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История Саммари книг

Confessions of a Wall Street Analyst

— Daniel Reingold • 2006

His rival was the king of telecom analysts. WorldCom was his kingdom. Then the fraud unraveled.

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🏢 Wall Street Insiders ⚖️ Conflicts Of Interest 🔍 Insider Information 📡 Tech Bubbles 🕵️ Corporate Fraud

Confessions of a Wall Street Analyst

His rival was the king of telecom analysts. WorldCom was his kingdom. Then the fraud unraveled.

— Daniel Reingold 2006 384 стр.

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🏢 Wall Street Insiders ⚖️ Conflicts Of Interest 🔍 Insider Information 📡 Tech Bubbles 🕵️ Corporate Fraud

The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt

— Toby Wilkinson • 2010

Three millennia of pharaohs, and the engine beneath every pyramid was absolute, merciless power.

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🏛️ Ancient Egypt 🏺 Bronze Age 👑 Divine Kingship 🏗️ Monumental Architecture 📉 Imperial Decline

The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt

Three millennia of pharaohs, and the engine beneath every pyramid was absolute, merciless power.

— Toby Wilkinson 2010 646 стр.

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🏛️ Ancient Egypt 🏺 Bronze Age 👑 Divine Kingship 🏗️ Monumental Architecture 📉 Imperial Decline

The Faithful Preacher

— Thabiti M. Anyabwile • 2007

Three forgotten black pastors built ministry on character, not noise. Their words still confront.

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⛪ Black Church Tradition 📖 Pastoral Ministry 🕊️ Christian Character 📣 Biblical Preaching 🤝 Racial Reconciliation

The Faithful Preacher

Three forgotten black pastors built ministry on character, not noise. Their words still confront.

— Thabiti M. Anyabwile 2007

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⛪ Black Church Tradition 📖 Pastoral Ministry 🕊️ Christian Character 📣 Biblical Preaching 🤝 Racial Reconciliation

9 Lessons in Brexit

— Ivan Rogers • 2019

Nine lessons on why the UK lost the Brexit negotiations, from a diplomat who was there.

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🇬🇧 Brexit 🇪🇺 Eu Politics 🤝 Trade Negotiations 🏛️ Sovereignty Debates 🦊 Realpolitik

9 Lessons in Brexit

Nine lessons on why the UK lost the Brexit negotiations, from a diplomat who was there.

— Ivan Rogers 2019 46 стр.

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🇬🇧 Brexit 🇪🇺 Eu Politics 🤝 Trade Negotiations 🏛️ Sovereignty Debates 🦊 Realpolitik

The Alchemists

— Jim Ratcliffe • 2018

Four out of five acquisitions fail. INEOS bet on the opposite and built a global industrial empire.

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🏭 Corporate Turnarounds 💰 Mergers And Acquisitions 🌐 Decentralized Management 🔒 Private Company Strategy ⚙️ Industrial Manufacturing

The Alchemists

Four out of five acquisitions fail. INEOS bet on the opposite and built a global industrial empire.

— Jim Ratcliffe 2018 344 стр.

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🏭 Corporate Turnarounds 💰 Mergers And Acquisitions 🌐 Decentralized Management 🔒 Private Company Strategy ⚙️ Industrial Manufacturing

Bankrupting the Third World

— James Morcan • 2015

The global poverty industry: why aid, loans, and conflict minerals ensure poor nations stay poor.

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🛢️ Resource Extraction 💰 Aid Critique ⛏️ Conflict Minerals 🌍 Economic Colonialism 💸 Debt And Dependency

Bankrupting the Third World

The global poverty industry: why aid, loans, and conflict minerals ensure poor nations stay poor.

— James Morcan 2015 102 стр.

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🛢️ Resource Extraction 💰 Aid Critique ⛏️ Conflict Minerals 🌍 Economic Colonialism 💸 Debt And Dependency

In the Heart of the Sea

— Nathaniel Philbrick • 2000

A whale sank the Essex. Twenty men, three boats. Half the survivors ate their shipmates.

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⚓ Maritime History 🌊 Maritime Disasters 🐋 Whaling History 🚣 Open Boat Survival 🦴 Survival Cannibalism

In the Heart of the Sea

A whale sank the Essex. Twenty men, three boats. Half the survivors ate their shipmates.

— Nathaniel Philbrick 2000 302 стр.

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⚓ Maritime History 🌊 Maritime Disasters 🐋 Whaling History 🚣 Open Boat Survival 🦴 Survival Cannibalism

The Story of Art Without Men

— Katy Hessel • 2022

Art history left out the women. Five centuries of painters and sculptors the canon overlooked.

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🏛️ Art History 🎨 Women Artists ✊ Feminist Art History 📚 Canon Revision 🪧 Art And Activism

The Story of Art Without Men

Art history left out the women. Five centuries of painters and sculptors the canon overlooked.

— Katy Hessel 2022 352 стр.

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🏛️ Art History 🎨 Women Artists ✊ Feminist Art History 📚 Canon Revision 🪧 Art And Activism

How to Make Bread

— Emmanuel Hadjiandreou • 2011

Master the science behind flour and water, and transform your kitchen into an artisan bakery.

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🍞 Bread Baking 🫙 Sourdough 🥐 Pastry Making 🌾 Gluten-Free Baking 🔬 Ingredient Science

How to Make Bread

Master the science behind flour and water, and transform your kitchen into an artisan bakery.

— Emmanuel Hadjiandreou 2011 176 стр.

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🍞 Bread Baking 🫙 Sourdough 🥐 Pastry Making 🌾 Gluten-Free Baking 🔬 Ingredient Science

Chasing Ghosts

— Marc Hartzman • 2021

Séances, spirit photos, ghost-hunting gadgets: every era invents a new way to reach the dead.

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🏚️ Ghost Lore 📞 Spiritualism History 🔦 Paranormal Investigation 🔍 Skeptical Inquiry 👻 Haunted Places

Chasing Ghosts

Séances, spirit photos, ghost-hunting gadgets: every era invents a new way to reach the dead.

— Marc Hartzman 2021 272 стр.

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🏚️ Ghost Lore 📞 Spiritualism History 🔦 Paranormal Investigation 🔍 Skeptical Inquiry 👻 Haunted Places

Growth

— Vaclav Smil • 2019

The math of growth is the same everywhere: a curve that bends toward limits, not infinity.

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🌍 Limits To Growth 📈 Scaling Laws ⚡ Energy History 👥 Demographic Transition 🔧 Techno-Skepticism

Growth

The math of growth is the same everywhere: a curve that bends toward limits, not infinity.

— Vaclav Smil 2019 664 стр.

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🌍 Limits To Growth 📈 Scaling Laws ⚡ Energy History 👥 Demographic Transition 🔧 Techno-Skepticism

Conversations of Socrates

— Xenophon

The Socrates who masters desire, runs a household, and believes the gods care about virtue

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🏛️ Ancient Philosophy 🗣️ Socratic Dialogues 🧘 Self-Mastery 🧠 Practical Wisdom 💬 Socratic Method

Conversations of Socrates

The Socrates who masters desire, runs a household, and believes the gods care about virtue

— Xenophon 366 стр.

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🏛️ Ancient Philosophy 🗣️ Socratic Dialogues 🧘 Self-Mastery 🧠 Practical Wisdom 💬 Socratic Method

Collusion

— Nomi Prins • 2018

Central banks print trillions from nothing to prop up the rich, with no way to stop.

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🏦 Central Banking 📈 Monetary Policy 💸 Quantitative Easing 📉 Financial Crises 💲 Dollar Hegemony

Collusion

Central banks print trillions from nothing to prop up the rich, with no way to stop.

— Nomi Prins 2018 384 стр.

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🏦 Central Banking 📈 Monetary Policy 💸 Quantitative Easing 📉 Financial Crises 💲 Dollar Hegemony

Karl Marx

— 50Minutes • 2015

Profit is unpaid labor: Marx's case that capitalism exploits workers and is headed for collapse.

🏛️ Political Economy 🔨 Marxist Economics ⚔️ Class Struggle 🔍 Class Analysis 💸 Critique Of Capitalism

Karl Marx

Profit is unpaid labor: Marx's case that capitalism exploits workers and is headed for collapse.

— 50Minutes 2015 36 стр.

🏛️ Political Economy 🔨 Marxist Economics ⚔️ Class Struggle 🔍 Class Analysis 💸 Critique Of Capitalism

The New York Times Book of Mathematics

— Gina Kolata • 2013

Seven riffle shuffles, three hundred years, and one question: is math discovered or invented?

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🏛️ History Of Mathematics 📝 Scientific Essays 🤔 Philosophy Of Math 👤 Mathematicians 🏠 Everyday Math

The New York Times Book of Mathematics

Seven riffle shuffles, three hundred years, and one question: is math discovered or invented?

— Gina Kolata 2013 498 стр.

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🏛️ History Of Mathematics 📝 Scientific Essays 🤔 Philosophy Of Math 👤 Mathematicians 🏠 Everyday Math

Domesticated

— Richard C. Francis • 2015

Selecting for tameness remakes body, brain, and behavior. The same force may have shaped us.

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🧬 Evolutionary Biology 🐄 Domestication Science 🏗️ Niche Construction 🧠 Self Domestication 🧪 Evo Devo

Domesticated

Selecting for tameness remakes body, brain, and behavior. The same force may have shaped us.

— Richard C. Francis 2015 498 стр.

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🧬 Evolutionary Biology 🐄 Domestication Science 🏗️ Niche Construction 🧠 Self Domestication 🧪 Evo Devo

Ghosts

— Roger Clarke • 2012

Ghosts have a natural history: five centuries of sightings show how the dead reflect the living.

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👻 Paranormal History 🔎 Skeptical Inquiry 🕯️ Spiritualism 🎭 Ghost Hoaxes 💥 Poltergeist Cases

Ghosts

Ghosts have a natural history: five centuries of sightings show how the dead reflect the living.

— Roger Clarke 2012 368 стр.

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👻 Paranormal History 🔎 Skeptical Inquiry 🕯️ Spiritualism 🎭 Ghost Hoaxes 💥 Poltergeist Cases

The Triumph of Doubt

— David Michaels • 2020

Tobacco wrote the manual for burying inconvenient science. Every other industry now uses it.

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🏭 Corporate Malfeasance 🩺 Public Health Policy 🤥 Science Denialism 📢 Disinformation Campaigns 🏛️ Regulatory Capture

The Triumph of Doubt

Tobacco wrote the manual for burying inconvenient science. Every other industry now uses it.

— David Michaels 2020 344 стр.

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🏭 Corporate Malfeasance 🩺 Public Health Policy 🤥 Science Denialism 📢 Disinformation Campaigns 🏛️ Regulatory Capture

Order of Assassins

— Colin Wilson • 1972

Violence as self-fulfillment: how stagnation and passivity breed the modern assassin.

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🧠 Criminal Psychology 🔍 Psychological True Crime 💭 Existential Psychology 👊 Psychology Of Violence 🏙️ Modern Alienation

Order of Assassins

Violence as self-fulfillment: how stagnation and passivity breed the modern assassin.

— Colin Wilson 1972 326 стр.

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🧠 Criminal Psychology 🔍 Psychological True Crime 💭 Existential Psychology 👊 Psychology Of Violence 🏙️ Modern Alienation

Winner Sells All

— Jason Del Rey • 2023

In 1999, Walmart bet e-commerce didn't matter. The bill for that mistake is still unpaid.

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🥊 Corporate Rivalry 🏪 Retail Industry 📱 Big Tech 📦 E-Commerce Disruption 🔄 Digital Transformation

Winner Sells All

In 1999, Walmart bet e-commerce didn't matter. The bill for that mistake is still unpaid.

— Jason Del Rey 2023 304 стр.

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🥊 Corporate Rivalry 🏪 Retail Industry 📱 Big Tech 📦 E-Commerce Disruption 🔄 Digital Transformation

Supernatural

— Colin Wilson • 2011

A skeptic's tour of the paranormal evidence that defies explanation.

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🕵️ Paranormal Investigation 🔮 Psychic Phenomena 🌙 Altered States 👻 Spiritualism History 🧠 Consciousness Studies

Supernatural

A skeptic's tour of the paranormal evidence that defies explanation.

— Colin Wilson 2011 600 стр.

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🕵️ Paranormal Investigation 🔮 Psychic Phenomena 🌙 Altered States 👻 Spiritualism History 🧠 Consciousness Studies

A Concise History of the Middle East

— Arthur Goldschmidt Jr • 1979

Three faiths, a dozen empires, one century of oil, and a conflict the world can't quit.

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📜 Middle Eastern History 🕌 Islamic Civilization 🏛️ Colonial Legacy 🏰 Ottoman Empire 🏴 Arab Nationalism

A Concise History of the Middle East

Three faiths, a dozen empires, one century of oil, and a conflict the world can't quit.

— Arthur Goldschmidt Jr 1979 576 стр.

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📜 Middle Eastern History 🕌 Islamic Civilization 🏛️ Colonial Legacy 🏰 Ottoman Empire 🏴 Arab Nationalism

— Michael Lewis • 2001

Amateurs with modems started beating the experts. The market didn't fight back; it invested.

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🌐 Internet Disruption 🔄 Creative Destruction 📚 Democratized Knowledge 🔗 Peer-To-Peer Networks 🕸️ Flattened Hierarchies

Amateurs with modems started beating the experts. The market didn't fight back; it invested.

— Michael Lewis 2001 240 стр.

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🌐 Internet Disruption 🔄 Creative Destruction 📚 Democratized Knowledge 🔗 Peer-To-Peer Networks 🕸️ Flattened Hierarchies

The Case That Never Dies

— Lloyd C. Gardner • 2004

The Lindbergh conviction hung on a ladder, marked money, and witnesses. None of it held.

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🕵️ Historical True Crime 🏚️ Depression Era 📰 Trial By Media 🌟 Celebrity Justice 🔍 Forensic Evidence

The Case That Never Dies

The Lindbergh conviction hung on a ladder, marked money, and witnesses. None of it held.

— Lloyd C. Gardner 2004 480 стр.

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🕵️ Historical True Crime 🏚️ Depression Era 📰 Trial By Media 🌟 Celebrity Justice 🔍 Forensic Evidence

Facts and Other Lies

— Ed Coper • 2022

The internet runs on outrage, our brains are built for bias, and facts never stood a chance.

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🗳️ Political Disinformation 📡 Media Ecosystems 💻 Digital Politics 🧠 Cognitive Biases 📖 Media Literacy

Facts and Other Lies

The internet runs on outrage, our brains are built for bias, and facts never stood a chance.

— Ed Coper 2022 394 стр.

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🗳️ Political Disinformation 📡 Media Ecosystems 💻 Digital Politics 🧠 Cognitive Biases 📖 Media Literacy

Free Speech

— Jacob Mchangama • 2022

Free speech has a 2,500-year losing streak, and the playbook for silencing it hasn't changed.

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📚 Intellectual History 🗣️ Free Speech 🚫 Censorship 🏛️ Classical Liberalism ⛓️ Authoritarianism

Free Speech

Free speech has a 2,500-year losing streak, and the playbook for silencing it hasn't changed.

— Jacob Mchangama 2022 528 стр.

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📚 Intellectual History 🗣️ Free Speech 🚫 Censorship 🏛️ Classical Liberalism ⛓️ Authoritarianism

Hauntings

— Paul Roland • 2008

She testified from beyond the grave and her killer was convicted. What the famous hauntings reveal.

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🏚️ Ghost Lore 🔍 Paranormal Investigation 🏰 Haunted Locations 🧠 Parapsychology 🔮 Mediumship

Hauntings

She testified from beyond the grave and her killer was convicted. What the famous hauntings reveal.

— Paul Roland 2008 208 стр.

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🏚️ Ghost Lore 🔍 Paranormal Investigation 🏰 Haunted Locations 🧠 Parapsychology 🔮 Mediumship

Human Universe

— Brian Cox • 2014

The galaxy should teem with life. The silence hints we might be alone in asking why.

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🌌 Cosmology 🧬 Astrobiology 👽 Fermi Paradox 🦴 Human Origins 🌍 Cosmic Perspective

Human Universe

The galaxy should teem with life. The silence hints we might be alone in asking why.

— Brian Cox 2014 288 стр.

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🌌 Cosmology 🧬 Astrobiology 👽 Fermi Paradox 🦴 Human Origins 🌍 Cosmic Perspective

And Then They Stopped Talking to Me

— Judith Warner • 2020

Middle school and its signature misery were both invented in the 1960s. Knowing why heals.

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🧠 Adolescent Development 📜 History Of Childhood 👨‍👩‍👧 Parenting Teens 🔍 Cultural Criticism 🪜 Social Hierarchies

And Then They Stopped Talking to Me

Middle school and its signature misery were both invented in the 1960s. Knowing why heals.

— Judith Warner 2020 320 стр.

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🧠 Adolescent Development 📜 History Of Childhood 👨‍👩‍👧 Parenting Teens 🔍 Cultural Criticism 🪜 Social Hierarchies

Fight Oligarchy

— Bernie Sanders • 2025

Three billionaires behind one president. The diagnosis of American oligarchy, and the cure.

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🏛️ American Oligarchy 💰 Wealth Inequality 🏢 Corporate Power ✊ Grassroots Organizing 👷 Working Class Politics

Fight Oligarchy

Three billionaires behind one president. The diagnosis of American oligarchy, and the cure.

— Bernie Sanders 2025 160 стр.

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🏛️ American Oligarchy 💰 Wealth Inequality 🏢 Corporate Power ✊ Grassroots Organizing 👷 Working Class Politics

Political Order and Political Decay

— Francis Fukuyama • 2014

Build democracy before the state, and politics becomes clientelism, not good government.

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🌐 Comparative Politics 🏛️ State Building 🏚️ Institutional Decay ⚙️ Bureaucracy 🤝 Clientelism

Political Order and Political Decay

Build democracy before the state, and politics becomes clientelism, not good government.

— Francis Fukuyama 2014 672 стр.

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🌐 Comparative Politics 🏛️ State Building 🏚️ Institutional Decay ⚙️ Bureaucracy 🤝 Clientelism

The Art of Political Murder

— Francisco Goldman • 2007

Bishop Gerardi proved the Army's guilt. Two days later he was dead, his garrison floor mopped.

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🇬🇹 Guatemalan Civil War 🎯 Political Assassination 📋 Truth Commissions 🔒 State Impunity ⚖️ Transitional Justice

The Art of Political Murder

Bishop Gerardi proved the Army's guilt. Two days later he was dead, his garrison floor mopped.

— Francisco Goldman 2007 396 стр.

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🇬🇹 Guatemalan Civil War 🎯 Political Assassination 📋 Truth Commissions 🔒 State Impunity ⚖️ Transitional Justice

The Infernal Machine

— Steven Johnson • 2024

Dynamite was meant to destroy governments. It built the most powerful one: the surveillance state.

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🏴 Anarchist History 💣 History Of Terrorism 🔬 Forensic History 🕵️‍♂️ Surveillance History 🏭 Labor History

The Infernal Machine

Dynamite was meant to destroy governments. It built the most powerful one: the surveillance state.

— Steven Johnson 2024 368 стр.

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🏴 Anarchist History 💣 History Of Terrorism 🔬 Forensic History 🕵️‍♂️ Surveillance History 🏭 Labor History

The Age of Reason

— Thomas Paine • 1794

God's word is the universe, not a book. Everything else is hearsay passed off as revelation.

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🏛️ Deism 📜 Religious Criticism 💡 Enlightenment Philosophy 📖 Biblical Criticism 🔭 Natural Theology

The Age of Reason

God's word is the universe, not a book. Everything else is hearsay passed off as revelation.

— Thomas Paine 1794 180 стр.

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🏛️ Deism 📜 Religious Criticism 💡 Enlightenment Philosophy 📖 Biblical Criticism 🔭 Natural Theology

Why I am a Hindu

— Shashi Tharoor • 2018

Hinduism demands no dogma and has no founder. Hindutva, its political impostor, insists on both.

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🕉️ Hindu Philosophy 🧘 Advaita Vedanta 🤝 Religious Pluralism 🚩 Religious Nationalism 🇮🇳 Indian Politics

Why I am a Hindu

Hinduism demands no dogma and has no founder. Hindutva, its political impostor, insists on both.

— Shashi Tharoor 2018 320 стр.

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🕉️ Hindu Philosophy 🧘 Advaita Vedanta 🤝 Religious Pluralism 🚩 Religious Nationalism 🇮🇳 Indian Politics

The Great Derangement

— Amitav Ghosh • 2016

Fiction cannot hold a cyclone. Politics cannot hold a planet. A novelist names the cultural refusal.

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🏛️ Climate Politics 📚 Environmental Humanities 🌏 Postcolonial Critique 🌍 Anthropocene Critique 🌿 Ecocriticism

The Great Derangement

Fiction cannot hold a cyclone. Politics cannot hold a planet. A novelist names the cultural refusal.

— Amitav Ghosh 2016 196 стр.

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🏛️ Climate Politics 📚 Environmental Humanities 🌏 Postcolonial Critique 🌍 Anthropocene Critique 🌿 Ecocriticism

Lonely Planet Georgia, Armenia & Azerbaijan

— Tom Masters • 2000

Three countries, one guide: ancient wine, mountain monasteries, and the minibus routes between them.

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🏔️ South Caucasus 🎒 Lonely Planet 🗺️ Offbeat Destinations 🚐 Overland Travel 🍷 Ancient Wine Regions

Lonely Planet Georgia, Armenia & Azerbaijan

Three countries, one guide: ancient wine, mountain monasteries, and the minibus routes between them.

— Tom Masters 2000 834 стр.

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🏔️ South Caucasus 🎒 Lonely Planet 🗺️ Offbeat Destinations 🚐 Overland Travel 🍷 Ancient Wine Regions

No One Cares About Crazy People

— Ron Powers • 2017

Two sons, schizophrenia, and a journalist's investigation into why America jails the mentally ill.

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🏛️ Psychiatric History 📋 Mental Health Policy 👨‍👩‍👦 Family Memoir 🏚️ Deinstitutionalization 💊 Pharmaceutical Ethics

No One Cares About Crazy People

Two sons, schizophrenia, and a journalist's investigation into why America jails the mentally ill.

— Ron Powers 2017 360 стр.

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🏛️ Psychiatric History 📋 Mental Health Policy 👨‍👩‍👦 Family Memoir 🏚️ Deinstitutionalization 💊 Pharmaceutical Ethics

We Need New Stories

— Nesrine Malik • 2021

The stories we tell about free speech, gender, and national virtue protect power, not truth.

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🎭 Political Myths 📰 Media Criticism 🌐 Cultural Myths ⛓️ Systemic Inequality 🗣️ Free Speech Debates

We Need New Stories

The stories we tell about free speech, gender, and national virtue protect power, not truth.

— Nesrine Malik 2021 304 стр.

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🎭 Political Myths 📰 Media Criticism 🌐 Cultural Myths ⛓️ Systemic Inequality 🗣️ Free Speech Debates

Christianity and Critical Race Theory

— Robert Chao Romero • 2023

Racism is pervasive, not rare. A theologian argues CRT and Christianity share that core insight.

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📚 Critical Race Theory ⚖️ Racial Justice ✝️ Christian Theology 🔍 Systemic Racism 🗳️ Faith And Politics

Christianity and Critical Race Theory

Racism is pervasive, not rare. A theologian argues CRT and Christianity share that core insight.

— Robert Chao Romero 2023 209 стр.

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📚 Critical Race Theory ⚖️ Racial Justice ✝️ Christian Theology 🔍 Systemic Racism 🗳️ Faith And Politics

Taste of Persia

— Naomi Duguid • 2016

A food writer crosses five borders to find what politics cannot erase: the Persian table.

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🍽️ Persian Cuisine ✈️ Culinary Travel 🥘 Culinary Traditions 🏠 Regional Home Cooking 📜 Food History

Taste of Persia

A food writer crosses five borders to find what politics cannot erase: the Persian table.

— Naomi Duguid 2016 400 стр.

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🍽️ Persian Cuisine ✈️ Culinary Travel 🥘 Culinary Traditions 🏠 Regional Home Cooking 📜 Food History

The Sources of Social Power

— Michael Mann • 1986

Why do empires rise and fall? The answer isn't one force but four overlapping power networks.

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🏛️ Historical Sociology 🌍 Comparative History 🏗️ State Formation 📜 Ideology And Power 💰 Capitalism Origins

The Sources of Social Power

Why do empires rise and fall? The answer isn't one force but four overlapping power networks.

— Michael Mann 1986 560 стр.

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🏛️ Historical Sociology 🌍 Comparative History 🏗️ State Formation 📜 Ideology And Power 💰 Capitalism Origins

Confident Women

— Tori Telfer • 2021

The fake heiresses, false survivors, and phantom psychics who built empires on other people's hope.

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🎭 Con Artists 👩‍⚖️ Female Criminals 🕰️ Historical Crime 🧠 Deception Psychology 🪪 Impostors

Confident Women

The fake heiresses, false survivors, and phantom psychics who built empires on other people's hope.

— Tori Telfer 2021 352 стр.

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🎭 Con Artists 👩‍⚖️ Female Criminals 🕰️ Historical Crime 🧠 Deception Psychology 🪪 Impostors

Glory Days

— Dave Marsh • 1987

The contract was signed on a car hood. The battle to control his music nearly broke him.

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🎤 Music Biographies 📰 Rock Criticism 🏭 Working Class Life 💰 Music Industry 🎨 Artistic Integrity

Glory Days

The contract was signed on a car hood. The battle to control his music nearly broke him.

— Dave Marsh 1987 424 стр.

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🎤 Music Biographies 📰 Rock Criticism 🏭 Working Class Life 💰 Music Industry 🎨 Artistic Integrity

Letters from Burma

— Aung San Suu Kyi • 1995

Compassion beats brutality in politics: a Nobel laureate's letters from house arrest in Burma.

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🇲🇲 Burmese Politics ☸️ Engaged Buddhism ✊ Nonviolent Resistance 🔒 Political Prisoners ⛓️ Authoritarian Regimes

Letters from Burma

Compassion beats brutality in politics: a Nobel laureate's letters from house arrest in Burma.

— Aung San Suu Kyi 1995 209 стр.

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🇲🇲 Burmese Politics ☸️ Engaged Buddhism ✊ Nonviolent Resistance 🔒 Political Prisoners ⛓️ Authoritarian Regimes

The Spartacus War

— Barry S. Strauss • 2009

Before six thousand crosses lined the Appian Way, a Thracian gladiator humiliated Rome's generals.

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🏛️ Ancient Rome ⚔️ Roman Military 🔗 Slave Revolts 🌿 Guerrilla Warfare 🛡️ Gladiators

The Spartacus War

Before six thousand crosses lined the Appian Way, a Thracian gladiator humiliated Rome's generals.

— Barry S. Strauss 2009 264 стр.

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🏛️ Ancient Rome ⚔️ Roman Military 🔗 Slave Revolts 🌿 Guerrilla Warfare 🛡️ Gladiators

Sound Within Sound

— Kate Molleson • 2022

A microtonal Mexican, an Ethiopian nun, and eight more composers the classical canon erased.

4.34

181

🧪 Experimental Music 🗓️ 20th Century Music 👩 Women Composers 📜 Forgotten Composers 🔌 Electronic Music

Sound Within Sound

A microtonal Mexican, an Ethiopian nun, and eight more composers the classical canon erased.

— Kate Molleson 2022 312 стр.

4.34

181 оценок

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Helen Keller

— Helen Keller • 1902

Before the water pump, words were just shapes. After, they held the world.

3.96

500+

🦯 Blindness Memoir 🍎 Transformative Teaching 🌱 Resilience Narratives ⏳ Early 20th Century ✋ Alternative Communication

Helen Keller

Before the water pump, words were just shapes. After, they held the world.

— Helen Keller 1902 295 стр.

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🦯 Blindness Memoir 🍎 Transformative Teaching 🌱 Resilience Narratives ⏳ Early 20th Century ✋ Alternative Communication

Grave New World

— Stephen D. King • 2017

Globalization collapsed once. History shows it is collapsing again.

3.66

227

🌐 Globalization 🌍 Geopolitics 📢 Populism 📜 Economic History 📊 Inequality

Grave New World

Globalization collapsed once. History shows it is collapsing again.

— Stephen D. King 2017 304 стр.

3.66

227 оценок

🌐 Globalization 🌍 Geopolitics 📢 Populism 📜 Economic History 📊 Inequality

After the Fall

— Ben Rhodes • 2021

The foreign policy that won the Cold War ended up arming the next generation of dictators.

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🔻 Democratic Backsliding 📡 Disinformation Warfare 🌐 Globalization Backlash 🏛️ American Foreign Policy 🎭 Identity Politics

After the Fall

The foreign policy that won the Cold War ended up arming the next generation of dictators.

— Ben Rhodes 2021 339 стр.

4.19

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🔻 Democratic Backsliding 📡 Disinformation Warfare 🌐 Globalization Backlash 🏛️ American Foreign Policy 🎭 Identity Politics

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