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.

Социология Саммари книг

English Journey

— J.B. Priestley • 1934

Factories silent, towns hollow, but the people Priestley met in 1933 refused to vanish.

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🏭 Industrial Decline 📉 Depression Era 👷 Working Class Life ⚖️ Economic Inequality 💪 Community Resilience

English Journey

Factories silent, towns hollow, but the people Priestley met in 1933 refused to vanish.

— J.B. Priestley 1934 384 стр.

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🏭 Industrial Decline 📉 Depression Era 👷 Working Class Life ⚖️ Economic Inequality 💪 Community Resilience

I'm Sorry for My Loss

— Rebecca Little and Colleen Long • 2024

No shared word for pregnancy loss, and the law can't tell a miscarriage from a crime.

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💔 Pregnancy Loss ⚖️ Reproductive Justice 📜 Pregnancy History 🫀 Body Politics 🕯️ Grief Rituals

I'm Sorry for My Loss

No shared word for pregnancy loss, and the law can't tell a miscarriage from a crime.

— Rebecca Little and Colleen Long 2024 496 стр.

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💔 Pregnancy Loss ⚖️ Reproductive Justice 📜 Pregnancy History 🫀 Body Politics 🕯️ Grief Rituals

Feminist Fight Club

— Jessica Bennett • 2016

How to get heard, paid, and promoted when the office deck is stacked against you.

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💢 Workplace Sexism 🧠 Unconscious Bias 😰 Imposter Syndrome 🗣️ Self-Advocacy 💰 Salary Negotiation

Feminist Fight Club

How to get heard, paid, and promoted when the office deck is stacked against you.

— Jessica Bennett 2016 336 стр.

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💢 Workplace Sexism 🧠 Unconscious Bias 😰 Imposter Syndrome 🗣️ Self-Advocacy 💰 Salary Negotiation

Political Ecology

— Paul Robbins • 2004

Environmental problems are political problems. A critical field guide to the tools that prove it.

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🌍 Political Ecology 🏛️ Environmental Politics 🗺️ Critical Geography 💰 Political Economy Of Nature 🐑 Commons Governance

Political Ecology

Environmental problems are political problems. A critical field guide to the tools that prove it.

— Paul Robbins 2004 242 стр.

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🌍 Political Ecology 🏛️ Environmental Politics 🗺️ Critical Geography 💰 Political Economy Of Nature 🐑 Commons Governance

If the Oceans Were Ink

— Carla Power • 2015

A year studying the Quran with a traditional sheikh cost a secular journalist all her certainties.

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📖 Quranic Studies 🧕 Women In Islam 🌱 Progressive Islam ✍️ Spiritual Memoir 🧠 Religious Literacy

If the Oceans Were Ink

A year studying the Quran with a traditional sheikh cost a secular journalist all her certainties.

— Carla Power 2015 352 стр.

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📖 Quranic Studies 🧕 Women In Islam 🌱 Progressive Islam ✍️ Spiritual Memoir 🧠 Religious Literacy

Книга ЭСТ

— Люк Райнхарт • 1976

A locked-door 1970s seminar insists your mind alone creates all your suffering.

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🧠 Human Potential Movement 🎯 Radical Responsibility 🍃 Accepting What Is ⚡ Confrontational Coaching 🇺🇸 1970s America

Книга ЭСТ

A locked-door 1970s seminar insists your mind alone creates all your suffering.

— Люк Райнхарт 1976 271 стр.

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🧠 Human Potential Movement 🎯 Radical Responsibility 🍃 Accepting What Is ⚡ Confrontational Coaching 🇺🇸 1970s America

The Big Switch

— Nicholas Carr • 2008

What electrification did to factories, cloud computing is doing to business, labor, and your mind.

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⚡ History Of Technology ☁️ Cloud Computing 🔄 Digital Transformation 💰 Winner-Take-All Economics 👁️ Attention Economy

The Big Switch

What electrification did to factories, cloud computing is doing to business, labor, and your mind.

— Nicholas Carr 2008 224 стр.

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⚡ History Of Technology ☁️ Cloud Computing 🔄 Digital Transformation 💰 Winner-Take-All Economics 👁️ Attention Economy

The Adaptation Advantage

— Heather McGowan • 2020

Skills have a half-life. Job titles are a trap. The only security is your speed of unlearning.

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🔮 Future Of Work 🔄 Career Reinvention 🏢 Organizational Culture 🧭 Adaptive Leadership 🛡️ Psychological Safety

The Adaptation Advantage

Skills have a half-life. Job titles are a trap. The only security is your speed of unlearning.

— Heather McGowan 2020 208 стр.

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🔮 Future Of Work 🔄 Career Reinvention 🏢 Organizational Culture 🧭 Adaptive Leadership 🛡️ Psychological Safety

Anger

— Carol Tavris • 1983

Venting anger doesn't cool you down; it fuels the fire. The evidence against catharsis.

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👥 Social Psychology 😤 Anger Management 🧠 Emotion Regulation 💭 Cognitive Psychology 🔍 Myth-Busting Psychology

Anger

Venting anger doesn't cool you down; it fuels the fire. The evidence against catharsis.

— Carol Tavris 1983 385 стр.

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👥 Social Psychology 😤 Anger Management 🧠 Emotion Regulation 💭 Cognitive Psychology 🔍 Myth-Busting Psychology

The New Human Rights Movement

— Peter Joseph • 2017

The economy is a well-oiled system of oppression. The case for rebuilding it, not fixing it.

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🏛️ Political Economy ⚖️ Structural Inequality 🔗 Systems Thinking 💔 Structural Violence 🤖 Technological Unemployment

The New Human Rights Movement

The economy is a well-oiled system of oppression. The case for rebuilding it, not fixing it.

— Peter Joseph 2017 266 стр.

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🏛️ Political Economy ⚖️ Structural Inequality 🔗 Systems Thinking 💔 Structural Violence 🤖 Technological Unemployment

I Got Schooled

— M. Night Shyamalan • 2013

Five data-backed patterns that close America's education gap, from a filmmaker who hunted them down.

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📉 Achievement Gap 🔧 Education Reform 📊 Data-Driven Instruction 🎓 Teacher Effectiveness ⚖️ Education Equity

I Got Schooled

Five data-backed patterns that close America's education gap, from a filmmaker who hunted them down.

— M. Night Shyamalan 2013 321 стр.

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📉 Achievement Gap 🔧 Education Reform 📊 Data-Driven Instruction 🎓 Teacher Effectiveness ⚖️ Education Equity

Birth of the Chaordic Age

— Dee Hock • 2000

VISA thrived by breaking the one rule every corporation obeys: keep chaos out.

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🏗️ Organizational Design 🔄 Self-Organization 🔗 Systems Thinking 🌐 Distributed Leadership 🎯 Purpose Driven

Birth of the Chaordic Age

VISA thrived by breaking the one rule every corporation obeys: keep chaos out.

— Dee Hock 2000 360 стр.

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🏗️ Organizational Design 🔄 Self-Organization 🔗 Systems Thinking 🌐 Distributed Leadership 🎯 Purpose Driven

Amateur

— Thomas Page McBee • 2018

A trans man's boxing match becomes a reckoning with what men are actually fighting.

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🏳️‍⚧️ Transgender Memoir 📚 Masculinity Studies ⚠️ Toxic Masculinity 👥 Socialization Of Men ❓ Gender Questioning

Amateur

A trans man's boxing match becomes a reckoning with what men are actually fighting.

— Thomas Page McBee 2018 205 стр.

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🏳️‍⚧️ Transgender Memoir 📚 Masculinity Studies ⚠️ Toxic Masculinity 👥 Socialization Of Men ❓ Gender Questioning

Freakonomics Rev Ed

— Steven D. Levitt • 2005

Hidden incentives, not the stories we tell, explain why sumo wrestlers cheat and crime drops.

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🧠 Behavioral Economics 📈 Pop Economics 🎯 Hidden Incentives 🔍 Information Asymmetry 💥 Debunking Myths

Freakonomics Rev Ed

Hidden incentives, not the stories we tell, explain why sumo wrestlers cheat and crime drops.

— Steven D. Levitt 2005 352 стр.

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🧠 Behavioral Economics 📈 Pop Economics 🎯 Hidden Incentives 🔍 Information Asymmetry 💥 Debunking Myths

The New Great Depression

— James Rickards • 2021

A virus didn't cause this depression. The lockdown did, and a recovery isn't coming.

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🏛️ Austrian Economics 🏦 Monetary Policy Critique 📉 Deflation Economics 🔻 Economic Depression 🌪️ Social Breakdown

The New Great Depression

A virus didn't cause this depression. The lockdown did, and a recovery isn't coming.

— James Rickards 2021 208 стр.

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🏛️ Austrian Economics 🏦 Monetary Policy Critique 📉 Deflation Economics 🔻 Economic Depression 🌪️ Social Breakdown

The Meaning Revolution

— Fred Kofman • 2018

Your team is disengaged. Not because of pay. Because nobody showed them why the work matters.

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🏢 Organizational Culture 🎯 Purpose At Work 💼 Employee Engagement 🧠 Intrinsic Motivation ⚖️ Leadership Integrity

The Meaning Revolution

Your team is disengaged. Not because of pay. Because nobody showed them why the work matters.

— Fred Kofman 2018 368 стр.

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🏢 Organizational Culture 🎯 Purpose At Work 💼 Employee Engagement 🧠 Intrinsic Motivation ⚖️ Leadership Integrity

Поведенческая экономика

— Мишель Бадделей • 2017

Standard economics assumes rational choice. Real decisions run on bias, impulse, and social forces.

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🧠 Behavioral Economics 🔍 Cognitive Biases 🚶 Nudge Theory 👥 Social Norms 💰 Behavioral Finance

Поведенческая экономика

Standard economics assumes rational choice. Real decisions run on bias, impulse, and social forces.

— Мишель Бадделей 2017 168 стр.

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🧠 Behavioral Economics 🔍 Cognitive Biases 🚶 Nudge Theory 👥 Social Norms 💰 Behavioral Finance

How to Be an Artist

— Jerry Saltz • 2020

A handbook for artists: the work, the network, the rejection, and staying in the game.

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🎨 Artistic Practice ✨ Amateur Mindset ⏰ Studio Habits 🦈 Art World Survival 🛡️ Creative Resilience

How to Be an Artist

A handbook for artists: the work, the network, the rejection, and staying in the game.

— Jerry Saltz 2020 144 стр.

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🎨 Artistic Practice ✨ Amateur Mindset ⏰ Studio Habits 🦈 Art World Survival 🛡️ Creative Resilience

The Possessive Investment in Whiteness

— George Lipsitz • 1998

Racial inequality is the return on a system that turned whiteness into a wealth-building asset.

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⚖️ Critical Race Theory 🤍 Whiteness Studies 💰 Racial Wealth Gap 🏛️ Systemic Racism 🏠 Housing Discrimination

The Possessive Investment in Whiteness

Racial inequality is the return on a system that turned whiteness into a wealth-building asset.

— George Lipsitz 1998 296 стр.

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⚖️ Critical Race Theory 🤍 Whiteness Studies 💰 Racial Wealth Gap 🏛️ Systemic Racism 🏠 Housing Discrimination

Success and Luck

— Robert H. Frank • 2016

The luck you won't acknowledge is the public good you refuse to pay for.

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🧠 Behavioral Economics 🎭 Meritocracy Critique 🔍 Cognitive Biases ⚖️ Economic Inequality 🪜 Economic Mobility

Success and Luck

The luck you won't acknowledge is the public good you refuse to pay for.

— Robert H. Frank 2016 208 стр.

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🧠 Behavioral Economics 🎭 Meritocracy Critique 🔍 Cognitive Biases ⚖️ Economic Inequality 🪜 Economic Mobility

Last Child in the Woods

— Richard Louv • 2005

Childhood went indoors in a generation. What was lost isn't nostalgia; it's measurable and physical.

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🏕️ Nature And Childhood 🌳 Outdoor Parenting 🪵 Unstructured Play 🌱 Biophilia Hypothesis 🌲 Nature Therapy

Last Child in the Woods

Childhood went indoors in a generation. What was lost isn't nostalgia; it's measurable and physical.

— Richard Louv 2005 310 стр.

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🏕️ Nature And Childhood 🌳 Outdoor Parenting 🪵 Unstructured Play 🌱 Biophilia Hypothesis 🌲 Nature Therapy

The Dark Enlightenment

— Nick Land • 2012

Democracy is not a broken system; it is a self-destructive engine that devours civilization.

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🏴 Neo-Reactionary Thought 📉 Democratic Decay 🧬 Human Biodiversity 🚪 Political Exit 🔮 Secular Religions

The Dark Enlightenment

Democracy is not a broken system; it is a self-destructive engine that devours civilization.

— Nick Land 2012 112 стр.

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🏴 Neo-Reactionary Thought 📉 Democratic Decay 🧬 Human Biodiversity 🚪 Political Exit 🔮 Secular Religions

Four Lost Cities

— Annalee Newitz • 2021

Lost cities didn't vanish; their people walked away when rulers chose monuments over working sewers.

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🏙️ Urban History 🏛️ Archaeology Of Cities 🌍 Environmental History ⏳ Ancient Cities 🔄 Comparative Urbanism

Four Lost Cities

Lost cities didn't vanish; their people walked away when rulers chose monuments over working sewers.

— Annalee Newitz 2021 320 стр.

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🏙️ Urban History 🏛️ Archaeology Of Cities 🌍 Environmental History ⏳ Ancient Cities 🔄 Comparative Urbanism

The Case for Colonialism

— Bruce Gilley • 2023

Start new colonies from scratch. The controversial solution to a century of post-colonial disaster.

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📚 Revisionist History 🏗️ State Building 👑 Imperial History 🌍 Post-Colonial States ⏳ Modernization Theory

The Case for Colonialism

Start new colonies from scratch. The controversial solution to a century of post-colonial disaster.

— Bruce Gilley 2023 326 стр.

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📚 Revisionist History 🏗️ State Building 👑 Imperial History 🌍 Post-Colonial States ⏳ Modernization Theory

Beyond Measure

— Margaret Heffernan • 2015

Organizational success isn't vision or technology; it's small, surprising moves leaders overlook.

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🏢 Organizational Culture 🤝 Team Collaboration 💬 Constructive Dissent 🛡️ Psychological Safety 🧠 Cognitive Diversity

Beyond Measure

Organizational success isn't vision or technology; it's small, surprising moves leaders overlook.

— Margaret Heffernan 2015 128 стр.

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🏢 Organizational Culture 🤝 Team Collaboration 💬 Constructive Dissent 🛡️ Psychological Safety 🧠 Cognitive Diversity

I Think You're Wrong (But I'm Listening)

— Sarah Stewart Holland • 2019

A path to disagreeing about politics without destroying relationships.

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🤝 Political Depolarization 🗣️ Civil Discourse 💬 Difficult Conversations ⛪ Faith And Politics 🔄 Echo Chambers

I Think You're Wrong (But I'm Listening)

A path to disagreeing about politics without destroying relationships.

— Sarah Stewart Holland 2019 205 стр.

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🤝 Political Depolarization 🗣️ Civil Discourse 💬 Difficult Conversations ⛪ Faith And Politics 🔄 Echo Chambers

Insane

— Alisa Roth • 2018

Jails hold more people with mental illness than hospitals. Incarceration makes them sicker.

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🏥 Mental Illness In Jails 🔒 Mass Incarceration 🏚️ Deinstitutionalization ⛓️ Solitary Confinement 👮 Police Reform

Insane

Jails hold more people with mental illness than hospitals. Incarceration makes them sicker.

— Alisa Roth 2018 338 стр.

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🏥 Mental Illness In Jails 🔒 Mass Incarceration 🏚️ Deinstitutionalization ⛓️ Solitary Confinement 👮 Police Reform

How to Be Black

— Baratunde R. Thurston • 2012

A satirical guide to being black: unwritten rules of workplace, friendship, and the media spotlight.

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🖤 Blackness In America 😂 Racial Satire 🎭 Black Authenticity 🔨 Stereotype Busting 💼 Black Professionals

How to Be Black

A satirical guide to being black: unwritten rules of workplace, friendship, and the media spotlight.

— Baratunde R. Thurston 2012 254 стр.

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🖤 Blackness In America 😂 Racial Satire 🎭 Black Authenticity 🔨 Stereotype Busting 💼 Black Professionals

You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train

— Howard Zinn • 1994

Shipyards, bombers, protest lines: a historian argues that sitting still picks a side.

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✊ Activist Memoir 🕊️ Civil Disobedience ☮️ Antiwar Movements 📜 History From Below 🔍 Critical History

You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train

Shipyards, bombers, protest lines: a historian argues that sitting still picks a side.

— Howard Zinn 1994 214 стр.

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✊ Activist Memoir 🕊️ Civil Disobedience ☮️ Antiwar Movements 📜 History From Below 🔍 Critical History

Celebrity Nation

— Landon Y. Jones • 2023

America traded heroes for celebrities. The deal changed how we vote, spend, and measure a life.

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🎭 Celebrity Culture 📖 Cultural Criticism 👁️ Attention Economy 📱 Social Media Culture 🎙️ Media Studies

Celebrity Nation

America traded heroes for celebrities. The deal changed how we vote, spend, and measure a life.

— Landon Y. Jones 2023 216 стр.

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🎭 Celebrity Culture 📖 Cultural Criticism 👁️ Attention Economy 📱 Social Media Culture 🎙️ Media Studies

Bull

— Maggie Mahar • 2003

The 1982-2000 boom was a psychological epidemic, not a market miracle. Every institution caught it.

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🏛️ Financial History 🔄 Market Cycles 🧠 Market Psychology 📊 Corporate Fraud 🫧 Financial Bubbles

Bull

The 1982-2000 boom was a psychological epidemic, not a market miracle. Every institution caught it.

— Maggie Mahar 2003 528 стр.

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🏛️ Financial History 🔄 Market Cycles 🧠 Market Psychology 📊 Corporate Fraud 🫧 Financial Bubbles

Elderhood

— Louise Aronson • 2019

A geriatrician's diagnosis: ageism is the last tolerated prejudice, right in your doctor's office.

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🩺 Geriatric Medicine 🏥 Ageism In Healthcare 💊 Medicalization Of Aging ✊ Anti-Ageism 📖 Narrative Medicine

Elderhood

A geriatrician's diagnosis: ageism is the last tolerated prejudice, right in your doctor's office.

— Louise Aronson 2019 464 стр.

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🩺 Geriatric Medicine 🏥 Ageism In Healthcare 💊 Medicalization Of Aging ✊ Anti-Ageism 📖 Narrative Medicine

The Assault on Truth

— Peter Oborne • 2021

Two leaders, one playbook: turn truth into a loyalty test, and watch democracy erode.

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🤥 Political Lying 🌀 Post-Truth Politics 📰 Media Complicity 🏛️ Democratic Erosion 🇬🇧 British Politics

The Assault on Truth

Two leaders, one playbook: turn truth into a loyalty test, and watch democracy erode.

— Peter Oborne 2021 251 стр.

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🤥 Political Lying 🌀 Post-Truth Politics 📰 Media Complicity 🏛️ Democratic Erosion 🇬🇧 British Politics

The Coming of Neo-Feudalism

— Joel Kotkin • 2020

Tech oligarchs and a new elite justify their rule; the middle class becomes the peasantry.

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🏦 Wealth Concentration 📡 Tech Oligopoly 📉 Decline Of The Middle Class ⚗️ Technocratic Rule 🎓 Cultural Elites

The Coming of Neo-Feudalism

Tech oligarchs and a new elite justify their rule; the middle class becomes the peasantry.

— Joel Kotkin 2020 266 стр.

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🏦 Wealth Concentration 📡 Tech Oligopoly 📉 Decline Of The Middle Class ⚗️ Technocratic Rule 🎓 Cultural Elites

Deliverance and Spiritual Warfare Manual

— John Eckhardt • 2014

No market, no prices. No prices, no economic calculus. That's why socialism devours its own capital.

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🏫 Austrian Economics 🧮 Economic Calculation 🚫 Critique Of Socialism 👑 Consumer Sovereignty 🗽 Classical Liberalism

Deliverance and Spiritual Warfare Manual

No market, no prices. No prices, no economic calculus. That's why socialism devours its own capital.

— John Eckhardt 2014 272 стр.

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🏫 Austrian Economics 🧮 Economic Calculation 🚫 Critique Of Socialism 👑 Consumer Sovereignty 🗽 Classical Liberalism

The Only Game in Town

— Mohamed El-Erian • 2016

Central banks saved the economy, then overreached. The road ahead now forks toward opposing futures.

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🏦 Central Banking 🌐 Global Economy 📉 Financial Crisis ⚠️ Risk Management ⚖️ Economic Inequality

The Only Game in Town

Central banks saved the economy, then overreached. The road ahead now forks toward opposing futures.

— Mohamed El-Erian 2016 320 стр.

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🏦 Central Banking 🌐 Global Economy 📉 Financial Crisis ⚠️ Risk Management ⚖️ Economic Inequality

The Power of Strangers

— Joe Keohane • 2021

Talking to strangers terrifies us, yet reliably makes us happier. The research on why.

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👋 Stranger Interactions 🤝 Social Connection 💬 Conversation Skills 🏙️ Loneliness Epidemic 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology

The Power of Strangers

Talking to strangers terrifies us, yet reliably makes us happier. The research on why.

— Joe Keohane 2021 328 стр.

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👋 Stranger Interactions 🤝 Social Connection 💬 Conversation Skills 🏙️ Loneliness Epidemic 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology

Как происходят перемены

— Касс Р. Санстейн • 2019

Social change seems impossible until the moment it isn't: the hidden forces that drive it.

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🌊 Social Change 🧠 Behavioral Economics 🏛️ Political Polarization 🏗️ Choice Architecture ⚖️ Moral Psychology

Как происходят перемены

Social change seems impossible until the moment it isn't: the hidden forces that drive it.

— Касс Р. Санстейн 2019 344 стр.

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🌊 Social Change 🧠 Behavioral Economics 🏛️ Political Polarization 🏗️ Choice Architecture ⚖️ Moral Psychology

No Shame in My Game

— Katherine S. Newman • 1999

The job everyone ridicules might be the best shot at dignity for America's working poor.

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🧐 Urban Ethnography 🧑‍🏭 Working Poor 🍔 Low-Wage Labor 👷 Dignity Of Work 🎭 Stigma And Identity

No Shame in My Game

The job everyone ridicules might be the best shot at dignity for America's working poor.

— Katherine S. Newman 1999 416 стр.

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🧐 Urban Ethnography 🧑‍🏭 Working Poor 🍔 Low-Wage Labor 👷 Dignity Of Work 🎭 Stigma And Identity

Shattered Nation

— Danny Dorling • 2023

Beneath every British crisis lies a map of inequality decades in the making.

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🗺️ Regional Inequality 📉 Austerity Politics 🏚️ Welfare State Erosion 🏠 Housing Crisis 💰 Wealth Inequality

Shattered Nation

Beneath every British crisis lies a map of inequality decades in the making.

— Danny Dorling 2023 288 стр.

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🗺️ Regional Inequality 📉 Austerity Politics 🏚️ Welfare State Erosion 🏠 Housing Crisis 💰 Wealth Inequality

Walden on Wheels

— Ken Ilgunas • 2013

He erased $32,000 in debt by living in a campus van on four dollars a day.

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💰 Student Debt 🚐 Van Life 🧹 Minimalism 🏔️ Adventure Memoirs 💵 Extreme Frugality

Walden on Wheels

He erased $32,000 in debt by living in a campus van on four dollars a day.

— Ken Ilgunas 2013 297 стр.

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💰 Student Debt 🚐 Van Life 🧹 Minimalism 🏔️ Adventure Memoirs 💵 Extreme Frugality

Stories Are Weapons

— Annalee Newitz • 2024

Culture wars are not chaos. They are a century-long psyop that America has been running on itself.

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🇺🇸 American Propaganda 🧠 Psychological Warfare 📺 Media Manipulation 📰 Disinformation Campaigns 🌪️ Culture War Cycles

Stories Are Weapons

Culture wars are not chaos. They are a century-long psyop that America has been running on itself.

— Annalee Newitz 2024 246 стр.

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🇺🇸 American Propaganda 🧠 Psychological Warfare 📺 Media Manipulation 📰 Disinformation Campaigns 🌪️ Culture War Cycles

In Sorcery's Shadow

— Paul Stoller • 1989

Birds defecate on an anthropologist in Niger. A sorcerer sees a sign and demands an apprenticeship.

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🏕️ Ethnographic Memoir 🌍 West African Religion ✨ Sorcery And Magic 🧑‍🎓 Apprenticeship 👻 Spirit Possession

In Sorcery's Shadow

Birds defecate on an anthropologist in Niger. A sorcerer sees a sign and demands an apprenticeship.

— Paul Stoller 1989 252 стр.

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🏕️ Ethnographic Memoir 🌍 West African Religion ✨ Sorcery And Magic 🧑‍🎓 Apprenticeship 👻 Spirit Possession

The Big Truck that Went By

— Jonathan M. Katz • 2013

When the world rushed to save Haiti, it brought a cholera epidemic with it.

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🆘 Disaster Relief 💰 Foreign Aid Critique 🇭🇹 Haitian History 📚 Postcolonial Critique 🏚️ Post-Disaster Recovery

The Big Truck that Went By

When the world rushed to save Haiti, it brought a cholera epidemic with it.

— Jonathan M. Katz 2013 320 стр.

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🆘 Disaster Relief 💰 Foreign Aid Critique 🇭🇹 Haitian History 📚 Postcolonial Critique 🏚️ Post-Disaster Recovery

12 Bytes

— Jeanette Winterson • 2021

AI has a history: female, literary, and older than electricity. A novelist connects the dots.

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🤖 Ai Ethics 💻 History Of Computing 👩‍💻 Tech Feminism 👁️ Surveillance Capitalism ⚖️ Algorithmic Bias

12 Bytes

AI has a history: female, literary, and older than electricity. A novelist connects the dots.

— Jeanette Winterson 2021 324 стр.

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