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The Rise

av Mike Sielski • 2022

Philly's edge and Italy's discipline forged Kobe's armor. It brought five rings and total isolation.

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🏀 Nba Legends 🎭 Complex Legacies ⚖️ Cost Of Ambition 🧠 Sports Psychology 🏃 Driven Athletes

The Rise

Philly's edge and Italy's discipline forged Kobe's armor. It brought five rings and total isolation.

av Mike Sielski 2022 372 sidor

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🏀 Nba Legends 🎭 Complex Legacies ⚖️ Cost Of Ambition 🧠 Sports Psychology 🏃 Driven Athletes

Hate Inc.

av Matt Taibbi • 2019

The news isn't failing to inform you. It's succeeding at its real job: selling your outrage.

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📰 Media Criticism 😡 Outrage Economy 🎭 Media Manipulation 🏛️ Partisan Division 📱 News Addiction

Hate Inc.

The news isn't failing to inform you. It's succeeding at its real job: selling your outrage.

av Matt Taibbi 2019 380 sidor

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📰 Media Criticism 😡 Outrage Economy 🎭 Media Manipulation 🏛️ Partisan Division 📱 News Addiction

A Brief History of the Spanish Language

av David A. Pharies • 2007

Why you say 'puerta' not 'porta': the hidden rules that shaped Spanish over two millennia.

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📜 Historical Linguistics 🏛️ Romance Linguistics 🇪🇸 Spanish Language 📖 Etymology 🤝 Language Contact

A Brief History of the Spanish Language

Why you say 'puerta' not 'porta': the hidden rules that shaped Spanish over two millennia.

av David A. Pharies 2007 248 sidor

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📜 Historical Linguistics 🏛️ Romance Linguistics 🇪🇸 Spanish Language 📖 Etymology 🤝 Language Contact

Off With Her Head

av Eleanor Herman • 2022

Same script, 3,000 years: how the methods for destroying powerful women never change.

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🏛️ Women In Leadership 🔞 Sexual Slander 🗣️ Linguistic Sexism 👗 Appearance Policing 😡 Anger And Gender

Off With Her Head

Same script, 3,000 years: how the methods for destroying powerful women never change.

av Eleanor Herman 2022 356 sidor

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🏛️ Women In Leadership 🔞 Sexual Slander 🗣️ Linguistic Sexism 👗 Appearance Policing 😡 Anger And Gender

The Golem (Canto Classics)

av Harry Collins • 1992

Science, like a golem, is powerful but clumsy. Its real process is social, not neat method.

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🔬 Sociology Of Science 🤔 Philosophy Of Science 🧪 Scientific Method 🧫 Laboratory Studies 🌍 Science And Society

The Golem (Canto Classics)

Science, like a golem, is powerful but clumsy. Its real process is social, not neat method.

av Harry Collins 1992 214 sidor

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🔬 Sociology Of Science 🤔 Philosophy Of Science 🧪 Scientific Method 🧫 Laboratory Studies 🌍 Science And Society

Where the Conflict Really Lies

av Alvin Plantinga • 2011

The real war: not science against God, but science against the view that matter is everything.

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🏛️ Philosophy Of Religion ✝️ Christian Apologetics 🧬 Evolution And Faith 🧠 Reformed Epistemology 🔍 Analytic Philosophy

Where the Conflict Really Lies

The real war: not science against God, but science against the view that matter is everything.

av Alvin Plantinga 2011 376 sidor

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🏛️ Philosophy Of Religion ✝️ Christian Apologetics 🧬 Evolution And Faith 🧠 Reformed Epistemology 🔍 Analytic Philosophy

Down and Out in Paris and London

av George Orwell • 1933

Broke in Paris, Orwell descends into the invisible world of dishwashers and tramps.

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🪶 Poverty Memoir 🎥 Social Documentary 🧹 Working Poor 🍽️ Restaurant Labor 🏛️ Class Analysis

Down and Out in Paris and London

Broke in Paris, Orwell descends into the invisible world of dishwashers and tramps.

av George Orwell 1933 213 sidor

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🪶 Poverty Memoir 🎥 Social Documentary 🧹 Working Poor 🍽️ Restaurant Labor 🏛️ Class Analysis

The Decline and Rise of Democracy

av David Stasavage • 2020

Democracy did not begin in Athens. It emerges where the state is too weak to rule alone.

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🧭 Comparative Politics 📜 Political History 🏗️ State Formation 🌐 Global History 📋 Bureaucracy And Autocracy

The Decline and Rise of Democracy

Democracy did not begin in Athens. It emerges where the state is too weak to rule alone.

av David Stasavage 2020 424 sidor

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🧭 Comparative Politics 📜 Political History 🏗️ State Formation 🌐 Global History 📋 Bureaucracy And Autocracy

It IS About Islam

av Glenn Beck • 2015

Islamic terrorism isn't a misreading. The text commands, the history records, and the polls confirm.

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📜 Islamic Fundamentalism 🌐 Islam And The West 🏛️ Political Islam 💣 Religious Terrorism ⚖️ Sharia Law

It IS About Islam

Islamic terrorism isn't a misreading. The text commands, the history records, and the polls confirm.

av Glenn Beck 2015 272 sidor

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📜 Islamic Fundamentalism 🌐 Islam And The West 🏛️ Political Islam 💣 Religious Terrorism ⚖️ Sharia Law

Our Malady

av Timothy Snyder • 2020

From a hospital bed, a tyranny scholar diagnoses America's for-profit medicine as a freedom crisis.

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🇺🇸 American Healthcare 🏥 Healthcare Reform 💰 Profit In Medicine ⚖️ Health Inequality 🌐 Universal Healthcare

Our Malady

From a hospital bed, a tyranny scholar diagnoses America's for-profit medicine as a freedom crisis.

av Timothy Snyder 2020 181 sidor

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🇺🇸 American Healthcare 🏥 Healthcare Reform 💰 Profit In Medicine ⚖️ Health Inequality 🌐 Universal Healthcare

Looking for Spinoza

av António Damásio • 2001

A neuroscientist reveals feelings are body maps, and Spinoza mapped it first.

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🧠 Affective Neuroscience 🤔 Philosophy Of Mind 🧬 Consciousness Science 🫀 Interoception 🚶 Embodied Cognition

Looking for Spinoza

A neuroscientist reveals feelings are body maps, and Spinoza mapped it first.

av António Damásio 2001 355 sidor

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🧠 Affective Neuroscience 🤔 Philosophy Of Mind 🧬 Consciousness Science 🫀 Interoception 🚶 Embodied Cognition

The Envoy

av Zalmay Khalilzad • 2016

An Afghan immigrant becomes America's envoy in the Muslim world, finding a crisis wars cannot solve.

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🇺🇸 American Foreign Policy 🌍 Middle East Politics 📜 Diplomatic Memoir 🏗️ State Building 💥 Post-9/11 Wars

The Envoy

An Afghan immigrant becomes America's envoy in the Muslim world, finding a crisis wars cannot solve.

av Zalmay Khalilzad 2016 336 sidor

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🇺🇸 American Foreign Policy 🌍 Middle East Politics 📜 Diplomatic Memoir 🏗️ State Building 💥 Post-9/11 Wars

The Labyrinth of Solitude and Other Writings

av Octavio Paz • 1950

Mexico wears a mask. Its silence, bravado, and death rituals all protect a wound centuries deep.

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🧭 National Identity 🌎 Latin American Thought 📜 Postcolonial Theory 🧠 Cultural Psychology 🎭 Self-Presentation

The Labyrinth of Solitude and Other Writings

Mexico wears a mask. Its silence, bravado, and death rituals all protect a wound centuries deep.

av Octavio Paz 1950 398 sidor

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🧭 National Identity 🌎 Latin American Thought 📜 Postcolonial Theory 🧠 Cultural Psychology 🎭 Self-Presentation

Freud and Beyond

av Stephen A. Mitchell • 1995

One founder, many heirs: how psychoanalysis splintered into rival schools after Freud.

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📜 History Of Psychoanalysis ⚖️ Comparative Psychoanalysis 🧸 Object Relations 🛡️ Ego Psychology 🪞 Self Psychology

Freud and Beyond

One founder, many heirs: how psychoanalysis splintered into rival schools after Freud.

av Stephen A. Mitchell 1995 320 sidor

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📜 History Of Psychoanalysis ⚖️ Comparative Psychoanalysis 🧸 Object Relations 🛡️ Ego Psychology 🪞 Self Psychology

The Sirens' Call

av Christopher L. Hayes • 2025

Attention is finite, information is not; that imbalance fuels a hidden war for your mind.

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💰 Attention Economy 📊 Information Overload 📱 Digital Distraction 💬 Social Media Critique 😶 Modern Alienation

The Sirens' Call

Attention is finite, information is not; that imbalance fuels a hidden war for your mind.

av Christopher L. Hayes 2025 336 sidor

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💰 Attention Economy 📊 Information Overload 📱 Digital Distraction 💬 Social Media Critique 😶 Modern Alienation

Final Pagan Generation

av Edward J. Watts • 2015

Why Rome's last pagans didn't fight Christianity but managed its rise from inside the empire.

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🏛️ Late Antiquity ✝️ Early Christianity 📜 Classical Education ⚖️ Imperial Bureaucracy 🎓 Elite Socialization

Final Pagan Generation

Why Rome's last pagans didn't fight Christianity but managed its rise from inside the empire.

av Edward J. Watts 2015 346 sidor

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🏛️ Late Antiquity ✝️ Early Christianity 📜 Classical Education ⚖️ Imperial Bureaucracy 🎓 Elite Socialization

Alexander the Great

av Philip Freeman • 2010

The father built the war machine. The son drove it to India in twelve merciless years.

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⚔️ Ancient Warfare 🏛️ Classical Antiquity 🗺️ Military Campaigns 👑 Imperial Conquest 🏺 Greek History

Alexander the Great

The father built the war machine. The son drove it to India in twelve merciless years.

av Philip Freeman 2010 391 sidor

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⚔️ Ancient Warfare 🏛️ Classical Antiquity 🗺️ Military Campaigns 👑 Imperial Conquest 🏺 Greek History

Outside the Box

av Marc Levinson • 2020

Globalization moved goods and built China. The next phase trades ideas, and new winners emerge.

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🏛️ Economic History 🌍 Global Trade 🔗 Supply Chains 📜 Trade Policy 💰 Global Finance

Outside the Box

Globalization moved goods and built China. The next phase trades ideas, and new winners emerge.

av Marc Levinson 2020 288 sidor

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🏛️ Economic History 🌍 Global Trade 🔗 Supply Chains 📜 Trade Policy 💰 Global Finance

On Kindness

av Adam Phillips • 2009

How kindness went from virtue to embarrassment. A compact history of what self-interest cost us.

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📖 Intellectual History 🛋️ Psychoanalytic Thought 🤝 Altruism And Empathy 🪢 Human Interdependence 🔍 Cultural Criticism

On Kindness

How kindness went from virtue to embarrassment. A compact history of what self-interest cost us.

av Adam Phillips 2009 128 sidor

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📖 Intellectual History 🛋️ Psychoanalytic Thought 🤝 Altruism And Empathy 🪢 Human Interdependence 🔍 Cultural Criticism

Makers and Takers

av Rana Foroohar • 2016

Finance has stopped serving business; it now feeds on it, extracting wealth, not creating it.

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🏦 Financialization ⏳ Short-Termism 🏙️ Wall Street 📈 Shareholder Activism 🗳️ Money In Politics

Makers and Takers

Finance has stopped serving business; it now feeds on it, extracting wealth, not creating it.

av Rana Foroohar 2016 400 sidor

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🏦 Financialization ⏳ Short-Termism 🏙️ Wall Street 📈 Shareholder Activism 🗳️ Money In Politics

The Sea and Civilization

av Lincoln Paine • 2013

Before trains, the sea was the fastest highway. World history from the deck of a ship.

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🧭 Maritime History 🌍 World History 🗺️ Indigenous Navigation 🔱 Maritime Archaeology 🛤️ Trade Routes

The Sea and Civilization

Before trains, the sea was the fastest highway. World history from the deck of a ship.

av Lincoln Paine 2013 784 sidor

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🧭 Maritime History 🌍 World History 🗺️ Indigenous Navigation 🔱 Maritime Archaeology 🛤️ Trade Routes

The Secret Piano

av Zhu Xiao-Mei • 2007

Mao's labor camps couldn't silence her Bach. The Paris debut came at 46.

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🎹 Classical Music 🏮 Cultural Revolution 🎵 Music And Survival ✊ Art As Resistance 🌱 Late Career Rebirth

The Secret Piano

Mao's labor camps couldn't silence her Bach. The Paris debut came at 46.

av Zhu Xiao-Mei 2007 311 sidor

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🎹 Classical Music 🏮 Cultural Revolution 🎵 Music And Survival ✊ Art As Resistance 🌱 Late Career Rebirth

This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends

av Nicole Perlroth • 2021

Inside the hidden bazaar where governments and criminals buy the keys to your digital life.

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🧨 Zero-Day Exploits 💣 Cyberwarfare 🏁 Digital Arms Race 👁️ Surveillance State 🕵️ Digital Espionage

This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends

Inside the hidden bazaar where governments and criminals buy the keys to your digital life.

av Nicole Perlroth 2021 505 sidor

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🧨 Zero-Day Exploits 💣 Cyberwarfare 🏁 Digital Arms Race 👁️ Surveillance State 🕵️ Digital Espionage

The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler

av William L. Shirer • 1984

Failed artist, vagrant, demagogue: the step-by-step dismantling of a democracy that sparked WWII.

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📜 Nazi Germany 🎖️ Wwii Biography 🎭 Political Manipulation 📈 Rise Of Fascism ⛓️ Authoritarian Regimes

The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler

Failed artist, vagrant, demagogue: the step-by-step dismantling of a democracy that sparked WWII.

av William L. Shirer 1984 188 sidor

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📜 Nazi Germany 🎖️ Wwii Biography 🎭 Political Manipulation 📈 Rise Of Fascism ⛓️ Authoritarian Regimes

Sovietistan

av Erika Fatland • 2014

Why a country made gas and electricity free, and what happened when it all ran out.

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🗺️ Post-Soviet States 🏛️ Central Asian History 🚫 Authoritarian Regimes 🎭 Cult Of Personality 🛢️ Resource Curse

Sovietistan

Why a country made gas and electricity free, and what happened when it all ran out.

av Erika Fatland 2014 477 sidor

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🗺️ Post-Soviet States 🏛️ Central Asian History 🚫 Authoritarian Regimes 🎭 Cult Of Personality 🛢️ Resource Curse

Power Play

av Tim Higgins • 2021

A tent factory, a $420 tweet, and a company always one payroll from collapse.

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👔 Corporate Histories 🚗 Automotive Industry ⚡ Disruptive Innovation 👤 Founder-Led Companies 🌱 Clean Energy

Power Play

A tent factory, a $420 tweet, and a company always one payroll from collapse.

av Tim Higgins 2021 534 sidor

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👔 Corporate Histories 🚗 Automotive Industry ⚡ Disruptive Innovation 👤 Founder-Led Companies 🌱 Clean Energy

Breakout Nations

av Ruchir Sharma • 2012

The BRICS boom is fading. Smart money is looking at nations the world has been ignoring.

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🏙️ Emerging Markets 📈 Development Economics 🌐 Global Macro 🛢️ Commodity Cycles 🏛️ Crony Capitalism

Breakout Nations

The BRICS boom is fading. Smart money is looking at nations the world has been ignoring.

av Ruchir Sharma 2012 304 sidor

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🏙️ Emerging Markets 📈 Development Economics 🌐 Global Macro 🛢️ Commodity Cycles 🏛️ Crony Capitalism

The Good Ancestor

av Roman Krznaric • 2020

Short-term thinking is not in our DNA. A philosopher traces its source and the older cure.

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⚖️ Intergenerational Justice 🔭 Longtermism ⏳ Temporal Awareness 🔄 Systems Thinking 🌍 Planetary Boundaries

The Good Ancestor

Short-term thinking is not in our DNA. A philosopher traces its source and the older cure.

av Roman Krznaric 2020 336 sidor

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⚖️ Intergenerational Justice 🔭 Longtermism ⏳ Temporal Awareness 🔄 Systems Thinking 🌍 Planetary Boundaries

Saving Freud

av Andrew Nagorski • 2022

1938: Freud won't flee Vienna. The Nazis are closing in. Five unlikely rescuers race the clock.

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🛋️ Psychoanalysis History 🏛️ Vienna 1900s 🏃 Escape From Nazis 🤝 Wartime Rescue 📚 Intellectual Biography

Saving Freud

1938: Freud won't flee Vienna. The Nazis are closing in. Five unlikely rescuers race the clock.

av Andrew Nagorski 2022 392 sidor

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🛋️ Psychoanalysis History 🏛️ Vienna 1900s 🏃 Escape From Nazis 🤝 Wartime Rescue 📚 Intellectual Biography

The Master of Disguise

av Antonio J. Mendez • 1999

How the CIA disguise chief spirited 150 agents out of hostile territory without a single loss.

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🕵️ Cold War Espionage 🔧 Tradecraft 🚁 Agent Exfiltration 🇺🇸 Cia History 🏛️ Agency Memoirs

The Master of Disguise

How the CIA disguise chief spirited 150 agents out of hostile territory without a single loss.

av Antonio J. Mendez 1999 384 sidor

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🕵️ Cold War Espionage 🔧 Tradecraft 🚁 Agent Exfiltration 🇺🇸 Cia History 🏛️ Agency Memoirs

50 Economics Classics

av Tom Butler-Bowdon • 2017

Fifty classics, one insight each: the ideas that built modern capitalism, and the euro's fatal flaw.

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📚 Economics Primers 🇪🇺 Eurozone Crisis 💰 Monetary Policy 🔗 Currency Unions 📉 Market Failures

50 Economics Classics

Fifty classics, one insight each: the ideas that built modern capitalism, and the euro's fatal flaw.

av Tom Butler-Bowdon 2017 386 sidor

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📚 Economics Primers 🇪🇺 Eurozone Crisis 💰 Monetary Policy 🔗 Currency Unions 📉 Market Failures

Drift

av Rachel Maddow • 2012

No grand conspiracy drove America to endless war. A series of small, reversible decisions did.

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🏭 Military-Industrial Complex 🏛️ Executive Overreach 🎖️ Civilian-Military Divide 💼 Privatization Of War 🇺🇸 American Militarism

Drift

No grand conspiracy drove America to endless war. A series of small, reversible decisions did.

av Rachel Maddow 2012 288 sidor

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🏭 Military-Industrial Complex 🏛️ Executive Overreach 🎖️ Civilian-Military Divide 💼 Privatization Of War 🇺🇸 American Militarism

Capital

av Charles D. Ellis • 2004

The investment firm that replaced star managers with distributed power and won for 70 years.

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💼 Investment Management 📜 Corporate History 🏗️ Organizational Design 🤝 Distributed Leadership ⏳ Long-Term Investing

Capital

The investment firm that replaced star managers with distributed power and won for 70 years.

av Charles D. Ellis 2004 368 sidor

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💼 Investment Management 📜 Corporate History 🏗️ Organizational Design 🤝 Distributed Leadership ⏳ Long-Term Investing

The J Curve

av Ian Bremmer • 2006

The path from oppression to openness runs through a valley where nations break.

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🌍 Comparative Politics 🤝 International Relations 🗺️ Geopolitics 🚫 Authoritarian States 🗳️ Democratic Transitions

The J Curve

The path from oppression to openness runs through a valley where nations break.

av Ian Bremmer 2006 320 sidor

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🌍 Comparative Politics 🤝 International Relations 🗺️ Geopolitics 🚫 Authoritarian States 🗳️ Democratic Transitions

The Body Project

av Joan Jacobs Brumberg • 1997

How a century made American girls' bodies into a consumer project, from menarche to first diet.

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👧 Adolescent Girlhood 💄 Beauty Standards 🥗 Dieting Culture 🎯 Marketing To Girls 🕰️ Body Image History

The Body Project

How a century made American girls' bodies into a consumer project, from menarche to first diet.

av Joan Jacobs Brumberg 1997 214 sidor

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👧 Adolescent Girlhood 💄 Beauty Standards 🥗 Dieting Culture 🎯 Marketing To Girls 🕰️ Body Image History

The Dorito Effect

av Mark Schatzker • 2015

We bred flavor out of food and sprayed imitation back on. Your body noticed.

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🧪 Food Science 🚜 Industrial Agriculture 🏭 Processed Food 👅 Flavor Science 🗳️ Food Politics

The Dorito Effect

We bred flavor out of food and sprayed imitation back on. Your body noticed.

av Mark Schatzker 2015

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🧪 Food Science 🚜 Industrial Agriculture 🏭 Processed Food 👅 Flavor Science 🗳️ Food Politics

History of English literature

av Edward Albert • 1923

From Beowulf to Eliot: the full sweep of English literature, century by century.

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📖 English Literary History 🗂️ Literary Surveys 📚 Textbook Histories 🏛️ Literary Traditions 📜 Canon Formation

History of English literature

From Beowulf to Eliot: the full sweep of English literature, century by century.

av Edward Albert 1923 544 sidor

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📖 English Literary History 🗂️ Literary Surveys 📚 Textbook Histories 🏛️ Literary Traditions 📜 Canon Formation

My Invented Country

av Isabel Allende • 2003

When a coup forced her from Chile, nostalgia became a country she could carry on the page.

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🏞️ Travel Memoir 🛅 Exile Memoir 🇨🇱 Chilean Culture ⏳ Memory And Nostalgia 🗺️ National Identity

My Invented Country

When a coup forced her from Chile, nostalgia became a country she could carry on the page.

av Isabel Allende 2003 222 sidor

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🏞️ Travel Memoir 🛅 Exile Memoir 🇨🇱 Chilean Culture ⏳ Memory And Nostalgia 🗺️ National Identity

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory

av Caitlin Doughty • 2014

A crematory trainee discovers the dead aren't the scary part; the funeral industry is.

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💀 Death Acceptance ⚱️ Funeral Industry 🌿 Natural Burial 🕯️ Death Rituals 🚫 Death Taboos

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory

A crematory trainee discovers the dead aren't the scary part; the funeral industry is.

av Caitlin Doughty 2014 254 sidor

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💀 Death Acceptance ⚱️ Funeral Industry 🌿 Natural Burial 🕯️ Death Rituals 🚫 Death Taboos

Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism

av Kristen R. Ghodsee • 2018

Women have better sex when economically independent. A Cold War experiment proves it.

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✊ Socialist Feminism 🧹 Care Work 👩‍💼 Women And Work 🏥 Welfare State 🏢 State Feminism

Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism

Women have better sex when economically independent. A Cold War experiment proves it.

av Kristen R. Ghodsee 2018 240 sidor

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✊ Socialist Feminism 🧹 Care Work 👩‍💼 Women And Work 🏥 Welfare State 🏢 State Feminism

Reinventing Discovery

av Michael Nielsen • 2011

Science's discovery model held for 300 years. Open networks and citizen labs are replacing it.

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🔓 Open Science 🔭 Citizen Science 🧠 Collective Intelligence 📊 Open Data 📢 Science Communication

Reinventing Discovery

Science's discovery model held for 300 years. Open networks and citizen labs are replacing it.

av Michael Nielsen 2011 272 sidor

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🔓 Open Science 🔭 Citizen Science 🧠 Collective Intelligence 📊 Open Data 📢 Science Communication

Los hornos de Hitler

av Olga Lengyel • 1947

A Hungarian doctor's wife keeps her family together all the way to the gates of Birkenau.

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🕯️ Holocaust Memoir 🏚️ Auschwitz Survivor 🏥 Camp Infirmary ⚔️ Underground Resistance 💔 Survivor Guilt

Los hornos de Hitler

A Hungarian doctor's wife keeps her family together all the way to the gates of Birkenau.

av Olga Lengyel 1947 263 sidor

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🕯️ Holocaust Memoir 🏚️ Auschwitz Survivor 🏥 Camp Infirmary ⚔️ Underground Resistance 💔 Survivor Guilt

How God Became King

av N.T. Wright • 2012

The Gospels record a coronation, not just a biography. Christians have been reading them backwards.

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📖 Biblical Theology 📜 Gospel Studies 👑 Kingdom Of God 📚 Narrative Theology 🏛️ Political Theology

How God Became King

The Gospels record a coronation, not just a biography. Christians have been reading them backwards.

av N.T. Wright 2012 282 sidor

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📖 Biblical Theology 📜 Gospel Studies 👑 Kingdom Of God 📚 Narrative Theology 🏛️ Political Theology

English Journey

av J.B. Priestley • 1934

Factories silent, towns hollow, but the people Priestley met in 1933 refused to vanish.

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🏭 Industrial Decline 📉 Depression Era 👷 Working Class Life ⚖️ Economic Inequality 💪 Community Resilience

English Journey

Factories silent, towns hollow, but the people Priestley met in 1933 refused to vanish.

av J.B. Priestley 1934 384 sidor

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🏭 Industrial Decline 📉 Depression Era 👷 Working Class Life ⚖️ Economic Inequality 💪 Community Resilience

I'm Sorry for My Loss

av Rebecca Little and Colleen Long • 2024

No shared word for pregnancy loss, and the law can't tell a miscarriage from a crime.

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💔 Pregnancy Loss ⚖️ Reproductive Justice 📜 Pregnancy History 🫀 Body Politics 🕯️ Grief Rituals

I'm Sorry for My Loss

No shared word for pregnancy loss, and the law can't tell a miscarriage from a crime.

av Rebecca Little and Colleen Long 2024 496 sidor

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💔 Pregnancy Loss ⚖️ Reproductive Justice 📜 Pregnancy History 🫀 Body Politics 🕯️ Grief Rituals

To Explain the World

av Steven Weinberg • 2015

What took two millennia: how humanity learned to test nature instead of just arguing about it.

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🔬 History Of Science 🔍 Scientific Method 🧪 Experimental Science 🌌 Cosmology 🤔 Philosophy Of Science

To Explain the World

What took two millennia: how humanity learned to test nature instead of just arguing about it.

av Steven Weinberg 2015 432 sidor

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🔬 History Of Science 🔍 Scientific Method 🧪 Experimental Science 🌌 Cosmology 🤔 Philosophy Of Science

The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons

av Sam Kean • 2014

History's most bizarre brain traumas, and what each one revealed about your mind.

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🧠 Neuroscience 📜 History Of Science 🏥 Medical History 📖 Clinical Tales 🧩 Neurological Disorders

The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons

History's most bizarre brain traumas, and what each one revealed about your mind.

av Sam Kean 2014 416 sidor

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