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Lady Sapiens

av Thomas Cirotteau • 2011

The real prehistoric woman hunted, healed, and led. Her passivity was a Victorian invention.

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🏛️ Human Prehistory 🔬 Evolutionary Anthropology ⛏️ Feminist Archaeology 🏹 Hunter-Gatherer Societies 👶 Cooperative Breeding

Lady Sapiens

The real prehistoric woman hunted, healed, and led. Her passivity was a Victorian invention.

av Thomas Cirotteau 2011 240 sidor

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🏛️ Human Prehistory 🔬 Evolutionary Anthropology ⛏️ Feminist Archaeology 🏹 Hunter-Gatherer Societies 👶 Cooperative Breeding

Making It in America

av Rachel Slade • 2024

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

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🏭 American Manufacturing 📉 Manufacturing Decline 📜 Trade Policy 📦 Offshoring ✊ Labor Unions

Making It in America

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

av Rachel Slade 2024 352 sidor

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🏭 American Manufacturing 📉 Manufacturing Decline 📜 Trade Policy 📦 Offshoring ✊ Labor Unions

The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces

av William H. Whyte • 1980

A decade of time-lapse footage on New York plazas upended every assumption about what draws a crowd.

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🏙️ Public Space 🚶 Street Life 🏘️ Human-Scale Urbanism ✨ Placemaking 🌍 Urban Anthropology

The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces

A decade of time-lapse footage on New York plazas upended every assumption about what draws a crowd.

av William H. Whyte 1980 125 sidor

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🏙️ Public Space 🚶 Street Life 🏘️ Human-Scale Urbanism ✨ Placemaking 🌍 Urban Anthropology

In Praise of Prejudice

av Theodore Dalrymple • 2007

The war on prejudice backfires: it returns as conformity, atomization, and state control.

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🗣️ Social Commentary 🏛️ Cultural Conservatism 📜 Defense Of Tradition 🧩 Limits Of Reason 🧍 Social Atomization

In Praise of Prejudice

The war on prejudice backfires: it returns as conformity, atomization, and state control.

av Theodore Dalrymple 2007 129 sidor

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🗣️ Social Commentary 🏛️ Cultural Conservatism 📜 Defense Of Tradition 🧩 Limits Of Reason 🧍 Social Atomization

The Longing for Less

av Kyle Chayka • 2020

The clean lines of minimalism hide a messy history: Zen monks, art rebels, and $8,200 stereos.

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🎨 Modernist Art 📐 Design Philosophy 📰 Cultural Criticism 🇯🇵 Japanese Aesthetics 🚫 Anti-Consumerism

The Longing for Less

The clean lines of minimalism hide a messy history: Zen monks, art rebels, and $8,200 stereos.

av Kyle Chayka 2020 272 sidor

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🎨 Modernist Art 📐 Design Philosophy 📰 Cultural Criticism 🇯🇵 Japanese Aesthetics 🚫 Anti-Consumerism

Philosophy Bites

av David Edmonds • 2012

The big questions of philosophy, served in bite-sized interviews with today's leading thinkers.

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Philosophy Bites

The big questions of philosophy, served in bite-sized interviews with today's leading thinkers.

av David Edmonds 2012 268 sidor

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Freak Kingdom

av Timothy Denevi • 2018

Hunter S. Thompson spent a deadly serious decade trying to stop America's descent into fascism.

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🧪 Gonzo Journalism 🇺🇸 Us Political History ✍️ Literary Biography 😞 Political Disillusionment ☮️ Counterculture Movement

Freak Kingdom

Hunter S. Thompson spent a deadly serious decade trying to stop America's descent into fascism.

av Timothy Denevi 2018 416 sidor

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🧪 Gonzo Journalism 🇺🇸 Us Political History ✍️ Literary Biography 😞 Political Disillusionment ☮️ Counterculture Movement

The Anarchist In The Library

av Siva Vaidhyanathan • 2004

The web set free-sharing anarchists against control-hungry oligarchs, and neither side is winning.

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🛡️ Digital Rights ⚖️ Copyright Politics 🏛️ Cultural Commons 🌐 Network Society 💻 Digital Counterculture

The Anarchist In The Library

The web set free-sharing anarchists against control-hungry oligarchs, and neither side is winning.

av Siva Vaidhyanathan 2004 272 sidor

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🛡️ Digital Rights ⚖️ Copyright Politics 🏛️ Cultural Commons 🌐 Network Society 💻 Digital Counterculture

The State of the Art

av Iain M. Banks • 1991

A galactic utopia's agent catalogs 1970s Earth and falls for our beautiful, self-destructive mess.

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💔 Utopia's Discontents 👽 Earth Through Alien Eyes 🤝 First Contact Ethics 🤖 Machine Sentience 🎭 Satirical Sf

The State of the Art

A galactic utopia's agent catalogs 1970s Earth and falls for our beautiful, self-destructive mess.

av Iain M. Banks 1991 188 sidor

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💔 Utopia's Discontents 👽 Earth Through Alien Eyes 🤝 First Contact Ethics 🤖 Machine Sentience 🎭 Satirical Sf

On Human Nature

av Roger Scruton • 2017

Genes and memes don't explain why you honor your dead, laugh, or hold someone accountable.

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🧠 Philosophy Of Mind ⚖️ Moral Philosophy 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology 📖 Narrative Identity 🏛️ Virtue Ethics

On Human Nature

Genes and memes don't explain why you honor your dead, laugh, or hold someone accountable.

av Roger Scruton 2017 151 sidor

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🧠 Philosophy Of Mind ⚖️ Moral Philosophy 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology 📖 Narrative Identity 🏛️ Virtue Ethics

Economies and Cultures

av Richard R. Wilk • 1996

The rational market actor is a myth: economic life runs on gifts, status, and cultural meaning.

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🏛️ Economic Anthropology 🔗 Embedded Economies 🎁 Reciprocity 🧠 Rationality Critique 💭 Symbolic Value

Economies and Cultures

The rational market actor is a myth: economic life runs on gifts, status, and cultural meaning.

av Richard R. Wilk 1996 252 sidor

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🏛️ Economic Anthropology 🔗 Embedded Economies 🎁 Reciprocity 🧠 Rationality Critique 💭 Symbolic Value

A Bite-Sized History of France

av Stephane Henaut • 2018

French cuisine is a global collage. The myth of purity, dismantled one dish at a time.

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🍴 Culinary History 🇫🇷 French Gastronomy 🏳️ Food And Identity 🌍 Colonial Foodways 👑 Class And Cuisine

A Bite-Sized History of France

French cuisine is a global collage. The myth of purity, dismantled one dish at a time.

av Stephane Henaut 2018 352 sidor

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🍴 Culinary History 🇫🇷 French Gastronomy 🏳️ Food And Identity 🌍 Colonial Foodways 👑 Class And Cuisine

East Wind

av Pearl S. Buck • 1930

Her bound feet made her beautiful; her husband called them ugly and asked her to walk.

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🏮 Chinese Family Saga 🌏 Cross-Cultural Marriage 🎎 Arranged Marriage 👩‍👩 Unlikely Sisterhood 👵👩 Generational Conflict

East Wind

Her bound feet made her beautiful; her husband called them ugly and asked her to walk.

av Pearl S. Buck 1930 277 sidor

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🏮 Chinese Family Saga 🌏 Cross-Cultural Marriage 🎎 Arranged Marriage 👩‍👩 Unlikely Sisterhood 👵👩 Generational Conflict

SuperFreakonomics

av Steven D. Levitt • 2009

Prostitutes earn more on holidays, suicide bombers buy life insurance. An economist explains why.

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📉 Pop-Economics 🧠 Incentive Design 🧐 Myth Busting 🎁 Altruism 🔢 Data Analysis

SuperFreakonomics

Prostitutes earn more on holidays, suicide bombers buy life insurance. An economist explains why.

av Steven D. Levitt 2009 6 sidor

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📉 Pop-Economics 🧠 Incentive Design 🧐 Myth Busting 🎁 Altruism 🔢 Data Analysis

They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

av Hanif Abdurraqib • 2017

A poet traces the pulse beneath Black America's grief and defiance, from punk shows to funerals.

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🎵 Music Criticism 📝 Personal Essays 🖤 Black American Life 🥀 Grief And Loss 🎭 Constructed Identity

They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

A poet traces the pulse beneath Black America's grief and defiance, from punk shows to funerals.

av Hanif Abdurraqib 2017 291 sidor

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🎵 Music Criticism 📝 Personal Essays 🖤 Black American Life 🥀 Grief And Loss 🎭 Constructed Identity

The Craftsman

av Richard Sennett • 2008

Making things well is a universal human drive. Modern work is designed to suppress it.

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🔨 Philosophy Of Work 🏺 Material Culture 🔧 Skilled Labor ✋ Craftsmanship 🧠 Tacit Knowledge

The Craftsman

Making things well is a universal human drive. Modern work is designed to suppress it.

av Richard Sennett 2008 336 sidor

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🔨 Philosophy Of Work 🏺 Material Culture 🔧 Skilled Labor ✋ Craftsmanship 🧠 Tacit Knowledge

The Inner History of Devices

av Sherry Turkle • 2008

Your devices are confidants, not just tools. What they reveal about the self you're becoming.

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🧠 Technology And Self 📱 Digital Intimacy 🎭 Online Identity 🎰 Digital Addiction 🔍 Digital Ethnography

The Inner History of Devices

Your devices are confidants, not just tools. What they reveal about the self you're becoming.

av Sherry Turkle 2008 208 sidor

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🧠 Technology And Self 📱 Digital Intimacy 🎭 Online Identity 🎰 Digital Addiction 🔍 Digital Ethnography

A Brief History Of Bali

av Willard A. Hanna • 1976

How Bali survived piracy, slavery, and colonialism to become the paradise tourists see today.

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🏝️ Island History 🌏 Southeast Asia 🇳🇱 Dutch Colonialism 💪 Cultural Resilience 🏖️ Tourism's Costs

A Brief History Of Bali

How Bali survived piracy, slavery, and colonialism to become the paradise tourists see today.

av Willard A. Hanna 1976 288 sidor

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🏝️ Island History 🌏 Southeast Asia 🇳🇱 Dutch Colonialism 💪 Cultural Resilience 🏖️ Tourism's Costs

The Monk as Man

av Sankar • 2011

He fought lawsuits, begged a maharaja, and insisted a monk who cannot cook well is useless.

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🕉️ Spiritual Biography 🛕 Hindu Monasticism 👪 Family Obligations 🏔️ Ascetic Life 🍲 Culinary Spirituality

The Monk as Man

He fought lawsuits, begged a maharaja, and insisted a monk who cannot cook well is useless.

av Sankar 2011 264 sidor

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🕉️ Spiritual Biography 🛕 Hindu Monasticism 👪 Family Obligations 🏔️ Ascetic Life 🍲 Culinary Spirituality

Fly Girls

av Keith O'Brien • 2018

The men banned them from racing. Five women flew anyway, and one beat them all.

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🛩️ Aviation History 👩‍✈️ Women Pioneers 🚫 Gender Discrimination 👥 Collective Biography 📜 Feminist History

Fly Girls

The men banned them from racing. Five women flew anyway, and one beat them all.

av Keith O'Brien 2018 352 sidor

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🛩️ Aviation History 👩‍✈️ Women Pioneers 🚫 Gender Discrimination 👥 Collective Biography 📜 Feminist History

Islam and Democracy

av Fatema Mernissi • 1992

The Arab world resists democracy not over scripture but over a deeper terror: the free individual.

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🕌 Political Islam 👩 Islamic Feminism 🌍 Arab Modernity 📚 Postcolonial Theory 👤 Women And Islam

Islam and Democracy

The Arab world resists democracy not over scripture but over a deeper terror: the free individual.

av Fatema Mernissi 1992 197 sidor

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🕌 Political Islam 👩 Islamic Feminism 🌍 Arab Modernity 📚 Postcolonial Theory 👤 Women And Islam

Going Gray

av Anne Kreamer • 2007

She stopped dyeing her hair, posted the gray photo, and her dating matches tripled.

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👩‍🦳 Female Aging 💅 Beauty Standards 🦋 Midlife Reinvention 🧪 Immersion Memoir ⚖️ Double Standards

Going Gray

She stopped dyeing her hair, posted the gray photo, and her dating matches tripled.

av Anne Kreamer 2007 224 sidor

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👩‍🦳 Female Aging 💅 Beauty Standards 🦋 Midlife Reinvention 🧪 Immersion Memoir ⚖️ Double Standards

Small Pleasures

av The School of Life • 2016

Grand joys exhaust us. The quiet daily pleasures already hold the meaning we're chasing.

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🧠 Philosophical Self-Help ✨ Re-Enchantment 🌸 Micro-Joys 🍵 Savoring 🌿 Contemplative Living

Small Pleasures

Grand joys exhaust us. The quiet daily pleasures already hold the meaning we're chasing.

av The School of Life 2016 248 sidor

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🧠 Philosophical Self-Help ✨ Re-Enchantment 🌸 Micro-Joys 🍵 Savoring 🌿 Contemplative Living

Ali and Nino

av Kurban Said • 1937

Baku, 1914: a Muslim noble loves a Georgian Christian as empires crumble and blood feuds ignite.

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💫 Star-Crossed Lovers 🌍 Cross-Cultural Romance 💔 Tragic Romance 🕊️ Interfaith Marriage 🏚️ Collapsing Empire

Ali and Nino

Baku, 1914: a Muslim noble loves a Georgian Christian as empires crumble and blood feuds ignite.

av Kurban Said 1937 282 sidor

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💫 Star-Crossed Lovers 🌍 Cross-Cultural Romance 💔 Tragic Romance 🕊️ Interfaith Marriage 🏚️ Collapsing Empire

Hacking Life

av Joseph M. Reagle Jr. • 2019

Life hacking promised control. A critic traces what the optimization movement cannot measure.

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🖥️ Digital Culture 🔍 Self-Help Critique ⚙️ Optimization Culture 📊 Quantified Self 🧘 Digital Minimalism

Hacking Life

Life hacking promised control. A critic traces what the optimization movement cannot measure.

av Joseph M. Reagle Jr. 2019 204 sidor

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🖥️ Digital Culture 🔍 Self-Help Critique ⚙️ Optimization Culture 📊 Quantified Self 🧘 Digital Minimalism

Friendship

av A.C. Grayling • 2013

2,500 years of philosophy on why friendship is a requirement, not a bonus.

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🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Philosophy Of Friendship 📜 Intellectual History 🏛️ Classical Philosophy ✝️ Christian Thought ⚖️ Virtue Ethics

Friendship

2,500 years of philosophy on why friendship is a requirement, not a bonus.

av A.C. Grayling 2013 248 sidor

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🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Philosophy Of Friendship 📜 Intellectual History 🏛️ Classical Philosophy ✝️ Christian Thought ⚖️ Virtue Ethics

Broad Band

av Claire L. Evans • 2018

Women created the first program, the first compiler, and the early web. Then they were erased.

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👩‍💻 Women In Computing 🖥️ Computing History 🌐 Internet History 📜 Hidden Histories ⚡ Cyberfeminism

Broad Band

Women created the first program, the first compiler, and the early web. Then they were erased.

av Claire L. Evans 2018 288 sidor

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👩‍💻 Women In Computing 🖥️ Computing History 🌐 Internet History 📜 Hidden Histories ⚡ Cyberfeminism

A Just Mission

av Mekdes Haddis • 2022

The people Western missions aimed to save hold the key to a faith stripped of colonialism.

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🕊️ Missiology 📖 Postcolonial Theology ✈️ Short-Term Missions ⚖️ Restorative Justice 🌍 Global Christianity

A Just Mission

The people Western missions aimed to save hold the key to a faith stripped of colonialism.

av Mekdes Haddis 2022 240 sidor

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🕊️ Missiology 📖 Postcolonial Theology ✈️ Short-Term Missions ⚖️ Restorative Justice 🌍 Global Christianity

The Science of Organizational Change

av Paul Gibbons • 2019

Half of corporate change fails, and the guru-industrial complex is covering up the real reasons.

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🏢 Organizational Change 💰 Behavioral Economics 🤔 Cognitive Biases 📊 Evidence-Based Management 💥 Management Myths

The Science of Organizational Change

Half of corporate change fails, and the guru-industrial complex is covering up the real reasons.

av Paul Gibbons 2019 380 sidor

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🏢 Organizational Change 💰 Behavioral Economics 🤔 Cognitive Biases 📊 Evidence-Based Management 💥 Management Myths

Humanly Possible

av Sarah Bakewell • 2023

Humanism's 700-year bet: that reason and kindness, not gods or ideologies, will save us.

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📜 Intellectual History 🏛️ Renaissance Humanism 🌍 Secular Humanism 💡 Freethought 🎓 Enlightenment Thought

Humanly Possible

Humanism's 700-year bet: that reason and kindness, not gods or ideologies, will save us.

av Sarah Bakewell 2023 464 sidor

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📜 Intellectual History 🏛️ Renaissance Humanism 🌍 Secular Humanism 💡 Freethought 🎓 Enlightenment Thought

Vanishing Frontiers

av Andrew Selee • 2018

While politicians talk walls, Mexican firms now employ 123,000 Americans and trade has quadrupled.

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🇲🇽 Us-Mexico Relations 🌉 Cross-Border Integration 🔗 Economic Interdependence 💼 Foreign Investment 🚶 Mexican Migration

Vanishing Frontiers

While politicians talk walls, Mexican firms now employ 123,000 Americans and trade has quadrupled.

av Andrew Selee 2018 336 sidor

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🇲🇽 Us-Mexico Relations 🌉 Cross-Border Integration 🔗 Economic Interdependence 💼 Foreign Investment 🚶 Mexican Migration

In Praise of Risk

av Anne Dufourmantelle • 2011

To avoid risk is to refuse life. A philosopher's argument for love, beauty, and freedom.

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🧠 Continental Philosophy 🛋️ Psychoanalytic Thought ✍️ Essay Collections 🎨 Creative Uncertainty 🗣️ Language And Metaphor

In Praise of Risk

To avoid risk is to refuse life. A philosopher's argument for love, beauty, and freedom.

av Anne Dufourmantelle 2011 196 sidor

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🧠 Continental Philosophy 🛋️ Psychoanalytic Thought ✍️ Essay Collections 🎨 Creative Uncertainty 🗣️ Language And Metaphor

Attack and Die

av Grady McWhiney • 1982

Honor culture demanded attack. Rifles made attack fatal. The Confederacy bled to death.

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⚔️ Military History 🇺🇸 American Civil War 📜 Military Doctrine 🏺 War And Culture 🎩 Southern Honor Culture

Attack and Die

Honor culture demanded attack. Rifles made attack fatal. The Confederacy bled to death.

av Grady McWhiney 1982 232 sidor

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⚔️ Military History 🇺🇸 American Civil War 📜 Military Doctrine 🏺 War And Culture 🎩 Southern Honor Culture

One in a Millennial

av Kate Kennedy • 2024

The MySpace top eight was a leaderboard, not a friend list, and she played to win.

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💿 Millennial Memoir 📺 Pop Culture Criticism 🧠 Mental Health Memoir ⛪ Purity Culture 🕯️ Fertility And Loss

One in a Millennial

The MySpace top eight was a leaderboard, not a friend list, and she played to win.

av Kate Kennedy 2024 336 sidor

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💿 Millennial Memoir 📺 Pop Culture Criticism 🧠 Mental Health Memoir ⛪ Purity Culture 🕯️ Fertility And Loss

The Lost Art of Dress

av Linda Przybyszewski • 2014

Before fast fashion, women educators taught America that art and thrift, not wealth, made style.

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👗 Fashion History 🇺🇸 American Fashion 🏠 Home Economics 👔 Wardrobe Building 💰 Thrifty Fashion

The Lost Art of Dress

Before fast fashion, women educators taught America that art and thrift, not wealth, made style.

av Linda Przybyszewski 2014 347 sidor

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👗 Fashion History 🇺🇸 American Fashion 🏠 Home Economics 👔 Wardrobe Building 💰 Thrifty Fashion

Soul Machine

av George Makari • 2015

Science couldn't find the soul. So early modern Europe invented the mind to take its place.

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🧠 Intellectual History 🧪 History Of Psychology 💭 Philosophy Of Mind 💡 Enlightenment Thought ⛪ Secularization

Soul Machine

Science couldn't find the soul. So early modern Europe invented the mind to take its place.

av George Makari 2015 672 sidor

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🧠 Intellectual History 🧪 History Of Psychology 💭 Philosophy Of Mind 💡 Enlightenment Thought ⛪ Secularization

Leaders Eat Last / Find Your Why / Start With Why

av SINEK SIMON • 2017

Your team's trust runs on four brain chemicals. Here is how a leader releases them.

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🏢 Organizational Culture 🛡️ Servant Leadership 🧠 Workplace Psychology 👥 People-First Management 🤝 Trust Building

Leaders Eat Last / Find Your Why / Start With Why

Your team's trust runs on four brain chemicals. Here is how a leader releases them.

av SINEK SIMON 2017

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🏢 Organizational Culture 🛡️ Servant Leadership 🧠 Workplace Psychology 👥 People-First Management 🤝 Trust Building

Cognitive Gadgets

av Cecilia Heyes • 2018

Imitation and language are not instincts. They are cultural tools, rebuilt in every childhood.

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🧠 Cultural Evolution 🔬 Cognitive Psychology 👶 Cognitive Development 👥 Social Learning 📖 Cultural Transmission

Cognitive Gadgets

Imitation and language are not instincts. They are cultural tools, rebuilt in every childhood.

av Cecilia Heyes 2018 304 sidor

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🧠 Cultural Evolution 🔬 Cognitive Psychology 👶 Cognitive Development 👥 Social Learning 📖 Cultural Transmission

The Age of Dignity

av Ai-jen Poo • 2015

Ten thousand Americans turn sixty-five each day. The fix is infrastructure, not more nursing homes.

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🧓 Elder Care 🥪 Sandwich Generation 📜 Aging Policy 💰 Care Economy 👪 Family Caregiving

The Age of Dignity

Ten thousand Americans turn sixty-five each day. The fix is infrastructure, not more nursing homes.

av Ai-jen Poo 2015 176 sidor

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🧓 Elder Care 🥪 Sandwich Generation 📜 Aging Policy 💰 Care Economy 👪 Family Caregiving

Mother of Invention

av Katrine Marçal • 2020

From the wheeled suitcase to AI, one question decides what succeeds: does it threaten masculinity?

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💰 Feminist Economics ⚙️ History Of Technology 💡 Gender And Innovation 🕵️‍♀️ Hidden Women In History 🤲 Care Work

Mother of Invention

From the wheeled suitcase to AI, one question decides what succeeds: does it threaten masculinity?

av Katrine Marçal 2020 304 sidor

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💰 Feminist Economics ⚙️ History Of Technology 💡 Gender And Innovation 🕵️‍♀️ Hidden Women In History 🤲 Care Work

Is Maths Real? How Simple Questions Lead Us to Mathematics’ Deepest Truths

av Eugenia Cheng • 2023

Math is not about right answers but about asking why. A manifesto for the curious.

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📐 Philosophy Of Math 🧮 Mathematical Thinking 📚 Math Pedagogy 🔍 Logical Reasoning 🪞 Mathematical Abstraction

Is Maths Real? How Simple Questions Lead Us to Mathematics’ Deepest Truths

Math is not about right answers but about asking why. A manifesto for the curious.

av Eugenia Cheng 2023 328 sidor

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📐 Philosophy Of Math 🧮 Mathematical Thinking 📚 Math Pedagogy 🔍 Logical Reasoning 🪞 Mathematical Abstraction

The Way Out

av Peter T. Coleman • 2021

Winning arguments deepens polarization. The real way out: redesign the hidden systems that fuel it.

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🏛️ Conflict Resolution 🔄 Systems Thinking 🧠 Cognitive Biases 🌉 Bridge Building 🔗 Social Psychology

The Way Out

Winning arguments deepens polarization. The real way out: redesign the hidden systems that fuel it.

av Peter T. Coleman 2021 296 sidor

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🏛️ Conflict Resolution 🔄 Systems Thinking 🧠 Cognitive Biases 🌉 Bridge Building 🔗 Social Psychology

Humour

av Terry Eagleton • 2019

From gloating superiority to utopian carnival, a philosopher surveys every major theory of laughter.

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🎭 Philosophy Of Humor 📜 History Of Laughter 📖 Literary Theory 🤝 Humor And Society 🗳️ Humor And Politics

Humour

From gloating superiority to utopian carnival, a philosopher surveys every major theory of laughter.

av Terry Eagleton 2019 224 sidor

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🎭 Philosophy Of Humor 📜 History Of Laughter 📖 Literary Theory 🤝 Humor And Society 🗳️ Humor And Politics

Los superhéroes y la filosofía

av Tom Morris • 2001

What Batman's vigilantism and Spider-Man's guilt reveal about the age-old question: Why be moral?

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🧠 Pop Philosophy 📖 Comic Book Studies ⚖️ Applied Ethics 🏛️ Hero Myth 🎭 Personal Identity

Los superhéroes y la filosofía

What Batman's vigilantism and Spider-Man's guilt reveal about the age-old question: Why be moral?

av Tom Morris 2001 430 sidor

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🧠 Pop Philosophy 📖 Comic Book Studies ⚖️ Applied Ethics 🏛️ Hero Myth 🎭 Personal Identity

Breaking Bread with the Dead

av Alan Jacobs • 2020

Information overload shrinks your sense of time; old books stretch it back open.

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🧘 Reading And Well-Being 🤯 Information Overload ⏳ Historical Perspective 🐢 Slow Reading 📚 Literary Humanism

Breaking Bread with the Dead

Information overload shrinks your sense of time; old books stretch it back open.

av Alan Jacobs 2020 192 sidor

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🧘 Reading And Well-Being 🤯 Information Overload ⏳ Historical Perspective 🐢 Slow Reading 📚 Literary Humanism

Like, Literally, Dude

av Valerie Fridland • 2023

Vocal fry, um, and literally: the science that turns every grammar pet peeve into a feature.

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🗣️ Sociolinguistics 📖 Grammar And Usage 🔄 Language Change 📝 Descriptivism 🎭 Linguistic Prejudice

Like, Literally, Dude

Vocal fry, um, and literally: the science that turns every grammar pet peeve into a feature.

av Valerie Fridland 2023 336 sidor

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🗣️ Sociolinguistics 📖 Grammar And Usage 🔄 Language Change 📝 Descriptivism 🎭 Linguistic Prejudice

Step By Step The Life In My Journeys

av Simon Reeve • 2018

Suicidal at sixteen, one exam pass. He now films documentaries in the world's most dangerous places.

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🗺️ Travel Memoirs 📰 Travel Journalism ⛰️ Adventure Travel 🌍 Geopolitics Travel 💪 Resilience Narratives

Step By Step The Life In My Journeys

Suicidal at sixteen, one exam pass. He now films documentaries in the world's most dangerous places.

av Simon Reeve 2018 352 sidor

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Red State, Blue State, Rich State, Poor State

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Wealthy states lean left; within them, wealth predicts right. The data that reconciles the split.

3.64

376

🗺️ Electoral Geography 🗳️ Voting Behavior 💰 Income And Voting ↔️ Political Polarization 🔵🔴 Cultural Divides

Red State, Blue State, Rich State, Poor State

Wealthy states lean left; within them, wealth predicts right. The data that reconciles the split.

av Andrew Gelman 2008 240 sidor

3.64

376 betyg

🗺️ Electoral Geography 🗳️ Voting Behavior 💰 Income And Voting ↔️ Political Polarization 🔵🔴 Cultural Divides

In a Sunburned Country

av Bill Bryson • 2000

24 rabbits became 300 million. Bill Bryson crosses Australia, dodging lethal seashells.

4.07

100 000+

🇦🇺 Australian Travel 😂 Humor Travel 🐍 Deadly Wildlife 🐇 Invasive Species ⛓️ Convict Legacy

In a Sunburned Country

24 rabbits became 300 million. Bill Bryson crosses Australia, dodging lethal seashells.

av Bill Bryson 2000 335 sidor

4.07

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They Came Before Columbus

av Ivan Van Sertima • 2003

Africans built ships, crossed the Atlantic, and left stone faces in Mexico before Columbus was born.

4.46

2 000+

🗺️ Pre-Columbian Contact 📜 Afrocentric History 🏺 Alternative Archaeology 🌍 African Diaspora 🔄 Cultural Diffusion

They Came Before Columbus

Africans built ships, crossed the Atlantic, and left stone faces in Mexico before Columbus was born.

av Ivan Van Sertima 2003 284 sidor

4.46

2 000+ betyg

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