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Unruly

av Ja Rule • 2014

Millions of records sold. A prison sentence. And one phone call to the father who left him.

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🎤 Hip Hop Memoirs 🎵 Music Industry ✊ Black Masculinity 👨‍👧 Fatherhood 🕊️ Redemption

Unruly

Millions of records sold. A prison sentence. And one phone call to the father who left him.

av Ja Rule 2014 256 sidor

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164 betyg

🎤 Hip Hop Memoirs 🎵 Music Industry ✊ Black Masculinity 👨‍👧 Fatherhood 🕊️ Redemption

The Deadline

av Jill Lepore • 2023

The dead still run the country. A historian shows how, from the Constitution to the smartphone.

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🏛️ Cultural History 📚 Essay Collections 📰 Media Criticism 🇺🇸 American Democracy ⚖️ Constitutional Law

The Deadline

The dead still run the country. A historian shows how, from the Constitution to the smartphone.

av Jill Lepore 2023 622 sidor

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🏛️ Cultural History 📚 Essay Collections 📰 Media Criticism 🇺🇸 American Democracy ⚖️ Constitutional Law

A Short History of Chinese Philosophy

av Feng Youlan • 1948

The 2,500-year argument over how to live well that China conducted instead of religion.

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🏮 Chinese Philosophy 🌏 Eastern Thought 🏛️ Schools Of Thought 📜 Confucianism 🌊 Taoism

A Short History of Chinese Philosophy

The 2,500-year argument over how to live well that China conducted instead of religion.

av Feng Youlan 1948 400 sidor

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🏮 Chinese Philosophy 🌏 Eastern Thought 🏛️ Schools Of Thought 📜 Confucianism 🌊 Taoism

Black-Owned

av Char Adams • 2025

From Underground Railroad safe house to FBI target: the two-century story of Black bookstores.

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🖋️ Black Literary History 📚 Independent Bookstores 📜 Abolitionist History ✊🏾 Black Activism 📖 Literary Ecosystems

Black-Owned

From Underground Railroad safe house to FBI target: the two-century story of Black bookstores.

av Char Adams 2025 304 sidor

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🖋️ Black Literary History 📚 Independent Bookstores 📜 Abolitionist History ✊🏾 Black Activism 📖 Literary Ecosystems

The Spartans

av Paul Cartledge • 2002

The 300 Spartans died to preserve a system of mass enslavement; heroism and horror were one.

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🏛️ Ancient Greece ⚔️ Spartan History ⛓️ Ancient Slavery 🛡️ Warrior Societies 🌄 Utopian Thought

The Spartans

The 300 Spartans died to preserve a system of mass enslavement; heroism and horror were one.

av Paul Cartledge 2002 320 sidor

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🏛️ Ancient Greece ⚔️ Spartan History ⛓️ Ancient Slavery 🛡️ Warrior Societies 🌄 Utopian Thought

Teflickan från Hummingbird Lane

av Lisa See • 2017

To survive her people's law, an Akha girl abandons her baby with only a tea cake.

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🏡 Multi Generational Saga 🌏 Chinese Diaspora 💔 Mother Daughter Separation 🌍 Transnational Adoption 🌄 Rural China

Teflickan från Hummingbird Lane

To survive her people's law, an Akha girl abandons her baby with only a tea cake.

av Lisa See 2017 384 sidor

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🏡 Multi Generational Saga 🌏 Chinese Diaspora 💔 Mother Daughter Separation 🌍 Transnational Adoption 🌄 Rural China

What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia

av Elizabeth Catte • 2018

Appalachia's story isn't moral failure. It's extraction, and resistance is the real tradition.

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🌄 Appalachian Studies 🏘️ Rural America 🔍 Debunking Myths ⛏️ Economic Exploitation ⚒️ Labor History

What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia

Appalachia's story isn't moral failure. It's extraction, and resistance is the real tradition.

av Elizabeth Catte 2018 200 sidor

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🌄 Appalachian Studies 🏘️ Rural America 🔍 Debunking Myths ⛏️ Economic Exploitation ⚒️ Labor History

Furious Minds

av Laura K. Field • 2025

A network of philosophers, lawyers, and clerics built MAGA's ideas. Their goal: an illiberal state.

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🇺🇸 American Conservatism ⚠️ Far-Right Movements ⚔️ Culture Wars 🏛️ Illiberal Politics ✝️ Christian Nationalism

Furious Minds

A network of philosophers, lawyers, and clerics built MAGA's ideas. Their goal: an illiberal state.

av Laura K. Field 2025 432 sidor

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🇺🇸 American Conservatism ⚠️ Far-Right Movements ⚔️ Culture Wars 🏛️ Illiberal Politics ✝️ Christian Nationalism

American Exceptionalism

av Seymour Martin Lipset • 1996

America's best and worst traits come from the same source: its founding creed.

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🇺🇸 American Exceptionalism 🌐 Comparative Politics 🗳️ Political Culture 🏛️ National Identity ✝️ Protestant Work Ethic

American Exceptionalism

America's best and worst traits come from the same source: its founding creed.

av Seymour Martin Lipset 1996 354 sidor

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🇺🇸 American Exceptionalism 🌐 Comparative Politics 🗳️ Political Culture 🏛️ National Identity ✝️ Protestant Work Ethic

Sex in the Heartland

av Bailey • 1999

The sexual revolution was made in Kansas, by ordinary people who never planned on a revolution.

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❤️‍🔥 Sexual Revolution 🌾 American Heartland 🎓 Campus Culture 📜 Social History ✊ Feminist History

Sex in the Heartland

The sexual revolution was made in Kansas, by ordinary people who never planned on a revolution.

av Bailey 1999 265 sidor

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❤️‍🔥 Sexual Revolution 🌾 American Heartland 🎓 Campus Culture 📜 Social History ✊ Feminist History

Tech Agnostic

av Greg Epstein • 2024

Technology sold you a faith: saints, sacraments, apocalypse. The humanist case for walking away.

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🕉️ Digital Religion ⚙️ Technology Criticism 🤔 Techno-Skepticism 🤖 Algorithmic Bias 📱 Phone Addiction

Tech Agnostic

Technology sold you a faith: saints, sacraments, apocalypse. The humanist case for walking away.

av Greg Epstein 2024 368 sidor

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🕉️ Digital Religion ⚙️ Technology Criticism 🤔 Techno-Skepticism 🤖 Algorithmic Bias 📱 Phone Addiction

Hayek's Bastards

av Quinn Slobodian • 2025

The far right didn't reject neoliberalism. It grew inside it, blending markets with race science.

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🏛️ Austrian Economics ⚡ Far Right Ideology 🧬 Race And Intelligence 📉 Neoliberalism Critique 💻 Internet Radicalization

Hayek's Bastards

The far right didn't reject neoliberalism. It grew inside it, blending markets with race science.

av Quinn Slobodian 2025 272 sidor

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🏛️ Austrian Economics ⚡ Far Right Ideology 🧬 Race And Intelligence 📉 Neoliberalism Critique 💻 Internet Radicalization

Indiana Jones and Philosophy

av Dean Kowalski • 2023

Beneath the fedora: a philosophy seminar on heroism, faith, aging, and who really owns the past.

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🎬 Pop Culture Philosophy 🎥 Film Philosophy 🏛️ Cultural Heritage 🧠 Applied Philosophy 🗺️ Adventure Cinema

Indiana Jones and Philosophy

Beneath the fedora: a philosophy seminar on heroism, faith, aging, and who really owns the past.

av Dean Kowalski 2023 272 sidor

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🎬 Pop Culture Philosophy 🎥 Film Philosophy 🏛️ Cultural Heritage 🧠 Applied Philosophy 🗺️ Adventure Cinema

The Pursuit of Power

av Richard J. Evans • 2016

Between Waterloo and the trenches: how industrialization, democracy, and empire transformed Europe.

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📜 Social History 🗺️ 19th Century Europe 🏭 Industrial Revolution 🏛️ Nation Building 🌍 Imperial Expansion

The Pursuit of Power

Between Waterloo and the trenches: how industrialization, democracy, and empire transformed Europe.

av Richard J. Evans 2016 848 sidor

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📜 Social History 🗺️ 19th Century Europe 🏭 Industrial Revolution 🏛️ Nation Building 🌍 Imperial Expansion

The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity

av Jürgen Habermas • 1985

Western philosophy bet everything on the individual knower. From Hegel onward, the bet kept losing.

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🏛️ Continental Philosophy 📖 German Idealism 🏭 Frankfurt School ⚡ Critique Of Modernity 📜 Poststructuralism

The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity

Western philosophy bet everything on the individual knower. From Hegel onward, the bet kept losing.

av Jürgen Habermas 1985 450 sidor

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🏛️ Continental Philosophy 📖 German Idealism 🏭 Frankfurt School ⚡ Critique Of Modernity 📜 Poststructuralism

A Lot of People Are Saying

av Russell Muirhead • 2019

Conspiracism changed. It no longer explains, only tears down, and it now occupies the White House.

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🏛️ Democratic Erosion 🗣️ Post-Truth Politics 🌀 Conspiracy Thinking 👥 Identity-Based Belief 🏚️ Institutional Decay

A Lot of People Are Saying

Conspiracism changed. It no longer explains, only tears down, and it now occupies the White House.

av Russell Muirhead 2019 232 sidor

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🏛️ Democratic Erosion 🗣️ Post-Truth Politics 🌀 Conspiracy Thinking 👥 Identity-Based Belief 🏚️ Institutional Decay

Majapahit

av Herald van der Linde • 2024

Defying Kublai Khan and uniting a thousand islands: the Javanese empire the world forgot.

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🌏 Southeast Asian History 🇮🇩 Indonesian History 🗡️ Dynastic Intrigue ⚔️ Medieval Warfare 📖 Narrative History

Majapahit

Defying Kublai Khan and uniting a thousand islands: the Javanese empire the world forgot.

av Herald van der Linde 2024 366 sidor

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🌏 Southeast Asian History 🇮🇩 Indonesian History 🗡️ Dynastic Intrigue ⚔️ Medieval Warfare 📖 Narrative History

Your Move

av Jonathan Kay • 2019

Board games expose the spite, irrationality, and self-deception economics ignores.

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🎲 Game Studies 🧩 Board Game Design 💰 Behavioral Economics 👥 Group Dynamics 🧠 Evolutionary Psychology

Your Move

Board games expose the spite, irrationality, and self-deception economics ignores.

av Jonathan Kay 2019 166 sidor

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🎲 Game Studies 🧩 Board Game Design 💰 Behavioral Economics 👥 Group Dynamics 🧠 Evolutionary Psychology

The Making of the English Working Class

av E.P. Thompson • 1963

Not steam but struggle: how riots, chapels, and radical printers built the English working class.

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📜 Social History 🛠️ Labor History ⚔️ Class Struggle 🏭 Industrial Revolution ✊ Popular Protest

The Making of the English Working Class

Not steam but struggle: how riots, chapels, and radical printers built the English working class.

av E.P. Thompson 1963 848 sidor

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📜 Social History 🛠️ Labor History ⚔️ Class Struggle 🏭 Industrial Revolution ✊ Popular Protest

The Great Experiment

av Yascha Mounk • 2022

Diverse democracies keep breaking apart. The surprising fix: a patriotism that includes everyone.

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🌍 Multicultural Democracies 🧠 Group Psychology 🏛️ Civic Nationalism 🤝 Immigrant Integration 🧩 Social Fragmentation

The Great Experiment

Diverse democracies keep breaking apart. The surprising fix: a patriotism that includes everyone.

av Yascha Mounk 2022 368 sidor

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🌍 Multicultural Democracies 🧠 Group Psychology 🏛️ Civic Nationalism 🤝 Immigrant Integration 🧩 Social Fragmentation

Born to Rebel

av Frank J. Sulloway • 1996

Firstborns guard the status quo; laterborns upend it. The pattern holds from nursery to revolution.

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👥 Sibling Dynamics 🧠 Personality Formation 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology ⚖️ Conformity And Rebellion 🔭 Scientific Revolutions

Born to Rebel

Firstborns guard the status quo; laterborns upend it. The pattern holds from nursery to revolution.

av Frank J. Sulloway 1996 672 sidor

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👥 Sibling Dynamics 🧠 Personality Formation 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology ⚖️ Conformity And Rebellion 🔭 Scientific Revolutions

Tupac Shakur

av Staci Robinson • 2023

Afeni Shakur's revolution birthed his prophecy. The authorized story of the boy behind the code.

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🐆 Black Panther Legacy 🎨 Art As Resistance 🎤 Hip-Hop Politics ❤️ Mother-Son Bond 💰 Poverty And Ambition

Tupac Shakur

Afeni Shakur's revolution birthed his prophecy. The authorized story of the boy behind the code.

av Staci Robinson 2023 691 sidor

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🐆 Black Panther Legacy 🎨 Art As Resistance 🎤 Hip-Hop Politics ❤️ Mother-Son Bond 💰 Poverty And Ambition

Sweetness and Power

av Sidney W. Mintz • 1985

Royal luxury to factory fuel: how sugar, slavery, and empire built the modern Western diet.

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📦 Commodity Histories ⛓️ Slavery And Capitalism 🍽️ Food Anthropology 🏝️ Colonial Economies 🍞 Dietary Transformation

Sweetness and Power

Royal luxury to factory fuel: how sugar, slavery, and empire built the modern Western diet.

av Sidney W. Mintz 1985 304 sidor

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📦 Commodity Histories ⛓️ Slavery And Capitalism 🍽️ Food Anthropology 🏝️ Colonial Economies 🍞 Dietary Transformation

Metamodernism and the Return of Transcendence

av A. Severan • 2021

Postmodernism erased transcendence. Metamodernism rebuilds it, but only inside art's frame.

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🏛️ Cultural Theory 🎭 Postmodernism 🌊 Metamodernism 🌹 Neo-Romanticism ✨ Re-Enchantment

Metamodernism and the Return of Transcendence

Postmodernism erased transcendence. Metamodernism rebuilds it, but only inside art's frame.

av A. Severan 2021 108 sidor

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🏛️ Cultural Theory 🎭 Postmodernism 🌊 Metamodernism 🌹 Neo-Romanticism ✨ Re-Enchantment

Generation Z

av Corey Seemiller • 2018

The most diverse and anxious generation yet is rewriting the rules of work, family, and politics.

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🧬 Generational Studies 💻 Digital Natives 💰 Financial Anxiety 🌍 Diversity And Inclusion 🧠 Mental Health Trends

Generation Z

The most diverse and anxious generation yet is rewriting the rules of work, family, and politics.

av Corey Seemiller 2018 347 sidor

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🧬 Generational Studies 💻 Digital Natives 💰 Financial Anxiety 🌍 Diversity And Inclusion 🧠 Mental Health Trends

Magic Medicine

av Cody Johnson • 2018

How the world's most feared drugs became the most promising medicines for trauma and depression.

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🍄 Psychedelic Medicine ⚖️ Drug Policy Reform 🧠 Consciousness Studies 🛋️ Psychedelic Therapy 💧 Microdosing

Magic Medicine

How the world's most feared drugs became the most promising medicines for trauma and depression.

av Cody Johnson 2018 232 sidor

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🍄 Psychedelic Medicine ⚖️ Drug Policy Reform 🧠 Consciousness Studies 🛋️ Psychedelic Therapy 💧 Microdosing

The Misunderstood Jew

av Amy-Jill Levine • 2006

The New Testament isn't anti-Jewish. Most readings of it are. A Jewish scholar untangles why.

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🤝 Jewish-Christian Relations ✡️ Jewish Jesus 🕊️ Interfaith Dialogue ⚠️ Anti-Judaism Critique 📖 Biblical Interpretation

The Misunderstood Jew

The New Testament isn't anti-Jewish. Most readings of it are. A Jewish scholar untangles why.

av Amy-Jill Levine 2006 250 sidor

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🤝 Jewish-Christian Relations ✡️ Jewish Jesus 🕊️ Interfaith Dialogue ⚠️ Anti-Judaism Critique 📖 Biblical Interpretation

The Great Emergence

av Phyllis Tickle • 2008

Every half-millennium, Christianity implodes, then remakes itself. We are inside the fourth one.

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🏛️ Church History 📊 Sociology Of Religion 🌊 Postmodern Christianity 🎭 Religion And Culture 📖 Biblical Authority

The Great Emergence

Every half-millennium, Christianity implodes, then remakes itself. We are inside the fourth one.

av Phyllis Tickle 2008 176 sidor

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🏛️ Church History 📊 Sociology Of Religion 🌊 Postmodern Christianity 🎭 Religion And Culture 📖 Biblical Authority

The Twenty-Something Treatment

av Meg Jay • 2024

Your twenties can break you or build you. The difference is skill, not a pill.

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🎯 Young Adulthood 🧠 Developmental Psychology 🔄 Cognitive Reframing 💖 Emotional Acceptance 💼 Work And Identity

The Twenty-Something Treatment

Your twenties can break you or build you. The difference is skill, not a pill.

av Meg Jay 2024

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🎯 Young Adulthood 🧠 Developmental Psychology 🔄 Cognitive Reframing 💖 Emotional Acceptance 💼 Work And Identity

Christian Nationalism

av Andrew Torba • 2022

Escape theology taught Christians to wait. The counter-doctrine and the plan to take dominion.

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✝️ Christian Nationalism 👑 Dominion Theology 🏛️ Political Theology 🌍 Postmillennialism 🧱 Parallel Institutions

Christian Nationalism

Escape theology taught Christians to wait. The counter-doctrine and the plan to take dominion.

av Andrew Torba 2022 89 sidor

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✝️ Christian Nationalism 👑 Dominion Theology 🏛️ Political Theology 🌍 Postmillennialism 🧱 Parallel Institutions

Stupeur et tremblements

av Amélie Nothomb • 1999

A Belgian joins a Tokyo firm fluent in Japanese; her first assignment is silence.

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🖋️ Autofiction 🏢 Workplace Satire 🇯🇵 Expat In Japan 📋 Kafkaesque Bureaucracy 👩‍💼 Female Rivalry

Stupeur et tremblements

A Belgian joins a Tokyo firm fluent in Japanese; her first assignment is silence.

av Amélie Nothomb 1999 187 sidor

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🖋️ Autofiction 🏢 Workplace Satire 🇯🇵 Expat In Japan 📋 Kafkaesque Bureaucracy 👩‍💼 Female Rivalry

Rethinking Leadership

av Donna Ladkin • 2010

Leadership is not a possession but an event shaped between people and made real by followers.

4.33

📚 Leadership Studies 🔍 Applied Phenomenology 🤝 Relational Leadership 👥 Followership 🏗️ Social Construction

Rethinking Leadership

Leadership is not a possession but an event shaped between people and made real by followers.

av Donna Ladkin 2010 224 sidor

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📚 Leadership Studies 🔍 Applied Phenomenology 🤝 Relational Leadership 👥 Followership 🏗️ Social Construction

Rockonomics

av Alan B. Krueger • 2019

Why do the top 1 percent of musicians earn almost everything? The answer reaches far beyond music.

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🎬 Entertainment Economics 🏆 Winner-Take-All Markets 📊 Economic Inequality 🎸 Gig Economy ✨ Creative Economy

Rockonomics

Why do the top 1 percent of musicians earn almost everything? The answer reaches far beyond music.

av Alan B. Krueger 2019 336 sidor

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🎬 Entertainment Economics 🏆 Winner-Take-All Markets 📊 Economic Inequality 🎸 Gig Economy ✨ Creative Economy

When Race Trumps Merit

av Heather Mac Donald • 2023

When racial equity demands lowering standards, medicine suffers, art crumbles, and crime surges.

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🏛️ Affirmative Action 📊 Racial Disparities ⚖️ Diversity Debate 🚔 Race And Policing 🔥 Culture War

When Race Trumps Merit

When racial equity demands lowering standards, medicine suffers, art crumbles, and crime surges.

av Heather Mac Donald 2023 320 sidor

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🏛️ Affirmative Action 📊 Racial Disparities ⚖️ Diversity Debate 🚔 Race And Policing 🔥 Culture War

Hidden Hand

av Clive Hamilton • 2020

Beijing doesn't compete with the West. It quietly co-opts and captures its institutions from within.

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🏴 Political Warfare 💰 Economic Coercion 🌏 Diaspora Politics 📢 State Propaganda 🎭 Soft Power

Hidden Hand

Beijing doesn't compete with the West. It quietly co-opts and captures its institutions from within.

av Clive Hamilton 2020 320 sidor

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🏴 Political Warfare 💰 Economic Coercion 🌏 Diaspora Politics 📢 State Propaganda 🎭 Soft Power

Mediocre

av Ijeoma Oluo • 2020

American institutions reward unremarkable white men. Everyone pays the price, even them.

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🏛️ Institutional Racism 🇺🇸 American Patriarchy 🎭 American Mythmaking ✊🏿 Black Feminism 🔀 Intersectionality

Mediocre

American institutions reward unremarkable white men. Everyone pays the price, even them.

av Ijeoma Oluo 2020 278 sidor

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🏛️ Institutional Racism 🇺🇸 American Patriarchy 🎭 American Mythmaking ✊🏿 Black Feminism 🔀 Intersectionality

Thermopylae

av Paul Cartledge • 2006

The Persian Empire seemed unstoppable. 300 Spartans proved otherwise; their defeat saved Greece.

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🏛️ Greek-Persian Wars 🛡️ Spartan Society ⚔️ Ancient Greek Warfare 🏅 Heroic Sacrifice 📜 Ancient Historiography

Thermopylae

The Persian Empire seemed unstoppable. 300 Spartans proved otherwise; their defeat saved Greece.

av Paul Cartledge 2006 313 sidor

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🏛️ Greek-Persian Wars 🛡️ Spartan Society ⚔️ Ancient Greek Warfare 🏅 Heroic Sacrifice 📜 Ancient Historiography

The Victory Machine

av Ethan Sherwood Strauss • 2020

Venture capital, joy, and sneaker billions built a dynasty. Egos and social media destroyed it.

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🏀 Professional Basketball 🏗️ Dynasty Building 👟 Sneaker Economics ✊ Player Empowerment 🧠 Superstar Psychology

The Victory Machine

Venture capital, joy, and sneaker billions built a dynasty. Egos and social media destroyed it.

av Ethan Sherwood Strauss 2020 224 sidor

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🏀 Professional Basketball 🏗️ Dynasty Building 👟 Sneaker Economics ✊ Player Empowerment 🧠 Superstar Psychology

Serving with Eyes Wide Open

av David Livermore • 2006

Mission trips built around you. Cultural intelligence for serving communities instead.

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✈️ Short-Term Missions 🏛️ Cross-Cultural Ministry 🧠 Cultural Intelligence 🌍 Global Church 💰 Power And Poverty

Serving with Eyes Wide Open

Mission trips built around you. Cultural intelligence for serving communities instead.

av David Livermore 2006 192 sidor

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✈️ Short-Term Missions 🏛️ Cross-Cultural Ministry 🧠 Cultural Intelligence 🌍 Global Church 💰 Power And Poverty

The Rosicrucian Enlightenment

av Frances A. Yates • 1972

How an occult brotherhood helped launch modern science, then got written out of the story.

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📚 Intellectual History 🏰 Early Modern Europe 🔮 Hermetic Philosophy 🕯️ Secret Societies ⚗️ Alchemical Tradition

The Rosicrucian Enlightenment

How an occult brotherhood helped launch modern science, then got written out of the story.

av Frances A. Yates 1972 352 sidor

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📚 Intellectual History 🏰 Early Modern Europe 🔮 Hermetic Philosophy 🕯️ Secret Societies ⚗️ Alchemical Tradition

Mexico

av Paul Gillingham • 2025

The Spanish didn't conquer Mexico. Indigenous armies did, and disease killed the rest.

4.00

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🥑 Mexican History 🪶 Indigenous Agency 🦠 Demographic Collapse 🎭 Cultural Syncretism 🗳️ One-Party States

Mexico

The Spanish didn't conquer Mexico. Indigenous armies did, and disease killed the rest.

av Paul Gillingham 2025 752 sidor

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🥑 Mexican History 🪶 Indigenous Agency 🦠 Demographic Collapse 🎭 Cultural Syncretism 🗳️ One-Party States

Alex Haley

av Robert J. Norrell • 2015

Family porch tales became the Roots miniseries seen by 85% of Americans. Then came the lawsuits.

3.48

🔖 Literary Biography 📜 African American History 🗣️ Oral Tradition 🌳 Genealogical Research ⚖️ Plagiarism Controversies

Alex Haley

Family porch tales became the Roots miniseries seen by 85% of Americans. Then came the lawsuits.

av Robert J. Norrell 2015 272 sidor

3.48

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🔖 Literary Biography 📜 African American History 🗣️ Oral Tradition 🌳 Genealogical Research ⚖️ Plagiarism Controversies

How to Reform Capitalism

av The School of Life • 2019

The problem with business isn't greed. It's a failure to imagine what we actually want.

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🏛️ Conscious Capitalism 🛍️ Ethical Consumption 🎨 Art And Commerce 📺 Advertising Critique 🏦 Culture And Economics

How to Reform Capitalism

The problem with business isn't greed. It's a failure to imagine what we actually want.

av The School of Life 2019 112 sidor

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🏛️ Conscious Capitalism 🛍️ Ethical Consumption 🎨 Art And Commerce 📺 Advertising Critique 🏦 Culture And Economics

Bad Feminist

av Roxane Gay • 2014

No pure feminist survives real life. An argument for staying in the fight, flaws included.

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🎭 Cultural Criticism ✊ Intersectional Feminism 🚨 Rape Culture 📺 Media Representation 🎩 Respectability Politics

Bad Feminist

No pure feminist survives real life. An argument for staying in the fight, flaws included.

av Roxane Gay 2014 320 sidor

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🎭 Cultural Criticism ✊ Intersectional Feminism 🚨 Rape Culture 📺 Media Representation 🎩 Respectability Politics

The Pillars of Hercules

av Paul Theroux • 1995

A solo lap of the Mediterranean finds not postcards but war, sewage, and kindness in between.

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🛶 Mediterranean Travel 📝 Travel Writing 🥾 Off The Beaten Path 📚 Literary Travel 🚶 Solo Travel

The Pillars of Hercules

A solo lap of the Mediterranean finds not postcards but war, sewage, and kindness in between.

av Paul Theroux 1995 509 sidor

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🛶 Mediterranean Travel 📝 Travel Writing 🥾 Off The Beaten Path 📚 Literary Travel 🚶 Solo Travel

River Town

av Peter Hessler • 2001

Fuling: no Americans in 50 years. Hessler arrived a teacher, and became Ho Wei.

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🌾 Rural China 📍 Memoir Of Place 🗣️ Language Immersion 📕 Cultural Revolution 🚫 Daily Authoritarianism

River Town

Fuling: no Americans in 50 years. Hessler arrived a teacher, and became Ho Wei.

av Peter Hessler 2001 432 sidor

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🌾 Rural China 📍 Memoir Of Place 🗣️ Language Immersion 📕 Cultural Revolution 🚫 Daily Authoritarianism

A Natural History of Human Emotions

av Stuart Walton • 2005

Six universal feelings evolved to keep us alive. Culture twisted each one.

3.61

🧬 Evolutionary Psychology 🏛️ Cultural History 💭 Philosophy Of Mind 🏗️ Social Construction 😇 Moral Emotions

A Natural History of Human Emotions

Six universal feelings evolved to keep us alive. Culture twisted each one.

av Stuart Walton 2005 436 sidor

3.61

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Emperor of Rome

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Rome's one-man rule was an accident, sustained by performance, paperwork, and palace murders.

4.08

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🏛️ Roman Empire ⚡ Autocracy 📖 Cultural History 🎭 Palace Intrigue ⚔️ Succession Crises

Emperor of Rome

Rome's one-man rule was an accident, sustained by performance, paperwork, and palace murders.

av Mary Beard 2023 493 sidor

4.08

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Bleu

av Michel Pastoureau • 2000

The Virgin Mary, a French king, and denim: how blue went from barbarian to beloved.

3.99

1 000+

🏛️ Cultural History 🎨 Color History 👗 Fashion History 👁️ History Of Perception 🏴 Cultural Symbols

Bleu

The Virgin Mary, a French king, and denim: how blue went from barbarian to beloved.

av Michel Pastoureau 2000 216 sidor

3.99

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An Introduction to Third World Theologies

av John Parratt • 2004

Why liberation, ancestors, and storytelling are reshaping Christian theology worldwide.

3.83

🌍 Contextual Theology ✊ Liberation Theology 🪶 Inculturation 🏛️ Post-Colonial Theology 🌐 World Christianity

An Introduction to Third World Theologies

Why liberation, ancestors, and storytelling are reshaping Christian theology worldwide.

av John Parratt 2004 198 sidor

3.83

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