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My Fellow Soldiers

— Andrew Carroll • 2017

Pershing built an American army; the soldiers' letters reveal a victory that shattered the world.

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📜 World War I 🎖️ Military Biography ✉️ Primary Source History 🪖 Soldier Experience ⚖️ Race And War

My Fellow Soldiers

Pershing built an American army; the soldiers' letters reveal a victory that shattered the world.

— Andrew Carroll 2017 400 стр.

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📜 World War I 🎖️ Military Biography ✉️ Primary Source History 🪖 Soldier Experience ⚖️ Race And War

How to Think Like a Woman

— Regan Penaluna • 2023

Sexism drove her from philosophy. Four forgotten women thinkers showed her how to find her way back.

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📚 Feminist Philosophy 🚫 Academic Sexism 🪞 Internalized Misogyny 🗣️ Recovering Lost Voices 🕰️ Early Modern Philosophy

How to Think Like a Woman

Sexism drove her from philosophy. Four forgotten women thinkers showed her how to find her way back.

— Regan Penaluna 2023 320 стр.

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📚 Feminist Philosophy 🚫 Academic Sexism 🪞 Internalized Misogyny 🗣️ Recovering Lost Voices 🕰️ Early Modern Philosophy

Coffee

— Kenneth Davids • 1976

Fresh grinding beats expensive gear. Then: roast science, origin flavors, the perfect shot.

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☕ Coffee Culture 🫘 Specialty Coffee 🏠 Home Barista 🌍 Single Origin 📖 Coffee History

Coffee

Fresh grinding beats expensive gear. Then: roast science, origin flavors, the perfect shot.

— Kenneth Davids 1976 288 стр.

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☕ Coffee Culture 🫘 Specialty Coffee 🏠 Home Barista 🌍 Single Origin 📖 Coffee History

Lost Scriptures

— Bart D. Ehrman • 2003

These are the scriptures early Christians debated, revered, and ultimately excluded from the Bible.

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⛪ Early Christianity 🐍 Gnosticism 📜 Apocryphal Writings 📖 Biblical Canon 📚 Non-Canonical Texts

Lost Scriptures

These are the scriptures early Christians debated, revered, and ultimately excluded from the Bible.

— Bart D. Ehrman 2003 352 стр.

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⛪ Early Christianity 🐍 Gnosticism 📜 Apocryphal Writings 📖 Biblical Canon 📚 Non-Canonical Texts

Vital Little Plans

— Jane Jacobs • 2016

Top-down planning kills cities. The sidewalk sees what the drafting table never will.

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🏙️ Urban Vitality 🚶 Walkable Cities 🏪 Mixed-Use Development 🌱 Bottom-Up Urbanism 🏗️ Urban Renewal Critique

Vital Little Plans

Top-down planning kills cities. The sidewalk sees what the drafting table never will.

— Jane Jacobs 2016 544 стр.

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🏙️ Urban Vitality 🚶 Walkable Cities 🏪 Mixed-Use Development 🌱 Bottom-Up Urbanism 🏗️ Urban Renewal Critique

Trump’s Triumph

— Newt Gingrich • 2025

Why Trump won bigger than ever, and the policy blitz his allies have waiting.

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🎯 Campaign Strategy 🇺🇸 American Conservatism 🏛️ Government Reform 🛂 Immigration Policy 💼 Economic Nationalism

Trump’s Triumph

Why Trump won bigger than ever, and the policy blitz his allies have waiting.

— Newt Gingrich 2025 295 стр.

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🎯 Campaign Strategy 🇺🇸 American Conservatism 🏛️ Government Reform 🛂 Immigration Policy 💼 Economic Nationalism

The End of Oil

— Paul Roberts • 2004

Peak oil, climate collapse, energy poverty: three crises converging, and no unified plan exists.

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🔄 Energy Transition 🛢️ Oil Geopolitics ⛽ Fossil Fuel Dependence 🌡️ Climate Security 🔐 Global Energy Security

The End of Oil

Peak oil, climate collapse, energy poverty: three crises converging, and no unified plan exists.

— Paul Roberts 2004 368 стр.

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🔄 Energy Transition 🛢️ Oil Geopolitics ⛽ Fossil Fuel Dependence 🌡️ Climate Security 🔐 Global Energy Security

Aristotle

— John Sellars • 2023

An ancient toolkit for thought: why Aristotle's logic, ethics, and politics never went out of style.

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🏛️ Greek Philosophy ⚖️ Virtue Ethics 🧠 Logic And Reasoning 🌌 Metaphysics 🗳️ Political Philosophy

Aristotle

An ancient toolkit for thought: why Aristotle's logic, ethics, and politics never went out of style.

— John Sellars 2023 123 стр.

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🏛️ Greek Philosophy ⚖️ Virtue Ethics 🧠 Logic And Reasoning 🌌 Metaphysics 🗳️ Political Philosophy

The Best New True Crime Stories

— Mitzi Szereto • 2020

A German village, a cannibal forum, and the volunteer who agreed to be eaten.

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🏘️ Small Town Crime 🧠 Criminal Psychology 🌐 Internet Subcultures 🍖 Cannibalism 📚 True Crime Anthology

The Best New True Crime Stories

A German village, a cannibal forum, and the volunteer who agreed to be eaten.

— Mitzi Szereto 2020 256 стр.

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🏘️ Small Town Crime 🧠 Criminal Psychology 🌐 Internet Subcultures 🍖 Cannibalism 📚 True Crime Anthology

Can We Avoid Another Financial Crisis?

— Steve Keen • 2017

When private debt passes 150% of GDP, a crisis is coming. Most economists won't see it.

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💥 Financial Crises 💳 Private Debt 🏦 Endogenous Money 📈 Post-Keynesian Economics 🏠 Household Debt

Can We Avoid Another Financial Crisis?

When private debt passes 150% of GDP, a crisis is coming. Most economists won't see it.

— Steve Keen 2017 140 стр.

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💥 Financial Crises 💳 Private Debt 🏦 Endogenous Money 📈 Post-Keynesian Economics 🏠 Household Debt

The Latehomecomer

— Kao Kalia Yang • 2008

A family's flight from the Secret War, told by the daughter born in a refugee camp.

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🏞️ Hmong Diaspora 🌏 Refugee Narratives 🕰️ Intergenerational Memory 📜 Cultural Preservation 🧭 Immigrant Identity

The Latehomecomer

A family's flight from the Secret War, told by the daughter born in a refugee camp.

— Kao Kalia Yang 2008 277 стр.

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🏞️ Hmong Diaspora 🌏 Refugee Narratives 🕰️ Intergenerational Memory 📜 Cultural Preservation 🧭 Immigrant Identity

The Givers

— David Callahan • 2017

When the richest Americans give, they also take: control over public life, without a vote.

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🏛️ Money In Politics 💰 Wealth And Democracy 🕶️ Dark Money 💼 Venture Philanthropy 💸 Billionaire Influence

The Givers

When the richest Americans give, they also take: control over public life, without a vote.

— David Callahan 2017 352 стр.

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🏛️ Money In Politics 💰 Wealth And Democracy 🕶️ Dark Money 💼 Venture Philanthropy 💸 Billionaire Influence

The Existentialist's Guide to Death, the Universe and Nothingness

— Gary Cox • 2011

You are free in a way you never asked for. This is what that actually costs.

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🌍 Continental Philosophy 🚶 Existentialism 🔍 Phenomenology 🌀 Absurdism ✨ Meaning Making

The Existentialist's Guide to Death, the Universe and Nothingness

You are free in a way you never asked for. This is what that actually costs.

— Gary Cox 2011 192 стр.

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🌍 Continental Philosophy 🚶 Existentialism 🔍 Phenomenology 🌀 Absurdism ✨ Meaning Making

Einstein of Money

— Joe Carlen • 2012

A life full of loss taught Graham the only thing worth trusting: a deep discount.

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📊 Value Investing 👤 Financial Biography 🔬 Fundamental Analysis 🧠 Behavioral Finance 🛡️ Risk Management

Einstein of Money

A life full of loss taught Graham the only thing worth trusting: a deep discount.

— Joe Carlen 2012 368 стр.

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📊 Value Investing 👤 Financial Biography 🔬 Fundamental Analysis 🧠 Behavioral Finance 🛡️ Risk Management

This View of Life

— David Sloan Wilson • 2019

Social Darwinism got Darwin wrong. His real theory: cooperation, not competition, built humanity.

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🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🌍 Cultural Evolution 👥 Group Selection ⚡ Evolutionary Mismatch 🔄 Systems Thinking

This View of Life

Social Darwinism got Darwin wrong. His real theory: cooperation, not competition, built humanity.

— David Sloan Wilson 2019 288 стр.

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🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🌍 Cultural Evolution 👥 Group Selection ⚡ Evolutionary Mismatch 🔄 Systems Thinking

Bull by the Horns

— Sheila Bair • 2012

She buried the banks Washington wanted saved. The FDIC chair's account of the 2008 bailout wars.

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🏦 Financial Regulation 🎭 Regulatory Capture 🏛️ Too Big To Fail ⚠️ Moral Hazard 🛡️ Predatory Lending

Bull by the Horns

She buried the banks Washington wanted saved. The FDIC chair's account of the 2008 bailout wars.

— Sheila Bair 2012 432 стр.

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🏦 Financial Regulation 🎭 Regulatory Capture 🏛️ Too Big To Fail ⚠️ Moral Hazard 🛡️ Predatory Lending

Swedenborg

— Gary Lachman • 2012

A scientist catalogued heaven and hell like a naturalist. Then Kant took him seriously.

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🕯️ Western Esotericism ✝️ Christian Mysticism 🧠 Altered States 👻 Afterlife Studies 🔣 Sacred Symbolism

Swedenborg

A scientist catalogued heaven and hell like a naturalist. Then Kant took him seriously.

— Gary Lachman 2012 208 стр.

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🕯️ Western Esotericism ✝️ Christian Mysticism 🧠 Altered States 👻 Afterlife Studies 🔣 Sacred Symbolism

Stuff Every Tea Lover Should Know

— Candace Rose Rardon • 2020

A pocket guide to tea: six families, five millennia of ritual, and getting every cup right.

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🍵 Tea Culture 📜 Food History 🫖 Brewing Guides 👃 Sensory Tasting 🏛️ Cultural Rituals

Stuff Every Tea Lover Should Know

A pocket guide to tea: six families, five millennia of ritual, and getting every cup right.

— Candace Rose Rardon 2020 144 стр.

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🍵 Tea Culture 📜 Food History 🫖 Brewing Guides 👃 Sensory Tasting 🏛️ Cultural Rituals

Most Dangerous

— Steve Sheinkin • 2015

After helping plan the Vietnam War, he leaked 7,000 pages proving every president had lied.

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🕵️ Whistleblowing 🔒 Government Secrecy 🇻🇳 Vietnam War 🏛️ Watergate Era ⚔️ Cold War

Most Dangerous

After helping plan the Vietnam War, he leaked 7,000 pages proving every president had lied.

— Steve Sheinkin 2015 370 стр.

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🕵️ Whistleblowing 🔒 Government Secrecy 🇻🇳 Vietnam War 🏛️ Watergate Era ⚔️ Cold War

International Relations

— Joshua S. Goldstein • 1993

War, trade, climate: one puzzle runs through them all. How nations cooperate when selfishness pays.

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🌐 International Relations 🏛️ Political Realism 🕊️ Liberal Internationalism 🧱 Constructivism 🤝 Collective Action

International Relations

War, trade, climate: one puzzle runs through them all. How nations cooperate when selfishness pays.

— Joshua S. Goldstein 1993 624 стр.

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🌐 International Relations 🏛️ Political Realism 🕊️ Liberal Internationalism 🧱 Constructivism 🤝 Collective Action

William Faulkner

— André Bleikasten • 2017

His family, his affair, his South, his demons: Faulkner's novels were his life recast as myth.

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📖 Literary Biography 🌳 Southern Literature 🌀 Stream Of Consciousness 🔧 Narrative Technique 🦇 Southern Gothic

William Faulkner

His family, his affair, his South, his demons: Faulkner's novels were his life recast as myth.

— André Bleikasten 2017 552 стр.

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📖 Literary Biography 🌳 Southern Literature 🌀 Stream Of Consciousness 🔧 Narrative Technique 🦇 Southern Gothic

Exploring Happiness

— Sissela Bok • 2010

Too complex for one discipline: what philosophy and brain science find when they meet on happiness.

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🧠 Philosophy Of Happiness 📜 History Of Ideas ⚖️ Moral Philosophy 🔬 Multidisciplinary Inquiry 😊 Positive Psychology

Exploring Happiness

Too complex for one discipline: what philosophy and brain science find when they meet on happiness.

— Sissela Bok 2010 224 стр.

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🧠 Philosophy Of Happiness 📜 History Of Ideas ⚖️ Moral Philosophy 🔬 Multidisciplinary Inquiry 😊 Positive Psychology

The Invisible History of the Human Race

— Christine Kenneally • 2014

Human history is written in DNA: migrations, crashes, and secrets we are only starting to read.

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🧬 Human Genetics 🗺️ Genetic Ancestry 📜 Genealogy Studies 🌐 Cultural Inheritance 💊 Personalized Medicine

The Invisible History of the Human Race

Human history is written in DNA: migrations, crashes, and secrets we are only starting to read.

— Christine Kenneally 2014 370 стр.

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🧬 Human Genetics 🗺️ Genetic Ancestry 📜 Genealogy Studies 🌐 Cultural Inheritance 💊 Personalized Medicine

Portugal - Culture Smart!

— Sandy Pinto Basto • 2005

The Portuguese customs most visitors miss: warmth, hierarchy, and why there are 365 cod recipes.

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🧭 Cultural Etiquette 🗣️ Cross-Cultural Communication 🇵🇹 Portuguese Culture 🏛️ Iberian Culture 🌞 Southern Europe

Portugal - Culture Smart!

The Portuguese customs most visitors miss: warmth, hierarchy, and why there are 365 cod recipes.

— Sandy Pinto Basto 2005 201 стр.

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🧭 Cultural Etiquette 🗣️ Cross-Cultural Communication 🇵🇹 Portuguese Culture 🏛️ Iberian Culture 🌞 Southern Europe

Once a Wolf

— Bryan Sykes • 2019

The wolf-to-dog story is not about campfires. It's about a hunting partnership 30,000 years old.

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🐺 Canine Domestication 🧬 Ancient Dna ❤️ Human-Animal Bond 🐕 Canine Genetics 🐑 Animal Cloning

Once a Wolf

The wolf-to-dog story is not about campfires. It's about a hunting partnership 30,000 years old.

— Bryan Sykes 2019 304 стр.

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🐺 Canine Domestication 🧬 Ancient Dna ❤️ Human-Animal Bond 🐕 Canine Genetics 🐑 Animal Cloning

Midnight in Mexico

— Alfredo Corchado • 2013

A reporter's search for home turns into a survival fight after a cartel warning.

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🧭 Mexican Drug War 🌎 Border Politics 🎤 Investigative Journalism 💰 State Corruption 🪪 Bicultural Identity

Midnight in Mexico

A reporter's search for home turns into a survival fight after a cartel warning.

— Alfredo Corchado 2013 304 стр.

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🧭 Mexican Drug War 🌎 Border Politics 🎤 Investigative Journalism 💰 State Corruption 🪪 Bicultural Identity

Eye of the Beholder

— Laura J. Snyder • 2015

Vermeer and Leeuwenhoek lived blocks apart, using lenses to show the world what it had never seen.

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🧀 Dutch Golden Age 🖼️ Dutch Painting 🎨 Art And Science 👁️ Optics And Vision 📷 Camera Obscura

Eye of the Beholder

Vermeer and Leeuwenhoek lived blocks apart, using lenses to show the world what it had never seen.

— Laura J. Snyder 2015 448 стр.

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🧀 Dutch Golden Age 🖼️ Dutch Painting 🎨 Art And Science 👁️ Optics And Vision 📷 Camera Obscura

When Broken Glass Floats

— Chanrithy Him • 2000

Nine when Phnom Penh emptied overnight. Fourteen when she buried her parents and three siblings.

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🏴 Khmer Rouge 👧 Child Survivor 🗣️ Survivor Testimony 🧳 Forced Displacement 💛 Family Bonds

When Broken Glass Floats

Nine when Phnom Penh emptied overnight. Fourteen when she buried her parents and three siblings.

— Chanrithy Him 2000 336 стр.

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🏴 Khmer Rouge 👧 Child Survivor 🗣️ Survivor Testimony 🧳 Forced Displacement 💛 Family Bonds

Miss May Does Not Exist

— Carrie Courogen • 2024

Forty dollars, one audition: American comedy changed forever. Then Elaine May decided to disappear.

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🎬 Hollywood History 🎭 Comedy History 🎥 Women Directors 🎪 Improvisation 🤝 Creative Partnerships

Miss May Does Not Exist

Forty dollars, one audition: American comedy changed forever. Then Elaine May decided to disappear.

— Carrie Courogen 2024 400 стр.

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🎬 Hollywood History 🎭 Comedy History 🎥 Women Directors 🎪 Improvisation 🤝 Creative Partnerships

Home in the World

— Amartya Sen • 2021

What shaped a Nobel economist: Tagore's open-air school, a Kolkata coffee house, and a cancer ward.

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💰 Economic Inequality 🇮🇳 Indian History ✊🏽 Anti-Colonial Thought 🌍 Multicultural Identity 🔗 Polymathic Thinking

Home in the World

What shaped a Nobel economist: Tagore's open-air school, a Kolkata coffee house, and a cancer ward.

— Amartya Sen 2021

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💰 Economic Inequality 🇮🇳 Indian History ✊🏽 Anti-Colonial Thought 🌍 Multicultural Identity 🔗 Polymathic Thinking

Whatever Happened to the Metric System?

— John Bemelmans Marciano • 2013

A tale of revolutions, divine measures, and why a global standard stopped at America's shores.

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🔬 History Of Science 📏 History Of Measurement 🛡️ Cultural Resistance 🇺🇸 American Exceptionalism 💡 Enlightenment Rationalism

Whatever Happened to the Metric System?

A tale of revolutions, divine measures, and why a global standard stopped at America's shores.

— John Bemelmans Marciano 2013 320 стр.

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🔬 History Of Science 📏 History Of Measurement 🛡️ Cultural Resistance 🇺🇸 American Exceptionalism 💡 Enlightenment Rationalism

Self-Portrait in Black and White

— Thomas Chatterton Williams • 2019

What if ending racism means giving up race itself? One Black thinker's case for walking away.

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🧱 Social Construction Of Race ✊ Racial Abolitionism 👁️ Colorblindness Debate 🤝 Interracial Identity 🎨 Colorism

Self-Portrait in Black and White

What if ending racism means giving up race itself? One Black thinker's case for walking away.

— Thomas Chatterton Williams 2019 185 стр.

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🧱 Social Construction Of Race ✊ Racial Abolitionism 👁️ Colorblindness Debate 🤝 Interracial Identity 🎨 Colorism

The Age of Empire, 1875–1914

— Eric J. Hobsbawm • 1987

How the world's first globalization, built on empire and mass politics, made a world war inevitable.

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🕰️ Belle éPoque 🔨 Marxist History 🗺️ Imperialism Studies 📊 Economic History 🏴 Nationalism Studies

The Age of Empire, 1875–1914

How the world's first globalization, built on empire and mass politics, made a world war inevitable.

— Eric J. Hobsbawm 1987 405 стр.

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🕰️ Belle éPoque 🔨 Marxist History 🗺️ Imperialism Studies 📊 Economic History 🏴 Nationalism Studies

The Lincoln Conspiracy

— Brad Meltzer • 2020

Baltimore 1861: a secret society, a plot to kill Lincoln, and the detective who uncovered it.

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🤫 Foiled Conspiracy ⚔️ Civil War Era 🕵️ Pinkerton Agency 🕯️ Secret Societies 🛤️ Underground Railroad

The Lincoln Conspiracy

Baltimore 1861: a secret society, a plot to kill Lincoln, and the detective who uncovered it.

— Brad Meltzer 2020 448 стр.

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🤫 Foiled Conspiracy ⚔️ Civil War Era 🕵️ Pinkerton Agency 🕯️ Secret Societies 🛤️ Underground Railroad

In an Uncertain World

— Robert E. Rubin • 2003

Markets and governments run on uncertain bets. A Treasury Secretary's method for weighing them.

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🏛️ Economic Policy 📉 Financial Crises 🎲 Uncertainty Navigation 🌐 Globalization 🏦 Wall Street Memoirs

In an Uncertain World

Markets and governments run on uncertain bets. A Treasury Secretary's method for weighing them.

— Robert E. Rubin 2003 448 стр.

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🏛️ Economic Policy 📉 Financial Crises 🎲 Uncertainty Navigation 🌐 Globalization 🏦 Wall Street Memoirs

The Lost Keys of Freemasonry

— Manly P. Hall • 2006

Freemasonry is a school of the soul. Its rites guard a method for awakening the divine within.

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🧱 Esoteric Freemasonry 🏛️ Mystery Schools 📜 Western Esotericism ⚗️ Spiritual Alchemy 🔣 Sacred Symbolism

The Lost Keys of Freemasonry

Freemasonry is a school of the soul. Its rites guard a method for awakening the divine within.

— Manly P. Hall 2006 352 стр.

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🧱 Esoteric Freemasonry 🏛️ Mystery Schools 📜 Western Esotericism ⚗️ Spiritual Alchemy 🔣 Sacred Symbolism

The Trillion-Dollar Conspiracy

— Jim Marrs • 2010

A century-long campaign to crash the economy, sicken the people, and lock down the state.

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👤 Shadow Government 💸 Financial Conspiracy 📹 Mass Surveillance 📺 Media Manipulation 💊 Big Pharma

The Trillion-Dollar Conspiracy

A century-long campaign to crash the economy, sicken the people, and lock down the state.

— Jim Marrs 2010 496 стр.

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👤 Shadow Government 💸 Financial Conspiracy 📹 Mass Surveillance 📺 Media Manipulation 💊 Big Pharma

Yes We (Still) Can

— Dan Pfeiffer • 2018

Obama pioneered a new political playbook. Then Fox News, Twitter, and Trump shredded it. Now what?

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🗣️ Political Communication 🗳️ Election Campaigns 🌐 Internet Politics 🔊 Media Echo Chambers 🚫 Misinformation Warfare

Yes We (Still) Can

Obama pioneered a new political playbook. Then Fox News, Twitter, and Trump shredded it. Now what?

— Dan Pfeiffer 2018 304 стр.

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🗣️ Political Communication 🗳️ Election Campaigns 🌐 Internet Politics 🔊 Media Echo Chambers 🚫 Misinformation Warfare

When We Cease to Understand the World

— Benjamín Labatut • 2020

From the trenches of WWI to the edge of mathematics, genius opens doors it cannot close.

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🖋️ Fictionalized Biography 🔬 Philosophy Of Science 🧠 Tortured Genius ⚗️ Scientific Hubris 💀 Cost Of Discovery

When We Cease to Understand the World

From the trenches of WWI to the edge of mathematics, genius opens doors it cannot close.

— Benjamín Labatut 2020 193 стр.

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🖋️ Fictionalized Biography 🔬 Philosophy Of Science 🧠 Tortured Genius ⚗️ Scientific Hubris 💀 Cost Of Discovery

A Great Place To Have A War

— Joshua Kurlantzick • 2017

Laos was where the CIA learned to wage war without asking Congress. The lesson stuck.

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🔍 Cia History 🕵️ Covert Operations 🧊 Cold War History 🎭 Proxy Warfare 🏛️ American Foreign Policy

A Great Place To Have A War

Laos was where the CIA learned to wage war without asking Congress. The lesson stuck.

— Joshua Kurlantzick 2017 336 стр.

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🔍 Cia History 🕵️ Covert Operations 🧊 Cold War History 🎭 Proxy Warfare 🏛️ American Foreign Policy

Alasdair Macintyre

— Peter McMylor • 1991

Our moral arguments never end because we threw out the framework that made them work.

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🧭 Virtue Ethics 🏘️ Communitarianism 🏙️ Critique Of Modernity 💡 Enlightenment Critique 📋 Managerialism

Alasdair Macintyre

Our moral arguments never end because we threw out the framework that made them work.

— Peter McMylor 1991 236 стр.

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🧭 Virtue Ethics 🏘️ Communitarianism 🏙️ Critique Of Modernity 💡 Enlightenment Critique 📋 Managerialism

Pakistan on the Brink

— Ahmed Rashid • 2012

The Afghan war cannot be won without confronting the deeper crisis inside Pakistan.

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🏔️ Afghanistan War 🇵🇰 Pakistani Politics 🪖 Counterinsurgency 🏛️ State-Sponsored Extremism 💣 War On Terror

Pakistan on the Brink

The Afghan war cannot be won without confronting the deeper crisis inside Pakistan.

— Ahmed Rashid 2012 257 стр.

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🏔️ Afghanistan War 🇵🇰 Pakistani Politics 🪖 Counterinsurgency 🏛️ State-Sponsored Extremism 💣 War On Terror

This is esports (and How to Spell it) – LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK AWARD 2020

— Paul "ReDeYe" Chaloner • 2020

Esports started in 1980, runs on modder-built games, and won't push pros out at 25.

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🎮 Esports Industry 🕹️ Gaming Culture 🔧 Modding Communities 👩 Women In Gaming 📺 Sports Media

This is esports (and How to Spell it) – LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK AWARD 2020

Esports started in 1980, runs on modder-built games, and won't push pros out at 25.

— Paul "ReDeYe" Chaloner 2020 265 стр.

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🎮 Esports Industry 🕹️ Gaming Culture 🔧 Modding Communities 👩 Women In Gaming 📺 Sports Media

Cooper's Creek

— Alan Moorehead • 1963

A starving party staggered into base, only to find their companions had left nine hours earlier.

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🇦🇺 Australian Exploration 🏜️ Outback Australia 💀 Expedition Disasters 🏛️ Colonial Ambition 🧭 Victorian Exploration

Cooper's Creek

A starving party staggered into base, only to find their companions had left nine hours earlier.

— Alan Moorehead 1963

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🇦🇺 Australian Exploration 🏜️ Outback Australia 💀 Expedition Disasters 🏛️ Colonial Ambition 🧭 Victorian Exploration

The Translator's Invisibility

— Lawrence Venuti • 1994

The smoother a translation reads, the more it erases the foreign culture and the translator's labor.

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🧠 Translation Studies 📚 Literary Theory ⚖️ Translation Ethics 🗣️ Language Politics ✊ Cultural Resistance

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Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death

— Caitlin Doughty • 2019

A mortician answers kids' blunt questions: from eyeball-eating cats to freeze-dried space corpses.

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Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death

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The Poker Face of Wall Street

— Aaron Brown • 2006

Finance is a poker game. The rules are probability, psychology, and the well-timed bluff.

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🛡️ Risk Management 🧠 Trading Psychology ♠️ Poker And Trading 📉 Behavioral Economics ♟️ Game Theory

The Poker Face of Wall Street

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White Rage

— Carol Anderson • 2016

Every time Black Americans advance, a calculated policy backlash rolls it back.

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White Rage

Every time Black Americans advance, a calculated policy backlash rolls it back.

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Числа не лгут

— Вацлав Смил • 2020

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Числа не лгут

Your smartphone costs the planet as much as a car. 71 data points that rewrite modern life.

— Вацлав Смил 2020 384 стр.

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This Land Is Our Land

— Ken Ilgunas • 2018

America once roamed freely across private land. Europe has the rules that could bring that back.

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🚶‍♂️ Right To Roam 🏡 Land Ownership 🏞 Public Lands 🥾 Walking 🌍 Commons

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