Essäer

Stora tänkare delar sina skarpaste observationer och mest övertygande argument genom essäns intima konst, och utforskar allt från kreativitet och kultur till filosofi och det moderna livets egendomligheter. Oavsett om de brottas med livets största frågor eller finner djup mening i vardagliga ögonblick, bjuder dessa omsorgsfullt utformade texter in läsaren att se världen med nya ögon.

Essäer Boksammanfattningar

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

Labyrinths

av Jorge Luis Borges • 1962

Stories where a library holds every possible book and a man dreams another into being.

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🪞 Metafiction 🧠 Philosophical Fiction 🌀 Labyrinths ⏳ Nonlinear Time 🕯️ Secret Societies

Labyrinths

Stories where a library holds every possible book and a man dreams another into being.

av Jorge Luis Borges 1962 260 sidor

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🪞 Metafiction 🧠 Philosophical Fiction 🌀 Labyrinths ⏳ Nonlinear Time 🕯️ Secret Societies

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

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

Travels with Epicurus

av Daniel Klein • 2012

On a Greek island, one man discovers that Epicurus had old age figured out.

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🧓 Philosophy Of Aging 🏛️ Epicurean Philosophy 🌿 Aging With Intention 🍷 Simple Pleasures 💀 Mortality Acceptance

Travels with Epicurus

On a Greek island, one man discovers that Epicurus had old age figured out.

av Daniel Klein 2012 115 sidor

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🧓 Philosophy Of Aging 🏛️ Epicurean Philosophy 🌿 Aging With Intention 🍷 Simple Pleasures 💀 Mortality Acceptance

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

The Boy Who Could Change the World

av Aaron Swartz • 2015

Schools were built to kill your curiosity. A radical vision for learning differently.

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🏠 Unschooling 🏛️ Deschooling 🕵️ Hidden Curriculum 📝 Standardized Testing 🔍 Institutional Critique

The Boy Who Could Change the World

Schools were built to kill your curiosity. A radical vision for learning differently.

av Aaron Swartz 2015 368 sidor

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🏠 Unschooling 🏛️ Deschooling 🕵️ Hidden Curriculum 📝 Standardized Testing 🔍 Institutional Critique

How to Have a Life

av Seneca

You guard every dollar but hemorrhage hours. An ancient Stoic on the cure.

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🏛️ Stoic Philosophy 📜 Classical Wisdom ⏳ Time And Mortality 🎯 Intentional Living 🧘 Practical Philosophy

How to Have a Life

You guard every dollar but hemorrhage hours. An ancient Stoic on the cure.

av Seneca 194 sidor

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🏛️ Stoic Philosophy 📜 Classical Wisdom ⏳ Time And Mortality 🎯 Intentional Living 🧘 Practical Philosophy

Beyond Numeracy

av John Allen Paulos • 1990

Math, not as right answers, but as a lens on chaos, coincidence, and everyday decisions.

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Beyond Numeracy

Math, not as right answers, but as a lens on chaos, coincidence, and everyday decisions.

av John Allen Paulos 1990 304 sidor

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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

Eastern Wisdom, Modern Life

av Alan W. Watts • 2006

The self is a hallucination. Alan Watts' 1960s talks dissolve it with Eastern precision.

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☸️ Eastern Philosophy 🫥 Nonduality 🎈 Ego Transcendence 🕰️ Present Moment ⛩️ Zen Buddhism

Eastern Wisdom, Modern Life

The self is a hallucination. Alan Watts' 1960s talks dissolve it with Eastern precision.

av Alan W. Watts 2006 272 sidor

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☸️ Eastern Philosophy 🫥 Nonduality 🎈 Ego Transcendence 🕰️ Present Moment ⛩️ Zen Buddhism

Birds Art Life Death

av Kyo Maclear • 2017

As her father faded, a writer watched city birds. Small things, closely seen, restored her life.

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🌿 Nature Writing 🖤 Grief Memoir 🐦 Birding Memoir 🏙️ Urban Nature 👁️ Attention Cultivation

Birds Art Life Death

As her father faded, a writer watched city birds. Small things, closely seen, restored her life.

av Kyo Maclear 2017 274 sidor

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🌿 Nature Writing 🖤 Grief Memoir 🐦 Birding Memoir 🏙️ Urban Nature 👁️ Attention Cultivation

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

Numerate Life

av John Allen Paulos • 2015

Your life story is a statistical error: a mathematician breaks down why.

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🧮 Mathematical Thinking 📖 Narrative Identity 📊 Statistical Reasoning 🧠 Memory And Bias 🫥 Illusion Of Self

Numerate Life

Your life story is a statistical error: a mathematician breaks down why.

av John Allen Paulos 2015 206 sidor

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🧮 Mathematical Thinking 📖 Narrative Identity 📊 Statistical Reasoning 🧠 Memory And Bias 🫥 Illusion Of Self

Gabriel García Márquez

av Michael Wood • 1990

The craft behind the curse: how magical realism, circular time, and prophecy hold Macondo together.

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📖 Literary Criticism ✨ Magical Realism 🌎 Latin American Boom 🔍 Close Reading 📝 Narrative Technique

Gabriel García Márquez

The craft behind the curse: how magical realism, circular time, and prophecy hold Macondo together.

av Michael Wood 1990 132 sidor

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📖 Literary Criticism ✨ Magical Realism 🌎 Latin American Boom 🔍 Close Reading 📝 Narrative Technique

Stupid Things I Won't Do When I Get Old

av Steven Petrow • 2021

The anti-bucket list for aging: name what you won't do, and the rest falls into place.

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🧓 Aging With Humor 🫀 Healthy Aging 🎬 Third Act Living 📝 End Of Life Planning 📖 Personal Legacy

Stupid Things I Won't Do When I Get Old

The anti-bucket list for aging: name what you won't do, and the rest falls into place.

av Steven Petrow 2021 272 sidor

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🧓 Aging With Humor 🫀 Healthy Aging 🎬 Third Act Living 📝 End Of Life Planning 📖 Personal Legacy

The Discipline of Law

av Baron Alfred Denning • 1979

The law is not a machine of rules, but a craft of words wielded toward justice.

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🏛️ English Common Law ⚖️ Judicial Reasoning 📚 Legal Philosophy ✒️ Judicial Activism 🔧 Rule Of Law

The Discipline of Law

The law is not a machine of rules, but a craft of words wielded toward justice.

av Baron Alfred Denning 1979 353 sidor

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🏛️ English Common Law ⚖️ Judicial Reasoning 📚 Legal Philosophy ✒️ Judicial Activism 🔧 Rule Of Law

mental floss presents Condensed Knowledge

av Will Pearson • 2004

A smart aleck's guide to the universe: relativity, radiation, and why Hollywood gets physics wrong.

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🗂️ Trivia Compendiums 🔬 Popular Science 🚫 Science Myths Debunked 😏 Irreverent Knowledge 📜 Science History

mental floss presents Condensed Knowledge

A smart aleck's guide to the universe: relativity, radiation, and why Hollywood gets physics wrong.

av Will Pearson 2004 345 sidor

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🗂️ Trivia Compendiums 🔬 Popular Science 🚫 Science Myths Debunked 😏 Irreverent Knowledge 📜 Science History

Lectures of Col. Robert Green Ingersoll

av Robert G. Ingersoll • 1942

Bible's God commands atrocities; its devil shows more mercy. Ingersoll's case for reason over faith.

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🕊️ Freethought 📜 Biblical Criticism 🔍 Anti-Clericalism 💡 Enlightenment Rationalism 🗽 Individual Liberty

Lectures of Col. Robert Green Ingersoll

Bible's God commands atrocities; its devil shows more mercy. Ingersoll's case for reason over faith.

av Robert G. Ingersoll 1942 334 sidor

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🕊️ Freethought 📜 Biblical Criticism 🔍 Anti-Clericalism 💡 Enlightenment Rationalism 🗽 Individual Liberty

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

Body Work

av Melissa Febos • 2022

Personal writing threatens power. The stigma that silences women and queer writers is by design.

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🖋️ Memoir Writing 🩹 Writing Therapy ✍️ Feminist Criticism 🔀 Intersectional Feminism 🧠 Trauma Studies

Body Work

Personal writing threatens power. The stigma that silences women and queer writers is by design.

av Melissa Febos 2022 171 sidor

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🖋️ Memoir Writing 🩹 Writing Therapy ✍️ Feminist Criticism 🔀 Intersectional Feminism 🧠 Trauma Studies

I Think, Therefore I Laugh

av John Allen Paulos • 1985

A mathematician's tour of logic's strangest corners, where every lesson arrives disguised as a joke.

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🗣️ Philosophy Of Language 🔄 Logical Paradoxes 🔬 Philosophy Of Science 📝 Analytic Philosophy 📚 Popular Philosophy

I Think, Therefore I Laugh

A mathematician's tour of logic's strangest corners, where every lesson arrives disguised as a joke.

av John Allen Paulos 1985 192 sidor

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🗣️ Philosophy Of Language 🔄 Logical Paradoxes 🔬 Philosophy Of Science 📝 Analytic Philosophy 📚 Popular Philosophy

A Room of One’s Own

av Virginia Woolf • 1929

Money and a private room: why five centuries of women's genius never reached the page.

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🧠 Feminist Theory 📖 Literary Criticism 🏠 Materialist Feminism ✍️ The Writer's Life 🎨 Gender And Art

A Room of One’s Own

Money and a private room: why five centuries of women's genius never reached the page.

av Virginia Woolf 1929 112 sidor

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🧠 Feminist Theory 📖 Literary Criticism 🏠 Materialist Feminism ✍️ The Writer's Life 🎨 Gender And Art

A Sense of the Mysterious

av Alan Lightman • 2005

The creative fire behind cold equations: a physicist-novelist on what science shares with art.

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🧠 Scientific Creativity 🎨 Science And Art 🧵 Two Cultures 📐 Mathematical Beauty 📚 Science Essays

A Sense of the Mysterious

The creative fire behind cold equations: a physicist-novelist on what science shares with art.

av Alan Lightman 2005 224 sidor

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🧠 Scientific Creativity 🎨 Science And Art 🧵 Two Cultures 📐 Mathematical Beauty 📚 Science Essays

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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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

The Right Chemistry

av Joe Schwarcz • 2012

Why soap cleans, what killed Napoleon, and 106 other chemical mysteries of daily life.

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🔬 Everyday Science 🍎 Food Chemistry 📚 Scientific Literacy 🕵️ Pseudoscience Debunking 📜 History Of Science

The Right Chemistry

Why soap cleans, what killed Napoleon, and 106 other chemical mysteries of daily life.

av Joe Schwarcz 2012 304 sidor

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🔬 Everyday Science 🍎 Food Chemistry 📚 Scientific Literacy 🕵️ Pseudoscience Debunking 📜 History Of Science

Becoming Wise

av Krista Tippett • 2016

Wisdom is a practice, not a possession. Every ordinary life contains everything it requires.

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🏛️ Virtue Ethics 🧘 Embodied Wisdom 🔬 Science And Spirituality 🌍 Engaged Spirituality ☸️ Interfaith Dialogue

Becoming Wise

Wisdom is a practice, not a possession. Every ordinary life contains everything it requires.

av Krista Tippett 2016 288 sidor

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🏛️ Virtue Ethics 🧘 Embodied Wisdom 🔬 Science And Spirituality 🌍 Engaged Spirituality ☸️ Interfaith Dialogue

Storyteller

av Kate Wilhelm • 2005

Twenty-seven years of Clarion distilled: character drives story, and every word must earn its place.

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🛠️ Fiction Craft ✍️ Writing Workshops 🚀 Speculative Fiction 🔄 Critique And Revision 👤 Character Development

Storyteller

Twenty-seven years of Clarion distilled: character drives story, and every word must earn its place.

av Kate Wilhelm 2005 200 sidor

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🛠️ Fiction Craft ✍️ Writing Workshops 🚀 Speculative Fiction 🔄 Critique And Revision 👤 Character Development

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

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

What Should We Be Worried About? Real Scenarios That Keep Scientists Up at Night

av John Brockman • 2014

Cognitive traps. Fragile networks. Captured watchdogs. The real fears of a hundred scientists.

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🧨 Existential Risk 🧠 Cognitive Biases ⚠️ Risk Perception 🕸️ Complex Systems 🏛️ Institutional Failure

What Should We Be Worried About? Real Scenarios That Keep Scientists Up at Night

Cognitive traps. Fragile networks. Captured watchdogs. The real fears of a hundred scientists.

av John Brockman 2014 478 sidor

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🧨 Existential Risk 🧠 Cognitive Biases ⚠️ Risk Perception 🕸️ Complex Systems 🏛️ Institutional Failure

An Alchemy of Mind

av Diane Ackerman • 2004

A poet's tour of the brain: how 100 billion neurons invent your reality.

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🧠 Neuroscience 🔬 Cognitive Science 💭 Consciousness Studies 🔄 Brain Plasticity 🪞 Memory And Identity

An Alchemy of Mind

A poet's tour of the brain: how 100 billion neurons invent your reality.

av Diane Ackerman 2004 320 sidor

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🧠 Neuroscience 🔬 Cognitive Science 💭 Consciousness Studies 🔄 Brain Plasticity 🪞 Memory And Identity

Popper

av David Miller • 1985

Science asks to be proven wrong; democracy asks to be thrown out without a revolution.

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🔬 Philosophy Of Science 📚 Epistemology 🧠 Critical Rationalism 🤔 Problem Of Induction 🧪 Empirical Testability

Popper

Science asks to be proven wrong; democracy asks to be thrown out without a revolution.

av David Miller 1985 430 sidor

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🔬 Philosophy Of Science 📚 Epistemology 🧠 Critical Rationalism 🤔 Problem Of Induction 🧪 Empirical Testability

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

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

Sidecountry

av John Branch • 2021

Dispatches from sport's wild edge: avalanches, impossible climbs, and the communities left behind.

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🎒 Adventure Journalism 🪂 Extreme Sports 📖 Literary Journalism 📰 Longform Journalism 💀 Risk And Mortality

Sidecountry

Dispatches from sport's wild edge: avalanches, impossible climbs, and the communities left behind.

av John Branch 2021 368 sidor

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🎒 Adventure Journalism 🪂 Extreme Sports 📖 Literary Journalism 📰 Longform Journalism 💀 Risk And Mortality

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

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

Claiming the B in LGBT

av Kate Harrad • 2018

Queer spaces often erase bisexuality. How to own your identity and what allies keep getting wrong.

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🏳️‍🌈 Bisexual Identity 📢 Bisexual Advocacy 🚫 Biphobia And Erasure 🚪 Coming Out Narratives 🤝 Lgbt Allyship

Claiming the B in LGBT

Queer spaces often erase bisexuality. How to own your identity and what allies keep getting wrong.

av Kate Harrad 2018 351 sidor

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🏳️‍🌈 Bisexual Identity 📢 Bisexual Advocacy 🚫 Biphobia And Erasure 🚪 Coming Out Narratives 🤝 Lgbt Allyship

Propaganda and the Public Mind

av Noam Chomsky • 1998

How humanitarian words sell one bombing and bury another, and the machinery behind the script.

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📡 Propaganda Studies 🎙️ Media Criticism 🧠 Mass Persuasion 🗣️ Doublespeak 🏛️ State Capture

Propaganda and the Public Mind

How humanitarian words sell one bombing and bury another, and the machinery behind the script.

av Noam Chomsky 1998 256 sidor

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📡 Propaganda Studies 🎙️ Media Criticism 🧠 Mass Persuasion 🗣️ Doublespeak 🏛️ State Capture

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

Life Beyond Measure

av Sidney Poitier • 2008

Sidney Poitier's letters to a great-granddaughter: the fear, faith, and fury that shaped a life.

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🧓 Elder Wisdom 💌 Letters To The Young 🧘 Inner Stillness 🎬 Hollywood Memoir ⏳ Purpose And Mortality

Life Beyond Measure

Sidney Poitier's letters to a great-granddaughter: the fear, faith, and fury that shaped a life.

av Sidney Poitier 2008 304 sidor

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🧓 Elder Wisdom 💌 Letters To The Young 🧘 Inner Stillness 🎬 Hollywood Memoir ⏳ Purpose And Mortality

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

Rights of Man, Common Sense and Other Political Writings

av Thomas Paine • 1776

Rights aren't gifts from kings. Government works for you, and when it fails, you replace it.

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🗽 Natural Rights Theory 📜 Social Contract 🏛️ Republicanism 🔓 Classical Liberalism 👑 Anti-Monarchism

Rights of Man, Common Sense and Other Political Writings

Rights aren't gifts from kings. Government works for you, and when it fails, you replace it.

av Thomas Paine 1776 504 sidor

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🗽 Natural Rights Theory 📜 Social Contract 🏛️ Republicanism 🔓 Classical Liberalism 👑 Anti-Monarchism

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

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Your favorite movie already knows the Gospel. Not a coincidence: it is the opening.

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Seventeen homes on four continents before age 17: a memoir that excavates the meaning of home.

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Mobile Home

Seventeen homes on four continents before age 17: a memoir that excavates the meaning of home.

av Megan Harlan 2020 184 sidor

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