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Dr. Seuss and Philosophy

av Jacob M. Held • 2011

Philosophy hid on your childhood shelf. Horton on knowledge, the Lorax on ethics, Yertle on power.

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🧠 Pop Philosophy 📚 Children's Literature ⚖️ Moral Dilemmas 🌍 Environmental Ethics 🏛️ Social Contract

Dr. Seuss and Philosophy

Philosophy hid on your childhood shelf. Horton on knowledge, the Lorax on ethics, Yertle on power.

av Jacob M. Held 2011 304 sidor

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🧠 Pop Philosophy 📚 Children's Literature ⚖️ Moral Dilemmas 🌍 Environmental Ethics 🏛️ Social Contract

Alasdair Macintyre

av Peter McMylor • 1991

Our moral arguments never end because we threw out the framework that made them work.

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🧭 Virtue Ethics 🏘️ Communitarianism 🏙️ Critique Of Modernity 💡 Enlightenment Critique 📋 Managerialism

Alasdair Macintyre

Our moral arguments never end because we threw out the framework that made them work.

av Peter McMylor 1991 236 sidor

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🧭 Virtue Ethics 🏘️ Communitarianism 🏙️ Critique Of Modernity 💡 Enlightenment Critique 📋 Managerialism

This is esports (and How to Spell it) – LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK AWARD 2020

av Paul "ReDeYe" Chaloner • 2020

Esports started in 1980, runs on modder-built games, and won't push pros out at 25.

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🎮 Esports Industry 🕹️ Gaming Culture 🔧 Modding Communities 👩 Women In Gaming 📺 Sports Media

This is esports (and How to Spell it) – LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK AWARD 2020

Esports started in 1980, runs on modder-built games, and won't push pros out at 25.

av Paul "ReDeYe" Chaloner 2020 265 sidor

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🎮 Esports Industry 🕹️ Gaming Culture 🔧 Modding Communities 👩 Women In Gaming 📺 Sports Media

Sound and Fury

av Dave Kindred • 2006

Their friendship electrified America: how a boxer and a broadcaster remade sports and each other.

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🫂 Dual Biography 🥊 Boxing History ✊ Athlete Activism 🎙️ Sports Journalism 📺 Television History

Sound and Fury

Their friendship electrified America: how a boxer and a broadcaster remade sports and each other.

av Dave Kindred 2006 384 sidor

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🫂 Dual Biography 🥊 Boxing History ✊ Athlete Activism 🎙️ Sports Journalism 📺 Television History

The Year of Reading Dangerously

av Andy Miller • 2012

One secret list, fifty classics, and a year spent reading them between diapers and deadlines.

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🧾 Reading Memoirs 🕰️ Midlife Reflection 😳 Reading Guilt 🏭 Workplace Disillusionment 🐢 Slow Reading

The Year of Reading Dangerously

One secret list, fifty classics, and a year spent reading them between diapers and deadlines.

av Andy Miller 2012 338 sidor

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🧾 Reading Memoirs 🕰️ Midlife Reflection 😳 Reading Guilt 🏭 Workplace Disillusionment 🐢 Slow Reading

The Translator's Invisibility

av Lawrence Venuti • 1994

The smoother a translation reads, the more it erases the foreign culture and the translator's labor.

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🧠 Translation Studies 📚 Literary Theory ⚖️ Translation Ethics 🗣️ Language Politics ✊ Cultural Resistance

The Translator's Invisibility

The smoother a translation reads, the more it erases the foreign culture and the translator's labor.

av Lawrence Venuti 1994 368 sidor

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🧠 Translation Studies 📚 Literary Theory ⚖️ Translation Ethics 🗣️ Language Politics ✊ Cultural Resistance

The Wrath of Cochise

av Terry Mort • 2013

One bungled arrest, five executed hostages, and the single spark that ignited a decade of war.

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🏹 Apache History 🪶 American Indian Wars 🌵 Southwest Frontier 🎖️ Counterinsurgency 🗣️ Cultural Ignorance

The Wrath of Cochise

One bungled arrest, five executed hostages, and the single spark that ignited a decade of war.

av Terry Mort 2013 400 sidor

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🏹 Apache History 🪶 American Indian Wars 🌵 Southwest Frontier 🎖️ Counterinsurgency 🗣️ Cultural Ignorance

Fifth Sun

av Camilla Townsend • 2019

They saw steel, horses, and smallpox, not gods. The Aztec annals rewrite their own conquest.

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🏺 Mesoamerican History 🌎 Colonial Latin America 🌞 Aztec Civilization 🪶 Indigenous Histories ❓ Conquest Revisionism

Fifth Sun

They saw steel, horses, and smallpox, not gods. The Aztec annals rewrite their own conquest.

av Camilla Townsend 2019 336 sidor

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🏺 Mesoamerican History 🌎 Colonial Latin America 🌞 Aztec Civilization 🪶 Indigenous Histories ❓ Conquest Revisionism

The Mammoth Book of the West

av Jon E. Lewis • 1996

Land seized, gold mined, bison slaughtered: how the real West vanished behind the myth.

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🏔️ American Frontier 🐂 Westward Expansion 🛤️ Pioneer Migration 💰 Gold Rush California 🐄 Cattle Ranching

The Mammoth Book of the West

Land seized, gold mined, bison slaughtered: how the real West vanished behind the myth.

av Jon E. Lewis 1996 544 sidor

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🏔️ American Frontier 🐂 Westward Expansion 🛤️ Pioneer Migration 💰 Gold Rush California 🐄 Cattle Ranching

The Spirit of London

av Boris Johnson • 2011

Fire and plague forged London's unbreakable commercial soul: a history told through its survivors.

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🏙️ Urban History 🇬🇧 London History 👥 Collective Biography 🎩 Victorian London 💪 Urban Resilience

The Spirit of London

Fire and plague forged London's unbreakable commercial soul: a history told through its survivors.

av Boris Johnson 2011 450 sidor

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🏙️ Urban History 🇬🇧 London History 👥 Collective Biography 🎩 Victorian London 💪 Urban Resilience

Manhood for Amateurs

av Michael Chabon • 2009

Fatherhood is the one job where failing every day means you're probably doing it right.

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🧔 Modern Masculinity 👨‍👧 Fatherhood 📖 Literary Memoir 💔 Male Vulnerability 🌳 Childhood Freedom

Manhood for Amateurs

Fatherhood is the one job where failing every day means you're probably doing it right.

av Michael Chabon 2009 306 sidor

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🧔 Modern Masculinity 👨‍👧 Fatherhood 📖 Literary Memoir 💔 Male Vulnerability 🌳 Childhood Freedom

The Lioness of Morocco

av Julia Drosten • 2017

Trading London for Morocco, an Englishwoman finds power, peril, and forbidden love in 1830s Morocco.

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💍 Marriage Of Convenience 💞 Cross-Cultural Romance 👑 Harem Politics 💪 Independent Heroine 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Saga

The Lioness of Morocco

Trading London for Morocco, an Englishwoman finds power, peril, and forbidden love in 1830s Morocco.

av Julia Drosten 2017 450 sidor

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💍 Marriage Of Convenience 💞 Cross-Cultural Romance 👑 Harem Politics 💪 Independent Heroine 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Saga

When Clothes Become Fashion

av Ingrid Loschek • 2009

Clothing stays clothing until it's copied. Fashion runs on imitation, not originality.

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👗 Fashion Theory 🔧 Design Systems 🔄 Social Systems Theory 🏺 Material Culture 🔤 Semiotics Of Dress

When Clothes Become Fashion

Clothing stays clothing until it's copied. Fashion runs on imitation, not originality.

av Ingrid Loschek 2009 256 sidor

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👗 Fashion Theory 🔧 Design Systems 🔄 Social Systems Theory 🏺 Material Culture 🔤 Semiotics Of Dress

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

av David Sedaris • 2004

His mother banned the word 'weenie.' She was only the first of many baffling rule-givers.

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📝 Essay Collections 😂 Humor Memoirs 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Stories 🤡 Self-Deprecating Humor 👀 Observational Comedy

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

His mother banned the word 'weenie.' She was only the first of many baffling rule-givers.

av David Sedaris 2004 272 sidor

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📝 Essay Collections 😂 Humor Memoirs 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Stories 🤡 Self-Deprecating Humor 👀 Observational Comedy

Tory Nation

av Samuel Earle • 2023

One party has ruled Britain for two-thirds of the last two centuries. This is how.

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🏛️ British Politics 🔵 Conservatism 📰 Media Influence 🚩 Nationalism 🧠 Cultural Hegemony

Tory Nation

One party has ruled Britain for two-thirds of the last two centuries. This is how.

av Samuel Earle 2023 304 sidor

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🏛️ British Politics 🔵 Conservatism 📰 Media Influence 🚩 Nationalism 🧠 Cultural Hegemony

The Ones We've Been Waiting for

av Charlotte Alter • 2020

Shaped by 9/11, debt, and recession, a generation enters power with clashing visions for America.

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🗳️ Generational Politics 🇺🇸 American Politics 🌱 Political Coming Of Age 🎓 Student Debt Crisis 📱 Digital Activism

The Ones We've Been Waiting for

Shaped by 9/11, debt, and recession, a generation enters power with clashing visions for America.

av Charlotte Alter 2020 368 sidor

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🗳️ Generational Politics 🇺🇸 American Politics 🌱 Political Coming Of Age 🎓 Student Debt Crisis 📱 Digital Activism

Provenance

av Laney Salisbury • 2009

A painter forged the art. A con man forged the archives. The art world bought both.

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🎨 Art Forgery 💰 Art Market 🃏 Confidence Games 📋 Fakes And Frauds 🕵️ True Crime Narrative

Provenance

A painter forged the art. A con man forged the archives. The art world bought both.

av Laney Salisbury 2009 327 sidor

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🎨 Art Forgery 💰 Art Market 🃏 Confidence Games 📋 Fakes And Frauds 🕵️ True Crime Narrative

Best American Essays 2018

av Hilton Als • 2018

The essay as weapon and refuge: twenty-seven writers on race, memory, and a nation on edge.

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✍️ The Essay Form 🖋️ Personal Essays 💬 Cultural Criticism 🖤 Race In America 📰 Literary Journalism

Best American Essays 2018

The essay as weapon and refuge: twenty-seven writers on race, memory, and a nation on edge.

av Hilton Als 2018 336 sidor

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✍️ The Essay Form 🖋️ Personal Essays 💬 Cultural Criticism 🖤 Race In America 📰 Literary Journalism

Football Done Right

av Michael Lombardi • 2023

Five coaches built the modern NFL. A former GM names them, then ranks everyone else.

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🏈 Nfl History 📋 Football Coaching 🔍 Talent Evaluation 🏆 Player Rankings ♟️ Football Strategy

Football Done Right

Five coaches built the modern NFL. A former GM names them, then ranks everyone else.

av Michael Lombardi 2023 305 sidor

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🏈 Nfl History 📋 Football Coaching 🔍 Talent Evaluation 🏆 Player Rankings ♟️ Football Strategy

Black in Blues

av Imani Perry • 2025

Indigo was traded for human life. How blue became the keeper of Black grief, art, and survival.

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📖 African American History 📚 Black Cultural Criticism 🔵 Cultural History Of Color 🎶 Music And Identity 🕯️ Spiritual Folkways

Black in Blues

Indigo was traded for human life. How blue became the keeper of Black grief, art, and survival.

av Imani Perry 2025 248 sidor

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📖 African American History 📚 Black Cultural Criticism 🔵 Cultural History Of Color 🎶 Music And Identity 🕯️ Spiritual Folkways

Lost in Thought

av Zena Hitz • 2020

The intellectual life as a secret refuge: why the best thinking happens far from ambition.

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💭 Life Of The Mind 🧘 Contemplative Life 📖 Defenses Of Reading ⚖️ Virtue Ethics ✝️ Christian Humanism

Lost in Thought

The intellectual life as a secret refuge: why the best thinking happens far from ambition.

av Zena Hitz 2020 240 sidor

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💭 Life Of The Mind 🧘 Contemplative Life 📖 Defenses Of Reading ⚖️ Virtue Ethics ✝️ Christian Humanism

Defeating Big Government Socialism

av Newt Gingrich • 2022

Bureaucratic socialism hollowed out America; reclaiming it takes history, civility, a long fight.

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🗣️ Conservative Polemics 📈 Free Market Advocacy 🚫 Anti-Socialism 🏛️ Limited Government 📋 Bureaucratic Bloat

Defeating Big Government Socialism

Bureaucratic socialism hollowed out America; reclaiming it takes history, civility, a long fight.

av Newt Gingrich 2022 288 sidor

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🗣️ Conservative Polemics 📈 Free Market Advocacy 🚫 Anti-Socialism 🏛️ Limited Government 📋 Bureaucratic Bloat

The Joy of Pain

av Richard H. Smith • 2013

Joy at others' failures is not a character flaw. It is a feature of human nature.

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⚖️ Social Comparison 🐍 Envy 😈 Schadenfreude ⚔️ Justice And Revenge 👥 Group Dynamics

The Joy of Pain

Joy at others' failures is not a character flaw. It is a feature of human nature.

av Richard H. Smith 2013 238 sidor

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⚖️ Social Comparison 🐍 Envy 😈 Schadenfreude ⚔️ Justice And Revenge 👥 Group Dynamics

How to Winter

av Kari Leibowitz • 2024

Winter isn't the problem. Your mindset is. A psychologist's guide to loving the darkest months.

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🍂 Seasonal Living 🧠 Positive Psychology 🕯️ Scandinavian Lifestyle 🔄 Mindset Shifts 🌲 Nature Connection

How to Winter

Winter isn't the problem. Your mindset is. A psychologist's guide to loving the darkest months.

av Kari Leibowitz 2024 265 sidor

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🍂 Seasonal Living 🧠 Positive Psychology 🕯️ Scandinavian Lifestyle 🔄 Mindset Shifts 🌲 Nature Connection

Nawabs, Nudes, Noodles

av Ambi Parameswaran • 2016

India's last 50 years, told not through politics but through the ads that sold it to itself.

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📣 Advertising History 🇮🇳 Modern India 🛍️ Consumer Culture 👫 Gender Representation 📺 Media And Society

Nawabs, Nudes, Noodles

India's last 50 years, told not through politics but through the ads that sold it to itself.

av Ambi Parameswaran 2016 297 sidor

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📣 Advertising History 🇮🇳 Modern India 🛍️ Consumer Culture 👫 Gender Representation 📺 Media And Society

Happier Than A Billionaire

av Nadine Hays Pisani • 2011

What two burnt-out chiropractors discovered in Costa Rica: bat caves, monkeys, and a weird dog lady.

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🧳 Expat Memoirs 🌎 Cultural Immersion ⏬ Downshifting ✈️ Starting Over Abroad 🦋 Midlife Reinvention

Happier Than A Billionaire

What two burnt-out chiropractors discovered in Costa Rica: bat caves, monkeys, and a weird dog lady.

av Nadine Hays Pisani 2011

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🧳 Expat Memoirs 🌎 Cultural Immersion ⏬ Downshifting ✈️ Starting Over Abroad 🦋 Midlife Reinvention

Skipping Towards Gomorrah

av Dan Savage • 2002

Sampling all seven sins to find happiness, and the moral hypocrites who want them banned.

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🏃‍♂️ Pursuit Of Happiness 🙈 Moral Hypocrisy 🏳️‍🌈 Gay Pride 📝 Gonzo Journalism 🌿 Drug War Critique

Skipping Towards Gomorrah

Sampling all seven sins to find happiness, and the moral hypocrites who want them banned.

av Dan Savage 2002 320 sidor

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🏃‍♂️ Pursuit Of Happiness 🙈 Moral Hypocrisy 🏳️‍🌈 Gay Pride 📝 Gonzo Journalism 🌿 Drug War Critique

Luxury World

av Mark Tungate • 2009

The logo era ended. What luxury sells now: heritage stories, insider access, and time itself.

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💎 Luxury Brands 📖 Brand Storytelling 🔨 Craftsmanship 🌿 Sustainable Luxury 🏛️ Status And Consumption

Luxury World

The logo era ended. What luxury sells now: heritage stories, insider access, and time itself.

av Mark Tungate 2009 272 sidor

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💎 Luxury Brands 📖 Brand Storytelling 🔨 Craftsmanship 🌿 Sustainable Luxury 🏛️ Status And Consumption

Centennials

av Alex Hill • 2023

Most companies die at fifteen. The century survivors follow twelve habits that break the pattern.

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🏛️ Organizational Longevity 🧭 Long-Term Thinking 🌱 Organizational Culture 🌳 Talent Development 🔍 Hiring Practices

Centennials

Most companies die at fifteen. The century survivors follow twelve habits that break the pattern.

av Alex Hill 2023 274 sidor

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🏛️ Organizational Longevity 🧭 Long-Term Thinking 🌱 Organizational Culture 🌳 Talent Development 🔍 Hiring Practices

The Road Beneath My Feet

av Frank Turner • 2015

Band broke up. He went acoustic, slept on floors, and one tiny show at a time, headlined Wembley.

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🎸 Music Memoir 🚐 Diy Touring 🎤 Touring Life 🤘 Punk Rock 🎨 Artistic Integrity

The Road Beneath My Feet

Band broke up. He went acoustic, slept on floors, and one tiny show at a time, headlined Wembley.

av Frank Turner 2015 272 sidor

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🎸 Music Memoir 🚐 Diy Touring 🎤 Touring Life 🤘 Punk Rock 🎨 Artistic Integrity

What's Mine Is Yours

av Rachel Botsman • 2010

Ownership is burden; access is power. How peer networks and digital trust are remaking the economy.

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🔄 Sharing Economy 🌐 Peer-To-Peer Platforms ♻️ Sustainable Consumption ⭐ Reputation Economy 🎨 Design Thinking

What's Mine Is Yours

Ownership is burden; access is power. How peer networks and digital trust are remaking the economy.

av Rachel Botsman 2010 304 sidor

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🔄 Sharing Economy 🌐 Peer-To-Peer Platforms ♻️ Sustainable Consumption ⭐ Reputation Economy 🎨 Design Thinking

A People’s History of Computing in the United States

av Joy Lisi Rankin • 2018

The PC erased a decade of shared computing where users were creators, not customers.

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🏛️ People's History 💻 Computing Before PCs 🎓 Educational Computing 🌐 Early Computing Networks ⌨️ Programming Culture

A People’s History of Computing in the United States

The PC erased a decade of shared computing where users were creators, not customers.

av Joy Lisi Rankin 2018 336 sidor

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🏛️ People's History 💻 Computing Before PCs 🎓 Educational Computing 🌐 Early Computing Networks ⌨️ Programming Culture

Etiquette For Dummies

av Sue Fox • 1999

Forget the rulebook. Real etiquette is the art of putting others at ease, wherever you are.

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🍽️ Etiquette And Manners 📱 Modern Etiquette 💬 Social Skills 🤝 Courtesy And Civility 🥂 Dining Etiquette

Etiquette For Dummies

Forget the rulebook. Real etiquette is the art of putting others at ease, wherever you are.

av Sue Fox 1999 384 sidor

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🍽️ Etiquette And Manners 📱 Modern Etiquette 💬 Social Skills 🤝 Courtesy And Civility 🥂 Dining Etiquette

La felicidad

av Gabriel Rolón • 2023

The happiness mandate is backfiring. A psychoanalyst on why sadness is not the enemy.

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🎭 Critique Of Happiness 🛋️ Psychoanalysis 🪞 Lacanian Psychoanalysis 🏛️ Cultural Critique 🛒 Consumerism Critique

La felicidad

The happiness mandate is backfiring. A psychoanalyst on why sadness is not the enemy.

av Gabriel Rolón 2023 299 sidor

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🎭 Critique Of Happiness 🛋️ Psychoanalysis 🪞 Lacanian Psychoanalysis 🏛️ Cultural Critique 🛒 Consumerism Critique

Age of Anger

av Pankaj Mishra • 2017

Today's global resentments echo the fury that tore through modernizing Europe.

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🧠 Intellectual History 😤 Ressentiment 🏭 Modernity Critique 🚩 Nationalism 💥 Political Violence

Age of Anger

Today's global resentments echo the fury that tore through modernizing Europe.

av Pankaj Mishra 2017 416 sidor

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🧠 Intellectual History 😤 Ressentiment 🏭 Modernity Critique 🚩 Nationalism 💥 Political Violence

Clicks, Bricks & Brands

av Martin Lindstrom • 2001

Earning the loyalty of a $300 billion generation that decides what the whole family buys.

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🧒 Youth Marketing 🏢 Brand Management 👃 Sensory Marketing 💬 Peer Influence 🌐 Virtual Economies

Clicks, Bricks & Brands

Earning the loyalty of a $300 billion generation that decides what the whole family buys.

av Martin Lindstrom 2001 320 sidor

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🧒 Youth Marketing 🏢 Brand Management 👃 Sensory Marketing 💬 Peer Influence 🌐 Virtual Economies

BOOM

av Tony Horwitz • 2014

From oil sands to Gulf Coast: a pipeline route where roughnecks, strippers, and ranchers collide.

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🛢️ Energy Politics 🏭 Oil Industry 📰 Narrative Journalism 🗺️ Travelogue 🌍 Environmental Justice

BOOM

From oil sands to Gulf Coast: a pipeline route where roughnecks, strippers, and ranchers collide.

av Tony Horwitz 2014 116 sidor

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🛢️ Energy Politics 🏭 Oil Industry 📰 Narrative Journalism 🗺️ Travelogue 🌍 Environmental Justice

Black Rednecks and White Liberals

av Thomas Sowell • 2005

Liberals protect a dysfunctional culture that black communities learned from white Southerners.

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⚖️ Racial Inequality 🌍 Cultural Persistence 🗣️ Victimhood Culture 📚 Black Education ⛓️‍💥 Abolition History

Black Rednecks and White Liberals

Liberals protect a dysfunctional culture that black communities learned from white Southerners.

av Thomas Sowell 2005 372 sidor

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⚖️ Racial Inequality 🌍 Cultural Persistence 🗣️ Victimhood Culture 📚 Black Education ⛓️‍💥 Abolition History

Scotland

av Rab Houston • 2008

Union was meant to dissolve Scotland. Three institutions kept a nation alive inside Britain.

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scottish History 🏳️ National Identity 💡 Scottish Enlightenment ⛪ Presbyterianism 🏭 Industrial Revolution

Scotland

Union was meant to dissolve Scotland. Three institutions kept a nation alive inside Britain.

av Rab Houston 2008 172 sidor

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scottish History 🏳️ National Identity 💡 Scottish Enlightenment ⛪ Presbyterianism 🏭 Industrial Revolution

No One Man Should Have All That Power

av Amos Barshad • 2019

Behind every pop star, president, and cartel boss, a hidden schemer pulls the strings.

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🕵️ Hidden Manipulators 🧠 Manipulation Psychology 🎩 Political Fixers 🎤 Pop Culture Power ⛪ Cult Leaders

No One Man Should Have All That Power

Behind every pop star, president, and cartel boss, a hidden schemer pulls the strings.

av Amos Barshad 2019 240 sidor

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🕵️ Hidden Manipulators 🧠 Manipulation Psychology 🎩 Political Fixers 🎤 Pop Culture Power ⛪ Cult Leaders

Ethiopia

av Yohanis Gebreyesus • 2018

A chef decodes the fermented flatbread, spiced butter, and vegan feasts of a 3,000-year-old cuisine.

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🇪🇹 Ethiopian Cooking 🫙 Fermentation 🌶️ Spice Blending 🫂 Communal Eating 🌱 Vegan Traditions

Ethiopia

A chef decodes the fermented flatbread, spiced butter, and vegan feasts of a 3,000-year-old cuisine.

av Yohanis Gebreyesus 2018 335 sidor

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🇪🇹 Ethiopian Cooking 🫙 Fermentation 🌶️ Spice Blending 🫂 Communal Eating 🌱 Vegan Traditions

The Black History of the White House

av Clarence Lusane • 2011

Enslaved laborers built the White House. The racial reckoning inside its walls has never stopped.

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🏛️ White House History ⛓️ Slavery And Resistance 🚋 Jim Crow Era 🏗️ Reconstruction ✊ Civil Rights Movement

The Black History of the White House

Enslaved laborers built the White House. The racial reckoning inside its walls has never stopped.

av Clarence Lusane 2011 575 sidor

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🏛️ White House History ⛓️ Slavery And Resistance 🚋 Jim Crow Era 🏗️ Reconstruction ✊ Civil Rights Movement

Knowing the Score

av David Papineau • 2017

The deepest truths about mind, ethics, and human potential are worked out on the pitch.

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🎓 Philosophy Of Sport ⚖️ Sport Ethics 🧠 Sports Psychology 🧘 Mind-Body Connection 🎯 Skill Acquisition

Knowing the Score

The deepest truths about mind, ethics, and human potential are worked out on the pitch.

av David Papineau 2017 304 sidor

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🎓 Philosophy Of Sport ⚖️ Sport Ethics 🧠 Sports Psychology 🧘 Mind-Body Connection 🎯 Skill Acquisition

The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory

av Tim Alberta • 2023

When politics swallowed the church, a reporter found the faithful pushing back.

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🇺🇸 American Evangelicalism 🚩 Christian Nationalism ⚔️ Culture Wars 🔨 Faith Deconstruction 🌀 Conspirituality

The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory

When politics swallowed the church, a reporter found the faithful pushing back.

av Tim Alberta 2023 506 sidor

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🇺🇸 American Evangelicalism 🚩 Christian Nationalism ⚔️ Culture Wars 🔨 Faith Deconstruction 🌀 Conspirituality

How to Thrive in the Digital Age

av Tom Chatfield • 2012

Your phone rewired your brain. The repair is a humanist reset, not a detox.

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🧘 Digital Wellbeing 🧠 Attention Management 📖 Digital Literacy 📥 Information Overload 🌐 Technology And Society

How to Thrive in the Digital Age

Your phone rewired your brain. The repair is a humanist reset, not a detox.

av Tom Chatfield 2012 161 sidor

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🧘 Digital Wellbeing 🧠 Attention Management 📖 Digital Literacy 📥 Information Overload 🌐 Technology And Society

Under Their Thumb

av Bill German • 2009

A Brooklyn teenager's fanzine caught the Stones' eye. They opened their world; he lost his own.

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🎸 Rock Memoirs 🎤 Music Journalism 📣 Fan Culture 🎬 Behind The Music 🔀 Blurred Boundaries

Under Their Thumb

A Brooklyn teenager's fanzine caught the Stones' eye. They opened their world; he lost his own.

av Bill German 2009 372 sidor

3.99

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🎸 Rock Memoirs 🎤 Music Journalism 📣 Fan Culture 🎬 Behind The Music 🔀 Blurred Boundaries

You are Being Lied To

av Russ Kick • 2001

The institutions you trust most are filtering what you know. Here is how, and why.

3.87

1 000+

📰 Media Criticism 📜 Hidden Histories 📢 Propaganda Studies 🌐 Media Ecology 🏛️ Institutional Power

You are Being Lied To

The institutions you trust most are filtering what you know. Here is how, and why.

av Russ Kick 2001 350 sidor

3.87

1 000+ betyg

📰 Media Criticism 📜 Hidden Histories 📢 Propaganda Studies 🌐 Media Ecology 🏛️ Institutional Power

The Everything Hinduism Book

av Kenneth Schouler • 2009

No founder, no single scripture: a guide to the world's oldest religion, for Western readers.

3.38

🕉️ Introductory Hinduism 🇮🇳 Indian Spirituality 🧘 Yoga Paths ♾️ Karma And Reincarnation 📜 Hindu Philosophy

The Everything Hinduism Book

No founder, no single scripture: a guide to the world's oldest religion, for Western readers.

av Kenneth Schouler 2009 304 sidor

3.38

16 betyg

🕉️ Introductory Hinduism 🇮🇳 Indian Spirituality 🧘 Yoga Paths ♾️ Karma And Reincarnation 📜 Hindu Philosophy

Thou Shalt Not Be a Jerk

av Eugene Cho • 2020

A pastor's guide to holding political convictions without turning into a jerk.

4.24

1 000+

🗳️ Faith And Politics 🏛️ Political Engagement 🗣️ Civil Discourse 🌉 Bridge Building ⚡ Political Polarization

Thou Shalt Not Be a Jerk

A pastor's guide to holding political convictions without turning into a jerk.

av Eugene Cho 2020 272 sidor

4.24

1 000+ betyg

🗳️ Faith And Politics 🏛️ Political Engagement 🗣️ Civil Discourse 🌉 Bridge Building ⚡ Political Polarization

Swimming With Sharks

av Joris Luyendijk • 2015

Inside London's financial tribe: how it nearly collapsed the world economy, and why it still could.

3.84

7 000+

🏦 Investment Banking 💥 Financial Crisis ⚠️ Systemic Risk 🎯 Perverse Incentives 🔍 Workplace Ethnography

Swimming With Sharks

Inside London's financial tribe: how it nearly collapsed the world economy, and why it still could.

av Joris Luyendijk 2015 288 sidor

3.84

7 000+ betyg

🏦 Investment Banking 💥 Financial Crisis ⚠️ Systemic Risk 🎯 Perverse Incentives 🔍 Workplace Ethnography

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