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How the World Really Works

av Vaclav Smil • 2022

Both doomers and utopians skip the same thing: modern civilization's staggering material scale.

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⚡ Energy Systems 🏭 Industrial Ecology 🌾 Global Food Systems 📊 Quantitative Reasoning ⚖️ Risk Perception

How the World Really Works

Both doomers and utopians skip the same thing: modern civilization's staggering material scale.

av Vaclav Smil 2022 336 sidor

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⚡ Energy Systems 🏭 Industrial Ecology 🌾 Global Food Systems 📊 Quantitative Reasoning ⚖️ Risk Perception

The Code Book

av Simon Singh • 1999

Wars, empires, and the internet all turn on one ancient problem: how to keep a secret.

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🔐 History Of Cryptography 🔓 Codebreaking 🕵️ Wwii Intelligence 💻 Modern Cryptography 📜 Ancient Scripts

The Code Book

Wars, empires, and the internet all turn on one ancient problem: how to keep a secret.

av Simon Singh 1999 432 sidor

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🔐 History Of Cryptography 🔓 Codebreaking 🕵️ Wwii Intelligence 💻 Modern Cryptography 📜 Ancient Scripts

An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

av Adam Smith • 1776

Ten workers making 48,000 pins, one worker barely one: what the difference reveals about prosperity.

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🏛️ Classical Economics 🔧 Division Of Labor ⚒️ Labor Theory Of Value 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scottish Enlightenment ⚖️ Market Mechanisms

An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

Ten workers making 48,000 pins, one worker barely one: what the difference reveals about prosperity.

av Adam Smith 1776 1076 sidor

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🏛️ Classical Economics 🔧 Division Of Labor ⚒️ Labor Theory Of Value 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scottish Enlightenment ⚖️ Market Mechanisms

New Ideas from Dead Economists

av Todd G. Buchholz • 1989

Dead economists still dictate your taxes, your job, and your trade policy. Here's what they argued.

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📜 History Of Economic Thought 🏛️ Classical Economics 🏭 Political Economy 🌐 Free Trade 📚 Intellectual History

New Ideas from Dead Economists

Dead economists still dictate your taxes, your job, and your trade policy. Here's what they argued.

av Todd G. Buchholz 1989 352 sidor

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📜 History Of Economic Thought 🏛️ Classical Economics 🏭 Political Economy 🌐 Free Trade 📚 Intellectual History

Church History in Plain Language

av Bruce L. Shelley • 1982

The Global South is remaking Christianity. Two thousand years of history explain how we got here.

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✝️ Church History 🌍 Global Christianity 🤝 Christian Unity 🏛️ Denominational History 🔬 Religion And Science

Church History in Plain Language

The Global South is remaking Christianity. Two thousand years of history explain how we got here.

av Bruce L. Shelley 1982 520 sidor

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✝️ Church History 🌍 Global Christianity 🤝 Christian Unity 🏛️ Denominational History 🔬 Religion And Science

Psykologiboken

av Nigel C. Benson • 2011

A visual tour through psychology's biggest ideas, from Freud's couch to the neuroscience lab.

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🕰️ History Of Psychology 🧠 Intro To Psychology 📚 Psychological Theories 📖 Illustrated Reference 👤 Major Thinkers

Psykologiboken

A visual tour through psychology's biggest ideas, from Freud's couch to the neuroscience lab.

av Nigel C. Benson 2011 352 sidor

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🕰️ History Of Psychology 🧠 Intro To Psychology 📚 Psychological Theories 📖 Illustrated Reference 👤 Major Thinkers

The End of the World Is Just the Beginning

av Peter Zeihan • 2022

The U.S. Navy built globalization. Its retreat will break it; only America is ready.

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🌐 Geopolitical Forecasting 🔗 Deglobalization 📉 Demographic Decline 🗺️ Geographic Determinism 🏛️ Realist Geopolitics

The End of the World Is Just the Beginning

The U.S. Navy built globalization. Its retreat will break it; only America is ready.

av Peter Zeihan 2022 512 sidor

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🌐 Geopolitical Forecasting 🔗 Deglobalization 📉 Demographic Decline 🗺️ Geographic Determinism 🏛️ Realist Geopolitics

The Rise of Christianity

av Rodney Stark • 1996

40% per decade for 300 years. The secret: epidemics, networks, and how Christians treated women.

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✝️ Early Christianity 🏛️ Roman Empire 📊 Sociology Of Religion 🕸️ Social Networks 🔄 Religious Conversion

The Rise of Christianity

40% per decade for 300 years. The secret: epidemics, networks, and how Christians treated women.

av Rodney Stark 1996 272 sidor

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✝️ Early Christianity 🏛️ Roman Empire 📊 Sociology Of Religion 🕸️ Social Networks 🔄 Religious Conversion

Ten Myths About Israel

av Ilan Pappé • 2017

Ten founding myths of Israel, debunked: the land wasn't empty and the flight wasn't voluntary.

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🇵🇸 Israel-Palestine 🏴 Settler Colonialism 📜 Historical Revisionism 🏛️ New Historians 🚨 Ethnic Cleansing

Ten Myths About Israel

Ten founding myths of Israel, debunked: the land wasn't empty and the flight wasn't voluntary.

av Ilan Pappé 2017 192 sidor

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🇵🇸 Israel-Palestine 🏴 Settler Colonialism 📜 Historical Revisionism 🏛️ New Historians 🚨 Ethnic Cleansing

The Complete Financial History of Berkshire Hathaway

av Adam J. Mead • 2021

A 1965 textile mill worth $13.5 billion by 1993: the history from cigar butts to Coke.

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📚 Corporate History 💡 Investment Philosophy 💰 Value Investing 📊 Capital Allocation 🏰 Economic Moats

The Complete Financial History of Berkshire Hathaway

A 1965 textile mill worth $13.5 billion by 1993: the history from cigar butts to Coke.

av Adam J. Mead 2021 782 sidor

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📚 Corporate History 💡 Investment Philosophy 💰 Value Investing 📊 Capital Allocation 🏰 Economic Moats

Say Nothing

av Patrick Radden Keefe • 2018

The peace deal that asked everyone to forget, and the one murder that couldn't stay buried.

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☘️ The Troubles 🇮🇪 Irish Republicanism 🕯️ The Disappeared 💭 Memory And Conflict 🔍 Investigative Journalism

Say Nothing

The peace deal that asked everyone to forget, and the one murder that couldn't stay buried.

av Patrick Radden Keefe 2018 441 sidor

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☘️ The Troubles 🇮🇪 Irish Republicanism 🕯️ The Disappeared 💭 Memory And Conflict 🔍 Investigative Journalism

When McKinsey Comes to Town

av Walt Bogdanich • 2022

McKinsey is the hidden force behind the opioid crisis, the 2008 crash, and authoritarian regimes.

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🏢 Consulting Industry 🏛️ Corporate Power 🔍 Investigative Journalism 👔 White Collar Crime 🚪 Regulatory Capture

When McKinsey Comes to Town

McKinsey is the hidden force behind the opioid crisis, the 2008 crash, and authoritarian regimes.

av Walt Bogdanich 2022 353 sidor

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🏢 Consulting Industry 🏛️ Corporate Power 🔍 Investigative Journalism 👔 White Collar Crime 🚪 Regulatory Capture

The Lost Ways

av Claude Davis • 2021

Root cellars, gravity-fed fires, herbal poultices: pioneer skills that need no modern grid.

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🏜️ Pioneer Skills 🏕️ Wilderness Survival 🪓 Self-Reliance Skills 🏡 Homesteading 🌿 Herbal Medicine

The Lost Ways

Root cellars, gravity-fed fires, herbal poultices: pioneer skills that need no modern grid.

av Claude Davis 2021 430 sidor

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🏜️ Pioneer Skills 🏕️ Wilderness Survival 🪓 Self-Reliance Skills 🏡 Homesteading 🌿 Herbal Medicine

The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump

av Bandy X. Lee • 2017

A psychiatric rule bars diagnosing public figures. Twenty-seven experts argue survival overrides it.

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📖 Political Psychopathology 👑 Narcissistic Leadership 🎭 Psychopathy In Power ⚠️ Authoritarian Dynamics 🏭 Banality Of Evil

The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump

A psychiatric rule bars diagnosing public figures. Twenty-seven experts argue survival overrides it.

av Bandy X. Lee 2017 360 sidor

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📖 Political Psychopathology 👑 Narcissistic Leadership 🎭 Psychopathy In Power ⚠️ Authoritarian Dynamics 🏭 Banality Of Evil

Deep Thinking

av Garry Kasparov • 2017

Beaten by Deep Blue, Kasparov argues the best moves come from humans and machines thinking together.

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♟️ Chess History 🤖 Ai Development 🤝 Human-Ai Collaboration ⚡ Technological Disruption 🧠 Competitive Psychology

Deep Thinking

Beaten by Deep Blue, Kasparov argues the best moves come from humans and machines thinking together.

av Garry Kasparov 2017 304 sidor

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♟️ Chess History 🤖 Ai Development 🤝 Human-Ai Collaboration ⚡ Technological Disruption 🧠 Competitive Psychology

The Eyes of the Skin

av Juhani Pallasmaa • 1996

Architecture feeds the eye and starves the body. The cure lies in touch, sound, and shadow.

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🏛️ Architectural Theory 🧱 Architectural Phenomenology 👁️ Sensory Perception 🪨 Materiality 🦴 Architecture And The Body

The Eyes of the Skin

Architecture feeds the eye and starves the body. The cure lies in touch, sound, and shadow.

av Juhani Pallasmaa 1996 80 sidor

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🏛️ Architectural Theory 🧱 Architectural Phenomenology 👁️ Sensory Perception 🪨 Materiality 🦴 Architecture And The Body

Sapiens and Homo Deus

av Yuval Noah Harari • 2017

We conquered the planet through shared fictions. The next upgrade may leave humanity behind.

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🏛️ Big History 🔮 Future Of Humanity 🧠 Free Will Debate 🤖 Technological Futurism ⛪ Religion And Science

Sapiens and Homo Deus

We conquered the planet through shared fictions. The next upgrade may leave humanity behind.

av Yuval Noah Harari 2017 816 sidor

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🏛️ Big History 🔮 Future Of Humanity 🧠 Free Will Debate 🤖 Technological Futurism ⛪ Religion And Science

A Little History of the World

av E.H. Gombrich • 1936

The whole human story, from cave paintings to the Cold War, in one short, elegant book.

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📖 Young Historians ✍️ Narrative History 🏺 Ancient Worlds ⚔️ Medieval History 🏛️ Western Civilization

A Little History of the World

The whole human story, from cave paintings to the Cold War, in one short, elegant book.

av E.H. Gombrich 1936 284 sidor

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📖 Young Historians ✍️ Narrative History 🏺 Ancient Worlds ⚔️ Medieval History 🏛️ Western Civilization

Message to the Blackman in America

av Elijah Muhammad • 1965

A Black God, a manufactured white race, and a detailed plan for economic and political separation.

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🕌 Nation Of Islam ✝️ Black Liberation Theology ✊🏿 Black Nationalism 🗽 Self-Determination 💰 Economic Independence

Message to the Blackman in America

A Black God, a manufactured white race, and a detailed plan for economic and political separation.

av Elijah Muhammad 1965 386 sidor

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🕌 Nation Of Islam ✝️ Black Liberation Theology ✊🏿 Black Nationalism 🗽 Self-Determination 💰 Economic Independence

Tried by War

av James M. McPherson • 2008

How a lawyer with zero military training became the most hands-on commander in chief.

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🎖️ Civil War History 🏛️ Presidential Leadership ⚔️ Military Command 📜 War Powers ⛓️‍💥 Emancipation

Tried by War

How a lawyer with zero military training became the most hands-on commander in chief.

av James M. McPherson 2008 329 sidor

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🎖️ Civil War History 🏛️ Presidential Leadership ⚔️ Military Command 📜 War Powers ⛓️‍💥 Emancipation

The Big Fat Surprise

av Nina Teicholz • 2014

Butter was framed. The science was rigged, and the foods that replaced it made everything worse.

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🔬 Nutrition Science 🥩 Dietary Fat Debate 📜 Nutrition History 🏛️ Nutrition Policy 🏭 Processed Food

The Big Fat Surprise

Butter was framed. The science was rigged, and the foods that replaced it made everything worse.

av Nina Teicholz 2014 496 sidor

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🔬 Nutrition Science 🥩 Dietary Fat Debate 📜 Nutrition History 🏛️ Nutrition Policy 🏭 Processed Food

The Divide

av Jason Hickel • 2017

Colonial theft, debt traps, and rigged trade built global poverty; the official numbers hide it.

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🌍 Global Inequality ⛓️ Neocolonialism 🏛️ Dependency Theory 💸 Aid Critique 🏴 Tax Justice

The Divide

Colonial theft, debt traps, and rigged trade built global poverty; the official numbers hide it.

av Jason Hickel 2017 368 sidor

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🌍 Global Inequality ⛓️ Neocolonialism 🏛️ Dependency Theory 💸 Aid Critique 🏴 Tax Justice

The Philosophy of History

av Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel • 1831

History's chaos is an illusion: a hidden reason channels our passions toward a single goal.

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🏛️ Philosophy Of History 📜 German Idealism 🧠 Hegelianism 🎯 Historical Teleology 🔄 Dialectical Progression

The Philosophy of History

History's chaos is an illusion: a hidden reason channels our passions toward a single goal.

av Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1831 480 sidor

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🏛️ Philosophy Of History 📜 German Idealism 🧠 Hegelianism 🎯 Historical Teleology 🔄 Dialectical Progression

The Crowd & The Psychology of Revolution

av Gustave Le Bon • 2015

Crowds make individuals disappear, and the mass that forms only feels, never thinks.

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🧠 Crowd Psychology 🇫🇷 French Revolution 💥 Revolutionary Theory 🗳️ Political Psychology 🎤 Charismatic Leadership

The Crowd & The Psychology of Revolution

Crowds make individuals disappear, and the mass that forms only feels, never thinks.

av Gustave Le Bon 2015 286 sidor

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🧠 Crowd Psychology 🇫🇷 French Revolution 💥 Revolutionary Theory 🗳️ Political Psychology 🎤 Charismatic Leadership

Enlightenment Now

av Steven Pinker • 2018

The world is getting better, by the numbers. The credit belongs to ideals we are abandoning.

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📊 Data-Driven Optimism 🌍 Global Development 🕊️ Decline Of Violence 🌱 Environmental Optimism ⚠️ Existential Risk

Enlightenment Now

The world is getting better, by the numbers. The credit belongs to ideals we are abandoning.

av Steven Pinker 2018 576 sidor

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📊 Data-Driven Optimism 🌍 Global Development 🕊️ Decline Of Violence 🌱 Environmental Optimism ⚠️ Existential Risk

Cooked

av Michael Pollan • 2013

Cooking made us human, then we stopped. What starting over from scratch reveals.

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📜 Culinary History 🔬 Food Science 🫙 Fermentation 🦠 Microbiome 🐌 Slow Food Movement

Cooked

Cooking made us human, then we stopped. What starting over from scratch reveals.

av Michael Pollan 2013 451 sidor

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📜 Culinary History 🔬 Food Science 🫙 Fermentation 🦠 Microbiome 🐌 Slow Food Movement

The Future of Geography

av Tim Marshall • 2023

Space is the new geography of power: every conflict below is replicating in orbit.

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🚀 New Space Race 🛰️ Astropolitics 💥 Space Warfare 🌐 Realist Geopolitics ⚖️ Space Law

The Future of Geography

Space is the new geography of power: every conflict below is replicating in orbit.

av Tim Marshall 2023 256 sidor

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🚀 New Space Race 🛰️ Astropolitics 💥 Space Warfare 🌐 Realist Geopolitics ⚖️ Space Law

Yoga Body

av Mark Singleton • 2010

Modern yoga is barely a century old, pieced together from gymnastics and Indian nationalism.

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🧘 Yoga History 🕉️ Modern Yoga 🔄 Revisionist History 🏛️ Colonial India 📖 Postcolonial Studies

Yoga Body

Modern yoga is barely a century old, pieced together from gymnastics and Indian nationalism.

av Mark Singleton 2010 272 sidor

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🧘 Yoga History 🕉️ Modern Yoga 🔄 Revisionist History 🏛️ Colonial India 📖 Postcolonial Studies

The Fate of Rome

av Kyle Harper • 2017

The Roman Empire wasn't just conquered. It was overwhelmed by climate chaos and pandemic disease.

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🏛️ Ancient Rome 🌿 Environmental History 🌡️ Climate History 🧬 Disease Ecology 😷 Pandemic History

The Fate of Rome

The Roman Empire wasn't just conquered. It was overwhelmed by climate chaos and pandemic disease.

av Kyle Harper 2017 417 sidor

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🏛️ Ancient Rome 🌿 Environmental History 🌡️ Climate History 🧬 Disease Ecology 😷 Pandemic History

The Globalization Paradox

av Dani Rodrik • 2010

The case for why global markets must sometimes give way to the voting booth.

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🏛️ Political Economy 📋 Trade Policy 🌍 Development Economics 💥 Financial Crises ⚖️ Economic Governance

The Globalization Paradox

The case for why global markets must sometimes give way to the voting booth.

av Dani Rodrik 2010 368 sidor

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🏛️ Political Economy 📋 Trade Policy 🌍 Development Economics 💥 Financial Crises ⚖️ Economic Governance

Killing Hope

av William Blum • 1995

For forty years, the CIA overthrew governments across the globe. The full ledger is in one book.

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❄️ Cold War Politics 🕵️ Covert Operations 🌎 American Empire 🏛️ Regime Change 💰 Corporate Imperialism

Killing Hope

For forty years, the CIA overthrew governments across the globe. The full ledger is in one book.

av William Blum 1995 469 sidor

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❄️ Cold War Politics 🕵️ Covert Operations 🌎 American Empire 🏛️ Regime Change 💰 Corporate Imperialism

The Butterfly Effect

av Andrews Andy • 2010

Two billion lives saved from famine trace back to one conversation; so does your future.

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🕰️ Inspirational History 🧭 Purpose Driven Living 🌊 Ripple Effect 🕸️ Interconnectedness 🌳 Legacy And Influence

The Butterfly Effect

Two billion lives saved from famine trace back to one conversation; so does your future.

av Andrews Andy 2010 112 sidor

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🕰️ Inspirational History 🧭 Purpose Driven Living 🌊 Ripple Effect 🕸️ Interconnectedness 🌳 Legacy And Influence

The Rape of the Mind

av Joost A.M. Meerloo • 1956

Brainwashing follows a precise script, and its gentler forms shape your thoughts every day.

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🧠 Thought Control 🗳️ Political Psychology 📢 Propaganda Studies ⛓️ Authoritarianism 🏴 Totalitarianism

The Rape of the Mind

Brainwashing follows a precise script, and its gentler forms shape your thoughts every day.

av Joost A.M. Meerloo 1956 322 sidor

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🧠 Thought Control 🗳️ Political Psychology 📢 Propaganda Studies ⛓️ Authoritarianism 🏴 Totalitarianism

Network Propaganda

av Yochai Benkler • 2018

The internet did not polarize America; a lopsided propaganda machine built over decades did.

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🗺️ Media Ecosystems 📣 Propaganda Studies 🔁 Echo Chambers 📰 Political Communication 🦠 Disinformation Studies

Network Propaganda

The internet did not polarize America; a lopsided propaganda machine built over decades did.

av Yochai Benkler 2018 472 sidor

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🗺️ Media Ecosystems 📣 Propaganda Studies 🔁 Echo Chambers 📰 Political Communication 🦠 Disinformation Studies

The Feminine Mystique

av Betty Friedan • 1963

Why so many suburban housewives felt an emptiness that no new appliance could fix.

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🚺 Second Wave Feminism 🏡 Postwar Domesticity 🧹 Unpaid Domestic Labor 🛒 Consumer Culture Critique 🎭 Female Identity Crisis

The Feminine Mystique

Why so many suburban housewives felt an emptiness that no new appliance could fix.

av Betty Friedan 1963 430 sidor

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🚺 Second Wave Feminism 🏡 Postwar Domesticity 🧹 Unpaid Domestic Labor 🛒 Consumer Culture Critique 🎭 Female Identity Crisis

The Logic of Scientific Discovery

av Karl Popper • 1934

You cannot prove a theory true, only false. The asymmetry that separates science from dogma.

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🔬 Philosophy Of Science 🧪 Scientific Method 🧩 Problem Of Induction 📊 Empiricism 💭 Critical Rationalism

The Logic of Scientific Discovery

You cannot prove a theory true, only false. The asymmetry that separates science from dogma.

av Karl Popper 1934 544 sidor

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🔬 Philosophy Of Science 🧪 Scientific Method 🧩 Problem Of Induction 📊 Empiricism 💭 Critical Rationalism

Simply Jesus

av N.T. Wright • 2020

Jesus announced a kingdom that was already arriving, and acted as if he was its king.

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📜 Historical Jesus 👑 Kingdom Theology 📖 New Testament Studies ⛪ Early Church ✨ Resurrection

Simply Jesus

Jesus announced a kingdom that was already arriving, and acted as if he was its king.

av N.T. Wright 2020 240 sidor

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📜 Historical Jesus 👑 Kingdom Theology 📖 New Testament Studies ⛪ Early Church ✨ Resurrection

Structures

av J.E. Gordon • 1978

The hidden physics that keeps the world standing, and the surprising ways everything still breaks.

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🏗️ Structural Engineering 🧪 Materials Science 💥 Structural Failure 🎨 Design Principles 🦴 Biomechanics

Structures

The hidden physics that keeps the world standing, and the surprising ways everything still breaks.

av J.E. Gordon 1978 395 sidor

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🏗️ Structural Engineering 🧪 Materials Science 💥 Structural Failure 🎨 Design Principles 🦴 Biomechanics

Geopolitics

av Klaus Dodds • 2007

Geopolitics is a contest over maps, media, and identity that decides who gets what.

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🌐 International Relations 🗺️ Political Geography 🔍 Critical Geopolitics 🗾 Maps And Power 🏴 National Identity

Geopolitics

Geopolitics is a contest over maps, media, and identity that decides who gets what.

av Klaus Dodds 2007 184 sidor

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🌐 International Relations 🗺️ Political Geography 🔍 Critical Geopolitics 🗾 Maps And Power 🏴 National Identity

The Man Who Broke Capitalism

av David Gelles • 2022

Jack Welch's doctrine still rules the corner office, and it is slowly gutting the middle class.

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💼 Shareholder Primacy ⏱️ Corporate Short-Termism 💰 Financialization 🤝 Stakeholder Capitalism 📉 Corporate Downsizing

The Man Who Broke Capitalism

Jack Welch's doctrine still rules the corner office, and it is slowly gutting the middle class.

av David Gelles 2022 271 sidor

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💼 Shareholder Primacy ⏱️ Corporate Short-Termism 💰 Financialization 🤝 Stakeholder Capitalism 📉 Corporate Downsizing

This Is Your Mind on Plants

av Michael Pollan • 2021

Coffee, opium, and peyote: why culture, not chemistry, decides which plants are drugs.

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🪴 Ethnobotany ☕ Everyday Drugs 🌵 Psychedelic Science 💊 Opioid Crisis 🧠 Altered States

This Is Your Mind on Plants

Coffee, opium, and peyote: why culture, not chemistry, decides which plants are drugs.

av Michael Pollan 2021 288 sidor

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🪴 Ethnobotany ☕ Everyday Drugs 🌵 Psychedelic Science 💊 Opioid Crisis 🧠 Altered States

How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci

av Michael J. Gelb • 1998

Seven da Vinci practices to retrain your senses, deepen your questions, and sit with uncertainty.

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🎨 Renaissance Humanism 🔀 Polymath Thinking 🎯 Creativity Training 👁️ Sensory Awareness 🌫️ Embracing Uncertainty

How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci

Seven da Vinci practices to retrain your senses, deepen your questions, and sit with uncertainty.

av Michael J. Gelb 1998 321 sidor

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🎨 Renaissance Humanism 🔀 Polymath Thinking 🎯 Creativity Training 👁️ Sensory Awareness 🌫️ Embracing Uncertainty

Red Scarf Girl

av Ji-li Jiang • 1997

A Shanghai schoolgirl's life shatters when she discovers her family is branded a class enemy.

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🇨🇳 Chinese History 🏮 Cultural Revolution 🌱 Coming Of Age Memoir ⚖️ Political Persecution 🕊️ Loss Of Innocence

Red Scarf Girl

A Shanghai schoolgirl's life shatters when she discovers her family is branded a class enemy.

av Ji-li Jiang 1997 285 sidor

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🇨🇳 Chinese History 🏮 Cultural Revolution 🌱 Coming Of Age Memoir ⚖️ Political Persecution 🕊️ Loss Of Innocence

The Dawn of Everything

av David Graeber • 2021

The story of human progress was built to bury indigenous challenges to European society.

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🌍 Big History 💡 Intellectual History ✊🏽 Decolonizing History 🗣️ Indigenous Philosophy 🏴 Anarchist Anthropology

The Dawn of Everything

The story of human progress was built to bury indigenous challenges to European society.

av David Graeber 2021 692 sidor

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🌍 Big History 💡 Intellectual History ✊🏽 Decolonizing History 🗣️ Indigenous Philosophy 🏴 Anarchist Anthropology

Fast Food Nation

av Eric Schlosser • 2001

A burger's hidden cost: exploited labor, factory farms, and meat that sickened half a million.

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🏭 Industrial Food System 🐄 Factory Farming ⚠️ Food Safety 👷 Labor Exploitation 🏢 Corporate Power

Fast Food Nation

A burger's hidden cost: exploited labor, factory farms, and meat that sickened half a million.

av Eric Schlosser 2001 400 sidor

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🏭 Industrial Food System 🐄 Factory Farming ⚠️ Food Safety 👷 Labor Exploitation 🏢 Corporate Power

Civilized to Death

av Christopher Ryan • 2018

Agriculture made us sicker, more unequal, and less free. The hunter-gatherer way holds the clues.

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🏹 Hunter-Gatherer Studies 🚫 Myth Of Progress ⚠️ Civilization's Costs 🧬 Evolutionary Mismatch 🤝 Forager Egalitarianism

Civilized to Death

Agriculture made us sicker, more unequal, and less free. The hunter-gatherer way holds the clues.

av Christopher Ryan 2018 400 sidor

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🏹 Hunter-Gatherer Studies 🚫 Myth Of Progress ⚠️ Civilization's Costs 🧬 Evolutionary Mismatch 🤝 Forager Egalitarianism

The Identity Trap

av Yascha Mounk • 2023

An ideology that centers race and gender is dividing the left. The origin story, and a better way.

4.05

2 000+

🏛️ Identity Politics 💬 Free Speech Debate ⚖️ Equity Vs Equality 📚 Critical Theory Critique 🌐 Social Cohesion

The Identity Trap

An ideology that centers race and gender is dividing the left. The origin story, and a better way.

av Yascha Mounk 2023 422 sidor

4.05

2 000+ betyg

🏛️ Identity Politics 💬 Free Speech Debate ⚖️ Equity Vs Equality 📚 Critical Theory Critique 🌐 Social Cohesion

Fortune's Formula

av William Poundstone • 2006

A single equation beat blackjack, conquered Wall Street, and nearly wrecked the global economy.

4.18

4 000+

📈 Quantitative Finance 📜 Financial History 🎲 Probability Theory 📡 Information Theory 🧠 Behavioral Finance

Fortune's Formula

A single equation beat blackjack, conquered Wall Street, and nearly wrecked the global economy.

av William Poundstone 2006 400 sidor

4.18

4 000+ betyg

📈 Quantitative Finance 📜 Financial History 🎲 Probability Theory 📡 Information Theory 🧠 Behavioral Finance

50 Philosophy Ideas You Really Need to Know

av Ben Dupré • 2007

Fifty essential philosophy ideas, each in minutes: from radical doubt to the problem of evil.

3.70

1 000+

🏛️ Western Philosophy 📚 Philosophy Primers 🤔 Epistemology 🧠 Philosophy Of Mind ⚖️ Moral Philosophy

50 Philosophy Ideas You Really Need to Know

Fifty essential philosophy ideas, each in minutes: from radical doubt to the problem of evil.

av Ben Dupré 2007 208 sidor

3.70

1 000+ betyg

🏛️ Western Philosophy 📚 Philosophy Primers 🤔 Epistemology 🧠 Philosophy Of Mind ⚖️ Moral Philosophy

Made in Japan

av Akio Morita • 1986

The Sony co-founder's management philosophy: treat employees as family, bet on R&D, and never copy.

4.09

4 000+

📖 Corporate Memoir 🇯🇵 Japanese Business 📺 Consumer Electronics 💡 Innovation Culture 🤝 Employee Loyalty

Made in Japan

The Sony co-founder's management philosophy: treat employees as family, bet on R&D, and never copy.

av Akio Morita 1986 309 sidor

4.09

4 000+ betyg

📖 Corporate Memoir 🇯🇵 Japanese Business 📺 Consumer Electronics 💡 Innovation Culture 🤝 Employee Loyalty

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