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The Road to Mecca

av Muhammad Asad • 1954

Beneath the Arabian sky, an Austrian journalist felt four thousand years of ancestral memory return.

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🕌 Islamic Spirituality 📖 Spiritual Memoir 🏜️ Desert Spirituality 🐪 Bedouin Life 🤝 Interfaith Dialogue

The Road to Mecca

Beneath the Arabian sky, an Austrian journalist felt four thousand years of ancestral memory return.

av Muhammad Asad 1954 375 sidor

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🕌 Islamic Spirituality 📖 Spiritual Memoir 🏜️ Desert Spirituality 🐪 Bedouin Life 🤝 Interfaith Dialogue

Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches

av Marvin Harris • 1974

Cow worship, pork bans, witch hunts: each solved a practical problem no one admitted existed.

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🍖 Food Taboos 🌿 Cultural Ecology 💰 Economic Anthropology 🕯️ Ritual And Sacrifice ⚔️ Origins Of War

Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches

Cow worship, pork bans, witch hunts: each solved a practical problem no one admitted existed.

av Marvin Harris 1974 288 sidor

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🍖 Food Taboos 🌿 Cultural Ecology 💰 Economic Anthropology 🕯️ Ritual And Sacrifice ⚔️ Origins Of War

Paul

av N.T. Wright • 2018

Paul didn't switch religions. He saw a crucified Jew running the universe.

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📖 New Testament Studies ✝️ Pauline Theology 🔄 New Perspective On Paul 🏛️ Early Christianity 🕎 Jewish Context

Paul

Paul didn't switch religions. He saw a crucified Jew running the universe.

av N.T. Wright 2018 480 sidor

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📖 New Testament Studies ✝️ Pauline Theology 🔄 New Perspective On Paul 🏛️ Early Christianity 🕎 Jewish Context

Making and Breaking the Grid

av Timothy Samara • 2003

Build grids like a modernist, break them like a punk. A workshop on the grid's double life.

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🎨 Graphic Design 📐 Grid Systems 📄 Layout Design 📜 Design History 🧊 Modernist Design

Making and Breaking the Grid

Build grids like a modernist, break them like a punk. A workshop on the grid's double life.

av Timothy Samara 2003 208 sidor

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🎨 Graphic Design 📐 Grid Systems 📄 Layout Design 📜 Design History 🧊 Modernist Design

Jag är Zlatan

av Zlatan Ibrahimović • 2011

How the West thought: ten ideas from Plato to Rawls that still shape everything we believe.

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🏛️ Western Philosophy 📚 Philosophy Primer ⚖️ Political Philosophy 🧠 Epistemology 🎯 Virtue Ethics

Jag är Zlatan

How the West thought: ten ideas from Plato to Rawls that still shape everything we believe.

av Zlatan Ibrahimović 2011 432 sidor

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🏛️ Western Philosophy 📚 Philosophy Primer ⚖️ Political Philosophy 🧠 Epistemology 🎯 Virtue Ethics

Fearless

av Max Lucado • 2009

Ten philosophers, ten arguments that still govern how we think about truth, justice, and ourselves.

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🏛️ Western Philosophy 🗳️ Political Philosophy 📚 Philosophy Primer 💡 History Of Ideas ⚖️ Moral Philosophy

Fearless

Ten philosophers, ten arguments that still govern how we think about truth, justice, and ourselves.

av Max Lucado 2009 221 sidor

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🏛️ Western Philosophy 🗳️ Political Philosophy 📚 Philosophy Primer 💡 History Of Ideas ⚖️ Moral Philosophy

American Sniper

av Chris Kyle • 2012

160 kills, four tours, and a personal cost he didn't count until he came home.

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🏅 Military Memoir ⚓ Navy Seals 🎯 Sniper Craft 🏙️ Urban Warfare 🌍 Post-9/11 Wars

American Sniper

160 kills, four tours, and a personal cost he didn't count until he came home.

av Chris Kyle 2012 502 sidor

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🏅 Military Memoir ⚓ Navy Seals 🎯 Sniper Craft 🏙️ Urban Warfare 🌍 Post-9/11 Wars

American Sketches

av Walter Isaacson • 2009

Einstein, FDR, Churchill, Katrina: Isaacson's portraits of leadership when it mattered most.

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📝 Biographical Essays 🇺🇸 20th Century America 📰 Narrative Journalism 💻 Digital Media Disruption 🔬 Scientific Biography

American Sketches

Einstein, FDR, Churchill, Katrina: Isaacson's portraits of leadership when it mattered most.

av Walter Isaacson 2009 308 sidor

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📝 Biographical Essays 🇺🇸 20th Century America 📰 Narrative Journalism 💻 Digital Media Disruption 🔬 Scientific Biography

Original Sins

av Eve L. Ewing • 2025

Schools perfected America's founding crimes on Black and Native children.

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📚 History Of Education 🏫 Schooling And Race ⚖️ Critical Race Theory 🏹 Settler Colonialism 💰 Racial Capitalism

Original Sins

Schools perfected America's founding crimes on Black and Native children.

av Eve L. Ewing 2025 400 sidor

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📚 History Of Education 🏫 Schooling And Race ⚖️ Critical Race Theory 🏹 Settler Colonialism 💰 Racial Capitalism

The Polymath

av Waqas Ahmed • 2019

History's true geniuses refused to pick a lane. Why versatility beats narrow expertise every time.

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🧩 Interdisciplinary Studies 🚫 Anti-Specialization 🧠 Versatile Thinking 🔗 Connecting Ideas 🏫 Holistic Education

The Polymath

History's true geniuses refused to pick a lane. Why versatility beats narrow expertise every time.

av Waqas Ahmed 2019 336 sidor

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🧩 Interdisciplinary Studies 🚫 Anti-Specialization 🧠 Versatile Thinking 🔗 Connecting Ideas 🏫 Holistic Education

The Great Displacement

av Jake Bittle • 2023

Climate disasters are displacing millions; housing markets and insurance can't keep up.

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🌍 Climate Migration ⚖️ Environmental Justice 🇺🇸 American Migration 💧 Water Crisis 🚒 Disaster Recovery

The Great Displacement

Climate disasters are displacing millions; housing markets and insurance can't keep up.

av Jake Bittle 2023 368 sidor

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🌍 Climate Migration ⚖️ Environmental Justice 🇺🇸 American Migration 💧 Water Crisis 🚒 Disaster Recovery

Stone Age Economics

av Marshall Sahlins • 1974

Hunters and gatherers worked a few hours daily and wanted little. Scarcity is a modern invention.

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🏛️ Economic Anthropology 🎁 Gift Economies 🏹 Hunter-Gatherer Societies 🔗 Embedded Economies 🤝 Reciprocity

Stone Age Economics

Hunters and gatherers worked a few hours daily and wanted little. Scarcity is a modern invention.

av Marshall Sahlins 1974 362 sidor

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🏛️ Economic Anthropology 🎁 Gift Economies 🏹 Hunter-Gatherer Societies 🔗 Embedded Economies 🤝 Reciprocity

Moneyland

av Oliver Bullough • 2018

Stolen wealth has a home: a borderless financial nation built by Western lawyers and accountants.

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🏝️ Offshore Finance 🔒 Financial Secrecy 💰 Kleptocracy 🧺 Money Laundering 🌐 Global Corruption

Moneyland

Stolen wealth has a home: a borderless financial nation built by Western lawyers and accountants.

av Oliver Bullough 2018 413 sidor

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🏝️ Offshore Finance 🔒 Financial Secrecy 💰 Kleptocracy 🧺 Money Laundering 🌐 Global Corruption

A History of Bangladesh

av Willem van Schendel • 2009

A delta shaped by rivers and monsoons, not just by kings: the deep past of Bangladesh.

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🗺️ South Asian History 🌿 Environmental History ✂️ Partition Of India 🏛️ Colonial Legacies 📜 Longue DuréE History

A History of Bangladesh

A delta shaped by rivers and monsoons, not just by kings: the deep past of Bangladesh.

av Willem van Schendel 2009 374 sidor

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🗺️ South Asian History 🌿 Environmental History ✂️ Partition Of India 🏛️ Colonial Legacies 📜 Longue DuréE History

We Have Never Been Woke

av Musa al-Gharbi • 2024

Wokeness is how a new elite secures status while deepening the inequalities it claims to fight.

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👑 Elite Sociology 🎭 Cultural Capital 🧐 Wokeness Critique 🏷️ Identity Politics 🏆 Status Competition

We Have Never Been Woke

Wokeness is how a new elite secures status while deepening the inequalities it claims to fight.

av Musa al-Gharbi 2024 432 sidor

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👑 Elite Sociology 🎭 Cultural Capital 🧐 Wokeness Critique 🏷️ Identity Politics 🏆 Status Competition

Against Intellectual Monopoly

av Michele Boldrin • 2008

Patents and copyrights were meant to fuel invention. The evidence shows they mostly slow it down.

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🧠 Intellectual Property 💡 Innovation Economics 💸 Rent-Seeking 🔬 Multiple Discovery 🔓 Open Innovation

Against Intellectual Monopoly

Patents and copyrights were meant to fuel invention. The evidence shows they mostly slow it down.

av Michele Boldrin 2008 312 sidor

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🧠 Intellectual Property 💡 Innovation Economics 💸 Rent-Seeking 🔬 Multiple Discovery 🔓 Open Innovation

The Fish That Ate the Whale

av Rich Cohen • 2012

Penniless at fourteen, he built a banana empire that toppled governments and coined banana republic.

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🍌 Banana Republics 🏛️ Corporate Imperialism 🧳 Immigrant Entrepreneurs 🇺🇸 American Imperialism 💼 Corporate Power

The Fish That Ate the Whale

Penniless at fourteen, he built a banana empire that toppled governments and coined banana republic.

av Rich Cohen 2012 288 sidor

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🍌 Banana Republics 🏛️ Corporate Imperialism 🧳 Immigrant Entrepreneurs 🇺🇸 American Imperialism 💼 Corporate Power

Dawood's Mentor

av S. Hussain Zaidi • 2019

The wrestler who built the Dawood empire, then pulled off the Mumbai mafia's only clean break.

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🏙️ Mumbai Underworld 💼 Organized Crime 🚢 Smuggling Operations 🔫 Gang Warfare 🤝 Underworld Loyalty

Dawood's Mentor

The wrestler who built the Dawood empire, then pulled off the Mumbai mafia's only clean break.

av S. Hussain Zaidi 2019 300 sidor

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🏙️ Mumbai Underworld 💼 Organized Crime 🚢 Smuggling Operations 🔫 Gang Warfare 🤝 Underworld Loyalty

Nutrition and Physical Degeneration

av Weston A. Price • 1939

Traditional diets prevented tooth decay for millennia. Modern foods reversed this in a generation.

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🥩 Traditional Diets 🧬 Evolutionary Nutrition 🥚 Nutrient Density 🏭 Processed Food Critique 🦷 Dental Decay Prevention

Nutrition and Physical Degeneration

Traditional diets prevented tooth decay for millennia. Modern foods reversed this in a generation.

av Weston A. Price 1939 524 sidor

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🥩 Traditional Diets 🧬 Evolutionary Nutrition 🥚 Nutrient Density 🏭 Processed Food Critique 🦷 Dental Decay Prevention

The Elements of Typographic Style

av Robert Bringhurst • 1992

Typography is an invisible art. Its rules: proportion, rhythm, and a five-century memory.

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🖋️ Typographic Design 📖 Book Design 🔤 Letterforms 📐 Page Layout 🏛️ Design History

The Elements of Typographic Style

Typography is an invisible art. Its rules: proportion, rhythm, and a five-century memory.

av Robert Bringhurst 1992 352 sidor

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🖋️ Typographic Design 📖 Book Design 🔤 Letterforms 📐 Page Layout 🏛️ Design History

The Infinite Machine

av Camila Russo • 2020

What happens when a decentralized revolution turns out to depend on one 23-year-old?

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⛓️ Cryptocurrency History 🤖 Smart Contract Platforms 🏦 Decentralized Finance 🌐 Internet Governance 📰 Tech Journalism

The Infinite Machine

What happens when a decentralized revolution turns out to depend on one 23-year-old?

av Camila Russo 2020 320 sidor

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⛓️ Cryptocurrency History 🤖 Smart Contract Platforms 🏦 Decentralized Finance 🌐 Internet Governance 📰 Tech Journalism

Bad Boy

av Walter Dean Myers • 2001

He missed his own high school graduation. No arrest, no dropout. He simply stopped showing up.

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🧠 Intellectual Coming Of Age ✊🏾 Racial Identity 🏙️ Harlem Life 🥊 Urban Violence 🌧️ Depression Memoirs

Bad Boy

He missed his own high school graduation. No arrest, no dropout. He simply stopped showing up.

av Walter Dean Myers 2001 240 sidor

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🧠 Intellectual Coming Of Age ✊🏾 Racial Identity 🏙️ Harlem Life 🥊 Urban Violence 🌧️ Depression Memoirs

Africa Is Not a Country

av Dipo Faloyin • 2022

Fifty-four countries, 1.4 billion people: the West keeps mistaking a continent for a country.

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🌍 African Studies 📜 Postcolonial Studies 🏛️ Colonial History 🎭 Cultural Stereotypes 🧬 African Diaspora

Africa Is Not a Country

Fifty-four countries, 1.4 billion people: the West keeps mistaking a continent for a country.

av Dipo Faloyin 2022 343 sidor

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🌍 African Studies 📜 Postcolonial Studies 🏛️ Colonial History 🎭 Cultural Stereotypes 🧬 African Diaspora

The Color of Law

av Richard Rothstein • 2017

Federal policy, not private prejudice, segregated America. The proof is in the mortgage manuals.

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🏘️ Residential Segregation 🔴 Redlining 🏛️ Housing Policy 🏙️ Urban Planning ⚖️ Systemic Racism

The Color of Law

Federal policy, not private prejudice, segregated America. The proof is in the mortgage manuals.

av Richard Rothstein 2017 368 sidor

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🏘️ Residential Segregation 🔴 Redlining 🏛️ Housing Policy 🏙️ Urban Planning ⚖️ Systemic Racism

The Myth of the Twentieth Century

av Alfred Rosenberg • 1930

Race as soul, blood as destiny: the 1930 manifesto that became Nazi ideology's core.

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📜 National Socialism 🚫 Antisemitism 🧬 Scientific Racism 🧪 Eugenics 🗡️ Aryan Myth

The Myth of the Twentieth Century

Race as soul, blood as destiny: the 1930 manifesto that became Nazi ideology's core.

av Alfred Rosenberg 1930 454 sidor

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📜 National Socialism 🚫 Antisemitism 🧬 Scientific Racism 🧪 Eugenics 🗡️ Aryan Myth

The Chemical Muse

av D.C.A. Hillman • 2008

Classical civilization was built on psychoactive plants. The story of how history erased that.

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🍄 Entheogenic History 🏛️ Classical Revisionism 🎭 Creative Intoxication 🌿 Plant Medicine 🍷 Ritual Intoxication

The Chemical Muse

Classical civilization was built on psychoactive plants. The story of how history erased that.

av D.C.A. Hillman 2008 256 sidor

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🍄 Entheogenic History 🏛️ Classical Revisionism 🎭 Creative Intoxication 🌿 Plant Medicine 🍷 Ritual Intoxication

1776

av David McCullough • 2005

How a year of defeats and desertions almost ended the American Revolution before it began.

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🦅 American Revolution ⚔️ Military History 🏰 18th Century Warfare 📖 Narrative History 📚 Popular History

1776

How a year of defeats and desertions almost ended the American Revolution before it began.

av David McCullough 2005 386 sidor

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🦅 American Revolution ⚔️ Military History 🏰 18th Century Warfare 📖 Narrative History 📚 Popular History

The Accidental Billionaires

av Ben Mezrich • 2009

The $1,000 server payment and a 65/30 split that turned old friends into courtroom enemies.

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🏢 Startup Founding 💻 Tech Startups 🌉 Silicon Valley 🤝 Founder Dynamics 💔 Betrayal Narratives

The Accidental Billionaires

The $1,000 server payment and a 65/30 split that turned old friends into courtroom enemies.

av Ben Mezrich 2009 274 sidor

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🏢 Startup Founding 💻 Tech Startups 🌉 Silicon Valley 🤝 Founder Dynamics 💔 Betrayal Narratives

The People vs. Democracy

av Yascha Mounk • 2018

Populists dismantle institutions; unelected courts rule from above; split tearing democracy apart.

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🏛️ Liberal Democracy 🗳️ Populism 📉 Democratic Backsliding 💰 Economic Inequality 💻 Technology And Democracy

The People vs. Democracy

Populists dismantle institutions; unelected courts rule from above; split tearing democracy apart.

av Yascha Mounk 2018 400 sidor

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🏛️ Liberal Democracy 🗳️ Populism 📉 Democratic Backsliding 💰 Economic Inequality 💻 Technology And Democracy

None Dare Call It Conspiracy

av Gary Allen • 1971

Wars, depressions, and revolutions are not accidents; a hidden network of financiers plans them all.

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🏦 Central Banking 🌐 New World Order 💸 Crony Capitalism 📰 Manufactured Consent 🎭 Controlled Opposition

None Dare Call It Conspiracy

Wars, depressions, and revolutions are not accidents; a hidden network of financiers plans them all.

av Gary Allen 1971 141 sidor

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🏦 Central Banking 🌐 New World Order 💸 Crony Capitalism 📰 Manufactured Consent 🎭 Controlled Opposition

Hindus in Hindu Rashtra

av Anand Ranganathan • 2023

A case that India's Hindus, despite their numbers, are legally the country's most vulnerable group.

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🗳️ Indian Politics ⚖️ Religious Discrimination 🏛️ Religion And State 🏔️ Kashmir Conflict 📜 Constitutional Law

Hindus in Hindu Rashtra

A case that India's Hindus, despite their numbers, are legally the country's most vulnerable group.

av Anand Ranganathan 2023 152 sidor

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🗳️ Indian Politics ⚖️ Religious Discrimination 🏛️ Religion And State 🏔️ Kashmir Conflict 📜 Constitutional Law

The Dragons of Eden

av Carl Sagan • 1977

Your skull houses a reptile, a mammal, and a thinker, and they rarely get along.

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The Dragons of Eden

Your skull houses a reptile, a mammal, and a thinker, and they rarely get along.

av Carl Sagan 1977 271 sidor

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The Way to Wealth

av Benjamin Franklin • 1757

Work harder, owe nothing, and make every minute pay: Franklin's three-part formula for wealth.

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💰 Thrift And Frugality ⏳ Time Management 🗽 Financial Independence 🔓 Debt Freedom 📈 Compound Interest

The Way to Wealth

Work harder, owe nothing, and make every minute pay: Franklin's three-part formula for wealth.

av Benjamin Franklin 1757 40 sidor

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💰 Thrift And Frugality ⏳ Time Management 🗽 Financial Independence 🔓 Debt Freedom 📈 Compound Interest

The Alien Agendas

av Richard M. Dolan • 2020

Multiple alien species, competing agendas, and a hybridization program that may already be complete.

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🛸 Ufology 👽 Alien Abduction 🕵️ Government Cover-Ups 🏛️ Ancient Aliens 🧠 Consciousness Studies

The Alien Agendas

Multiple alien species, competing agendas, and a hybridization program that may already be complete.

av Richard M. Dolan 2020 257 sidor

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🛸 Ufology 👽 Alien Abduction 🕵️ Government Cover-Ups 🏛️ Ancient Aliens 🧠 Consciousness Studies

R. N. Kao

av Mr Nitin A Gokhale • 2019

How a gentle, artistic police officer built India's CIA and secretly redrew South Asia's map.

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🕵️ Indian Intelligence 🥷 Covert Operations 📜 Intelligence History 🌏 South Asian Geopolitics ❄️ Cold War Espionage

R. N. Kao

How a gentle, artistic police officer built India's CIA and secretly redrew South Asia's map.

av Mr Nitin A Gokhale 2019 240 sidor

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🕵️ Indian Intelligence 🥷 Covert Operations 📜 Intelligence History 🌏 South Asian Geopolitics ❄️ Cold War Espionage

Empire of the Summer Moon

av S.C. Gwynne • 2010

An empire on horseback ruled the plains for two centuries. Then the six-shooter arrived.

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🪶 Plains Indians 🏜️ American Frontier 🐎 Horse Cultures ⚔️ Guerrilla Warfare ✊ Indigenous Resistance

Empire of the Summer Moon

An empire on horseback ruled the plains for two centuries. Then the six-shooter arrived.

av S.C. Gwynne 2010 371 sidor

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🪶 Plains Indians 🏜️ American Frontier 🐎 Horse Cultures ⚔️ Guerrilla Warfare ✊ Indigenous Resistance

A Short History of Financial Euphoria

av John Kenneth Galbraith • 1990

The 20-year rule: financial genius is really amnesia, and the crash is never the last.

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📜 Financial History 🧠 Behavioral Economics 🫧 Speculative Bubbles 👥 Mass Psychology 🔄 Market Cycles

A Short History of Financial Euphoria

The 20-year rule: financial genius is really amnesia, and the crash is never the last.

av John Kenneth Galbraith 1990 113 sidor

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📜 Financial History 🧠 Behavioral Economics 🫧 Speculative Bubbles 👥 Mass Psychology 🔄 Market Cycles

Michael Jackson, Inc.

av Zack O'Malley Greenburg • 2014

He bought the Beatles' catalog against all advice. It's now worth a billion dollars.

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🎵 Music Business 🎩 Music Moguls 📜 Music Publishing ⚖️ Intellectual Property ⭐ Celebrity Branding

Michael Jackson, Inc.

He bought the Beatles' catalog against all advice. It's now worth a billion dollars.

av Zack O'Malley Greenburg 2014 306 sidor

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🎵 Music Business 🎩 Music Moguls 📜 Music Publishing ⚖️ Intellectual Property ⭐ Celebrity Branding

The Oil Kings

av Andrew Scott Cooper • 2011

Secret U.S. deals armed the Shah and quadrupled oil prices. The world never recovered.

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🛢️ Oil Politics 🕌 Middle Eastern History 🤝 Secret Diplomacy 💰 Economic Warfare 🔫 Arms Trade

The Oil Kings

Secret U.S. deals armed the Shah and quadrupled oil prices. The world never recovered.

av Andrew Scott Cooper 2011 546 sidor

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🛢️ Oil Politics 🕌 Middle Eastern History 🤝 Secret Diplomacy 💰 Economic Warfare 🔫 Arms Trade

Brown Girl Dreaming

av Jacqueline Woodson • 2014

Before she could read, she wrote. A Black girlhood in verse across the South and Brooklyn.

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🎭 Memoir In Verse 🏚️ Jim Crow South ✍️ Young Writers 🌾 Black Southern Literature ✊ Civil Rights Childhood

Brown Girl Dreaming

Before she could read, she wrote. A Black girlhood in verse across the South and Brooklyn.

av Jacqueline Woodson 2014 337 sidor

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🎭 Memoir In Verse 🏚️ Jim Crow South ✍️ Young Writers 🌾 Black Southern Literature ✊ Civil Rights Childhood

A Peace to End All Peace

av David Fromkin • 1989

The modern Middle East was drawn in European offices; a century of instability is the result.

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🕌 Ottoman Empire 🌍 Middle Eastern History ✍️ Diplomatic History 🗺️ Colonial Borders 🎭 Imperial Overreach

A Peace to End All Peace

The modern Middle East was drawn in European offices; a century of instability is the result.

av David Fromkin 1989 635 sidor

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🕌 Ottoman Empire 🌍 Middle Eastern History ✍️ Diplomatic History 🗺️ Colonial Borders 🎭 Imperial Overreach

Natural Goodness

av Philippa Foot • 2001

Moral defect works like a slow deer: your species' nature sets the standard.

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💭 Moral Philosophy 🛡️ Virtue Ethics 🔍 Moral Realism 🏛️ Neo-Aristotelianism 🧭 Practical Reason

Natural Goodness

Moral defect works like a slow deer: your species' nature sets the standard.

av Philippa Foot 2001 125 sidor

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💭 Moral Philosophy 🛡️ Virtue Ethics 🔍 Moral Realism 🏛️ Neo-Aristotelianism 🧭 Practical Reason

What We Owe The Future

av William MacAskill • 2022

Most humans who will ever live aren't born yet. Their fate belongs to this century.

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🌍 Future Generations 👥 Population Ethics ⚠️ Existential Risk 🤖 Ai Safety 🦠 Biosecurity

What We Owe The Future

Most humans who will ever live aren't born yet. Their fate belongs to this century.

av William MacAskill 2022 494 sidor

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🌍 Future Generations 👥 Population Ethics ⚠️ Existential Risk 🤖 Ai Safety 🦠 Biosecurity

Call Sign Chaos

av Jim Mattis • 2019

Lead from the squad to the strategy table: a doctrine forged in combat and wide reading.

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🎖️ Military Leadership 📖 Leadership Memoirs 📚 History And Strategy ⚖️ Military Ethics 🎯 Decentralized Command

Call Sign Chaos

Lead from the squad to the strategy table: a doctrine forged in combat and wide reading.

av Jim Mattis 2019 320 sidor

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🎖️ Military Leadership 📖 Leadership Memoirs 📚 History And Strategy ⚖️ Military Ethics 🎯 Decentralized Command

We Were Soldiers Once... and Young

av Harold G. Moore • 1991

The first helicopter assault of the Vietnam War became the template for every battle that followed.

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🇻🇳 Vietnam War 🏛️ Military History ⚔️ Battle Narratives 🥾 Infantry Combat 🔫 Close-Quarters Battle

We Were Soldiers Once... and Young

The first helicopter assault of the Vietnam War became the template for every battle that followed.

av Harold G. Moore 1991 480 sidor

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🇻🇳 Vietnam War 🏛️ Military History ⚔️ Battle Narratives 🥾 Infantry Combat 🔫 Close-Quarters Battle

Salt

av Mark Kurlansky • 2002

Salt was the oil of the ancient world, and the battle for it built empires.

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🧂 Commodity Histories 🍽️ Food History 🔍 Microhistory 🧾 Taxation History 🚢 Trade Routes

Salt

Salt was the oil of the ancient world, and the battle for it built empires.

av Mark Kurlansky 2002 484 sidor

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🧂 Commodity Histories 🍽️ Food History 🔍 Microhistory 🧾 Taxation History 🚢 Trade Routes

Cynical Theories

av Helen Pluckrose • 2020

How a philosophy that doubted all truth became an ideology that brooks no disagreement.

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🌀 Postmodernism 📖 Critical Theory 🏷️ Identity Politics 📚 Intellectual History 🎓 Academic Culture

Cynical Theories

How a philosophy that doubted all truth became an ideology that brooks no disagreement.

av Helen Pluckrose 2020 353 sidor

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🌀 Postmodernism 📖 Critical Theory 🏷️ Identity Politics 📚 Intellectual History 🎓 Academic Culture

The Situation Room

av George Stephanopoulos • 2024

Twelve presidents. One basement room. The crises that revealed who they really were.

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🏛️ Presidential History 🏠 White House History ⚡ Crisis Decision Making 🌍 American Foreign Policy 🔒 National Security

The Situation Room

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