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The New Age of Sexism

de Laura Bates • 2025

Deepfake porn and biased code run AI, and the industry is looking away.

4.26

12.000+

🎯 Algorithmic Bias 📵 Online Harassment 📜 Tech Regulation 👩‍💻 Feminist Technology ⚖️ Data Justice

The New Age of Sexism

Deepfake porn and biased code run AI, and the industry is looking away.

de Laura Bates 2025 352 pagini

4.26

12.000+ evaluări

🎯 Algorithmic Bias 📵 Online Harassment 📜 Tech Regulation 👩‍💻 Feminist Technology ⚖️ Data Justice

Medicine River

de Mary Annette Pember • 2025

A dress with 365 jingles: one Ojibwe woman dancing to heal her mother's boarding-school past.

3.91

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🏫 Indian Boarding Schools 🧬 Intergenerational Trauma 🔍 Investigative Memoir 🔐 Family Secrets 🪶 Ojibwe Culture

Medicine River

A dress with 365 jingles: one Ojibwe woman dancing to heal her mother's boarding-school past.

de Mary Annette Pember 2025 304 pagini

3.91

2.000+ evaluări

🏫 Indian Boarding Schools 🧬 Intergenerational Trauma 🔍 Investigative Memoir 🔐 Family Secrets 🪶 Ojibwe Culture

Romancing the Brand

de Tim Halloran • 2013

Brands are partners, not products. Principles for building devotion that outlasts any campaign.

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🏗️ Brand Strategy 🧠 Consumer Psychology 💕 Emotional Branding 📖 Brand Storytelling 🗣️ Word Of Mouth

Romancing the Brand

Brands are partners, not products. Principles for building devotion that outlasts any campaign.

de Tim Halloran 2013 272 pagini

3.76

101 evaluări

🏗️ Brand Strategy 🧠 Consumer Psychology 💕 Emotional Branding 📖 Brand Storytelling 🗣️ Word Of Mouth

The Unthinkable

de Amanda Ripley • 2008

Why you won't panic in a disaster, and what your brain will do instead.

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🌪️ Disaster Psychology ⚖️ Risk Perception 👥 Collective Behavior 🩹 Trauma And Resilience 🧠 Fear And The Brain

The Unthinkable

Why you won't panic in a disaster, and what your brain will do instead.

de Amanda Ripley 2008 266 pagini

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9.000+ evaluări

🌪️ Disaster Psychology ⚖️ Risk Perception 👥 Collective Behavior 🩹 Trauma And Resilience 🧠 Fear And The Brain

Epidemiology

de Rodolfo Saracci • 2010

The science that saved cities from cholera and proved tobacco kills, packed into 100 pages.

3.37

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🏥 Public Health 🗺️ Disease Patterns 🔗 Causal Inference 🔬 Study Design 📊 Health Statistics

Epidemiology

The science that saved cities from cholera and proved tobacco kills, packed into 100 pages.

de Rodolfo Saracci 2010 145 pagini

3.37

351 evaluări

🏥 Public Health 🗺️ Disease Patterns 🔗 Causal Inference 🔬 Study Design 📊 Health Statistics

The Mismeasure of Man

de Stephen Jay Gould • 1982

Skulls, IQ scores, and statistics: how each science of human ranking was rigged from the start.

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📜 History Of Science 🧬 Biological Determinism 📏 Scientific Racism 🧠 Iq Testing 🧫 Eugenics History

The Mismeasure of Man

Skulls, IQ scores, and statistics: how each science of human ranking was rigged from the start.

de Stephen Jay Gould 1982 446 pagini

4.06

9.000+ evaluări

📜 History Of Science 🧬 Biological Determinism 📏 Scientific Racism 🧠 Iq Testing 🧫 Eugenics History

Transaction Man

de Nicholas Lemann • 2019

America traded institutions for deals, then deals for networks. Each era left more people behind.

3.71

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🏢 Corporate Governance 📜 Financial History 🇺🇸 American Capitalism 📈 Shareholder Capitalism 🏚️ Institutional Decline

Transaction Man

America traded institutions for deals, then deals for networks. Each era left more people behind.

de Nicholas Lemann 2019 320 pagini

3.71

318 evaluări

🏢 Corporate Governance 📜 Financial History 🇺🇸 American Capitalism 📈 Shareholder Capitalism 🏚️ Institutional Decline

The Friendship Formula

de Caroline Millington • 2019

Adult friendship is harder than it looks. The science of how many hours closeness actually takes.

3.24

164

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Adult Friendships 🔬 Friendship Science ❤️‍🩹 Social Health 💛 Platonic Friendship 🏚️ Loneliness Epidemic

The Friendship Formula

Adult friendship is harder than it looks. The science of how many hours closeness actually takes.

de Caroline Millington 2019 208 pagini

3.24

164 evaluări

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Adult Friendships 🔬 Friendship Science ❤️‍🩹 Social Health 💛 Platonic Friendship 🏚️ Loneliness Epidemic

Chimpanzee Politics

de Frans de Waal • 1982

A chimpanzee colony is a political machine, complete with coalition coups and fragile peace accords.

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🐒 Primate Behavior 🧠 Animal Cognition 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology 🤝 Social Alliances 👑 Dominance Hierarchies

Chimpanzee Politics

A chimpanzee colony is a political machine, complete with coalition coups and fragile peace accords.

de Frans de Waal 1982 256 pagini

4.27

2.000+ evaluări

🐒 Primate Behavior 🧠 Animal Cognition 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology 🤝 Social Alliances 👑 Dominance Hierarchies

Not Working

de D.W. Gibson • 2012

What a paycheck conceals: Americans on the identity, health, and dignity that left with the job.

3.68

🎙️ Oral History 💸 Economic Precarity 🔨 Work And Identity 📉 Great Recession 🔄 Career Transitions

Not Working

What a paycheck conceals: Americans on the identity, health, and dignity that left with the job.

de D.W. Gibson 2012 479 pagini

3.68

60 evaluări

🎙️ Oral History 💸 Economic Precarity 🔨 Work And Identity 📉 Great Recession 🔄 Career Transitions

The White Album

de Joan Didion • 1979

A writer, a psychiatric breakdown, and the California essays that defined an unraveling decade.

4.02

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🔍 Cultural Criticism 📰 New Journalism ✌️ Sixties Counterculture 🎬 Hollywood Culture 🌴 California Noir

The White Album

A writer, a psychiatric breakdown, and the California essays that defined an unraveling decade.

de Joan Didion 1979 224 pagini

4.02

51.000+ evaluări

🔍 Cultural Criticism 📰 New Journalism ✌️ Sixties Counterculture 🎬 Hollywood Culture 🌴 California Noir

The Victory of Reason

de Rodney Stark • 2005

The 'Dark Ages' were an era of explosive innovation, lit by the Church's obsession with reason.

3.99

500+

🏰 Medieval Innovation 💰 Origins Of Capitalism ⛪️ Church And State 🗽 Political Freedom ✝️ Faith And Reason

The Victory of Reason

The 'Dark Ages' were an era of explosive innovation, lit by the Church's obsession with reason.

de Rodney Stark 2005 304 pagini

3.99

500+ evaluări

🏰 Medieval Innovation 💰 Origins Of Capitalism ⛪️ Church And State 🗽 Political Freedom ✝️ Faith And Reason

The Violent Take It by Force

de Matthew D. Taylor • 2024

Behind January 6th was a charismatic Christian movement most Americans have never heard of.

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🕊️ Charismatic Movement 👑 Dominion Theology ⚔️ Spiritual Warfare 🇺🇸 Christian Nationalism ⚠️ Religious Extremism

The Violent Take It by Force

Behind January 6th was a charismatic Christian movement most Americans have never heard of.

de Matthew D. Taylor 2024 292 pagini

4.36

500+ evaluări

🕊️ Charismatic Movement 👑 Dominion Theology ⚔️ Spiritual Warfare 🇺🇸 Christian Nationalism ⚠️ Religious Extremism

HEBREWS TO NEGROES

de Ronald Dalton Jr • 2014

Black people are the Bible's true Israelites, and their stolen history is the key to liberation.

4.09

221

🌍 Afrocentric History ✡️ Black Israelite Theology 🕵️ Conspiracy Theories 📺 Media Manipulation 📜 Biblical Prophecy

HEBREWS TO NEGROES

Black people are the Bible's true Israelites, and their stolen history is the key to liberation.

de Ronald Dalton Jr 2014 1044 pagini

4.09

221 evaluări

🌍 Afrocentric History ✡️ Black Israelite Theology 🕵️ Conspiracy Theories 📺 Media Manipulation 📜 Biblical Prophecy

Reconstruction

de Eric Foner • 1988

A brief, revolutionary experiment in interracial democracy. Why the country abandoned it.

4.22

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🏛️ Reconstruction Era 🗳️ Black Political Agency 🤝 Interracial Democracy 🔥 Racial Terror 🌾 Land And Labor

Reconstruction

A brief, revolutionary experiment in interracial democracy. Why the country abandoned it.

de Eric Foner 1988 690 pagini

4.22

6.000+ evaluări

🏛️ Reconstruction Era 🗳️ Black Political Agency 🤝 Interracial Democracy 🔥 Racial Terror 🌾 Land And Labor

Innovation

de Mark Dodgson • 2010

Most innovations fail, and the pattern of those failures is not a bug but a design feature.

3.28

190

📚 Innovation Studies 🔄 Organizational Change 🤖 Technology And Society 💥 Creative Destruction 🧪 Failure And Learning

Innovation

Most innovations fail, and the pattern of those failures is not a bug but a design feature.

de Mark Dodgson 2010 168 pagini

3.28

190 evaluări

📚 Innovation Studies 🔄 Organizational Change 🤖 Technology And Society 💥 Creative Destruction 🧪 Failure And Learning

Libraries that Learn

de Jennifer A. Bartlett • 2019

Nine shifts that turn a static library into a learning engine, from analytics to adaptive spaces.

3.22

🏛️ Library Management 🧠 Knowledge Management 💻 Digital Libraries 👤 User-Centered Design 🔍 Information Literacy

Libraries that Learn

Nine shifts that turn a static library into a learning engine, from analytics to adaptive spaces.

de Jennifer A. Bartlett 2019 184 pagini

3.22

9 evaluări

🏛️ Library Management 🧠 Knowledge Management 💻 Digital Libraries 👤 User-Centered Design 🔍 Information Literacy

The Great Leveler

de Walter Scheidel • 2017

Inequality never falls gently. It only falls after catastrophe: war, revolution, plague, collapse.

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📈 Economic History 🏛️ Political Economy 📊 Inequality Studies 💰 Wealth Concentration ⚖️ Comparative History

The Great Leveler

Inequality never falls gently. It only falls after catastrophe: war, revolution, plague, collapse.

de Walter Scheidel 2017 528 pagini

3.81

1.000+ evaluări

📈 Economic History 🏛️ Political Economy 📊 Inequality Studies 💰 Wealth Concentration ⚖️ Comparative History

Gender Trouble

de Judith Butler • 1989

Gender is not who you are but what you do, repeated until it passes for nature.

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✊ Feminist Theory 🌈 Queer Theory 🏗️ Social Construction 🎭 Gender As Performance 🧬 Heteronormativity

Gender Trouble

Gender is not who you are but what you do, repeated until it passes for nature.

de Judith Butler 1989 236 pagini

4.04

19.000+ evaluări

✊ Feminist Theory 🌈 Queer Theory 🏗️ Social Construction 🎭 Gender As Performance 🧬 Heteronormativity

Systems Leadership

de Ian MacDonald • 2006

Organizations fail when leaders treat people as objects. Authority and clarity are the engine.

4.23

🏗️ Organizational Design 🔄 Systems Thinking ⚖️ Authority Structures 🏆 Meritocracy At Work 🔀 Change Management

Systems Leadership

Organizations fail when leaders treat people as objects. Authority and clarity are the engine.

de Ian MacDonald 2006 312 pagini

4.23

31 evaluări

🏗️ Organizational Design 🔄 Systems Thinking ⚖️ Authority Structures 🏆 Meritocracy At Work 🔀 Change Management

In Mistrust We Trust

de Ivan Krastev • 2013

More rights, more information, less collective power: the paradox at the heart of modern democracy.

3.96

🏛️ Post-Democracy 🎓 Meritocracy Critique 📱 Digital Activism 🗳️ Political Distrust 🔍 Transparency Critique

In Mistrust We Trust

More rights, more information, less collective power: the paradox at the heart of modern democracy.

de Ivan Krastev 2013 71 pagini

3.96

73 evaluări

🏛️ Post-Democracy 🎓 Meritocracy Critique 📱 Digital Activism 🗳️ Political Distrust 🔍 Transparency Critique

Worse Than Slavery

de David M. Oshinsky • 1996

Slavery ended. Mississippi made convicts cheaper than slaves and built an empire on their labor.

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🏗️ Convict Leasing ⚖️ Jim Crow Justice 🏛️ Southern History 🔒 Mass Incarceration 🔗 Prison Labor

Worse Than Slavery

Slavery ended. Mississippi made convicts cheaper than slaves and built an empire on their labor.

de David M. Oshinsky 1996 320 pagini

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1.000+ evaluări

🏗️ Convict Leasing ⚖️ Jim Crow Justice 🏛️ Southern History 🔒 Mass Incarceration 🔗 Prison Labor

Life in Three Dimensions

de Shigehiro Oishi • 2025

Happiness smooths the path. Meaning gives it direction. Only detours make it worth telling.

3.79

1.000+

🌞 Positive Psychology 🔍 Curiosity 🎨 Life Design 🌱 Resilience 🧠 Decision Psychology

Life in Three Dimensions

Happiness smooths the path. Meaning gives it direction. Only detours make it worth telling.

de Shigehiro Oishi 2025 256 pagini

3.79

1.000+ evaluări

🌞 Positive Psychology 🔍 Curiosity 🎨 Life Design 🌱 Resilience 🧠 Decision Psychology

Everybody Wins

de James Wallis • 2022

One award. Half a million sales per winner. How German critics made board games art.

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🎲 Board Game History 🏆 Award History 🔄 Game Design Evolution 🇪🇺 Eurogame Design 🎭 Cultural History Of Play

Everybody Wins

One award. Half a million sales per winner. How German critics made board games art.

de James Wallis 2022 443 pagini

4.15

219 evaluări

🎲 Board Game History 🏆 Award History 🔄 Game Design Evolution 🇪🇺 Eurogame Design 🎭 Cultural History Of Play

Escape from Capitalism

de Clara E. Mattei • 2026

Rate hikes, austerity, and unemployment share one purpose: keeping workers too weak to demand more.

4.18

391

🏭 Critiques Of Capitalism 📊 Political Economy 💸 Austerity Politics ⚔️ Class Analysis 🌍 Dependency Theory

Escape from Capitalism

Rate hikes, austerity, and unemployment share one purpose: keeping workers too weak to demand more.

de Clara E. Mattei 2026 224 pagini

4.18

391 evaluări

🏭 Critiques Of Capitalism 📊 Political Economy 💸 Austerity Politics ⚔️ Class Analysis 🌍 Dependency Theory

Ordinary Magic

de Gregory M. Walton • 2025

Our most painful doubts are predictable. A single hour of reframing can change a life.

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115

🧠 Social Psychology 🌱 Growth Mindset ⚠️ Stereotype Threat 🤝 Social Belonging 🏫 Equity In Education

Ordinary Magic

Our most painful doubts are predictable. A single hour of reframing can change a life.

de Gregory M. Walton 2025 464 pagini

3.52

115 evaluări

🧠 Social Psychology 🌱 Growth Mindset ⚠️ Stereotype Threat 🤝 Social Belonging 🏫 Equity In Education

Resilience

de Boris Cyrulnik • 2003

Resilience is not a solo act. It's built from relationships, stories, and who is willing to listen.

3.80

173

🩹 Trauma Recovery 🌱 Post-Traumatic Growth 📖 Narrative Therapy 🔗 Attachment Theory 🌌 Existential Psychology

Resilience

Resilience is not a solo act. It's built from relationships, stories, and who is willing to listen.

de Boris Cyrulnik 2003 200 pagini

3.80

173 evaluări

🩹 Trauma Recovery 🌱 Post-Traumatic Growth 📖 Narrative Therapy 🔗 Attachment Theory 🌌 Existential Psychology

Culture and Resistance

de Edward W. Said • 2003

Peace rebranded, occupation maintained: dismantling the language hiding Palestinian dispossession.

4.10

419

🇵🇸 Palestinian History ⚔️ Israel Palestine 🗣️ Language And Power 📰 Media Criticism ✊ Cultural Resistance

Culture and Resistance

Peace rebranded, occupation maintained: dismantling the language hiding Palestinian dispossession.

de Edward W. Said 2003 224 pagini

4.10

419 evaluări

🇵🇸 Palestinian History ⚔️ Israel Palestine 🗣️ Language And Power 📰 Media Criticism ✊ Cultural Resistance

How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps

de Ben Shapiro • 2020

Three principles made America. A rival philosophy now insists all three were the problem all along.

4.06

5.000+

🇺🇸 American Identity 📜 Classical Liberalism ⚖️ Natural Rights 🏛️ Limited Government 🎯 Cancel Culture

How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps

Three principles made America. A rival philosophy now insists all three were the problem all along.

de Ben Shapiro 2020 288 pagini

4.06

5.000+ evaluări

🇺🇸 American Identity 📜 Classical Liberalism ⚖️ Natural Rights 🏛️ Limited Government 🎯 Cancel Culture

Bloody Nasty People

de Daniel Trilling • 2012

The far right didn't storm the gates. Mainstream politicians opened them, one dog whistle at a time.

3.88

143

🗳️ Far-Right Politics ✊ Anti-Fascism 🎯 Dog-Whistle Politics 🎭 Cultural Racism 🌱 Grassroots Organizing

Bloody Nasty People

The far right didn't storm the gates. Mainstream politicians opened them, one dog whistle at a time.

de Daniel Trilling 2012 240 pagini

3.88

143 evaluări

🗳️ Far-Right Politics ✊ Anti-Fascism 🎯 Dog-Whistle Politics 🎭 Cultural Racism 🌱 Grassroots Organizing

The Anglo Files

de Sarah Lyall • 2008

An American marries into England and decodes a nation wired for apology, irony, and booze.

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🇬🇧 British Culture 🤐 British Reserve 👑 Class In Britain 😂 British Humor 🛬 Expat Perspectives

The Anglo Files

An American marries into England and decodes a nation wired for apology, irony, and booze.

de Sarah Lyall 2008 304 pagini

3.45

2.000+ evaluări

🇬🇧 British Culture 🤐 British Reserve 👑 Class In Britain 😂 British Humor 🛬 Expat Perspectives

Give Smart

de Thomas J. Tierney • 2011

Philanthropy has no market feedback. Here is the accountability framework that replaces it.

3.59

249

🎯 Strategic Philanthropy 🏛️ Foundation Management 🔗 Theory Of Change 📏 Impact Measurement 💰 Grantmaking

Give Smart

Philanthropy has no market feedback. Here is the accountability framework that replaces it.

de Thomas J. Tierney 2011 272 pagini

3.59

249 evaluări

🎯 Strategic Philanthropy 🏛️ Foundation Management 🔗 Theory Of Change 📏 Impact Measurement 💰 Grantmaking

The Fight in the Fields

de Susan Ferriss • 1997

How a migrant farmworker built a movement so large that 40,000 people marched at his funeral.

4.00

🏭 Labor History 🌎 Chicano History 🌾 Agricultural Labor ✊ Grassroots Organizing ☮️ Nonviolent Resistance

The Fight in the Fields

How a migrant farmworker built a movement so large that 40,000 people marched at his funeral.

de Susan Ferriss 1997 352 pagini

4.00

99 evaluări

🏭 Labor History 🌎 Chicano History 🌾 Agricultural Labor ✊ Grassroots Organizing ☮️ Nonviolent Resistance

The Manipulated Man

de Esther Vilar • 1971

Women trade sex for lifelong security; men mistake their chains for love. The 1971 polemic.

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2.000+

🔄 Gender Roles 💋 Sexual Politics ⚔️ Anti-Feminism ♂️ Men's Rights ⚡ Power Dynamics

The Manipulated Man

Women trade sex for lifelong security; men mistake their chains for love. The 1971 polemic.

de Esther Vilar 1971 156 pagini

3.58

2.000+ evaluări

🔄 Gender Roles 💋 Sexual Politics ⚔️ Anti-Feminism ♂️ Men's Rights ⚡ Power Dynamics

Educational Courage

de Mara Sapon-Shevin • 2012

Public schools gutted by testing and privatization: a refusal playbook for teachers and parents.

3.84

📚 Public Education 📝 Standardized Testing ✊ Teacher Resistance 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Parent Organizing 📋 Authentic Assessment

Educational Courage

Public schools gutted by testing and privatization: a refusal playbook for teachers and parents.

de Mara Sapon-Shevin 2012 240 pagini

3.84

19 evaluări

📚 Public Education 📝 Standardized Testing ✊ Teacher Resistance 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Parent Organizing 📋 Authentic Assessment

Spin Dictators

de Sergei Guriev • 2022

Modern autocrats rule by deception, not terror. How they fake democracy and hide the violence.

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🏛️ Authoritarian Regimes 🌐 Comparative Politics 🎭 Disinformation Tactics 📺 Media Manipulation 🔇 Soft Repression

Spin Dictators

Modern autocrats rule by deception, not terror. How they fake democracy and hide the violence.

de Sergei Guriev 2022 360 pagini

3.94

1.000+ evaluări

🏛️ Authoritarian Regimes 🌐 Comparative Politics 🎭 Disinformation Tactics 📺 Media Manipulation 🔇 Soft Repression

Authoritarian Nightmare

de John W. Dean • 2020

Two personality scales, tested for decades, predicted Trump's base and its immunity to facts.

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🗳️ Trump Era 👤 Authoritarian Personality 🏛️ Political Psychology 🥇 Group Dominance 🔍 Cognitive Biases

Authoritarian Nightmare

Two personality scales, tested for decades, predicted Trump's base and its immunity to facts.

de John W. Dean 2020 368 pagini

4.15

500+ evaluări

🗳️ Trump Era 👤 Authoritarian Personality 🏛️ Political Psychology 🥇 Group Dominance 🔍 Cognitive Biases

The Org

de Ray Fisman • 2013

Offices exist because markets are expensive. The economic logic behind every meeting and memo.

3.35

385

🏢 Organizational Economics 💰 Transaction Costs 🎯 Incentive Design 🌐 Organizational Culture 📊 Organizational Behavior

The Org

Offices exist because markets are expensive. The economic logic behind every meeting and memo.

de Ray Fisman 2013 320 pagini

3.35

385 evaluări

🏢 Organizational Economics 💰 Transaction Costs 🎯 Incentive Design 🌐 Organizational Culture 📊 Organizational Behavior

Asperger's Children

de Edith Sheffer • 2018

Asperger's: the diagnosis that began as a Nazi tool for sorting children into life or death.

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🏥 Nazi Medicine 🧠 Autism History 🩺 Nazi Euthanasia 🧬 Eugenics History ♿ Disability Studies

Asperger's Children

Asperger's: the diagnosis that began as a Nazi tool for sorting children into life or death.

de Edith Sheffer 2018 320 pagini

3.82

2.000+ evaluări

🏥 Nazi Medicine 🧠 Autism History 🩺 Nazi Euthanasia 🧬 Eugenics History ♿ Disability Studies

Whole Numbers and Half Truths

de Rukmini S. • 2021

India's official numbers tell a story so inconvenient the government stopped publishing them.

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🗳️ Electoral Behavior 📊 Data Journalism 📈 Statistical Literacy 🏛️ Social Conservatism 💸 Poverty Measurement

Whole Numbers and Half Truths

India's official numbers tell a story so inconvenient the government stopped publishing them.

de Rukmini S. 2021 324 pagini

4.21

1.000+ evaluări

🗳️ Electoral Behavior 📊 Data Journalism 📈 Statistical Literacy 🏛️ Social Conservatism 💸 Poverty Measurement

The Almightier

de Paul Vigna • 2025

From temple tokens to God: how money sanctified greed and outlawed debt relief.

3.79

🔄 History Of Money 🌀 Debt Jubilee 💰 Greed And Virtue ⛪ Money And Religion ⚖️ Moral Economy

The Almightier

From temple tokens to God: how money sanctified greed and outlawed debt relief.

de Paul Vigna 2025 304 pagini

3.79

89 evaluări

🔄 History Of Money 🌀 Debt Jubilee 💰 Greed And Virtue ⛪ Money And Religion ⚖️ Moral Economy

Babylon

de Paul Kriwaczek • 2010

Mesopotamia spans half of recorded history. Its rise and fall echo our own.

3.89

3.000+

🏛️ Ancient Near East 🏙️ Urban Origins 👑 Imperial Expansion 🏗️ State Formation 💰 Economic Systems

Babylon

Mesopotamia spans half of recorded history. Its rise and fall echo our own.

de Paul Kriwaczek 2010 310 pagini

3.89

3.000+ evaluări

🏛️ Ancient Near East 🏙️ Urban Origins 👑 Imperial Expansion 🏗️ State Formation 💰 Economic Systems

Everything and Nothing at Once

de Joel Leon • 2024

Black men don't get to be ordinary. One memoirist fights for the right to simply be.

4.32

158

✊🏿 Black Masculinity 🎭 Cultural Criticism 📝 Memoir Essays 👨‍👧 Black Fatherhood 🩹 Trauma Healing

Everything and Nothing at Once

Black men don't get to be ordinary. One memoirist fights for the right to simply be.

de Joel Leon 2024 304 pagini

4.32

158 evaluări

✊🏿 Black Masculinity 🎭 Cultural Criticism 📝 Memoir Essays 👨‍👧 Black Fatherhood 🩹 Trauma Healing

A Brief History of the World in 47 Borders

de Jonn Elledge • 2024

Guesses, grudges, and a pope: 47 borders that explain why the map looks this way.

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🗺️ Political Geography 🧭 Cartographic History 🌍 Popular Geopolitics 🏛️ Imperial Partition 🗾 Partition Trauma

A Brief History of the World in 47 Borders

Guesses, grudges, and a pope: 47 borders that explain why the map looks this way.

de Jonn Elledge 2024 368 pagini

3.95

3.000+ evaluări

🗺️ Political Geography 🧭 Cartographic History 🌍 Popular Geopolitics 🏛️ Imperial Partition 🗾 Partition Trauma

Worth Dying For

de Tim Marshall • 2016

How a colored cloth acquired the power to start wars, unite strangers, and terrify millions.

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🏴 Political Symbolism 🗺️ National Identity 🌍 Geopolitics 🚩 Vexillology 🔓 Post-Colonial Identity

Worth Dying For

How a colored cloth acquired the power to start wars, unite strangers, and terrify millions.

de Tim Marshall 2016 266 pagini

3.65

6.000+ evaluări

🏴 Political Symbolism 🗺️ National Identity 🌍 Geopolitics 🚩 Vexillology 🔓 Post-Colonial Identity

Escape from Rome

de Walter Scheidel • 2019

China kept rebuilding its empire. Europe never rebuilt Rome. That difference changed everything.

4.05

482

🏛️ Comparative History 🌍 Macro History 🏗️ State Formation 🏚️ Imperial Collapse 🗺️ Geographic Determinism

Escape from Rome

China kept rebuilding its empire. Europe never rebuilt Rome. That difference changed everything.

de Walter Scheidel 2019 670 pagini

4.05

482 evaluări

🏛️ Comparative History 🌍 Macro History 🏗️ State Formation 🏚️ Imperial Collapse 🗺️ Geographic Determinism

The Top Ten Myths of American Health Care

de Sally C. Pipes • 2008

The 46 million uninsured is a mirage; government is the real problem.

3.54

🏥 Healthcare Policy 📉 Free-Market Economics 🇨🇦 Single-Payer Critique 💊 Pharmaceutical Industry 🏛️ Government Failure

The Top Ten Myths of American Health Care

The 46 million uninsured is a mirage; government is the real problem.

de Sally C. Pipes 2008 182 pagini

3.54

24 evaluări

🏥 Healthcare Policy 📉 Free-Market Economics 🇨🇦 Single-Payer Critique 💊 Pharmaceutical Industry 🏛️ Government Failure

The Godfather Doctrine

de Dr John C. Hulsman • 2009

America's unipolar era is over. A Godfather parable shows why realism outlasts its rivals.

3.85

🌍 Political Realism 🇺🇸 American Foreign Policy 🌐 Multipolar World ♟️ Grand Strategy 🎬 Pop Culture And Politics

The Godfather Doctrine

America's unipolar era is over. A Godfather parable shows why realism outlasts its rivals.

de Dr John C. Hulsman 2009 96 pagini

3.85

80 evaluări

🌍 Political Realism 🇺🇸 American Foreign Policy 🌐 Multipolar World ♟️ Grand Strategy 🎬 Pop Culture And Politics

Patient Zero

de Lydia Kang • 2021

The hunt for patient zero almost always finds a scapegoat, not a cause.

4.13

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🏥 Medical History 🌍 Disease Ecology 🔍 Outbreak Investigation 🦠 Germ Theory 🏛️ Disease And Society

Patient Zero

The hunt for patient zero almost always finds a scapegoat, not a cause.

de Lydia Kang 2021 390 pagini

4.13

3.000+ evaluări

🏥 Medical History 🌍 Disease Ecology 🔍 Outbreak Investigation 🦠 Germ Theory 🏛️ Disease And Society

Infidel

de Ayaan Hirsi Ali • 2006

FGM at five, a forced marriage, a flight to Holland, and a pen that triggered death threats.

4.20

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☪️ Leaving Islam 🕌 Islamic Fundamentalism 🩸 Female Genital Mutilation ⚖️ Honor Culture ✊ Bodily Autonomy

Infidel

FGM at five, a forced marriage, a flight to Holland, and a pen that triggered death threats.

de Ayaan Hirsi Ali 2006 353 pagini

4.20

92.000+ evaluări

☪️ Leaving Islam 🕌 Islamic Fundamentalism 🩸 Female Genital Mutilation ⚖️ Honor Culture ✊ Bodily Autonomy

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