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Aleister Crowley

av Gary Lachman • 2014

Before the 1960s, a Victorian magician wrote the rulebook for sex, drugs, and rock and roll.

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🕯️ Occult Biography 📜 Western Esotericism ✨ Ceremonial Magic 🏛️ Magical Orders 🔥 Spiritual Rebellion

Aleister Crowley

Before the 1960s, a Victorian magician wrote the rulebook for sex, drugs, and rock and roll.

av Gary Lachman 2014 400 sidor

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🕯️ Occult Biography 📜 Western Esotericism ✨ Ceremonial Magic 🏛️ Magical Orders 🔥 Spiritual Rebellion

Capitalism in America

av Alan Greenspan • 2018

America's 400-year economic experiment: why each era's solution becomes the next era's problem.

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🏛️ Economic History 🇺🇸 American Capitalism 🏢 Business History 💵 Monetary History ⚖️ Government And Markets

Capitalism in America

America's 400-year economic experiment: why each era's solution becomes the next era's problem.

av Alan Greenspan 2018 496 sidor

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🏛️ Economic History 🇺🇸 American Capitalism 🏢 Business History 💵 Monetary History ⚖️ Government And Markets

Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome

av Joy DeGruy Leary • 2005

Slavery's deepest wound: a psychological syndrome inherited across generations, unnamed until now.

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🧬 Transgenerational Trauma 🩸 Racial Trauma 🧠 Black Psychology 🪞 Internalized Racism 📜 Historical Trauma

Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome

Slavery's deepest wound: a psychological syndrome inherited across generations, unnamed until now.

av Joy DeGruy Leary 2005 235 sidor

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🧬 Transgenerational Trauma 🩸 Racial Trauma 🧠 Black Psychology 🪞 Internalized Racism 📜 Historical Trauma

Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field

av Nancy Forbes • 2014

How an uneducated bookbinder and a Scottish genius proved light, electricity, and magnetism are one.

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⚡ Electromagnetism 📜 History Of Physics 👨‍🔬 Scientific Biography 🌐 Field Theory 🧪 Experimental Physics

Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field

How an uneducated bookbinder and a Scottish genius proved light, electricity, and magnetism are one.

av Nancy Forbes 2014 328 sidor

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⚡ Electromagnetism 📜 History Of Physics 👨‍🔬 Scientific Biography 🌐 Field Theory 🧪 Experimental Physics

God Is Red

av Vine Deloria Jr. • 1972

Indigenous peoples root religion in land; Christians in time, and the planet pays the price.

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📖 Indigenous Theology 🏞️ Sacred Geography ✊ Decolonial Religion 🌍 Ecotheology 🌐 Worldview Clash

God Is Red

Indigenous peoples root religion in land; Christians in time, and the planet pays the price.

av Vine Deloria Jr. 1972 325 sidor

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📖 Indigenous Theology 🏞️ Sacred Geography ✊ Decolonial Religion 🌍 Ecotheology 🌐 Worldview Clash

Destiny of the Republic

av Candice Millard • 2011

Survivable gunshot, deadly cure: a madman, a president, and the medical failure that finished him.

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🗳️ Gilded Age Politics ⚕️ Medical History 🏛️ Presidential Biography 🔫 Political Assassination 🧠 Criminal Insanity

Destiny of the Republic

Survivable gunshot, deadly cure: a madman, a president, and the medical failure that finished him.

av Candice Millard 2011 339 sidor

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🗳️ Gilded Age Politics ⚕️ Medical History 🏛️ Presidential Biography 🔫 Political Assassination 🧠 Criminal Insanity

The Grand Design

av Stephen W. Hawking • 2010

A landscape of 10^500 possible universes explains the fine-tuning of ours, no designer required.

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⚛️ Theoretical Physics 🌀 Quantum Cosmology 📜 History Of Science 🔗 Unified Physics ❓ Quantum Interpretation

The Grand Design

A landscape of 10^500 possible universes explains the fine-tuning of ours, no designer required.

av Stephen W. Hawking 2010 199 sidor

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⚛️ Theoretical Physics 🌀 Quantum Cosmology 📜 History Of Science 🔗 Unified Physics ❓ Quantum Interpretation

Shōgun

av James Clavell • 1975

An English pilot shipwrecked in Japan is pulled into a warlord's secret war for absolute power.

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🏯 Feudal Japan ⛵ Nautical Adventure 💔 Forbidden Love 🐟 Fish Out Of Water ♟️ Political Chess

Shōgun

An English pilot shipwrecked in Japan is pulled into a warlord's secret war for absolute power.

av James Clavell 1975 1152 sidor

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🏯 Feudal Japan ⛵ Nautical Adventure 💔 Forbidden Love 🐟 Fish Out Of Water ♟️ Political Chess

Why Empires Fall

av Peter Heather and John Rapley • 1983

Barbarians didn't kill Rome; economic shifts on its frontiers did. The West is next.

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🏛️ Imperial Decline 📜 Comparative History 🌍 Global Power Shift 📊 Economic History 👵 Demographic Strain

Why Empires Fall

Barbarians didn't kill Rome; economic shifts on its frontiers did. The West is next.

av Peter Heather and John Rapley 1983 208 sidor

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🏛️ Imperial Decline 📜 Comparative History 🌍 Global Power Shift 📊 Economic History 👵 Demographic Strain

The Old Regime and the French Revolution

av Alexis de Tocqueville • 1856

The Revolution did not break with the past; it finished the centralization the monarchy built.

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📜 French Revolution Origins 🏛️ State Centralization ⚜️ Old Regime France 🔄 Revolution And Reform 💡 Intellectual History

The Old Regime and the French Revolution

The Revolution did not break with the past; it finished the centralization the monarchy built.

av Alexis de Tocqueville 1856 300 sidor

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📜 French Revolution Origins 🏛️ State Centralization ⚜️ Old Regime France 🔄 Revolution And Reform 💡 Intellectual History

Cults, Conspiracies, and Secret Societies

av Arthur Goldwag • 2009

Secret societies, cults, and conspiracy theories run on the same psychology: a guide to the fringe.

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🧠 Cult Psychology 🕵️ Conspiracy Culture 🔍 Cognitive Biases 👁️ Secret Societies 🎭 Mind Control

Cults, Conspiracies, and Secret Societies

Secret societies, cults, and conspiracy theories run on the same psychology: a guide to the fringe.

av Arthur Goldwag 2009

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🧠 Cult Psychology 🕵️ Conspiracy Culture 🔍 Cognitive Biases 👁️ Secret Societies 🎭 Mind Control

How to Think Like Socrates

av Donald J. Robertson • 2024

Relentless questioning got Socrates killed. It can also make you wiser, calmer, and harder to fool.

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🏛️ Ancient Greek Philosophy 💡 Practical Philosophy ❓ Socratic Questioning 🧠 Critical Thinking 🪞 Cognitive Biases

How to Think Like Socrates

Relentless questioning got Socrates killed. It can also make you wiser, calmer, and harder to fool.

av Donald J. Robertson 2024 342 sidor

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🏛️ Ancient Greek Philosophy 💡 Practical Philosophy ❓ Socratic Questioning 🧠 Critical Thinking 🪞 Cognitive Biases

The Great Taking

av David Rogers Webb • 2023

Your stocks aren't yours. They're collateral for a derivatives bet you never made.

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🕵️ Financial Conspiracy 🏦 Central Banking ⛓️ Debt And Power 💻 Digital Currencies 📉 Financial Collapse

The Great Taking

Your stocks aren't yours. They're collateral for a derivatives bet you never made.

av David Rogers Webb 2023 133 sidor

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🕵️ Financial Conspiracy 🏦 Central Banking ⛓️ Debt And Power 💻 Digital Currencies 📉 Financial Collapse

21st Century Monetary Policy

av Ben S. Bernanke • 2022

A former Fed chair on how panics, not plans, built the central bank's arsenal.

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🏦 Central Banking 💵 Monetary Policy 🏛️ Institutional History 📉 Financial Crises 📊 Modern Macroeconomics

21st Century Monetary Policy

A former Fed chair on how panics, not plans, built the central bank's arsenal.

av Ben S. Bernanke 2022 512 sidor

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🏦 Central Banking 💵 Monetary Policy 🏛️ Institutional History 📉 Financial Crises 📊 Modern Macroeconomics

The Fourth Mind

av Whitley Strieber • 2025

Leaked documents describe alien bodies built like equipment. Their minds see all time as one moment.

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🛸 Ufo Disclosure 👽 Alien Abduction 🧠 Nonhuman Intelligence 🔮 Psychic Abilities 🏛️ Ancient Mysteries

The Fourth Mind

Leaked documents describe alien bodies built like equipment. Their minds see all time as one moment.

av Whitley Strieber 2025 302 sidor

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🛸 Ufo Disclosure 👽 Alien Abduction 🧠 Nonhuman Intelligence 🔮 Psychic Abilities 🏛️ Ancient Mysteries

The Ghost Map

av Steven Johnson • 2006

London, 1854: a doctor maps the cholera dead while a reverend hunts the outbreak's first victim.

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🦠 Epidemiology 🏥 Public Health 🗺️ Disease Mapping 🎩 Victorian London 🚰 Sanitation Reform

The Ghost Map

London, 1854: a doctor maps the cholera dead while a reverend hunts the outbreak's first victim.

av Steven Johnson 2006 320 sidor

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🦠 Epidemiology 🏥 Public Health 🗺️ Disease Mapping 🎩 Victorian London 🚰 Sanitation Reform

The 1619 Project

av Nikole Hannah-Jones • 2019

1619, not 1776, is America's true founding: the year that still explains the nation.

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🇺🇸 American History ✊🏽 Racial Justice ⛓️ Slavery's Legacy 🧩 Systemic Racism 📘 Critical Race Theory

The 1619 Project

1619, not 1776, is America's true founding: the year that still explains the nation.

av Nikole Hannah-Jones 2019 590 sidor

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🇺🇸 American History ✊🏽 Racial Justice ⛓️ Slavery's Legacy 🧩 Systemic Racism 📘 Critical Race Theory

Stoicism

av John Sellars • 2006

Stoicism began as a unified system of logic, physics, and ethics, not coping advice.

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🏛️ Ancient Philosophy 📜 Hellenistic Philosophy 🏺 Classical Studies ⚖️ Stoic Ethics 🪨 Materialist Philosophy

Stoicism

Stoicism began as a unified system of logic, physics, and ethics, not coping advice.

av John Sellars 2006 219 sidor

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🏛️ Ancient Philosophy 📜 Hellenistic Philosophy 🏺 Classical Studies ⚖️ Stoic Ethics 🪨 Materialist Philosophy

Ghetto

av Mitchell Duneier • 2015

The ghetto was built in Venice. It took 500 years for America to perfect it.

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🏙️ Urban History 💡 Intellectual History 🧱 Racial Segregation 🏚️ Concentrated Poverty 🚫 Housing Discrimination

Ghetto

The ghetto was built in Venice. It took 500 years for America to perfect it.

av Mitchell Duneier 2015 304 sidor

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🏙️ Urban History 💡 Intellectual History 🧱 Racial Segregation 🏚️ Concentrated Poverty 🚫 Housing Discrimination

The Shortest History of China

av Linda Jaivin • 2021

Twelve chapters, four millennia: the recurring patterns that explain China's rise to superpower.

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🏯 Imperial China 🔄 Dynastic History ☯️ Chinese Philosophy ⚓ Opium Wars 📈 Chinese Economic Rise

The Shortest History of China

Twelve chapters, four millennia: the recurring patterns that explain China's rise to superpower.

av Linda Jaivin 2021 263 sidor

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🏯 Imperial China 🔄 Dynastic History ☯️ Chinese Philosophy ⚓ Opium Wars 📈 Chinese Economic Rise

The Horse, the Wheel, and Language

av David W. Anthony • 2007

English and Sanskrit share an ancestor spoken by Bronze Age herders. Horse and wheel spread it.

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🗣️ Historical Linguistics ⛏️ Prehistoric Archaeology 🏺 Bronze Age 📜 Ancient Languages 🌱 Language Origins

The Horse, the Wheel, and Language

English and Sanskrit share an ancestor spoken by Bronze Age herders. Horse and wheel spread it.

av David W. Anthony 2007 568 sidor

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🗣️ Historical Linguistics ⛏️ Prehistoric Archaeology 🏺 Bronze Age 📜 Ancient Languages 🌱 Language Origins

Devil Take the Hindmost

av Edward Chancellor • 1996

From tulips to dot-coms, the same psychology drives markets to mania and collapse.

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📜 Financial History 🫧 Market Bubbles 🧠 Crowd Psychology 🔬 Behavioral Economics 🔄 Economic Cycles

Devil Take the Hindmost

From tulips to dot-coms, the same psychology drives markets to mania and collapse.

av Edward Chancellor 1996 400 sidor

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📜 Financial History 🫧 Market Bubbles 🧠 Crowd Psychology 🔬 Behavioral Economics 🔄 Economic Cycles

The Wisdom Of Finance

av Mihir Desai • 2017

Insurance, leverage, and bankruptcy are not about money. They are about love, failure, and rebirth.

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🧠 Financial Philosophy 💰 Money And Meaning 🎲 Risk And Uncertainty 🔀 Optionality 🤲 Stewardship

The Wisdom Of Finance

Insurance, leverage, and bankruptcy are not about money. They are about love, failure, and rebirth.

av Mihir Desai 2017 223 sidor

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🧠 Financial Philosophy 💰 Money And Meaning 🎲 Risk And Uncertainty 🔀 Optionality 🤲 Stewardship

Jesus, Interrupted

av Bart D. Ehrman • 2009

Thousands of manuscript variants and nineteen false bylines: what actually built the New Testament.

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🧠 Biblical Criticism ⛪ Early Christianity ✝️ Historical Jesus 📜 Textual Criticism ✍️ Biblical Authorship

Jesus, Interrupted

Thousands of manuscript variants and nineteen false bylines: what actually built the New Testament.

av Bart D. Ehrman 2009 304 sidor

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🧠 Biblical Criticism ⛪ Early Christianity ✝️ Historical Jesus 📜 Textual Criticism ✍️ Biblical Authorship

Philosophy of Science

av Samir Okasha • 2002

Atoms are invisible. Theories change every half-century. Why trust science? A compact guide.

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🧠 Philosophy Of Science 🔍 Scientific Reasoning 🔗 Causal Explanation ⚖️ Realism Vs Anti-Realism 🌀 Scientific Revolutions

Philosophy of Science

Atoms are invisible. Theories change every half-century. Why trust science? A compact guide.

av Samir Okasha 2002 144 sidor

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🧠 Philosophy Of Science 🔍 Scientific Reasoning 🔗 Causal Explanation ⚖️ Realism Vs Anti-Realism 🌀 Scientific Revolutions

Censored

av Margaret E. Roberts • 2018

China's censorship is easy to get around, and that's exactly how it works.

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🧱 Digital Authoritarianism 🇨🇳 Chinese Politics 🚫 Internet Censorship 👁️ Attention Economics 📰 Media Manipulation

Censored

China's censorship is easy to get around, and that's exactly how it works.

av Margaret E. Roberts 2018 280 sidor

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🧱 Digital Authoritarianism 🇨🇳 Chinese Politics 🚫 Internet Censorship 👁️ Attention Economics 📰 Media Manipulation

Learning from the Germans

av Susan Neiman • 2019

Germany spent decades facing Nazi crimes. Could that model work for American racism?

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🧠 Collective Memory ⚖️ Transitional Justice 🤝 Racial Reconciliation 📜 Historical Reckoning 🔍 Comparative History

Learning from the Germans

Germany spent decades facing Nazi crimes. Could that model work for American racism?

av Susan Neiman 2019 434 sidor

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🧠 Collective Memory ⚖️ Transitional Justice 🤝 Racial Reconciliation 📜 Historical Reckoning 🔍 Comparative History

The World As It Is

av Ben Rhodes • 2018

The speechwriter who crafted Obama's story now reveals the parts they had to leave out.

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🏛️ Obama Administration 🌐 Foreign Policy 📖 Political Narrative 💻 Information Warfare ☢️ Nuclear Diplomacy

The World As It Is

The speechwriter who crafted Obama's story now reveals the parts they had to leave out.

av Ben Rhodes 2018 433 sidor

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🏛️ Obama Administration 🌐 Foreign Policy 📖 Political Narrative 💻 Information Warfare ☢️ Nuclear Diplomacy

Holy Bible

av Anonymous • 1985

Pleasure is hollow, wisdom stalls, and death erases the score. One path outlasts them all.

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📜 Old Testament 📖 Wisdom Literature 🙏 Fear Of God 💀 Human Mortality ⚖️ Righteous Living

Holy Bible

Pleasure is hollow, wisdom stalls, and death erases the score. One path outlasts them all.

av Anonymous 1985 1213 sidor

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📜 Old Testament 📖 Wisdom Literature 🙏 Fear Of God 💀 Human Mortality ⚖️ Righteous Living

Stocks for the Long Run

av Jeremy J. Siegel • 1994

Two centuries of data reveal why stocks beat everything, and the principles that capture that edge.

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⏳ Long-Term Investing 📜 Stock Market History 💰 Dividend Investing 💎 Value Investing 🧩 Asset Allocation

Stocks for the Long Run

Two centuries of data reveal why stocks beat everything, and the principles that capture that edge.

av Jeremy J. Siegel 1994 383 sidor

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⏳ Long-Term Investing 📜 Stock Market History 💰 Dividend Investing 💎 Value Investing 🧩 Asset Allocation

Burn Book

av Kara Swisher • 2024

Decades interrogating tech's most powerful men, and the one question none of them could answer.

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🧪 Silicon Valley Culture 📔 Tech Industry Memoir 🖥️ Digital Journalism ⚖️ Accountability In Tech 🌐 Platform Society

Burn Book

Decades interrogating tech's most powerful men, and the one question none of them could answer.

av Kara Swisher 2024 305 sidor

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🧪 Silicon Valley Culture 📔 Tech Industry Memoir 🖥️ Digital Journalism ⚖️ Accountability In Tech 🌐 Platform Society

Status and Culture

av W. David Marx • 2022

All culture is a status game. Fashion cycles, taste boundaries, and why nothing cool stays cool.

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📊 Status Dynamics 🏷️ Social Signaling 🍷 Taste And Class 💎 Conspicuous Consumption 👗 Fashion Sociology

Status and Culture

All culture is a status game. Fashion cycles, taste boundaries, and why nothing cool stays cool.

av W. David Marx 2022 368 sidor

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📊 Status Dynamics 🏷️ Social Signaling 🍷 Taste And Class 💎 Conspicuous Consumption 👗 Fashion Sociology

In the Plex

av Steven Levy • 2011

Inside Google: how two PhD students turned a search engine into the operating system of modern life.

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🏢 Corporate History 🌐 Internet History ⚙️ Engineering Culture 💻 Silicon Valley 🚀 Startup Origin Stories

In the Plex

Inside Google: how two PhD students turned a search engine into the operating system of modern life.

av Steven Levy 2011 432 sidor

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🏢 Corporate History 🌐 Internet History ⚙️ Engineering Culture 💻 Silicon Valley 🚀 Startup Origin Stories

In Praise of Idleness

av Bertrand Russell • 1935

Worshipping work keeps some overworked and others jobless; technology can sustain a four-hour day.

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🛑 Critique Of Work 🏛️ Leisure Politics 💰 Economic Philosophy ✊ Anti-Work Ethic ⏳ Shorter Work Week

In Praise of Idleness

Worshipping work keeps some overworked and others jobless; technology can sustain a four-hour day.

av Bertrand Russell 1935

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🛑 Critique Of Work 🏛️ Leisure Politics 💰 Economic Philosophy ✊ Anti-Work Ethic ⏳ Shorter Work Week

The New Map

av Daniel Yergin • 2020

Shale, batteries, and pipelines are redrawing global power faster than diplomats can react.

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🛢️ Energy Geopolitics 🏛️ Great Power Rivalry 🌍 Climate Geopolitics 🗺️ Maps And Geopolitics 💲 Energy Economics

The New Map

Shale, batteries, and pipelines are redrawing global power faster than diplomats can react.

av Daniel Yergin 2020 512 sidor

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🛢️ Energy Geopolitics 🏛️ Great Power Rivalry 🌍 Climate Geopolitics 🗺️ Maps And Geopolitics 💲 Energy Economics

The Persian Expedition

av Xenophon

An army of 10,000 Greeks, betrayed and stranded in Persia, must fight its way home.

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🏛️ Ancient Greece 📜 Military Memoirs 🚩 Leadership Under Crisis 🏹 Survival Narratives 🐫 Persian Empire

The Persian Expedition

An army of 10,000 Greeks, betrayed and stranded in Persia, must fight its way home.

av Xenophon 375 sidor

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🏛️ Ancient Greece 📜 Military Memoirs 🚩 Leadership Under Crisis 🏹 Survival Narratives 🐫 Persian Empire

En introduktion till zenbuddhism

av D.T. Suzuki • 1934

Why Zen rejects logic, sacred books, and uses impossible questions to break the mind open.

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☸️ Zen Buddhism 📿 Mahayana Buddhism ☯️ Nonduality 🪵 Koan Practice 🌅 Spiritual Awakening

En introduktion till zenbuddhism

Why Zen rejects logic, sacred books, and uses impossible questions to break the mind open.

av D.T. Suzuki 1934 132 sidor

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☸️ Zen Buddhism 📿 Mahayana Buddhism ☯️ Nonduality 🪵 Koan Practice 🌅 Spiritual Awakening

Persian Girls

av Nahid Rachlin • 2006

One sister left Iran for America. One stayed through revolution. Letters bridged the distance.

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🧳 Iranian Diaspora 🌍 Immigrant Memoirs 🪞 Dual Identity 👭 Sisterhood Bonds 👩 Iranian Women

Persian Girls

One sister left Iran for America. One stayed through revolution. Letters bridged the distance.

av Nahid Rachlin 2006 304 sidor

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🧳 Iranian Diaspora 🌍 Immigrant Memoirs 🪞 Dual Identity 👭 Sisterhood Bonds 👩 Iranian Women

How Countries Go Broke

av Ray Dalio • 2025

The pattern that broke Rome, imperial China, and the Dutch empire is now visible in Washington.

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💥 Debt Crises 🏛️ Sovereign Debt 🔄 Macroeconomic Cycles 🏦 Monetary Policy 📜 Economic History

How Countries Go Broke

The pattern that broke Rome, imperial China, and the Dutch empire is now visible in Washington.

av Ray Dalio 2025 400 sidor

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💥 Debt Crises 🏛️ Sovereign Debt 🔄 Macroeconomic Cycles 🏦 Monetary Policy 📜 Economic History

Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy

av Michael Baxandall • 1972

Art appreciation in 15th-century Italy began with a contract and a barrel-gauging formula.

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🏛️ Social History Of Art 🎨 Italian Renaissance Art 💰 Art Patronage 👁️ Visual Perception 📦 Material Culture

Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy

Art appreciation in 15th-century Italy began with a contract and a barrel-gauging formula.

av Michael Baxandall 1972 200 sidor

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🏛️ Social History Of Art 🎨 Italian Renaissance Art 💰 Art Patronage 👁️ Visual Perception 📦 Material Culture

Edible Economics

av Ha-Joon Chang • 2022

Your dinner is a map of global economics: tariffs, subsidies, and the myths we still believe.

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🧠 Economic Myths 🌐 Global Trade 🏭 Industrial Policy 📜 Economic History 🤲 Care Economy

Edible Economics

Your dinner is a map of global economics: tariffs, subsidies, and the myths we still believe.

av Ha-Joon Chang 2022 224 sidor

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🧠 Economic Myths 🌐 Global Trade 🏭 Industrial Policy 📜 Economic History 🤲 Care Economy

The Order of Things

av Michel Foucault • 1966

Thought is governed by hidden rules that have collapsed twice. 'Man' was their latest product.

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🏛️ Continental Philosophy 📜 Intellectual History 🔍 Epistemology 🧩 Structuralism 🗂️ Knowledge Systems

The Order of Things

Thought is governed by hidden rules that have collapsed twice. 'Man' was their latest product.

av Michel Foucault 1966 416 sidor

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🏛️ Continental Philosophy 📜 Intellectual History 🔍 Epistemology 🧩 Structuralism 🗂️ Knowledge Systems

The Second Founding

av Eric Foner • 2019

Reconstruction gave birth to a new Constitution. The Supreme Court spent a century erasing it.

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📜 Constitutional History 🏛️ Reconstruction Era 🗳️ Voting Rights ⚖️ Equal Protection 🛑 Racial Inequality

The Second Founding

Reconstruction gave birth to a new Constitution. The Supreme Court spent a century erasing it.

av Eric Foner 2019 224 sidor

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📜 Constitutional History 🏛️ Reconstruction Era 🗳️ Voting Rights ⚖️ Equal Protection 🛑 Racial Inequality

Barbarians at the Gate

av Bryan Burrough • 1989

A CEO's bid to buy his company unleashes Wall Street's biggest takeover war.

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🏢 Corporate Takeover 📰 Business Journalism 🪑 Boardroom Politics 💰 Leveraged Buyouts 📈 1980s Wall Street

Barbarians at the Gate

A CEO's bid to buy his company unleashes Wall Street's biggest takeover war.

av Bryan Burrough 1989 592 sidor

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🏢 Corporate Takeover 📰 Business Journalism 🪑 Boardroom Politics 💰 Leveraged Buyouts 📈 1980s Wall Street

Nourishing Traditions

av Sally Fallon Morell • 1995

Fourteen traditional cultures, free of heart disease, ate saturated fat and organ meats. Here's how.

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🥩 Ancestral Nutrition 📖 Weston A. Price 🫙 Fermented Foods 🍳 Traditional Food Preparation 💪 Nutrient Density

Nourishing Traditions

Fourteen traditional cultures, free of heart disease, ate saturated fat and organ meats. Here's how.

av Sally Fallon Morell 1995 674 sidor

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🥩 Ancestral Nutrition 📖 Weston A. Price 🫙 Fermented Foods 🍳 Traditional Food Preparation 💪 Nutrient Density

Matrix of Power

av Jordan Maxwell • 2000

Currency, logos, and churches share a secret code. Its message: a single elite controls the world.

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🔺 Secret Societies 💰 Financial Oligarchy 👁️ Esoteric Symbolism ☀️ Astrotheology 🎭 Social Engineering

Matrix of Power

Currency, logos, and churches share a secret code. Its message: a single elite controls the world.

av Jordan Maxwell 2000 108 sidor

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🔺 Secret Societies 💰 Financial Oligarchy 👁️ Esoteric Symbolism ☀️ Astrotheology 🎭 Social Engineering

Nonzero

av Robert Wright

History bends toward cooperation, not because we're good, but because interdependence pays.

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📜 Big History 🧬 Cultural Evolution 🤝 Evolution Of Cooperation 🏛️ Social Complexity 🧠 Evolutionary Psychology

Nonzero

History bends toward cooperation, not because we're good, but because interdependence pays.

av Robert Wright 450 sidor

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