Социология

Наш социальный мир формирует всё — от того, как мы думаем и ведём себя, до того, как мы строим наши сообщества и технологии. Эти заставляющие задуматься произведения исследуют человеческую природу, культурные сдвиги и скрытые закономерности, движущие нашим всё более сложным обществом.

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Private Government

— Elizabeth S. Anderson • 2017

The workplace is an authoritarian state that most economic thought pretends does not exist.

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🏛️ Workplace Authority 🗳️ Workplace Democracy 🗽 Republican Freedom 💰 Market Critique ✊ Labor Rights

Private Government

The workplace is an authoritarian state that most economic thought pretends does not exist.

— Elizabeth S. Anderson 2017 216 стр.

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🏛️ Workplace Authority 🗳️ Workplace Democracy 🗽 Republican Freedom 💰 Market Critique ✊ Labor Rights

Dr Gabor Maté 5 Books Collection Set

— Gabor Maté • 2022

Addiction is not about drugs but about pain: who hurt you, and what never came.

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🩹 Addiction Recovery ❤️‍🩹 Trauma Healing 👶 Childhood Trauma 💗 Self-Compassion 🧘 Mindfulness Practice

Dr Gabor Maté 5 Books Collection Set

Addiction is not about drugs but about pain: who hurt you, and what never came.

— Gabor Maté 2022 2112 стр.

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🩹 Addiction Recovery ❤️‍🩹 Trauma Healing 👶 Childhood Trauma 💗 Self-Compassion 🧘 Mindfulness Practice

Sex by Numbers

— David Spiegelhalter • 2015

Sex surveys are performances. A statistician reveals what the data hides about modern desire.

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🔄 Modern Sexuality 🔬 Sex Research 💥 Debunking Myths 📊 Statistical Literacy 📈 Popular Statistics

Sex by Numbers

Sex surveys are performances. A statistician reveals what the data hides about modern desire.

— David Spiegelhalter 2015 369 стр.

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🔄 Modern Sexuality 🔬 Sex Research 💥 Debunking Myths 📊 Statistical Literacy 📈 Popular Statistics

Всё очевидно

— Дункан Дж. Уоттс • 2011

Common sense is a reverse-engineered story: it explains the past perfectly and predicts nothing.

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🌀 Complexity Science 🧠 Behavioral Economics 🔗 Systems Thinking 🔮 Hindsight Bias 🐦 Social Emergence

Всё очевидно

Common sense is a reverse-engineered story: it explains the past perfectly and predicts nothing.

— Дункан Дж. Уоттс 2011 322 стр.

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🌀 Complexity Science 🧠 Behavioral Economics 🔗 Systems Thinking 🔮 Hindsight Bias 🐦 Social Emergence

Triumphs of Experience

— George E. Vaillant • 2012

Harvard tracked 268 men for 75 years. One predictor of happiness beat income, IQ, and genes.

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🧪 Longitudinal Research 🌱 Adult Development 😊 Happiness Research 💕 Intimacy And Well-Being 🍺 Addiction Science

Triumphs of Experience

Harvard tracked 268 men for 75 years. One predictor of happiness beat income, IQ, and genes.

— George E. Vaillant 2012 457 стр.

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🧪 Longitudinal Research 🌱 Adult Development 😊 Happiness Research 💕 Intimacy And Well-Being 🍺 Addiction Science

Confucianism

— Daniel K. Gardner • 2014

No god, no police: how one moral philosophy held Chinese society together for two thousand years.

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🏮 Chinese Philosophy 📜 Confucianism 🎯 Virtue Ethics 🌱 Self Cultivation ☯️ Eastern Philosophy

Confucianism

No god, no police: how one moral philosophy held Chinese society together for two thousand years.

— Daniel K. Gardner 2014 136 стр.

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🏮 Chinese Philosophy 📜 Confucianism 🎯 Virtue Ethics 🌱 Self Cultivation ☯️ Eastern Philosophy

The Utopia of Rules

— David Graeber • 2013

Every market reform increases paperwork. The violence, stupidity, and secret appeal of bureaucracy.

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🌍 Political Anthropology 🗄️ Bureaucratic Critique ⚡ Structural Violence 💰 Market Mythology 💡 Radical Imagination

The Utopia of Rules

Every market reform increases paperwork. The violence, stupidity, and secret appeal of bureaucracy.

— David Graeber 2013 261 стр.

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🌍 Political Anthropology 🗄️ Bureaucratic Critique ⚡ Structural Violence 💰 Market Mythology 💡 Radical Imagination

Leading from the Emerging Future

— C. Otto Scharmer • 2013

Self-interest drives our economies. The next economy runs on awareness and collective action.

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🧠 Systems Thinking 🧘 Mindful Leadership 🤝 Stakeholder Capitalism ♻️ Circular Economy 🌍 Conscious Capitalism

Leading from the Emerging Future

Self-interest drives our economies. The next economy runs on awareness and collective action.

— C. Otto Scharmer 2013 304 стр.

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🧠 Systems Thinking 🧘 Mindful Leadership 🤝 Stakeholder Capitalism ♻️ Circular Economy 🌍 Conscious Capitalism

Tactical Urbanism

— Mike Lydon • 2014

How to hack your city with paint, planters, and pop-up parks, and prove change is possible now.

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🛠️ Diy Urbanism 🎨 Creative Placemaking 🏗️ Pop-Up Urbanism 🚲 Street Reclamation 🗳️ Participatory Planning

Tactical Urbanism

How to hack your city with paint, planters, and pop-up parks, and prove change is possible now.

— Mike Lydon 2014 256 стр.

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🛠️ Diy Urbanism 🎨 Creative Placemaking 🏗️ Pop-Up Urbanism 🚲 Street Reclamation 🗳️ Participatory Planning

Три женщины

— Лиза Таддео • 2019

Eight years inside three lives. What female desire actually looks like, and what it costs.

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🔥 Female Desire 💔 Sexual Trauma 💍 Marriage And Desire ⚖️ Power And Consent 😶 Desire And Shame

Три женщины

Eight years inside three lives. What female desire actually looks like, and what it costs.

— Лиза Таддео 2019 306 стр.

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🔥 Female Desire 💔 Sexual Trauma 💍 Marriage And Desire ⚖️ Power And Consent 😶 Desire And Shame

Digital Empires

— Anu Bradford • 2023

Three powers are battling to govern the internet, and the prize is the future of democracy.

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🌐 Internet Governance ⚖️ Regulatory Competition 🇨🇳 Techno-Nationalism 🔒 Data Privacy 🏛️ Political Economy

Digital Empires

Three powers are battling to govern the internet, and the prize is the future of democracy.

— Anu Bradford 2023 608 стр.

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🌐 Internet Governance ⚖️ Regulatory Competition 🇨🇳 Techno-Nationalism 🔒 Data Privacy 🏛️ Political Economy

A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived

— Adam Rutherford • 2016

The genome reveals one family: shared ancestors 3,400 years ago. Race was never real.

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🧬 Human Genetics 🏺 Ancient DNA 🌍 Human Origins 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Race And Genetics 🧩 Nature Vs Nurture

A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived

The genome reveals one family: shared ancestors 3,400 years ago. Race was never real.

— Adam Rutherford 2016 419 стр.

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🧬 Human Genetics 🏺 Ancient DNA 🌍 Human Origins 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Race And Genetics 🧩 Nature Vs Nurture

Радикальные рынки

— Эрик А. Познер • 2018

We stopped markets halfway. Finishing them means anyone can buy your house at your price.

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🏛️ Political Economy 🎛️ Market Design 🗳️ Voting Reform 🛂 Immigration Reform 📊 Data Economy

Радикальные рынки

We stopped markets halfway. Finishing them means anyone can buy your house at your price.

— Эрик А. Познер 2018 368 стр.

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🏛️ Political Economy 🎛️ Market Design 🗳️ Voting Reform 🛂 Immigration Reform 📊 Data Economy

Revolution from Within

— Gloria Steinem • 1991

Self-esteem is the engine of revolution. The manual for building it from the inside out.

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🧠 Feminist Psychology 🌱 Inner Work For Activists 🩹 Healing Childhood Wounds 🔄 Unlearning Conditioning 🧘 Body-Mind Connection

Revolution from Within

Self-esteem is the engine of revolution. The manual for building it from the inside out.

— Gloria Steinem 1991 467 стр.

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🧠 Feminist Psychology 🌱 Inner Work For Activists 🩹 Healing Childhood Wounds 🔄 Unlearning Conditioning 🧘 Body-Mind Connection

The Intellectual Devotional

— David S. Kidder

365 readings on the 1960s: the decade that shaped modern America, in five minutes a day.

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📚 Cultural Literacy 🇺🇸 American History ✌️ The 1960s 📅 Daily Readers 🧩 Trivia Collections

The Intellectual Devotional

365 readings on the 1960s: the decade that shaped modern America, in five minutes a day.

— David S. Kidder 390 стр.

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📚 Cultural Literacy 🇺🇸 American History ✌️ The 1960s 📅 Daily Readers 🧩 Trivia Collections

The Science of Love

— Robin I.M. Dunbar • 2012

Love, heartbreak, and religious ecstasy run on the same ancient neural circuitry. Here's how.

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🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 💑 Mate Selection 🔗 Pair Bonding 🤝 Social Bonding 🕸️ Social Networks

The Science of Love

Love, heartbreak, and religious ecstasy run on the same ancient neural circuitry. Here's how.

— Robin I.M. Dunbar 2012 320 стр.

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🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 💑 Mate Selection 🔗 Pair Bonding 🤝 Social Bonding 🕸️ Social Networks

What Happened to Goldman Sachs

— Steven G. Mandis • 2013

Goldman's handshake culture eroded when it went public, scaled, and let legalism replace ethics.

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🏦 Wall Street 📈 Investment Banking 🏢 Corporate Culture ⚖️ Business Ethics 🔬 Organizational Sociology

What Happened to Goldman Sachs

Goldman's handshake culture eroded when it went public, scaled, and let legalism replace ethics.

— Steven G. Mandis 2013 400 стр.

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🏦 Wall Street 📈 Investment Banking 🏢 Corporate Culture ⚖️ Business Ethics 🔬 Organizational Sociology

The Data Detective

— Tim Harford • 2020

Your emotions react to statistics before your brain does. Ten rules for getting the numbers right.

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🧮 Statistical Literacy 🔍 Data Skepticism 🧠 Motivated Reasoning 📊 Data Visualization 🤖 Algorithmic Accountability

The Data Detective

Your emotions react to statistics before your brain does. Ten rules for getting the numbers right.

— Tim Harford 2020 334 стр.

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🧮 Statistical Literacy 🔍 Data Skepticism 🧠 Motivated Reasoning 📊 Data Visualization 🤖 Algorithmic Accountability

The Alchemy of Us

— Ainissa Ramirez • 2020

We invented quartz clocks, steel rails, and silicon chips. Then they reinvented us.

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🧪 Materials Science 🔧 History Of Technology 🏺 Material Culture 🔍 Hidden History 📦 Everyday Objects

The Alchemy of Us

We invented quartz clocks, steel rails, and silicon chips. Then they reinvented us.

— Ainissa Ramirez 2020 328 стр.

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🧪 Materials Science 🔧 History Of Technology 🏺 Material Culture 🔍 Hidden History 📦 Everyday Objects

The Father of Spin

— Larry Tye • 1998

A parade of smoking debutantes, a heartier breakfast, and the man who engineered modern spin.

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📚 Public Relations History 🧠 Propaganda Studies 🗣️ Mass Persuasion 🛍️ Consumer Culture 🗳️ Political Spin

The Father of Spin

A parade of smoking debutantes, a heartier breakfast, and the man who engineered modern spin.

— Larry Tye 1998 304 стр.

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📚 Public Relations History 🧠 Propaganda Studies 🗣️ Mass Persuasion 🛍️ Consumer Culture 🗳️ Political Spin

Please Unsubscribe, Thanks!

— Julio Vincent Gambuto • 2023

The economy runs on your distraction. The plan for unsubscribing from everything that drains you.

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🧹 Digital Detox 🛒 Consumer Culture 📡 Attention Economy 😩 Modern Exhaustion 💔 External Validation

Please Unsubscribe, Thanks!

The economy runs on your distraction. The plan for unsubscribing from everything that drains you.

— Julio Vincent Gambuto 2023 336 стр.

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🧹 Digital Detox 🛒 Consumer Culture 📡 Attention Economy 😩 Modern Exhaustion 💔 External Validation

The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work

— Alain de Botton • 2008

From cargo ships to rocket launches, a philosopher finds why work delights and disappoints us.

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🏢 Modern Work 📊 Occupational Sociology 🚢 Global Supply Chain 🧠 Consumer Psychology 🔍 Career Reflection

The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work

From cargo ships to rocket launches, a philosopher finds why work delights and disappoints us.

— Alain de Botton 2008 326 стр.

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🏢 Modern Work 📊 Occupational Sociology 🚢 Global Supply Chain 🧠 Consumer Psychology 🔍 Career Reflection

Psycho-Logical

— Dean Burnett • 2021

Depression, anxiety, addiction: the real brain science looks nothing like the popular explanations.

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🧑‍⚕️ Clinical Psychology 🧪 Neurochemistry 🔄 Neuroplasticity 🏷️ Mental Health Stigma 📋 Psychiatric Diagnosis

Psycho-Logical

Depression, anxiety, addiction: the real brain science looks nothing like the popular explanations.

— Dean Burnett 2021

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🧑‍⚕️ Clinical Psychology 🧪 Neurochemistry 🔄 Neuroplasticity 🏷️ Mental Health Stigma 📋 Psychiatric Diagnosis

The Culting of Brands

— Douglas Atkin • 2005

Devoted brand tribes mirror actual cults: same belonging rituals, shared language, and clear enemies

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🏘️ Brand Communities 🧠 Cult Psychology 🛒 Consumer Behavior 💙 Brand Loyalty 🎯 Brand Strategy

The Culting of Brands

Devoted brand tribes mirror actual cults: same belonging rituals, shared language, and clear enemies

— Douglas Atkin 2005 256 стр.

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🏘️ Brand Communities 🧠 Cult Psychology 🛒 Consumer Behavior 💙 Brand Loyalty 🎯 Brand Strategy

Три женщины

— Лиза Таддео • 2019

Female desire without the performance: eight years inside three ordinary women's most private lives.

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🔥 Female Desire 📋 Immersive Journalism 💔 Sexual Trauma ⚠️ Grooming And Abuse 🔄 Consensual Non-Monogamy

Три женщины

Female desire without the performance: eight years inside three ordinary women's most private lives.

— Лиза Таддео 2019 12 стр.

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🔥 Female Desire 📋 Immersive Journalism 💔 Sexual Trauma ⚠️ Grooming And Abuse 🔄 Consensual Non-Monogamy

The Unsettling of America

— Wendell Berry • 1977

America's farming crisis is really a crisis of character. The soil tells the story.

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🧑‍🌾 Agrarian Philosophy 🌍 Land Ethics 🚜 Farming Criticism 🏘️ Localism ⚖️ Moral Economy

The Unsettling of America

America's farming crisis is really a crisis of character. The soil tells the story.

— Wendell Berry 1977 246 стр.

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🧑‍🌾 Agrarian Philosophy 🌍 Land Ethics 🚜 Farming Criticism 🏘️ Localism ⚖️ Moral Economy

Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race

— Reni Eddo-Lodge • 2017

Britain's racism is structural, not personal. Why not seeing race protects the design.

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🔗 Structural Racism 🇬🇧 British Black Experience 🪞 White Privilege 🔀 Intersectional Feminism 🛠️ Anti-Racism Practice

Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race

Britain's racism is structural, not personal. Why not seeing race protects the design.

— Reni Eddo-Lodge 2017 249 стр.

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🔗 Structural Racism 🇬🇧 British Black Experience 🪞 White Privilege 🔀 Intersectional Feminism 🛠️ Anti-Racism Practice

The Diversity Illusion

— Ed West • 2012

Three million newcomers, zero economic gain. The real cost: a society that stopped trusting.

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🏛️ Immigration Policy 🇬🇧 British Politics 🤝 Social Capital 🧐 Multiculturalism Critique 📊 Demographic Change

The Diversity Illusion

Three million newcomers, zero economic gain. The real cost: a society that stopped trusting.

— Ed West 2012 288 стр.

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🏛️ Immigration Policy 🇬🇧 British Politics 🤝 Social Capital 🧐 Multiculturalism Critique 📊 Demographic Change

A Human History of Emotion

— Richard Firth-Godbehere • 2021

Your six basic emotions are a modern Western fiction, and projecting them backward changed history.

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🎭 History Of Emotions 🌍 Cultural Psychology 🧱 Constructed Emotion ⚖️ Emotional Regimes 👥 Social History

A Human History of Emotion

Your six basic emotions are a modern Western fiction, and projecting them backward changed history.

— Richard Firth-Godbehere 2021 336 стр.

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🎭 History Of Emotions 🌍 Cultural Psychology 🧱 Constructed Emotion ⚖️ Emotional Regimes 👥 Social History

Because Internet

— Gretchen McCulloch • 2019

Why a period feels angry and emoji work like gestures: the hidden grammar of internet English.

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🖥️ Internet Linguistics ✍️ Informal Writing 👋 Digital Gestures 🌐 Internet Culture 🗣️ Sociolinguistics

Because Internet

Why a period feels angry and emoji work like gestures: the hidden grammar of internet English.

— Gretchen McCulloch 2019 273 стр.

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🖥️ Internet Linguistics ✍️ Informal Writing 👋 Digital Gestures 🌐 Internet Culture 🗣️ Sociolinguistics

The End of Burnout

— Jonathan Malesic • 2022

Burnout is a cultural crisis, not a personal illness. The cure is fewer hours and real leisure.

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📊 Sociology Of Work 🧯 Burnout Recovery 🏢 Workplace Culture ✊ Anti-Work Critique 📉 Labor Economics

The End of Burnout

Burnout is a cultural crisis, not a personal illness. The cure is fewer hours and real leisure.

— Jonathan Malesic 2022 288 стр.

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📊 Sociology Of Work 🧯 Burnout Recovery 🏢 Workplace Culture ✊ Anti-Work Critique 📉 Labor Economics

Caste

— Isabel Wilkerson • 2020

America's deepest divide isn't race but caste, a hidden hierarchy four hundred years old.

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🏛️ Racial Hierarchy ⛓️ Systemic Racism 🚧 American Apartheid 😶 Dehumanization 🔺 Social Hierarchy

Caste

America's deepest divide isn't race but caste, a hidden hierarchy four hundred years old.

— Isabel Wilkerson 2020 456 стр.

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🏛️ Racial Hierarchy ⛓️ Systemic Racism 🚧 American Apartheid 😶 Dehumanization 🔺 Social Hierarchy

Intelligence

— Stuart Ritchie • 2015

General intelligence is real, measurable, and predicts far more than we're comfortable admitting.

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🔬 Intelligence Research 📝 Cognitive Testing 🧬 Behavioral Genetics 🌱 Nature Vs Nurture 🧠 Brain And Cognition

Intelligence

General intelligence is real, measurable, and predicts far more than we're comfortable admitting.

— Stuart Ritchie 2015 160 стр.

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🔬 Intelligence Research 📝 Cognitive Testing 🧬 Behavioral Genetics 🌱 Nature Vs Nurture 🧠 Brain And Cognition

The Sleep Revolution

— Arianna Huffington • 2016

We traded sleep for productivity and got neither. The science finally explains why.

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🔬 Sleep Science 🛏️ Sleep Hygiene 🌙 Circadian Rhythms 📱 Digital Detox 🔥 Burnout Prevention

The Sleep Revolution

We traded sleep for productivity and got neither. The science finally explains why.

— Arianna Huffington 2016 382 стр.

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🔬 Sleep Science 🛏️ Sleep Hygiene 🌙 Circadian Rhythms 📱 Digital Detox 🔥 Burnout Prevention

The Song Machine

— John Seabrook • 2015

Pop hits aren't moments of genius; they're manufactured on an assembly line that began in Stockholm.

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🎯 Hit Making ✍️ Pop Songwriting 💻 Digital Disruption 🎧 Streaming 🌍 Music Globalization

The Song Machine

Pop hits aren't moments of genius; they're manufactured on an assembly line that began in Stockholm.

— John Seabrook 2015 336 стр.

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🎯 Hit Making ✍️ Pop Songwriting 💻 Digital Disruption 🎧 Streaming 🌍 Music Globalization

Men and Marriage

— George Gilder • 1986

Men are the weaker sex: only marriage channels their energy into something civilization can use.

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🧬 Biological Determinism 🧠 Evolutionary Psychology ⚖️ Sexual Economics ❌ Antifeminism 💍 Monogamy

Men and Marriage

Men are the weaker sex: only marriage channels their energy into something civilization can use.

— George Gilder 1986

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🧬 Biological Determinism 🧠 Evolutionary Psychology ⚖️ Sexual Economics ❌ Antifeminism 💍 Monogamy

The Mis-Education of the Negro

— Carter G. Woodson • 1933

America's most effective tool of racial control was never the police. It was the classroom.

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🏫 Black Education ✊ Racial Uplift ⛓️ Educational Oppression 🧠 Critical Consciousness 💰 Economic Self-Reliance

The Mis-Education of the Negro

America's most effective tool of racial control was never the police. It was the classroom.

— Carter G. Woodson 1933 162 стр.

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🏫 Black Education ✊ Racial Uplift ⛓️ Educational Oppression 🧠 Critical Consciousness 💰 Economic Self-Reliance

Testosterone Rex

— Cordelia Fine • 2017

The familiar story of testosterone-fueled men and cautious women falls apart under real data.

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🧬 Sexual Selection 🧠 Biological Essentialism 🧬 Neurosexism ✳️ Feminist Science 🐒 Evolutionary Psychology

Testosterone Rex

The familiar story of testosterone-fueled men and cautious women falls apart under real data.

— Cordelia Fine 2017 272 стр.

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🧬 Sexual Selection 🧠 Biological Essentialism 🧬 Neurosexism ✳️ Feminist Science 🐒 Evolutionary Psychology

Chokepoint Capitalism

— Rebecca Giblin • 2022

A few corporations hold the gates between artists and audiences. The plan to pry them open.

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🧠 Creative Industries 💻 Digital Platforms 🏢 Corporate Power ⚖️ Copyright Reform 🤝 Collective Bargaining

Chokepoint Capitalism

A few corporations hold the gates between artists and audiences. The plan to pry them open.

— Rebecca Giblin 2022

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🧠 Creative Industries 💻 Digital Platforms 🏢 Corporate Power ⚖️ Copyright Reform 🤝 Collective Bargaining

Crimes Against Logic

— Jamie Whyte • 2004

Most public arguments are crime scenes. A philosopher dusts for the fingerprints of fallacy.

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🧠 Critical Thinking 🔍 Spotting Fallacies 🗣️ Public Discourse 🤨 Skepticism 📰 Media Criticism

Crimes Against Logic

Most public arguments are crime scenes. A philosopher dusts for the fingerprints of fallacy.

— Jamie Whyte 2004 157 стр.

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🧠 Critical Thinking 🔍 Spotting Fallacies 🗣️ Public Discourse 🤨 Skepticism 📰 Media Criticism

Poor Economics

— Abhijit V. Banerjee • 2011

Grand theories say invest in institutions. The data says deworm children and give away bed nets.

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🏗️ Development Economics 🌍 Global Poverty 🧠 Behavioral Economics 🎲 Randomized Trials 📋 Evidence-Based Policy

Poor Economics

Grand theories say invest in institutions. The data says deworm children and give away bed nets.

— Abhijit V. Banerjee 2011 303 стр.

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🏗️ Development Economics 🌍 Global Poverty 🧠 Behavioral Economics 🎲 Randomized Trials 📋 Evidence-Based Policy

The Dope

— Benjamin T. Smith • 2021

State agents, not traffickers, first unleashed the worst violence of Mexico’s drug war.

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🇲🇽 Mexican Drug War 💰 Drug Trafficking ⚔️ War On Drugs 🏛️ State Corruption 🕴️ Organized Crime

The Dope

State agents, not traffickers, first unleashed the worst violence of Mexico’s drug war.

— Benjamin T. Smith 2021 464 стр.

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🇲🇽 Mexican Drug War 💰 Drug Trafficking ⚔️ War On Drugs 🏛️ State Corruption 🕴️ Organized Crime

The Lever of Riches

— Joel Mokyr • 1990

Europe didn't out-invent Asia by chance. Culture, not geography, explains who industrializes first.

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🏛️ Economic History 🔧 History Of Technology 🏭 Industrial Revolution 🌏 Great Divergence 💡 Innovation Economics

The Lever of Riches

Europe didn't out-invent Asia by chance. Culture, not geography, explains who industrializes first.

— Joel Mokyr 1990 368 стр.

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🏛️ Economic History 🔧 History Of Technology 🏭 Industrial Revolution 🌏 Great Divergence 💡 Innovation Economics

The Walking Dead and Philosophy

— Wayne Yuen • 2012

The zombie apocalypse is a philosophy lab. Its first question: what is a person worth?

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🍿 Pop Culture Philosophy 🧠 Existentialism 🧬 Personhood Debates ⚖️ Moral Dilemmas 🏚️ Social Breakdown

The Walking Dead and Philosophy

The zombie apocalypse is a philosophy lab. Its first question: what is a person worth?

— Wayne Yuen 2012 262 стр.

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🍿 Pop Culture Philosophy 🧠 Existentialism 🧬 Personhood Debates ⚖️ Moral Dilemmas 🏚️ Social Breakdown

Шитбюргертум

— Ульф Пошардт • 2025

Moral posturing, language control, contempt for ambition: how a parasitic class captured Germany.

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🇩🇪 German Politics 🏛️ Elite Critique 🎭 Cultural Hegemony 🗣️ Language And Power 🏗️ State Worship

Шитбюргертум

Moral posturing, language control, contempt for ambition: how a parasitic class captured Germany.

— Ульф Пошардт 2025 164 стр.

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🇩🇪 German Politics 🏛️ Elite Critique 🎭 Cultural Hegemony 🗣️ Language And Power 🏗️ State Worship

Swearing Is Good for You

— Emma Byrne • 2017

Swearing isn't a character flaw. It is a biological tool that dulls pain and forges trust.

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🧠 Psycholinguistics 🤬 Taboo Language 🤝 Social Bonding 🏢 Workplace Culture 🗣️ Language Acquisition

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