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Lectures on the History of Political Philosophy

— Rawls • 2007

How Hobbes, Locke, Hume, Rousseau, and Marx each tried to solve the problem of political legitimacy.

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🏛️ Political Philosophy 📜 History Of Political Thought 🤝 Social Contract Theory ⚖️ Natural Law Tradition 😌 Utilitarian Ethics

Lectures on the History of Political Philosophy

How Hobbes, Locke, Hume, Rousseau, and Marx each tried to solve the problem of political legitimacy.

— Rawls 2007 496 стр.

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🏛️ Political Philosophy 📜 History Of Political Thought 🤝 Social Contract Theory ⚖️ Natural Law Tradition 😌 Utilitarian Ethics

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

— David Hume • 1748

If a book contains neither math nor experiment, it is worthless. A philosopher explains why.

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🔬 Empiricism 📚 Epistemology 🤔 Skepticism ⛓️ Causation 🕊️ Free Will

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

If a book contains neither math nor experiment, it is worthless. A philosopher explains why.

— David Hume 1748 91 стр.

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🔬 Empiricism 📚 Epistemology 🤔 Skepticism ⛓️ Causation 🕊️ Free Will

We Are the Change We Seek

— E.J. Dionne Jr. • 2017

The speeches that carried a presidency: how rhetoric meets crisis and race in a divided country.

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🏛️ Presidential Rhetoric 🎙️ Political Oratory ⚖️ Racial Justice 🗳️ Civic Engagement 🌹 Progressive Politics

We Are the Change We Seek

The speeches that carried a presidency: how rhetoric meets crisis and race in a divided country.

— E.J. Dionne Jr. 2017 369 стр.

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🏛️ Presidential Rhetoric 🎙️ Political Oratory ⚖️ Racial Justice 🗳️ Civic Engagement 🌹 Progressive Politics

For the New Intellectual

— Ayn Rand • 1961

Intellectuals sabotaged the mind for a morality of sacrifice. This is the manifesto to reclaim it.

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🧠 Objectivism ⚖️ Moral Philosophy 🏛️ Political Philosophy 💰 Capitalist Ethics 🤝 Ethical Egoism

For the New Intellectual

Intellectuals sabotaged the mind for a morality of sacrifice. This is the manifesto to reclaim it.

— Ayn Rand 1961 224 стр.

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🧠 Objectivism ⚖️ Moral Philosophy 🏛️ Political Philosophy 💰 Capitalist Ethics 🤝 Ethical Egoism

The Wisdom of the Heart

— Henry Miller • 1941

Modern men are half-alive and call it progress. The cure starts when the thinking stops.

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📖 Literary Philosophy 📚 Essay Collections 🎨 Creative Process 🤲 Acceptance Philosophy 🏭 Anti-Modernity

The Wisdom of the Heart

Modern men are half-alive and call it progress. The cure starts when the thinking stops.

— Henry Miller 1941 250 стр.

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📖 Literary Philosophy 📚 Essay Collections 🎨 Creative Process 🤲 Acceptance Philosophy 🏭 Anti-Modernity

The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist

— Orhan Pamuk • 2010

Why great novels put you in a trance even as you know every word is invented.

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🎨 Novel As Art Form 📖 Reading Experience ✍️ Novel Craft 🎭 Fiction And Reality 🌍 Comparative Literature

The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist

Why great novels put you in a trance even as you know every word is invented.

— Orhan Pamuk 2010 81 стр.

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🎨 Novel As Art Form 📖 Reading Experience ✍️ Novel Craft 🎭 Fiction And Reality 🌍 Comparative Literature

This Idea Must Die

— John Brockman • 2015

175 scientists each nominate one idea to retire, from IQ to the Big Bang itself.

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🔬 Meta-Science 🛑 Scientific Dead Ends 🕸️ Complexity Science 🐦 Emergence 🧠 Intelligence Debates

This Idea Must Die

175 scientists each nominate one idea to retire, from IQ to the Big Bang itself.

— John Brockman 2015 568 стр.

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🔬 Meta-Science 🛑 Scientific Dead Ends 🕸️ Complexity Science 🐦 Emergence 🧠 Intelligence Debates

American Story

— Bob Dotson • 2013

Four decades on American back roads, collecting the lives no news camera ever found.

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🧑‍🚒 Everyday Heroes 🧑‍🏭 Unsung Lives 🗞️ Human-Interest Stories 🇺🇸 Americana 🌍 Immigrant Experience

American Story

Four decades on American back roads, collecting the lives no news camera ever found.

— Bob Dotson 2013 274 стр.

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🧑‍🚒 Everyday Heroes 🧑‍🏭 Unsung Lives 🗞️ Human-Interest Stories 🇺🇸 Americana 🌍 Immigrant Experience

The Message

— Ta-Nehisi Coates • 2024

He built a reparations model on Israel. Visiting Palestine exposed the victims his blueprint erased.

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🇵🇸 Palestinian Occupation 🏚️ Settler Colonialism 👻 Collective Memory ⚖️ Reparations Debate 📚 Critical Pedagogy

The Message

He built a reparations model on Israel. Visiting Palestine exposed the victims his blueprint erased.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates 2024 232 стр.

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🇵🇸 Palestinian Occupation 🏚️ Settler Colonialism 👻 Collective Memory ⚖️ Reparations Debate 📚 Critical Pedagogy

Letters on Cézanne

— Rainer Maria Rilke • 1907

One poet's letters on Cézanne: how seeing becomes the artist's hardest and most honest work.

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🖌️ Post-Impressionism 🎨 Art Theory 🌌 Creative Process 👁️ Artistic Perception 📜 Letters On Art

Letters on Cézanne

One poet's letters on Cézanne: how seeing becomes the artist's hardest and most honest work.

— Rainer Maria Rilke 1907 112 стр.

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🖌️ Post-Impressionism 🎨 Art Theory 🌌 Creative Process 👁️ Artistic Perception 📜 Letters On Art

How to Write an Autobiographical Novel

— Alexander Chee • 2018

A novelist's confession: memoir cannot hold the truth of what happened to him. Only fiction can.

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✍️ Writing Craft 📖 Autofiction 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Experience 🌗 Mixed-Race Identity 🩹 Trauma Healing

How to Write an Autobiographical Novel

A novelist's confession: memoir cannot hold the truth of what happened to him. Only fiction can.

— Alexander Chee 2018 280 стр.

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✍️ Writing Craft 📖 Autofiction 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Experience 🌗 Mixed-Race Identity 🩹 Trauma Healing

The Anatomy of Influence

— Harold Bloom • 2011

Literary influence is love with its guard up, and Shakespeare is still winning.

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📝 Literary Criticism 📜 Poetry Studies 🏛️ The Western Canon 🧬 Literary Influence 🌹 Romantic Criticism

The Anatomy of Influence

Literary influence is love with its guard up, and Shakespeare is still winning.

— Harold Bloom 2011 368 стр.

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📝 Literary Criticism 📜 Poetry Studies 🏛️ The Western Canon 🧬 Literary Influence 🌹 Romantic Criticism

Travels with Myself and Another

— Martha Gellhorn • 1979

Four continents, a famous companion, every awful moment a war correspondent refused to romanticize.

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🗺️ Travel Memoir ✍️ Literary Travel 🥾 Unsentimental Travel 👁️ Cultural Observation 📰 Field Journalism

Travels with Myself and Another

Four continents, a famous companion, every awful moment a war correspondent refused to romanticize.

— Martha Gellhorn 1979 320 стр.

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🗺️ Travel Memoir ✍️ Literary Travel 🥾 Unsentimental Travel 👁️ Cultural Observation 📰 Field Journalism

Magical Thinking

— Augusten Burroughs • 2004

Tang commercials, an undertaker boyfriend, steroids, and the deep conviction his mind runs reality.

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📝 Personal Essays 🖤 Dark Humor 🏳️‍🌈 Gay Memoir 💔 Childhood Trauma 🧠 Coping Mechanisms

Magical Thinking

Tang commercials, an undertaker boyfriend, steroids, and the deep conviction his mind runs reality.

— Augusten Burroughs 2004 304 стр.

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📝 Personal Essays 🖤 Dark Humor 🏳️‍🌈 Gay Memoir 💔 Childhood Trauma 🧠 Coping Mechanisms

Dishonesty Is the Second-Best Policy

— David Mitchell • 2019

The internet, Brexit, and everything else a British comedian finds disastrous and hilarious.

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🎭 Political Satire 🗣️ Social Commentary 🇬🇧 British Humor 📰 Column Collections 🔒 Digital Privacy

Dishonesty Is the Second-Best Policy

The internet, Brexit, and everything else a British comedian finds disastrous and hilarious.

— David Mitchell 2019 264 стр.

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🎭 Political Satire 🗣️ Social Commentary 🇬🇧 British Humor 📰 Column Collections 🔒 Digital Privacy

Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us

— Simon Critchley • 2019

Greek tragedy's darkest insight: we are not victims of fate. We are its willing accomplices.

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🏛️ Greek Tragedy 🎭 Tragedy And Philosophy 📜 Dramatic Theory 📚 Continental Philosophy 🏺 Ancient Philosophy

Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us

Greek tragedy's darkest insight: we are not victims of fate. We are its willing accomplices.

— Simon Critchley 2019 336 стр.

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🏛️ Greek Tragedy 🎭 Tragedy And Philosophy 📜 Dramatic Theory 📚 Continental Philosophy 🏺 Ancient Philosophy

Saving Time

— Jenny Odell • 2023

Time as money was invented for factories and plantations. Your clock is a political tool.

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🏭 Political Economy Of Time ✋ Work Refusal 🔥 Burnout Culture 🌍 Deep Time 🌿 Leisure And Resistance

Saving Time

Time as money was invented for factories and plantations. Your clock is a political tool.

— Jenny Odell 2023 400 стр.

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🏭 Political Economy Of Time ✋ Work Refusal 🔥 Burnout Culture 🌍 Deep Time 🌿 Leisure And Resistance

Chicken Soup for the Soul

— Amy Newmark • 2017

Mary in labor, Joseph the carpenter, and a stranger who couldn't refuse: 101 stories of kindness.

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🎄 Christmas Miracles 💕 Family Reconciliation 🤝 Acts Of Compassion 💖 Everyday Generosity 🌊 Ripple Of Kindness

Chicken Soup for the Soul

Mary in labor, Joseph the carpenter, and a stranger who couldn't refuse: 101 stories of kindness.

— Amy Newmark 2017 373 стр.

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🎄 Christmas Miracles 💕 Family Reconciliation 🤝 Acts Of Compassion 💖 Everyday Generosity 🌊 Ripple Of Kindness

Don't Count on It!

— John C. Bogle • 2010

Mutual funds went from serving investors to extracting from them. The exit costs nearly zero.

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🧱 Index Investing 💸 Costs And Fees 🏛️ Corporate Governance 🎰 Market Speculation 🏦 Wall Street Critique

Don't Count on It!

Mutual funds went from serving investors to extracting from them. The exit costs nearly zero.

— John C. Bogle 2010 603 стр.

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🧱 Index Investing 💸 Costs And Fees 🏛️ Corporate Governance 🎰 Market Speculation 🏦 Wall Street Critique

Colonize This!

— Bushra Rehman • 2002

Mainstream feminism left out women of color. This generation explains how, and what comes next.

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🔀 Intersectional Feminism ✊🏽 Women Of Color Feminism 📚 Feminist Anthologies 🪪 Racial Identity 🧭 Cultural Navigation

Colonize This!

Mainstream feminism left out women of color. This generation explains how, and what comes next.

— Bushra Rehman 2002 432 стр.

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🔀 Intersectional Feminism ✊🏽 Women Of Color Feminism 📚 Feminist Anthologies 🪪 Racial Identity 🧭 Cultural Navigation

How to Be a Person in the World

— Heather Havrilesky • 2016

Your weirdness, intensity, and desire for passionate love aren't problems. They're the point.

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✉️ Advice Columns 🌀 Quarter-Life Crisis 💜 Radical Self-Acceptance 🥊 Tough Love Advice 🎭 Perfectionism Recovery

How to Be a Person in the World

Your weirdness, intensity, and desire for passionate love aren't problems. They're the point.

— Heather Havrilesky 2016 254 стр.

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✉️ Advice Columns 🌀 Quarter-Life Crisis 💜 Radical Self-Acceptance 🥊 Tough Love Advice 🎭 Perfectionism Recovery

Notes to Self

— Emilie Pine • 2018

She was good at going hungry. It was the one thing she could control.

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📖 Confessional Memoir ✊ Bodily Autonomy 🍽️ Eating Disorders 🩹 Sexual Assault Recovery 🫥 Body Shame

Notes to Self

She was good at going hungry. It was the one thing she could control.

— Emilie Pine 2018 192 стр.

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📖 Confessional Memoir ✊ Bodily Autonomy 🍽️ Eating Disorders 🩹 Sexual Assault Recovery 🫥 Body Shame

Science in the Soul

— Richard Dawkins • 2017

Your soul is your brain. Faith is a vice. Science is the only honest way to wonder.

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🧬 Evolutionary Biology 🐦 Natural Selection ✝️ New Atheism 🧠 Scientific Rationalism 🧩 Cognitive Biases

Science in the Soul

Your soul is your brain. Faith is a vice. Science is the only honest way to wonder.

— Richard Dawkins 2017 439 стр.

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🧬 Evolutionary Biology 🐦 Natural Selection ✝️ New Atheism 🧠 Scientific Rationalism 🧩 Cognitive Biases

The Book of (More) Delights

— Ross Gay • 2023

A year of looking closely: when joy and sorrow share the same sentence.

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📝 Lyric Essays 👀 Practice Of Noticing 🙏 Everyday Devotion 🌱 Garden As Teacher 🍂 Midlife Reflection

The Book of (More) Delights

A year of looking closely: when joy and sorrow share the same sentence.

— Ross Gay 2023 301 стр.

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📝 Lyric Essays 👀 Practice Of Noticing 🙏 Everyday Devotion 🌱 Garden As Teacher 🍂 Midlife Reflection

Why Save the Bankers?

— Thomas Piketty • 2016

The bailouts rescued banks, not citizens. An economist's plan to put democracy back in charge.

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🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Economic Inequality 💶 Eurozone Crisis 🧾 Progressive Taxation 🏦 Central Banking 🧮 Financial Regulation

Why Save the Bankers?

The bailouts rescued banks, not citizens. An economist's plan to put democracy back in charge.

— Thomas Piketty 2016 212 стр.

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🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Economic Inequality 💶 Eurozone Crisis 🧾 Progressive Taxation 🏦 Central Banking 🧮 Financial Regulation

Jews Don't Count

— David Baddiel • 2021

When progressives list the oppressed, Jews get left off. A progressive insider asks why.

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🧩 Progressive Blind Spots 💬 Anti-Semitism Debate 🎬 Jewish Representation 💔 Selective Empathy 📺 Media Criticism

Jews Don't Count

When progressives list the oppressed, Jews get left off. A progressive insider asks why.

— David Baddiel 2021 144 стр.

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🧩 Progressive Blind Spots 💬 Anti-Semitism Debate 🎬 Jewish Representation 💔 Selective Empathy 📺 Media Criticism

The Thirst for Annihilation

— Nick Land • 1992

A cosmos built on waste, not production. The sun burns without return; the human animal follows.

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🧠 Continental Philosophy 💸 Libidinal Economy 💀 Death Drive 🕳️ Modern Nihilism 📡 Theory-Fiction

The Thirst for Annihilation

A cosmos built on waste, not production. The sun burns without return; the human animal follows.

— Nick Land 1992 248 стр.

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🧠 Continental Philosophy 💸 Libidinal Economy 💀 Death Drive 🕳️ Modern Nihilism 📡 Theory-Fiction

Kiss My Tiara

— Susan Jane Gilman • 2001

Earn more, eat more, apologize less. A loud, funny field guide for women done playing nice.

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💅 Feminist Humor 😈 Irreverent Self-Help ✨ Body Positivity 🍕 Rejecting Diet Culture 💰 Financial Independence

Kiss My Tiara

Earn more, eat more, apologize less. A loud, funny field guide for women done playing nice.

— Susan Jane Gilman 2001 219 стр.

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💅 Feminist Humor 😈 Irreverent Self-Help ✨ Body Positivity 🍕 Rejecting Diet Culture 💰 Financial Independence

How Sondheim Can Change Your Life

— Richard Schoch • 2024

Regret, ambition, the terror of intimacy: the life lessons Sondheim smuggled into his musicals.

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🎭 Musical Theatre 🎨 Art As Therapy 💞 Relationship Psychology 🧬 Existential Psychology ✍️ Creative Process

How Sondheim Can Change Your Life

Regret, ambition, the terror of intimacy: the life lessons Sondheim smuggled into his musicals.

— Richard Schoch 2024 304 стр.

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🎭 Musical Theatre 🎨 Art As Therapy 💞 Relationship Psychology 🧬 Existential Psychology ✍️ Creative Process

The Care We Dream Of

— Zena Sharman • 2021

Health care was never built for queer and trans people. Here is what comes after.

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🩺 Health Justice ⚖️ Transformative Justice 🤝 Mutual Aid ♿ Disability Justice ✊ Body Liberation

The Care We Dream Of

Health care was never built for queer and trans people. Here is what comes after.

— Zena Sharman 2021 272 стр.

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🩺 Health Justice ⚖️ Transformative Justice 🤝 Mutual Aid ♿ Disability Justice ✊ Body Liberation

This Idea Is Brilliant

— John Brockman • 2018

The overlooked scientific ideas top minds most urgently want you to know, from entropy to emergence.

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🧠 Third Culture 🔬 Scientific Method 🪞 Cognitive Biases 🧬 Evolutionary Biology 📡 Information Theory

This Idea Is Brilliant

The overlooked scientific ideas top minds most urgently want you to know, from entropy to emergence.

— John Brockman 2018 515 стр.

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🧠 Third Culture 🔬 Scientific Method 🪞 Cognitive Biases 🧬 Evolutionary Biology 📡 Information Theory

The New Vichy Syndrome

— Theodore Dalrymple • 2010

Europeans were never richer or healthier. The rot is in the soul, not the balance sheet.

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🏚️ European Decline ⛪ Secularization 🌐 Cultural Relativism 📉 Demographic Decline 🏛️ Cultural Conservatism

The New Vichy Syndrome

Europeans were never richer or healthier. The rot is in the soul, not the balance sheet.

— Theodore Dalrymple 2010 160 стр.

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🏚️ European Decline ⛪ Secularization 🌐 Cultural Relativism 📉 Demographic Decline 🏛️ Cultural Conservatism

We've Been Too Patient

— L.D. Green • 2019

Psychiatry blames brain chemistry. Survivors argue the model is the wound.

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🏛️ Anti-Psychiatry 🏳️ Mad Pride 📚 Mad Studies 🤝 Peer Support 🫂 Mutual Aid

We've Been Too Patient

Psychiatry blames brain chemistry. Survivors argue the model is the wound.

— L.D. Green 2019 264 стр.

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🏛️ Anti-Psychiatry 🏳️ Mad Pride 📚 Mad Studies 🤝 Peer Support 🫂 Mutual Aid

Power Shift

— Sally Armstrong • 2019

Sexual inequality is not ancient; it started with farming. The worldwide pushback has already begun.

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📜 Women's History 🌐 Global Feminism 🏛️ Patriarchy Origins 💰 Economic Empowerment ⚠️ Violence Against Women

Power Shift

Sexual inequality is not ancient; it started with farming. The worldwide pushback has already begun.

— Sally Armstrong 2019

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📜 Women's History 🌐 Global Feminism 🏛️ Patriarchy Origins 💰 Economic Empowerment ⚠️ Violence Against Women

That's Not English

— Erin Moore • 2015

British reserve and American enthusiasm hide in words that both countries assume they share.

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🗣️ Language And Culture 🌍 Cultural Comparison 🎩 Social Class 📚 Popular Linguistics 🔬 Linguistic Anthropology

That's Not English

British reserve and American enthusiasm hide in words that both countries assume they share.

— Erin Moore 2015 223 стр.

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🗣️ Language And Culture 🌍 Cultural Comparison 🎩 Social Class 📚 Popular Linguistics 🔬 Linguistic Anthropology

Aliens

— Jim Al-Khalili • 2016

50,000 civilizations may share our galaxy. The search is chemistry, biology, and deep listening.

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🦠 Astrobiology 🪐 Exoplanets 🧬 Origin Of Life 📡 SETI 🔬 Biosignatures

Aliens

50,000 civilizations may share our galaxy. The search is chemistry, biology, and deep listening.

— Jim Al-Khalili 2016 240 стр.

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🦠 Astrobiology 🪐 Exoplanets 🧬 Origin Of Life 📡 SETI 🔬 Biosignatures

The Greatest Nobodies of History

— Adrian Bliss • 2024

A lovesick plague, a vain ferret, and a royal oak: history's walk-on parts demand the spotlight.

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The Greatest Nobodies of History

A lovesick plague, a vain ferret, and a royal oak: history's walk-on parts demand the spotlight.

— Adrian Bliss 2024 304 стр.

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Life in Code

— Ellen Ullman • 2017

Programming is obsession, not logic, and the people who built the internet mistrust human beings.

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👩‍💻 Women In Tech 🖥️ Tech Culture 📵 Digital Isolation 🧠 Programming Psychology 📉 Tech Criticism

Life in Code

Programming is obsession, not logic, and the people who built the internet mistrust human beings.

— Ellen Ullman 2017 320 стр.

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👩‍💻 Women In Tech 🖥️ Tech Culture 📵 Digital Isolation 🧠 Programming Psychology 📉 Tech Criticism

Beyond My Control

— Nancy Friday • 2009

The forbidden fuels us. Nancy Friday reveals the secret fantasies millions share but never voice.

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🧠 Pop Psychology 💭 Sexual Fantasy 👩 Female Desire 🚫 Taboo Fantasies 🔗 Dominance And Submission

Beyond My Control

The forbidden fuels us. Nancy Friday reveals the secret fantasies millions share but never voice.

— Nancy Friday 2009 288 стр.

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🧠 Pop Psychology 💭 Sexual Fantasy 👩 Female Desire 🚫 Taboo Fantasies 🔗 Dominance And Submission

Lezioni di letteratura russa. Gogol', Turgenev, Dostoevskij, Tolstoj, Čechov e Gor'kij nelle lezioni di un grande maestro

— Vladimir Nabokov • 1981

Nabokov on Russian masters: art alone matters, not message. Dostoevsky fails, Gogol soars.

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🇷🇺 Russian Literature 📖 Literary Criticism 🔍 Close Reading 🎨 Aestheticism ✍️ Author As Critic

Lezioni di letteratura russa. Gogol', Turgenev, Dostoevskij, Tolstoj, Čechov e Gor'kij nelle lezioni di un grande maestro

Nabokov on Russian masters: art alone matters, not message. Dostoevsky fails, Gogol soars.

— Vladimir Nabokov 1981 364 стр.

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🇷🇺 Russian Literature 📖 Literary Criticism 🔍 Close Reading 🎨 Aestheticism ✍️ Author As Critic

The Long Slide

— Tucker Carlson • 2021

A reporter's thirty-year tour: magazine adventures, foreign wars, and the slow death of free speech.

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📰 Political Journalism 📺 Media Criticism 🗣️ Free Speech 🏛️ Institutional Decay 🎖️ War Correspondence

The Long Slide

A reporter's thirty-year tour: magazine adventures, foreign wars, and the slow death of free speech.

— Tucker Carlson 2021 277 стр.

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📰 Political Journalism 📺 Media Criticism 🗣️ Free Speech 🏛️ Institutional Decay 🎖️ War Correspondence

I'd Like to Play Alone, Please

— Tom Segura • 2022

A comedian's memoir where the most normal person is the one who names his bowel movements.

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🎤 Stand-Up Comedy 📖 Comedian Memoirs ✍️ Essay Collections 👪 Eccentric Families 🤪 Absurdist Humor

I'd Like to Play Alone, Please

A comedian's memoir where the most normal person is the one who names his bowel movements.

— Tom Segura 2022 229 стр.

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🎤 Stand-Up Comedy 📖 Comedian Memoirs ✍️ Essay Collections 👪 Eccentric Families 🤪 Absurdist Humor

All I Really Need to Know I Learned from Watching Star Trek

— Dave Marinaccio • 1994

The leadership and ethics curriculum hidden inside Star Trek, finally pulled into plain sight.

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📺 Pop Culture Philosophy 🖖 Star Trek Fandom 👔 Leadership Lessons ⚖️ Ethical Dilemmas 🤝 Diverse Teams

All I Really Need to Know I Learned from Watching Star Trek

The leadership and ethics curriculum hidden inside Star Trek, finally pulled into plain sight.

— Dave Marinaccio 1994 130 стр.

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📺 Pop Culture Philosophy 🖖 Star Trek Fandom 👔 Leadership Lessons ⚖️ Ethical Dilemmas 🤝 Diverse Teams

Занимайся тем, что любишь, и другая ложь об успехе и счастье

— Мия Токумицу • 2015

Loving your job is what your boss wants. It is also making you tired, compliant, and broke.

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🏃 Critique Of Hustle Culture ⚠️ Labor Precarity 🎓 Student Debt 🙅 Anti-Self-Help 👁️ Workplace Surveillance

Занимайся тем, что любишь, и другая ложь об успехе и счастье

Loving your job is what your boss wants. It is also making you tired, compliant, and broke.

— Мия Токумицу 2015 192 стр.

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🏃 Critique Of Hustle Culture ⚠️ Labor Precarity 🎓 Student Debt 🙅 Anti-Self-Help 👁️ Workplace Surveillance

When Women Were Birds

— Terry Tempest Williams • 2012

Her mother's journals arrived after her death: every page blank. The silence became the gift.

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