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Salvar las apariencias

av Owen Barfield • 1957

Science turned nature into dead objects. Conscious imagination might bring the cosmos back to life.

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🧠 Consciousness Studies ⛪ Philosophical Theology 📜 History Of Ideas 🗣️ Language And Thought 🔭 Science And Religion

Salvar las apariencias

Science turned nature into dead objects. Conscious imagination might bring the cosmos back to life.

av Owen Barfield 1957 256 sidor

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🧠 Consciousness Studies ⛪ Philosophical Theology 📜 History Of Ideas 🗣️ Language And Thought 🔭 Science And Religion

Of Grammatology

av Jacques Derrida • 1967

Philosophy treats speech as pure thought and writing as its corrupt double. It has it backward.

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📚 Post-Structuralism 🏚️ Deconstruction 💬 Philosophy Of Language 📖 Literary Theory 🔣 Semiotics

Of Grammatology

Philosophy treats speech as pure thought and writing as its corrupt double. It has it backward.

av Jacques Derrida 1967 456 sidor

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📚 Post-Structuralism 🏚️ Deconstruction 💬 Philosophy Of Language 📖 Literary Theory 🔣 Semiotics

Feudal Society, Volume 2

av Marc Bloch • 1939

From mounted warrior to hereditary lord: how the feudal class system invented the social contract.

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🏰 Feudal Society 🏛️ Class Formation 👑 Medieval Nobility 🛡️ Chivalry 🤴 Kingship

Feudal Society, Volume 2

From mounted warrior to hereditary lord: how the feudal class system invented the social contract.

av Marc Bloch 1939 229 sidor

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🏰 Feudal Society 🏛️ Class Formation 👑 Medieval Nobility 🛡️ Chivalry 🤴 Kingship

The Idealist

av Nina Munk • 2013

The $120-per-person plan to end poverty in Africa: why it failed, village by village.

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📈 Development Economics 🌍 Foreign Aid 🏛️ Top-Down Planning 🪤 Poverty Traps 🔄 Aid Dependency

The Idealist

The $120-per-person plan to end poverty in Africa: why it failed, village by village.

av Nina Munk 2013 272 sidor

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📈 Development Economics 🌍 Foreign Aid 🏛️ Top-Down Planning 🪤 Poverty Traps 🔄 Aid Dependency

菊與刀

av Ruth Benedict • 1946

A hidden ledger of obligation explains why Japan is warrior and aesthete, rigid yet adaptable.

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⛩️ Japanese Culture 😳 Shame Cultures 🪜 Social Hierarchy ⚔️ Honor Cultures 🎁 Gift Economies

菊與刀

A hidden ledger of obligation explains why Japan is warrior and aesthete, rigid yet adaptable.

av Ruth Benedict 1946 429 sidor

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⛩️ Japanese Culture 😳 Shame Cultures 🪜 Social Hierarchy ⚔️ Honor Cultures 🎁 Gift Economies

Conflict Sociology

av Randall Collins • 1975

Everyday talk is a power struggle. A conflict lens reveals how it builds class, states, and beliefs.

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🥊 Conflict Theory 📊 Social Stratification 🔍 Micro-Sociology 📜 Weberian Sociology 🕯️ Ritual And Solidarity

Conflict Sociology

Everyday talk is a power struggle. A conflict lens reveals how it builds class, states, and beliefs.

av Randall Collins 1975 368 sidor

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🥊 Conflict Theory 📊 Social Stratification 🔍 Micro-Sociology 📜 Weberian Sociology 🕯️ Ritual And Solidarity

Introducing Cultural Studies

av Ziauddin Sardar • 1994

Your taste is a power move. Cultural studies explains the rules of the game.

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🏛️ Cultural Theory 📖 Critical Theory 🌍 Postcolonial Theory 🔍 Semiotics ⚡ Cultural Hegemony

Introducing Cultural Studies

Your taste is a power move. Cultural studies explains the rules of the game.

av Ziauddin Sardar 1994 176 sidor

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🏛️ Cultural Theory 📖 Critical Theory 🌍 Postcolonial Theory 🔍 Semiotics ⚡ Cultural Hegemony

The Legacy of Arab-Islam in Africa

av John Azumah • 2001

Africa’s faiths must confront fourteen centuries of Islamic slavery, not a romantic myth.

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🌍 African History ☪️ Islamic History 🤝 Interfaith Dialogue ⛓️ Slavery And Religion 🧬 Racial Ideology

The Legacy of Arab-Islam in Africa

Africa’s faiths must confront fourteen centuries of Islamic slavery, not a romantic myth.

av John Azumah 2001 288 sidor

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🌍 African History ☪️ Islamic History 🤝 Interfaith Dialogue ⛓️ Slavery And Religion 🧬 Racial Ideology

A Triune Concept of the Brain and Behaviour

av Paul D. MacLean • 1974

You have three brains. The ancient one is in charge and cannot read this sentence.

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🦎 Brain Evolution 🧠 Evolutionary Psychology ❤️ Affective Neuroscience 💭 Consciousness Studies ⚕️ Biological Psychiatry

A Triune Concept of the Brain and Behaviour

You have three brains. The ancient one is in charge and cannot read this sentence.

av Paul D. MacLean 1974 165 sidor

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🦎 Brain Evolution 🧠 Evolutionary Psychology ❤️ Affective Neuroscience 💭 Consciousness Studies ⚕️ Biological Psychiatry

Identity And Story

av Dan P. McAdams • 2006

The self is not one voice but many, and identity is the story they rewrite together.

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🧠 Narrative Psychology 🪪 Self And Identity 💭 Autobiographical Memory 🗣️ Internal Voices 🌱 Adversity And Growth

Identity And Story

The self is not one voice but many, and identity is the story they rewrite together.

av Dan P. McAdams 2006 284 sidor

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🧠 Narrative Psychology 🪪 Self And Identity 💭 Autobiographical Memory 🗣️ Internal Voices 🌱 Adversity And Growth

Civilization and Capitalism 15th–18th Century, Vol. 3

av Fernand Braudel • 1979

Capitalism thrives by avoiding the market. How monopolies, not competition, built the modern world.

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🏛️ History Of Capitalism 🌐 World-Systems Theory 📜 Annales School ⏳ Macrohistory 🔄 Economic Cycles

Civilization and Capitalism 15th–18th Century, Vol. 3

Capitalism thrives by avoiding the market. How monopolies, not competition, built the modern world.

av Fernand Braudel 1979 699 sidor

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🏛️ History Of Capitalism 🌐 World-Systems Theory 📜 Annales School ⏳ Macrohistory 🔄 Economic Cycles

Astrazione e empatia

av Wilhelm Worringer • 1907

Primitive art wasn't clumsy. It was fleeing from the terror of space into geometry.

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🎨 Art Theory 💭 Aesthetic Philosophy 🧠 Psychology Of Art 🔷 Abstraction In Art 🔺 Geometric Ornament

Astrazione e empatia

Primitive art wasn't clumsy. It was fleeing from the terror of space into geometry.

av Wilhelm Worringer 1907 144 sidor

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🎨 Art Theory 💭 Aesthetic Philosophy 🧠 Psychology Of Art 🔷 Abstraction In Art 🔺 Geometric Ornament

Too Many Women?

av Marcia Guttentag • 1983

The sex ratio, not religion or ideology, has been the true driver of every sexual revolution.

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🏛️ Historical Sociology 📊 Historical Demography 💔 Sexual Scarcity 💑 Courtship Dynamics 💍 Marriage Instability

Too Many Women?

The sex ratio, not religion or ideology, has been the true driver of every sexual revolution.

av Marcia Guttentag 1983 280 sidor

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🏛️ Historical Sociology 📊 Historical Demography 💔 Sexual Scarcity 💑 Courtship Dynamics 💍 Marriage Instability

Cultural DNA

av Gurnek Bains • 2015

Ancient migrations carved eight mindsets. They still decide which global ventures succeed.

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🏢 Cross-Cultural Management 🌍 Global Leadership 🧬 Cultural Evolution 🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🏛️ National Character

Cultural DNA

Ancient migrations carved eight mindsets. They still decide which global ventures succeed.

av Gurnek Bains 2015 295 sidor

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🏢 Cross-Cultural Management 🌍 Global Leadership 🧬 Cultural Evolution 🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🏛️ National Character

Michel Foucault

av Hubert L. Dreyfus • 1982

Power fabricates the modern individual. Foucault's method shows how, and his final word is refusal.

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🏛️ Poststructuralism 📜 History Of Ideas 🧠 Continental Philosophy ⚡ Critical Theory 🔍 Social Theory

Michel Foucault

Power fabricates the modern individual. Foucault's method shows how, and his final word is refusal.

av Hubert L. Dreyfus 1982 280 sidor

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🏛️ Poststructuralism 📜 History Of Ideas 🧠 Continental Philosophy ⚡ Critical Theory 🔍 Social Theory

Human Behavior and the Principle of Least Effort

av George Kingsley Zipf • 2012

Every word spoken and every city built follows one mathematical equation.

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📊 Quantitative Linguistics ⚛️ Social Physics 📈 Power Laws 🏙️ Urban Scaling 🗣️ Word Frequencies

Human Behavior and the Principle of Least Effort

Every word spoken and every city built follows one mathematical equation.

av George Kingsley Zipf 2012 588 sidor

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📊 Quantitative Linguistics ⚛️ Social Physics 📈 Power Laws 🏙️ Urban Scaling 🗣️ Word Frequencies

The Practice of the Wild

av Gary Snyder • 1990

The rules for real freedom are written in forests, watersheds, and the food chain.

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🏔️ Deep Ecology ✍️ Nature Writing 🗺️ Bioregionalism 🪷 Zen Buddhism 🌿 Sacred Ecology

The Practice of the Wild

The rules for real freedom are written in forests, watersheds, and the food chain.

av Gary Snyder 1990 190 sidor

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🏔️ Deep Ecology ✍️ Nature Writing 🗺️ Bioregionalism 🪷 Zen Buddhism 🌿 Sacred Ecology

Cultural Tourism

av Bob McKercher • 2002

Not every historic site deserves a gift shop. The framework for knowing which ones do.

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🏛️ Heritage Tourism 🗿 Heritage Management ♻️ Sustainable Tourism 🗣️ Cultural Interpretation 👥 Visitor Management

Cultural Tourism

Not every historic site deserves a gift shop. The framework for knowing which ones do.

av Bob McKercher 2002 280 sidor

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🏛️ Heritage Tourism 🗿 Heritage Management ♻️ Sustainable Tourism 🗣️ Cultural Interpretation 👥 Visitor Management

The Story of Stories

av Kevin Ashton • 2026

Firelight made us storytellers. That night built language, writing, print, and now the internet.

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📖 Storytelling History 🗣️ Evolution Of Language 🔥 Oral Tradition ✍️ History Of Writing 🖨️ Print Revolution

The Story of Stories

Firelight made us storytellers. That night built language, writing, print, and now the internet.

av Kevin Ashton 2026 400 sidor

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📖 Storytelling History 🗣️ Evolution Of Language 🔥 Oral Tradition ✍️ History Of Writing 🖨️ Print Revolution

ADHD - uante krefter

av Anders Hansen • 2017

ADHD traits drove human migration. Now they fuel creativity, hyperfocus, and entrepreneurship.

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🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 💪 Adhd Strengths 🌈 Neurodiversity ⚡ Evolutionary Mismatch 🎯 Dopamine And Drive

ADHD - uante krefter

ADHD traits drove human migration. Now they fuel creativity, hyperfocus, and entrepreneurship.

av Anders Hansen 2017 199 sidor

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🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 💪 Adhd Strengths 🌈 Neurodiversity ⚡ Evolutionary Mismatch 🎯 Dopamine And Drive

ADAPTED MIND

av Jerome H. Barkow • 1992

The mind is a Pleistocene toolkit. Culture is not what fills it but what it produces.

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🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🧩 Modular Mind 💕 Mate Selection ⚧️ Sex Differences 🔄 Evolutionary Mismatch

ADAPTED MIND

The mind is a Pleistocene toolkit. Culture is not what fills it but what it produces.

av Jerome H. Barkow 1992 679 sidor

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🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🧩 Modular Mind 💕 Mate Selection ⚧️ Sex Differences 🔄 Evolutionary Mismatch

Japanese for Travellers

av Katie Kitamura • 2007

Beneath Japan's celebrated cool: an economy ruined, a youth paralyzed, and a country losing memory.

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🗾 Post-War Japan 📉 Lost Decades 🏙️ Japanese Society 💥 Collective Trauma 👴 Elderly Care

Japanese for Travellers

Beneath Japan's celebrated cool: an economy ruined, a youth paralyzed, and a country losing memory.

av Katie Kitamura 2007 272 sidor

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🗾 Post-War Japan 📉 Lost Decades 🏙️ Japanese Society 💥 Collective Trauma 👴 Elderly Care

How to Understand Everything

av Tom Beakbane • 2021

The brain doesn't process information; it re-creates reality from memory for tribal survival.

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🔄 Systems Thinking 🔬 Philosophy Of Science 💭 Consciousness Studies 🏴 Tribalism 🌊 Self-Organization

How to Understand Everything

The brain doesn't process information; it re-creates reality from memory for tribal survival.

av Tom Beakbane 2021 309 sidor

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🔄 Systems Thinking 🔬 Philosophy Of Science 💭 Consciousness Studies 🏴 Tribalism 🌊 Self-Organization

Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave

av Mariana Enriquez • 2025

Mariana Enriquez tours graves worldwide: erotic tombs, colonial mass graves, London vampire panic.

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🪦 Cemetery History 🎟️ Dark Tourism 🧳 Travel Essays 🌑 Gothic Nonfiction 🗿 Funerary Art

Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave

Mariana Enriquez tours graves worldwide: erotic tombs, colonial mass graves, London vampire panic.

av Mariana Enriquez 2025 336 sidor

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🪦 Cemetery History 🎟️ Dark Tourism 🧳 Travel Essays 🌑 Gothic Nonfiction 🗿 Funerary Art

Issues in Cultural Tourism Studies

av Melanie Smith • 2003

Tourism is a cultural battlefield: heritage, authenticity, and power in every destination.

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🌍 Cultural Tourism 🏛️ Heritage Studies 🌀 Postmodernism 🎭 Authenticity 🔗 Neo-Colonialism

Issues in Cultural Tourism Studies

Tourism is a cultural battlefield: heritage, authenticity, and power in every destination.

av Melanie Smith 2003 208 sidor

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🌍 Cultural Tourism 🏛️ Heritage Studies 🌀 Postmodernism 🎭 Authenticity 🔗 Neo-Colonialism

Primitive, Archaic, and Modern Economies

av Karl Polanyi • 1971

The market system we take for granted is a 200-year anomaly, built on three dangerous fictions.

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🌍 Economic Anthropology 💸 Capitalism Critique 🏛️ Institutional Economics 🔄 Non-Market Exchange 🏙️ Market Society

Primitive, Archaic, and Modern Economies

The market system we take for granted is a 200-year anomaly, built on three dangerous fictions.

av Karl Polanyi 1971 346 sidor

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🌍 Economic Anthropology 💸 Capitalism Critique 🏛️ Institutional Economics 🔄 Non-Market Exchange 🏙️ Market Society

From mobilization to revolution

av Charles Tilly • 1978

Rioters calculate, revolutions are chess matches, and the state always stacks the board.

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🏛️ Political Contention ✊ Social Movements 🏴 Revolutionary Theory 🚔 State Repression 💥 Collective Violence

From mobilization to revolution

Rioters calculate, revolutions are chess matches, and the state always stacks the board.

av Charles Tilly 1978 349 sidor

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🏛️ Political Contention ✊ Social Movements 🏴 Revolutionary Theory 🚔 State Repression 💥 Collective Violence

Doing It All

av Ruby Russell • 2024

The nuclear family was built for capitalism, not kids. Single mothers are exposing a better way.

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🧑‍🧒 Single Motherhood 💰 Care Economy ☭ Marxist Feminism 🖤 Black Feminism 🏠 Nuclear Family Critique

Doing It All

The nuclear family was built for capitalism, not kids. Single mothers are exposing a better way.

av Ruby Russell 2024 336 sidor

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🧑‍🧒 Single Motherhood 💰 Care Economy ☭ Marxist Feminism 🖤 Black Feminism 🏠 Nuclear Family Critique

Diversity, Oppression, & Change

av Flavio Francisco Marsiglia • 2021

When social work claims neutrality, it erases culture and ignores power. This text brings them back.

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🌐 Culturally Responsive Care ✊ Anti-Oppressive Practice 🕸️ Intersectionality 🏘️ Social Determinants Of Health 🕰️ Historical Trauma

Diversity, Oppression, & Change

When social work claims neutrality, it erases culture and ignores power. This text brings them back.

av Flavio Francisco Marsiglia 2021 413 sidor

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🌐 Culturally Responsive Care ✊ Anti-Oppressive Practice 🕸️ Intersectionality 🏘️ Social Determinants Of Health 🕰️ Historical Trauma

American Aloha

av Heather A. Diamond • 2008

A hula stage on the National Mall: how festivals manufacture tradition and erase a colonial past.

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🏛️ Public Folklore 🧳 Cultural Tourism 🎪 Festival Studies 🎭 Invented Traditions 🌺 Postcolonial Hawaii

American Aloha

A hula stage on the National Mall: how festivals manufacture tradition and erase a colonial past.

av Heather A. Diamond 2008 280 sidor

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🏛️ Public Folklore 🧳 Cultural Tourism 🎪 Festival Studies 🎭 Invented Traditions 🌺 Postcolonial Hawaii

Lurking

av Joanne McNeil • 2020

Quiet observers were the heart of the early web. Then the internet turned them into data.

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🕰️ Internet History 💻 Digital Culture 🌐 Online Communities 📊 Surveillance Capitalism ⚖️ Algorithmic Bias

Lurking

Quiet observers were the heart of the early web. Then the internet turned them into data.

av Joanne McNeil 2020 304 sidor

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🕰️ Internet History 💻 Digital Culture 🌐 Online Communities 📊 Surveillance Capitalism ⚖️ Algorithmic Bias

Executive Functioning and Psychotherapy

av Louis Cozolino • 2025

Three executive systems, not one. Built by attachment. Hijacked by screens. Rewired in therapy.

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🧠 Interpersonal Neurobiology 🔗 Attachment Theory 📋 Executive Function 🌐 Brain Networks 🏥 Clinical Neuroscience

Executive Functioning and Psychotherapy

Three executive systems, not one. Built by attachment. Hijacked by screens. Rewired in therapy.

av Louis Cozolino 2025 330 sidor

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🧠 Interpersonal Neurobiology 🔗 Attachment Theory 📋 Executive Function 🌐 Brain Networks 🏥 Clinical Neuroscience

Dictionary of American Slang

av Robert L. Chapman • 1998

Slang is a psychological shield, a substitute for the fist, and language at its most honest.

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🗣️ Sociolinguistic Analysis 📖 Lexicography ❤️ Language And Emotion 🎭 Subcultural Language ✨ Linguistic Creativity

Dictionary of American Slang

Slang is a psychological shield, a substitute for the fist, and language at its most honest.

av Robert L. Chapman 1998 640 sidor

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🗣️ Sociolinguistic Analysis 📖 Lexicography ❤️ Language And Emotion 🎭 Subcultural Language ✨ Linguistic Creativity

The Sociology Of Economic Life

av Mark Granovetter • 1991

Markets don't float free of society. They run on trust, gossip, handshakes, and who you know.

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🏗️ Economic Sociology 🕸️ Social Networks 🏭 Comparative Capitalism 🏪 Market Formation 📜 Weberian Sociology

The Sociology Of Economic Life

Markets don't float free of society. They run on trust, gossip, handshakes, and who you know.

av Mark Granovetter 1991 544 sidor

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🏗️ Economic Sociology 🕸️ Social Networks 🏭 Comparative Capitalism 🏪 Market Formation 📜 Weberian Sociology

Diversity, Oppression, and Change

av Flavio Francisco Marsiglia • 2008

A social work approach that starts with the client's story and culture, not a checklist of deficits.

3.89

📋 Social Work Practice 🤝 Anti-Oppressive Practice 🔀 Intersectionality 📚 Critical Race Theory ⚕️ Health Equity

Diversity, Oppression, and Change

A social work approach that starts with the client's story and culture, not a checklist of deficits.

av Flavio Francisco Marsiglia 2008 306 sidor

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📋 Social Work Practice 🤝 Anti-Oppressive Practice 🔀 Intersectionality 📚 Critical Race Theory ⚕️ Health Equity

Social Movements, 1768-2004

av Charles Tilly • 2004

Protest is ancient; the social movement is an 18th-century invention with an uncertain future.

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🏛️ Historical Sociology 📢 Social Movement Theory 🗳️ Political Sociology 👥 Collective Action 📜 History From Below

Social Movements, 1768-2004

Protest is ancient; the social movement is an 18th-century invention with an uncertain future.

av Charles Tilly 2004 204 sidor

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🏛️ Historical Sociology 📢 Social Movement Theory 🗳️ Political Sociology 👥 Collective Action 📜 History From Below

Chanterelle Dreams, Amanita Nightmares

av Greg Marley • 2010

Why Russians worship the mushrooms Americans fear: a cultural history of the forest floor.

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🧫 Mycology 🍄 Mushroom Hunting ⚠️ Foraging Safety 🌲 Fungal Ecology 🪵 Mushroom Cultivation

Chanterelle Dreams, Amanita Nightmares

Why Russians worship the mushrooms Americans fear: a cultural history of the forest floor.

av Greg Marley 2010 288 sidor

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🧫 Mycology 🍄 Mushroom Hunting ⚠️ Foraging Safety 🌲 Fungal Ecology 🪵 Mushroom Cultivation

The Social Neuroscience of Education

av Louis Cozolino • 2012

A classroom is a neural network where relationships, not lessons, decide what gets learned.

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🧸 Attachment Theory 🧠 Neuroeducation 🩹 Trauma-Informed Teaching 🧩 Play-Based Learning 🤝 Social Neuroscience

The Social Neuroscience of Education

A classroom is a neural network where relationships, not lessons, decide what gets learned.

av Louis Cozolino 2012 448 sidor

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🧸 Attachment Theory 🧠 Neuroeducation 🩹 Trauma-Informed Teaching 🧩 Play-Based Learning 🤝 Social Neuroscience

Breath

av James Nestor • 2025

Mouthbreathing ruins sleep, deforms faces, and shortens lives; the fix was hiding in plain sight.

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🫁 Breathwork 🧬 Evolutionary Mismatch 🧘 Yogic Breathing 🔬 Self-Experimentation 🏛️ Ancient Practices

Breath

Mouthbreathing ruins sleep, deforms faces, and shortens lives; the fix was hiding in plain sight.

av James Nestor 2025 368 sidor

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🫁 Breathwork 🧬 Evolutionary Mismatch 🧘 Yogic Breathing 🔬 Self-Experimentation 🏛️ Ancient Practices

The Culture Puzzle

av Mario Moussa • 2021

Culture, not strategy, drives success; the secret is mastering the forces that shape it.

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🏢 Organizational Culture 🔄 Culture Change 🤝 Employee Engagement 💡 Intrinsic Motivation 🛡️ Psychological Safety

The Culture Puzzle

Culture, not strategy, drives success; the secret is mastering the forces that shape it.

av Mario Moussa 2021 240 sidor

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🏢 Organizational Culture 🔄 Culture Change 🤝 Employee Engagement 💡 Intrinsic Motivation 🛡️ Psychological Safety

The Mammoth Book of Native Americans

av Jon E. Lewis • 2003

A continent of 500 nations: the civilizations, plagues, and wars that remade Native America.

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🪶 Native American History 🏛️ Pre-Columbian Civilizations 🥾 Forced Removal ✊ Indigenous Resistance 🏚️ Cultural Genocide

The Mammoth Book of Native Americans

A continent of 500 nations: the civilizations, plagues, and wars that remade Native America.

av Jon E. Lewis 2003 571 sidor

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🪶 Native American History 🏛️ Pre-Columbian Civilizations 🥾 Forced Removal ✊ Indigenous Resistance 🏚️ Cultural Genocide

Reconstructing Karl Polanyi

av 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.

av Gareth Dale 2016 258 sidor

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

The Fabric of Civilization

av Virginia Postrel • 2020

Binary code, global banking, synthetic chemistry: all three began with a piece of cloth.

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🏺 Material Culture ⚙️ History Of Technology 🧵 Textile History 🌍 Global Trade 🧪 History Of Chemistry

The Fabric of Civilization

Binary code, global banking, synthetic chemistry: all three began with a piece of cloth.

av Virginia Postrel 2020 320 sidor

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🏺 Material Culture ⚙️ History Of Technology 🧵 Textile History 🌍 Global Trade 🧪 History Of Chemistry

A History of the Human Brain

av Bret Stetka • 2021

Seafood, gossip, and cooking built the human brain; now we're directing its evolution.

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🧬 Human Evolution 🧠 Evolutionary Neuroscience 👥 Social Brain ⛏️ Paleoanthropology 🥑 Diet And Brain

A History of the Human Brain

Seafood, gossip, and cooking built the human brain; now we're directing its evolution.

av Bret Stetka 2021 272 sidor

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🧬 Human Evolution 🧠 Evolutionary Neuroscience 👥 Social Brain ⛏️ Paleoanthropology 🥑 Diet And Brain

The Village Effect

av Susan Pinker • 2013

Hyperconnected yet lonelier than ever: the biological cost of screens replacing faces.

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🧠 Social Neuroscience 🏘️ Community Health 🦠 Social Contagion 🧬 Longevity Science 📵 Digital Detox

The Village Effect

Hyperconnected yet lonelier than ever: the biological cost of screens replacing faces.

av Susan Pinker 2013 285 sidor

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🧠 Social Neuroscience 🏘️ Community Health 🦠 Social Contagion 🧬 Longevity Science 📵 Digital Detox

The Shortest History of England

av 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.

av James Hawes 2019 272 sidor

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

I is an Other

av 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.

av James Geary 2011 740 sidor

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

Who's in Charge? Free Will and the Science of the Brain

av Michael S. Gazzaniga • 2011

Your brain decides without you. Free will is a social question, not a neural one.

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🧠 Neuroscience Of Self 🧩 Philosophy Of Mind ⚖️ Free Will Debate 🎭 Constructed Self 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Social Brain

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