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Halt Station India

av Rajendra B. Aklekar • 2014

Bombay's oldest railway still passes through the ruins of the city it replaced.

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🚂 Indian Railways 🇮🇳 Colonial India 🛤️ Railway History 🏭 Industrialization 🏛️ Architectural Preservation

Halt Station India

Bombay's oldest railway still passes through the ruins of the city it replaced.

av Rajendra B. Aklekar 2014 227 sidor

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🚂 Indian Railways 🇮🇳 Colonial India 🛤️ Railway History 🏭 Industrialization 🏛️ Architectural Preservation

That's Not English

av Erin Moore • 2015

British reserve and American enthusiasm hide in words that both countries assume they share.

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🗣️ Language And Culture 🌍 Cultural Comparison 🎩 Social Class 📚 Popular Linguistics 🔬 Linguistic Anthropology

That's Not English

British reserve and American enthusiasm hide in words that both countries assume they share.

av Erin Moore 2015 223 sidor

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🗣️ Language And Culture 🌍 Cultural Comparison 🎩 Social Class 📚 Popular Linguistics 🔬 Linguistic Anthropology

The Perfectionists

av Simon Winchester • 2018

From cylinders to microchips: the hidden pursuit of perfect smoothness that built the modern world.

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🔧 History Of Technology 🏭 Industrial Revolution 🔍 Microhistory 🏗️ Mass Production 💥 Scientific Failures

The Perfectionists

From cylinders to microchips: the hidden pursuit of perfect smoothness that built the modern world.

av Simon Winchester 2018 416 sidor

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🔧 History Of Technology 🏭 Industrial Revolution 🔍 Microhistory 🏗️ Mass Production 💥 Scientific Failures

Life in Code

av Ellen Ullman • 2017

Programming is obsession, not logic, and the people who built the internet mistrust human beings.

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👩‍💻 Women In Tech 🖥️ Tech Culture 📵 Digital Isolation 🧠 Programming Psychology 📉 Tech Criticism

Life in Code

Programming is obsession, not logic, and the people who built the internet mistrust human beings.

av Ellen Ullman 2017 320 sidor

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👩‍💻 Women In Tech 🖥️ Tech Culture 📵 Digital Isolation 🧠 Programming Psychology 📉 Tech Criticism

Facing the Lion

av Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton • 2003

A Maasai boy shamed for fleeing a lion reclaims his courage on a soccer field.

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🐄 Maasai Culture 🌍 East African Memoir 🔥 Rites Of Passage 🌓 Cultural Duality 🌿 Indigenous Knowledge

Facing the Lion

A Maasai boy shamed for fleeing a lion reclaims his courage on a soccer field.

av Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton 2003 128 sidor

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🐄 Maasai Culture 🌍 East African Memoir 🔥 Rites Of Passage 🌓 Cultural Duality 🌿 Indigenous Knowledge

Demystifying Islam

av Harris Zafar • 2014

Jihad, shariah, and Islam's most misunderstood terms: a Muslim sets the record straight.

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🛡️ Islamic Apologetics 🌍 Comparative Religion 🤝 Interfaith Dialogue 📖 Religious Literacy 🔄 Religious Reform

Demystifying Islam

Jihad, shariah, and Islam's most misunderstood terms: a Muslim sets the record straight.

av Harris Zafar 2014 218 sidor

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🛡️ Islamic Apologetics 🌍 Comparative Religion 🤝 Interfaith Dialogue 📖 Religious Literacy 🔄 Religious Reform

Piano Playing

av Josef Hofmann • 1976

A virtuoso's manual: how slow practice, legato, and a trained ear build the complete pianist.

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🎹 Piano Pedagogy 🎼 Classical Performance 🐢 Deliberate Practice 💪 Technique Building 🎭 Musical Interpretation

Piano Playing

A virtuoso's manual: how slow practice, legato, and a trained ear build the complete pianist.

av Josef Hofmann 1976 336 sidor

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🎹 Piano Pedagogy 🎼 Classical Performance 🐢 Deliberate Practice 💪 Technique Building 🎭 Musical Interpretation

Mad, Bad, and Sad

av Lisa Appignanesi • 2007

Madness is a cultural script, rewritten each century, and women have always been given the lead.

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🌀 Women And Madness 🏛️ History Of Psychiatry 📜 Feminist History 🏚️ Madhouses And Asylums 🎭 Hysteria Studies

Mad, Bad, and Sad

Madness is a cultural script, rewritten each century, and women have always been given the lead.

av Lisa Appignanesi 2007 560 sidor

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🌀 Women And Madness 🏛️ History Of Psychiatry 📜 Feminist History 🏚️ Madhouses And Asylums 🎭 Hysteria Studies

The Long Slide

av Tucker Carlson • 2021

A reporter's thirty-year tour: magazine adventures, foreign wars, and the slow death of free speech.

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📰 Political Journalism 📺 Media Criticism 🗣️ Free Speech 🏛️ Institutional Decay 🎖️ War Correspondence

The Long Slide

A reporter's thirty-year tour: magazine adventures, foreign wars, and the slow death of free speech.

av Tucker Carlson 2021 277 sidor

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📰 Political Journalism 📺 Media Criticism 🗣️ Free Speech 🏛️ Institutional Decay 🎖️ War Correspondence

Medieval Iberia

av Olivia Remie Constable • 1997

Eight centuries, three faiths, one peninsula: medieval Iberia speaks in its own words.

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🏰 Medieval Spain 📜 Primary Sources ☮️ Interfaith Relations 🏛️ Medieval Society 🇪🇸 Spanish History

Medieval Iberia

Eight centuries, three faiths, one peninsula: medieval Iberia speaks in its own words.

av Olivia Remie Constable 1997 456 sidor

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🏰 Medieval Spain 📜 Primary Sources ☮️ Interfaith Relations 🏛️ Medieval Society 🇪🇸 Spanish History

Our Kind

av Marvin Harris • 1989

Built for a lost world: why we crave, worship, and wage war, from an anthropologist.

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🧬 Human Evolution 🏺 Prehistory 🏛️ Cultural Evolution 🗣️ Origin Of Language 📊 Social Hierarchy

Our Kind

Built for a lost world: why we crave, worship, and wage war, from an anthropologist.

av Marvin Harris 1989 547 sidor

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🧬 Human Evolution 🏺 Prehistory 🏛️ Cultural Evolution 🗣️ Origin Of Language 📊 Social Hierarchy

Ship of Fools

av Fintan O'Toole • 2009

Ireland's miracle was a property scam. The politicians and bankers who built it kept the profits.

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🐅 Celtic Tiger Era 🇮🇪 Irish Politics 🤝 Crony Capitalism 📋 Regulatory Capture 📉 Financial Crises

Ship of Fools

Ireland's miracle was a property scam. The politicians and bankers who built it kept the profits.

av Fintan O'Toole 2009 256 sidor

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🐅 Celtic Tiger Era 🇮🇪 Irish Politics 🤝 Crony Capitalism 📋 Regulatory Capture 📉 Financial Crises

African Religions & Philosophy

av John S. Mbiti • 1990

The dead are still family. Time has no future. Religion is the air.

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🧠 African Philosophy 📚 Comparative Religion ✝️ African Theology 👻 Ancestor Veneration 🌿 Indigenous Knowledge

African Religions & Philosophy

The dead are still family. Time has no future. Religion is the air.

av John S. Mbiti 1990 288 sidor

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🧠 African Philosophy 📚 Comparative Religion ✝️ African Theology 👻 Ancestor Veneration 🌿 Indigenous Knowledge

Do What You Love and Other Lies About Success and Happiness

av Miya Tokumitsu • 2015

Loving your job is what your boss wants. It is also making you tired, compliant, and broke.

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🏃 Critique Of Hustle Culture ⚠️ Labor Precarity 🎓 Student Debt 🙅 Anti-Self-Help 👁️ Workplace Surveillance

Do What You Love and Other Lies About Success and Happiness

Loving your job is what your boss wants. It is also making you tired, compliant, and broke.

av Miya Tokumitsu 2015 192 sidor

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🏃 Critique Of Hustle Culture ⚠️ Labor Precarity 🎓 Student Debt 🙅 Anti-Self-Help 👁️ Workplace Surveillance

Made in China

av Anna Qu • 2021

At fourteen, she worked her parents' sweatshop. What the CPS file revealed decades later was worse.

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🧳 Immigrant Memoir 🏚️ Family Abuse Memoirs 🧬 Intergenerational Trauma 🪤 Labor Exploitation 🎓 Education As Escape

Made in China

At fourteen, she worked her parents' sweatshop. What the CPS file revealed decades later was worse.

av Anna Qu 2021 224 sidor

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🧳 Immigrant Memoir 🏚️ Family Abuse Memoirs 🧬 Intergenerational Trauma 🪤 Labor Exploitation 🎓 Education As Escape

Paranormal America

av Christopher D. Bader • 2010

Paranormal belief is normal, and its strongest predictor isn't intelligence but social conformity.

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⛪ Sociology Of Religion 📊 Survey Research 👻 Paranormal Culture 👽 Paranormal Beliefs 🔬 Pseudoscience

Paranormal America

Paranormal belief is normal, and its strongest predictor isn't intelligence but social conformity.

av Christopher D. Bader 2010 272 sidor

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⛪ Sociology Of Religion 📊 Survey Research 👻 Paranormal Culture 👽 Paranormal Beliefs 🔬 Pseudoscience

Last Harvest

av Dan Saladino • 2021

Three grains now supply half the world's calories. What happens when the backup crops are gone?

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🌾 Food Biodiversity 📜 Agricultural History 🚜 Monoculture Critique 🌱 Seed Saving 🍲 Traditional Foodways

Last Harvest

Three grains now supply half the world's calories. What happens when the backup crops are gone?

av Dan Saladino 2021

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🌾 Food Biodiversity 📜 Agricultural History 🚜 Monoculture Critique 🌱 Seed Saving 🍲 Traditional Foodways

Japan Story

av Christopher Harding • 2018

Modern Japan was built on a story about itself. Every crisis forced a rewrite.

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🏯 Modern Japanese History 🎌 Japanese Identity 📜 Cultural History 🏗️ Nation Building 🌱 Grassroots Movements

Japan Story

Modern Japan was built on a story about itself. Every crisis forced a rewrite.

av Christopher Harding 2018 504 sidor

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🏯 Modern Japanese History 🎌 Japanese Identity 📜 Cultural History 🏗️ Nation Building 🌱 Grassroots Movements

Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies

av David Fisher • 2015

Before cinema cleaned them up, Wild West legends were killers, traitors, and pragmatists.

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🏜️ Old West History 👥 Frontier Biography 🔍 Myth Debunking 📖 Revisionist History 📚 Collective Biography

Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies

Before cinema cleaned them up, Wild West legends were killers, traitors, and pragmatists.

av David Fisher 2015 304 sidor

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🏜️ Old West History 👥 Frontier Biography 🔍 Myth Debunking 📖 Revisionist History 📚 Collective Biography

Building Successful Communities of Practice

av Emily Webber • 2016

Build a peer community where knowledge flows across teams, and silos dissolve from within.

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🏘️ Communities Of Practice 📚 Organizational Learning 🧠 Knowledge Management 👥 Social Learning 🔨 Community Building

Building Successful Communities of Practice

Build a peer community where knowledge flows across teams, and silos dissolve from within.

av Emily Webber 2016 80 sidor

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🏘️ Communities Of Practice 📚 Organizational Learning 🧠 Knowledge Management 👥 Social Learning 🔨 Community Building

The Road to Little Dribbling

av Bill Bryson • 2015

Twenty years on, Bryson returns to Britain: prettier, richer, and somehow even more perplexing.

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🗺️ British Travelogue 🌳 English Countryside 😤 Curmudgeonly Humor 🔬 Cultural Anthropology 🇬🇧 Modern Britain

The Road to Little Dribbling

Twenty years on, Bryson returns to Britain: prettier, richer, and somehow even more perplexing.

av Bill Bryson 2015 380 sidor

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🗺️ British Travelogue 🌳 English Countryside 😤 Curmudgeonly Humor 🔬 Cultural Anthropology 🇬🇧 Modern Britain

Immeasurable

av Skye Jethani • 2017

Romanticism, not Scripture, is behind the church's authenticity obsession. The crash is measurable.

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🏛️ Church Leadership 🔄 Leadership Fads 🌀 Postmodernism 🌿 Romanticism 💡 Enlightenment Thought

Immeasurable

Romanticism, not Scripture, is behind the church's authenticity obsession. The crash is measurable.

av Skye Jethani 2017 224 sidor

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🏛️ Church Leadership 🔄 Leadership Fads 🌀 Postmodernism 🌿 Romanticism 💡 Enlightenment Thought

She/He/They/Me

av Robyn Ryle • 2019

Pick a gender path and see where it leads: an interactive tour of the binary and beyond.

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🏗️ Gender Construction 👥 Gender Socialization 🌍 Third Gender Traditions 🗿 Patriarchy ⚧️ Intersex Rights

She/He/They/Me

Pick a gender path and see where it leads: an interactive tour of the binary and beyond.

av Robyn Ryle 2019 448 sidor

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🏗️ Gender Construction 👥 Gender Socialization 🌍 Third Gender Traditions 🗿 Patriarchy ⚧️ Intersex Rights

The Seven-Day Weekend

av ricardo-semler • 2004

A CEO's radical experiment: no schedules, no titles, and salaries employees set themselves.

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🗳️ Workplace Democracy 🧭 Self Management 🕰️ Flexible Work 🪟 Workplace Transparency 📊 Flat Hierarchies

The Seven-Day Weekend

A CEO's radical experiment: no schedules, no titles, and salaries employees set themselves.

av ricardo-semler 2004 276 sidor

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🗳️ Workplace Democracy 🧭 Self Management 🕰️ Flexible Work 🪟 Workplace Transparency 📊 Flat Hierarchies

Liberty for All

av Andrew T. Walker • 2021

Only God judges souls, so the state cannot punish unbelief. That logic grounds real pluralism.

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🏛️ Political Theology 🕊️ Religious Liberty ⚖️ Christian Ethics 🌐 Religious Pluralism 🏙️ Secularism

Liberty for All

Only God judges souls, so the state cannot punish unbelief. That logic grounds real pluralism.

av Andrew T. Walker 2021 267 sidor

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🏛️ Political Theology 🕊️ Religious Liberty ⚖️ Christian Ethics 🌐 Religious Pluralism 🏙️ Secularism

Smart Collaboration

av Heidi K. Gardner • 2017

Sharing your best clients doesn't shrink your business. The data shows it makes it bigger.

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💼 Professional Services 🏛️ Partnership Models 🧱 Organizational Silos 🤝 Collaborative Leadership 🎯 Incentive Design

Smart Collaboration

Sharing your best clients doesn't shrink your business. The data shows it makes it bigger.

av Heidi K. Gardner 2017 272 sidor

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💼 Professional Services 🏛️ Partnership Models 🧱 Organizational Silos 🤝 Collaborative Leadership 🎯 Incentive Design

What This Comedian Said Will Shock You

av Bill Maher • 2024

From cancel culture to pandemic theater, a comedian dismantles the pieties nobody else will touch.

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🎭 Political Satire 🚫 Cancel Culture 🗣️ Free Speech ⚔️ Culture Wars 📺 Media Criticism

What This Comedian Said Will Shock You

From cancel culture to pandemic theater, a comedian dismantles the pieties nobody else will touch.

av Bill Maher 2024 395 sidor

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🎭 Political Satire 🚫 Cancel Culture 🗣️ Free Speech ⚔️ Culture Wars 📺 Media Criticism

Consider the Lobster and Other Essays

av David Foster Wallace • 2005

Mainstream acceptance forced adult film into a paradox: to keep its edge, it grew more extreme.

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🎬 Adult Film Industry 📺 Media Criticism 🛒 Consumer Ethics 🗳️ Political Rhetoric 🖊️ New Journalism

Consider the Lobster and Other Essays

Mainstream acceptance forced adult film into a paradox: to keep its edge, it grew more extreme.

av David Foster Wallace 2005 505 sidor

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🎬 Adult Film Industry 📺 Media Criticism 🛒 Consumer Ethics 🗳️ Political Rhetoric 🖊️ New Journalism

The Dirt on Clean

av Katherine Ashenburg • 2007

Roman luxury, medieval sin, modern obsession: the hidden forces that shaped our hygiene.

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🧼 History Of Hygiene 🔍 Microhistory 🦵 Body History 📜 Social History 🚽 Sanitation History

The Dirt on Clean

Roman luxury, medieval sin, modern obsession: the hidden forces that shaped our hygiene.

av Katherine Ashenburg 2007 249 sidor

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🧼 History Of Hygiene 🔍 Microhistory 🦵 Body History 📜 Social History 🚽 Sanitation History

The Return of the Russian Leviathan

av Sergei Medvedev • 2017

Governance traded for spectacle: how resentment and distorted history built Putin's Russia.

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🏛️ Post-Soviet Politics 🕯️ Historical Memory 📢 State Propaganda 🗺️ National Identity 🩹 Collective Trauma

The Return of the Russian Leviathan

Governance traded for spectacle: how resentment and distorted history built Putin's Russia.

av Sergei Medvedev 2017 140 sidor

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🏛️ Post-Soviet Politics 🕯️ Historical Memory 📢 State Propaganda 🗺️ National Identity 🩹 Collective Trauma

Permission to Come Home

av Jenny Wang • 2022

Your family gave you a survival map. A psychologist shows Asian Americans how to draw their own.

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🧬 Intergenerational Trauma 🧧 Asian American Identity 📖 Emotional Literacy 🚧 Boundary Setting 💔 Healing From Shame

Permission to Come Home

Your family gave you a survival map. A psychologist shows Asian Americans how to draw their own.

av Jenny Wang 2022 288 sidor

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🧬 Intergenerational Trauma 🧧 Asian American Identity 📖 Emotional Literacy 🚧 Boundary Setting 💔 Healing From Shame

Inside the Apple

av Michelle Nevius • 2009

A walking guide to reading Manhattan: every block holds a chapter of American history.

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📖 Urban History 🗽 New York City History 🚶 Walking Tours 🏛️ Architectural History 💰 Gilded Age

Inside the Apple

A walking guide to reading Manhattan: every block holds a chapter of American history.

av Michelle Nevius 2009 384 sidor

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📖 Urban History 🗽 New York City History 🚶 Walking Tours 🏛️ Architectural History 💰 Gilded Age

Down and Delirious in Mexico City

av Daniel Hernandez • 2011

A Mexican-American writer goes home to a city that swallows him with punks, cults, and riots.

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🏙️ Mexico City 🎸 Youth Subcultures 🙏 Popular Religion 📰 Gonzo Journalism 🗺️ Borderland Studies

Down and Delirious in Mexico City

A Mexican-American writer goes home to a city that swallows him with punks, cults, and riots.

av Daniel Hernandez 2011 288 sidor

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🏙️ Mexico City 🎸 Youth Subcultures 🙏 Popular Religion 📰 Gonzo Journalism 🗺️ Borderland Studies

Steve Jobs and Philosophy

av Shawn E. Klein • 2015

What made Steve Jobs a tyrant also made him a visionary. Philosophers weigh the evidence.

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🔍 Business Ethics 🤖 Philosophy Of Technology 💡 Innovation Studies 👁️ Visionary Leadership 💥 Creative Destruction

Steve Jobs and Philosophy

What made Steve Jobs a tyrant also made him a visionary. Philosophers weigh the evidence.

av Shawn E. Klein 2015

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🔍 Business Ethics 🤖 Philosophy Of Technology 💡 Innovation Studies 👁️ Visionary Leadership 💥 Creative Destruction

Thinking In Numbers

av Daniel Tammet • 2013

Numbers live in a family of nine, an Icelandic counting word, snowflakes, and how decades shrink.

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🧮 Everyday Mathematics 🌍 Cultural Mathematics ✨ Mathematical Imagination 🌈 Synesthesia 🕳️ Zero And Infinity

Thinking In Numbers

Numbers live in a family of nine, an Icelandic counting word, snowflakes, and how decades shrink.

av Daniel Tammet 2013 288 sidor

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🧮 Everyday Mathematics 🌍 Cultural Mathematics ✨ Mathematical Imagination 🌈 Synesthesia 🕳️ Zero And Infinity

I Stand Corrected

av Eden Collinsworth • 2014

When a Western etiquette expert tried to teach China about manners, China politely corrected her.

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🏢 Business Etiquette 🇨🇳 Modern China 📖 China Memoir 🗣️ Cultural Fluency 📜 Confucian Values

I Stand Corrected

When a Western etiquette expert tried to teach China about manners, China politely corrected her.

av Eden Collinsworth 2014 272 sidor

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🏢 Business Etiquette 🇨🇳 Modern China 📖 China Memoir 🗣️ Cultural Fluency 📜 Confucian Values

The Mexico Reader

av Gilbert M. Joseph • 2002

Five hundred years of Mexico, from conquest to maquiladoras, told by the people who lived it.

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🇲🇽 Mexican History 📜 Primary Sources 🏛️ Cultural History 🎭 Contested Identity 🔥 Revolution And Reform

The Mexico Reader

Five hundred years of Mexico, from conquest to maquiladoras, told by the people who lived it.

av Gilbert M. Joseph 2002 808 sidor

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🇲🇽 Mexican History 📜 Primary Sources 🏛️ Cultural History 🎭 Contested Identity 🔥 Revolution And Reform

The World According to Cunk

av Philomena Cunk • 2024

A documentary presenter who missed every history lesson explains all world events, with pictures.

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🏛️ Parody History 🤪 Absurdist Humor 🎓 Fake Expertise 🇬🇧 British Satire 📺 Bbc Comedy

The World According to Cunk

A documentary presenter who missed every history lesson explains all world events, with pictures.

av Philomena Cunk 2024 256 sidor

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🏛️ Parody History 🤪 Absurdist Humor 🎓 Fake Expertise 🇬🇧 British Satire 📺 Bbc Comedy

Magnificent Rebels

av Andrea Wulf • 2022

A handful of quarrelsome friends in a German backwater invented the way you think about yourself.

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🧠 Intellectual History 🌹 Romantic Movement 📖 German Idealism 👥 Group Biography 💡 Enlightenment Critique

Magnificent Rebels

A handful of quarrelsome friends in a German backwater invented the way you think about yourself.

av Andrea Wulf 2022 512 sidor

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🧠 Intellectual History 🌹 Romantic Movement 📖 German Idealism 👥 Group Biography 💡 Enlightenment Critique

Outwitting History

av Aaron Lansky • 2004

A million Yiddish books were vanishing into dumpsters. One 24-year-old decided to save them all.

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📜 Yiddish Literature 📚 Book Preservation 🗣️ Endangered Languages 🌱 Language Revival ✡️ Yiddishkeit

Outwitting History

A million Yiddish books were vanishing into dumpsters. One 24-year-old decided to save them all.

av Aaron Lansky 2004 328 sidor

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📜 Yiddish Literature 📚 Book Preservation 🗣️ Endangered Languages 🌱 Language Revival ✡️ Yiddishkeit

Escape from Saddam

av Lewis Alsamari • 2007

He escaped the army, the wolves, and Saddam's Iraq. Then his family was arrested for it.

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🏴 Life Under Dictatorship 🧳 Refugee Memoirs 🛂 Illegal Immigration 🏜️ Survival Narratives 🌍 Cultural Displacement

Escape from Saddam

He escaped the army, the wolves, and Saddam's Iraq. Then his family was arrested for it.

av Lewis Alsamari 2007 320 sidor

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🏴 Life Under Dictatorship 🧳 Refugee Memoirs 🛂 Illegal Immigration 🏜️ Survival Narratives 🌍 Cultural Displacement

Tías and Primas

av Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez • 2024

The women who shaped you are archetypes. A Latina feminist reveals what they teach about survival.

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🌺 Latina Feminism 🎭 Female Archetypes 🪢 Intergenerational Trauma 🪞 Body Policing 🤝 Female Solidarity

Tías and Primas

The women who shaped you are archetypes. A Latina feminist reveals what they teach about survival.

av Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez 2024 304 sidor

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🌺 Latina Feminism 🎭 Female Archetypes 🪢 Intergenerational Trauma 🪞 Body Policing 🤝 Female Solidarity

Values, Voice and Virtue

av Matthew Goodwin • 2023

Britain's new class war: the university 25% versus the rest. The grads are winning everything.

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🏛️ British Politics 👔 Elite Studies 📢 Populism ⚔️ Culture Wars 🌍 Immigration Politics

Values, Voice and Virtue

Britain's new class war: the university 25% versus the rest. The grads are winning everything.

av Matthew Goodwin 2023 239 sidor

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🏛️ British Politics 👔 Elite Studies 📢 Populism ⚔️ Culture Wars 🌍 Immigration Politics

Coding Freedom

av Gabriella Coleman • 2012

They built a free software revolution while insisting they were not political at all.

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💻 Hacker Culture 🐧 Free Software Movement 🌐 Digital Ethnography 📜 Intellectual Property 👥 Online Communities

Coding Freedom

They built a free software revolution while insisting they were not political at all.

av Gabriella Coleman 2012 272 sidor

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💻 Hacker Culture 🐧 Free Software Movement 🌐 Digital Ethnography 📜 Intellectual Property 👥 Online Communities

I'm Right and You're an Idiot

av James Hoggan • 2016

Why arguing harder backfires, and the listening and framing skills that actually change minds.

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🗣️ Public Discourse ⚡ Polarization 🧠 Cognitive Biases ⚖️ Moral Psychology 🕊️ Nonviolent Communication

I'm Right and You're an Idiot

Why arguing harder backfires, and the listening and framing skills that actually change minds.

av James Hoggan 2016 272 sidor

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🗣️ Public Discourse ⚡ Polarization 🧠 Cognitive Biases ⚖️ Moral Psychology 🕊️ Nonviolent Communication

The Anatomy of Dependence

av Takeo Doi • 1973

Japan named an emotion the West cannot name. That single word unlocks an entire social order.

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🔄 Cross-Cultural Psychology 🇯🇵 Japanese Society 🤱 Emotional Dependence 😳 Shame And Guilt 📖 Nihonjinron

The Anatomy of Dependence

Japan named an emotion the West cannot name. That single word unlocks an entire social order.

av Takeo Doi 1973 192 sidor

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🔄 Cross-Cultural Psychology 🇯🇵 Japanese Society 🤱 Emotional Dependence 😳 Shame And Guilt 📖 Nihonjinron

Muay Thai

av Michael Goodison • 2016

Modern life buries truth in comfort. In a Muay Thai ring, pain digs it back up.

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🥊 Combat Sports ✈️ Travel Memoir 🥋 Martial Arts Memoir 🌑 Embracing Suffering 🤼 Fighting Philosophy

Muay Thai

Modern life buries truth in comfort. In a Muay Thai ring, pain digs it back up.

av Michael Goodison 2016 274 sidor

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🥊 Combat Sports ✈️ Travel Memoir 🥋 Martial Arts Memoir 🌑 Embracing Suffering 🤼 Fighting Philosophy

Making It in America

av Rachel Slade • 2024

Sixty thousand American factories shuttered since NAFTA. One couple bet everything to open just one.

3.63

323

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3.64

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