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Consumed

av Aja Barber • 2021

Fast fashion is colonialism in new clothes, and its dumping ground is a market in Accra.

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👗 Fast Fashion Critique 🏛️ Colonial Legacies ⛓️ Supply Chain Ethics ♻️ Textile Waste 🎭 Cultural Appropriation

Consumed

Fast fashion is colonialism in new clothes, and its dumping ground is a market in Accra.

av Aja Barber 2021 288 sidor

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👗 Fast Fashion Critique 🏛️ Colonial Legacies ⛓️ Supply Chain Ethics ♻️ Textile Waste 🎭 Cultural Appropriation

A Century of War

av F. William Engdahl • 1992

How Anglo-American elites controlled oil to engineer a century of wars and financial crises.

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🛢️ Oil Geopolitics 🇬🇧🇺🇸 Anglo-American Power 💵 Petrodollar System 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 British Empire ⚠️ Manufactured Crises

A Century of War

How Anglo-American elites controlled oil to engineer a century of wars and financial crises.

av F. William Engdahl 1992 312 sidor

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🛢️ Oil Geopolitics 🇬🇧🇺🇸 Anglo-American Power 💵 Petrodollar System 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 British Empire ⚠️ Manufactured Crises

The Closing of the American Mind

av Allan Bloom • 1988

A dogma that all truths are equal has hollowed the American mind, starting on campus.

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🏛️ Higher Education Critique 🌐 American Culture Wars 🤷 Moral Relativism 📚 Western Canon Debate 🏗️ Critique Of Modernity

The Closing of the American Mind

A dogma that all truths are equal has hollowed the American mind, starting on campus.

av Allan Bloom 1988 392 sidor

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🏛️ Higher Education Critique 🌐 American Culture Wars 🤷 Moral Relativism 📚 Western Canon Debate 🏗️ Critique Of Modernity

The Age of Addiction

av David T. Courtwright • 2019

Your bad habits are not personal failures. They are a business model, centuries in the making.

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🧠 Attention Economy 🍔 Food Engineering 🔄 Behavioral Addiction 🏥 Public Health History ❤️‍🩹 Harm Reduction

The Age of Addiction

Your bad habits are not personal failures. They are a business model, centuries in the making.

av David T. Courtwright 2019 336 sidor

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🧠 Attention Economy 🍔 Food Engineering 🔄 Behavioral Addiction 🏥 Public Health History ❤️‍🩹 Harm Reduction

Until We Are Free

av Shirin Ebadi • 2016

A Nobel for human rights in Iran. Exile, seized assets, and threats to her family followed.

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🇮🇷 Iranian Politics ✊ Human Rights Activism 🔒 Political Repression 🧕 Women Under Theocracy ✈️ Exile And Displacement

Until We Are Free

A Nobel for human rights in Iran. Exile, seized assets, and threats to her family followed.

av Shirin Ebadi 2016 304 sidor

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🇮🇷 Iranian Politics ✊ Human Rights Activism 🔒 Political Repression 🧕 Women Under Theocracy ✈️ Exile And Displacement

Children of Ash and Elm

av Neil Price • 2020

A four-part soul, a cosmos alive with spirits: the Viking Age makes sense only from the inside.

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🧠 Viking Worldview 🌌 Norse Cosmology 🌋 Climate And Civilization 🏰 Early Medieval History ⛵ Seafaring History

Children of Ash and Elm

A four-part soul, a cosmos alive with spirits: the Viking Age makes sense only from the inside.

av Neil Price 2020 656 sidor

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🧠 Viking Worldview 🌌 Norse Cosmology 🌋 Climate And Civilization 🏰 Early Medieval History ⛵ Seafaring History

The Leadership of Muhammad

av John Adair • 2010

What a seventh-century desert shepherd knew about leading people that still works today.

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🫡 Servant Leadership 🕌 Islamic Thought 🛡️ Character Leadership 📜 Prophetic Biography 🧠 Practical Wisdom

The Leadership of Muhammad

What a seventh-century desert shepherd knew about leading people that still works today.

av John Adair 2010 144 sidor

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🫡 Servant Leadership 🕌 Islamic Thought 🛡️ Character Leadership 📜 Prophetic Biography 🧠 Practical Wisdom

The World Until Yesterday

av Jared Diamond • 2012

What hunter-gatherers knew about raising children, avoiding danger, and ending feuds we forgot.

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🏕️ Traditional Societies 👶 Child Rearing ⚠️ Risk Perception 🤝 Restorative Justice 🛡️ Traditional Warfare

The World Until Yesterday

What hunter-gatherers knew about raising children, avoiding danger, and ending feuds we forgot.

av Jared Diamond 2012 512 sidor

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🏕️ Traditional Societies 👶 Child Rearing ⚠️ Risk Perception 🤝 Restorative Justice 🛡️ Traditional Warfare

Du sköna nya värld och Du sköna nya värld – återbesökt

av Aldous Huxley • 1932

Nietzsche needed a doctor for his body. The doctor needed Nietzsche for his soul.

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🛋️ Existential Therapy 🧠 Nietzschean Philosophy 📜 Psychoanalytic Origins 💊 Philosophy As Therapy 🔥 Obsessive Desire

Du sköna nya värld och Du sköna nya värld – återbesökt

Nietzsche needed a doctor for his body. The doctor needed Nietzsche for his soul.

av Aldous Huxley 1932 340 sidor

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🛋️ Existential Therapy 🧠 Nietzschean Philosophy 📜 Psychoanalytic Origins 💊 Philosophy As Therapy 🔥 Obsessive Desire

Stranger in the Shogun's City

av Amy Stanley • 2020

A country woman's flight to Edo in 1839 uncovers a society on the brink of upheaval.

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🧐 Microhistory 🏯 Edo Period Japan 📚 Social History 👤 Ordinary Lives ✊ Women's Agency

Stranger in the Shogun's City

A country woman's flight to Edo in 1839 uncovers a society on the brink of upheaval.

av Amy Stanley 2020 352 sidor

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🧐 Microhistory 🏯 Edo Period Japan 📚 Social History 👤 Ordinary Lives ✊ Women's Agency

The German Ideology / Theses on Feuerbach / Introduction to the Critique of Political Economy

av Karl Marx • 1846

History's engine is not ideas but the struggle over who controls the tools of survival.

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🏭 Materialist History ⚒️ Class Struggle 🎭 Ideology Critique 🛠️ Division Of Labor 😔 Alienation

The German Ideology / Theses on Feuerbach / Introduction to the Critique of Political Economy

History's engine is not ideas but the struggle over who controls the tools of survival.

av Karl Marx 1846 584 sidor

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🏭 Materialist History ⚒️ Class Struggle 🎭 Ideology Critique 🛠️ Division Of Labor 😔 Alienation

The Global Minotaur

av Yanis Varoufakis • 2011

Global prosperity ran on America's twin deficits from the 1970s until 2008. Then the engine died.

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🏦 International Economics 🏛️ Political Economy 📉 Financial Crises 💵 Dollar Hegemony 🏭 Financialization

The Global Minotaur

Global prosperity ran on America's twin deficits from the 1970s until 2008. Then the engine died.

av Yanis Varoufakis 2011 252 sidor

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🏦 International Economics 🏛️ Political Economy 📉 Financial Crises 💵 Dollar Hegemony 🏭 Financialization

Waste Land

av Robert D. Kaplan • 2025

When crises travel instantly but solutions stall at borders, we get one unending emergency.

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🌐 Geopolitics 🏛️ Political Realism 📉 Collapse Of Empires 🌪️ Global Instability 🔄 Historical Cycles

Waste Land

When crises travel instantly but solutions stall at borders, we get one unending emergency.

av Robert D. Kaplan 2025 224 sidor

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🌐 Geopolitics 🏛️ Political Realism 📉 Collapse Of Empires 🌪️ Global Instability 🔄 Historical Cycles

The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam

av Muhammad Iqbal • 1934

Islam's spirit is empirical, not static; a proof that it demands continuous renewal.

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🕌 Islamic Modernism 🔬 Science And Religion 🌌 Religious Experience 🕊️ Process Theology 📖 Quranic Hermeneutics

The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam

Islam's spirit is empirical, not static; a proof that it demands continuous renewal.

av Muhammad Iqbal 1934 252 sidor

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🕌 Islamic Modernism 🔬 Science And Religion 🌌 Religious Experience 🕊️ Process Theology 📖 Quranic Hermeneutics

The Emperor Wears No Clothes

av Jack Herer • 1992

Cannabis was outlawed not for public safety, but to protect timber, oil, and newspaper empires.

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🌿 Cannabis History 🏭 Industrial Hemp 🚫 Drug Prohibition ♻️ Renewable Resources 💊 Medical Cannabis

The Emperor Wears No Clothes

Cannabis was outlawed not for public safety, but to protect timber, oil, and newspaper empires.

av Jack Herer 1992 291 sidor

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🌿 Cannabis History 🏭 Industrial Hemp 🚫 Drug Prohibition ♻️ Renewable Resources 💊 Medical Cannabis

How China Escaped the Poverty Trap

av Yuen Yuen Ang • 2016

China grew rich using the very governance flaws that experts said would doom it.

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🏗️ Development Economics 📈 Political Economy 🔄 Institutional Change 🧭 Adaptive Governance 🧪 Local Experimentation

How China Escaped the Poverty Trap

China grew rich using the very governance flaws that experts said would doom it.

av Yuen Yuen Ang 2016 503 sidor

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🏗️ Development Economics 📈 Political Economy 🔄 Institutional Change 🧭 Adaptive Governance 🧪 Local Experimentation

The Geopolitics of Emotion

av Dominique Moïsi • 2008

Oil and armies are not what drive nations. The real forces: fear, hope, and humiliation.

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🗺️ Geopolitics 🧠 Political Psychology ❤️ Emotion And Politics 🌐 Cultural Psychology 🐉 Asian Century

The Geopolitics of Emotion

Oil and armies are not what drive nations. The real forces: fear, hope, and humiliation.

av Dominique Moïsi 2008 176 sidor

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🗺️ Geopolitics 🧠 Political Psychology ❤️ Emotion And Politics 🌐 Cultural Psychology 🐉 Asian Century

Political Tribes

av Amy Chua • 2018

Vietnam, Iraq, and now America: the tribal instinct that loses wars is consuming us at home.

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🏴 Ethnic Conflict ⚡ Failed Interventions 👥 Us Vs Them 🎯 Identity Politics 🧠 Political Psychology

Political Tribes

Vietnam, Iraq, and now America: the tribal instinct that loses wars is consuming us at home.

av Amy Chua 2018 293 sidor

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🏴 Ethnic Conflict ⚡ Failed Interventions 👥 Us Vs Them 🎯 Identity Politics 🧠 Political Psychology

Bulls, Bears and Other Beasts

av Santosh Nair • 2016

Insider whispers, auction tricks, and the crash of India's biggest bull: one trader's education.

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🇮🇳 Indian Markets 📖 Trading Memoirs 🤫 Insider Trading 🎭 Market Manipulation 💰 Rags To Riches

Bulls, Bears and Other Beasts

Insider whispers, auction tricks, and the crash of India's biggest bull: one trader's education.

av Santosh Nair 2016 395 sidor

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🇮🇳 Indian Markets 📖 Trading Memoirs 🤫 Insider Trading 🎭 Market Manipulation 💰 Rags To Riches

Game Changer

av Matthew Sadler • 2019

From scratch, AlphaZero taught itself chess in nine hours and played like a Romantic-era genius.

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🤖 Computer Chess ♟️ Chess Strategy 🔁 Reinforcement Learning ⚔️ Attacking Play ♞ Piece Activity

Game Changer

From scratch, AlphaZero taught itself chess in nine hours and played like a Romantic-era genius.

av Matthew Sadler 2019 416 sidor

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🤖 Computer Chess ♟️ Chess Strategy 🔁 Reinforcement Learning ⚔️ Attacking Play ♞ Piece Activity

Netflixed

av Gina Keating • 2012

Blockbuster could have bought Netflix for $50 million. They passed. What followed took down a giant.

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🎬 Entertainment Business ⚔️ Corporate Rivalry 💡 Disruptive Innovation 🔄 Digital Transformation 🚀 Startup Stories

Netflixed

Blockbuster could have bought Netflix for $50 million. They passed. What followed took down a giant.

av Gina Keating 2012 304 sidor

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🎬 Entertainment Business ⚔️ Corporate Rivalry 💡 Disruptive Innovation 🔄 Digital Transformation 🚀 Startup Stories

The Obamas

av Jodi Kantor • 2011

Round one went to Washington: how the Obamas' marriage survived the presidency's first two years.

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🖋️ Political Biography 💍 Presidential Marriage 🏛️ First Families 🏠 White House Life 🌍 Racial Dynamics

The Obamas

Round one went to Washington: how the Obamas' marriage survived the presidency's first two years.

av Jodi Kantor 2011

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🖋️ Political Biography 💍 Presidential Marriage 🏛️ First Families 🏠 White House Life 🌍 Racial Dynamics

X Saves the World

av Jeff Gordinier • 2008

The slacker generation you forgot about quietly built your digital world, one micro-fix at a time.

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👤 Gen X 🎸 Alternative Culture 🌱 Micro-Movements 💻 Dot-Com Era 📺 Media Democratization

X Saves the World

The slacker generation you forgot about quietly built your digital world, one micro-fix at a time.

av Jeff Gordinier 2008 224 sidor

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👤 Gen X 🎸 Alternative Culture 🌱 Micro-Movements 💻 Dot-Com Era 📺 Media Democratization

Faster

av James Gleick • 1999

Technology promised to save time. Instead it filled the gaps and trained us to crave speed.

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📊 Information Overload ⏱️ Time Perception ⚡ Speed Culture 👁️ Attention Economy 🔀 Multitasking Myth

Faster

Technology promised to save time. Instead it filled the gaps and trained us to crave speed.

av James Gleick 1999 330 sidor

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📊 Information Overload ⏱️ Time Perception ⚡ Speed Culture 👁️ Attention Economy 🔀 Multitasking Myth

The Greater Journey

av David McCullough • 2011

Paris, 1830 to 1900. Americans arrived as students. They left as architects of a new culture.

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🇺🇸 American Expatriates 🏛️ Grand Tour Tradition 🩺 19th Century Medicine 🎨 Artistic Pilgrimage ⚔️ Franco Prussian War

The Greater Journey

Paris, 1830 to 1900. Americans arrived as students. They left as architects of a new culture.

av David McCullough 2011 558 sidor

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🇺🇸 American Expatriates 🏛️ Grand Tour Tradition 🩺 19th Century Medicine 🎨 Artistic Pilgrimage ⚔️ Franco Prussian War

A History of the Crusades, Volume 1

av Steven Runciman • 1951

Byzantine weakness, noble greed, and mass piety collided to forge a fragile Crusader kingdom.

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🏰 Crusader States ⚔️ Medieval Warfare ✝️ Holy War ☪️ Religious Conflict 👑 Feudal Politics

A History of the Crusades, Volume 1

Byzantine weakness, noble greed, and mass piety collided to forge a fragile Crusader kingdom.

av Steven Runciman 1951 394 sidor

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🏰 Crusader States ⚔️ Medieval Warfare ✝️ Holy War ☪️ Religious Conflict 👑 Feudal Politics

The Last Kings of Shanghai

av Jonathan Kaufman • 2020

Opium, war, and revolution: how two Jewish families built modern China, then lost it.

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🌆 Colonial Shanghai 📈 Chinese Economic History 💊 Opium Trade ✡️ Jewish Diaspora 🏛️ Business Dynasties

The Last Kings of Shanghai

Opium, war, and revolution: how two Jewish families built modern China, then lost it.

av Jonathan Kaufman 2020 384 sidor

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🌆 Colonial Shanghai 📈 Chinese Economic History 💊 Opium Trade ✡️ Jewish Diaspora 🏛️ Business Dynasties

The Book of Charlie

av David von Drehle • 2023

A 109-year-old doctor's century of resilience: what he learned about loss, joy, and letting go.

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🧓 Generational Wisdom 🏛️ Modern Stoicism 🌱 Post-Traumatic Growth 🧱 Resilience Building 📚 Lifelong Learning

The Book of Charlie

A 109-year-old doctor's century of resilience: what he learned about loss, joy, and letting go.

av David von Drehle 2023 194 sidor

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🧓 Generational Wisdom 🏛️ Modern Stoicism 🌱 Post-Traumatic Growth 🧱 Resilience Building 📚 Lifelong Learning

Carl Jung

av Claire Dunne • 2000

Before mapping the unconscious, Jung had to survive his own descent into it.

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🧠 Jungian Psychology 🎨 Illustrated Biography 📚 Intellectual Biography 🏺 Myth And Psyche 🌗 Inner Work

Carl Jung

Before mapping the unconscious, Jung had to survive his own descent into it.

av Claire Dunne 2000 242 sidor

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🧠 Jungian Psychology 🎨 Illustrated Biography 📚 Intellectual Biography 🏺 Myth And Psyche 🌗 Inner Work

Adolf Hitler

av Spike Milligan • 1971

Before the Nazis, his real enemy was British Army bureaucracy, and his weapon was a trumpet.

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🪖 Wwii Memoirs 🇬🇧 British Comedy 😂 Military Humor 🏕️ Army Life 🎭 Absurdist War

Adolf Hitler

Before the Nazis, his real enemy was British Army bureaucracy, and his weapon was a trumpet.

av Spike Milligan 1971 142 sidor

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🪖 Wwii Memoirs 🇬🇧 British Comedy 😂 Military Humor 🏕️ Army Life 🎭 Absurdist War

Socialism

av Friedrich Engels • 1880

Socialism is not a dream: it is the scientific endpoint of capitalism's own contradictions.

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🏛️ Political Theory ☭ Marxism ✊ Socialist Thought 🏗️ Materialist History 🔄 Dialectical Thinking

Socialism

Socialism is not a dream: it is the scientific endpoint of capitalism's own contradictions.

av Friedrich Engels 1880 86 sidor

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🏛️ Political Theory ☭ Marxism ✊ Socialist Thought 🏗️ Materialist History 🔄 Dialectical Thinking

Empire of Pain

av Patrick Radden Keefe • 2021

How one family created the opioid crisis, then hid behind the world's great museums.

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💊 Pharmaceutical Industry 🏢 Corporate Crime 👑 Family Dynasties 💉 Opioid Epidemic 🏛️ Regulatory Capture

Empire of Pain

How one family created the opioid crisis, then hid behind the world's great museums.

av Patrick Radden Keefe 2021 535 sidor

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💊 Pharmaceutical Industry 🏢 Corporate Crime 👑 Family Dynasties 💉 Opioid Epidemic 🏛️ Regulatory Capture

Sam Walton, Made in America

av Sam Walton • 1992

The five-and-dime that refused to act big and grew into the world's largest retailer.

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🏬 Retail Business 📖 Founder Memoir 😍 Customer Focus ⚙️ Lean Operations 🔄 Constant Improvement

Sam Walton, Made in America

The five-and-dime that refused to act big and grew into the world's largest retailer.

av Sam Walton 1992 346 sidor

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🏬 Retail Business 📖 Founder Memoir 😍 Customer Focus ⚙️ Lean Operations 🔄 Constant Improvement

Jerusalem

av Simon Sebag Montefiore • 2011

The city that drives a hundred pilgrims insane, and the 3,000-year story behind the madness.

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🏙️ City Biography 🕌 Holy Cities ⚔️ Religious Rivalry 📖 Biblical History ⛏️ Biblical Archaeology

Jerusalem

The city that drives a hundred pilgrims insane, and the 3,000-year story behind the madness.

av Simon Sebag Montefiore 2011 752 sidor

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🏙️ City Biography 🕌 Holy Cities ⚔️ Religious Rivalry 📖 Biblical History ⛏️ Biblical Archaeology

Code of the Samurai

av Daidōji Yūzan • 1943

Death rehearsed daily: the samurai code that made mortality the engine of loyalty and courage.

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⚔️ Samurai Ethics 🏯 Japanese Philosophy 💀 Death Awareness 🎖️ Honor Culture 🛡️ Warrior Mindset

Code of the Samurai

Death rehearsed daily: the samurai code that made mortality the engine of loyalty and courage.

av Daidōji Yūzan 1943 128 sidor

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⚔️ Samurai Ethics 🏯 Japanese Philosophy 💀 Death Awareness 🎖️ Honor Culture 🛡️ Warrior Mindset

J.P. Morgan - The Life and Deals of America’s Banker

av J.R. MacGregor • 2019

He rescued American capitalism twice, so the government built the Federal Reserve to replace him.

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🎭 Gilded Age 🏦 Banking History 📈 Wall Street History 📉 Financial Panics 🏛️ Federal Reserve Origins

J.P. Morgan - The Life and Deals of America’s Banker

He rescued American capitalism twice, so the government built the Federal Reserve to replace him.

av J.R. MacGregor 2019 224 sidor

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🎭 Gilded Age 🏦 Banking History 📈 Wall Street History 📉 Financial Panics 🏛️ Federal Reserve Origins

The Great War for Civilisation

av Robert Fisk • 2005

One reporter's fifty-year witness to the West's century-long war on the Middle East.

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🌍 Modern Middle East 🎤 Conflict Reporting 🎯 Western Intervention 👀 War Witnessing 🏛️ Imperial Legacy

The Great War for Civilisation

One reporter's fifty-year witness to the West's century-long war on the Middle East.

av Robert Fisk 2005 1111 sidor

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🌍 Modern Middle East 🎤 Conflict Reporting 🎯 Western Intervention 👀 War Witnessing 🏛️ Imperial Legacy

Aftershocks of Disaster

av Yarimar Bonilla • 2019

After Maria, Puerto Ricans found the worst disaster wasn't the storm. It was colonial rule.

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🇵🇷 Puerto Rican History 🌴 Caribbean Politics 🌀 Disaster Response 🤝 Mutual Aid 🏚️ Disaster Capitalism

Aftershocks of Disaster

After Maria, Puerto Ricans found the worst disaster wasn't the storm. It was colonial rule.

av Yarimar Bonilla 2019 404 sidor

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🇵🇷 Puerto Rican History 🌴 Caribbean Politics 🌀 Disaster Response 🤝 Mutual Aid 🏚️ Disaster Capitalism

50 Economics Ideas You Really Need to Know

av Edmund Conway • 2009

The fifty economic concepts behind every price tag, policy fight, and market panic you encounter.

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📚 Introductory Economics 🧠 Behavioral Economics 🌐 Global Trade 📈 Financial Markets 💭 Economic Thought

50 Economics Ideas You Really Need to Know

The fifty economic concepts behind every price tag, policy fight, and market panic you encounter.

av Edmund Conway 2009 208 sidor

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📚 Introductory Economics 🧠 Behavioral Economics 🌐 Global Trade 📈 Financial Markets 💭 Economic Thought

Who Stole the American Dream?

av Hedrick Smith • 2012

One 1971 memo mobilized business for political combat. The middle class never recovered.

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🏛️ Political Economy 🏢 Corporate Power 📉 Middle Class Decline 💰 Income Inequality 🗳️ Campaign Finance

Who Stole the American Dream?

One 1971 memo mobilized business for political combat. The middle class never recovered.

av Hedrick Smith 2012 624 sidor

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🏛️ Political Economy 🏢 Corporate Power 📉 Middle Class Decline 💰 Income Inequality 🗳️ Campaign Finance

Secondhand Time

av Svetlana Alexievich • 2013

A civilization vanished with the USSR, leaving millions unprepared for the freedom they craved.

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🎙️ Oral History 🪆 Post-Soviet Russia 🧠 Collective Memory ⛓️ Totalitarian Legacies 🏢 Everyday Socialism

Secondhand Time

A civilization vanished with the USSR, leaving millions unprepared for the freedom they craved.

av Svetlana Alexievich 2013 496 sidor

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🎙️ Oral History 🪆 Post-Soviet Russia 🧠 Collective Memory ⛓️ Totalitarian Legacies 🏢 Everyday Socialism

How We Think

av John Dewey • 1997

One grid, thirteen virtues, a lifetime of revisions: the system that built a founding father.

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🏛️ American Enlightenment 🇺🇸 Founding Fathers ⚖️ Virtue Ethics 🔄 Habit Formation 🦉 Practical Wisdom

How We Think

One grid, thirteen virtues, a lifetime of revisions: the system that built a founding father.

av John Dewey 1997 240 sidor

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🏛️ American Enlightenment 🇺🇸 Founding Fathers ⚖️ Virtue Ethics 🔄 Habit Formation 🦉 Practical Wisdom

Working

av Robert A. Caro • 2019

How one biographer's archival obsession made Robert Moses and Lyndon Johnson give up their secrets.

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🔍 Biographical Research 📰 Narrative Journalism 📜 Archival Research 🏛️ Political Biography 🗺️ Sense Of Place

Working

How one biographer's archival obsession made Robert Moses and Lyndon Johnson give up their secrets.

av Robert A. Caro 2019 231 sidor

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🔍 Biographical Research 📰 Narrative Journalism 📜 Archival Research 🏛️ Political Biography 🗺️ Sense Of Place

The Coming Prince

av Robert Anderson • 1957

Daniel's seventy weeks are a countdown to the Cross, verifiable to the precise year.

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📖 Book Of Daniel ✝️ Messianic Prophecy 📅 Biblical Chronology ⏳ Dispensationalism 🕊️ Premillennialism

The Coming Prince

Daniel's seventy weeks are a countdown to the Cross, verifiable to the precise year.

av Robert Anderson 1957 320 sidor

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📖 Book Of Daniel ✝️ Messianic Prophecy 📅 Biblical Chronology ⏳ Dispensationalism 🕊️ Premillennialism

The Science of Harry Potter

av Roger Highfield • 2002

Your brain is wired for magic. The science that explains why, from alchemy to Harry Potter.

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The Science of Harry Potter

Your brain is wired for magic. The science that explains why, from alchemy to Harry Potter.

av Roger Highfield 2002 322 sidor

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The Hero with a Thousand Faces

av Joseph Campbell • 1972

A scholar traced one story pattern through every myth on earth, and Hollywood never looked back.

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🔍 Comparative Mythology 🧠 Jungian Psychology 📖 Story Archetypes ⚔️ Heroic Archetypes 🕉️ Comparative Religion

The Hero with a Thousand Faces

A scholar traced one story pattern through every myth on earth, and Hollywood never looked back.

av Joseph Campbell 1972 416 sidor

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🔍 Comparative Mythology 🧠 Jungian Psychology 📖 Story Archetypes ⚔️ Heroic Archetypes 🕉️ Comparative Religion

Saving Capitalism

av Robert B. Reich • 2004

Capitalism's rules are written by the powerful, and the rest of us pay the price.

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🏛️ Political Economy 📉 Economic Inequality 🏗️ Market Regulation 🏢 Corporate Power ⚒️ Labor And Unions

Saving Capitalism

Capitalism's rules are written by the powerful, and the rest of us pay the price.

av Robert B. Reich 2004 219 sidor

4.18

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Facing the Lion - Memoirs of a Young Girl in Nazi Europe

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Refused the Nazi salute at twelve. Reform school. Parents to camps. Then she chose to forgive.

4.72

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Facing the Lion - Memoirs of a Young Girl in Nazi Europe

Refused the Nazi salute at twelve. Reform school. Parents to camps. Then she chose to forgive.

av Simone Arnold Liebster 2000 508 sidor

4.72

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The $12 Million Stuffed Shark

av Don Thompson • 2008

The art market runs on branding and insecurity. A $12 million dead shark proves it.

3.87

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🎨 Art Market 🖼️ Contemporary Art 📊 Behavioral Economics 💰 Art Investment 🧠 Collector Psychology

The $12 Million Stuffed Shark

The art market runs on branding and insecurity. A $12 million dead shark proves it.

av Don Thompson 2008 272 sidor

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One Bullet Away

av Nathaniel Fick • 2005

A classics major becomes a Marine officer and leads a recon platoon through Afghanistan and Iraq.

4.21

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📖 Military Memoir 🦅 Marine Corps 🫡 Military Leadership 🏙️ Post-9/11 Wars 🤝 Unit Cohesion

One Bullet Away

A classics major becomes a Marine officer and leads a recon platoon through Afghanistan and Iraq.

av Nathaniel Fick 2005 372 sidor

4.21

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