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Cannibal Capitalism

de Nancy Fraser • 2022

The economy treats care work, nature, and democracy as free inputs. They are running out.

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🏛️ Political Economy 🗳️ Democratic Socialism 👩‍👧 Social Reproduction 🩺 Care Crisis 🔗 Racial Capitalism

Cannibal Capitalism

The economy treats care work, nature, and democracy as free inputs. They are running out.

de Nancy Fraser 2022 209 pagini

4.01

1.000+ evaluări

🏛️ Political Economy 🗳️ Democratic Socialism 👩‍👧 Social Reproduction 🩺 Care Crisis 🔗 Racial Capitalism

Aftershock

de Robert B. Reich • 2010

2008 was blamed on overspending. The real cause was underpaying, just like 1928.

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⚖️ Economic Inequality 💸 Middle Class Squeeze 📈 Demand-Side Economics 🇺🇸 American Political Economy 🗽 American Progressivism

Aftershock

2008 was blamed on overspending. The real cause was underpaying, just like 1928.

de Robert B. Reich 2010 174 pagini

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4.000+ evaluări

⚖️ Economic Inequality 💸 Middle Class Squeeze 📈 Demand-Side Economics 🇺🇸 American Political Economy 🗽 American Progressivism

An Autobiography

de Angela Y. Davis • 1974

On trial for murder, a philosophy professor wins her freedom through global solidarity.

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🚫 Prison Abolition 🖤 Black Feminism 📕 Marxist Theory ✍️ Political Memoir 🚔 Carceral State

An Autobiography

On trial for murder, a philosophy professor wins her freedom through global solidarity.

de Angela Y. Davis 1974 416 pagini

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11.000+ evaluări

🚫 Prison Abolition 🖤 Black Feminism 📕 Marxist Theory ✍️ Political Memoir 🚔 Carceral State

At the Edge of Uncertainty

de Michael Brooks • 2014

Consciousness is physical. Time is an illusion. Animals have culture. The textbooks are behind.

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🔬 Frontier Science 🧠 Consciousness Studies ⚛️ Quantum Biology 🧬 Epigenetics 🐒 Animal Cognition

At the Edge of Uncertainty

Consciousness is physical. Time is an illusion. Animals have culture. The textbooks are behind.

de Michael Brooks 2014 288 pagini

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500+ evaluări

🔬 Frontier Science 🧠 Consciousness Studies ⚛️ Quantum Biology 🧬 Epigenetics 🐒 Animal Cognition

The Latehomecomer

de Kao Kalia Yang • 2008

Bamboo rope across the Mekong. Birth in a refugee camp. Three Hmong generations, still arriving.

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🌏 Refugee Memoirs 💔 Intergenerational Trauma 👵 Multigenerational Memoir 🌱 Immigrant Coming Of Age 🧳 Cultural Displacement

The Latehomecomer

Bamboo rope across the Mekong. Birth in a refugee camp. Three Hmong generations, still arriving.

de Kao Kalia Yang 2008 277 pagini

4.18

8.000+ evaluări

🌏 Refugee Memoirs 💔 Intergenerational Trauma 👵 Multigenerational Memoir 🌱 Immigrant Coming Of Age 🧳 Cultural Displacement

Moral Letters to Lucilius Volume 2

de Seneca

Fortune can take everything except the one thing that actually matters.

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🏛️ Roman Stoicism 📜 Ancient Wisdom ⚖️ Virtue Ethics 💀 Death Acceptance 🕊️ Inner Freedom

Moral Letters to Lucilius Volume 2

Fortune can take everything except the one thing that actually matters.

de Seneca 238 pagini

4.37

315 evaluări

🏛️ Roman Stoicism 📜 Ancient Wisdom ⚖️ Virtue Ethics 💀 Death Acceptance 🕊️ Inner Freedom

Your Money or Your Life - Abridged

de Vicki Robin • 2009

Money is a political project, a religious act, and a speculative fiction, not a neutral tool.

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👥 Sociology Of Money 🌍 Anthropology Of Money 📜 Monetary History ⛪ Money And Religion 🎨 Money And Art

Your Money or Your Life - Abridged

Money is a political project, a religious act, and a speculative fiction, not a neutral tool.

de Vicki Robin 2009 2 pagini

3.78

500+ evaluări

👥 Sociology Of Money 🌍 Anthropology Of Money 📜 Monetary History ⛪ Money And Religion 🎨 Money And Art

We've Got People

de Ryan Grim • 2019

From Jesse Jackson to AOC: the four-decade fight to reclaim the Democrats from big money.

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✊ Progressive Movements 🏛️ Democratic Party 💵 Money In Politics 🌱 Grassroots Organizing 🗳️ Electoral Strategy

We've Got People

From Jesse Jackson to AOC: the four-decade fight to reclaim the Democrats from big money.

de Ryan Grim 2019 433 pagini

4.25

500+ evaluări

✊ Progressive Movements 🏛️ Democratic Party 💵 Money In Politics 🌱 Grassroots Organizing 🗳️ Electoral Strategy

Reading While Black

de Esau McCaulley • 2020

Orthodoxy and social justice were never enemies. The Black church's Bible reading proves it.

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✝️ Black Theology 📖 Biblical Hermeneutics ⚖️ Racial Justice Theology 😢 Lament And Hope 🗳️ Political Witness

Reading While Black

Orthodoxy and social justice were never enemies. The Black church's Bible reading proves it.

de Esau McCaulley 2020 200 pagini

4.42

6.000+ evaluări

✝️ Black Theology 📖 Biblical Hermeneutics ⚖️ Racial Justice Theology 😢 Lament And Hope 🗳️ Political Witness

The Coming Storm

de Odd Arne Westad • 2026

The world before 1914 is a map of our own: multipolar, jingoistic, wired for catastrophe.

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🏛️ Great Power Rivalry 📜 Pre-WWI History 🌐 Multipolar World ⏳ Historical Parallels 🛡️ Deterrence Theory

The Coming Storm

The world before 1914 is a map of our own: multipolar, jingoistic, wired for catastrophe.

de Odd Arne Westad 2026 256 pagini

3.83

500+ evaluări

🏛️ Great Power Rivalry 📜 Pre-WWI History 🌐 Multipolar World ⏳ Historical Parallels 🛡️ Deterrence Theory

Power and Privilege

de Gerhard E. Lenski • 1984

Two rules decide who prospers: share enough to survive, then power takes the rest.

4.10

🏛️ Social Stratification ⚔️ Conflict Theory 🏗️ Grand Theory ⚖️ Power And Inequality 📦 Resource Distribution

Power and Privilege

Two rules decide who prospers: share enough to survive, then power takes the rest.

de Gerhard E. Lenski 1984 525 pagini

4.10

40 evaluări

🏛️ Social Stratification ⚔️ Conflict Theory 🏗️ Grand Theory ⚖️ Power And Inequality 📦 Resource Distribution

The Prize

de Daniel Yergin • 1991

How a dark liquid wrote the rules of power, decided wars, and built the greatest fortunes.

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🛢️ Commodity History ⛽ Petroleum Industry 🌍 Energy Geopolitics 📖 Narrative History 🏭 Industrial Capitalism

The Prize

How a dark liquid wrote the rules of power, decided wars, and built the greatest fortunes.

de Daniel Yergin 1991 928 pagini

4.44

12.000+ evaluări

🛢️ Commodity History ⛽ Petroleum Industry 🌍 Energy Geopolitics 📖 Narrative History 🏭 Industrial Capitalism

Understanding Public Policy

de Thomas R. Dye • 1969

Governments make policy through many lenses. An eight-model toolkit shows why each is half right.

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🏛️ Public Policy Analysis 🇺🇸 American Government 🔍 Policy Frameworks 📊 Policy Evaluation 🏢 Interest Groups

Understanding Public Policy

Governments make policy through many lenses. An eight-model toolkit shows why each is half right.

de Thomas R. Dye 1969 368 pagini

3.81

244 evaluări

🏛️ Public Policy Analysis 🇺🇸 American Government 🔍 Policy Frameworks 📊 Policy Evaluation 🏢 Interest Groups

Unsettling Truths

de Mark Charles • 2019

A 15th-century papal ruling declared indigenous peoples less than human. It still governs U.S. law.

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🗺️ Settler Colonialism ⛪ Theological Racism 🏚️ Land Dispossession 🌱 Decolonization 🪶 Indigenous Theology

Unsettling Truths

A 15th-century papal ruling declared indigenous peoples less than human. It still governs U.S. law.

de Mark Charles 2019 224 pagini

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1.000+ evaluări

🗺️ Settler Colonialism ⛪ Theological Racism 🏚️ Land Dispossession 🌱 Decolonization 🪶 Indigenous Theology

Fire and Blood

de T.R. Fehrenbach • 1973

Mexico's history is one long civilizational war: the Toltecs started it, and it never stopped.

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🇲🇽 Mexican History 🏛️ Mesoamerican History 🐍 Mesoamerican Mythology ⚔️ Spanish Conquest 🏰 Colonial History

Fire and Blood

Mexico's history is one long civilizational war: the Toltecs started it, and it never stopped.

de T.R. Fehrenbach 1973 702 pagini

3.93

500+ evaluări

🇲🇽 Mexican History 🏛️ Mesoamerican History 🐍 Mesoamerican Mythology ⚔️ Spanish Conquest 🏰 Colonial History

The New Rulers of the World

de John Pilger • 2002

The global economy was built on mass graves. A reporter shows you who filled them.

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🏴 Anti-Imperialism 🔍 Investigative Journalism 📰 Media Criticism 📡 Propaganda Studies 🌐 Globalization Critique

The New Rulers of the World

The global economy was built on mass graves. A reporter shows you who filled them.

de John Pilger 2002 192 pagini

4.14

1.000+ evaluări

🏴 Anti-Imperialism 🔍 Investigative Journalism 📰 Media Criticism 📡 Propaganda Studies 🌐 Globalization Critique

Yes, Ma'am

de Tom Quinn • 2025

The palace staff who kept the monarchy's secrets for decades are finally breaking their silence.

3.62

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🏰 Royal Household 🧹 Servant Memoirs 👑 British Monarchy 🔑 Palace Insiders 📢 Royal Tell-All

Yes, Ma'am

The palace staff who kept the monarchy's secrets for decades are finally breaking their silence.

de Tom Quinn 2025 253 pagini

3.62

500+ evaluări

🏰 Royal Household 🧹 Servant Memoirs 👑 British Monarchy 🔑 Palace Insiders 📢 Royal Tell-All

The Picnic

de Matthew Longo • 2024

August 1989: a picnic on the Hungarian border. The gate opened, and hundreds ran.

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🔴 Cold War History 🏢 Eastern Bloc 🧱 Iron Curtain 🔍 Microhistory 🏃 Escape Stories

The Picnic

August 1989: a picnic on the Hungarian border. The gate opened, and hundreds ran.

de Matthew Longo 2024 320 pagini

4.22

500+ evaluări

🔴 Cold War History 🏢 Eastern Bloc 🧱 Iron Curtain 🔍 Microhistory 🏃 Escape Stories

Stiff

de Mary Roach • 2003

Every car you drive was safety-tested on a human cadaver. That is only the beginning.

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🔍 Forensic Science 🏥 Medical History 🦴 Human Anatomy ⚰️ Funerary Practices 🔬 Popular Science

Stiff

Every car you drive was safety-tested on a human cadaver. That is only the beginning.

de Mary Roach 2003 320 pagini

4.06

200.000+ evaluări

🔍 Forensic Science 🏥 Medical History 🦴 Human Anatomy ⚰️ Funerary Practices 🔬 Popular Science

The Art of Fermentation

de Sandor Ellix Katz • 2012

Vegetable fermentation has zero documented illnesses. The science of why, and how to start yourself.

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🫙 Fermentation 🧂 Food Preservation 🦠 Gut Health 🌿 Spontaneous Fermentation 🧪 Food Science

The Art of Fermentation

Vegetable fermentation has zero documented illnesses. The science of why, and how to start yourself.

de Sandor Ellix Katz 2012 528 pagini

4.43

4.000+ evaluări

🫙 Fermentation 🧂 Food Preservation 🦠 Gut Health 🌿 Spontaneous Fermentation 🧪 Food Science

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