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

Ethics in the Real World

av Peter Singer • 2016

A philosopher's case that buying a luxury watch when children are dying is an ethical failure.

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⚖️ Applied Ethics 🏛️ Moral Philosophy 🌍 Effective Altruism 📊 Utilitarianism 🐾 Animal Rights

Ethics in the Real World

A philosopher's case that buying a luxury watch when children are dying is an ethical failure.

av Peter Singer 2016 336 sidor

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⚖️ Applied Ethics 🏛️ Moral Philosophy 🌍 Effective Altruism 📊 Utilitarianism 🐾 Animal Rights

A Short Guide to a Happy Life

av Anna Quindlen • 2000

The office won't matter at the end. In under 100 pages, what will.

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🎓 Commencement Wisdom 💀 Mortality And Meaning 🧭 Life Priorities 🕯️ Grief And Wisdom 🐢 Slowing Down

A Short Guide to a Happy Life

The office won't matter at the end. In under 100 pages, what will.

av Anna Quindlen 2000 50 sidor

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🎓 Commencement Wisdom 💀 Mortality And Meaning 🧭 Life Priorities 🕯️ Grief And Wisdom 🐢 Slowing Down

Gift from the Sea

av Anne Morrow Lindbergh • 1955

What a week alone by the shore reveals about love, simplicity, and life after midlife.

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📝 Meditative Memoir 🏝️ Solitude 🏡 Voluntary Simplicity 🦋 Midlife Renewal 🕯️ Inner Life

Gift from the Sea

What a week alone by the shore reveals about love, simplicity, and life after midlife.

av Anne Morrow Lindbergh 1955 130 sidor

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📝 Meditative Memoir 🏝️ Solitude 🏡 Voluntary Simplicity 🦋 Midlife Renewal 🕯️ Inner Life

What If? 2

av Randall Munroe • 2022

What if you filled the solar system with soup? A cartoonist did the math.

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🎭 Pop Science Humor 💭 Thought Experiments 🌌 Cosmic Scale 🔬 Everyday Science 🫀 Body Science

What If? 2

What if you filled the solar system with soup? A cartoonist did the math.

av Randall Munroe 2022 354 sidor

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🎭 Pop Science Humor 💭 Thought Experiments 🌌 Cosmic Scale 🔬 Everyday Science 🫀 Body Science

Listen, Little Man!

av Wilhelm Reich • 1946

Tyranny keeps winning because ordinary people fear real life more than a dictator.

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🏛️ Mass Psychology 🔗 Freudo-Marxism 🐦 Fear Of Freedom 🧠 Authoritarian Personality 💔 Emotional Repression

Listen, Little Man!

Tyranny keeps winning because ordinary people fear real life more than a dictator.

av Wilhelm Reich 1946 144 sidor

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🏛️ Mass Psychology 🔗 Freudo-Marxism 🐦 Fear Of Freedom 🧠 Authoritarian Personality 💔 Emotional Repression

The Truth About Stories

av Thomas King • 2003

How colonial narratives invented 'the Indian' to justify erasure, and how Native stories fight back.

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🔴 Native Identity ✊ Storytelling As Resistance 🌌 Indigenous Cosmology 🗣️ Oral Tradition 🗑️ Cultural Erasure

The Truth About Stories

How colonial narratives invented 'the Indian' to justify erasure, and how Native stories fight back.

av Thomas King 2003 184 sidor

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🔴 Native Identity ✊ Storytelling As Resistance 🌌 Indigenous Cosmology 🗣️ Oral Tradition 🗑️ Cultural Erasure

The Anna Karenina Fix

av Viv Groskop • 2019

The life advice hidden in Russian novels, decoded by a comedian who grew up with them.

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🐻 Russian Literature 📚 Bibliotherapy ✍️ Bookish Memoir 🧭 Classic Literature Guides 💡 Literary Self-Help

The Anna Karenina Fix

The life advice hidden in Russian novels, decoded by a comedian who grew up with them.

av Viv Groskop 2019 224 sidor

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🐻 Russian Literature 📚 Bibliotherapy ✍️ Bookish Memoir 🧭 Classic Literature Guides 💡 Literary Self-Help

What We Believe But Cannot Prove

av John Brockman • 2005

Science's greatest leaps begin as hunches without proof. A hundred top minds confess theirs.

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🔬 Philosophy Of Science 💡 Scientific Intuition 🧠 Consciousness Studies 🌉 Third Culture 🔍 Limits Of Knowledge

What We Believe But Cannot Prove

Science's greatest leaps begin as hunches without proof. A hundred top minds confess theirs.

av John Brockman 2005 252 sidor

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🔬 Philosophy Of Science 💡 Scientific Intuition 🧠 Consciousness Studies 🌉 Third Culture 🔍 Limits Of Knowledge

Feminism for the 99%

av Cinzia Arruzza • 2019

Mainstream feminism wants more women at the top. Anticapitalist feminism wants no top at all.

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✊ Anticapitalist Feminism 🧹 Social Reproduction 🩺 Crisis Of Care 💼 Liberal Feminism Critique 🌍 Anti-Imperialist Politics

Feminism for the 99%

Mainstream feminism wants more women at the top. Anticapitalist feminism wants no top at all.

av Cinzia Arruzza 2019 85 sidor

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✊ Anticapitalist Feminism 🧹 Social Reproduction 🩺 Crisis Of Care 💼 Liberal Feminism Critique 🌍 Anti-Imperialist Politics

Palm Sunday

av Kurt Vonnegut Jr. • 1981

Dresden, a mother's suicide, a son's madness: the pieces Vonnegut assembled into a self-portrait.

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🖋️ Literary Memoir 📚 Essay Collections ✍️ Writers On Writing 🎭 Dark Humor Memoirs ☮️ Anti War Perspectives

Palm Sunday

Dresden, a mother's suicide, a son's madness: the pieces Vonnegut assembled into a self-portrait.

av Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 1981 300 sidor

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🖋️ Literary Memoir 📚 Essay Collections ✍️ Writers On Writing 🎭 Dark Humor Memoirs ☮️ Anti War Perspectives

Things My Son Needs to Know About the World

av Fredrik Backman • 2012

A new father's hilarious crash course on love, manhood, and why IKEA will test your marriage.

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🍼 New Fatherhood 📖 Parenting Memoirs 😬 Self-Deprecating Humor ✍️ Personal Essays 💍 Marriage

Things My Son Needs to Know About the World

A new father's hilarious crash course on love, manhood, and why IKEA will test your marriage.

av Fredrik Backman 2012 208 sidor

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🍼 New Fatherhood 📖 Parenting Memoirs 😬 Self-Deprecating Humor ✍️ Personal Essays 💍 Marriage

What I Know for Sure

av Oprah Winfrey • 2014

Oprah's most personal lessons on joy, resilience, and the power of owning your story.

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📖 Inspirational Memoir ✨ Spiritual Essays 🙏 Gratitude Practice 💪 Resilience Building 😊 Joy Cultivation

What I Know for Sure

Oprah's most personal lessons on joy, resilience, and the power of owning your story.

av Oprah Winfrey 2014 240 sidor

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📖 Inspirational Memoir ✨ Spiritual Essays 🙏 Gratitude Practice 💪 Resilience Building 😊 Joy Cultivation

Sincerely, Your Autistic Child

av Emily Paige Ballou • 2021

They grew up autistic. They wrote down everything they needed their parents to know.

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🧠 Neurodivergent Parenting 💖 Autism Acceptance 🎧 Sensory Processing 💬 Autistic Communication 🛡️ Self-Advocacy

Sincerely, Your Autistic Child

They grew up autistic. They wrote down everything they needed their parents to know.

av Emily Paige Ballou 2021 224 sidor

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🧠 Neurodivergent Parenting 💖 Autism Acceptance 🎧 Sensory Processing 💬 Autistic Communication 🛡️ Self-Advocacy

Why Does the World Exist?

av Jim Holt • 2011

Physics, philosophy, and theology each claim to know why anything exists. None of them agree.

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❓ Existential Questions 🕳️ Nothingness 🔭 Cosmology 🧠 Analytic Philosophy 🎯 Anthropic Principle

Why Does the World Exist?

Physics, philosophy, and theology each claim to know why anything exists. None of them agree.

av Jim Holt 2011 316 sidor

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❓ Existential Questions 🕳️ Nothingness 🔭 Cosmology 🧠 Analytic Philosophy 🎯 Anthropic Principle

Days in the Lives of Social Workers

av Linda May Grobman • 1999

Fifty-eight social workers walk you through one day in a job everyone thinks they understand.

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🧭 Career Exploration 🏥 Social Work Practice 🌅 Day In The Life 👔 Professional Memoirs 📋 Case Studies

Days in the Lives of Social Workers

Fifty-eight social workers walk you through one day in a job everyone thinks they understand.

av Linda May Grobman 1999 448 sidor

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🧭 Career Exploration 🏥 Social Work Practice 🌅 Day In The Life 👔 Professional Memoirs 📋 Case Studies

Make Good Art

av Neil Gaiman • 2013

When your career, heart, or world falls apart, you have one creative option.

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🎨 Artistic Process 💼 Freelance Life 💪 Creative Resilience ⏰ Deadline Discipline 🎤 Finding Your Voice

Make Good Art

When your career, heart, or world falls apart, you have one creative option.

av Neil Gaiman 2013 80 sidor

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🎨 Artistic Process 💼 Freelance Life 💪 Creative Resilience ⏰ Deadline Discipline 🎤 Finding Your Voice

Fanged Noumena

av Nick Land • 2011

The future is a virus that has already infected the present. The host will not survive.

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📈 Accelerationism 🏛️ Continental Philosophy 🔄 Deleuzian Philosophy 🐙 Lovecraftian Philosophy 🤖 Cybernetic Theory

Fanged Noumena

The future is a virus that has already infected the present. The host will not survive.

av Nick Land 2011 666 sidor

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📈 Accelerationism 🏛️ Continental Philosophy 🔄 Deleuzian Philosophy 🐙 Lovecraftian Philosophy 🤖 Cybernetic Theory

Somehow

av Anne Lamott • 2024

Love isn't soft. It's the floor under everything, the mending force in the rubble of life.

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🙏 Spiritual Memoir ✝️ Essays On Faith 🌈 Progressive Christianity ✨ Everyday Sacredness 🤲 Radical Self-Acceptance

Somehow

Love isn't soft. It's the floor under everything, the mending force in the rubble of life.

av Anne Lamott 2024 204 sidor

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🙏 Spiritual Memoir ✝️ Essays On Faith 🌈 Progressive Christianity ✨ Everyday Sacredness 🤲 Radical Self-Acceptance

What Is Your Dangerous Idea?

av John Brockman • 2006

A hundred leading thinkers each name the one idea they find too unnerving to speak aloud.

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🧠 Cognitive Biases 🧪 Science And Religion 🕊️ Free Will Debate 🤖 Technology And Society 🌍 Cultural Evolution

What Is Your Dangerous Idea?

A hundred leading thinkers each name the one idea they find too unnerving to speak aloud.

av John Brockman 2006 301 sidor

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🧠 Cognitive Biases 🧪 Science And Religion 🕊️ Free Will Debate 🤖 Technology And Society 🌍 Cultural Evolution

Possible Minds

av John Brockman • 2019

Twenty-five thinkers on AI's biggest risks and the one design question that matters most.

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🤖 Ai Ethics ⚙️ Ai Alignment 🔄 Cybernetics 🤝 Human-Ai Interaction ⚖️ Algorithmic Bias

Possible Minds

Twenty-five thinkers on AI's biggest risks and the one design question that matters most.

av John Brockman 2019 320 sidor

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🤖 Ai Ethics ⚙️ Ai Alignment 🔄 Cybernetics 🤝 Human-Ai Interaction ⚖️ Algorithmic Bias

Dangerous Games

av Margaret MacMillan • 2008

History is never neutral. Nations and leaders weaponize it daily, and the patterns are predictable.

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🏛️ Public History 🧠 Collective Memory 📜 Historiography 🎭 Invented Traditions ⚔️ History Wars

Dangerous Games

History is never neutral. Nations and leaders weaponize it daily, and the patterns are predictable.

av Margaret MacMillan 2008 208 sidor

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🏛️ Public History 🧠 Collective Memory 📜 Historiography 🎭 Invented Traditions ⚔️ History Wars

Fake Heroes

av Otto English • 2023

Society manufactures heroes like studios build movie stars. Ten case studies expose the machinery.

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🏛️ Revisionist History 🦸 Hero Worship 👤 Cult Of Personality 🏴 National Myths 📰 Historical Propaganda

Fake Heroes

Society manufactures heroes like studios build movie stars. Ten case studies expose the machinery.

av Otto English 2023 495 sidor

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🏛️ Revisionist History 🦸 Hero Worship 👤 Cult Of Personality 🏴 National Myths 📰 Historical Propaganda

The Art of Solitude

av Stephen Batchelor • 2020

The deeper you go into solitude, the more you find everyone else waiting there.

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🪷 Secular Buddhism 🧘 Contemplative Practice 🔍 Self-Inquiry 🌱 Beginner's Mind 🌑 Inner Work

The Art of Solitude

The deeper you go into solitude, the more you find everyone else waiting there.

av Stephen Batchelor 2020 200 sidor

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🪷 Secular Buddhism 🧘 Contemplative Practice 🔍 Self-Inquiry 🌱 Beginner's Mind 🌑 Inner Work

Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams

av Sylvia Plath • 1977

A psychiatric clinic secretary secretly collects patient dreams for a private archive of fear.

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🏥 Psychiatric Setting 🌀 Dream Obsession 👁️ Unreliable Narrator 📝 Confessional Voice 🏠 Domestic Anxiety

Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams

A psychiatric clinic secretary secretly collects patient dreams for a private archive of fear.

av Sylvia Plath 1977 336 sidor

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🏥 Psychiatric Setting 🌀 Dream Obsession 👁️ Unreliable Narrator 📝 Confessional Voice 🏠 Domestic Anxiety

The Instant Millionaire

av Mark Fisher • 1997

A childhood among taxidermied animals prepared her for the absurdity of adulthood and anxiety.

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🧠 Anxiety Memoir 😈 Dark Comedy 🏚️ Eccentric Family 🌻 Southern Memoir 🏠 Domestic Humor

The Instant Millionaire

A childhood among taxidermied animals prepared her for the absurdity of adulthood and anxiety.

av Mark Fisher 1997 136 sidor

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🧠 Anxiety Memoir 😈 Dark Comedy 🏚️ Eccentric Family 🌻 Southern Memoir 🏠 Domestic Humor

Can't We All Disagree More Constructively?

av Jonathan Haidt • 2016

Politics feels like good vs. evil because each side is blind to the other's moral concerns.

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🗳️ Political Psychology ⚖️ Moral Psychology 🧨 Political Polarization 🧬 Innate Morality 🛡️ Tribalism

Can't We All Disagree More Constructively?

Politics feels like good vs. evil because each side is blind to the other's moral concerns.

av Jonathan Haidt 2016 73 sidor

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🗳️ Political Psychology ⚖️ Moral Psychology 🧨 Political Polarization 🧬 Innate Morality 🛡️ Tribalism

For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts

av Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez • 2021

Tired of translating yourself for others? Here is the toolkit to reclaim your mind, language, anger.

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🤎 Woc Feminism 🧹 Decolonial Feminism 🧬 Generational Trauma 👔 Respectability Politics 🪶 Cultural Identity

For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts

Tired of translating yourself for others? Here is the toolkit to reclaim your mind, language, anger.

av Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez 2021 272 sidor

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🤎 Woc Feminism 🧹 Decolonial Feminism 🧬 Generational Trauma 👔 Respectability Politics 🪶 Cultural Identity

How to Giggle

av Hannah Berner • 2025

Caring less is a skill. A comedian's blunt playbook for anxiety, bad dates, and toxic friends.

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🎭 Comedy Self-Help 👯 Female Friendships 🧠 Anxiety Coping 💔 Modern Dating 💗 Self-Acceptance

How to Giggle

Caring less is a skill. A comedian's blunt playbook for anxiety, bad dates, and toxic friends.

av Hannah Berner 2025 208 sidor

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🎭 Comedy Self-Help 👯 Female Friendships 🧠 Anxiety Coping 💔 Modern Dating 💗 Self-Acceptance

The Expanse and Philosophy

av Jeffery L. Nicholas • 2021

Martian militarism, alien minds, and colonial revolt: philosophy class is now a solar system at war.

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🎬 Pop Culture Philosophy 🚀 Science Fiction Studies 🌍 Colonialism Critique 🪪 Personal Identity 🧠 Consciousness Studies

The Expanse and Philosophy

Martian militarism, alien minds, and colonial revolt: philosophy class is now a solar system at war.

av Jeffery L. Nicholas 2021 256 sidor

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🎬 Pop Culture Philosophy 🚀 Science Fiction Studies 🌍 Colonialism Critique 🪪 Personal Identity 🧠 Consciousness Studies

Novelist as a Vocation

av Haruki Murakami • 2015

Originality is subtraction: how writing badly in English gave a Japanese novelist his voice.

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✍️ Writing Craft 📚 Literary Life 🎨 Creative Process 🗣️ Finding Your Voice 🏃 Creative Discipline

Novelist as a Vocation

Originality is subtraction: how writing badly in English gave a Japanese novelist his voice.

av Haruki Murakami 2015 213 sidor

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✍️ Writing Craft 📚 Literary Life 🎨 Creative Process 🗣️ Finding Your Voice 🏃 Creative Discipline

The Old is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born

av Nancy Fraser • 2019

Progressive movements allied with finance, left working people behind, and the crisis isn't over.

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🏛️ Gramscian Analysis 💸 Neoliberalism Critique 🇺🇸 American Politics 🎭 Identity Politics ✊ Socialist Feminism

The Old is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born

Progressive movements allied with finance, left working people behind, and the crisis isn't over.

av Nancy Fraser 2019 63 sidor

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🏛️ Gramscian Analysis 💸 Neoliberalism Critique 🇺🇸 American Politics 🎭 Identity Politics ✊ Socialist Feminism

Bowie's Bookshelf

av John O'Connell • 2019

Ziggy Stardust, the Thin White Duke, and 98 other books: the shelf that built David Bowie.

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🎸 Rock Music 📖 Reading Lives 🛣️ The Beat Generation 🔮 Occult Influences 🌀 Postmodernism

Bowie's Bookshelf

Ziggy Stardust, the Thin White Duke, and 98 other books: the shelf that built David Bowie.

av John O'Connell 2019 320 sidor

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🎸 Rock Music 📖 Reading Lives 🛣️ The Beat Generation 🔮 Occult Influences 🌀 Postmodernism

Obsessives, Pioneers, and Other Varieties of Minor Genius

av Malcolm Gladwell • 2009

A copywriter, a Catholic doctor, a dog whisperer: how obsessive outsiders see what others overlook.

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📺 Advertising History 🧠 Consumer Psychology 🐕 Canine Cognition 🩺 Reproductive Health 🧬 Evolutionary Medicine

Obsessives, Pioneers, and Other Varieties of Minor Genius

A copywriter, a Catholic doctor, a dog whisperer: how obsessive outsiders see what others overlook.

av Malcolm Gladwell 2009 130 sidor

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📺 Advertising History 🧠 Consumer Psychology 🐕 Canine Cognition 🩺 Reproductive Health 🧬 Evolutionary Medicine

On Palestine

av Noam Chomsky • 2015

The peace process masks land theft; only a democratic single state can break the cycle.

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🇵🇸 Israel Palestine 🏘️ Settler Colonialism 🇺🇸 Us Foreign Policy 🧳 Palestinian Refugees ✊ Decolonization

On Palestine

The peace process masks land theft; only a democratic single state can break the cycle.

av Noam Chomsky 2015 220 sidor

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🇵🇸 Israel Palestine 🏘️ Settler Colonialism 🇺🇸 Us Foreign Policy 🧳 Palestinian Refugees ✊ Decolonization

Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul

av Jack Canfield • 1997

Real stories from teens about surviving the years that feel impossible, and coming out stronger.

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🧑‍🎓 Teen Self-Help 📖 Inspirational Stories 🌱 Adolescent Struggles 💪 Overcoming Adversity 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Relationships

Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul

Real stories from teens about surviving the years that feel impossible, and coming out stronger.

av Jack Canfield 1997 288 sidor

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🧑‍🎓 Teen Self-Help 📖 Inspirational Stories 🌱 Adolescent Struggles 💪 Overcoming Adversity 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Relationships

How to use graphic design to sell things, explain things, make things look better, make people laugh, make people cry, and (every once in a while) change the world

av Michael Bierut • 2015

Great logos aren't born from blank slates but from ugly constraints and stubborn clients.

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✏️ Graphic Design 🏷️ Brand Identity 🤝 Client Relationships 🔄 Design Process ⛓️ Creative Constraints

How to use graphic design to sell things, explain things, make things look better, make people laugh, make people cry, and (every once in a while) change the world

Great logos aren't born from blank slates but from ugly constraints and stubborn clients.

av Michael Bierut 2015 320 sidor

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✏️ Graphic Design 🏷️ Brand Identity 🤝 Client Relationships 🔄 Design Process ⛓️ Creative Constraints

The Writing Life

av Annie Dillard • 1989

The work leads, the writer follows, and most of what you write must be destroyed.

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🖋️ Literary Craft ✍️ Writing Process 📖 Author Memoirs 🎭 Artistic Vocation 🏔️ Creative Solitude

The Writing Life

The work leads, the writer follows, and most of what you write must be destroyed.

av Annie Dillard 1989 111 sidor

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🖋️ Literary Craft ✍️ Writing Process 📖 Author Memoirs 🎭 Artistic Vocation 🏔️ Creative Solitude

The Utopia of Rules

av David Graeber • 2013

Every market reform increases paperwork. The violence, stupidity, and secret appeal of bureaucracy.

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🌍 Political Anthropology 🗄️ Bureaucratic Critique ⚡ Structural Violence 💰 Market Mythology 💡 Radical Imagination

The Utopia of Rules

Every market reform increases paperwork. The violence, stupidity, and secret appeal of bureaucracy.

av David Graeber 2013 261 sidor

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🌍 Political Anthropology 🗄️ Bureaucratic Critique ⚡ Structural Violence 💰 Market Mythology 💡 Radical Imagination

The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work

av Alain de Botton • 2008

From cargo ships to rocket launches, a philosopher finds why work delights and disappoints us.

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🏢 Modern Work 📊 Occupational Sociology 🚢 Global Supply Chain 🧠 Consumer Psychology 🔍 Career Reflection

The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work

From cargo ships to rocket launches, a philosopher finds why work delights and disappoints us.

av Alain de Botton 2008 326 sidor

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🏢 Modern Work 📊 Occupational Sociology 🚢 Global Supply Chain 🧠 Consumer Psychology 🔍 Career Reflection

Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race

av Reni Eddo-Lodge • 2017

Britain's racism is structural, not personal. Why not seeing race protects the design.

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🔗 Structural Racism 🇬🇧 British Black Experience 🪞 White Privilege 🔀 Intersectional Feminism 🛠️ Anti-Racism Practice

Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race

Britain's racism is structural, not personal. Why not seeing race protects the design.

av Reni Eddo-Lodge 2017 249 sidor

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🔗 Structural Racism 🇬🇧 British Black Experience 🪞 White Privilege 🔀 Intersectional Feminism 🛠️ Anti-Racism Practice

Grace (Eventually)

av Anne Lamott • 2007

Grace barges into the mess: parenting a teen, losing the fight, facing your reflection at fifty.

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🕊️ Spiritual Memoir ✝️ Progressive Christianity 🧩 Imperfection And Faith ✍️ Writing As Healing 👩‍👦 Spiritual Parenting

Grace (Eventually)

Grace barges into the mess: parenting a teen, losing the fight, facing your reflection at fifty.

av Anne Lamott 2007 284 sidor

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🕊️ Spiritual Memoir ✝️ Progressive Christianity 🧩 Imperfection And Faith ✍️ Writing As Healing 👩‍👦 Spiritual Parenting

On the Move

av Oliver Sacks • 2015

Patients frozen for decades took one drug and woke. Their neurologist was not ready.

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🧠 Clinical Neurology 🩺 Medical Memoir 🧬 Neurological Disorders 📖 Narrative Medicine 🔄 Neuroplasticity

On the Move

Patients frozen for decades took one drug and woke. Their neurologist was not ready.

av Oliver Sacks 2015 397 sidor

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🧠 Clinical Neurology 🩺 Medical Memoir 🧬 Neurological Disorders 📖 Narrative Medicine 🔄 Neuroplasticity

The Mind’s I

av Douglas R. Hofstadter • 1981

Borges, Turing, a headless mystic: the anthology where the self dissolves one essay at a time.

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🧠 Philosophy Of Mind 👁️ Consciousness Studies 🤖 Artificial Intelligence 🔬 Cognitive Science 💭 Thought Experiments

The Mind’s I

Borges, Turing, a headless mystic: the anthology where the self dissolves one essay at a time.

av Douglas R. Hofstadter 1981 512 sidor

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🧠 Philosophy Of Mind 👁️ Consciousness Studies 🤖 Artificial Intelligence 🔬 Cognitive Science 💭 Thought Experiments

The Walking Dead and Philosophy

av Wayne Yuen • 2012

The zombie apocalypse is a philosophy lab. Its first question: what is a person worth?

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🍿 Pop Culture Philosophy 🧠 Existentialism 🧬 Personhood Debates ⚖️ Moral Dilemmas 🏚️ Social Breakdown

The Walking Dead and Philosophy

The zombie apocalypse is a philosophy lab. Its first question: what is a person worth?

av Wayne Yuen 2012 262 sidor

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🍿 Pop Culture Philosophy 🧠 Existentialism 🧬 Personhood Debates ⚖️ Moral Dilemmas 🏚️ Social Breakdown

Strangers to Ourselves

av Rachel Aviv • 2022

A diagnosis does not just name your illness. It shapes it. Five lives inside psychiatry.

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🏷️ Psychiatric Diagnosis 🌍 Cultural Psychiatry 📖 Medical Narratives ⚖️ Critical Psychiatry 🧒 Trauma And Development

Strangers to Ourselves

A diagnosis does not just name your illness. It shapes it. Five lives inside psychiatry.

av Rachel Aviv 2022 288 sidor

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🏷️ Psychiatric Diagnosis 🌍 Cultural Psychiatry 📖 Medical Narratives ⚖️ Critical Psychiatry 🧒 Trauma And Development

Freedom is a Constant Struggle

av Angela Y. Davis • 2015

Ferguson and Palestine share a playbook of state violence. The resistance is building its own.

4.44

36 000+

🚫 Prison Abolition ✊🏾 Black Feminism 🌍 Global Solidarity 🔀 Intersectionality ⚠️ State Violence

Freedom is a Constant Struggle

Ferguson and Palestine share a playbook of state violence. The resistance is building its own.

av Angela Y. Davis 2015 158 sidor

4.44

36 000+ betyg

🚫 Prison Abolition ✊🏾 Black Feminism 🌍 Global Solidarity 🔀 Intersectionality ⚠️ State Violence

How to Take Charge of Your Life

av Richard Bandler • 2014

From high school wallflower to TV comedy writer: a memoir of terrible jobs and self-invention.

3.92

500+

🎬 Celebrity Memoir 📝 Humorous Essays 🎤 Female Comedians ✍️ Writers Room 😅 Self-Deprecating Humor

How to Take Charge of Your Life

From high school wallflower to TV comedy writer: a memoir of terrible jobs and self-invention.

av Richard Bandler 2014 128 sidor

3.92

500+ betyg

🎬 Celebrity Memoir 📝 Humorous Essays 🎤 Female Comedians ✍️ Writers Room 😅 Self-Deprecating Humor

All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

av Robert Fulghum • 1986

Life's most elusive wisdom is hidden in the rules you mastered by age five.

4.00

24 000+

📦 Everyday Wisdom 🤝 Common Decency 🌟 Childlike Wonder 🏡 Simple Living 🏘️ Community Building

All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

Life's most elusive wisdom is hidden in the rules you mastered by age five.

av Robert Fulghum 1986 221 sidor

4.00

24 000+ betyg

📦 Everyday Wisdom 🤝 Common Decency 🌟 Childlike Wonder 🏡 Simple Living 🏘️ Community Building

Why Write?

av Mark Edmundson • 2016

Writing is the art of becoming nobody's fool, especially your own.

3.65

222

✍️ Craft Of Writing 🛋️ Writing As Therapy 🎙️ Finding Your Voice ✨ Creative Fulfillment 🧘 Contemplative Writing

Why Write?

Writing is the art of becoming nobody's fool, especially your own.

av Mark Edmundson 2016 288 sidor

3.65

222 betyg

✍️ Craft Of Writing 🛋️ Writing As Therapy 🎙️ Finding Your Voice ✨ Creative Fulfillment 🧘 Contemplative Writing

What My Mother and I Don't Talk About

av Michele Filgate • 2019

Fifteen writers give voice to what they could never tell the woman who raised them.

3.74

19 000+

📝 Personal Essays 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Bonds 🗝️ Family Secrets 🔗 Generational Trauma 📓 Confessional Writing

What My Mother and I Don't Talk About

Fifteen writers give voice to what they could never tell the woman who raised them.

av Michele Filgate 2019 286 sidor

3.74

19 000+ betyg

📝 Personal Essays 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Bonds 🗝️ Family Secrets 🔗 Generational Trauma 📓 Confessional Writing

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