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The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee

av Jared Diamond • 1991

How a species 98% chimp invented language, farming, and the means of its own ruin.

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🦴 Human Evolution 🦍 Primate Behavior 📜 Cultural Evolution 💑 Mating Strategies 🌾 Origins Of Agriculture

The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee

How a species 98% chimp invented language, farming, and the means of its own ruin.

av Jared Diamond 1991 360 sidor

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🦴 Human Evolution 🦍 Primate Behavior 📜 Cultural Evolution 💑 Mating Strategies 🌾 Origins Of Agriculture

Virtual Society

av Herman Narula • 2022

Virtual worlds built civilization. The metaverse will fix what it broke: making us feel we matter.

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🎮 Virtual Worlds 💰 Digital Economy 👷 Future Of Work 📊 Virtual Economies 🧠 Intrinsic Motivation

Virtual Society

Virtual worlds built civilization. The metaverse will fix what it broke: making us feel we matter.

av Herman Narula 2022 288 sidor

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🎮 Virtual Worlds 💰 Digital Economy 👷 Future Of Work 📊 Virtual Economies 🧠 Intrinsic Motivation

Blueprint

av Nicholas A. Christakis • 2019

Goodness is our default setting. Evolution built us for love, friendship, and cooperation.

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🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🌐 Human Universals 🏛️ Cultural Anthropology 📜 Cultural Evolution 🕸️ Social Networks

Blueprint

Goodness is our default setting. Evolution built us for love, friendship, and cooperation.

av Nicholas A. Christakis 2019 544 sidor

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🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🌐 Human Universals 🏛️ Cultural Anthropology 📜 Cultural Evolution 🕸️ Social Networks

Selfie

av Will Storr • 2017

How centuries of individualism, guilt, and competition built a self that can never feel good enough.

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🏛️ History Of The Self 🌍 Western Individualism 📉 Perfectionism Critique 🪞 Narcissism And Culture 📈 Self-Esteem Movement

Selfie

How centuries of individualism, guilt, and competition built a self that can never feel good enough.

av Will Storr 2017 416 sidor

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🏛️ History Of The Self 🌍 Western Individualism 📉 Perfectionism Critique 🪞 Narcissism And Culture 📈 Self-Esteem Movement

The Democracy Project

av David Graeber • 2013

Democracy only ever comes from below. Occupy Wall Street reminded America what that looks like.

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💸 Financialization 🇺🇸 American Left 🗳️ Direct Democracy 🧾 Debt Resistance 🏛️ Class Analysis

The Democracy Project

Democracy only ever comes from below. Occupy Wall Street reminded America what that looks like.

av David Graeber 2013 352 sidor

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💸 Financialization 🇺🇸 American Left 🗳️ Direct Democracy 🧾 Debt Resistance 🏛️ Class Analysis

An Anatomy of Pain

av Abdul-Ghaaliq Lalkhen • 2021

The brain makes pain, the body just supplies the raw material. A physician explains.

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🩺 Pain Medicine 🔁 Chronic Pain 🧠 Mind-Body Connection 💊 Opioid Crisis 📜 Medical History

An Anatomy of Pain

The brain makes pain, the body just supplies the raw material. A physician explains.

av Abdul-Ghaaliq Lalkhen 2021 256 sidor

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🩺 Pain Medicine 🔁 Chronic Pain 🧠 Mind-Body Connection 💊 Opioid Crisis 📜 Medical History

The Invisible Landscape

av Terence McKenna • 1975

A psychedelic expedition into the I Ching reveals time as a fractal wave plunging toward zero.

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🍄 Psychedelic Philosophy 🪶 Shamanism 🌿 Entheogens 🌐 Holographic Universe ☯️ I Ching Studies

The Invisible Landscape

A psychedelic expedition into the I Ching reveals time as a fractal wave plunging toward zero.

av Terence McKenna 1975 256 sidor

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🍄 Psychedelic Philosophy 🪶 Shamanism 🌿 Entheogens 🌐 Holographic Universe ☯️ I Ching Studies

The Language Puzzle

av Steven Mithen • 2024

Language's origin: a six-million-year puzzle pieced from genes, tools, and ape gestures.

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🧬 Language Evolution 🐒 Primate Communication 🗣️ Evolution Of Speech 👶 Language Acquisition 🧠 Neural Networks

The Language Puzzle

Language's origin: a six-million-year puzzle pieced from genes, tools, and ape gestures.

av Steven Mithen 2024 544 sidor

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🧬 Language Evolution 🐒 Primate Communication 🗣️ Evolution Of Speech 👶 Language Acquisition 🧠 Neural Networks

Music

av Ted Gioia • 2019

Why music's most forbidden elements are what actually make it change and survive.

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🎵 Music History 🔄 Cultural Evolution 💥 Subversive Art ⚡ Power And Music 🙏 Sacred And Profane

Music

Why music's most forbidden elements are what actually make it change and survive.

av Ted Gioia 2019 528 sidor

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🎵 Music History 🔄 Cultural Evolution 💥 Subversive Art ⚡ Power And Music 🙏 Sacred And Profane

The First Ghosts

av Irving Finkel • 2021

Ghosts are ancient, but Mesopotamia left the first written rules for living with the restless dead.

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🏛️ Mesopotamian History ⛪ Ancient Religion ⚱️ Death And Burial 👻 Ghost Lore 🪄 Ancient Magic

The First Ghosts

Ghosts are ancient, but Mesopotamia left the first written rules for living with the restless dead.

av Irving Finkel 2021 334 sidor

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🏛️ Mesopotamian History ⛪ Ancient Religion ⚱️ Death And Burial 👻 Ghost Lore 🪄 Ancient Magic

The Everlasting Man

av G.K. Chesterton • 1925

Prehistory, paganism, philosophy: all dead ends. The force that broke through began in a cave.

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🛡️ Christian Apologetics 🌍 Comparative Religion 🧠 Faith And Reason ⛪ Catholic Thought 📜 Historical Theology

The Everlasting Man

Prehistory, paganism, philosophy: all dead ends. The force that broke through began in a cave.

av G.K. Chesterton 1925 260 sidor

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🛡️ Christian Apologetics 🌍 Comparative Religion 🧠 Faith And Reason ⛪ Catholic Thought 📜 Historical Theology

Ain't No Makin' It

av Jay MacLeod • 2008

One group believed hard work would save them; the other didn't. Class position decided their fates.

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🏙️ Urban Poverty 📝 Ethnographic Sociology ⚖️ Class Inequality 🔄 Social Reproduction 🚧 Structural Barriers

Ain't No Makin' It

One group believed hard work would save them; the other didn't. Class position decided their fates.

av Jay MacLeod 2008 537 sidor

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🏙️ Urban Poverty 📝 Ethnographic Sociology ⚖️ Class Inequality 🔄 Social Reproduction 🚧 Structural Barriers

Womanhood

av Laura Dodsworth • 2019

100 women photographed from a perspective they'd never seen themselves: their own vulva.

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⚖️ Body Politics 📸 Documentary Photography ✊ Sex-Positive Feminism 🗣️ Oral History 💔 Body Shame

Womanhood

100 women photographed from a perspective they'd never seen themselves: their own vulva.

av Laura Dodsworth 2019 336 sidor

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⚖️ Body Politics 📸 Documentary Photography ✊ Sex-Positive Feminism 🗣️ Oral History 💔 Body Shame

The Universe Within

av Neil Shubin • 2013

Your body is a clock tuned to Earth's rotation and a museum of cosmic history.

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🏛️ Big History ⏳ Deep Time ✨ Cosmic Origins ☄️ Mass Extinctions 🧬 Human Evolution

The Universe Within

Your body is a clock tuned to Earth's rotation and a museum of cosmic history.

av Neil Shubin 2013 240 sidor

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🏛️ Big History ⏳ Deep Time ✨ Cosmic Origins ☄️ Mass Extinctions 🧬 Human Evolution

The Social Sex

av Marilyn Yalom • 2015

For centuries, women's friendships were ignored. Letters, clubs, and convents made them visible.

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📜 Women's History 💌 Romantic Friendships ✍️ Women's Letter Writing 👥 Gender And Friendship 💻 Digital Friendships

The Social Sex

For centuries, women's friendships were ignored. Letters, clubs, and convents made them visible.

av Marilyn Yalom 2015 400 sidor

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📜 Women's History 💌 Romantic Friendships ✍️ Women's Letter Writing 👥 Gender And Friendship 💻 Digital Friendships

The Ascent of Man

av Jacob Bronowski • 1973

Art and science are twin expressions of a single gift: the mind's ability to remake itself.

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🔬 History Of Science 🧬 Cultural Evolution 🦍 Human Origins 💭 Philosophy Of Science 🎨 Science And Art

The Ascent of Man

Art and science are twin expressions of a single gift: the mind's ability to remake itself.

av Jacob Bronowski 1973 352 sidor

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🔬 History Of Science 🧬 Cultural Evolution 🦍 Human Origins 💭 Philosophy Of Science 🎨 Science And Art

The Social Leap

av William Von Hippel • 2018

We're savannah apes in skyscrapers: cooperative, self-deceiving, and never satisfied for long.

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🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🧬 Human Evolution 👥 Social Cognition 🎭 Self-Deception 🦚 Sexual Selection

The Social Leap

We're savannah apes in skyscrapers: cooperative, self-deceiving, and never satisfied for long.

av William Von Hippel 2018 304 sidor

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🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🧬 Human Evolution 👥 Social Cognition 🎭 Self-Deception 🦚 Sexual Selection

The Hand

av Frank R. Wilson • 1998

The hand is not the brain's tool. It is the brain's architect.

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🧬 Human Evolution 🦴 Paleoanthropology 🧠 Embodied Cognition 💪 Motor Control 🔧 Tool Use

The Hand

The hand is not the brain's tool. It is the brain's architect.

av Frank R. Wilson 1998 416 sidor

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🧬 Human Evolution 🦴 Paleoanthropology 🧠 Embodied Cognition 💪 Motor Control 🔧 Tool Use

Aid on the Edge of Chaos

av Ben Ramalingam • 2013

Aid agencies build blueprints for a clockwork world, but poverty is a tangled, living system.

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🏳️ Foreign Aid 🌍 International Development 📉 Aid Effectiveness 🔬 Complexity Theory 🧠 Systems Thinking

Aid on the Edge of Chaos

Aid agencies build blueprints for a clockwork world, but poverty is a tangled, living system.

av Ben Ramalingam 2013 472 sidor

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🏳️ Foreign Aid 🌍 International Development 📉 Aid Effectiveness 🔬 Complexity Theory 🧠 Systems Thinking

Hormonal

av Martie Haselton • 2018

Your monthly cycle isn't chaos. It's an ancient intelligence for desire, mate selection, strategy.

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🧬 Evolutionary Psychology 🌸 Female Hormones 💞 Mate Selection 🔄 Menstrual Cycle 👶 Parental Investment

Hormonal

Your monthly cycle isn't chaos. It's an ancient intelligence for desire, mate selection, strategy.

av Martie Haselton 2018 289 sidor

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🧬 Evolutionary Psychology 🌸 Female Hormones 💞 Mate Selection 🔄 Menstrual Cycle 👶 Parental Investment

Outgrowing God

av Richard Dawkins • 2019

Humans have invented thousands of gods. A scientist's case for why yours is one of them.

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🧠 New Atheism ⛪ Religious Critique 🌍 Secular Humanism 🌐 Comparative Religion 📖 Biblical Criticism

Outgrowing God

Humans have invented thousands of gods. A scientist's case for why yours is one of them.

av Richard Dawkins 2019 200 sidor

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🧠 New Atheism ⛪ Religious Critique 🌍 Secular Humanism 🌐 Comparative Religion 📖 Biblical Criticism

Proust and the Squid

av Maryanne Wolf • 2007

Reading isn't genetic. The brain built it by recycling circuits meant for hunting and speech.

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📜 History Of Reading 🧠 Neuroscience Of Reading ✍️ History Of Writing 🤿 Deep Reading 🔤 Dyslexia

Proust and the Squid

Reading isn't genetic. The brain built it by recycling circuits meant for hunting and speech.

av Maryanne Wolf 2007 308 sidor

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📜 History Of Reading 🧠 Neuroscience Of Reading ✍️ History Of Writing 🤿 Deep Reading 🔤 Dyslexia

Come of Age

av Stephen Jenkinson • 2018

More old people than ever. Fewer elders than ever. The connection is a cultural indictment.

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🪦 Death And Dying 🔍 Cultural Criticism ⏳ Limits And Endings 🕯️ Ancestral Memory 🌉 Generational Wisdom

Come of Age

More old people than ever. Fewer elders than ever. The connection is a cultural indictment.

av Stephen Jenkinson 2018 448 sidor

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🪦 Death And Dying 🔍 Cultural Criticism ⏳ Limits And Endings 🕯️ Ancestral Memory 🌉 Generational Wisdom

Sastun

av Rosita Arvigo • 1994

A Chicago transplant in Belize becomes the last apprentice of a 92-year-old Maya shaman.

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🪴 Ethnobotany 💊 Traditional Medicine 🌿 Plant Medicine ✨ Spiritual Healing 🥁 Shamanic Practice

Sastun

A Chicago transplant in Belize becomes the last apprentice of a 92-year-old Maya shaman.

av Rosita Arvigo 1994 208 sidor

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🪴 Ethnobotany 💊 Traditional Medicine 🌿 Plant Medicine ✨ Spiritual Healing 🥁 Shamanic Practice

Who Speaks for Islam?

av Dalia Mogahed • 2008

Gallup asked Muslims what they believe. The data upends most Western assumptions about Islam.

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🕌 Muslim Societies 🌍 Islam And The West 📊 Empirical Sociology ⚠️ Political Radicalization 🏛️ Foreign Policy Critique

Who Speaks for Islam?

Gallup asked Muslims what they believe. The data upends most Western assumptions about Islam.

av Dalia Mogahed 2008 240 sidor

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🕌 Muslim Societies 🌍 Islam And The West 📊 Empirical Sociology ⚠️ Political Radicalization 🏛️ Foreign Policy Critique

Eternity in Their Hearts

av Don Richardson • 1980

Cultures worldwide knew of a Supreme God and a lost sacred book long before missionaries arrived.

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🗺️ Missiology 🛡️ Christian Apologetics 🌍 General Revelation 📖 Missionary Stories 🌏 Evangelism And Culture

Eternity in Their Hearts

Cultures worldwide knew of a Supreme God and a lost sacred book long before missionaries arrived.

av Don Richardson 1980 223 sidor

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🗺️ Missiology 🛡️ Christian Apologetics 🌍 General Revelation 📖 Missionary Stories 🌏 Evangelism And Culture

WARRIORS AND WORRIERS

av BENENSON • 2014

Men and women evolved to survive different threats, producing two human natures visible from birth.

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🧠 Evolutionary Psychology ♂️ Sex Differences ⚡ Risk And Fear 👥 Female Competition 🤝 Male Bonding

WARRIORS AND WORRIERS

Men and women evolved to survive different threats, producing two human natures visible from birth.

av BENENSON 2014 292 sidor

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🧠 Evolutionary Psychology ♂️ Sex Differences ⚡ Risk And Fear 👥 Female Competition 🤝 Male Bonding

Culture

av Martin Puchner • 2023

Borrowing, theft, lucky accidents: four millennia of cultural history. Purity was never the point.

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🔄 Cultural Exchange 📜 Cultural Transmission 🏛️ Ancient Civilizations 🏺 Cultural Preservation 👑 Art And Power

Culture

Borrowing, theft, lucky accidents: four millennia of cultural history. Purity was never the point.

av Martin Puchner 2023 384 sidor

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🔄 Cultural Exchange 📜 Cultural Transmission 🏛️ Ancient Civilizations 🏺 Cultural Preservation 👑 Art And Power

The Story of the Human Body

av Daniel E. Lieberman • 2013

Your genes still expect a hunter-gatherer world. The mismatch is why you're sick.

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🧬 Evolutionary Medicine 🦴 Human Evolution 🏕️ Ancestral Health ⚠️ Evolutionary Mismatch 🌾 Agricultural Revolution

The Story of the Human Body

Your genes still expect a hunter-gatherer world. The mismatch is why you're sick.

av Daniel E. Lieberman 2013 480 sidor

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🧬 Evolutionary Medicine 🦴 Human Evolution 🏕️ Ancestral Health ⚠️ Evolutionary Mismatch 🌾 Agricultural Revolution

A Brief History of Indonesia

av Tim Hannigan • 2015

An archipelago of 17,000 islands: the improbable 2,000-year story of how it became a single nation.

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🏯 Southeast Asian History 🍂 Spice Trade ⛓️ Colonial Extraction 🕌 Islamic Indonesia 🌏 Postcolonial Nations

A Brief History of Indonesia

An archipelago of 17,000 islands: the improbable 2,000-year story of how it became a single nation.

av Tim Hannigan 2015 288 sidor

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🏯 Southeast Asian History 🍂 Spice Trade ⛓️ Colonial Extraction 🕌 Islamic Indonesia 🌏 Postcolonial Nations

Faking It

av Hugh Barker • 2007

Elvis was an imitator, punk was theater, and disco was realer than anyone admitted.

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Faking It

Elvis was an imitator, punk was theater, and disco was realer than anyone admitted.

av Hugh Barker 2007 400 sidor

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Prius Or Pickup?

av Marc Hetherington • 2018

Your parenting choices predict your politics. The hidden worldview driving American polarization.

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🇺🇸 American Politics ⚡ Political Polarization 🧠 Political Psychology 🏴 Political Tribalism ⚠️ Authoritarianism

Prius Or Pickup?

Your parenting choices predict your politics. The hidden worldview driving American polarization.

av Marc Hetherington 2018 288 sidor

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🇺🇸 American Politics ⚡ Political Polarization 🧠 Political Psychology 🏴 Political Tribalism ⚠️ Authoritarianism

Babel No More

av Michael Erard • 2012

Legendary language learners aren't geniuses. They're obsessive collectors with shallow skills.

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🌐 Multilingualism 🗣️ Language Learning 🧠 Neurolinguistics 🧬 Nature Vs Nurture 📜 Linguistic History

Babel No More

Legendary language learners aren't geniuses. They're obsessive collectors with shallow skills.

av Michael Erard 2012 306 sidor

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🌐 Multilingualism 🗣️ Language Learning 🧠 Neurolinguistics 🧬 Nature Vs Nurture 📜 Linguistic History

The Rigveda

av Anonymous • 1001

Sacred book without a single creation story, terrifying afterlife, or call to renounce the world.

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🕉️ Vedic Religion 🌍 Creation Myths 🪔 Ritual Sacrifice 💀 Death And Afterlife 📜 Sacred Hymns

The Rigveda

Sacred book without a single creation story, terrifying afterlife, or call to renounce the world.

av Anonymous 1001 1728 sidor

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🕉️ Vedic Religion 🌍 Creation Myths 🪔 Ritual Sacrifice 💀 Death And Afterlife 📜 Sacred Hymns

Why You Love Music

av John Powell • 2016

Every time music gives you goosebumps, your brain is following a rule you never learned.

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🎵 Music Psychology 🔊 Psychoacoustics 🧠 Music Cognition 🌿 Music Therapy 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology

Why You Love Music

Every time music gives you goosebumps, your brain is following a rule you never learned.

av John Powell 2016 310 sidor

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🎵 Music Psychology 🔊 Psychoacoustics 🧠 Music Cognition 🌿 Music Therapy 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology

The Human Story

av Robin I.M. Dunbar • 2004

Gossip, laughter, gods: how the social brain made us human, and the number behind it.

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🦍 Human Evolution 🧠 Social Neuroscience 🤝 Theory Of Mind 🗣️ Language Evolution 🎨 Symbolic Thinking

The Human Story

Gossip, laughter, gods: how the social brain made us human, and the number behind it.

av Robin I.M. Dunbar 2004 228 sidor

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🦍 Human Evolution 🧠 Social Neuroscience 🤝 Theory Of Mind 🗣️ Language Evolution 🎨 Symbolic Thinking

The Upright Thinkers

av Leonard Mlodinow • 2015

What connects bipedal apes to quantum physics? A single, stubborn habit of asking why.

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🏛️ Big History 🔬 History Of Science 🧬 Human Evolution 🧪 Scientific Method 📚 Intellectual History

The Upright Thinkers

What connects bipedal apes to quantum physics? A single, stubborn habit of asking why.

av Leonard Mlodinow 2015 352 sidor

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🏛️ Big History 🔬 History Of Science 🧬 Human Evolution 🧪 Scientific Method 📚 Intellectual History

The New Breed

av Kate Darling • 2021

Robot panic is sci-fi fueled. The real future looks more like our ancient partnership with animals.

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🤖 Human Robot Interaction 🧠 Anthropomorphism 🐾 Animal Rights ⚖️ Technology Ethics 🏭 Future Of Work

The New Breed

Robot panic is sci-fi fueled. The real future looks more like our ancient partnership with animals.

av Kate Darling 2021 336 sidor

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🤖 Human Robot Interaction 🧠 Anthropomorphism 🐾 Animal Rights ⚖️ Technology Ethics 🏭 Future Of Work

Qualitative Research Methods

av Sarah J. Tracy • 2012

From first interview to final write-up, the methods, ethics, and craft of research that matters.

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📋 Qualitative Methodology 🔬 Social Research Methods ⚖️ Research Ethics 🌍 Ethnographic Fieldwork 🎙️ Interview Methods

Qualitative Research Methods

From first interview to final write-up, the methods, ethics, and craft of research that matters.

av Sarah J. Tracy 2012 432 sidor

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📋 Qualitative Methodology 🔬 Social Research Methods ⚖️ Research Ethics 🌍 Ethnographic Fieldwork 🎙️ Interview Methods

How the Mind Works

av Steven Pinker • 1997

Your mind is a system of evolved modules. Consciousness is the one puzzle evolution left unsolved.

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🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🔬 Cognitive Science 🧩 Modular Mind 💻 Computational Mind 🏗️ Cognitive Architecture

How the Mind Works

Your mind is a system of evolved modules. Consciousness is the one puzzle evolution left unsolved.

av Steven Pinker 1997 660 sidor

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🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🔬 Cognitive Science 🧩 Modular Mind 💻 Computational Mind 🏗️ Cognitive Architecture

To Repair the World

av Paul Farmer • 2013

A doctor's manifesto: replace charity with long-term solidarity and treat the impossible as doable.

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🏥 Global Health Equity 🌍 Medical Anthropology 🏘️ Social Determinants Of Health 🌱 Pragmatic Idealism 🩺 Grassroots Healthcare

To Repair the World

A doctor's manifesto: replace charity with long-term solidarity and treat the impossible as doable.

av Paul Farmer 2013 294 sidor

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🏥 Global Health Equity 🌍 Medical Anthropology 🏘️ Social Determinants Of Health 🌱 Pragmatic Idealism 🩺 Grassroots Healthcare

Portfolios of the Poor

av Daryl Collins • 2009

Hand-to-mouth is a myth. On $2 a day, the poor juggle a dozen financial instruments just to survive.

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🌍 Development Economics 💰 Microfinance 🏦 Financial Inclusion 🕳️ Poverty Traps 🤝 Informal Economy

Portfolios of the Poor

Hand-to-mouth is a myth. On $2 a day, the poor juggle a dozen financial instruments just to survive.

av Daryl Collins 2009 296 sidor

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🌍 Development Economics 💰 Microfinance 🏦 Financial Inclusion 🕳️ Poverty Traps 🤝 Informal Economy

The Age of Grievance

av Frank Bruni • 2024

Grievance has become America's operating system, powering everything from politics to culture wars.

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🪞 Victimhood Culture 🥊 Culture Wars 📣 Outrage Culture 📉 American Decline 💰 Income Inequality

The Age of Grievance

Grievance has become America's operating system, powering everything from politics to culture wars.

av Frank Bruni 2024 288 sidor

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🪞 Victimhood Culture 🥊 Culture Wars 📣 Outrage Culture 📉 American Decline 💰 Income Inequality

Cities

av Monica L. Smith • 2019

Cities were never about efficiency. They were about all the things you cannot get alone.

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🏙️ Urban History 🏛️ Ancient Cities 🏺 Material Culture 🌆 Urban Anthropology 🚶 Everyday Urbanism

Cities

Cities were never about efficiency. They were about all the things you cannot get alone.

av Monica L. Smith 2019 304 sidor

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🏙️ Urban History 🏛️ Ancient Cities 🏺 Material Culture 🌆 Urban Anthropology 🚶 Everyday Urbanism

Dirty Electricity

av Samuel Milham • 2010

Cancer and diabetes followed the power lines, not the processed food.

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🧲 Electromagnetic Health 🌿 Environmental Health ⚡ Bioelectromagnetics 📊 Cancer Epidemiology 🏭 Occupational Disease

Dirty Electricity

Cancer and diabetes followed the power lines, not the processed food.

av Samuel Milham 2010 128 sidor

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🧲 Electromagnetic Health 🌿 Environmental Health ⚡ Bioelectromagnetics 📊 Cancer Epidemiology 🏭 Occupational Disease

The Lost City of the Monkey God

av Douglas Preston • 2017

Cartels, vipers, disease. A filmmaker searched for a lost city. A laser found it first.

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🗺️ Lost City Legends ⛏️ Archaeological Adventure 🌴 Jungle Expeditions 🛰️ Aerial Archaeology 🏛️ Pre-Columbian Civilizations

The Lost City of the Monkey God

Cartels, vipers, disease. A filmmaker searched for a lost city. A laser found it first.

av Douglas Preston 2017 326 sidor

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🗺️ Lost City Legends ⛏️ Archaeological Adventure 🌴 Jungle Expeditions 🛰️ Aerial Archaeology 🏛️ Pre-Columbian Civilizations

The Collapse of Complex Societies

av Joseph A. Tainter • 1988

Society's greatest threat isn't invasion; it's the rising cost of keeping itself organized.

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🏚️ Societal Collapse 🕸️ Complex Systems 📉 Diminishing Returns ⚡ Energy And Society 🔄 Civilization Cycles

The Collapse of Complex Societies

Society's greatest threat isn't invasion; it's the rising cost of keeping itself organized.

av Joseph A. Tainter 1988 264 sidor

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🏚️ Societal Collapse 🕸️ Complex Systems 📉 Diminishing Returns ⚡ Energy And Society 🔄 Civilization Cycles

God

av Francesca Stavrakopoulou • 2021

The Bible's God had feet, hands, and genitals: the ancient body theology erased.

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📖 Biblical Studies 🏛️ Ancient Religion 👤 Divine Embodiment 🌍 Ancient Near East 📜 History Of Yahweh

God

The Bible's God had feet, hands, and genitals: the ancient body theology erased.

av Francesca Stavrakopoulou 2021 608 sidor

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📖 Biblical Studies 🏛️ Ancient Religion 👤 Divine Embodiment 🌍 Ancient Near East 📜 History Of Yahweh

The Secret Knowledge of Water

av Craig Childs • 2000

To understand water, go to the land without it. A quest for hidden pools, caves, and desert floods.

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🏜️ Desert Ecology 💧 Desert Hydrology ✍️ Lyrical Nature Writing 🕳️ Hidden Worlds ⛰️ Sacred Landscapes

The Secret Knowledge of Water

To understand water, go to the land without it. A quest for hidden pools, caves, and desert floods.

av Craig Childs 2000 304 sidor

4.29

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Traditional Foods Are Your Best Medicine

av Ronald F. Schmid N.D. • 1987

Ten times the vitamins, zero chronic disease. The traditional food wisdom modern diets abandoned.

4.20

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🥘 Traditional Diets 🦴 Nutritional Anthropology 🔬 Weston A Price 💊 Food As Medicine 🥬 Raw Foods

Traditional Foods Are Your Best Medicine

Ten times the vitamins, zero chronic disease. The traditional food wisdom modern diets abandoned.

av Ronald F. Schmid N.D. 1987 288 sidor

4.20

119 betyg

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