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История Саммари книг

The Power Worshippers

— Katherine Stewart • 2020

Christian nationalism isn't a faith movement. It's a political machine, and democracy is the target.

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⛪ Christian Nationalism 🇺🇸 American Politics ⚖️ Church And State 🔍 Investigative Journalism 💰 Dark Money

The Power Worshippers

Christian nationalism isn't a faith movement. It's a political machine, and democracy is the target.

— Katherine Stewart 2020 352 стр.

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⛪ Christian Nationalism 🇺🇸 American Politics ⚖️ Church And State 🔍 Investigative Journalism 💰 Dark Money

Nobody Knows My Name

— James Baldwin • 1961

Exile sharpened Baldwin's sight: what America made of him, and why simple stories fail the truth.

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📝 Literary Essays 🌍 Black Diaspora ✊ Civil Rights Era ✈️ Expatriate Writing 🪞 Racial Identity

Nobody Knows My Name

Exile sharpened Baldwin's sight: what America made of him, and why simple stories fail the truth.

— James Baldwin 1961 242 стр.

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📝 Literary Essays 🌍 Black Diaspora ✊ Civil Rights Era ✈️ Expatriate Writing 🪞 Racial Identity

Return of the Strong Gods

— R.R. Reno • 2019

The postwar war on shared loyalties worked. The result is loneliness and a populist revolt.

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🧠 Intellectual History 🏛️ Elite Critique 🗳️ Populist Movements 🏴 Nationalism 🌐 Globalization Critique

Return of the Strong Gods

The postwar war on shared loyalties worked. The result is loneliness and a populist revolt.

— R.R. Reno 2019 208 стр.

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🧠 Intellectual History 🏛️ Elite Critique 🗳️ Populist Movements 🏴 Nationalism 🌐 Globalization Critique

The Hamlet Fire

— Bryant Simon • 2020

A chicken plant fire killed 25. The doors were locked, but deregulation built the trap.

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🏭 Labor History 🍗 Food Politics ⚠️ Workplace Safety 🐔 Factory Farming 📉 Deregulation

The Hamlet Fire

A chicken plant fire killed 25. The doors were locked, but deregulation built the trap.

— Bryant Simon 2020 302 стр.

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🏭 Labor History 🍗 Food Politics ⚠️ Workplace Safety 🐔 Factory Farming 📉 Deregulation

White Tears/Brown Scars

— Ruby Hamad • 2020

White women's tears aren't vulnerability. They're a weapon, and purity is its shield.

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🧬 White Feminism Critique 🤝 Intersectional Feminism ⚖️ Racialized Patriarchy 📜 Colonial Legacies 🔗 Systemic Oppression

White Tears/Brown Scars

White women's tears aren't vulnerability. They're a weapon, and purity is its shield.

— Ruby Hamad 2020 284 стр.

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🧬 White Feminism Critique 🤝 Intersectional Feminism ⚖️ Racialized Patriarchy 📜 Colonial Legacies 🔗 Systemic Oppression

Coming of Age in the Milky Way

— Timothy Ferris • 2003

Our cosmic address was once a tiny sphere with Earth at its center. How we found the real one.

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🔭 History Of Cosmology 🌌 Cosmic Perspective 💥 Big Bang Cosmology 🔬 Scientific Revolution ⚛️ Modern Physics

Coming of Age in the Milky Way

Our cosmic address was once a tiny sphere with Earth at its center. How we found the real one.

— Timothy Ferris 2003 512 стр.

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🔭 History Of Cosmology 🌌 Cosmic Perspective 💥 Big Bang Cosmology 🔬 Scientific Revolution ⚛️ Modern Physics

Fight

— Preston Sprinkle • 2013

For three centuries, Christians refused to kill. The forgotten biblical case that they were right.

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✝️ Christian Ethics 🕊️ Christian Pacifism ✊ Nonviolent Resistance ❤️ Enemy Love ⚖️ Just War Critique

Fight

For three centuries, Christians refused to kill. The forgotten biblical case that they were right.

— Preston Sprinkle 2013 301 стр.

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✝️ Christian Ethics 🕊️ Christian Pacifism ✊ Nonviolent Resistance ❤️ Enemy Love ⚖️ Just War Critique

Essential Works of Lenin

— Vladimir Lenin • 1964

Monopoly, finance capital, and empire: Lenin's thesis on capitalism's inevitable last chapter.

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⚒️ Marxist Theory 📈 Political Economy ⚔️ Class Struggle 🌍 Imperialism 🏢 Monopoly Capitalism

Essential Works of Lenin

Monopoly, finance capital, and empire: Lenin's thesis on capitalism's inevitable last chapter.

— Vladimir Lenin 1964 400 стр.

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⚒️ Marxist Theory 📈 Political Economy ⚔️ Class Struggle 🌍 Imperialism 🏢 Monopoly Capitalism

We Are Bellingcat

— Eliot Higgins • 2021

A jobless blogger proved that public data can expose war crimes, hit squads, and missile launchers.

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🗞️ Citizen Journalism 🔍 Open-Source Investigation 📱 Social Media Analysis 🖥️ Digital Forensics 👥 Crowdsourcing

We Are Bellingcat

A jobless blogger proved that public data can expose war crimes, hit squads, and missile launchers.

— Eliot Higgins 2021 273 стр.

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🗞️ Citizen Journalism 🔍 Open-Source Investigation 📱 Social Media Analysis 🖥️ Digital Forensics 👥 Crowdsourcing

The Sound of Music Story

— Tom Santopietro • 2015

Critics scorned it. The studio feared ruin. Then it ran in theaters for four straight years.

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🎬 Film Production 🎵 Hollywood Musicals 🎥 Behind The Scenes 🎭 Stage To Screen 🎞️ True Story Films

The Sound of Music Story

Critics scorned it. The studio feared ruin. Then it ran in theaters for four straight years.

— Tom Santopietro 2015 324 стр.

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🎬 Film Production 🎵 Hollywood Musicals 🎥 Behind The Scenes 🎭 Stage To Screen 🎞️ True Story Films

The First Muslim

— Lesley Hazleton • 2013

Exiled at fifty, died triumphant at sixty-two. The human Muhammad between the revelations.

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🕌 Religious Biography 📜 Early Islamic History 🌅 Spiritual Awakening ⚖️ Religious Reform 🔍 Secular Biography

The First Muslim

Exiled at fifty, died triumphant at sixty-two. The human Muhammad between the revelations.

— Lesley Hazleton 2013 383 стр.

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🕌 Religious Biography 📜 Early Islamic History 🌅 Spiritual Awakening ⚖️ Religious Reform 🔍 Secular Biography

The Emergency

— Coomi Kapoor • 2015

When the lights went out at the Indian Express, a journalist knew the democracy had broken.

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🏛️ Indian Political History ⚠️ Democratic Backsliding 📰 Press Censorship 👑 Dynastic Politics ✍️ Political Memoir

The Emergency

When the lights went out at the Indian Express, a journalist knew the democracy had broken.

— Coomi Kapoor 2015 400 стр.

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🏛️ Indian Political History ⚠️ Democratic Backsliding 📰 Press Censorship 👑 Dynastic Politics ✍️ Political Memoir

Keynes

— Robert Skidelsky • 2010

Keynes's core claim: saving too much makes everyone poorer, and only government spending can fix it.

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🧠 Keynesian Economics 💰 Demand-Side Economics 📈 Macroeconomic Theory 🏛️ Government Intervention 🔄 Business Cycles

Keynes

Keynes's core claim: saving too much makes everyone poorer, and only government spending can fix it.

— Robert Skidelsky 2010 208 стр.

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🧠 Keynesian Economics 💰 Demand-Side Economics 📈 Macroeconomic Theory 🏛️ Government Intervention 🔄 Business Cycles

Progress

— Johan Norberg • 2016

Extreme poverty fell faster in 50 years than 500. And that is not even the headline.

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📈 Progress Studies 🌍 Global Development 🔍 Declinism Debunked 📊 Data-Driven History 💡 Enlightenment Values

Progress

Extreme poverty fell faster in 50 years than 500. And that is not even the headline.

— Johan Norberg 2016 256 стр.

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📈 Progress Studies 🌍 Global Development 🔍 Declinism Debunked 📊 Data-Driven History 💡 Enlightenment Values

Где-то ещё светит солнце

— Майкл Грюнбаум • 2015

An eight-year-old's Prague becomes Terezin, where soccer and a children's opera are his defiance.

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🕯️ Holocaust Memoirs 👦 Child Survivors 🚂 Concentration Camps 📚 Middle Grade Holocaust ✍️ Bearing Witness

Где-то ещё светит солнце

An eight-year-old's Prague becomes Terezin, where soccer and a children's opera are his defiance.

— Майкл Грюнбаум 2015 384 стр.

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🕯️ Holocaust Memoirs 👦 Child Survivors 🚂 Concentration Camps 📚 Middle Grade Holocaust ✍️ Bearing Witness

The Conservative Heart

— Arthur C. Brooks • 2015

Half of happiness is genetic. The other half: that is what conservatism should actually be about.

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🏛️ American Conservatism 😊 Happiness Economics 🔨 Meaningful Work 🏚️ Poverty And Culture 🗣️ Political Persuasion

The Conservative Heart

Half of happiness is genetic. The other half: that is what conservatism should actually be about.

— Arthur C. Brooks 2015 246 стр.

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🏛️ American Conservatism 😊 Happiness Economics 🔨 Meaningful Work 🏚️ Poverty And Culture 🗣️ Political Persuasion

Why Nothing Works

— Marc J. Dunkelman • 2025

Progressivism has two souls: one builds, one stops. The stopper won, so nothing gets built.

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🇺🇸 American Progressivism 🔒 Bureaucratic Gridlock 🏘️ Housing Crisis 🏗️ Infrastructure Politics 🏡 Local Control

Why Nothing Works

Progressivism has two souls: one builds, one stops. The stopper won, so nothing gets built.

— Marc J. Dunkelman 2025 416 стр.

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🇺🇸 American Progressivism 🔒 Bureaucratic Gridlock 🏘️ Housing Crisis 🏗️ Infrastructure Politics 🏡 Local Control

Rethinking Diabetes

— Gary Taubes • 2024

Diabetes patients were told to eat more carbs. The studies behind that advice lasted only weeks.

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🏥 Medical History 🍽️ Dietary Paradigms 📊 Evidence-Based Medicine 🏛️ Medical Dogma 🩺 Metabolic Health

Rethinking Diabetes

Diabetes patients were told to eat more carbs. The studies behind that advice lasted only weeks.

— Gary Taubes 2024 498 стр.

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🏥 Medical History 🍽️ Dietary Paradigms 📊 Evidence-Based Medicine 🏛️ Medical Dogma 🩺 Metabolic Health

A Force More Powerful

— Peter Ackerman • 2000

A century of evidence: strikes and boycotts toppled more regimes than bombs ever did.

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🕊️ Nonviolent Resistance ✊ Civil Disobedience 📢 Social Movements 🧠 Political Strategy 🔬 Pragmatic Nonviolence

A Force More Powerful

A century of evidence: strikes and boycotts toppled more regimes than bombs ever did.

— Peter Ackerman 2000 416 стр.

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🕊️ Nonviolent Resistance ✊ Civil Disobedience 📢 Social Movements 🧠 Political Strategy 🔬 Pragmatic Nonviolence

The Ministry of Truth

— Dorian Lynskey • 2019

How a book born from war and lies became the world's most enduring defense of truth.

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📖 Literary Biography 🏚️ Dystopian Fiction ⚫ Totalitarianism 📢 Propaganda 👁️ Surveillance

The Ministry of Truth

How a book born from war and lies became the world's most enduring defense of truth.

— Dorian Lynskey 2019 368 стр.

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📖 Literary Biography 🏚️ Dystopian Fiction ⚫ Totalitarianism 📢 Propaganda 👁️ Surveillance

Microbe Hunters

— Paul de Kruif • 2002

A failed painter hypnotized a nation. Democracies paralyzed by fear of war gave him Europe.

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🏴 Third Reich 📜 Political Biography ⛓️ Totalitarianism 🎙️ Demagoguery 🪖 Eastern Front

Microbe Hunters

A failed painter hypnotized a nation. Democracies paralyzed by fear of war gave him Europe.

— Paul de Kruif 2002 372 стр.

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🏴 Third Reich 📜 Political Biography ⛓️ Totalitarianism 🎙️ Demagoguery 🪖 Eastern Front

The Language Game

— Morten H. Christiansen • 2022

Language isn't a fixed code; it's a second-by-second improvisation that built human culture.

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🗣️ Language Evolution 🧠 Cognitive Linguistics 🌍 Cultural Evolution 🌱 Spontaneous Order 👶 Language Acquisition

The Language Game

Language isn't a fixed code; it's a second-by-second improvisation that built human culture.

— Morten H. Christiansen 2022 304 стр.

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🗣️ Language Evolution 🧠 Cognitive Linguistics 🌍 Cultural Evolution 🌱 Spontaneous Order 👶 Language Acquisition

Kant

— Roger Scruton • 1983

Why the limits of your own mind are the only foundation for science, morality, and beauty.

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🧠 German Idealism 💡 Enlightenment Thought ⚖️ Kantian Ethics 🎭 Moral Philosophy 🎨 Aesthetic Theory

Kant

Why the limits of your own mind are the only foundation for science, morality, and beauty.

— Roger Scruton 1983 141 стр.

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🧠 German Idealism 💡 Enlightenment Thought ⚖️ Kantian Ethics 🎭 Moral Philosophy 🎨 Aesthetic Theory

The Price of Civilization

— Jeffrey D. Sachs • 2010

What broke the American economy wasn't policy. It was a moral collapse at the top.

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🏛️ Political Economy 📉 American Decline 🗽 Civic Decline 🏢 Corporate Influence ⚖️ Economic Inequality

The Price of Civilization

What broke the American economy wasn't policy. It was a moral collapse at the top.

— Jeffrey D. Sachs 2010 352 стр.

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🏛️ Political Economy 📉 American Decline 🗽 Civic Decline 🏢 Corporate Influence ⚖️ Economic Inequality

Early Socratic Dialogues

— Plato

Virtue is knowledge, wickedness is ignorance, and Socrates proved that no one in Athens had either.

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🏛️ Ancient Philosophy 🏺 Greek Ethics 💬 Socratic Method ❓ Definitional Inquiry ⚖️ Virtue Ethics

Early Socratic Dialogues

Virtue is knowledge, wickedness is ignorance, and Socrates proved that no one in Athens had either.

— Plato 399 стр.

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🏛️ Ancient Philosophy 🏺 Greek Ethics 💬 Socratic Method ❓ Definitional Inquiry ⚖️ Virtue Ethics

Untrue

— Wednesday Martin • 2018

The plough, not biology, invented female monogamy. Inside the science that rewrites female lust.

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🦋 Female Sexuality 💔 Infidelity 🔓 Non-Monogamy 🏛️ Origins Of Patriarchy 🙊 Sexual Stigma

Untrue

The plough, not biology, invented female monogamy. Inside the science that rewrites female lust.

— Wednesday Martin 2018 320 стр.

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🦋 Female Sexuality 💔 Infidelity 🔓 Non-Monogamy 🏛️ Origins Of Patriarchy 🙊 Sexual Stigma

The Particle at the End of the Universe

— Sean Carroll • 2012

An invisible field gives matter its mass. The half-century hunt to detect its faint vibration.

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🧿 Particle Physics 🔬 Big Science 🌑 Dark Matter 🪞 Symmetry In Physics 💡 Scientific Discovery

The Particle at the End of the Universe

An invisible field gives matter its mass. The half-century hunt to detect its faint vibration.

— Sean Carroll 2012 320 стр.

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🧿 Particle Physics 🔬 Big Science 🌑 Dark Matter 🪞 Symmetry In Physics 💡 Scientific Discovery

Geons, Black Holes and Quantum Foam

— Kenneth W. Ford • 1998

He rushed to build the bomb. Decades later, he named black holes and chased quantum foam.

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⚛️ Nuclear Physics 🌌 Quantum Gravity 📜 History Of Physics 💣 Manhattan Project 👨‍🔬 Scientific Biography

Geons, Black Holes and Quantum Foam

He rushed to build the bomb. Decades later, he named black holes and chased quantum foam.

— Kenneth W. Ford 1998 380 стр.

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⚛️ Nuclear Physics 🌌 Quantum Gravity 📜 History Of Physics 💣 Manhattan Project 👨‍🔬 Scientific Biography

Traffic

— Tom Vanderbilt • 2008

Remove the signs, roads grow safer. The psychology of why drivers misjudge danger.

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🧠 Behavioral Economics 🚗 Urban Mobility ⚠️ Risk Perception 🔍 Cognitive Biases 🎯 Nudge Theory

Traffic

Remove the signs, roads grow safer. The psychology of why drivers misjudge danger.

— Tom Vanderbilt 2008 418 стр.

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🧠 Behavioral Economics 🚗 Urban Mobility ⚠️ Risk Perception 🔍 Cognitive Biases 🎯 Nudge Theory

People vs. Donald Trump

— Mark Pomerantz • 2023

Why a veteran prosecutor quit after building the fraud case against Trump: the inside story.

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🕵️ White-Collar Crime ⚖️ Prosecutorial Ethics 📜 Legal Memoir 💸 Financial Fraud 🏛️ Prosecutorial Discretion

People vs. Donald Trump

Why a veteran prosecutor quit after building the fraud case against Trump: the inside story.

— Mark Pomerantz 2023 299 стр.

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🕵️ White-Collar Crime ⚖️ Prosecutorial Ethics 📜 Legal Memoir 💸 Financial Fraud 🏛️ Prosecutorial Discretion

Democracy May Not Exist, but We'll Miss It When It's Gone

— Astra Taylor • 2019

Democracy is not broken. It is eight unresolvable tensions; the work is holding them together.

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🏛️ Political Philosophy 🗳️ Democratic Theory 🤝 Participatory Democracy 💬 Deliberative Democracy ⚖️ Freedom And Equality

Democracy May Not Exist, but We'll Miss It When It's Gone

Democracy is not broken. It is eight unresolvable tensions; the work is holding them together.

— Astra Taylor 2019 368 стр.

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🏛️ Political Philosophy 🗳️ Democratic Theory 🤝 Participatory Democracy 💬 Deliberative Democracy ⚖️ Freedom And Equality

What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America

— Thomas Frank • 2004

The poorest county in America votes Republican. Why a culture war delivers wealth to the top.

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🗳️ Political Realignment 🐘 Conservative Movement 🏭 Class Politics 😤 Cultural Backlash 🤔 Voting Against Interest

What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America

The poorest county in America votes Republican. Why a culture war delivers wealth to the top.

— Thomas Frank 2004 332 стр.

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🗳️ Political Realignment 🐘 Conservative Movement 🏭 Class Politics 😤 Cultural Backlash 🤔 Voting Against Interest

The Pianist from Syria

— Aeham Ahmad • 2017

After his piano-in-the-rubble videos went viral, the hard part began: getting out alive.

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🏚️ Syrian Civil War 🫒 Palestinian Diaspora 🎹 Art As Resistance 🧳 Refugee Memoirs 💪 Survival Stories

The Pianist from Syria

After his piano-in-the-rubble videos went viral, the hard part began: getting out alive.

— Aeham Ahmad 2017 240 стр.

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🏚️ Syrian Civil War 🫒 Palestinian Diaspora 🎹 Art As Resistance 🧳 Refugee Memoirs 💪 Survival Stories

Killing the Host

— Michael Hudson • 2013

Debt inflates wealth, then crushes the real economy; the 2008 bailouts saved the wrong patient.

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🏦 Financialization 🏛️ Political Economy 💸 Debt Cycles 💰 Rent Extraction ✂️ Austerity Critique

Killing the Host

Debt inflates wealth, then crushes the real economy; the 2008 bailouts saved the wrong patient.

— Michael Hudson 2013 400 стр.

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🏦 Financialization 🏛️ Political Economy 💸 Debt Cycles 💰 Rent Extraction ✂️ Austerity Critique

Words on the Move

— John McWhorter • 2016

Writing froze the language in your head; speech has been moving the whole time.

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🇬🇧 English Language History 🔄 Language Change 📜 Word Origins 🧐 Language Myths 🗣️ Popular Linguistics

Words on the Move

Writing froze the language in your head; speech has been moving the whole time.

— John McWhorter 2016 257 стр.

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🇬🇧 English Language History 🔄 Language Change 📜 Word Origins 🧐 Language Myths 🗣️ Popular Linguistics

Fallen Leaves

— Will Durant • 2014

At life's end, a historian sets down what he knows about desire, war, art, and God.

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🍂 Wisdom Literature 🌿 Philosophy Of Life 🏛 Historical Perspective 🧠 Human Nature ⚖️ Moral Philosophy

Fallen Leaves

At life's end, a historian sets down what he knows about desire, war, art, and God.

— Will Durant 2014 208 стр.

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🍂 Wisdom Literature 🌿 Philosophy Of Life 🏛 Historical Perspective 🧠 Human Nature ⚖️ Moral Philosophy

My Life And Work

— Henry Ford • 1922

Profit is a side effect: service-first thinking built an auto empire and doubled wages overnight.

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🏭 Mass Production 🛍️ Customer-First Business 💰 Profit Sharing 🏦 Financial Conservatism 🧭 Self-Reliance

My Life And Work

Profit is a side effect: service-first thinking built an auto empire and doubled wages overnight.

— Henry Ford 1922 384 стр.

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Call of the Mall

— Paco Underhill • 2004

Your local mall was engineered to keep you spending. A retail anthropologist maps exactly how.

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🛒 Retail Anthropology 🧠 Shopping Psychology 🏬 Mall Culture 🏗️ Retail Design 🏪 Consumer Spaces

Call of the Mall

Your local mall was engineered to keep you spending. A retail anthropologist maps exactly how.

— Paco Underhill 2004 240 стр.

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🛒 Retail Anthropology 🧠 Shopping Psychology 🏬 Mall Culture 🏗️ Retail Design 🏪 Consumer Spaces

Automate This

— Christopher Steiner • 2012

Algorithms took Wall Street. Now they compose music, allocate kidneys, and profile personalities.

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📈 Algorithmic Trading 🤖 Automation And Society 💻 Computational Thinking 🏛️ Wall Street History 🔮 Future Of Work

Automate This

Algorithms took Wall Street. Now they compose music, allocate kidneys, and profile personalities.

— Christopher Steiner 2012 256 стр.

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📈 Algorithmic Trading 🤖 Automation And Society 💻 Computational Thinking 🏛️ Wall Street History 🔮 Future Of Work

Republic, Lost

— Lawrence Lessig • 2011

America's government answers to funders, not voters. The corruption is legal, and it's by design.

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💰 Money In Politics 🗳️ Election Reform 🔗 Systemic Corruption 🏛️ Democratic Reform 🏢 Dysfunctional Congress

Republic, Lost

America's government answers to funders, not voters. The corruption is legal, and it's by design.

— Lawrence Lessig 2011 400 стр.

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💰 Money In Politics 🗳️ Election Reform 🔗 Systemic Corruption 🏛️ Democratic Reform 🏢 Dysfunctional Congress

Dumbing Us Down - 25th Anniversary Hardback Edition

— John Taylor Gatto • 2002

An award-winning teacher walked away. His reason: the system is designed to crush independence.

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🌱 Alternative Education 🏫 Compulsory Schooling 📝 Hidden Curriculum 🧒 Unschooling 🏭 Factory Schooling

Dumbing Us Down - 25th Anniversary Hardback Edition

An award-winning teacher walked away. His reason: the system is designed to crush independence.

— John Taylor Gatto 2002 144 стр.

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🌱 Alternative Education 🏫 Compulsory Schooling 📝 Hidden Curriculum 🧒 Unschooling 🏭 Factory Schooling

Unmasked

— Andy Ngo • 2021

The black-clad rioters aren't random. They have a century-old playbook, and democracy is the target.

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🔥 Political Extremism 🏴 Anarchist Movements 💥 Political Violence 💻 Internet Vigilantism 📚 Critical Theory

Unmasked

The black-clad rioters aren't random. They have a century-old playbook, and democracy is the target.

— Andy Ngo 2021 239 стр.

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🔥 Political Extremism 🏴 Anarchist Movements 💥 Political Violence 💻 Internet Vigilantism 📚 Critical Theory

Цена допуска (обновлённое издание)

— Дэниел Голден • 2006

The hidden price of elite college admission: donations, connections, and the right last name.

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🎓 Elite College Admissions 📚 Educational Inequality 🚪 College Access 💰 Money In Education 👑 Wealth And Privilege

Цена допуска (обновлённое издание)

The hidden price of elite college admission: donations, connections, and the right last name.

— Дэниел Голден 2006 400 стр.

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🎓 Elite College Admissions 📚 Educational Inequality 🚪 College Access 💰 Money In Education 👑 Wealth And Privilege

When It All Burns

— Jordan Thomas • 2025

A hotshot watches a megafire push ancient sequoias toward extinction and asks who lit the fuse.

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🌲 Fire Ecology 🔥 Wildfire History 🌾 Cultural Burning 💰 Disaster Capitalism 🛢️ Climate Denialism

When It All Burns

A hotshot watches a megafire push ancient sequoias toward extinction and asks who lit the fuse.

— Jordan Thomas 2025 361 стр.

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🌲 Fire Ecology 🔥 Wildfire History 🌾 Cultural Burning 💰 Disaster Capitalism 🛢️ Climate Denialism

Economics Explained

— Robert L. Heilbroner • 1982

Capitalism is not human nature; it is a recent, revolutionary system with discoverable rules.

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🎓 Economic Literacy 📜 Economic History ⚙️ Economic Systems ⚠️ Market Failure 📈 Keynesian Economics

Economics Explained

Capitalism is not human nature; it is a recent, revolutionary system with discoverable rules.

— Robert L. Heilbroner 1982 240 стр.

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🎓 Economic Literacy 📜 Economic History ⚙️ Economic Systems ⚠️ Market Failure 📈 Keynesian Economics

Money and Power

— William D. Cohan • 2011

Goldman Sachs's rise from a near-fatal 1970 crisis to the most powerful bank in the world.

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🏦 Investment Banking 🏛️ Wall Street History 📜 Corporate Biography 📉 Financial Crises 🤝 Banking Culture

Money and Power

Goldman Sachs's rise from a near-fatal 1970 crisis to the most powerful bank in the world.

— William D. Cohan 2011 672 стр.

3.85

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🏦 Investment Banking 🏛️ Wall Street History 📜 Corporate Biography 📉 Financial Crises 🤝 Banking Culture

Wild Faith

— Talia Lavin • 2024

A parallel America of home schools and prophets: the Christian Right wants dominion, not votes.

4.19

2 000+

✝️ Christian Nationalism 🏛️ Theocracy And Democracy ⚕️ Reproductive Rights 🏠 Homeschooling Movement 🕵️ Conspiracy Theories

Wild Faith

A parallel America of home schools and prophets: the Christian Right wants dominion, not votes.

— Talia Lavin 2024 304 стр.

4.19

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✝️ Christian Nationalism 🏛️ Theocracy And Democracy ⚕️ Reproductive Rights 🏠 Homeschooling Movement 🕵️ Conspiracy Theories

The Speech

— Bernie Sanders • 2010

The floor speech that indicted tax cuts, trade deals, and deregulation for gutting the middle class.

4.20

500+

📊 Economic Inequality 🏢 Corporate Power 🗳️ Progressive Politics 📉 Wall Street Critique 💵 Campaign Finance

The Speech

The floor speech that indicted tax cuts, trade deals, and deregulation for gutting the middle class.

— Bernie Sanders 2010 288 стр.

4.20

500+ оценок

📊 Economic Inequality 🏢 Corporate Power 🗳️ Progressive Politics 📉 Wall Street Critique 💵 Campaign Finance

The Rise

— Mike Sielski • 2022

Philly's edge and Italy's discipline forged Kobe's armor. It brought five rings and total isolation.

4.06

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🏀 Nba Legends 🎭 Complex Legacies ⚖️ Cost Of Ambition 🧠 Sports Psychology 🏃 Driven Athletes

The Rise

Philly's edge and Italy's discipline forged Kobe's armor. It brought five rings and total isolation.

— Mike Sielski 2022 372 стр.

4.06

1 000+ оценок

🏀 Nba Legends 🎭 Complex Legacies ⚖️ Cost Of Ambition 🧠 Sports Psychology 🏃 Driven Athletes

Hate Inc.

— Matt Taibbi • 2019

The news isn't failing to inform you. It's succeeding at its real job: selling your outrage.

4.09

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📰 Media Criticism 😡 Outrage Economy 🎭 Media Manipulation 🏛️ Partisan Division 📱 News Addiction

Hate Inc.

The news isn't failing to inform you. It's succeeding at its real job: selling your outrage.

— Matt Taibbi 2019 380 стр.

4.09

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📰 Media Criticism 😡 Outrage Economy 🎭 Media Manipulation 🏛️ Partisan Division 📱 News Addiction

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