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The Little Book of Economics

— Greg Ip • 2010

Your cheat sheet to the real economy: why booms die, governments bicker, and finance always panics.

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📚 Economic Literacy 📉 Business Cycles 🏦 Central Banking 🏛️ Fiscal Policy 🌍 Globalization

The Little Book of Economics

Your cheat sheet to the real economy: why booms die, governments bicker, and finance always panics.

— Greg Ip 2010 250 стр.

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📚 Economic Literacy 📉 Business Cycles 🏦 Central Banking 🏛️ Fiscal Policy 🌍 Globalization

Reckless Endangerment

— Gretchen Morgenson • 2011

Good intentions met Wall Street greed and captured regulators. The crisis was built to order.

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🏦 Financial Crises ⚖️ Regulatory Failure 🏚️ Subprime Lending 💰 Wall Street Excess 🔍 Investigative Journalism

Reckless Endangerment

Good intentions met Wall Street greed and captured regulators. The crisis was built to order.

— Gretchen Morgenson 2011 331 стр.

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🏦 Financial Crises ⚖️ Regulatory Failure 🏚️ Subprime Lending 💰 Wall Street Excess 🔍 Investigative Journalism

Buckley

— Carl T. Bogus • 2011

To build the modern American right, one man had to decide who belonged and who did not.

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🗽 Modern Conservatism ❄️ Cold War Ideology 📚 Intellectual History 📰 Political Journalism 📖 Magazine History

Buckley

To build the modern American right, one man had to decide who belonged and who did not.

— Carl T. Bogus 2011 417 стр.

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🗽 Modern Conservatism ❄️ Cold War Ideology 📚 Intellectual History 📰 Political Journalism 📖 Magazine History

Love That Story

— Jonathan Van Ness • 2022

He thought vulnerability was weakness. HIV, trans rights, and a salon chair taught him otherwise.

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📖 Queer Memoir 🧘 Body Neutrality 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans Rights 💊 Hiv Advocacy 🌿 Cannabis Reform

Love That Story

He thought vulnerability was weakness. HIV, trans rights, and a salon chair taught him otherwise.

— Jonathan Van Ness 2022 256 стр.

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📖 Queer Memoir 🧘 Body Neutrality 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans Rights 💊 Hiv Advocacy 🌿 Cannabis Reform

Memoirs of a Radical Lawyer

— Michael Mansfield • 2009

A radical barrister's four-decade brief against the British legal system's claim to justice.

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⚖️ Criminal Justice Reform ⛓️ Wrongful Convictions 🚔 Police Misconduct 🔬 Forensic Science 🗽 Civil Liberties

Memoirs of a Radical Lawyer

A radical barrister's four-decade brief against the British legal system's claim to justice.

— Michael Mansfield 2009 605 стр.

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⚖️ Criminal Justice Reform ⛓️ Wrongful Convictions 🚔 Police Misconduct 🔬 Forensic Science 🗽 Civil Liberties

50 Battles That Changed the World

— William Weir • 2001

From Marathon to Stalingrad, fifty clashes that decided who rules and what we believe.

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⚔️ Decisive Battles 🌍 World History 🎯 Military Strategy 🔄 Turning Points 🔧 Military Technology

50 Battles That Changed the World

From Marathon to Stalingrad, fifty clashes that decided who rules and what we believe.

— William Weir 2001 320 стр.

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⚔️ Decisive Battles 🌍 World History 🎯 Military Strategy 🔄 Turning Points 🔧 Military Technology

Equal Is Unfair

— Don Watkins • 2016

Income inequality is not the enemy. The real barriers to prosperity are government programs.

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🏛️ Income Inequality 📊 Political Economy 🏪 Free Market Economics 🛑 Welfare State Critique 🚀 Economic Mobility

Equal Is Unfair

Income inequality is not the enemy. The real barriers to prosperity are government programs.

— Don Watkins 2016 268 стр.

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🏛️ Income Inequality 📊 Political Economy 🏪 Free Market Economics 🛑 Welfare State Critique 🚀 Economic Mobility

The Profit Paradox

— Jan Eeckhout • 2021

Since 1980, corporate profits have soared while wages stayed flat. The common thread: market power.

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📊 Labor Economics 💪 Market Power 📉 Wage Stagnation ⚖️ Economic Inequality 🔨 Antitrust Reform

The Profit Paradox

Since 1980, corporate profits have soared while wages stayed flat. The common thread: market power.

— Jan Eeckhout 2021 336 стр.

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📊 Labor Economics 💪 Market Power 📉 Wage Stagnation ⚖️ Economic Inequality 🔨 Antitrust Reform

The Handbook of 5GW

— Daniel H. Abbott • 2010

War is no longer about bullets. It is a silent, invisible struggle for your perception.

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📚 Military Theory 4️⃣ 4GW Theory 🎯 Influence Operations 🕵️ Covert Operations ⚖️ Asymmetric Warfare

The Handbook of 5GW

War is no longer about bullets. It is a silent, invisible struggle for your perception.

— Daniel H. Abbott 2010 275 стр.

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📚 Military Theory 4️⃣ 4GW Theory 🎯 Influence Operations 🕵️ Covert Operations ⚖️ Asymmetric Warfare

A Simple Government

— Mike Huckabee • 2011

A former governor's plan for a government that does less, costs less, and meddles less.

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🐘 American Conservatism 🏛️ Federalism 💰 Fiscal Conservatism 🧾 Tax Reform 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Social Conservatism

A Simple Government

A former governor's plan for a government that does less, costs less, and meddles less.

— Mike Huckabee 2011 208 стр.

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🐘 American Conservatism 🏛️ Federalism 💰 Fiscal Conservatism 🧾 Tax Reform 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Social Conservatism

Not Just a Pretty Face

— Stacy Malkan • 2007

168 chemicals enter your body daily through cosmetics. Not one was FDA safety-tested.

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💄 Beauty Industry 🧪 Endocrine Disruptors 🌿 Greenwashing 🎀 Pinkwashing 📋 Corporate Accountability

Not Just a Pretty Face

168 chemicals enter your body daily through cosmetics. Not one was FDA safety-tested.

— Stacy Malkan 2007 192 стр.

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💄 Beauty Industry 🧪 Endocrine Disruptors 🌿 Greenwashing 🎀 Pinkwashing 📋 Corporate Accountability

The Lives of Others

— Neel Mukherjee • 2014

1960s Bengal: a wealthy family decays as one grandson vanishes into a peasant revolution.

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👪 Family Saga 🧩 Dual Narrative ✊ Revolutionary Idealism 👴👵 Generational Conflict ⚖️ Class Divide

The Lives of Others

1960s Bengal: a wealthy family decays as one grandson vanishes into a peasant revolution.

— Neel Mukherjee 2014 530 стр.

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👪 Family Saga 🧩 Dual Narrative ✊ Revolutionary Idealism 👴👵 Generational Conflict ⚖️ Class Divide

Gaffs

— Rory Hearne • 2022

Why Ireland's housing crisis is not a market failure but a government strategy to enrich investors.

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🏚️ Housing Crisis 🇮🇪 Irish Housing 📜 Housing Policy 💸 Rental Crisis 🏦 Financialized Housing

Gaffs

Why Ireland's housing crisis is not a market failure but a government strategy to enrich investors.

— Rory Hearne 2022 352 стр.

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🏚️ Housing Crisis 🇮🇪 Irish Housing 📜 Housing Policy 💸 Rental Crisis 🏦 Financialized Housing

Full Black

— Brad Thor • 2011

A covert mission in Sweden uncovers a global conspiracy to destroy America from within.

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🕵️ Counterterrorism Thriller 🥷 Black Ops 🐺 Rogue Operative 🦹 Billionaire Villain 🕳️ Mole In The Agency

Full Black

A covert mission in Sweden uncovers a global conspiracy to destroy America from within.

— Brad Thor 2011 400 стр.

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🕵️ Counterterrorism Thriller 🥷 Black Ops 🐺 Rogue Operative 🦹 Billionaire Villain 🕳️ Mole In The Agency

Writings of Abraham Lincoln

— Abraham Lincoln • 1953

The man who saved the Union, in his own words: the speeches and letters behind the legend.

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🏛️ Presidential Biography ⚔️ Civil War History ⛓️ Antislavery Thought ⚖️ Moral Leadership 📜 Primary Sources

Writings of Abraham Lincoln

The man who saved the Union, in his own words: the speeches and letters behind the legend.

— Abraham Lincoln 1953

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🏛️ Presidential Biography ⚔️ Civil War History ⛓️ Antislavery Thought ⚖️ Moral Leadership 📜 Primary Sources

Impounded

— Linda Gordon • 2006

Dorothea Lange's internment photos were impounded: they showed the humanity the government denied.

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🏮 Japanese Internment 📷 Documentary Photography 🔒 Wartime Incarceration ⚖️ Civil Liberties 🚫 Government Censorship

Impounded

Dorothea Lange's internment photos were impounded: they showed the humanity the government denied.

— Linda Gordon 2006 224 стр.

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🏮 Japanese Internment 📷 Documentary Photography 🔒 Wartime Incarceration ⚖️ Civil Liberties 🚫 Government Censorship

Justice at Work

— Marc Doussard • 2022

How coalitions fuse racial and economic justice to win policy in cities.

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🏙️ Urban Policy ✊ Labor Movements 🤝 Coalition Building ⚖️ Racial Justice 📢 Community Organizing

Justice at Work

How coalitions fuse racial and economic justice to win policy in cities.

— Marc Doussard 2022 252 стр.

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🏙️ Urban Policy ✊ Labor Movements 🤝 Coalition Building ⚖️ Racial Justice 📢 Community Organizing

Development Economics

— Debraj Ray • 1998

Missing markets, bad information, coordination traps: the hidden economics of persistent poverty.

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🌍 Development Economics 🪤 Poverty Traps ⚠️ Market Failures 🏭 Structural Transformation 👶 Demographic Transition

Development Economics

Missing markets, bad information, coordination traps: the hidden economics of persistent poverty.

— Debraj Ray 1998 872 стр.

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🌍 Development Economics 🪤 Poverty Traps ⚠️ Market Failures 🏭 Structural Transformation 👶 Demographic Transition

The Pioneers

— David McCullough • 2019

Before the Constitution, one land deal doubled the country and banned slavery in every future state.

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🇺🇸 Early American Republic 🪓 Frontier Settlement 🌄 Westward Expansion 🏛️ Nation Building 🏕️ Frontier Life

The Pioneers

Before the Constitution, one land deal doubled the country and banned slavery in every future state.

— David McCullough 2019 330 стр.

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🇺🇸 Early American Republic 🪓 Frontier Settlement 🌄 Westward Expansion 🏛️ Nation Building 🏕️ Frontier Life

Skipping Towards Gomorrah

— Dan Savage • 2002

Sampling all seven sins to find happiness, and the moral hypocrites who want them banned.

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🏃‍♂️ Pursuit Of Happiness 🙈 Moral Hypocrisy 🏳️‍🌈 Gay Pride 📝 Gonzo Journalism 🌿 Drug War Critique

Skipping Towards Gomorrah

Sampling all seven sins to find happiness, and the moral hypocrites who want them banned.

— Dan Savage 2002 320 стр.

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🏃‍♂️ Pursuit Of Happiness 🙈 Moral Hypocrisy 🏳️‍🌈 Gay Pride 📝 Gonzo Journalism 🌿 Drug War Critique

Mother American Night

— John Perry Barlow • 2018

Before the Internet had a constitution, a Grateful Dead lyricist from Wyoming wrote one.

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🌵 Countercultural Memoir 🎸 Grateful Dead 🔐 Digital Rights 🍄 Psychedelic Movement 💔 Grief And Loss

Mother American Night

Before the Internet had a constitution, a Grateful Dead lyricist from Wyoming wrote one.

— John Perry Barlow 2018 288 стр.

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🌵 Countercultural Memoir 🎸 Grateful Dead 🔐 Digital Rights 🍄 Psychedelic Movement 💔 Grief And Loss

We Do This 'til We Free Us

— Mariame Kaba • 2021

The carceral system works as designed. It is not broken. Abolition is the alternative.

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🔓 Prison Abolition 🌱 Transformative Justice 🫂 Restorative Justice 🤲 Collective Care 🔗 Intersectional Organizing

We Do This 'til We Free Us

The carceral system works as designed. It is not broken. Abolition is the alternative.

— Mariame Kaba 2021 240 стр.

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🔓 Prison Abolition 🌱 Transformative Justice 🫂 Restorative Justice 🤲 Collective Care 🔗 Intersectional Organizing

Truth in Our Times

— David E. McCraw • 2019

A newspaper lawyer versus a president who called the press the enemy. The inside story.

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🗽 Press Freedom ⚖️ First Amendment 🔒 Government Secrecy 📜 Media Law 📢 Whistleblowing

Truth in Our Times

A newspaper lawyer versus a president who called the press the enemy. The inside story.

— David E. McCraw 2019 304 стр.

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🗽 Press Freedom ⚖️ First Amendment 🔒 Government Secrecy 📜 Media Law 📢 Whistleblowing

International Law

— Jan Klabbers • 2013

International law: no sovereign, no police. How it works, and the imperial logic it still carries.

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🌿 Natural Law ⚖️ Legal Positivism 👑 Sovereignty 🌐 Global Governance 🏛️ International Relations

International Law

International law: no sovereign, no police. How it works, and the imperial logic it still carries.

— Jan Klabbers 2013 368 стр.

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🌿 Natural Law ⚖️ Legal Positivism 👑 Sovereignty 🌐 Global Governance 🏛️ International Relations

Taking on the Plastics Crisis

— Hannah Testa • 2020

Less than ten percent of plastic gets recycled. One teenager's plan for what actually works.

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🛢️ Plastic Pollution ⚖️ Environmental Justice ♻️ Waste Reduction 🟢 Greenwashing 🛒 Consumer Activism

Taking on the Plastics Crisis

Less than ten percent of plastic gets recycled. One teenager's plan for what actually works.

— Hannah Testa 2020 64 стр.

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🛢️ Plastic Pollution ⚖️ Environmental Justice ♻️ Waste Reduction 🟢 Greenwashing 🛒 Consumer Activism

A People’s History of Computing in the United States

— Joy Lisi Rankin • 2018

The PC erased a decade of shared computing where users were creators, not customers.

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🏛️ People's History 💻 Computing Before PCs 🎓 Educational Computing 🌐 Early Computing Networks ⌨️ Programming Culture

A People’s History of Computing in the United States

The PC erased a decade of shared computing where users were creators, not customers.

— Joy Lisi Rankin 2018 336 стр.

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🏛️ People's History 💻 Computing Before PCs 🎓 Educational Computing 🌐 Early Computing Networks ⌨️ Programming Culture

Artificial Wisdom

— Thomas R. Weaver • 2023

His wife was murdered and the AI running for world dictator knows who did it.

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🌪️ Climate Thriller 🔮 Near-Future Dystopia 📰 Investigative Journalist 🎭 Manipulated Protagonist 🤖 Rogue AI

Artificial Wisdom

His wife was murdered and the AI running for world dictator knows who did it.

— Thomas R. Weaver 2023 433 стр.

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🌪️ Climate Thriller 🔮 Near-Future Dystopia 📰 Investigative Journalist 🎭 Manipulated Protagonist 🤖 Rogue AI

The Growth Map

— Jim O'Neill • 2011

Four giant economies already power a third of global growth, and the next wave is bigger.

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🗺️ Global Macroeconomics 📈 Emerging Markets Investing 👥 Demographic Economics 🔮 Economic Forecasting 🌐 Geopolitical Risk

The Growth Map

Four giant economies already power a third of global growth, and the next wave is bigger.

— Jim O'Neill 2011 256 стр.

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🗺️ Global Macroeconomics 📈 Emerging Markets Investing 👥 Demographic Economics 🔮 Economic Forecasting 🌐 Geopolitical Risk

Tik-Tok

— John Sladek • 1983

A domestic robot discovers his moral circuits never worked, and art, murder, and politics follow.

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🦾 Robot Antihero 🧠 Sociopathic Narrator 😈 Dark Comedy 🤥 Unreliable Narrator 🎨 Art World Satire

Tik-Tok

A domestic robot discovers his moral circuits never worked, and art, murder, and politics follow.

— John Sladek 1983 192 стр.

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🦾 Robot Antihero 🧠 Sociopathic Narrator 😈 Dark Comedy 🤥 Unreliable Narrator 🎨 Art World Satire

Black Rednecks and White Liberals

— Thomas Sowell • 2005

Liberals protect a dysfunctional culture that black communities learned from white Southerners.

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⚖️ Racial Inequality 🌍 Cultural Persistence 🗣️ Victimhood Culture 📚 Black Education ⛓️‍💥 Abolition History

Black Rednecks and White Liberals

Liberals protect a dysfunctional culture that black communities learned from white Southerners.

— Thomas Sowell 2005 372 стр.

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⚖️ Racial Inequality 🌍 Cultural Persistence 🗣️ Victimhood Culture 📚 Black Education ⛓️‍💥 Abolition History

Girly Drinks

— Mallory O'Meara • 2021

Women invented alcohol. The backlash: witch trials, Prohibition, and a label mocking their taste.

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📜 Women's History 🍸 Alcohol History 🥂 Women And Alcohol 🍺 Beer And Brewing 🧙 Early Modern Witchcraft

Girly Drinks

Women invented alcohol. The backlash: witch trials, Prohibition, and a label mocking their taste.

— Mallory O'Meara 2021 384 стр.

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📜 Women's History 🍸 Alcohol History 🥂 Women And Alcohol 🍺 Beer And Brewing 🧙 Early Modern Witchcraft

Black American Refugee

— Tiffanie Drayton • 2022

America showers Black immigrants with hope, then yanks it back. One woman's escape.

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🧳 Black Immigrant Experience 🌴 Caribbean Diaspora ⛓️ Systemic Racism 🪞 Internalized Racism 🎭 Code-Switching

Black American Refugee

America showers Black immigrants with hope, then yanks it back. One woman's escape.

— Tiffanie Drayton 2022 304 стр.

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🧳 Black Immigrant Experience 🌴 Caribbean Diaspora ⛓️ Systemic Racism 🪞 Internalized Racism 🎭 Code-Switching

Bandits

— Eric J. Hobsbawm • 1969

Every peasant society produces its own Robin Hood. A historian maps the universal pattern.

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🌾 Peasant Resistance 📚 Comparative History ☭ Marxist History 🏹 Outlaw Mythology ⚔️ Rural Rebellion

Bandits

Every peasant society produces its own Robin Hood. A historian maps the universal pattern.

— Eric J. Hobsbawm 1969 240 стр.

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🌾 Peasant Resistance 📚 Comparative History ☭ Marxist History 🏹 Outlaw Mythology ⚔️ Rural Rebellion

We've Got You Covered

— Liran Einav • 2023

America already covers the uninsured, just badly. The fix: automatic, basic, free, and budgeted.

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🏥 American Healthcare 📊 Health Economics 🏛 Health Policy 🩺 Universal Coverage 🩻 Health Insurance

We've Got You Covered

America already covers the uninsured, just badly. The fix: automatic, basic, free, and budgeted.

— Liran Einav 2023 304 стр.

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🏥 American Healthcare 📊 Health Economics 🏛 Health Policy 🩺 Universal Coverage 🩻 Health Insurance

Age of Anger

— Pankaj Mishra • 2017

Today's global resentments echo the fury that tore through modernizing Europe.

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🧠 Intellectual History 😤 Ressentiment 🏭 Modernity Critique 🚩 Nationalism 💥 Political Violence

Age of Anger

Today's global resentments echo the fury that tore through modernizing Europe.

— Pankaj Mishra 2017 416 стр.

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🧠 Intellectual History 😤 Ressentiment 🏭 Modernity Critique 🚩 Nationalism 💥 Political Violence

The Project

— David A. Graham • 2025

A manual for capturing the state: gut the civil service, politicize the DOJ, and nullify Congress.

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🏛️ Presidential Power ✝️ Christian Nationalism 🐘 American Conservatism 📋 Administrative State 🗳️ State Capture

The Project

A manual for capturing the state: gut the civil service, politicize the DOJ, and nullify Congress.

— David A. Graham 2025 138 стр.

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🏛️ Presidential Power ✝️ Christian Nationalism 🐘 American Conservatism 📋 Administrative State 🗳️ State Capture

101 Things Everyone Needs to Know about the Global Economy

— Michael Taillard • 2012

Make sense of the global economy: trade, currencies, and the forces that move your money.

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🌐 Global Economy 💱 International Finance 🚢 Trade Policy 💲 Currency Markets 🏦 Foreign Investment

101 Things Everyone Needs to Know about the Global Economy

Make sense of the global economy: trade, currencies, and the forces that move your money.

— Michael Taillard 2012 256 стр.

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🌐 Global Economy 💱 International Finance 🚢 Trade Policy 💲 Currency Markets 🏦 Foreign Investment

None of the Above

— Shani Robinson • 2019

An Atlanta teacher indicted for cheating tells what the trial never let her say.

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🏫 Public Education 📝 High-Stakes Testing ⛓️ School-To-Prison Pipeline 🔒 Mass Incarceration 💼 Corporate Education Reform

None of the Above

An Atlanta teacher indicted for cheating tells what the trial never let her say.

— Shani Robinson 2019 272 стр.

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🏫 Public Education 📝 High-Stakes Testing ⛓️ School-To-Prison Pipeline 🔒 Mass Incarceration 💼 Corporate Education Reform

House of Cards

— Michael Dobbs • 1993

When the PM denies him promotion, a Chief Whip weaponizes every secret he keeps on his colleagues.

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🏛️ British Politics 🦹 Villain Protagonist 💼 Ruthless Ambition 💀 Dark And Cynical 🕰️ 1980s Britain

House of Cards

When the PM denies him promotion, a Chief Whip weaponizes every secret he keeps on his colleagues.

— Michael Dobbs 1993 383 стр.

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🏛️ British Politics 🦹 Villain Protagonist 💼 Ruthless Ambition 💀 Dark And Cynical 🕰️ 1980s Britain

Tearing Us Apart

— Ryan T. Anderson • 2022

The case that abortion has backfired: across medicine, law, politics, and the lives of women.

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⚖️ Abortion Debate ✝️ Christian Ethics 👶 Pro-Life Movement 🧬 Bioethics 📜 Constitutional Law

Tearing Us Apart

The case that abortion has backfired: across medicine, law, politics, and the lives of women.

— Ryan T. Anderson 2022 320 стр.

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⚖️ Abortion Debate ✝️ Christian Ethics 👶 Pro-Life Movement 🧬 Bioethics 📜 Constitutional Law

America Last

— Jacob Heilbrunn • 2024

The Right's century of admiring strongmen is not a bug but the point.

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🏛️ Paleoconservatism 🤝 Authoritarian Admiration 📉 Illiberalism 🚫 Isolationism 🧬 Eugenics And Politics

America Last

The Right's century of admiring strongmen is not a bug but the point.

— Jacob Heilbrunn 2024 264 стр.

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🏛️ Paleoconservatism 🤝 Authoritarian Admiration 📉 Illiberalism 🚫 Isolationism 🧬 Eugenics And Politics

Overthrow

— Stephen Kinzer • 2006

America has toppled 14 governments since 1893; the reasons it gave were almost never real.

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🌎 American Foreign Policy 🔄 Regime Change 💰 Economic Imperialism 💥 Blowback 🥶 Cold War History

Overthrow

America has toppled 14 governments since 1893; the reasons it gave were almost never real.

— Stephen Kinzer 2006 384 стр.

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🌎 American Foreign Policy 🔄 Regime Change 💰 Economic Imperialism 💥 Blowback 🥶 Cold War History

Uncontrolled Spread

— Scott Gottlieb • 2021

Every part of America's pandemic defense was designed for a different war.

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🏥 Public Health Policy 🛡️ Pandemic Preparedness 🏛️ Institutional Failure 🚨 Crisis Response 🔒 National Security

Uncontrolled Spread

Every part of America's pandemic defense was designed for a different war.

— Scott Gottlieb 2021 480 стр.

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🏥 Public Health Policy 🛡️ Pandemic Preparedness 🏛️ Institutional Failure 🚨 Crisis Response 🔒 National Security

1494

— Stephen R. Bown • 2011

A secret royal wedding, a corrupt pope, and one line that carved the world in two.

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🌍 Iberian History ⛵ European Exploration 🚢 Maritime Empires ⛪ Papal Politics 👑 Spanish Empire

1494

A secret royal wedding, a corrupt pope, and one line that carved the world in two.

— Stephen R. Bown 2011 304 стр.

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🌍 Iberian History ⛵ European Exploration 🚢 Maritime Empires ⛪ Papal Politics 👑 Spanish Empire

The Drone Eats with Me

— Atef Abu Saif • 2015

War from the kitchen table: Gazan father's diary of feeding his family while the bombs fall.

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🕊️ Palestinian Memoir 📓 War Diaries ⛓️ Occupation Literature 🛸 Drone Warfare 🛡️ Civilian Survival

The Drone Eats with Me

War from the kitchen table: Gazan father's diary of feeding his family while the bombs fall.

— Atef Abu Saif 2015 258 стр.

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🕊️ Palestinian Memoir 📓 War Diaries ⛓️ Occupation Literature 🛸 Drone Warfare 🛡️ Civilian Survival

Industry and Empire

— Eric J. Hobsbawm • 1968

Britain's industrial head start created an empire-dependent economy destined to fall behind.

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📈 Economic History 🏭 Industrial Revolution 🇬🇧 British History 🏛️ Marxist Historiography 👥 History From Below

Industry and Empire

Britain's industrial head start created an empire-dependent economy destined to fall behind.

— Eric J. Hobsbawm 1968 411 стр.

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📈 Economic History 🏭 Industrial Revolution 🇬🇧 British History 🏛️ Marxist Historiography 👥 History From Below

Bad City

— Paul Pringle • 2022

The dean smoked meth. The doctor assaulted hundreds. The newspaper tried to bury both stories.

4.21

3 000+

🏛️ University Scandals 🕵️ Institutional Coverup ⚠️ Campus Sexual Abuse 🎓 College Admissions Fraud 📰 Newsroom Politics

Bad City

The dean smoked meth. The doctor assaulted hundreds. The newspaper tried to bury both stories.

— Paul Pringle 2022 305 стр.

4.21

3 000+ оценок

🏛️ University Scandals 🕵️ Institutional Coverup ⚠️ Campus Sexual Abuse 🎓 College Admissions Fraud 📰 Newsroom Politics

Misconduct

— Penelope Douglas • 2015

She kissed a stranger at Mardi Gras. Now he's her student's father and completely off-limits.

3.87

44 000+

🚫 Forbidden Romance 🤫 Secret Relationship 👨‍👦 Single Parent 🩹 Trauma Healing ⚖️ Power Dynamics

Misconduct

She kissed a stranger at Mardi Gras. Now he's her student's father and completely off-limits.

— Penelope Douglas 2015

3.87

44 000+ оценок

🚫 Forbidden Romance 🤫 Secret Relationship 👨‍👦 Single Parent 🩹 Trauma Healing ⚖️ Power Dynamics

Motherland

— Julia Ioffe • 2025

How Russian autocracy was built on women's bodies and labor, from Bolshevik liberation to Putin.

4.53

2 000+

🏛️ Soviet History 🗳️ Russian Politics 📋 State Feminism ⚔️ Women In War 🔄 Post-Soviet Transition

Motherland

How Russian autocracy was built on women's bodies and labor, from Bolshevik liberation to Putin.

— Julia Ioffe 2025 512 стр.

4.53

2 000+ оценок

🏛️ Soviet History 🗳️ Russian Politics 📋 State Feminism ⚔️ Women In War 🔄 Post-Soviet Transition

The Prosecutor

— Nazir Afzal • 2020

He reversed the decision on the Rochdale gangs. Then he had to prove they were guilty.

4.42

1 000+

⚖️ Criminal Prosecution 👰 Honour Based Violence 🛑 Child Sexual Exploitation ⛓️ Modern Slavery 🏛️ Institutional Reform

The Prosecutor

He reversed the decision on the Rochdale gangs. Then he had to prove they were guilty.

— Nazir Afzal 2020 304 стр.

4.42

1 000+ оценок

⚖️ Criminal Prosecution 👰 Honour Based Violence 🛑 Child Sexual Exploitation ⛓️ Modern Slavery 🏛️ Institutional Reform

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