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The Lonely Century

— Noreena Hertz • 2021

Loneliness harms like smoking, and the cause is not personal weakness but political design.

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😔 Loneliness Epidemic 🧱 Social Capital 📉 Neoliberal Critique 🏙️ Urban Isolation 📱 Digital Alienation

The Lonely Century

Loneliness harms like smoking, and the cause is not personal weakness but political design.

— Noreena Hertz 2021 384 стр.

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😔 Loneliness Epidemic 🧱 Social Capital 📉 Neoliberal Critique 🏙️ Urban Isolation 📱 Digital Alienation

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

— Elisa Kriza • 2014

Solzhenitsyn became a Cold War saint. The nationalism and anti-Semitism in his work were never read.

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📚 Literary Reception 🥶 Cold War Culture 🗣️ Witness Literature 📜 Literature And Politics 🏛️ Literary Canonization

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Solzhenitsyn became a Cold War saint. The nationalism and anti-Semitism in his work were never read.

— Elisa Kriza 2014 310 стр.

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📚 Literary Reception 🥶 Cold War Culture 🗣️ Witness Literature 📜 Literature And Politics 🏛️ Literary Canonization

The Mayor and the Mystery Man

— A.J. Truman • 2022

To salvage his campaign, a mayor asks his straight best friend to pose as his boyfriend.

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🤝 Fake Dating 💞 Friends To Lovers 🌈 Bisexual Awakening 👨‍👧‍👦 Single Father 🏘️ Small Town Romance

The Mayor and the Mystery Man

To salvage his campaign, a mayor asks his straight best friend to pose as his boyfriend.

— A.J. Truman 2022 280 стр.

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🤝 Fake Dating 💞 Friends To Lovers 🌈 Bisexual Awakening 👨‍👧‍👦 Single Father 🏘️ Small Town Romance

Jump-Starting America

— Jonathan Gruber • 2019

Public science built the middle class. We cut R&D by two-thirds. China noticed.

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🔬 Science Policy 💡 Innovation Economics 🏙️ Technology Hubs 🗺️ Geographic Inequality 🏭 Postwar Economy

Jump-Starting America

Public science built the middle class. We cut R&D by two-thirds. China noticed.

— Jonathan Gruber 2019 368 стр.

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🔬 Science Policy 💡 Innovation Economics 🏙️ Technology Hubs 🗺️ Geographic Inequality 🏭 Postwar Economy

Ending Empire

— Hendrik Spruyt • 2005

International pressure didn't end empires. The veto players inside their governments did.

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🏴 Decolonization 🔬 Comparative Politics 🔒 Institutional Gridlock 🗳️ Electoral Systems 🪖 Civil-Military Relations

Ending Empire

International pressure didn't end empires. The veto players inside their governments did.

— Hendrik Spruyt 2005 326 стр.

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🏴 Decolonization 🔬 Comparative Politics 🔒 Institutional Gridlock 🗳️ Electoral Systems 🪖 Civil-Military Relations

Una historia de España

— Arturo Pérez-Reverte • 2019

A novelist rewrites Spain: El Cid fought for Muslims, gold bred ruin, democracy required amnesia.

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🇪🇸 Spanish History 🧐 Revisionist History 📉 Empire And Decline 🗳️ Democratic Transition 🏛️ National Identity

Una historia de España

A novelist rewrites Spain: El Cid fought for Muslims, gold bred ruin, democracy required amnesia.

— Arturo Pérez-Reverte 2019 246 стр.

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🇪🇸 Spanish History 🧐 Revisionist History 📉 Empire And Decline 🗳️ Democratic Transition 🏛️ National Identity

A More Perfect Constitution

— Larry J. Sabato • 2007

Twenty-three fixes for a rusty Constitution: bigger Congress, term limits, a state convention.

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🏛️ Constitutional Reform 🗳️ Electoral Reform ⚖️ Judicial Reform ⚔️ War Powers 💰 Fiscal Responsibility

A More Perfect Constitution

Twenty-three fixes for a rusty Constitution: bigger Congress, term limits, a state convention.

— Larry J. Sabato 2007 352 стр.

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🏛️ Constitutional Reform 🗳️ Electoral Reform ⚖️ Judicial Reform ⚔️ War Powers 💰 Fiscal Responsibility

To Tell the Truth Freely

— Mia Bay • 2009

She proved lynching was about money, not rape. The NAACP she helped build then sidelined her.

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⛓️ Reconstruction Era 🚂 Jim Crow Era ⚰️ Lynching In America 🔍 Muckraking ✊🏾 Black Radical Tradition

To Tell the Truth Freely

She proved lynching was about money, not rape. The NAACP she helped build then sidelined her.

— Mia Bay 2009 384 стр.

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⛓️ Reconstruction Era 🚂 Jim Crow Era ⚰️ Lynching In America 🔍 Muckraking ✊🏾 Black Radical Tradition

How to Thrive in the Next Economy

— John Thackara • 2015

A design movement is ditching ‘less harm’ for an economy that restores soil, water, and community.

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🌱 Regenerative Economy 🏡 Ecological Design 📉 Post-Growth Economics 🪱 Soil Restoration 💧 Watershed Management

How to Thrive in the Next Economy

A design movement is ditching ‘less harm’ for an economy that restores soil, water, and community.

— John Thackara 2015 192 стр.

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🌱 Regenerative Economy 🏡 Ecological Design 📉 Post-Growth Economics 🪱 Soil Restoration 💧 Watershed Management

Feminismo para principiantes

— Nuria Varela • 2005

Universal rights stopped at the front door. What three centuries of feminism built in response.

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🕰️ Women's History 📚 Feminist Theory 🏗️ Gender As Construct 🌊 Second Wave Feminism 🔍 Patriarchy Analysis

Feminismo para principiantes

Universal rights stopped at the front door. What three centuries of feminism built in response.

— Nuria Varela 2005 415 стр.

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🕰️ Women's History 📚 Feminist Theory 🏗️ Gender As Construct 🌊 Second Wave Feminism 🔍 Patriarchy Analysis

Rebel Hearts

— Kevin Toolis • 1995

Colonial wounds, British dirty war, family bonds: inside the IRA, violence was an inheritance.

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☘️ Irish Republicanism 💣 The Troubles ⚔️ Guerrilla Warfare 🗡️ Political Violence 🕵️ Covert Operations

Rebel Hearts

Colonial wounds, British dirty war, family bonds: inside the IRA, violence was an inheritance.

— Kevin Toolis 1995 400 стр.

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☘️ Irish Republicanism 💣 The Troubles ⚔️ Guerrilla Warfare 🗡️ Political Violence 🕵️ Covert Operations

Pain Killer

— Barry Meier • 2003

A five-sentence letter, dressed as science, launched America's deadliest drug epidemic.

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🔴 Opioid Epidemic 💊 Pharma Misconduct 🏛️ Regulatory Capture 🩺 Pain Management 🔬 Junk Science

Pain Killer

A five-sentence letter, dressed as science, launched America's deadliest drug epidemic.

— Barry Meier 2003 240 стр.

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🔴 Opioid Epidemic 💊 Pharma Misconduct 🏛️ Regulatory Capture 🩺 Pain Management 🔬 Junk Science

Euroclash

— Neil Fligstein • 2008

The EU was built for winners. Its future hinges on the nervous middle class.

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🏛️ European Integration 🌍 Class And Globalization 🪪 European Identity 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Political Sociology 🏪 Market Integration

Euroclash

The EU was built for winners. Its future hinges on the nervous middle class.

— Neil Fligstein 2008 296 стр.

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🏛️ European Integration 🌍 Class And Globalization 🪪 European Identity 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Political Sociology 🏪 Market Integration

Empire's Mistress, Starring Isabel Rosario Cooper

— Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez • 2021

MacArthur's Filipina mistress was no victim. She used performance and his letters to survive.

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🇵🇭 Philippine History 🌎 American Imperialism 🧬 Mixed-Race Identity 🎬 Early Hollywood 🔍 Feminist Recovery

Empire's Mistress, Starring Isabel Rosario Cooper

MacArthur's Filipina mistress was no victim. She used performance and his letters to survive.

— Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez 2021 232 стр.

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🇵🇭 Philippine History 🌎 American Imperialism 🧬 Mixed-Race Identity 🎬 Early Hollywood 🔍 Feminist Recovery

Reconstructing Karl Polanyi

— Gareth Dale • 2016

Polanyi didn't want a friendlier market. He wanted democracy to rule the economy outright.

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📖 Intellectual History 📊 Political Economy 🏛️ Economic History ⚖️ Market Critique 🏷️ Commodification

Reconstructing Karl Polanyi

Polanyi didn't want a friendlier market. He wanted democracy to rule the economy outright.

— Gareth Dale 2016 258 стр.

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📖 Intellectual History 📊 Political Economy 🏛️ Economic History ⚖️ Market Critique 🏷️ Commodification

Only a Joke Can Save Us

— Todd McGowan • 2017

When lack and excess collide, laughter erupts. A philosopher shows why that shock is liberating.

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🎭 Comedy Theory 🛋️ Psychoanalytic Theory 📖 Continental Philosophy 🎬 Film Analysis 🔍 Ideology Critique

Only a Joke Can Save Us

When lack and excess collide, laughter erupts. A philosopher shows why that shock is liberating.

— Todd McGowan 2017 232 стр.

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🎭 Comedy Theory 🛋️ Psychoanalytic Theory 📖 Continental Philosophy 🎬 Film Analysis 🔍 Ideology Critique

The People, No

— Thomas Frank • 2020

Why 'populist' became a slur: the century-long elite campaign to discredit economic democracy.

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🇺🇸 American Populism 🎩 Elite Critique 👷 Working Class Politics 🗳️ Economic Democracy 💵 Class In America

The People, No

Why 'populist' became a slur: the century-long elite campaign to discredit economic democracy.

— Thomas Frank 2020 307 стр.

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🇺🇸 American Populism 🎩 Elite Critique 👷 Working Class Politics 🗳️ Economic Democracy 💵 Class In America

The Left Hand of Darkness

— Ursula K. Le Guin • 1969

On an ice-locked androgynous world, an envoy's survival depends on the exiled leader he mistrusted.

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🧠 Philosophical Sf 👽 First Contact Story ⚧️ Androgynous Society 🚪 Political Exile 🤝 Cross-Cultural Trust

The Left Hand of Darkness

On an ice-locked androgynous world, an envoy's survival depends on the exiled leader he mistrusted.

— Ursula K. Le Guin 1969 304 стр.

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🧠 Philosophical Sf 👽 First Contact Story ⚧️ Androgynous Society 🚪 Political Exile 🤝 Cross-Cultural Trust

The Shortest History of England

— James Hawes • 2019

England's North-South divide predates England. It explains the Romans, the Civil War, and Brexit.

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🗺️ English History 🧭 North South Divide 🏛️ Class Analysis 🔄 Cultural Replacement 👑 Elite Formation

The Shortest History of England

England's North-South divide predates England. It explains the Romans, the Civil War, and Brexit.

— James Hawes 2019 272 стр.

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🗺️ English History 🧭 North South Divide 🏛️ Class Analysis 🔄 Cultural Replacement 👑 Elite Formation

Possible

— William Ury • 2024

Why pushing loses negotiations, and the three inner shifts that turn conflict into collaboration.

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📊 Negotiation Strategies 🤝 Conflict Resolution 👂 Deep Listening 🧘 Emotional Regulation 🏛️ Principled Negotiation

Possible

Why pushing loses negotiations, and the three inner shifts that turn conflict into collaboration.

— William Ury 2024 368 стр.

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📊 Negotiation Strategies 🤝 Conflict Resolution 👂 Deep Listening 🧘 Emotional Regulation 🏛️ Principled Negotiation

Muskism

— Quinn Slobodian • 2026

Apartheid's high-tech logic, repackaged for the 21st century: the ideology powering Elon Musk.

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🛰️ Surveillance Capitalism 🏛️ State Capture 📱 Attention Economy 🧠 Transhumanism 📖 Ideology Studies

Muskism

Apartheid's high-tech logic, repackaged for the 21st century: the ideology powering Elon Musk.

— Quinn Slobodian 2026 256 стр.

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🛰️ Surveillance Capitalism 🏛️ State Capture 📱 Attention Economy 🧠 Transhumanism 📖 Ideology Studies

I is an Other

— James Geary • 2011

You utter six metaphors a minute. Your brain runs on them, not on logic.

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🧠 Cognitive Linguistics 🏃 Embodied Cognition 💰 Behavioral Economics 🗳️ Political Framing 🔤 Psycholinguistics

I is an Other

You utter six metaphors a minute. Your brain runs on them, not on logic.

— James Geary 2011 740 стр.

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🧠 Cognitive Linguistics 🏃 Embodied Cognition 💰 Behavioral Economics 🗳️ Political Framing 🔤 Psycholinguistics

Five Dialogues

— Plato

Socrates, condemned to die: why he refuses escape, rejects revenge, and faces death with calm.

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🏛️ Greek Philosophy 💎 Virtue Ethics 🤔 Intellectual Humility 🤝 Social Contract 🧠 Mind Body Dualism

Five Dialogues

Socrates, condemned to die: why he refuses escape, rejects revenge, and faces death with calm.

— Plato 156 стр.

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🏛️ Greek Philosophy 💎 Virtue Ethics 🤔 Intellectual Humility 🤝 Social Contract 🧠 Mind Body Dualism

The Two-Income Trap

— Elizabeth Warren • 2003

Two incomes were meant to create safety; they doubled the risk and eliminated the backup plan.

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📉 Middle-Class Squeeze 👨‍👩‍👧 Two-Income Families 🏠 Education And Housing 🛡️ Family Safety Nets 💳 Predatory Lending

The Two-Income Trap

Two incomes were meant to create safety; they doubled the risk and eliminated the backup plan.

— Elizabeth Warren 2003 272 стр.

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📉 Middle-Class Squeeze 👨‍👩‍👧 Two-Income Families 🏠 Education And Housing 🛡️ Family Safety Nets 💳 Predatory Lending

Supercapitalism

— Robert B. Reich • 2007

Capitalism gave us what we want; democracy stopped giving us what we need.

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🌐 Political Economy 🏛️ Regulatory Capture 💰 Income Inequality 🏭 Corporate Power 📈 Postwar Prosperity

Supercapitalism

Capitalism gave us what we want; democracy stopped giving us what we need.

— Robert B. Reich 2007 251 стр.

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🌐 Political Economy 🏛️ Regulatory Capture 💰 Income Inequality 🏭 Corporate Power 📈 Postwar Prosperity

The Persuaders

— Anand Giridharadas • 2022

Persuasion is a muscle we forgot. The playbook for rebuilding it one relationship at a time.

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🗳️ Political Persuasion ✊ Activism Strategy 🧠 Persuasion Psychology 🤝 Coalition Building 🛡️ Disinformation Defense

The Persuaders

Persuasion is a muscle we forgot. The playbook for rebuilding it one relationship at a time.

— Anand Giridharadas 2022 352 стр.

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🗳️ Political Persuasion ✊ Activism Strategy 🧠 Persuasion Psychology 🤝 Coalition Building 🛡️ Disinformation Defense

Aftershock

— Robert B. Reich • 2010

2008 was blamed on overspending. The real cause was underpaying, just like 1928.

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⚖️ Economic Inequality 💸 Middle Class Squeeze 📈 Demand-Side Economics 🇺🇸 American Political Economy 🗽 American Progressivism

Aftershock

2008 was blamed on overspending. The real cause was underpaying, just like 1928.

— Robert B. Reich 2010 174 стр.

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⚖️ Economic Inequality 💸 Middle Class Squeeze 📈 Demand-Side Economics 🇺🇸 American Political Economy 🗽 American Progressivism

Cannibal Capitalism

— Nancy Fraser • 2022

The economy treats care work, nature, and democracy as free inputs. They are running out.

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🏛️ Political Economy 🗳️ Democratic Socialism 👩‍👧 Social Reproduction 🩺 Care Crisis 🔗 Racial Capitalism

Cannibal Capitalism

The economy treats care work, nature, and democracy as free inputs. They are running out.

— Nancy Fraser 2022 209 стр.

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🏛️ Political Economy 🗳️ Democratic Socialism 👩‍👧 Social Reproduction 🩺 Care Crisis 🔗 Racial Capitalism

Squeezed

— Alissa Quart • 2018

The middle class did everything right. The economy rewrote the rules.

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🏚️ Middle Class Decline 📉 Income Inequality 🚗 Gig Economy Critique 👶 Care Work Devaluation 👩 Workplace Sexism

Squeezed

The middle class did everything right. The economy rewrote the rules.

— Alissa Quart 2018 318 стр.

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🏚️ Middle Class Decline 📉 Income Inequality 🚗 Gig Economy Critique 👶 Care Work Devaluation 👩 Workplace Sexism

An Autobiography

— Angela Y. Davis • 1974

On trial for murder, a philosophy professor wins her freedom through global solidarity.

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🚫 Prison Abolition 🖤 Black Feminism 📕 Marxist Theory ✍️ Political Memoir 🚔 Carceral State

An Autobiography

On trial for murder, a philosophy professor wins her freedom through global solidarity.

— Angela Y. Davis 1974 416 стр.

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🚫 Prison Abolition 🖤 Black Feminism 📕 Marxist Theory ✍️ Political Memoir 🚔 Carceral State

The Last Mandarin

— Louise Penny • 2026

A food blogger's only clue to a global conspiracy is her dead friend's last meal.

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🔍 Geopolitical Thriller 🤫 Family Secrets 🧬 Intergenerational Trauma 🔐 Hidden Codes 🕵️‍♂️ Paranoid Atmosphere

The Last Mandarin

A food blogger's only clue to a global conspiracy is her dead friend's last meal.

— Louise Penny 2026 400 стр.

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🔍 Geopolitical Thriller 🤫 Family Secrets 🧬 Intergenerational Trauma 🔐 Hidden Codes 🕵️‍♂️ Paranoid Atmosphere

Republic of Outsiders

— Alissa Quart • 2013

How amateurs and rebels bypass institutions, remaking identity, art, and money on their own terms.

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🏴 Counterculture 🔧 Diy Culture 💻 Digital Activism 🧠 Anti-Psychiatry 🌈 Neurodiversity

Republic of Outsiders

How amateurs and rebels bypass institutions, remaking identity, art, and money on their own terms.

— Alissa Quart 2013 256 стр.

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🏴 Counterculture 🔧 Diy Culture 💻 Digital Activism 🧠 Anti-Psychiatry 🌈 Neurodiversity

Eaarth

— Bill McKibben • 2010

One degree of warming already erased the old climate. The question is what comes next.

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🏚️ Climate Adaptation 🌍 Planetary Boundaries 📉 Post-Growth Economics 🏘️ Local Resilience 🛢️ Peak Oil

Eaarth

One degree of warming already erased the old climate. The question is what comes next.

— Bill McKibben 2010 253 стр.

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🏚️ Climate Adaptation 🌍 Planetary Boundaries 📉 Post-Growth Economics 🏘️ Local Resilience 🛢️ Peak Oil

Is Inequality in America Irreversible?

— Chuck Collins • 2018

Inequality is a deliberate policy choice; the playbook to reverse it is already written.

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💰 Wealth Inequality 🧾 Tax Justice 🏛️ Meritocracy Myth 🏝️ Offshore Tax Havens ✊ Labor Unions

Is Inequality in America Irreversible?

Inequality is a deliberate policy choice; the playbook to reverse it is already written.

— Chuck Collins 2018 140 стр.

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💰 Wealth Inequality 🧾 Tax Justice 🏛️ Meritocracy Myth 🏝️ Offshore Tax Havens ✊ Labor Unions

Your Money or Your Life - Abridged

— Vicki Robin • 2009

Money is a political project, a religious act, and a speculative fiction, not a neutral tool.

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👥 Sociology Of Money 🌍 Anthropology Of Money 📜 Monetary History ⛪ Money And Religion 🎨 Money And Art

Your Money or Your Life - Abridged

Money is a political project, a religious act, and a speculative fiction, not a neutral tool.

— Vicki Robin 2009 2 стр.

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👥 Sociology Of Money 🌍 Anthropology Of Money 📜 Monetary History ⛪ Money And Religion 🎨 Money And Art

We've Got People

— Ryan Grim • 2019

From Jesse Jackson to AOC: the four-decade fight to reclaim the Democrats from big money.

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✊ Progressive Movements 🏛️ Democratic Party 💵 Money In Politics 🌱 Grassroots Organizing 🗳️ Electoral Strategy

We've Got People

From Jesse Jackson to AOC: the four-decade fight to reclaim the Democrats from big money.

— Ryan Grim 2019 433 стр.

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✊ Progressive Movements 🏛️ Democratic Party 💵 Money In Politics 🌱 Grassroots Organizing 🗳️ Electoral Strategy

Born on Third Base

— Chuck Collins • 2016

An heir to a fortune argues inequality destroys the wealthy too, and charity is a distraction.

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💰 Wealth Inequality 🏛️ Philanthropy Critique 🌱 Ethical Investing 🏘️ Local Economies 🤝 Mutual Aid

Born on Third Base

An heir to a fortune argues inequality destroys the wealthy too, and charity is a distraction.

— Chuck Collins 2016 288 стр.

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💰 Wealth Inequality 🏛️ Philanthropy Critique 🌱 Ethical Investing 🏘️ Local Economies 🤝 Mutual Aid

The Coming Storm

— Odd Arne Westad • 2026

The world before 1914 is a map of our own: multipolar, jingoistic, wired for catastrophe.

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🏛️ Great Power Rivalry 📜 Pre-WWI History 🌐 Multipolar World ⏳ Historical Parallels 🛡️ Deterrence Theory

The Coming Storm

The world before 1914 is a map of our own: multipolar, jingoistic, wired for catastrophe.

— Odd Arne Westad 2026 256 стр.

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🏛️ Great Power Rivalry 📜 Pre-WWI History 🌐 Multipolar World ⏳ Historical Parallels 🛡️ Deterrence Theory

Power and Privilege

— Gerhard E. Lenski • 1984

Two rules decide who prospers: share enough to survive, then power takes the rest.

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🏛️ Social Stratification ⚔️ Conflict Theory 🏗️ Grand Theory ⚖️ Power And Inequality 📦 Resource Distribution

Power and Privilege

Two rules decide who prospers: share enough to survive, then power takes the rest.

— Gerhard E. Lenski 1984 525 стр.

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🏛️ Social Stratification ⚔️ Conflict Theory 🏗️ Grand Theory ⚖️ Power And Inequality 📦 Resource Distribution

The Prize

— Daniel Yergin • 1991

How a dark liquid wrote the rules of power, decided wars, and built the greatest fortunes.

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🛢️ Commodity History ⛽ Petroleum Industry 🌍 Energy Geopolitics 📖 Narrative History 🏭 Industrial Capitalism

The Prize

How a dark liquid wrote the rules of power, decided wars, and built the greatest fortunes.

— Daniel Yergin 1991 928 стр.

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🛢️ Commodity History ⛽ Petroleum Industry 🌍 Energy Geopolitics 📖 Narrative History 🏭 Industrial Capitalism

Understanding Public Policy

— Thomas R. Dye • 1969

Governments make policy through many lenses. An eight-model toolkit shows why each is half right.

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🏛️ Public Policy Analysis 🇺🇸 American Government 🔍 Policy Frameworks 📊 Policy Evaluation 🏢 Interest Groups

Understanding Public Policy

Governments make policy through many lenses. An eight-model toolkit shows why each is half right.

— Thomas R. Dye 1969 368 стр.

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🏛️ Public Policy Analysis 🇺🇸 American Government 🔍 Policy Frameworks 📊 Policy Evaluation 🏢 Interest Groups

Unsettling Truths

— Mark Charles • 2019

A 15th-century papal ruling declared indigenous peoples less than human. It still governs U.S. law.

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🗺️ Settler Colonialism ⛪ Theological Racism 🏚️ Land Dispossession 🌱 Decolonization 🪶 Indigenous Theology

Unsettling Truths

A 15th-century papal ruling declared indigenous peoples less than human. It still governs U.S. law.

— Mark Charles 2019 224 стр.

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🗺️ Settler Colonialism ⛪ Theological Racism 🏚️ Land Dispossession 🌱 Decolonization 🪶 Indigenous Theology

Fire and Blood

— T.R. Fehrenbach • 1973

Mexico's history is one long civilizational war: the Toltecs started it, and it never stopped.

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🇲🇽 Mexican History 🏛️ Mesoamerican History 🐍 Mesoamerican Mythology ⚔️ Spanish Conquest 🏰 Colonial History

Fire and Blood

Mexico's history is one long civilizational war: the Toltecs started it, and it never stopped.

— T.R. Fehrenbach 1973 702 стр.

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🇲🇽 Mexican History 🏛️ Mesoamerican History 🐍 Mesoamerican Mythology ⚔️ Spanish Conquest 🏰 Colonial History

Yes, Ma'am

— Tom Quinn • 2025

The palace staff who kept the monarchy's secrets for decades are finally breaking their silence.

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🏰 Royal Household 🧹 Servant Memoirs 👑 British Monarchy 🔑 Palace Insiders 📢 Royal Tell-All

Yes, Ma'am

The palace staff who kept the monarchy's secrets for decades are finally breaking their silence.

— Tom Quinn 2025 253 стр.

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🏰 Royal Household 🧹 Servant Memoirs 👑 British Monarchy 🔑 Palace Insiders 📢 Royal Tell-All

The Picnic

— Matthew Longo • 2024

August 1989: a picnic on the Hungarian border. The gate opened, and hundreds ran.

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