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White Feminism

av Koa Beck • 2021

Individual success or collective liberation: the choice mainstream feminism keeps getting wrong.

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🕰️ Feminist History 📢 Mainstream Feminism 🧩 Intersectionality 💼 Corporate Feminism 🏗️ Movement Building

White Feminism

Individual success or collective liberation: the choice mainstream feminism keeps getting wrong.

av Koa Beck 2021 318 sidor

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🕰️ Feminist History 📢 Mainstream Feminism 🧩 Intersectionality 💼 Corporate Feminism 🏗️ Movement Building

Semicolon

av Cecelia Watson • 2019

How a semicolon started a grammar war: the rules we invented, the people they hurt.

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🖋️ Grammar And Style 📜 Language History 🔍 Cultural Microhistory ⚖️ Language Prescriptivism 🗣️ Grammar Elitism

Semicolon

How a semicolon started a grammar war: the rules we invented, the people they hurt.

av Cecelia Watson 2019 224 sidor

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🖋️ Grammar And Style 📜 Language History 🔍 Cultural Microhistory ⚖️ Language Prescriptivism 🗣️ Grammar Elitism

History of Modern Art

av H. Harvard Arnason • 1968

How a century of painters dismantled perspective, freed color, and rebuilt art from scratch.

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🎨 Modern Art 🏛️ Western Art 🖼️ Art Movements 🔍 Formal Analysis 📚 Art Historiography

History of Modern Art

How a century of painters dismantled perspective, freed color, and rebuilt art from scratch.

av H. Harvard Arnason 1968 848 sidor

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🎨 Modern Art 🏛️ Western Art 🖼️ Art Movements 🔍 Formal Analysis 📚 Art Historiography

How to Be Ultra Spiritual

av J.P. Sears • 2017

Spiritual superiority is a game, and your smoothie, guru, and yoga mat are the scoreboard.

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🧘 Spiritual Satire 📚 Self-Help Parody 🎭 Performative Spirituality 🚧 Spiritual Bypassing 🧘‍♂️ Guru Culture

How to Be Ultra Spiritual

Spiritual superiority is a game, and your smoothie, guru, and yoga mat are the scoreboard.

av J.P. Sears 2017 272 sidor

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🧘 Spiritual Satire 📚 Self-Help Parody 🎭 Performative Spirituality 🚧 Spiritual Bypassing 🧘‍♂️ Guru Culture

Parenting Without Borders

av Christine Gross-Loh • 2013

Your child's sleep, eating, and play problems may not be biological. They may be cultural.

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🌍 Cross-Cultural Parenting 🧒 Child Autonomy 🧸 Unstructured Play 🛌 Sleep Practices 🛍️ Consumerism Critique

Parenting Without Borders

Your child's sleep, eating, and play problems may not be biological. They may be cultural.

av Christine Gross-Loh 2013 308 sidor

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🌍 Cross-Cultural Parenting 🧒 Child Autonomy 🧸 Unstructured Play 🛌 Sleep Practices 🛍️ Consumerism Critique

The Velvet Rope Economy

av Nelson D. Schwartz • 2020

From fast passes to private firefighters, a new tier of everything is carving society in two.

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💰 Income Inequality 🏛️ Class Stratification ✨ Luxury Marketing 🎢 Experience Economy 🚧 Economic Segregation

The Velvet Rope Economy

From fast passes to private firefighters, a new tier of everything is carving society in two.

av Nelson D. Schwartz 2020 352 sidor

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💰 Income Inequality 🏛️ Class Stratification ✨ Luxury Marketing 🎢 Experience Economy 🚧 Economic Segregation

The Christian Imagination

av Willie James Jennings • 2010

The modern idea of race was not a secular invention; it was born inside Christian theology.

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✝️ Race And Theology 🧭 Colonial Displacement ⛪ Supersessionism 📚 Biblical Translation 🏞️ Land And Identity

The Christian Imagination

The modern idea of race was not a secular invention; it was born inside Christian theology.

av Willie James Jennings 2010 384 sidor

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✝️ Race And Theology 🧭 Colonial Displacement ⛪ Supersessionism 📚 Biblical Translation 🏞️ Land And Identity

A Study of History, Abridgement of Vols 1-6

av Arnold Joseph Toynbee • 1987

History's pattern: empires die, and their true heirs are the churches they tried to crush.

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🏛️ Philosophy Of History 🌐 Comparative History 🔄 Cyclical History 🤝 Cultural Encounters 🏰 Imperial Legacies

A Study of History, Abridgement of Vols 1-6

History's pattern: empires die, and their true heirs are the churches they tried to crush.

av Arnold Joseph Toynbee 1987 640 sidor

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🏛️ Philosophy Of History 🌐 Comparative History 🔄 Cyclical History 🤝 Cultural Encounters 🏰 Imperial Legacies

Why Americans Hate Politics

av E.J. Dionne Jr. • 1991

The counterculture aimed to bury the right. It built the right a majority instead.

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🏛️ American Conservatism 🗳️ Political Realignment ⚔️ Culture Wars 🤝 Racial Politics 🕊️ Postwar Liberalism

Why Americans Hate Politics

The counterculture aimed to bury the right. It built the right a majority instead.

av E.J. Dionne Jr. 1991 589 sidor

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🏛️ American Conservatism 🗳️ Political Realignment ⚔️ Culture Wars 🤝 Racial Politics 🕊️ Postwar Liberalism

The Trolls of Wall Street

av Nathaniel Popper • 2024

A Reddit mob, a dying mall retailer, and the short squeeze that shook Wall Street.

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🧾 Retail Trading 🎭 Financial Subcultures 🏴 Digital Counterculture 🐸 Meme Culture 🌐 Techno-Populism

The Trolls of Wall Street

A Reddit mob, a dying mall retailer, and the short squeeze that shook Wall Street.

av Nathaniel Popper 2024 352 sidor

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🧾 Retail Trading 🎭 Financial Subcultures 🏴 Digital Counterculture 🐸 Meme Culture 🌐 Techno-Populism

Friday Night Lights

av H.G. Bissinger • 1988

In Odessa, Texas, high school football offers glory and escape. Most players get neither.

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🏈 High School Football 📰 Sports Journalism 🏘️ Small Town America 🤝 Race And Athletics 🎓 Educational Inequality

Friday Night Lights

In Odessa, Texas, high school football offers glory and escape. Most players get neither.

av H.G. Bissinger 1988 416 sidor

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🏈 High School Football 📰 Sports Journalism 🏘️ Small Town America 🤝 Race And Athletics 🎓 Educational Inequality

The Intellectual Devotional

av David S. Kidder • 2006

What cultured people know: a page-a-day crash course in seven subjects your schooling skipped.

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🗣️ Cultural Literacy 📚 Self-Education 📆 Daily Readers 🧠 Mental Fitness 🏛️ Western Canon

The Intellectual Devotional

What cultured people know: a page-a-day crash course in seven subjects your schooling skipped.

av David S. Kidder 2006 377 sidor

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🗣️ Cultural Literacy 📚 Self-Education 📆 Daily Readers 🧠 Mental Fitness 🏛️ Western Canon

Thailand - Culture Smart!

av Roger Jones • 2003

Navigate Thailand without losing face: the cultural codes that turn visitors into welcome guests.

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🏯 Thai Culture 📚 Cultural Guidebooks 🌏 Cross-Cultural Communication 💼 Business Etiquette 🏠 Expatriate Life

Thailand - Culture Smart!

Navigate Thailand without losing face: the cultural codes that turn visitors into welcome guests.

av Roger Jones 2003 168 sidor

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🏯 Thai Culture 📚 Cultural Guidebooks 🌏 Cross-Cultural Communication 💼 Business Etiquette 🏠 Expatriate Life

A Beginner's Guide to Japan

av Pico Iyer • 2019

Why 32 years in Japan taught Pico Iyer less than his first week.

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🗾 Travel Essays 🎭 Japanese Culture 🔬 Cultural Anthropology 🤫 Indirect Communication 👥 Social Conformity

A Beginner's Guide to Japan

Why 32 years in Japan taught Pico Iyer less than his first week.

av Pico Iyer 2019 240 sidor

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🗾 Travel Essays 🎭 Japanese Culture 🔬 Cultural Anthropology 🤫 Indirect Communication 👥 Social Conformity

Liquid Surveillance

av Zygmunt Bauman • 2012

Surveillance has gone from prison tower to loyalty card: fluid, seductive, and nearly invisible.

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👁️ Surveillance Studies 🔒 Digital Privacy 🏛️ Post-Panoptic Theory 📊 Social Sorting ⚙️ Technological Determinism

Liquid Surveillance

Surveillance has gone from prison tower to loyalty card: fluid, seductive, and nearly invisible.

av Zygmunt Bauman 2012 152 sidor

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👁️ Surveillance Studies 🔒 Digital Privacy 🏛️ Post-Panoptic Theory 📊 Social Sorting ⚙️ Technological Determinism

Scaling Teams

av Alexander Grosse • 2017

Loose management stops working at 25 people. A practical guide to the transition that saves teams.

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🚀 Startup Scaling 🏗️ Organizational Design 🔄 Management Transitions 💻 Engineering Management 📈 Scaling Organizations

Scaling Teams

Loose management stops working at 25 people. A practical guide to the transition that saves teams.

av Alexander Grosse 2017 282 sidor

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🚀 Startup Scaling 🏗️ Organizational Design 🔄 Management Transitions 💻 Engineering Management 📈 Scaling Organizations

The English

av Jeremy Paxman • 1998

An island people built history's largest empire, then had to reinvent themselves once it crumbled.

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🏴 National Identity 🎩 Class And Society 🌍 British Empire 🌏 Postcolonial Studies 🗣️ Language And Identity

The English

An island people built history's largest empire, then had to reinvent themselves once it crumbled.

av Jeremy Paxman 1998 324 sidor

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🏴 National Identity 🎩 Class And Society 🌍 British Empire 🌏 Postcolonial Studies 🗣️ Language And Identity

The Two Cultures

av C.P. Snow • 1959

A scientist's 1959 warning: the rift between science and the humanities is a crisis of civilization.

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📜 Intellectual History 🔬 Science And Society 🧪 Scientific Literacy 🏫 Education Reform 🏭 Industrialization

The Two Cultures

A scientist's 1959 warning: the rift between science and the humanities is a crisis of civilization.

av C.P. Snow 1959 180 sidor

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📜 Intellectual History 🔬 Science And Society 🧪 Scientific Literacy 🏫 Education Reform 🏭 Industrialization

Confronting Injustice Without Compromising Truth

av Thaddeus Williams • 2020

Today's loudest calls for justice skip the God who defines justice. A diagnostic for Christians.

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⚖️ Biblical Justice 🔍 Cultural Discernment 🧠 Worldview Analysis 🤝 Race And Faith ✝️ Evangelical Theology

Confronting Injustice Without Compromising Truth

Today's loudest calls for justice skip the God who defines justice. A diagnostic for Christians.

av Thaddeus Williams 2020 288 sidor

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⚖️ Biblical Justice 🔍 Cultural Discernment 🧠 Worldview Analysis 🤝 Race And Faith ✝️ Evangelical Theology

Slouching Towards Bethlehem

av Joan Didion • 1968

At the continent's edge, the American dream frays into murder, lost children, self-deception.

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✍️ New Journalism 🔍 Cultural Criticism 🌸 California Counterculture 🏚️ American Dream Critique 🎬 Hollywood Critique

Slouching Towards Bethlehem

At the continent's edge, the American dream frays into murder, lost children, self-deception.

av Joan Didion 1968 238 sidor

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✍️ New Journalism 🔍 Cultural Criticism 🌸 California Counterculture 🏚️ American Dream Critique 🎬 Hollywood Critique

Nations and Nationalism since 1780

av Eric J. Hobsbawm • 1990

Nationalism invented nations, not the reverse, and the two-century project is already decaying.

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🏗️ Nation Building 🩸 Ethnic Conflict 📜 Invented Traditions 🏛️ Modernist Nationalism 🗳️ Self-Determination

Nations and Nationalism since 1780

Nationalism invented nations, not the reverse, and the two-century project is already decaying.

av Eric J. Hobsbawm 1990 214 sidor

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🏗️ Nation Building 🩸 Ethnic Conflict 📜 Invented Traditions 🏛️ Modernist Nationalism 🗳️ Self-Determination

Black AF History

av Michael Harriot • 2023

Stolen land, stolen labor, and Black genius: the history your textbook skipped.

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🇺🇸 American History ✊ Antiracism 🔄 Revisionist History ⛓️ Systemic Racism 💰 Racial Wealth Gap

Black AF History

Stolen land, stolen labor, and Black genius: the history your textbook skipped.

av Michael Harriot 2023 432 sidor

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🇺🇸 American History ✊ Antiracism 🔄 Revisionist History ⛓️ Systemic Racism 💰 Racial Wealth Gap

The Viking Spirit

av Daniel McCoy • 2016

Why the Norse gods reflected a doomed world, not a moral one.

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❄️ Norse Myths 🛡️ Viking Culture ⚡ Old Norse Religion 🌍 Creation Myths 🃏 Trickster Gods

The Viking Spirit

Why the Norse gods reflected a doomed world, not a moral one.

av Daniel McCoy 2016 317 sidor

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❄️ Norse Myths 🛡️ Viking Culture ⚡ Old Norse Religion 🌍 Creation Myths 🃏 Trickster Gods

Marxismo norteamericano

av Mark R. Levin • 2021

The radical ideology that captured American institutions, and a practical guide to reclaiming them.

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🔥 Culture Wars 🚩 Modern Marxism 💼 Corporate Wokeness 📺 Media Manipulation 🗣️ Cancel Culture

Marxismo norteamericano

The radical ideology that captured American institutions, and a practical guide to reclaiming them.

av Mark R. Levin 2021 348 sidor

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🔥 Culture Wars 🚩 Modern Marxism 💼 Corporate Wokeness 📺 Media Manipulation 🗣️ Cancel Culture

The New Rules of Retail

av Robin Lewis • 2010

Only three retail models will survive the next decade. Half of all brands will vanish.

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🏬 Retail Industry 🛒 Consumer Behavior 📱 Digital Transformation 🏷️ Brand Strategy 📜 Retail History

The New Rules of Retail

Only three retail models will survive the next decade. Half of all brands will vanish.

av Robin Lewis 2010 272 sidor

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🏬 Retail Industry 🛒 Consumer Behavior 📱 Digital Transformation 🏷️ Brand Strategy 📜 Retail History

The Meaning of Things

av A.C. Grayling • 2001

Love, hate, and happiness: what philosophy knows that we keep forgetting.

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🧭 Practical Philosophy 🌍 Secular Humanism 🏛️ Classical Philosophy 🌟 Meaning And Purpose 🦉 Happiness And Wisdom

The Meaning of Things

Love, hate, and happiness: what philosophy knows that we keep forgetting.

av A.C. Grayling 2001 208 sidor

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🧭 Practical Philosophy 🌍 Secular Humanism 🏛️ Classical Philosophy 🌟 Meaning And Purpose 🦉 Happiness And Wisdom

Smoke Signals

av Martin A. Lee • 2012

Cannabis was banned by politics, not science. Then the body revealed its own cannabinoid system.

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🌿 Cannabis History ⚔️ Drug War 💊 Medical Marijuana ✌️ Counterculture History ⛓️ Drug Criminalization

Smoke Signals

Cannabis was banned by politics, not science. Then the body revealed its own cannabinoid system.

av Martin A. Lee 2012 528 sidor

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🌿 Cannabis History ⚔️ Drug War 💊 Medical Marijuana ✌️ Counterculture History ⛓️ Drug Criminalization

Greek to Me

av Mary Norris • 2019

One copy editor's love affair with Greek: ancient ruins, Aegean swims, and a nation in turmoil.

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🏛️ Greek Language ✈️ Travel Memoir 📖 Language Obsession 🏺 Greek Mythology 🇬🇷 Philhellenism

Greek to Me

One copy editor's love affair with Greek: ancient ruins, Aegean swims, and a nation in turmoil.

av Mary Norris 2019 240 sidor

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🏛️ Greek Language ✈️ Travel Memoir 📖 Language Obsession 🏺 Greek Mythology 🇬🇷 Philhellenism

World Travel

av Anthony Bourdain • 2021

For people who hate guidebooks: Bourdain's rules for eating, drinking, and finding the real story.

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🍽️ Food And Travel 🧭 Travel Philosophy 🏘️ Local Immersion 🚫 Anti-Tourism 🎤 Gonzo Journalism

World Travel

For people who hate guidebooks: Bourdain's rules for eating, drinking, and finding the real story.

av Anthony Bourdain 2021 480 sidor

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🍽️ Food And Travel 🧭 Travel Philosophy 🏘️ Local Immersion 🚫 Anti-Tourism 🎤 Gonzo Journalism

An Ugly Truth

av Sheera Frenkel • 2021

Same data that built Facebook's empire fueled election chaos and a genocide. The leaders knew.

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🏛️ Big Tech Accountability 🔒 Data Privacy ⚖️ Content Moderation 🗳️ Election Interference 💰 Monopoly Power

An Ugly Truth

Same data that built Facebook's empire fueled election chaos and a genocide. The leaders knew.

av Sheera Frenkel 2021 352 sidor

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🏛️ Big Tech Accountability 🔒 Data Privacy ⚖️ Content Moderation 🗳️ Election Interference 💰 Monopoly Power

Republic of Lies

av Anna Merlan • 2019

Real scandals, social media, ambitious politicians: the conspiracy loop that captured America.

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🗳️ American Politics 🕵️ Conspiracy Culture 📡 Media Manipulation 🔁 Digital Echo Chambers ⚠️ Political Extremism

Republic of Lies

Real scandals, social media, ambitious politicians: the conspiracy loop that captured America.

av Anna Merlan 2019 288 sidor

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🗳️ American Politics 🕵️ Conspiracy Culture 📡 Media Manipulation 🔁 Digital Echo Chambers ⚠️ Political Extremism

Why Nothing Works

av Marvin Harris • 1981

An anthropologist finds that broken toasters, inflation, and cults share a single cause.

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🏛️ Cultural Anthropology 🇺🇸 American Society 📖 Cultural Criticism 📊 Political Economy 🏪 Service Economy

Why Nothing Works

An anthropologist finds that broken toasters, inflation, and cults share a single cause.

av Marvin Harris 1981 224 sidor

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🏛️ Cultural Anthropology 🇺🇸 American Society 📖 Cultural Criticism 📊 Political Economy 🏪 Service Economy

The Republic for Which It Stands

av Richard White • 2017

America rebuilt itself after 1865 into something no one voted for. A history of broken promises.

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🏛️ Reconstruction Era 💰 Gilded Age 🔨 Labor History 🌳 Environmental History ⚖️ Jim Crow Origins

The Republic for Which It Stands

America rebuilt itself after 1865 into something no one voted for. A history of broken promises.

av Richard White 2017 962 sidor

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🏛️ Reconstruction Era 💰 Gilded Age 🔨 Labor History 🌳 Environmental History ⚖️ Jim Crow Origins

The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born

av Ayi Kwei Armah • 1968

A railway clerk in Ghana rejects every bribe, and his wife cannot stop counting the cost.

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🏛️ Postcolonial Literature ⚖️ Moral Integrity 🕴️ Disillusioned Everyman 😔 Quiet Desperation 🌱 Fragile Hope

The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born

A railway clerk in Ghana rejects every bribe, and his wife cannot stop counting the cost.

av Ayi Kwei Armah 1968 183 sidor

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🏛️ Postcolonial Literature ⚖️ Moral Integrity 🕴️ Disillusioned Everyman 😔 Quiet Desperation 🌱 Fragile Hope

Passwords

av Jean Baudrillard • 2000

We mapped the world so completely that we erased it. The simulation is all that remains.

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🏫 French Theory 📚 Postmodern Theory 🔍 Cultural Criticism 🔣 Signs And Symbols 📺 Media Theory

Passwords

We mapped the world so completely that we erased it. The simulation is all that remains.

av Jean Baudrillard 2000 112 sidor

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🏫 French Theory 📚 Postmodern Theory 🔍 Cultural Criticism 🔣 Signs And Symbols 📺 Media Theory

Prisoner

av Jason Rezaian • 2019

544 days inside Iran's most feared prison. The crime: journalism. The lifeline: his wife.

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✋ Political Imprisonment 📰 International Journalism 🧱 Solitary Confinement 🌉 Cross-Cultural Identity 🤝 Hostage Diplomacy

Prisoner

544 days inside Iran's most feared prison. The crime: journalism. The lifeline: his wife.

av Jason Rezaian 2019 320 sidor

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✋ Political Imprisonment 📰 International Journalism 🧱 Solitary Confinement 🌉 Cross-Cultural Identity 🤝 Hostage Diplomacy

Dreaming in Hindi

av Katherine Russell Rich • 2009

After cancer, she went to India. Learning Hindi broke her brain open and rebuilt it.

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🏊 Language Immersion 🇮🇳 India Memoir 🧠 Neurolinguistics 🗣️ Linguistic Relativity 🎭 Language And Identity

Dreaming in Hindi

After cancer, she went to India. Learning Hindi broke her brain open and rebuilt it.

av Katherine Russell Rich 2009 360 sidor

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🏊 Language Immersion 🇮🇳 India Memoir 🧠 Neurolinguistics 🗣️ Linguistic Relativity 🎭 Language And Identity

The Case for Trump

av Victor Davis Hanson • 2019

Trump was the symptom of an establishment that had failed its own voters for decades.

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🔨 Populist Movements ⚡ Political Polarization 🏛️ Administrative State 🏭 Economic Nationalism 🏚️ Deindustrialization

The Case for Trump

Trump was the symptom of an establishment that had failed its own voters for decades.

av Victor Davis Hanson 2019 400 sidor

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🔨 Populist Movements ⚡ Political Polarization 🏛️ Administrative State 🏭 Economic Nationalism 🏚️ Deindustrialization

The Fall of the Ottomans

av Eugene Rogan • 2015

The Ottomans entered World War I to survive, not conquer. Their collapse carved today's Middle East.

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🏰 Ottoman Empire ⚔️ World War I 🌍 Middle East History 📉 Imperial Decline 🪖 Military History

The Fall of the Ottomans

The Ottomans entered World War I to survive, not conquer. Their collapse carved today's Middle East.

av Eugene Rogan 2015 512 sidor

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🏰 Ottoman Empire ⚔️ World War I 🌍 Middle East History 📉 Imperial Decline 🪖 Military History

The Good Girl's Guide to Getting Lost

av Rachel Friedman • 2011

A college graduate lands alone in Ireland. By Bolivia, she is biking Death Road.

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🎒 Solo Female Travel 🗺️ Coming Of Age Travel 🏕️ Backpacking Memoirs 🦋 Self-Reinvention 🌍 Cultural Immersion

The Good Girl's Guide to Getting Lost

A college graduate lands alone in Ireland. By Bolivia, she is biking Death Road.

av Rachel Friedman 2011 287 sidor

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🎒 Solo Female Travel 🗺️ Coming Of Age Travel 🏕️ Backpacking Memoirs 🦋 Self-Reinvention 🌍 Cultural Immersion

Beyond Human Nature

av Jesse J. Prinz • 2011

Language, emotions, gender, and thought: how culture builds the mind that biology only primes.

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🧠 Cultural Psychology 🌍 Cognitive Anthropology 🧬 Nature Vs Nurture 🗣️ Linguistic Relativity 🏗️ Social Construction

Beyond Human Nature

Language, emotions, gender, and thought: how culture builds the mind that biology only primes.

av Jesse J. Prinz 2011 402 sidor

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🧠 Cultural Psychology 🌍 Cognitive Anthropology 🧬 Nature Vs Nurture 🗣️ Linguistic Relativity 🏗️ Social Construction

Slanted

av Sharyl Attkisson • 2020

How newsrooms kill inconvenient stories, and the words that tell you they're doing it.

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📰 Media Bias 🎭 Narrative Control 🗣️ Weaponized Language 🕹️ Media Manipulation 🔍 Investigative Journalism

Slanted

How newsrooms kill inconvenient stories, and the words that tell you they're doing it.

av Sharyl Attkisson 2020 316 sidor

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📰 Media Bias 🎭 Narrative Control 🗣️ Weaponized Language 🕹️ Media Manipulation 🔍 Investigative Journalism

Jew[ish]

av Matt Greene • 2020

His name got the triple parentheses. He set out to find what being Jew[ish] means today.

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✡️ Jewish Identity 🕎 Modern Judaism ⚠️ Anti-Semitism 🕯️ Holocaust Memory 😂 Jewish Humor

Jew[ish]

His name got the triple parentheses. He set out to find what being Jew[ish] means today.

av Matt Greene 2020 199 sidor

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✡️ Jewish Identity 🕎 Modern Judaism ⚠️ Anti-Semitism 🕯️ Holocaust Memory 😂 Jewish Humor

Quentin Tarantino and Philosophy

av Richard Greene • 2007

Tarantino's blowtorch-wielding criminals as moral philosophers: nihilism, karma, and revenge.

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🎞️ Film And Philosophy 🍿 Pop Culture Philosophy ⚡ Nietzschean Thought ☸️ Buddhist Philosophy ⚖️ Revenge Ethics

Quentin Tarantino and Philosophy

Tarantino's blowtorch-wielding criminals as moral philosophers: nihilism, karma, and revenge.

av Richard Greene 2007 288 sidor

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🎞️ Film And Philosophy 🍿 Pop Culture Philosophy ⚡ Nietzschean Thought ☸️ Buddhist Philosophy ⚖️ Revenge Ethics

Pixel Flesh

av Ellen Atlanta • 2024

Beauty culture promised freedom and delivered algorithms. The empowerment was always a sales pitch.

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💄 Beauty Culture ✊ Body Politics 📱 Social Media Harm 🍽️ Diet Culture Critique 🌍 Racialized Beauty

Pixel Flesh

Beauty culture promised freedom and delivered algorithms. The empowerment was always a sales pitch.

av Ellen Atlanta 2024 384 sidor

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💄 Beauty Culture ✊ Body Politics 📱 Social Media Harm 🍽️ Diet Culture Critique 🌍 Racialized Beauty

Adrift

av Scott Galloway • 2022

Middle class collapsed, billionaires multiplied, young men stopped dating. Charts that explain why.

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💰 Income Inequality 👁️ Attention Economy 📉 Middle Class Decline 💼 Shareholder Capitalism 📱 Social Media Harms

Adrift

Middle class collapsed, billionaires multiplied, young men stopped dating. Charts that explain why.

av Scott Galloway 2022 320 sidor

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💰 Income Inequality 👁️ Attention Economy 📉 Middle Class Decline 💼 Shareholder Capitalism 📱 Social Media Harms

The Gutenberg Parenthesis

av Jeff Jarvis • 2023

Before print, knowledge was conversation. Then books fenced it in. The fences are coming down.

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📖 Print Culture 📰 Media History ⚙️ History Of Technology 🗣️ Orality And Literacy 🧠 Knowledge Production

The Gutenberg Parenthesis

Before print, knowledge was conversation. Then books fenced it in. The fences are coming down.

av Jeff Jarvis 2023 328 sidor

3.83

218 betyg

📖 Print Culture 📰 Media History ⚙️ History Of Technology 🗣️ Orality And Literacy 🧠 Knowledge Production

Aikido and the Dynamic Sphere

av Adele Westbrook • 1983

Aikido's core strategy: drawing attackers into a circular field where their own force does the work.

4.21

1 000+

🥋 Martial Arts Philosophy 🇯🇵 Japanese Budo 🧠 Mind Body Integration ✨ Energy Work ⚖️ Martial Ethics

Aikido and the Dynamic Sphere

Aikido's core strategy: drawing attackers into a circular field where their own force does the work.

av Adele Westbrook 1983 384 sidor

4.21

1 000+ betyg

🥋 Martial Arts Philosophy 🇯🇵 Japanese Budo 🧠 Mind Body Integration ✨ Energy Work ⚖️ Martial Ethics

Rethinking Sex

av Christine Emba • 2022

Consent was meant to be enough. It isn't. Why sex needs an older, more demanding rule.

3.61

1 000+

🧭 Sexual Ethics 📱 Hookup Culture ⚖️ Consent Critique 😞 Sexual Dissatisfaction 👫 Heterosexual Dynamics

Rethinking Sex

Consent was meant to be enough. It isn't. Why sex needs an older, more demanding rule.

av Christine Emba 2022 256 sidor

3.61

1 000+ betyg

🧭 Sexual Ethics 📱 Hookup Culture ⚖️ Consent Critique 😞 Sexual Dissatisfaction 👫 Heterosexual Dynamics

Truth, Beauty, and Goodness Reframed

av Howard Gardner • 2010

Three ancient virtues, dismantled by the digital age, reconstructed for it.

3.48

216

🧭 Moral Education 🏛️ Virtue Ethics 💻 Digital Age Ethics 🎨 Aesthetic Education 👶 Child Moral Development

Truth, Beauty, and Goodness Reframed

Three ancient virtues, dismantled by the digital age, reconstructed for it.

av Howard Gardner 2010 256 sidor

3.48

216 betyg

🧭 Moral Education 🏛️ Virtue Ethics 💻 Digital Age Ethics 🎨 Aesthetic Education 👶 Child Moral Development

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