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Narrative Economics

av Robert J. Shiller • 2019

Economic panics don't start in spreadsheets. They start in stories, and they spread like epidemics.

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🧠 Behavioral Economics 📜 Economic History 🦠 Social Contagion 📊 Market Psychology 🫧 Economic Bubbles

Narrative Economics

Economic panics don't start in spreadsheets. They start in stories, and they spread like epidemics.

av Robert J. Shiller 2019 400 sidor

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🧠 Behavioral Economics 📜 Economic History 🦠 Social Contagion 📊 Market Psychology 🫧 Economic Bubbles

An Autobiography

av Mahatma Gandhi • 1927

A shy lawyer ejected from a South African train begins a revolution without raising a fist.

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🕊️ Nonviolent Resistance ✊🏾 Colonial Resistance 🇮🇳 Indian Independence ⚖️ Social Justice 🏡 Simple Living

An Autobiography

A shy lawyer ejected from a South African train begins a revolution without raising a fist.

av Mahatma Gandhi 1927 454 sidor

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🕊️ Nonviolent Resistance ✊🏾 Colonial Resistance 🇮🇳 Indian Independence ⚖️ Social Justice 🏡 Simple Living

On Liberty

av John Stuart Mill • 1859

Majority opinion has no jurisdiction over your private life. The only limit is harm to others.

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🗽 Classical Liberalism 🗣️ Free Speech ⚖️ Utilitarianism 🐑 Social Conformity 🧑 Personal Autonomy

On Liberty

Majority opinion has no jurisdiction over your private life. The only limit is harm to others.

av John Stuart Mill 1859 187 sidor

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🗽 Classical Liberalism 🗣️ Free Speech ⚖️ Utilitarianism 🐑 Social Conformity 🧑 Personal Autonomy

Black Wave

av Kim Ghattas • 2020

The 1979 contest between Saudi Arabia and Iran that dismantled a region’s cultural soul.

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🏛️ Middle Eastern History ⚔️ Saudi-Iran Rivalry 🕌 Sectarian Conflict 📜 Political Islam 💣 Religious Extremism

Black Wave

The 1979 contest between Saudi Arabia and Iran that dismantled a region’s cultural soul.

av Kim Ghattas 2020 400 sidor

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🏛️ Middle Eastern History ⚔️ Saudi-Iran Rivalry 🕌 Sectarian Conflict 📜 Political Islam 💣 Religious Extremism

The Only Astrology Book You'll Ever Need

av Joanna Martine Woolfolk • 1982

A manual for reading the Moon, houses, and aspects. Sun signs are just the opening line.

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🌌 Chart Reading ♈ Zodiac Signs 💕 Relationship Astrology ⚕️ Medical Astrology 🎭 Personality Archetypes

The Only Astrology Book You'll Ever Need

A manual for reading the Moon, houses, and aspects. Sun signs are just the opening line.

av Joanna Martine Woolfolk 1982 461 sidor

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🌌 Chart Reading ♈ Zodiac Signs 💕 Relationship Astrology ⚕️ Medical Astrology 🎭 Personality Archetypes

The Next 100 Years

av George Friedman • 2008

America doesn't need to win wars, just prevent rivals from rising. The next battlefield is orbital.

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🌍 Geopolitical Forecasting ♟️ Grand Strategy 📉 Demographic Collapse 🛰️ Space Warfare 🗺️ Geographic Determinism

The Next 100 Years

America doesn't need to win wars, just prevent rivals from rising. The next battlefield is orbital.

av George Friedman 2008 272 sidor

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🌍 Geopolitical Forecasting ♟️ Grand Strategy 📉 Demographic Collapse 🛰️ Space Warfare 🗺️ Geographic Determinism

City of God

av Augustine of Hippo

Two loves build two invisible cities. The whole of human history is the war between them.

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✝️ Early Christianity 🏛️ Late Antiquity 👑 Political Theology 😈 Problem Of Evil 🙏 Divine Providence

City of God

Two loves build two invisible cities. The whole of human history is the war between them.

av Augustine of Hippo 1186 sidor

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✝️ Early Christianity 🏛️ Late Antiquity 👑 Political Theology 😈 Problem Of Evil 🙏 Divine Providence

The Philosophy of Money

av Georg Simmel • 1900

Before coins, money was already an idea: that value is a relationship, not a substance.

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💡 Economic Philosophy 🪙 Sociology Of Money 📜 Monetary History 🧠 Economic Psychology 📚 Classical Sociology

The Philosophy of Money

Before coins, money was already an idea: that value is a relationship, not a substance.

av Georg Simmel 1900 616 sidor

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💡 Economic Philosophy 🪙 Sociology Of Money 📜 Monetary History 🧠 Economic Psychology 📚 Classical Sociology

Postwar

av Tony Judt • 2005

Sixty years, one continent, 36 million dead: how Europe rebuilt itself into something unprecedented.

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🏗️ Postwar Reconstruction 🧱 East-West Divide 🇪🇺 European Integration 🏥 Welfare State 📈 Economic Miracles

Postwar

Sixty years, one continent, 36 million dead: how Europe rebuilt itself into something unprecedented.

av Tony Judt 2005 933 sidor

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🏗️ Postwar Reconstruction 🧱 East-West Divide 🇪🇺 European Integration 🏥 Welfare State 📈 Economic Miracles

Beyond Band of Brothers

av Dick Winters • 2006

The commander of Easy Company on Brecourt Manor, Bastogne, and what it actually costs to lead men.

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🫡 Military Leadership 📖 World War Ii Memoir 🤝 Brotherhood In War 👐 Servant Leadership 🪂 D-Day

Beyond Band of Brothers

The commander of Easy Company on Brecourt Manor, Bastogne, and what it actually costs to lead men.

av Dick Winters 2006 320 sidor

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🫡 Military Leadership 📖 World War Ii Memoir 🤝 Brotherhood In War 👐 Servant Leadership 🪂 D-Day

Ett oskrivet blad

av Steven Pinker • 2002

Science has overturned the blank slate. Human nature is real, and building a just world requires it.

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🧬 Nature Vs Nurture 🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🧪 Behavioral Genetics 👶 Innate Cognition 🧩 Cognitive Biases

Ett oskrivet blad

Science has overturned the blank slate. Human nature is real, and building a just world requires it.

av Steven Pinker 2002 560 sidor

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🧬 Nature Vs Nurture 🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🧪 Behavioral Genetics 👶 Innate Cognition 🧩 Cognitive Biases

The Song of the Cell

av Siddhartha Mukherjee • 2022

We are 37 trillion cells in conversation. Learning that language has already cured the incurable.

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🧬 Cell Biology 🔬 History Of Science 🏥 Medical History 🦠 Microbiology 🛡️ Immunology

The Song of the Cell

We are 37 trillion cells in conversation. Learning that language has already cured the incurable.

av Siddhartha Mukherjee 2022 473 sidor

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🧬 Cell Biology 🔬 History Of Science 🏥 Medical History 🦠 Microbiology 🛡️ Immunology

Hegemony and Socialist Strategy

av Ernesto Laclau • 1985

Consensus is a mirage. Conflict is ineradicable; any left project that forgets this fails.

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🏛️ Political Theory 📚 Post-Marxism 🗳️ Radical Democracy ⚖️ Hegemony Studies ⚔️ Agonistic Pluralism

Hegemony and Socialist Strategy

Consensus is a mirage. Conflict is ineradicable; any left project that forgets this fails.

av Ernesto Laclau 1985 198 sidor

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🏛️ Political Theory 📚 Post-Marxism 🗳️ Radical Democracy ⚖️ Hegemony Studies ⚔️ Agonistic Pluralism

The Art of Making Money

av Jason Kersten • 2009

His counterfeits were nearly flawless. The people in his life were not.

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💵 Counterfeiting 🕴️ Organized Crime 🧑‍🏫 Criminal Mentorship 🏚️ Poverty And Crime 🔬 Technical Obsession

The Art of Making Money

His counterfeits were nearly flawless. The people in his life were not.

av Jason Kersten 2009 304 sidor

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💵 Counterfeiting 🕴️ Organized Crime 🧑‍🏫 Criminal Mentorship 🏚️ Poverty And Crime 🔬 Technical Obsession

A Little History of Philosophy

av Nigel Warburton • 2011

Forty thinkers, from Socrates to Singer, and the answers they gave to life's hardest questions.

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🏛️ Western Philosophy 💡 History Of Ideas 📘 Introductory Philosophy 🧭 Philosophy For Beginners 🧠 Great Thinkers

A Little History of Philosophy

Forty thinkers, from Socrates to Singer, and the answers they gave to life's hardest questions.

av Nigel Warburton 2011 252 sidor

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🏛️ Western Philosophy 💡 History Of Ideas 📘 Introductory Philosophy 🧭 Philosophy For Beginners 🧠 Great Thinkers

The Strange Death of Europe

av Douglas Murray • 2017

Europe is being remade through mass immigration, paralyzed by a guilt that forbids honest debate.

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🛂 Immigration Policy 🇪🇺 European Identity 🚢 Mass Migration 🧩 Multiculturalism 🕌 Islam In Europe

The Strange Death of Europe

Europe is being remade through mass immigration, paralyzed by a guilt that forbids honest debate.

av Douglas Murray 2017 352 sidor

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🛂 Immigration Policy 🇪🇺 European Identity 🚢 Mass Migration 🧩 Multiculturalism 🕌 Islam In Europe

A History of the World in 6 Glasses

av Tom Standage • 2005

Civilization's biggest leaps came in a glass. The story of humanity told through six drinks.

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🍽️ Food History 📦 Commodity History 🎭 Cultural History 🚢 History Of Trade 🏺 Material Culture

A History of the World in 6 Glasses

Civilization's biggest leaps came in a glass. The story of humanity told through six drinks.

av Tom Standage 2005 237 sidor

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🍽️ Food History 📦 Commodity History 🎭 Cultural History 🚢 History Of Trade 🏺 Material Culture

Future Shock

av Alvin Toffler • 1970

Acceleration is a solvent: of place, of loyalty, of identity itself.

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⚡ Technological Change 🔮 Futurism 📥 Information Overload 🧩 Social Fragmentation 🗑️ Throwaway Culture

Future Shock

Acceleration is a solvent: of place, of loyalty, of identity itself.

av Alvin Toffler 1970 430 sidor

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⚡ Technological Change 🔮 Futurism 📥 Information Overload 🧩 Social Fragmentation 🗑️ Throwaway Culture

The Anatomy of Humbug

av Paul Feldwick • 2015

Advertising's founding fathers built a science of rational persuasion. They were half right at best.

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🧠 Advertising Theory 📜 Marketing History 🧩 Subconscious Influence 🏗️ Brand Building 🎪 Showmanship

The Anatomy of Humbug

Advertising's founding fathers built a science of rational persuasion. They were half right at best.

av Paul Feldwick 2015 208 sidor

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🧠 Advertising Theory 📜 Marketing History 🧩 Subconscious Influence 🏗️ Brand Building 🎪 Showmanship

Military Inc.

av Ayesha Siddiqa • 2007

Pakistan's military built a business empire off the books. Leaving power would bankrupt it.

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🪖 Military Economy 🏛️ State Capture 💰 Institutional Corruption 🏞️ Land Appropriation ⚔️ Civil-Military Relations

Military Inc.

Pakistan's military built a business empire off the books. Leaving power would bankrupt it.

av Ayesha Siddiqa 2007 292 sidor

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🪖 Military Economy 🏛️ State Capture 💰 Institutional Corruption 🏞️ Land Appropriation ⚔️ Civil-Military Relations

Twitter and Tear Gas

av Zeynep Tufekci • 2017

Twitter can fill a square overnight. Why that speed so often leads to a movement's collapse.

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🧑‍💻 Digital Activism 📢 Attention Economics 🛡️ Information Warfare 🚪 Media Gatekeeping 🤝 Collective Action

Twitter and Tear Gas

Twitter can fill a square overnight. Why that speed so often leads to a movement's collapse.

av Zeynep Tufekci 2017 326 sidor

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🧑‍💻 Digital Activism 📢 Attention Economics 🛡️ Information Warfare 🚪 Media Gatekeeping 🤝 Collective Action

The First Three Minutes

av Steven Weinberg • 1977

Three minutes after the Big Bang, the universe fixed its elemental recipe forever.

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🌌 Physical Cosmology 💥 Big Bang Theory ⏳ Early Universe 🌠 Cosmic Evolution 🔭 Expanding Universe

The First Three Minutes

Three minutes after the Big Bang, the universe fixed its elemental recipe forever.

av Steven Weinberg 1977 224 sidor

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🌌 Physical Cosmology 💥 Big Bang Theory ⏳ Early Universe 🌠 Cosmic Evolution 🔭 Expanding Universe

Tantric Visions of the Divine Feminine

av David R. Kinsley • 1997

Ten Tantric goddesses, from self-sacrifice to outcaste, reveal the divine feminine's radical core.

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🕉️ Hindu Goddesses 🔺 Shaktism 🌸 Divine Feminine 🪷 Tantric Worship 🎨 Religious Iconography

Tantric Visions of the Divine Feminine

Ten Tantric goddesses, from self-sacrifice to outcaste, reveal the divine feminine's radical core.

av David R. Kinsley 1997 328 sidor

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🕉️ Hindu Goddesses 🔺 Shaktism 🌸 Divine Feminine 🪷 Tantric Worship 🎨 Religious Iconography

Reality is Not What it Seems

av Carlo Rovelli • 2014

The universe has no bottom: particles dissolve into fields, space into grains, time into ignorance.

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📐 Theoretical Physics 📜 History Of Science ⚛️ Quantum Mechanics 🌌 General Relativity 🔭 Cosmology

Reality is Not What it Seems

The universe has no bottom: particles dissolve into fields, space into grains, time into ignorance.

av Carlo Rovelli 2014 256 sidor

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📐 Theoretical Physics 📜 History Of Science ⚛️ Quantum Mechanics 🌌 General Relativity 🔭 Cosmology

The Origins of Political Order

av Francis Fukuyama • 2011

China built a modern state eighteen centuries before Europe. That gap reshapes political history.

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🏛️ Comparative Politics 🧱 State Formation 🦍 Evolutionary Anthropology 📉 Institutional Decay 👪 Kinship And Politics

The Origins of Political Order

China built a modern state eighteen centuries before Europe. That gap reshapes political history.

av Francis Fukuyama 2011 585 sidor

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🏛️ Comparative Politics 🧱 State Formation 🦍 Evolutionary Anthropology 📉 Institutional Decay 👪 Kinship And Politics

Metaphysics

av Aristotle

What is being? Aristotle’s inquiry into the first causes and architecture of reality itself.

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🌌 Metaphysics 🧱 Ontology 🏛️ Ancient Philosophy 🇬🇷 Greek Philosophy ⛓️ Causality

Metaphysics

What is being? Aristotle’s inquiry into the first causes and architecture of reality itself.

av Aristotle 365 sidor

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🌌 Metaphysics 🧱 Ontology 🏛️ Ancient Philosophy 🇬🇷 Greek Philosophy ⛓️ Causality

From Poor Law to Welfare State

av Walter I. Trattner • 1974

How America turned helping the poor from an act of justice into a judgment on character.

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🏛️ Social Welfare History 🇺🇸 American Social Policy ⚖️ Poverty And Morality 🏥 Institutional Care ⛪ Religious Charity

From Poor Law to Welfare State

How America turned helping the poor from an act of justice into a judgment on character.

av Walter I. Trattner 1974 464 sidor

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🏛️ Social Welfare History 🇺🇸 American Social Policy ⚖️ Poverty And Morality 🏥 Institutional Care ⛪ Religious Charity

Philosophy As a Way of Life

av Pierre Hadot • 1981

Ancient philosophy trained the self like a muscle. Modernity forgot the exercises.

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🏛️ Ancient Philosophy 🏹 Stoicism 🍃 Epicureanism 🧘 Contemplative Practices 🔍 Self-Examination

Philosophy As a Way of Life

Ancient philosophy trained the self like a muscle. Modernity forgot the exercises.

av Pierre Hadot 1981 309 sidor

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🏛️ Ancient Philosophy 🏹 Stoicism 🍃 Epicureanism 🧘 Contemplative Practices 🔍 Self-Examination

No Logo

av Naomi Klein • 2000

Products became logos, logos became lifestyles, and public life became a mall.

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🌐 Corporate Globalization 🛒 Consumer Culture 🏭 Labor Exploitation ✊ Anti-Globalization 🔗 Global Supply Chains

No Logo

Products became logos, logos became lifestyles, and public life became a mall.

av Naomi Klein 2000 544 sidor

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🌐 Corporate Globalization 🛒 Consumer Culture 🏭 Labor Exploitation ✊ Anti-Globalization 🔗 Global Supply Chains

On Grand Strategy

av John Lewis Gaddis • 2018

Great strategists don't pick sides. They hold opposing truths in each hand and act anyway.

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🗺️ Grand Strategy 🏛️ Statecraft ♟️ Strategic Thinking 📜 Leadership History ⚡ Crisis Leadership

On Grand Strategy

Great strategists don't pick sides. They hold opposing truths in each hand and act anyway.

av John Lewis Gaddis 2018 368 sidor

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🗺️ Grand Strategy 🏛️ Statecraft ♟️ Strategic Thinking 📜 Leadership History ⚡ Crisis Leadership

Patriot

av Alexei Navalny • 2024

Poisoned by the state, arrested on return, dead at 47. His prison cell testament.

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🇷🇺 Russian Politics ⛓️ Authoritarian Regimes 💰 Anti-Corruption ✊ Dissident Memoirs 🔒 Political Prisoners

Patriot

Poisoned by the state, arrested on return, dead at 47. His prison cell testament.

av Alexei Navalny 2024 496 sidor

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🇷🇺 Russian Politics ⛓️ Authoritarian Regimes 💰 Anti-Corruption ✊ Dissident Memoirs 🔒 Political Prisoners

Flash Boys

av Michael Lewis • 2014

Wall Street's speed advantage rigs the market. A team of outsiders built a fair exchange.

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📡 High-Frequency Trading 🏦 Wall Street Exposé 💻 Electronic Markets 🎭 Market Manipulation ⚖️ Financial Regulation

Flash Boys

Wall Street's speed advantage rigs the market. A team of outsiders built a fair exchange.

av Michael Lewis 2014 274 sidor

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📡 High-Frequency Trading 🏦 Wall Street Exposé 💻 Electronic Markets 🎭 Market Manipulation ⚖️ Financial Regulation

En ekonomisk torped

av John Perkins • 2005

A former insider reveals how the US uses debt to control poor nations and extract trillions.

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🌍 International Development 🌐 Geopolitics 💰 Debt Imperialism 🕵️ Whistleblower Memoir 🏢 Corporate Power

En ekonomisk torped

A former insider reveals how the US uses debt to control poor nations and extract trillions.

av John Perkins 2005 384 sidor

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🌍 International Development 🌐 Geopolitics 💰 Debt Imperialism 🕵️ Whistleblower Memoir 🏢 Corporate Power

Stalling for Time

av Gary Noesner • 2010

The FBI's lead negotiator reveals why listening beats raiding, and how Waco became the proof.

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🔍 True Crime Memoirs 🕵️ Fbi Memoirs 🤝 Hostage Negotiation 🧠 Negotiation Psychology 🚨 Crisis Management

Stalling for Time

The FBI's lead negotiator reveals why listening beats raiding, and how Waco became the proof.

av Gary Noesner 2010 226 sidor

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🔍 True Crime Memoirs 🕵️ Fbi Memoirs 🤝 Hostage Negotiation 🧠 Negotiation Psychology 🚨 Crisis Management

The Girls of Atomic City

av Denise Kiernan • 2013

The young women of Oak Ridge built the atomic bomb. None of them knew it.

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🏭 Manhattan Project 👩‍🔧 Women In Wartime ☢️ Atomic Age 🎙️ Oral History 🏅 Unsung Heroes

The Girls of Atomic City

The young women of Oak Ridge built the atomic bomb. None of them knew it.

av Denise Kiernan 2013 373 sidor

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🏭 Manhattan Project 👩‍🔧 Women In Wartime ☢️ Atomic Age 🎙️ Oral History 🏅 Unsung Heroes

Truth and Method

av Hans-Georg Gadamer • 1960

Understanding is an event language and tradition perform through you, not a method you apply.

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📖 Hermeneutics 🧠 Phenomenology 🎨 Aesthetics 💬 Philosophy Of Language ⏳ Historical Consciousness

Truth and Method

Understanding is an event language and tradition perform through you, not a method you apply.

av Hans-Georg Gadamer 1960 640 sidor

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📖 Hermeneutics 🧠 Phenomenology 🎨 Aesthetics 💬 Philosophy Of Language ⏳ Historical Consciousness

The Art of Rhetoric

av Aristotle

Persuasion isn't one thing. It's three, and mixing them up loses the audience every time.

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🏛️ Classical Rhetoric 📜 Greek Philosophy 🎙️ Modes Of Persuasion ❤️ Emotional Appeals 🧠 Logical Argument

The Art of Rhetoric

Persuasion isn't one thing. It's three, and mixing them up loses the audience every time.

av Aristotle 292 sidor

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🏛️ Classical Rhetoric 📜 Greek Philosophy 🎙️ Modes Of Persuasion ❤️ Emotional Appeals 🧠 Logical Argument

Collapse

av Jared Diamond • 2004

Civilizations don't just run out of resources. They fail to decide.

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🌿 Environmental History 🏚️ Societal Collapse 🌍 Environmental Determinism ⛏️ Resource Depletion 🐑 Tragedy Of The Commons

Collapse

Civilizations don't just run out of resources. They fail to decide.

av Jared Diamond 2004 608 sidor

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🌿 Environmental History 🏚️ Societal Collapse 🌍 Environmental Determinism ⛏️ Resource Depletion 🐑 Tragedy Of The Commons

How the World Ran Out of Everything

av Peter S. Goodman • 2024

The global supply chain was one shock from collapse, and decades of cost-cutting were the reason.

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🚢 Global Supply Chains 🦠 Pandemic Economics 🌐 Globalization Critique ⛓️ Labor Exploitation 🏛️ Monopoly Power

How the World Ran Out of Everything

The global supply chain was one shock from collapse, and decades of cost-cutting were the reason.

av Peter S. Goodman 2024 416 sidor

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🚢 Global Supply Chains 🦠 Pandemic Economics 🌐 Globalization Critique ⛓️ Labor Exploitation 🏛️ Monopoly Power

If You Tell

av Gregg Olsen • 2019

Oil made the Osage the richest people on earth. Then trusted friends began murdering them for it.

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📜 Historical True Crime 📰 Investigative Journalism 🏛️ Institutional Corruption 🔍 Murder Investigation ⚖️ Racial Exploitation

If You Tell

Oil made the Osage the richest people on earth. Then trusted friends began murdering them for it.

av Gregg Olsen 2019 431 sidor

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📜 Historical True Crime 📰 Investigative Journalism 🏛️ Institutional Corruption 🔍 Murder Investigation ⚖️ Racial Exploitation

This Time Is Different

av Carmen M. Reinhart • 2009

Believing your boom is different is the oldest financial mistake. Eight centuries of data prove it.

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💥 Financial Crises 📜 Economic History 🏛️ Financial History 💸 Debt And Leverage 🔄 Boom And Bust Cycles

This Time Is Different

Believing your boom is different is the oldest financial mistake. Eight centuries of data prove it.

av Carmen M. Reinhart 2009 512 sidor

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💥 Financial Crises 📜 Economic History 🏛️ Financial History 💸 Debt And Leverage 🔄 Boom And Bust Cycles

The World Is Flat

av Thomas L. Friedman • 2005

Three billion new workers entered the global economy, and geography stopped deciding who wins.

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🚢 Global Supply Chains 🧠 Knowledge Economy 📦 Outsourcing 💻 Digital Revolution ⚡ Technological Disruption

The World Is Flat

Three billion new workers entered the global economy, and geography stopped deciding who wins.

av Thomas L. Friedman 2005 672 sidor

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🚢 Global Supply Chains 🧠 Knowledge Economy 📦 Outsourcing 💻 Digital Revolution ⚡ Technological Disruption

When Genius Failed

av Roger Lowenstein • 2000

Two Nobel laureates and a trillion dollars in bets. Then a Russian default upended the models.

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🏦 Hedge Funds 🔥 Financial Crises 🛡️ Risk Management 📊 Model Risk ⛓️ Systemic Risk

When Genius Failed

Two Nobel laureates and a trillion dollars in bets. Then a Russian default upended the models.

av Roger Lowenstein 2000 264 sidor

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🏦 Hedge Funds 🔥 Financial Crises 🛡️ Risk Management 📊 Model Risk ⛓️ Systemic Risk

Awakenings

av Oliver Sacks • 1973

Patients frozen for decades woke on a single drug. The real trial was staying awake.

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🔬 Clinical Neurology 🫀 Humanistic Medicine 🧠 Neuroplasticity 💊 Experimental Medicine 📖 Patient Narratives

Awakenings

Patients frozen for decades woke on a single drug. The real trial was staying awake.

av Oliver Sacks 1973 567 sidor

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🔬 Clinical Neurology 🫀 Humanistic Medicine 🧠 Neuroplasticity 💊 Experimental Medicine 📖 Patient Narratives

The Boy on the Wooden Box

av Leon Leyson • 2013

Youngest on Schindler's list, he needed a wooden box just to reach the factory levers.

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🕯️ Holocaust Memoirs 👦 Child Survivor 🧱 Ghetto Life 🏚️ Concentration Camps 📜 Witness Literature

The Boy on the Wooden Box

Youngest on Schindler's list, he needed a wooden box just to reach the factory levers.

av Leon Leyson 2013 240 sidor

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🕯️ Holocaust Memoirs 👦 Child Survivor 🧱 Ghetto Life 🏚️ Concentration Camps 📜 Witness Literature

From Plassey to Partition

av Sekhar Bandyopadhyay • 2004

Imperial greed, local ambition, fractured nationalism: built modern India, broke it at Partition.

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🇮🇳 Modern Indian History 🇬🇧 British Empire 💰 Colonial Economies ✊ Nationalist Movements 💔 Partition Of India

From Plassey to Partition

Imperial greed, local ambition, fractured nationalism: built modern India, broke it at Partition.

av Sekhar Bandyopadhyay 2004 523 sidor

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🇮🇳 Modern Indian History 🇬🇧 British Empire 💰 Colonial Economies ✊ Nationalist Movements 💔 Partition Of India

Humble Pi

av Matt Parker • 2019

Math errors have sunk ships and crashed economies. A mathematician-comedian explains why.

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Humble Pi

Math errors have sunk ships and crashed economies. A mathematician-comedian explains why.

av Matt Parker 2019 314 sidor

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Sam Walton, Made in America

av Sam Walton • 1992

One store, one plane, and a man who hated waste. The Walmart story by its founder.

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📖 Founder Memoir 🛍️ Retail Business 🎯 Customer Focus 🤝 Employee Empowerment ⚙️ Operational Efficiency

Sam Walton, Made in America

One store, one plane, and a man who hated waste. The Walmart story by its founder.

av Sam Walton 1992 346 sidor

4.16

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