragility 📜 Primary Sources 🗳️ Civic Engagement 📝 Founding Ideals

The Wrongs of the Right

by Matthew W. Hughey • 2014

Obama's presidency didn't end racial bias; it forced it to learn a more deceptive language.

3.71

🗳️ Racial Backlash 🧠 Implicit Bias 🇺🇸 Party Realignment 🐕 Coded Language 📰 Media Echo Chambers

The Wrongs of the Right

Obama's presidency didn't end racial bias; it forced it to learn a more deceptive language.

by Matthew W. Hughey 2014 232 pages

3.71

7 ratings

🗳️ Racial Backlash 🧠 Implicit Bias 🇺🇸 Party Realignment 🐕 Coded Language 📰 Media Echo Chambers

Amazing Grace

by Eric Metaxas • 2007

One man's faith, one damning diagram, and two decades of defeats: how the slave trade fell.

4.21

9k+

🔗 Abolitionist History ✝️ Christian Biography ⛪ Faith In Politics ⚖️ Social Justice Movements ⏳ Long-Term Activism

Amazing Grace

One man's faith, one damning diagram, and two decades of defeats: how the slave trade fell.

by Eric Metaxas 2007 281 pages

4.21

9k+ ratings

🔗 Abolitionist History ✝️ Christian Biography ⛪ Faith In Politics ⚖️ Social Justice Movements ⏳ Long-Term Activism

Spirit Of Community

by Amitai Etzioni • 1993

The rights expansion forgot the duties. What it cost American communities, and how to rebuild.

3.50

🏘️ Communitarianism ⚖️ Rights And Duties 📚 Moral Education 👨‍👩‍👧 Family Policy 🗳️ Money In Politics

Spirit Of Community

The rights expansion forgot the duties. What it cost American communities, and how to rebuild.

by Amitai Etzioni 1993 336 pages

3.50

80 ratings

🏘️ Communitarianism ⚖️ Rights And Duties 📚 Moral Education 👨‍👩‍👧 Family Policy 🗳️ Money In Politics

Operation Shylock

by Philip Roth • 1993

A novelist discovers his double in Jerusalem, preaching that Jews must leave Israel to survive.

3.78

5k+

🎭 Autofiction 👥 DoppelgäNger 🔍 Unreliable Narrator ✡️ Jewish Identity 📚 Literary Thriller

Operation Shylock

A novelist discovers his double in Jerusalem, preaching that Jews must leave Israel to survive.

by Philip Roth 1993 400 pages

3.78

5k+ ratings

🎭 Autofiction 👥 DoppelgäNger 🔍 Unreliable Narrator ✡️ Jewish Identity 📚 Literary Thriller

The Last American Road Trip

by Sarah Kendzior • 2025

Route 66 promised reinvention. One family drives its ruins to find what's left of America.

3.84

1k+

🗺️ Middle America 🛣️ Family Road Trips 🏛️ Political Corruption 🇺🇸 American Mythmaking 🔥 Climate Grief

The Last American Road Trip

Route 66 promised reinvention. One family drives its ruins to find what's left of America.

by Sarah Kendzior 2025 320 pages

3.84

1k+ ratings

🗺️ Middle America 🛣️ Family Road Trips 🏛️ Political Corruption 🇺🇸 American Mythmaking 🔥 Climate Grief

Doing It All

by Ruby Russell • 2024

The nuclear family was built for capitalism, not kids. Single mothers are exposing a better way.

4.24

🧑‍🧒 Single Motherhood 💰 Care Economy ☭ Marxist Feminism 🖤 Black Feminism 🏠 Nuclear Family Critique

Doing It All

The nuclear family was built for capitalism, not kids. Single mothers are exposing a better way.

by Ruby Russell 2024 336 pages

4.24

17 ratings

🧑‍🧒 Single Motherhood 💰 Care Economy ☭ Marxist Feminism 🖤 Black Feminism 🏠 Nuclear Family Critique

American Sphinx

by Joseph J. Ellis • 1997

Jefferson's greatest invention was a mind in which freedom and slavery never had to meet.

3.94

29k+

🏛️ Founding Fathers 🧠 Psychological Biography 🔗 Slavery And Liberty 💡 American Enlightenment ⚡ Presidential Power

American Sphinx

Jefferson's greatest invention was a mind in which freedom and slavery never had to meet.

by Joseph J. Ellis 1997 440 pages

3.94

29k+ ratings

🏛️ Founding Fathers 🧠 Psychological Biography 🔗 Slavery And Liberty 💡 American Enlightenment ⚡ Presidential Power

On Paradise Drive

by David Brooks • 2005

The future is America's home: a restless chase that never ends, consuming dreams along the way.

3.58

500+

🏘️ Suburban America 🚗 Exurban Sprawl 🧩 Social Fragmentation 🛍️ Consumer Culture 🔮 Future-Oriented Culture

On Paradise Drive

The future is America's home: a restless chase that never ends, consuming dreams along the way.

by David Brooks 2005 320 pages

3.58

500+ ratings

🏘️ Suburban America 🚗 Exurban Sprawl 🧩 Social Fragmentation 🛍️ Consumer Culture 🔮 Future-Oriented Culture

By Peter B. Evans - Bringing the State Back In

by Ted Rall • 2002

The War on Terror was never justice; it was a 50-billion-barrel pipeline through Afghanistan.

3.58

170

🛢️ Oil Geopolitics 🇦🇫 Afghan War 💰 War Economy 🗯️ Graphic Journalism 📺 Media Criticism

By Peter B. Evans - Bringing the State Back In

The War on Terror was never justice; it was a 50-billion-barrel pipeline through Afghanistan.

by Ted Rall 2002

3.58

170 ratings

🛢️ Oil Geopolitics 🇦🇫 Afghan War 💰 War Economy 🗯️ Graphic Journalism 📺 Media Criticism

Juego de tronos, Libro 1

by George R.R. Martin • 1996

Lord Stark serves his king in a capital of schemers while ancient evil stirs beyond the Wall.

4.27

44k+

🖤 Grimdark Fantasy 🎭 Political Scheming 🗡️ Bastard Protagonist 🐉 Dragons Return 👥 Found Family

Juego de tronos, Libro 1

Lord Stark serves his king in a capital of schemers while ancient evil stirs beyond the Wall.

by George R.R. Martin 1996 373 pages

4.27

44k+ ratings

🖤 Grimdark Fantasy 🎭 Political Scheming 🗡️ Bastard Protagonist 🐉 Dragons Return 👥 Found Family

Confronting Black Jacobins

by Gerald Horne • 2015

Haunted by its slave revolt, the US fought a century-long war to destroy Haiti.

3.82

🌴 Caribbean History 🏛️ American Foreign Policy ⛓️‍💥 Haitian Revolution ✊🏿 Slave Rebellion 🌐 Black Internationalism

Confronting Black Jacobins

Haunted by its slave revolt, the US fought a century-long war to destroy Haiti.

by Gerald Horne 2015 416 pages

3.82

62 ratings

🌴 Caribbean History 🏛️ American Foreign Policy ⛓️‍💥 Haitian Revolution ✊🏿 Slave Rebellion 🌐 Black Internationalism

Diversity, Oppression, & Change

by Flavio Francisco Marsiglia • 2021

When social work claims neutrality, it erases culture and ignores power. This text brings them back.

3.60

🌐 Culturally Responsive Care ✊ Anti-Oppressive Practice 🕸️ Intersectionality 🏘️ Social Determinants Of Health 🕰️ Historical Trauma

Diversity, Oppression, & Change

When social work claims neutrality, it erases culture and ignores power. This text brings them back.

by Flavio Francisco Marsiglia 2021 413 pages

3.60

15 ratings

🌐 Culturally Responsive Care ✊ Anti-Oppressive Practice 🕸️ Intersectionality 🏘️ Social Determinants Of Health 🕰️ Historical Trauma

The Secret School Of Wisdom - The Authentic Rituals and Doctrines of the Illuminati

by Josef Wages • 2015

What if working six weeks a year was enough? A two-year experiment in deliberate poverty.

4.12

🌿 Transcendentalism 🏡 Simple Living 🌲 Nature Writing ✊ Civil Disobedience 🧘 Solitude

The Secret School Of Wisdom - The Authentic Rituals and Doctrines of the Illuminati

What if working six weeks a year was enough? A two-year experiment in deliberate poverty.

by Josef Wages 2015 447 pages

4.12

52 ratings

🌿 Transcendentalism 🏡 Simple Living 🌲 Nature Writing ✊ Civil Disobedience 🧘 Solitude

The Zero Waste Solution

by Paul Connett • 2013

A community roadmap out of landfills and incinerators, built on compost, repair, and local jobs.

3.92

🗑️ Waste Reduction 🔄 Circular Economy 🌱 Composting ⚖️ Environmental Justice 🏭 Industrial Ecology

The Zero Waste Solution

A community roadmap out of landfills and incinerators, built on compost, repair, and local jobs.

by Paul Connett 2013 531 pages

3.92

78 ratings

🗑️ Waste Reduction 🔄 Circular Economy 🌱 Composting ⚖️ Environmental Justice 🏭 Industrial Ecology

A Shadow in Summer

by Daniel Abraham • 2006

In a city that enslaves ideas, a hidden prince must foil a plot to free one, or the world unravels.

3.64

13k+

🏛️ Political Fantasy 🏯 Eastern-Inspired Fantasy ⚡ Costly Magic 🎭 Hidden Identity 💔 Tangled Loyalties

A Shadow in Summer

In a city that enslaves ideas, a hidden prince must foil a plot to free one, or the world unravels.

by Daniel Abraham 2006 336 pages

3.64

13k+ ratings

🏛️ Political Fantasy 🏯 Eastern-Inspired Fantasy ⚡ Costly Magic 🎭 Hidden Identity 💔 Tangled Loyalties

Primitive, Archaic, and Modern Economies

by Karl Polanyi • 1971

The market system we take for granted is a 200-year anomaly, built on three dangerous fictions.

4.00

🌍 Economic Anthropology 💸 Capitalism Critique 🏛️ Institutional Economics 🔄 Non-Market Exchange 🏙️ Market Society

Primitive, Archaic, and Modern Economies

The market system we take for granted is a 200-year anomaly, built on three dangerous fictions.

by Karl Polanyi 1971 346 pages

4.00

23 ratings

🌍 Economic Anthropology 💸 Capitalism Critique 🏛️ Institutional Economics 🔄 Non-Market Exchange 🏙️ Market Society

From mobilization to revolution

by Charles Tilly • 1978

Rioters calculate, revolutions are chess matches, and the state always stacks the board.

3.98

🏛️ Political Contention ✊ Social Movements 🏴 Revolutionary Theory 🚔 State Repression 💥 Collective Violence

From mobilization to revolution

Rioters calculate, revolutions are chess matches, and the state always stacks the board.

by Charles Tilly 1978 349 pages

3.98

42 ratings

🏛️ Political Contention ✊ Social Movements 🏴 Revolutionary Theory 🚔 State Repression 💥 Collective Violence

American Aloha

by Heather A. Diamond • 2008

A hula stage on the National Mall: how festivals manufacture tradition and erase a colonial past.

4.20

🏛️ Public Folklore 🧳 Cultural Tourism 🎪 Festival Studies 🎭 Invented Traditions 🌺 Postcolonial Hawaii

American Aloha

A hula stage on the National Mall: how festivals manufacture tradition and erase a colonial past.

by Heather A. Diamond 2008 280 pages

4.20

10 ratings

🏛️ Public Folklore 🧳 Cultural Tourism 🎪 Festival Studies 🎭 Invented Traditions 🌺 Postcolonial Hawaii

The Post-Corporate World

by David C. Korten • 1999

Capitalism isn't the market; it's a disease. The cure is taking root in local communities.

3.77

132

🌍 Post-Capitalism 🗳️ Economic Democracy 🏘️ Local Economies 🤝 Cooperative Economics ⚖️ Corporate Personhood

The Post-Corporate World

Capitalism isn't the market; it's a disease. The cure is taking root in local communities.

by David C. Korten 1999 336 pages

3.77

132 ratings

🌍 Post-Capitalism 🗳️ Economic Democracy 🏘️ Local Economies 🤝 Cooperative Economics ⚖️ Corporate Personhood

Our Town

by Cynthia Carr • 2006

A Klansman grandfather. A souvenir lynching photo. An Indiana town that never spoke of it.

3.90

202

🏛️ Jim Crow America 📸 Spectacle Lynching 🤫 Historical Amnesia 😨 Midwest Ku Klux Klan 🕊️ Racial Reconciliation

Our Town

A Klansman grandfather. A souvenir lynching photo. An Indiana town that never spoke of it.

by Cynthia Carr 2006 501 pages

3.90

202 ratings

🏛️ Jim Crow America 📸 Spectacle Lynching 🤫 Historical Amnesia 😨 Midwest Ku Klux Klan 🕊️ Racial Reconciliation

The Politics of Collective Violence

by Charles Tilly • 2003

Violence isn't chaos; it's politics, shaped by regimes and the relationships leaders exploit.

3.85

151

✊ Contentious Politics 🔗 Relational Sociology 💥 Political Violence 🏛️ Regime Analysis 📜 Historical Sociology

The Politics of Collective Violence

Violence isn't chaos; it's politics, shaped by regimes and the relationships leaders exploit.

by Charles Tilly 2003 290 pages

3.85

151 ratings

✊ Contentious Politics 🔗 Relational Sociology 💥 Political Violence 🏛️ Regime Analysis 📜 Historical Sociology

Diversity, Oppression, and Change

by Flavio Francisco Marsiglia • 2015

Culture-blind social work is Eurocentric. Real practice begins inside the client's culture.

3.83

✊ Anti-Oppressive Practice 🌍 Cultural Humility 🔀 Intersectionality 🏥 Health Equity 📖 Narrative Therapy

Diversity, Oppression, and Change

Culture-blind social work is Eurocentric. Real practice begins inside the client's culture.

by Flavio Francisco Marsiglia 2015 448 pages

3.83

30 ratings

✊ Anti-Oppressive Practice 🌍 Cultural Humility 🔀 Intersectionality 🏥 Health Equity 📖 Narrative Therapy

Russia

by Antony Beevor • 2022

Revolution promised bread. It brought secret police, grain theft, and a famine that killed millions.

3.90

3k+

🇷🇺 Russian Revolution 🚩 Bolshevism ⚔️ Civil War History 💣 Total War 🕵️ Political Terror

Russia

Revolution promised bread. It brought secret police, grain theft, and a famine that killed millions.

by Antony Beevor 2022 608 pages

3.90

3k+ ratings

🇷🇺 Russian Revolution 🚩 Bolshevism ⚔️ Civil War History 💣 Total War 🕵️ Political Terror

Lurking

by Joanne McNeil • 2020

Quiet observers were the heart of the early web. Then the internet turned them into data.

3.75

500+

🕰️ Internet History 💻 Digital Culture 🌐 Online Communities 📊 Surveillance Capitalism ⚖️ Algorithmic Bias

Lurking

Quiet observers were the heart of the early web. Then the internet turned them into data.

by Joanne McNeil 2020 304 pages

3.75

500+ ratings

🕰️ Internet History 💻 Digital Culture 🌐 Online Communities 📊 Surveillance Capitalism ⚖️ Algorithmic Bias

What's Left

by Malcolm Harris • 2025

The economy is self-destructing. Three escape routes exist, but only together might they work.

3.87

195

🏛 Political Economy 🌍 Climate Politics ✊ Ecosocialism 🍃 Green Transition 🤝 Just Transition

What's Left

The economy is self-destructing. Three escape routes exist, but only together might they work.

by Malcolm Harris 2025 320 pages

3.87

195 ratings

🏛 Political Economy 🌍 Climate Politics ✊ Ecosocialism 🍃 Green Transition 🤝 Just Transition

Regime Change

by Maggie Haberman • 2026

The revenge presidency: when the DOJ became a personal weapon and the cabinet fell silent.

4.35

4k+

🏛️ Executive Power 📉 Democratic Backsliding 🤝 Loyalty Politics ⚖️ Weaponized Justice 🌐 Trade Wars

Regime Change

The revenge presidency: when the DOJ became a personal weapon and the cabinet fell silent.

by Maggie Haberman 2026 496 pages

4.35

4k+ ratings

🏛️ Executive Power 📉 Democratic Backsliding 🤝 Loyalty Politics ⚖️ Weaponized Justice 🌐 Trade Wars

Bunker Hill

by Nathaniel Philbrick • 2013

Before the Declaration, a Boston doctor built the rebellion. Bunker Hill was his last stand.

4.07

10k+

🏙️ Boston History 📜 Colonial Resistance 👨‍🌾 Grassroots Rebellion 🛡️ Siege Warfare 🎖️ Militia Warfare

Bunker Hill

Before the Declaration, a Boston doctor built the rebellion. Bunker Hill was his last stand.

by Nathaniel Philbrick 2013 398 pages

4.07

10k+ ratings

🏙️ Boston History 📜 Colonial Resistance 👨‍🌾 Grassroots Rebellion 🛡️ Siege Warfare 🎖️ Militia Warfare

The Gods of Indian Country

by Jennifer Graber • 2018

Christian reformers posed as friends to Native people; their friendship was a weapon.

4.13

🏜️ American West 🪶 Native American Religion ✝️ Christian Missions 📜 Assimilation Policy ✊ Indigenous Sovereignty

The Gods of Indian Country

Christian reformers posed as friends to Native people; their friendship was a weapon.

by Jennifer Graber 2018 312 pages

4.13

46 ratings

🏜️ American West 🪶 Native American Religion ✝️ Christian Missions 📜 Assimilation Policy ✊ Indigenous Sovereignty

The Empire Strikes Back

by Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies • 1982

How Britain's 1970s slump was exploited to criminalize black youth and justify a police state.

4.30

🇬🇧 British History 📚 Cultural Studies 🌍 Postcolonial Britain 🏛️ State Racism 💰 Racial Capitalism

The Empire Strikes Back

How Britain's 1970s slump was exploited to criminalize black youth and justify a police state.

by Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies 1982 324 pages

4.30

10 ratings

🇬🇧 British History 📚 Cultural Studies 🌍 Postcolonial Britain 🏛️ State Racism 💰 Racial Capitalism

The White Man's Burden

by Winthrop D. Jordan • 1974

Before cotton, before ideology, cultural disgust and sexual fear set American slavery in motion.

3.89

186

🇺🇸 American Racism ⛓️ History Of Slavery 🔬 Scientific Racism 🏛️ White Supremacy ✝️ Race And Religion

The White Man's Burden

Before cotton, before ideology, cultural disgust and sexual fear set American slavery in motion.

by Winthrop D. Jordan 1974 229 pages

3.89

186 ratings

🇺🇸 American Racism ⛓️ History Of Slavery 🔬 Scientific Racism 🏛️ White Supremacy ✝️ Race And Religion

Social Entrepreneurship

by Ryszard Praszkier • 2011

The secret of lasting social change: stop pushing the system and start shifting its attractor.

3.80

🌍 Social Entrepreneurship 🔄 Systems Thinking ⚙️ Systems Change 🤝 Social Capital 🕸️ Network Building

Social Entrepreneurship

The secret of lasting social change: stop pushing the system and start shifting its attractor.

by Ryszard Praszkier 2011 250 pages

3.80

20 ratings

🌍 Social Entrepreneurship 🔄 Systems Thinking ⚙️ Systems Change 🤝 Social Capital 🕸️ Network Building

Cultural Heritage and Tourism

by Dallen J. Timothy • 2011

Every heritage site was chosen by someone. Whose past gets preserved, and whose gets forgotten.

3.86

🌍 Heritage Tourism 🎭 Cultural Tourism 🏛️ Heritage Management ♻️ Sustainable Tourism ⚡ Tourism Impacts

Cultural Heritage and Tourism

Every heritage site was chosen by someone. Whose past gets preserved, and whose gets forgotten.

by Dallen J. Timothy 2011 528 pages

3.86

21 ratings

🌍 Heritage Tourism 🎭 Cultural Tourism 🏛️ Heritage Management ♻️ Sustainable Tourism ⚡ Tourism Impacts

Zed

by Joanna Kavenna • 2019

A murder the system failed to predict becomes a crack that brings the surveillance state down.

3.12

1k+

🤖 Algorithmic Dystopia 👁️ Predictive Surveillance 💾 Hacker Resistance 🎲 Free Will Vs Determinism 🏢 Corporate Overlord

Zed

A murder the system failed to predict becomes a crack that brings the surveillance state down.

by Joanna Kavenna 2019 352 pages

3.12

1k+ ratings

🤖 Algorithmic Dystopia 👁️ Predictive Surveillance 💾 Hacker Resistance 🎲 Free Will Vs Determinism 🏢 Corporate Overlord

The Sociology Of Economic Life

by Mark Granovetter • 1991

Markets don't float free of society. They run on trust, gossip, handshakes, and who you know.

3.80

🏗️ Economic Sociology 🕸️ Social Networks 🏭 Comparative Capitalism 🏪 Market Formation 📜 Weberian Sociology

The Sociology Of Economic Life

Markets don't float free of society. They run on trust, gossip, handshakes, and who you know.

by Mark Granovetter 1991 544 pages

3.80

35 ratings

🏗️ Economic Sociology 🕸️ Social Networks 🏭 Comparative Capitalism 🏪 Market Formation 📜 Weberian Sociology

Social Movements, 1768-2004

by Charles Tilly • 2004

Protest is ancient; the social movement is an 18th-century invention with an uncertain future.

3.84

145

🏛️ Historical Sociology 📢 Social Movement Theory 🗳️ Political Sociology 👥 Collective Action 📜 History From Below

Social Movements, 1768-2004

Protest is ancient; the social movement is an 18th-century invention with an uncertain future.

by Charles Tilly 2004 204 pages

3.84

145 ratings

🏛️ Historical Sociology 📢 Social Movement Theory 🗳️ Political Sociology 👥 Collective Action 📜 History From Below

The Twenty-First-Century Firm

by Paul DiMaggio • 2001

Networks replace the firm as the economy's unit: jobs become projects, deals become relationships.

4.33

📚 Organizational Theory 💼 Economic Sociology 🔗 Organizational Networks 🏢 Firm Boundaries 🤝 Relational Contracts

The Twenty-First-Century Firm

Networks replace the firm as the economy's unit: jobs become projects, deals become relationships.

by Paul DiMaggio 2001 280 pages

4.33

3 ratings

📚 Organizational Theory 💼 Economic Sociology 🔗 Organizational Networks 🏢 Firm Boundaries 🤝 Relational Contracts

Big Boys' Rules

by mark-urban • 1992

Britain's covert war on the IRA: informers, bugged weapons, ambushes the state called self-defense.

3.87

326

🇮🇪 The Troubles 🪖 Counterinsurgency 🕶️ Covert Warfare 📡 Intelligence Operations 🐀 Informer Networks

Big Boys' Rules

Britain's covert war on the IRA: informers, bugged weapons, ambushes the state called self-defense.

by mark-urban 1992 266 pages

3.87

326 ratings

🇮🇪 The Troubles 🪖 Counterinsurgency 🕶️ Covert Warfare 📡 Intelligence Operations 🐀 Informer Networks

Altered Genes, Twisted Truth

by Steven M. Druker • 2012

The FDA buried its own scientists' warnings, covered up a lethal epidemic, and declared GMOs safe.

4.18

222

🧬 Gmo Controversy 🏛️ Regulatory Capture 🔬 Scientific Fraud 🍽️ Food Regulation 📰 Media Censorship

Altered Genes, Twisted Truth

The FDA buried its own scientists' warnings, covered up a lethal epidemic, and declared GMOs safe.

by Steven M. Druker 2012 528 pages

4.18

222 ratings

🧬 Gmo Controversy 🏛️ Regulatory Capture 🔬 Scientific Fraud 🍽️ Food Regulation 📰 Media Censorship

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