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Giants of Enterprise

av Richard S. Tedlow • 2001

Seven titans built American business. The power they won then turned on them.

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📜 Business History 🇺🇸 American Capitalism 🏭 Industrial Innovation 🛍️ Consumer Culture 🏷️ Brand Building

Giants of Enterprise

Seven titans built American business. The power they won then turned on them.

av Richard S. Tedlow 2001 512 sidor

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📜 Business History 🇺🇸 American Capitalism 🏭 Industrial Innovation 🛍️ Consumer Culture 🏷️ Brand Building

Melania and Me

av Stephanie Winston Wolkoff • 2020

She made Melania Vogue-ready, planned the inauguration, then became its $26 million scapegoat.

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🏛️ White House Insider 🇺🇸 Trump Administration 📖 Political Memoirs 👯 Female Friendship 📰 Political Scandal

Melania and Me

She made Melania Vogue-ready, planned the inauguration, then became its $26 million scapegoat.

av Stephanie Winston Wolkoff 2020 351 sidor

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🏛️ White House Insider 🇺🇸 Trump Administration 📖 Political Memoirs 👯 Female Friendship 📰 Political Scandal

What Happened to Goldman Sachs

av Steven G. Mandis • 2013

Goldman's handshake culture eroded when it went public, scaled, and let legalism replace ethics.

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🏦 Wall Street 📈 Investment Banking 🏢 Corporate Culture ⚖️ Business Ethics 🔬 Organizational Sociology

What Happened to Goldman Sachs

Goldman's handshake culture eroded when it went public, scaled, and let legalism replace ethics.

av Steven G. Mandis 2013 400 sidor

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🏦 Wall Street 📈 Investment Banking 🏢 Corporate Culture ⚖️ Business Ethics 🔬 Organizational Sociology

Power Failure

av William D. Cohan • 2022

The celebrated CEO playbook that made GE an icon also programmed its collapse.

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🏢 Corporate History 💰 Financial Engineering 📖 Business Biography 📊 Earnings Management 📉 Organizational Decline

Power Failure

The celebrated CEO playbook that made GE an icon also programmed its collapse.

av William D. Cohan 2022 816 sidor

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🏢 Corporate History 💰 Financial Engineering 📖 Business Biography 📊 Earnings Management 📉 Organizational Decline

A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived

av Adam Rutherford • 2016

The genome reveals one family: shared ancestors 3,400 years ago. Race was never real.

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🧬 Human Genetics 🏺 Ancient DNA 🌍 Human Origins 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Race And Genetics 🧩 Nature Vs Nurture

A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived

The genome reveals one family: shared ancestors 3,400 years ago. Race was never real.

av Adam Rutherford 2016 419 sidor

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🧬 Human Genetics 🏺 Ancient DNA 🌍 Human Origins 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Race And Genetics 🧩 Nature Vs Nurture

The Utopia of Rules

av David Graeber • 2013

Every market reform increases paperwork. The violence, stupidity, and secret appeal of bureaucracy.

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🌍 Political Anthropology 🗄️ Bureaucratic Critique ⚡ Structural Violence 💰 Market Mythology 💡 Radical Imagination

The Utopia of Rules

Every market reform increases paperwork. The violence, stupidity, and secret appeal of bureaucracy.

av David Graeber 2013 261 sidor

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🌍 Political Anthropology 🗄️ Bureaucratic Critique ⚡ Structural Violence 💰 Market Mythology 💡 Radical Imagination

The Alchemy of Us

av Ainissa Ramirez • 2020

We invented quartz clocks, steel rails, and silicon chips. Then they reinvented us.

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🧪 Materials Science 🔧 History Of Technology 🏺 Material Culture 🔍 Hidden History 📦 Everyday Objects

The Alchemy of Us

We invented quartz clocks, steel rails, and silicon chips. Then they reinvented us.

av Ainissa Ramirez 2020 328 sidor

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🧪 Materials Science 🔧 History Of Technology 🏺 Material Culture 🔍 Hidden History 📦 Everyday Objects

The Father of Spin

av Larry Tye • 1998

A parade of smoking debutantes, a heartier breakfast, and the man who engineered modern spin.

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📚 Public Relations History 🧠 Propaganda Studies 🗣️ Mass Persuasion 🛍️ Consumer Culture 🗳️ Political Spin

The Father of Spin

A parade of smoking debutantes, a heartier breakfast, and the man who engineered modern spin.

av Larry Tye 1998 304 sidor

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📚 Public Relations History 🧠 Propaganda Studies 🗣️ Mass Persuasion 🛍️ Consumer Culture 🗳️ Political Spin

The Intellectual Devotional

av David S. Kidder

365 readings on the 1960s: the decade that shaped modern America, in five minutes a day.

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📚 Cultural Literacy 🇺🇸 American History ✌️ The 1960s 📅 Daily Readers 🧩 Trivia Collections

The Intellectual Devotional

365 readings on the 1960s: the decade that shaped modern America, in five minutes a day.

av David S. Kidder 390 sidor

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📚 Cultural Literacy 🇺🇸 American History ✌️ The 1960s 📅 Daily Readers 🧩 Trivia Collections

Prometheus and Atlas

av Jason Reza Jorjani • 2016

Paranormal abilities are real, and Western civilization depends on suppressing that.

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🧠 Continental Philosophy 🔮 Esoteric Philosophy 👻 Paranormal Phenomena 🏛️ Mythic Archetypes ⚡ Critique Of Modernity

Prometheus and Atlas

Paranormal abilities are real, and Western civilization depends on suppressing that.

av Jason Reza Jorjani 2016 466 sidor

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🧠 Continental Philosophy 🔮 Esoteric Philosophy 👻 Paranormal Phenomena 🏛️ Mythic Archetypes ⚡ Critique Of Modernity

Carmide

av Plato

What is temperance? The pursuit leads Socrates to ask whether knowledge can study only itself.

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🏛️ Ancient Philosophy 💬 Socratic Dialogue ⚖️ Virtue Ethics 🪞 Self-Knowledge 🔍 Socratic Method

Carmide

What is temperance? The pursuit leads Socrates to ask whether knowledge can study only itself.

av Plato

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🏛️ Ancient Philosophy 💬 Socratic Dialogue ⚖️ Virtue Ethics 🪞 Self-Knowledge 🔍 Socratic Method

Losing the Signal

av Jacquie McNish • 2015

BlackBerry owned the smartphone. Then two CEOs, a buggy Storm, and the iPhone took everything.

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🏭 Tech Industry 📖 Company Sagas ⚠️ Innovator's Dilemma 💥 Leadership Failures 📉 Corporate Decline

Losing the Signal

BlackBerry owned the smartphone. Then two CEOs, a buggy Storm, and the iPhone took everything.

av Jacquie McNish 2015 279 sidor

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🏭 Tech Industry 📖 Company Sagas ⚠️ Innovator's Dilemma 💥 Leadership Failures 📉 Corporate Decline

Pillars of Creation

av Richard Panek • 2024

A ten-billion-dollar telescope with 344 ways to fail, and the universe it found in one morning.

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🔭 Space Telescopes 🌌 Astrophysics 💥 Cosmic Origins 🪐 Exoplanets 🌠 Galactic Evolution

Pillars of Creation

A ten-billion-dollar telescope with 344 ways to fail, and the universe it found in one morning.

av Richard Panek 2024 256 sidor

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🔭 Space Telescopes 🌌 Astrophysics 💥 Cosmic Origins 🪐 Exoplanets 🌠 Galactic Evolution

The Mastery Manual

av Robin Sharma • 2015

Three faiths claimed one city for three thousand years. Every conqueror thought they'd be the last.

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🏛️ Religious History 🌍 Middle Eastern History 🕊️ Abrahamic Faiths ⚔️ Religious Conflict 🏜️ Holy Land

The Mastery Manual

Three faiths claimed one city for three thousand years. Every conqueror thought they'd be the last.

av Robin Sharma 2015 200 sidor

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🏛️ Religious History 🌍 Middle Eastern History 🕊️ Abrahamic Faiths ⚔️ Religious Conflict 🏜️ Holy Land

The Divider

av Peter Baker • 2022

Trump's presidency was built on division. The Capitol attack was where that architecture led.

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🏛️ Presidential History 🟠 Trump Presidency ⚔️ Political Division 📉 Democratic Backsliding 📺 Media And Politics

The Divider

Trump's presidency was built on division. The Capitol attack was where that architecture led.

av Peter Baker 2022 725 sidor

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🏛️ Presidential History 🟠 Trump Presidency ⚔️ Political Division 📉 Democratic Backsliding 📺 Media And Politics

The Unsettling of America

av Wendell Berry • 1977

America's farming crisis is really a crisis of character. The soil tells the story.

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🧑‍🌾 Agrarian Philosophy 🌍 Land Ethics 🚜 Farming Criticism 🏘️ Localism ⚖️ Moral Economy

The Unsettling of America

America's farming crisis is really a crisis of character. The soil tells the story.

av Wendell Berry 1977 246 sidor

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🧑‍🌾 Agrarian Philosophy 🌍 Land Ethics 🚜 Farming Criticism 🏘️ Localism ⚖️ Moral Economy

A History of the Crusades, Vol. III

av Steven Runciman • 1951

Jerusalem fell. Three kings marched east. The Crusades never recovered; the end took a century.

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🏰 Crusader States ⚔️ Medieval Warfare ✝️ Religious Wars 🏯 Siege Warfare 🌍 Middle Eastern History

A History of the Crusades, Vol. III

Jerusalem fell. Three kings marched east. The Crusades never recovered; the end took a century.

av Steven Runciman 1951 542 sidor

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🏰 Crusader States ⚔️ Medieval Warfare ✝️ Religious Wars 🏯 Siege Warfare 🌍 Middle Eastern History

Because Internet

av Gretchen McCulloch • 2019

Why a period feels angry and emoji work like gestures: the hidden grammar of internet English.

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🖥️ Internet Linguistics ✍️ Informal Writing 👋 Digital Gestures 🌐 Internet Culture 🗣️ Sociolinguistics

Because Internet

Why a period feels angry and emoji work like gestures: the hidden grammar of internet English.

av Gretchen McCulloch 2019 273 sidor

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🖥️ Internet Linguistics ✍️ Informal Writing 👋 Digital Gestures 🌐 Internet Culture 🗣️ Sociolinguistics

Hegel

av Peter Singer • 1983

Mind, not matter, drives reality. History is freedom waking up. Hegel explained why.

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🧠 German Idealism ⚙️ Dialectical Method 🕰️ Philosophy Of History 🕊️ Rational Freedom 🤝 Social Recognition

Hegel

Mind, not matter, drives reality. History is freedom waking up. Hegel explained why.

av Peter Singer 1983 131 sidor

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🧠 German Idealism ⚙️ Dialectical Method 🕰️ Philosophy Of History 🕊️ Rational Freedom 🤝 Social Recognition

Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race

av Reni Eddo-Lodge • 2017

Britain's racism is structural, not personal. Why not seeing race protects the design.

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🔗 Structural Racism 🇬🇧 British Black Experience 🪞 White Privilege 🔀 Intersectional Feminism 🛠️ Anti-Racism Practice

Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race

Britain's racism is structural, not personal. Why not seeing race protects the design.

av Reni Eddo-Lodge 2017 249 sidor

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🔗 Structural Racism 🇬🇧 British Black Experience 🪞 White Privilege 🔀 Intersectional Feminism 🛠️ Anti-Racism Practice

The Diversity Illusion

av Ed West • 2012

Three million newcomers, zero economic gain. The real cost: a society that stopped trusting.

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🏛️ Immigration Policy 🇬🇧 British Politics 🤝 Social Capital 🧐 Multiculturalism Critique 📊 Demographic Change

The Diversity Illusion

Three million newcomers, zero economic gain. The real cost: a society that stopped trusting.

av Ed West 2012 288 sidor

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🏛️ Immigration Policy 🇬🇧 British Politics 🤝 Social Capital 🧐 Multiculturalism Critique 📊 Demographic Change

The End of Burnout

av Jonathan Malesic • 2022

Burnout is a cultural crisis, not a personal illness. The cure is fewer hours and real leisure.

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📊 Sociology Of Work 🧯 Burnout Recovery 🏢 Workplace Culture ✊ Anti-Work Critique 📉 Labor Economics

The End of Burnout

Burnout is a cultural crisis, not a personal illness. The cure is fewer hours and real leisure.

av Jonathan Malesic 2022 288 sidor

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📊 Sociology Of Work 🧯 Burnout Recovery 🏢 Workplace Culture ✊ Anti-Work Critique 📉 Labor Economics

A Human History of Emotion

av Richard Firth-Godbehere • 2021

Your six basic emotions are a modern Western fiction, and projecting them backward changed history.

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🎭 History Of Emotions 🌍 Cultural Psychology 🧱 Constructed Emotion ⚖️ Emotional Regimes 👥 Social History

A Human History of Emotion

Your six basic emotions are a modern Western fiction, and projecting them backward changed history.

av Richard Firth-Godbehere 2021 336 sidor

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🎭 History Of Emotions 🌍 Cultural Psychology 🧱 Constructed Emotion ⚖️ Emotional Regimes 👥 Social History

Caste

av Isabel Wilkerson • 2020

America's deepest divide isn't race but caste, a hidden hierarchy four hundred years old.

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🏛️ Racial Hierarchy ⛓️ Systemic Racism 🚧 American Apartheid 😶 Dehumanization 🔺 Social Hierarchy

Caste

America's deepest divide isn't race but caste, a hidden hierarchy four hundred years old.

av Isabel Wilkerson 2020 456 sidor

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🏛️ Racial Hierarchy ⛓️ Systemic Racism 🚧 American Apartheid 😶 Dehumanization 🔺 Social Hierarchy

Andrew Carnegie

av David Nasaw • 2006

How a penniless immigrant built the world's biggest steel empire, and then tried to die broke.

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🏛️ Gilded Age 🧑‍💼 Captains Of Industry 🎁 Strategic Philanthropy 📜 Business History 💪 Self-Made Men

Andrew Carnegie

How a penniless immigrant built the world's biggest steel empire, and then tried to die broke.

av David Nasaw 2006 896 sidor

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🏛️ Gilded Age 🧑‍💼 Captains Of Industry 🎁 Strategic Philanthropy 📜 Business History 💪 Self-Made Men

A Doctor in the House

av Mahathir Mohamad • 2011

A country doctor, expelled by his party, returned to lead Malaysia and told the IMF no.

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🌏 Southeast Asian Politics 🏗️ Nation-Building 📜 Political Memoirs 🏭 Developmental State 💹 Economic Nationalism

A Doctor in the House

A country doctor, expelled by his party, returned to lead Malaysia and told the IMF no.

av Mahathir Mohamad 2011 843 sidor

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🌏 Southeast Asian Politics 🏗️ Nation-Building 📜 Political Memoirs 🏭 Developmental State 💹 Economic Nationalism

The Hadith

av محمد بن إسماعيل البخاري

The Qur'an is the constitution; this is the case law: 2,600 authenticated sayings of the Prophet.

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📜 Hadith Studies 📖 Islamic Scripture ☪️ Sunni Islam ⚖️ Islamic Law 🤲 Islamic Ethics

The Hadith

The Qur'an is the constitution; this is the case law: 2,600 authenticated sayings of the Prophet.

av محمد بن إسماعيل البخاري 502 sidor

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📜 Hadith Studies 📖 Islamic Scripture ☪️ Sunni Islam ⚖️ Islamic Law 🤲 Islamic Ethics

Long Walk to Freedom

av Nelson Mandela • 1994

After 27 years in prison, his first act of freedom was to shake his jailer's hand.

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📖 South African History ✊🏿 Anti-Apartheid Struggle ⛓️ Political Imprisonment ⚖️ Racial Justice 🕊️ Forgiveness And Reconciliation

Long Walk to Freedom

After 27 years in prison, his first act of freedom was to shake his jailer's hand.

av Nelson Mandela 1994 656 sidor

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📖 South African History ✊🏿 Anti-Apartheid Struggle ⛓️ Political Imprisonment ⚖️ Racial Justice 🕊️ Forgiveness And Reconciliation

The Books of Enoch

av Joseph B. Lumpkin

Angel rebellion, forbidden knowledge, and a mortal who sat on a throne next to God.

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📜 Biblical Pseudepigrapha 🌪️ Apocalyptic Literature 🕎 Second Temple Judaism 👼 Angelology ☀️ Sacred Cosmology

The Books of Enoch

Angel rebellion, forbidden knowledge, and a mortal who sat on a throne next to God.

av Joseph B. Lumpkin 366 sidor

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📜 Biblical Pseudepigrapha 🌪️ Apocalyptic Literature 🕎 Second Temple Judaism 👼 Angelology ☀️ Sacred Cosmology

The Song Machine

av John Seabrook • 2015

Pop hits aren't moments of genius; they're manufactured on an assembly line that began in Stockholm.

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🎯 Hit Making ✍️ Pop Songwriting 💻 Digital Disruption 🎧 Streaming 🌍 Music Globalization

The Song Machine

Pop hits aren't moments of genius; they're manufactured on an assembly line that began in Stockholm.

av John Seabrook 2015 336 sidor

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🎯 Hit Making ✍️ Pop Songwriting 💻 Digital Disruption 🎧 Streaming 🌍 Music Globalization

The Mis-Education of the Negro

av Carter G. Woodson • 1933

America's most effective tool of racial control was never the police. It was the classroom.

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🏫 Black Education ✊ Racial Uplift ⛓️ Educational Oppression 🧠 Critical Consciousness 💰 Economic Self-Reliance

The Mis-Education of the Negro

America's most effective tool of racial control was never the police. It was the classroom.

av Carter G. Woodson 1933 162 sidor

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🏫 Black Education ✊ Racial Uplift ⛓️ Educational Oppression 🧠 Critical Consciousness 💰 Economic Self-Reliance

It Doesn't Take a Hero

av H. Norman Schwarzkopf • 1992

He never claimed to be a hero. His command of Desert Storm proved the point.

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🫡 Military Leadership 📖 Modern Military Memoir 🇻🇳 Vietnam War Reflections ⚔️ Warrior Ethos 🧠 Military Resilience

It Doesn't Take a Hero

He never claimed to be a hero. His command of Desert Storm proved the point.

av H. Norman Schwarzkopf 1992 530 sidor

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🫡 Military Leadership 📖 Modern Military Memoir 🇻🇳 Vietnam War Reflections ⚔️ Warrior Ethos 🧠 Military Resilience

Extra Life

av Steven Johnson • 2023

For millennia, humans lived to thirty-five. Then, in a century, we doubled it. How that happened.

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🏥 Public Health 📜 History Of Medicine 🦠 Epidemiology 💉 Vaccination 🚽 Sanitation

Extra Life

For millennia, humans lived to thirty-five. Then, in a century, we doubled it. How that happened.

av Steven Johnson 2023 320 sidor

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🏥 Public Health 📜 History Of Medicine 🦠 Epidemiology 💉 Vaccination 🚽 Sanitation

Kings of Crypto

av Jeff John Roberts • 2021

One startup made bitcoin simple. The regulators came. Then the rivals. Then the civil war.

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🪙 Cryptocurrency 🏦 Fintech Startups 🏛️ Crypto Exchanges 📈 Startup Scaling 🏢 Company Biography

Kings of Crypto

One startup made bitcoin simple. The regulators came. Then the rivals. Then the civil war.

av Jeff John Roberts 2021 236 sidor

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🪙 Cryptocurrency 🏦 Fintech Startups 🏛️ Crypto Exchanges 📈 Startup Scaling 🏢 Company Biography

Homage to Catlonia

av George Orwell • 1938

Orwell fought Fascists in Spain and discovered a revolution being betrayed by its leftist allies.

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⚔️ Spanish Civil War 🐷 Revolutionary Betrayal ☭ Anti Stalinism 📢 War Propaganda ✊ Worker Solidarity

Homage to Catlonia

Orwell fought Fascists in Spain and discovered a revolution being betrayed by its leftist allies.

av George Orwell 1938

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⚔️ Spanish Civil War 🐷 Revolutionary Betrayal ☭ Anti Stalinism 📢 War Propaganda ✊ Worker Solidarity

The Dope

av Benjamin T. Smith • 2021

State agents, not traffickers, first unleashed the worst violence of Mexico’s drug war.

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🇲🇽 Mexican Drug War 💰 Drug Trafficking ⚔️ War On Drugs 🏛️ State Corruption 🕴️ Organized Crime

The Dope

State agents, not traffickers, first unleashed the worst violence of Mexico’s drug war.

av Benjamin T. Smith 2021 464 sidor

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🇲🇽 Mexican Drug War 💰 Drug Trafficking ⚔️ War On Drugs 🏛️ State Corruption 🕴️ Organized Crime

The Lever of Riches

av Joel Mokyr • 1990

Europe didn't out-invent Asia by chance. Culture, not geography, explains who industrializes first.

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🏛️ Economic History 🔧 History Of Technology 🏭 Industrial Revolution 🌏 Great Divergence 💡 Innovation Economics

The Lever of Riches

Europe didn't out-invent Asia by chance. Culture, not geography, explains who industrializes first.

av Joel Mokyr 1990 368 sidor

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🏛️ Economic History 🔧 History Of Technology 🏭 Industrial Revolution 🌏 Great Divergence 💡 Innovation Economics

Shitbürgertum

av Ulf Poschardt • 2025

Moral posturing, language control, contempt for ambition: how a parasitic class captured Germany.

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🇩🇪 German Politics 🏛️ Elite Critique 🎭 Cultural Hegemony 🗣️ Language And Power 🏗️ State Worship

Shitbürgertum

Moral posturing, language control, contempt for ambition: how a parasitic class captured Germany.

av Ulf Poschardt 2025 164 sidor

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🇩🇪 German Politics 🏛️ Elite Critique 🎭 Cultural Hegemony 🗣️ Language And Power 🏗️ State Worship

The House of Rothschild, Vol 2

av Niall Ferguson • 1998

Europe's most powerful bank was a family affair. The biggest risk was the family itself.

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👑 Banking Dynasties 🌐 International Finance ✡️ Jewish Emancipation ⚔️ War Financing 🏦 Merchant Banking

The House of Rothschild, Vol 2

Europe's most powerful bank was a family affair. The biggest risk was the family itself.

av Niall Ferguson 1998 592 sidor

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👑 Banking Dynasties 🌐 International Finance ✡️ Jewish Emancipation ⚔️ War Financing 🏦 Merchant Banking

How to Argue With a Racist

av Adam Rutherford • 2020

How to shut down racist pseudoscience with real genetics: ancestry, athletics, and intelligence.

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📊 Population Genetics 🧬 Race And Genetics 🌳 Genetic Ancestry 🔍 Pseudoscience Criticism 🧪 Evolutionary Biology

How to Argue With a Racist

How to shut down racist pseudoscience with real genetics: ancestry, athletics, and intelligence.

av Adam Rutherford 2020 224 sidor

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📊 Population Genetics 🧬 Race And Genetics 🌳 Genetic Ancestry 🔍 Pseudoscience Criticism 🧪 Evolutionary Biology

Great Myths of the Brain

av Christian Jarrett • 2014

10% usage, right-brain creativity, five senses: all myths. The brain behind them is far weirder.

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Great Myths of the Brain

10% usage, right-brain creativity, five senses: all myths. The brain behind them is far weirder.

av Christian Jarrett 2014 368 sidor

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Freedom is a Constant Struggle

av Angela Y. Davis • 2015

Ferguson and Palestine share a playbook of state violence. The resistance is building its own.

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🚫 Prison Abolition ✊🏾 Black Feminism 🌍 Global Solidarity 🔀 Intersectionality ⚠️ State Violence

Freedom is a Constant Struggle

Ferguson and Palestine share a playbook of state violence. The resistance is building its own.

av Angela Y. Davis 2015 158 sidor

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🚫 Prison Abolition ✊🏾 Black Feminism 🌍 Global Solidarity 🔀 Intersectionality ⚠️ State Violence

امیل

av Jean-Jacques Rousseau • 1762

Three forces educate every child: nature, things, and people. Only one is trustworthy.

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🏛️ Philosophy Of Education 🧒 Child Development 🌿 Natural Education 🧪 Experiential Learning 👁️ Sensory Training

امیل

Three forces educate every child: nature, things, and people. Only one is trustworthy.

av Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1762 408 sidor

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🏛️ Philosophy Of Education 🧒 Child Development 🌿 Natural Education 🧪 Experiential Learning 👁️ Sensory Training

How Tyrants Fall

av Marcel Dirsus • 2024

The trap of power: why most dictators meet exile, prison, or a violent end.

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🏛️ Authoritarian Regimes 🌐 Comparative Politics ⚔️ Coup Dynamics 🎖️ Civil-Military Relations ✊ Nonviolent Resistance

How Tyrants Fall

The trap of power: why most dictators meet exile, prison, or a violent end.

av Marcel Dirsus 2024 274 sidor

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🏛️ Authoritarian Regimes 🌐 Comparative Politics ⚔️ Coup Dynamics 🎖️ Civil-Military Relations ✊ Nonviolent Resistance

The White Man's Burden

av William Easterly • 2006

$2.3 trillion in aid left the poorest no better off. A World Bank insider explains why.

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📈 Development Economics 🔍 Aid Skepticism 🌱 Bottom-Up Development 🔗 Colonial Legacies 🗳️ Public Choice Theory

The White Man's Burden

$2.3 trillion in aid left the poorest no better off. A World Bank insider explains why.

av William Easterly 2006 443 sidor

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📈 Development Economics 🔍 Aid Skepticism 🌱 Bottom-Up Development 🔗 Colonial Legacies 🗳️ Public Choice Theory

The Big Con

av David W. Maurer • 1940

The con man's only real partner is the mark's greed. A 1940 study of American swindlers.

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🎭 Con Artistry 🔍 Criminal Subcultures 🗣️ Criminal Language 🧠 Social Engineering 🎪 Psychology Of Deception

The Big Con

The con man's only real partner is the mark's greed. A 1940 study of American swindlers.

av David W. Maurer 1940 315 sidor

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🎭 Con Artistry 🔍 Criminal Subcultures 🗣️ Criminal Language 🧠 Social Engineering 🎪 Psychology Of Deception

Heroes

av Stephen Fry • 2018

Heracles, Jason, Theseus: the Greek heroes who fought monsters, defied gods, and fell hard.

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🏛️ Greek Mythology 📖 Mythological Retellings ⚔️ Heroic Quests ⚡ Gods And Mortals 🔮 Fate And Prophecy

Heroes

Heracles, Jason, Theseus: the Greek heroes who fought monsters, defied gods, and fell hard.

av Stephen Fry 2018 415 sidor

4.31

61 000+ betyg

🏛️ Greek Mythology 📖 Mythological Retellings ⚔️ Heroic Quests ⚡ Gods And Mortals 🔮 Fate And Prophecy

The Misinformation Age

av Cailin O'Connor • 2018

False beliefs spread through social networks, not faulty brains. And the math proves it.

3.77

1 000+

🧠 Social Epistemology 🕸️ Network Science 💭 Belief Formation 🏭 Manufactured Doubt 🔬 Scientific Consensus

The Misinformation Age

False beliefs spread through social networks, not faulty brains. And the math proves it.

av Cailin O'Connor 2018 280 sidor

3.77

1 000+ betyg

🧠 Social Epistemology 🕸️ Network Science 💭 Belief Formation 🏭 Manufactured Doubt 🔬 Scientific Consensus

Freedom Farmers

av Monica M. White • 2018

How Black farmers built cooperative freedom, from Reconstruction fields to Detroit’s urban farms.

4.36

404

🌱 Black Agriculture 🥗 Food Sovereignty 🤝 Cooperative Economics 🏙️ Urban Farming 🫂 Mutual Aid

Freedom Farmers

How Black farmers built cooperative freedom, from Reconstruction fields to Detroit’s urban farms.

av Monica M. White 2018 189 sidor

4.36

404 betyg

🌱 Black Agriculture 🥗 Food Sovereignty 🤝 Cooperative Economics 🏙️ Urban Farming 🫂 Mutual Aid

Machines of Loving Grace

av John Markoff • 2015

Silicon Valley split between replacing humans and upgrading them. The fight isn't over.

3.67

500+

🖥️ History Of Computing 🤖 Artificial Intelligence 🖱️ Human-Computer Interaction 🏭 Automation And Labor ⚖️ Ai Ethics

Machines of Loving Grace

Silicon Valley split between replacing humans and upgrading them. The fight isn't over.

av John Markoff 2015 400 sidor

3.67

500+ betyg

🖥️ History Of Computing 🤖 Artificial Intelligence 🖱️ Human-Computer Interaction 🏭 Automation And Labor ⚖️ Ai Ethics

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