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Viking Age Iceland

av Jesse L. Byock • 2001

No king, no army, no taxes: the machinery that held Viking Iceland together for three centuries.

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🪓 Viking Age 🏔️ Medieval Scandinavia 🇮🇸 Icelandic History 📜 Saga Studies ⚖️ Legal History

Viking Age Iceland

No king, no army, no taxes: the machinery that held Viking Iceland together for three centuries.

av Jesse L. Byock 2001 448 sidor

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🪓 Viking Age 🏔️ Medieval Scandinavia 🇮🇸 Icelandic History 📜 Saga Studies ⚖️ Legal History

How to Be a Dictator

av Frank Dikötter • 2019

Why every dictator is the architect of his godlike image, and why the statues fall.

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🏛️ Totalitarian Regimes 🛐 Personality Cults 📢 State Propaganda 🤖 Manufactured Consent 📚 Comparative History

How to Be a Dictator

Why every dictator is the architect of his godlike image, and why the statues fall.

av Frank Dikötter 2019 304 sidor

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🏛️ Totalitarian Regimes 🛐 Personality Cults 📢 State Propaganda 🤖 Manufactured Consent 📚 Comparative History

Dreams from My Father

av Barack Obama • 1995

From Hawaii to Kenya, a fatherless son pieces together an inheritance he was never given.

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🧬 Biracial Identity 🏘️ Community Organizing 👤 Absent Fathers 🔄 Code-Switching 🌍 Kenyan Roots

Dreams from My Father

From Hawaii to Kenya, a fatherless son pieces together an inheritance he was never given.

av Barack Obama 1995

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🧬 Biracial Identity 🏘️ Community Organizing 👤 Absent Fathers 🔄 Code-Switching 🌍 Kenyan Roots

LatinoLand

av Marie Arana • 2024

Thirty-three countries, five centuries of mixing: the real story inside the label 'Latino.'

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🪪 Latino Identity 🧳 Immigration History 📚 Ethnic Studies 🧬 Racial Formation 🗣️ Immigrant Narratives

LatinoLand

Thirty-three countries, five centuries of mixing: the real story inside the label 'Latino.'

av Marie Arana 2024 573 sidor

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🪪 Latino Identity 🧳 Immigration History 📚 Ethnic Studies 🧬 Racial Formation 🗣️ Immigrant Narratives

The Madness of Crowds

av Douglas Murray • 2019

Identity politics became the West's substitute faith. A gay dissenter counts what we are losing.

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🏷️ Identity Politics ⚔️ Culture Wars 🚫 Cancel Culture 🩹 Victimhood Culture 🏛️ Cultural Conservatism

The Madness of Crowds

Identity politics became the West's substitute faith. A gay dissenter counts what we are losing.

av Douglas Murray 2019 288 sidor

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🏷️ Identity Politics ⚔️ Culture Wars 🚫 Cancel Culture 🩹 Victimhood Culture 🏛️ Cultural Conservatism

The Healing Wisdom of Africa

av Malidoma Patrice Somé • 1999

A West African elder's ritual and community practices for restoring the purpose you forgot.

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🌿 Indigenous Wisdom 🌍 African Spirituality 🕯️ Ritual Healing 🤝 Community Healing 🧭 Life Purpose

The Healing Wisdom of Africa

A West African elder's ritual and community practices for restoring the purpose you forgot.

av Malidoma Patrice Somé 1999 352 sidor

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🌿 Indigenous Wisdom 🌍 African Spirituality 🕯️ Ritual Healing 🤝 Community Healing 🧭 Life Purpose

Watching the English

av Kate Fox • 2004

The English have a secret code for weather, queues, and pubs. An anthropologist cracks it.

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🇬🇧 Englishness 🔍 Pop Anthropology 📜 Unwritten Rules 🎩 Politeness Rituals 🧐 British Class System

Watching the English

The English have a secret code for weather, queues, and pubs. An anthropologist cracks it.

av Kate Fox 2004 583 sidor

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🇬🇧 Englishness 🔍 Pop Anthropology 📜 Unwritten Rules 🎩 Politeness Rituals 🧐 British Class System

The Sun Does Shine

av Anthony Ray Hinton • 2018

Arrested on a misidentification, sentenced to die, then he told the prosecutor he loved him.

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⛓️ Wrongful Conviction 💀 Death Row Memoirs ⚖️ Systemic Racism 💙 Radical Forgiveness 🙏 Faith Under Duress

The Sun Does Shine

Arrested on a misidentification, sentenced to die, then he told the prosecutor he loved him.

av Anthony Ray Hinton 2018 272 sidor

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⛓️ Wrongful Conviction 💀 Death Row Memoirs ⚖️ Systemic Racism 💙 Radical Forgiveness 🙏 Faith Under Duress

The Narcissism Epidemic

av Jean M. Twenge • 2009

The self-esteem revolution didn't produce happier kids. It produced an epidemic of entitlement.

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🪞 Narcissism And Culture 📈 Self-Esteem Movement 👨‍👩‍👧 Overpraise Parenting 🌟 Celebrity Culture 📱 Social Media And Self

The Narcissism Epidemic

The self-esteem revolution didn't produce happier kids. It produced an epidemic of entitlement.

av Jean M. Twenge 2009 352 sidor

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🪞 Narcissism And Culture 📈 Self-Esteem Movement 👨‍👩‍👧 Overpraise Parenting 🌟 Celebrity Culture 📱 Social Media And Self

A Life Worth Living

av Robert Zaretsky • 2013

The universe is silent, life has no given meaning. Camus: that is where freedom begins.

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🎭 Absurdist Philosophy 📖 Philosophical Biography 🌅 Secular Meaning 🌊 Living With Uncertainty 🇫🇷 French Existentialism

A Life Worth Living

The universe is silent, life has no given meaning. Camus: that is where freedom begins.

av Robert Zaretsky 2013 240 sidor

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🎭 Absurdist Philosophy 📖 Philosophical Biography 🌅 Secular Meaning 🌊 Living With Uncertainty 🇫🇷 French Existentialism

Persians

av Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones • 2022

Herodotus told one story. Persian tablets and reliefs tell another, and they survive.

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🇮🇷 Persian History 🏛️ Ancient Empires 👑 Imperial Governance 🌍 Multicultural Empire 🔥 Zoroastrian Influence

Persians

Herodotus told one story. Persian tablets and reliefs tell another, and they survive.

av Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones 2022 448 sidor

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🇮🇷 Persian History 🏛️ Ancient Empires 👑 Imperial Governance 🌍 Multicultural Empire 🔥 Zoroastrian Influence

Why Men Fight

av Bertrand Russell • 1916

War, bad schools, and hollow religion share a root: mistaking control for growth.

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📜 Political Philosophy 🏙️ Social Criticism 🧑‍🏫 Educational Reform 🌍 Nationalism Critique ⛪ Religion And Society

Why Men Fight

War, bad schools, and hollow religion share a root: mistaking control for growth.

av Bertrand Russell 1916 192 sidor

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📜 Political Philosophy 🏙️ Social Criticism 🧑‍🏫 Educational Reform 🌍 Nationalism Critique ⛪ Religion And Society

Nocturnes

av Kazuo Ishiguro • 2009

Five stories of music at dusk: fading stars, borrowed dreams, and the quiet grace of letting go.

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🖇️ Linked Short Stories 🌟 Fading Celebrity 💔 Marriage In Decline 🎭 Artistic Ambition 👀 Outsider Narrator

Nocturnes

Five stories of music at dusk: fading stars, borrowed dreams, and the quiet grace of letting go.

av Kazuo Ishiguro 2009 221 sidor

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🖇️ Linked Short Stories 🌟 Fading Celebrity 💔 Marriage In Decline 🎭 Artistic Ambition 👀 Outsider Narrator

Everyone Is African

av Daniel J. Fairbanks • 2015

Race isn't in your genes. Africa is, for everyone, and the science is unequivocal.

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🧬 Human Genetics 🔬 Scientific Racism 🧬 Genetic Ancestry 🌍 Out Of Africa 🏥 Health Disparities

Everyone Is African

Race isn't in your genes. Africa is, for everyone, and the science is unequivocal.

av Daniel J. Fairbanks 2015 191 sidor

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🧬 Human Genetics 🔬 Scientific Racism 🧬 Genetic Ancestry 🌍 Out Of Africa 🏥 Health Disparities

Leaves of Grass

av Walt Whitman • 1855

A lisp, a Paris classroom, a profane brother: Sedaris on how language betrays and bonds us.

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📄 Essay Collections 💔 Family Dysfunction 👀 Observational Humor 🗣️ Language Memoirs ✈️ Expat Life

Leaves of Grass

A lisp, a Paris classroom, a profane brother: Sedaris on how language betrays and bonds us.

av Walt Whitman 1855 624 sidor

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📄 Essay Collections 💔 Family Dysfunction 👀 Observational Humor 🗣️ Language Memoirs ✈️ Expat Life

Kim Jiyoung, född 1982

av Cho Nam-Joo • 2016

Kim Jiyoung does everything right, until motherhood breaks her into voices that are not her own.

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🏙️ Social Realism 🖤 Generational Trauma 🧹 Invisible Labor 💼 Everyday Sexism 👩‍👧 Motherhood And Identity

Kim Jiyoung, född 1982

Kim Jiyoung does everything right, until motherhood breaks her into voices that are not her own.

av Cho Nam-Joo 2016 163 sidor

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🏙️ Social Realism 🖤 Generational Trauma 🧹 Invisible Labor 💼 Everyday Sexism 👩‍👧 Motherhood And Identity

Cities of God

av Rodney Stark • 2006

Christianity conquered Rome via port cities, personal ties, and 3.4 percent annual growth.

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⛪ Early Christianity 🏛️ Roman Empire 🔬 Sociology Of Religion 📊 Quantitative History 🏙️ Urban Religion

Cities of God

Christianity conquered Rome via port cities, personal ties, and 3.4 percent annual growth.

av Rodney Stark 2006 288 sidor

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⛪ Early Christianity 🏛️ Roman Empire 🔬 Sociology Of Religion 📊 Quantitative History 🏙️ Urban Religion

Snöblomma och den hemliga solfjädern

av Lisa See • 2005

A Chinese widow rereads a lifetime of secret messages from the friend she loved and wronged.

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👯 Sworn Sisterhood 🖋️ Secret Women's Script 👣 Footbinding ⚖️ Friends Across Class 🕯️ Elegiac Reflection

Snöblomma och den hemliga solfjädern

A Chinese widow rereads a lifetime of secret messages from the friend she loved and wronged.

av Lisa See 2005 288 sidor

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👯 Sworn Sisterhood 🖋️ Secret Women's Script 👣 Footbinding ⚖️ Friends Across Class 🕯️ Elegiac Reflection

How to Save the West

av Spencer Klavan • 2023

The West's unraveling isn't political. It's philosophical, and the remedy is older than the problem.

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🏛️ Western Civilization 📉 Cultural Decline 🏺 Classical Philosophy 👤 Embodiment 🔬 Science And Faith

How to Save the West

The West's unraveling isn't political. It's philosophical, and the remedy is older than the problem.

av Spencer Klavan 2023 256 sidor

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🏛️ Western Civilization 📉 Cultural Decline 🏺 Classical Philosophy 👤 Embodiment 🔬 Science And Faith

The Golden Age of Piracy

av Benerson Little • 2016

No parrots, no plank, no buried treasure. The real pirates were slave-trading democrats.

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🏴‍☠️ Piracy History 🔍 Myth Debunking ⛵ Age Of Sail ⚓ Naval Warfare 🗳️ Pirate Democracy

The Golden Age of Piracy

No parrots, no plank, no buried treasure. The real pirates were slave-trading democrats.

av Benerson Little 2016 388 sidor

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🏴‍☠️ Piracy History 🔍 Myth Debunking ⛵ Age Of Sail ⚓ Naval Warfare 🗳️ Pirate Democracy

The Battle for God

av Karen Armstrong • 2000

Fundamentalism is not faith's past. It is modernity's child, and opposition only feeds it.

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🌐 Comparative Religion 🔥 Religious Fundamentalism 🏙️ Modernity And Faith 🎭 Myth And Ritual 🚩 Religious Nationalism

The Battle for God

Fundamentalism is not faith's past. It is modernity's child, and opposition only feeds it.

av Karen Armstrong 2000 480 sidor

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🌐 Comparative Religion 🔥 Religious Fundamentalism 🏙️ Modernity And Faith 🎭 Myth And Ritual 🚩 Religious Nationalism

The Good Immigrant

av Nikesh Shukla • 2019

Twenty-six writers on the price of conditional belonging in America.

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🧳 Immigrant Experience 🚧 Systemic Racism 🚪 Conditional Belonging ✍️ Personal Essays 🎭 Cultural Criticism

The Good Immigrant

Twenty-six writers on the price of conditional belonging in America.

av Nikesh Shukla 2019 336 sidor

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🧳 Immigrant Experience 🚧 Systemic Racism 🚪 Conditional Belonging ✍️ Personal Essays 🎭 Cultural Criticism

The Closing of the American Mind

av Allan Bloom • 1988

A dogma that all truths are equal has hollowed the American mind, starting on campus.

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🏛️ Higher Education Critique 🌐 American Culture Wars 🤷 Moral Relativism 📚 Western Canon Debate 🏗️ Critique Of Modernity

The Closing of the American Mind

A dogma that all truths are equal has hollowed the American mind, starting on campus.

av Allan Bloom 1988 392 sidor

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🏛️ Higher Education Critique 🌐 American Culture Wars 🤷 Moral Relativism 📚 Western Canon Debate 🏗️ Critique Of Modernity

7 Secrets Of Shiva

av Devdutt Pattanaik • 2011

Shiva's symbols are not myths but a map: seven doorways from animal fear to infinite consciousness.

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🛕 Hindu Mythology 🏛️ Deity Archetypes 🕉️ Non-Dual Philosophy 🔱 Sacred Symbolism 📿 Advaita Vedanta

7 Secrets Of Shiva

Shiva's symbols are not myths but a map: seven doorways from animal fear to infinite consciousness.

av Devdutt Pattanaik 2011 221 sidor

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🛕 Hindu Mythology 🏛️ Deity Archetypes 🕉️ Non-Dual Philosophy 🔱 Sacred Symbolism 📿 Advaita Vedanta

Children of Ash and Elm

av Neil Price • 2020

A four-part soul, a cosmos alive with spirits: the Viking Age makes sense only from the inside.

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🧠 Viking Worldview 🌌 Norse Cosmology 🌋 Climate And Civilization 🏰 Early Medieval History ⛵ Seafaring History

Children of Ash and Elm

A four-part soul, a cosmos alive with spirits: the Viking Age makes sense only from the inside.

av Neil Price 2020 656 sidor

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🧠 Viking Worldview 🌌 Norse Cosmology 🌋 Climate And Civilization 🏰 Early Medieval History ⛵ Seafaring History

The Greater Journey

av David McCullough • 2011

Paris, 1830 to 1900. Americans arrived as students. They left as architects of a new culture.

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🇺🇸 American Expatriates 🏛️ Grand Tour Tradition 🩺 19th Century Medicine 🎨 Artistic Pilgrimage ⚔️ Franco Prussian War

The Greater Journey

Paris, 1830 to 1900. Americans arrived as students. They left as architects of a new culture.

av David McCullough 2011 558 sidor

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🇺🇸 American Expatriates 🏛️ Grand Tour Tradition 🩺 19th Century Medicine 🎨 Artistic Pilgrimage ⚔️ Franco Prussian War

Code of the Samurai

av Daidōji Yūzan • 1943

Death rehearsed daily: the samurai code that made mortality the engine of loyalty and courage.

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⚔️ Samurai Ethics 🏯 Japanese Philosophy 💀 Death Awareness 🎖️ Honor Culture 🛡️ Warrior Mindset

Code of the Samurai

Death rehearsed daily: the samurai code that made mortality the engine of loyalty and courage.

av Daidōji Yūzan 1943 128 sidor

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⚔️ Samurai Ethics 🏯 Japanese Philosophy 💀 Death Awareness 🎖️ Honor Culture 🛡️ Warrior Mindset

The Secret of the Nagas & the Immortals of Meluha

av Amish Tripathi

Blue-throated by a strange elixir, a mountain chief becomes the prophesied savior of a rigid empire.

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🕉️ Indian Mythology Retelling 🔱 Mythic Fantasy ⚗️ Science Meets Myth 🇮🇳 Ancient India 💔 Forbidden Love

The Secret of the Nagas & the Immortals of Meluha

Blue-throated by a strange elixir, a mountain chief becomes the prophesied savior of a rigid empire.

av Amish Tripathi

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🕉️ Indian Mythology Retelling 🔱 Mythic Fantasy ⚗️ Science Meets Myth 🇮🇳 Ancient India 💔 Forbidden Love

The Dying Citizen

av Victor Davis Hanson • 2021

The four forces dismantling American citizenship are one crisis, each speeding the others.

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🗽 American Citizenship 🏴 National Identity 📉 Middle Class Decline 🏢 Bureaucratic State 🎭 Identity Politics Critique

The Dying Citizen

The four forces dismantling American citizenship are one crisis, each speeding the others.

av Victor Davis Hanson 2021 448 sidor

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🗽 American Citizenship 🏴 National Identity 📉 Middle Class Decline 🏢 Bureaucratic State 🎭 Identity Politics Critique

True Style

av G. Bruce Boyer • 2015

Your clothes speak before you do. The grammar of timeless menswear, decoded item by item.

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🧥 Classic Menswear 📜 Sartorial History 🥂 Classic Elegance 🏗️ Wardrobe Building 💼 Professional Image

True Style

Your clothes speak before you do. The grammar of timeless menswear, decoded item by item.

av G. Bruce Boyer 2015 272 sidor

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🧥 Classic Menswear 📜 Sartorial History 🥂 Classic Elegance 🏗️ Wardrobe Building 💼 Professional Image

Etiquette Guide to Japan

av Boyé Lafayette De Mente • 1990

Master the customs of bowing, dining, and business to navigate Japan without a cultural stumble.

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🗾 Japanese Culture 🤝 Cultural Etiquette 🧳 Travel Guides 💼 Business Customs 🍜 Dining Etiquette

Etiquette Guide to Japan

Master the customs of bowing, dining, and business to navigate Japan without a cultural stumble.

av Boyé Lafayette De Mente 1990 192 sidor

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🗾 Japanese Culture 🤝 Cultural Etiquette 🧳 Travel Guides 💼 Business Customs 🍜 Dining Etiquette

A History of the World in 21 Women

av Jenni Murray • 2018

A personal history of the world, told through 21 women who refused to be told no.

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🕰️ Women In History 💪 Defying Gender Norms 🔥 Trailblazing Women ⭐ Feminist Icons 👑 Women Leaders

A History of the World in 21 Women

A personal history of the world, told through 21 women who refused to be told no.

av Jenni Murray 2018 304 sidor

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🕰️ Women In History 💪 Defying Gender Norms 🔥 Trailblazing Women ⭐ Feminist Icons 👑 Women Leaders

1971

av Anam Zakaria • 2019

The 1971 war created Bangladesh and left three conflicting histories that still shape South Asia.

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🎙️ Oral History 🌏 South Asian History 🕯️ War And Memory 💭 Contested Memory ✂️ Partition Studies

1971

The 1971 war created Bangladesh and left three conflicting histories that still shape South Asia.

av Anam Zakaria 2019 402 sidor

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🎙️ Oral History 🌏 South Asian History 🕯️ War And Memory 💭 Contested Memory ✂️ Partition Studies

Storhet och begränsningar i Freuds tänkande

av Erich Fromm • 1979

Freud revealed the irrational mind. His followers turned a radical theory into conformity training.

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🔬 Psychoanalytic Theory 📚 Intellectual History 🏛️ Frankfurt School 🛋️ Neo-Freudian 🧠 Unconscious Mind

Storhet och begränsningar i Freuds tänkande

Freud revealed the irrational mind. His followers turned a radical theory into conformity training.

av Erich Fromm 1979 148 sidor

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🔬 Psychoanalytic Theory 📚 Intellectual History 🏛️ Frankfurt School 🛋️ Neo-Freudian 🧠 Unconscious Mind

American Girls

av Nancy Jo Sales • 2016

Porn scripts, hookup norms, and a hunt for likes: what social media did to teenage girls.

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👧 Teen Girl Culture 💋 Sexualization Of Girls 💔 Hookup Culture 🔞 Porn Culture ⚖️ Sexual Double Standard

American Girls

Porn scripts, hookup norms, and a hunt for likes: what social media did to teenage girls.

av Nancy Jo Sales 2016 418 sidor

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👧 Teen Girl Culture 💋 Sexualization Of Girls 💔 Hookup Culture 🔞 Porn Culture ⚖️ Sexual Double Standard

First Principles

av Thomas E. Ricks • 2020

Locke and Montesquieu get the credit. America's founders were actually reading Cicero and Cato.

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🏛️ Founding Fathers 📜 Early American Republic 📚 Intellectual History 🏺 Greco-Roman Thought 🫡 Civic Virtue

First Principles

Locke and Montesquieu get the credit. America's founders were actually reading Cicero and Cato.

av Thomas E. Ricks 2020 416 sidor

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🏛️ Founding Fathers 📜 Early American Republic 📚 Intellectual History 🏺 Greco-Roman Thought 🫡 Civic Virtue

Strange New World

av Carl R. Trueman • 2022

The creed of inner feelings has a genealogy, and the sexual revolution made it law.

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🪧 Sexual Revolution 📚 Intellectual History 🪪 Modern Identity 🏛️ Cultural Criticism ✝️ Reformed Theology

Strange New World

The creed of inner feelings has a genealogy, and the sexual revolution made it law.

av Carl R. Trueman 2022 204 sidor

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🪧 Sexual Revolution 📚 Intellectual History 🪪 Modern Identity 🏛️ Cultural Criticism ✝️ Reformed Theology

Coming of Age in Samoa

av Margaret Mead • 1928

The island where teenagers felt no storm: what Samoa taught the West about adolescence.

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🏛️ Cultural Anthropology 🧒 Adolescent Development 🧬 Nature Vs Nurture 🏗️ Social Construction 🌍 Cultural Relativism

Coming of Age in Samoa

The island where teenagers felt no storm: what Samoa taught the West about adolescence.

av Margaret Mead 1928 223 sidor

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🏛️ Cultural Anthropology 🧒 Adolescent Development 🧬 Nature Vs Nurture 🏗️ Social Construction 🌍 Cultural Relativism

Bringing Up Bébé

av Pamela Druckerman • 2012

French babies sleep at three months, toddlers eat vegetables. An American mom in Paris takes notes.

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🥐 French Parenting 🌍 Parenting Cultures 🧒 Child Autonomy 😴 Sleep Training 🍽️ Structured Mealtimes

Bringing Up Bébé

French babies sleep at three months, toddlers eat vegetables. An American mom in Paris takes notes.

av Pamela Druckerman 2012 284 sidor

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🥐 French Parenting 🌍 Parenting Cultures 🧒 Child Autonomy 😴 Sleep Training 🍽️ Structured Mealtimes

1000 Years of Annoying the French

av Stephen Clarke • 2010

The Normans were Vikings. The guillotine was British. A thousand years of French history, corrected.

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⚔️ Anglo-French Rivalry 😂 Comic History 📜 Revisionist History 🏴 National Stereotypes 🇫🇷 French History

1000 Years of Annoying the French

The Normans were Vikings. The guillotine was British. A thousand years of French history, corrected.

av Stephen Clarke 2010 685 sidor

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⚔️ Anglo-French Rivalry 😂 Comic History 📜 Revisionist History 🏴 National Stereotypes 🇫🇷 French History

For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts

av Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez • 2021

Tired of translating yourself for others? Here is the toolkit to reclaim your mind, language, anger.

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🤎 Woc Feminism 🧹 Decolonial Feminism 🧬 Generational Trauma 👔 Respectability Politics 🪶 Cultural Identity

For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts

Tired of translating yourself for others? Here is the toolkit to reclaim your mind, language, anger.

av Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez 2021 272 sidor

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🤎 Woc Feminism 🧹 Decolonial Feminism 🧬 Generational Trauma 👔 Respectability Politics 🪶 Cultural Identity

Libido Dominandi

av E. Michael Jones • 1999

The sexual revolution didn't free us. It handed the controllers a new way to own our desires.

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🚻 Sexual Politics 🧠 Social Engineering 📖 History Of Sexuality 📢 Advertising And Desire 🧬 Eugenics History

Libido Dominandi

The sexual revolution didn't free us. It handed the controllers a new way to own our desires.

av E. Michael Jones 1999 668 sidor

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🚻 Sexual Politics 🧠 Social Engineering 📖 History Of Sexuality 📢 Advertising And Desire 🧬 Eugenics History

Culture Jam

av Kalle Lasn • 1999

The inside of your head is a billboard. Here is the spray paint.

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🛒 Consumer Culture 🏢 Corporate Power 📺 Media Criticism 📢 Advertising Critique 🎭 Situationist Theory

Culture Jam

The inside of your head is a billboard. Here is the spray paint.

av Kalle Lasn 1999 272 sidor

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🛒 Consumer Culture 🏢 Corporate Power 📺 Media Criticism 📢 Advertising Critique 🎭 Situationist Theory

Digital Empires

av 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.

av Anu Bradford 2023 608 sidor

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

The 4 Stages of Psychological Safety

av Timothy R. Clark • 2020

The four-stage sequence for building teams safe enough to tell leaders they're wrong.

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🛡️ Psychological Safety 👥 Team Culture 🤝 Inclusive Leadership 🚀 High-Performing Teams 💡 Innovation Culture

The 4 Stages of Psychological Safety

The four-stage sequence for building teams safe enough to tell leaders they're wrong.

av Timothy R. Clark 2020 193 sidor

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🛡️ Psychological Safety 👥 Team Culture 🤝 Inclusive Leadership 🚀 High-Performing Teams 💡 Innovation Culture

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

av 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.

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The Splendid and the Vile

av Erik Larson • 2020

Peculiar habits, rooftop defiance, and the 57 nights that could have broken Britain but didn't.

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✈️ World War Ii 🎩 Winston Churchill 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 British History 🫡 Crisis Leadership ✈️ Battle Of Britain

The Splendid and the Vile

Peculiar habits, rooftop defiance, and the 57 nights that could have broken Britain but didn't.

av Erik Larson 2020 585 sidor

4.30

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✈️ World War Ii 🎩 Winston Churchill 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 British History 🫡 Crisis Leadership ✈️ Battle Of Britain

On Bullshit

av Harry G. Frankfurt • 2005

Organizations run on three hidden personality types, roles you were never trained to see.

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🏢 Workplace Dynamics 🏛️ Corporate Culture ⚡ Power Structures 🎭 Office Politics 🎲 Status Games

On Bullshit

Organizations run on three hidden personality types, roles you were never trained to see.

av Harry G. Frankfurt 2005 67 sidor

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🏢 Workplace Dynamics 🏛️ Corporate Culture ⚡ Power Structures 🎭 Office Politics 🎲 Status Games

River Kings

av Cat Jarman • 2021

A bead from India, buried in England, reveals the Silk Road world the Vikings actually built.

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🛡️ Viking History 🌍 Global Middle Ages 🧬 Bioarchaeology 🐪 Silk Roads 🪙 Silver Trade

River Kings

A bead from India, buried in England, reveals the Silk Road world the Vikings actually built.

av Cat Jarman 2021 336 sidor

4.04

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🛡️ Viking History 🌍 Global Middle Ages 🧬 Bioarchaeology 🐪 Silk Roads 🪙 Silver Trade

Encyclopedia of Herbal Medicine

av Andrew Chevallier • 2000

550 herbs and the chemistry that makes them heal, with recipes for a safe home pharmacy.

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🌿 Herbal Medicine 🪴 Medicinal Plants 🏡 Home Remedies 🫖 Herbal Preparations 🌍 Global Traditions

Encyclopedia of Herbal Medicine

550 herbs and the chemistry that makes them heal, with recipes for a safe home pharmacy.

av Andrew Chevallier 2000 336 sidor

4.53

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🌿 Herbal Medicine 🪴 Medicinal Plants 🏡 Home Remedies 🫖 Herbal Preparations 🌍 Global Traditions

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