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Trick or Treatment

av Simon Singh • 2008

Acupuncture, homeopathy, chiropractic, herbal medicine: held to the evidence, most unravel.

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💊 Alternative Medicine 🔍 Medical Skepticism 🧪 Clinical Trials 💭 Placebo Effect 🚫 Quackery

Trick or Treatment

Acupuncture, homeopathy, chiropractic, herbal medicine: held to the evidence, most unravel.

av Simon Singh 2008 352 sidor

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💊 Alternative Medicine 🔍 Medical Skepticism 🧪 Clinical Trials 💭 Placebo Effect 🚫 Quackery

Modern Money Theory

av L. Randall Wray • 2012

Taxes don't pay for government. They make its currency desirable. The real rules start from there.

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💸 Modern Money Theory 🏦 Monetary Economics 📊 Fiscal Policy 📈 Post-Keynesian Economics 👷 Full Employment

Modern Money Theory

Taxes don't pay for government. They make its currency desirable. The real rules start from there.

av L. Randall Wray 2012 294 sidor

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💸 Modern Money Theory 🏦 Monetary Economics 📊 Fiscal Policy 📈 Post-Keynesian Economics 👷 Full Employment

The Big Truck that Went By

av Jonathan M. Katz • 2013

When the world rushed to save Haiti, it brought a cholera epidemic with it.

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🆘 Disaster Relief 💰 Foreign Aid Critique 🇭🇹 Haitian History 📚 Postcolonial Critique 🏚️ Post-Disaster Recovery

The Big Truck that Went By

When the world rushed to save Haiti, it brought a cholera epidemic with it.

av Jonathan M. Katz 2013 320 sidor

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🆘 Disaster Relief 💰 Foreign Aid Critique 🇭🇹 Haitian History 📚 Postcolonial Critique 🏚️ Post-Disaster Recovery

Coach K

av Ian O'Connor • 2022

Nobody could spell his name, his record was losing, and Duke hired him anyway.

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🏀 College Basketball 🏆 Sports Dynasties 🧢 Coaching Icons 🏗️ Program Building ⚔️ West Point Ethos

Coach K

Nobody could spell his name, his record was losing, and Duke hired him anyway.

av Ian O'Connor 2022 384 sidor

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🏀 College Basketball 🏆 Sports Dynasties 🧢 Coaching Icons 🏗️ Program Building ⚔️ West Point Ethos

In Sorcery's Shadow

av Paul Stoller • 1989

Birds defecate on an anthropologist in Niger. A sorcerer sees a sign and demands an apprenticeship.

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🏕️ Ethnographic Memoir 🌍 West African Religion ✨ Sorcery And Magic 🧑‍🎓 Apprenticeship 👻 Spirit Possession

In Sorcery's Shadow

Birds defecate on an anthropologist in Niger. A sorcerer sees a sign and demands an apprenticeship.

av Paul Stoller 1989 252 sidor

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🏕️ Ethnographic Memoir 🌍 West African Religion ✨ Sorcery And Magic 🧑‍🎓 Apprenticeship 👻 Spirit Possession

Stories Are Weapons

av Annalee Newitz • 2024

Culture wars are not chaos. They are a century-long psyop that America has been running on itself.

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🇺🇸 American Propaganda 🧠 Psychological Warfare 📺 Media Manipulation 📰 Disinformation Campaigns 🌪️ Culture War Cycles

Stories Are Weapons

Culture wars are not chaos. They are a century-long psyop that America has been running on itself.

av Annalee Newitz 2024 246 sidor

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🇺🇸 American Propaganda 🧠 Psychological Warfare 📺 Media Manipulation 📰 Disinformation Campaigns 🌪️ Culture War Cycles

The Oligarchs

av David E. Hoffman • 2002

When the Soviet state collapsed, a few insiders already knew the blueprints for plunder.

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🪆 Post-Soviet Russia 🤝 Crony Capitalism 🇷🇺 Russian History 📊 Economic History 💰 Kleptocracy

The Oligarchs

When the Soviet state collapsed, a few insiders already knew the blueprints for plunder.

av David E. Hoffman 2002 575 sidor

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🪆 Post-Soviet Russia 🤝 Crony Capitalism 🇷🇺 Russian History 📊 Economic History 💰 Kleptocracy

12 Bytes

av Jeanette Winterson • 2021

AI has a history: female, literary, and older than electricity. A novelist connects the dots.

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🤖 Ai Ethics 💻 History Of Computing 👩‍💻 Tech Feminism 👁️ Surveillance Capitalism ⚖️ Algorithmic Bias

12 Bytes

AI has a history: female, literary, and older than electricity. A novelist connects the dots.

av Jeanette Winterson 2021 324 sidor

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🤖 Ai Ethics 💻 History Of Computing 👩‍💻 Tech Feminism 👁️ Surveillance Capitalism ⚖️ Algorithmic Bias

The Theological Origins of Modernity

av Michael Allen Gillespie • 2008

The modern world is a theological argument that left the church and took over everything.

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📜 Intellectual History ⛪ Political Theology 🏛️ Medieval Philosophy 🤔 Faith And Reason 📖 Scholasticism

The Theological Origins of Modernity

The modern world is a theological argument that left the church and took over everything.

av Michael Allen Gillespie 2008 368 sidor

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📜 Intellectual History ⛪ Political Theology 🏛️ Medieval Philosophy 🤔 Faith And Reason 📖 Scholasticism

Butler

av Salena Zito • 2025

One bullet, one Rust Belt town, and the reckoning America's institutions could no longer postpone.

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🗳️ Presidential Campaigns 🗣️ American Populism 🔫 Political Violence 📰 Media Bias 🏛️ Institutional Failure

Butler

One bullet, one Rust Belt town, and the reckoning America's institutions could no longer postpone.

av Salena Zito 2025 238 sidor

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🗳️ Presidential Campaigns 🗣️ American Populism 🔫 Political Violence 📰 Media Bias 🏛️ Institutional Failure

The 12th Planet

av Zecharia Sitchin • 1976

A 12th planet sent alien gods to Earth, where they engineered humans to mine gold.

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👽 Ancient Astronaut Theory 📜 Alternative History 🏛️ Sumerian Mythology 🏺 Pseudoarchaeology ✝️ Biblical Reinterpretation

The 12th Planet

A 12th planet sent alien gods to Earth, where they engineered humans to mine gold.

av Zecharia Sitchin 1976 438 sidor

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👽 Ancient Astronaut Theory 📜 Alternative History 🏛️ Sumerian Mythology 🏺 Pseudoarchaeology ✝️ Biblical Reinterpretation

How the Scots Invented the Modern World

av Arthur Herman • 2001

From a poor nation on Europe's edge came free markets, social science, and the American character.

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scottish Enlightenment 📚 Intellectual History 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scottish History 🏛️ Western Civilization 🗽 Classical Liberalism

How the Scots Invented the Modern World

From a poor nation on Europe's edge came free markets, social science, and the American character.

av Arthur Herman 2001 400 sidor

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scottish Enlightenment 📚 Intellectual History 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scottish History 🏛️ Western Civilization 🗽 Classical Liberalism

Defining Moments

av Bill Johnson • 2015

Wesley, Finney, and Moody were spiritual nobodies. One God-encounter later, they rewrote history.

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✝️ Heroes Of The Faith 🔥 Revival History 🕊️ Holy Spirit Encounters 🙌 Surrender And Obedience 🙏 Hunger For God

Defining Moments

Wesley, Finney, and Moody were spiritual nobodies. One God-encounter later, they rewrote history.

av Bill Johnson 2015 403 sidor

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✝️ Heroes Of The Faith 🔥 Revival History 🕊️ Holy Spirit Encounters 🙌 Surrender And Obedience 🙏 Hunger For God

The Myth of Race

av Robert Wald Sussman • 2014

Why biological race is a scientific fraud: the 500-year history of an idea built to justify power.

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🔬 History Of Science 🧬 Scientific Racism 🧪 Biological Determinism 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Race As Social Construct 🧫 Eugenics Movement

The Myth of Race

Why biological race is a scientific fraud: the 500-year history of an idea built to justify power.

av Robert Wald Sussman 2014 384 sidor

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🔬 History Of Science 🧬 Scientific Racism 🧪 Biological Determinism 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Race As Social Construct 🧫 Eugenics Movement

You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train

av Howard Zinn • 1994

History never stops, and silence is a political act: a memoir of war, racism, and radicalization.

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🚩 American Leftism ✊ Civil Disobedience ☮️ Anti-War Activism 🌱 Grassroots Organizing 🏭 Class Consciousness

You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train

History never stops, and silence is a political act: a memoir of war, racism, and radicalization.

av Howard Zinn 1994 214 sidor

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🚩 American Leftism ✊ Civil Disobedience ☮️ Anti-War Activism 🌱 Grassroots Organizing 🏭 Class Consciousness

Our Time Is Now

av Stacey Abrams • 2020

The machinery of voter suppression: purged rolls, gerrymandered maps, and a census that undercounts.

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🗳️ Voting Rights 🏛️ Electoral Reform 🪪 Identity Politics 🌱 Grassroots Organizing ⚠️ Authoritarian Populism

Our Time Is Now

The machinery of voter suppression: purged rolls, gerrymandered maps, and a census that undercounts.

av Stacey Abrams 2020 304 sidor

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🗳️ Voting Rights 🏛️ Electoral Reform 🪪 Identity Politics 🌱 Grassroots Organizing ⚠️ Authoritarian Populism

100 Things We've Lost to the Internet

av Pamela Paul • 2021

A hundred things the internet took: boredom, unrecorded mistakes, and the right to disappear.

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🌐 Internet Culture 🧠 Attention Economy 📱 Digital Distraction 📞 Pre-Internet Life 👥 Social Media Critique

100 Things We've Lost to the Internet

A hundred things the internet took: boredom, unrecorded mistakes, and the right to disappear.

av Pamela Paul 2021 234 sidor

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🌐 Internet Culture 🧠 Attention Economy 📱 Digital Distraction 📞 Pre-Internet Life 👥 Social Media Critique

From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation

av Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor • 2016

Police violence won't end with reform. The problem is the economic system behind the badge.

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🧱 Structural Racism ⛓️ Mass Incarceration 👮🏿 Police Violence 🫥 Colorblind Ideology 🏦 Capitalism And Racism

From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation

Police violence won't end with reform. The problem is the economic system behind the badge.

av Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor 2016 270 sidor

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🧱 Structural Racism ⛓️ Mass Incarceration 👮🏿 Police Violence 🫥 Colorblind Ideology 🏦 Capitalism And Racism

Saffron Swords - Centuries of Indic Resistance to Invaders

av Manoshi Sinha Rawal • 2019

A 40,000-woman brigade and a teen human bomb: the centuries of Indian resistance history erased.

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🪶 Colonial Resistance ⚔️ Women Warriors 🏹 Guerrilla Warfare 📜 Forgotten Histories 🌿 Indigenous Resistance

Saffron Swords - Centuries of Indic Resistance to Invaders

A 40,000-woman brigade and a teen human bomb: the centuries of Indian resistance history erased.

av Manoshi Sinha Rawal 2019 258 sidor

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🪶 Colonial Resistance ⚔️ Women Warriors 🏹 Guerrilla Warfare 📜 Forgotten Histories 🌿 Indigenous Resistance

The Physics of Wall Street

av James Owen Weatherall • 2013

Wall Street filled its ranks with physicists. They changed everything but the next crash.

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💹 Econophysics 🧮 Quantitative Finance 📜 History Of Finance 🔮 Market Prediction 🌀 Complexity Science

The Physics of Wall Street

Wall Street filled its ranks with physicists. They changed everything but the next crash.

av James Owen Weatherall 2013 286 sidor

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💹 Econophysics 🧮 Quantitative Finance 📜 History Of Finance 🔮 Market Prediction 🌀 Complexity Science

The Social Contract

av Jean-Jacques Rousseau • 1762

Freedom through total surrender: the paradox that built modern democracy and still threatens it.

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🏛️ Political Philosophy 📜 Social Contract Theory 🗳️ Popular Sovereignty 💡 Enlightenment Thought ⚖️ State Legitimacy

The Social Contract

Freedom through total surrender: the paradox that built modern democracy and still threatens it.

av Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1762 168 sidor

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🏛️ Political Philosophy 📜 Social Contract Theory 🗳️ Popular Sovereignty 💡 Enlightenment Thought ⚖️ State Legitimacy

Maestro

av Bob Woodward • 2000

A 22.6% crash. A new Fed chair. One sentence to calm the world, and the quiet method behind it all.

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🏦 Central Banking 📉 Monetary Policy 💥 Financial Crises 🏛️ Political Biography ⚖️ Institutional Power

Maestro

A 22.6% crash. A new Fed chair. One sentence to calm the world, and the quiet method behind it all.

av Bob Woodward 2000 288 sidor

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🏦 Central Banking 📉 Monetary Policy 💥 Financial Crises 🏛️ Political Biography ⚖️ Institutional Power

The Money Kings

av Daniel Schulman • 2023

From peddler carts to Wall Street: Jewish dynasties that bankrolled America's rise.

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🏦 Banking Dynasties 🗽 Jewish Immigrants 📈 Wall Street History 🎩 Gilded Age 🔄 Assimilation

The Money Kings

From peddler carts to Wall Street: Jewish dynasties that bankrolled America's rise.

av Daniel Schulman 2023 592 sidor

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🏦 Banking Dynasties 🗽 Jewish Immigrants 📈 Wall Street History 🎩 Gilded Age 🔄 Assimilation

Deliver Me from Nowhere

av Warren Zanes • 2023

Why Bruce Springsteen's darkest album was a home demo he never meant to release.

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🎧 Album Making-Of 🏠 Home Recording 🧠 Creative Struggle 🌾 Dark Americana 🔧 Working Class Stories

Deliver Me from Nowhere

Why Bruce Springsteen's darkest album was a home demo he never meant to release.

av Warren Zanes 2023 320 sidor

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🎧 Album Making-Of 🏠 Home Recording 🧠 Creative Struggle 🌾 Dark Americana 🔧 Working Class Stories

Cleopatra

av Alberto Angela • 2018

The seductress myth hides a multilingual strategist who used intellect and intimacy to defy Rome.

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🏛️ Ancient Egypt ⚔️ Ancient Rome 👑 Female Rulers ♟️ Political Strategy 🏰 Court Politics

Cleopatra

The seductress myth hides a multilingual strategist who used intellect and intimacy to defy Rome.

av Alberto Angela 2018 426 sidor

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🏛️ Ancient Egypt ⚔️ Ancient Rome 👑 Female Rulers ♟️ Political Strategy 🏰 Court Politics

The Pencil

av Henry Petroski • 1992

A pencil hides centuries of engineering failures, global trade, and the secret to good design.

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🏭 History Of Technology 🏺 Material Culture ⚙️ Engineering Design 🏗️ Industrial History 🌐 Global Supply Chains

The Pencil

A pencil hides centuries of engineering failures, global trade, and the secret to good design.

av Henry Petroski 1992 434 sidor

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🏭 History Of Technology 🏺 Material Culture ⚙️ Engineering Design 🏗️ Industrial History 🌐 Global Supply Chains

Extremely Hardcore

av Zoë Schiffer • 2024

A $44 billion impulse buy, then mass layoffs, fleeing advertisers. The takeover from inside.

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🏢 Corporate Takeovers 📱 Social Media Platforms 📰 Tech Journalism ⚖️ Platform Governance 🗣️ Free Speech Debates

Extremely Hardcore

A $44 billion impulse buy, then mass layoffs, fleeing advertisers. The takeover from inside.

av Zoë Schiffer 2024 330 sidor

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🏢 Corporate Takeovers 📱 Social Media Platforms 📰 Tech Journalism ⚖️ Platform Governance 🗣️ Free Speech Debates

Nation of Victims

av Vivek Ramaswamy • 2022

America turned grievance into social currency, and the bill is coming due.

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🗳️ Victimhood Culture 🎭 Identity Politics ⚖️ Meritocracy Debates 🏛️ Constitutional Law 📜 Critical Race Theory

Nation of Victims

America turned grievance into social currency, and the bill is coming due.

av Vivek Ramaswamy 2022 288 sidor

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🗳️ Victimhood Culture 🎭 Identity Politics ⚖️ Meritocracy Debates 🏛️ Constitutional Law 📜 Critical Race Theory

National Populism

av Roger Eatwell • 2018

National populism isn't a passing fury. It's a lasting demand for voice from a forgotten majority.

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🗣️ Populist Movements 🌐 Comparative Politics 🛂 Immigration And Identity ⚖️ Relative Deprivation 🏛️ Distrust Of Elites

National Populism

National populism isn't a passing fury. It's a lasting demand for voice from a forgotten majority.

av Roger Eatwell 2018 374 sidor

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🗣️ Populist Movements 🌐 Comparative Politics 🛂 Immigration And Identity ⚖️ Relative Deprivation 🏛️ Distrust Of Elites

Roman by Polanski

av Roman Polański • 2007

He watched propaganda films through barbed wire. Then he made Chinatown and Rosemary's Baby.

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🎬 Filmmaking Memoir 🎥 Director Biographies 🕯️ Holocaust Survival 🧳 Exile And Displacement 🎭 Tragedy And Art

Roman by Polanski

He watched propaganda films through barbed wire. Then he made Chinatown and Rosemary's Baby.

av Roman Polański 2007 448 sidor

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🎬 Filmmaking Memoir 🎥 Director Biographies 🕯️ Holocaust Survival 🧳 Exile And Displacement 🎭 Tragedy And Art

The Journey of Humanity

av Oded Galor • 2022

Every human was poor for 300,000 years. Then some nations escaped. The reason sits in prehistory.

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📈 Economic History 🌍 Development Economics ⛓️ Malthusian Trap ⚖️ Economic Inequality 🗺️ Geographic Determinism

The Journey of Humanity

Every human was poor for 300,000 years. Then some nations escaped. The reason sits in prehistory.

av Oded Galor 2022 304 sidor

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📈 Economic History 🌍 Development Economics ⛓️ Malthusian Trap ⚖️ Economic Inequality 🗺️ Geographic Determinism

The Giant Killer

av David A. Yuzuk • 2020

He was 4'9", a Green Beret, a spy, and homeless. His hit-and-run death solved nothing.

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🎖️ Vietnam War 🪖 Green Berets 🕵️ Undercover Operations 🧠 Veteran Ptsd 💀 Unsolved Death

The Giant Killer

He was 4'9", a Green Beret, a spy, and homeless. His hit-and-run death solved nothing.

av David A. Yuzuk 2020 318 sidor

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🎖️ Vietnam War 🪖 Green Berets 🕵️ Undercover Operations 🧠 Veteran Ptsd 💀 Unsolved Death

Rogue State

av William Blum • 2000

The world's leading democracy has overthrown forty governments since 1945, calling it freedom.

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🏛️ U.S. Foreign Policy 🦅 American Imperialism 🕵️ Covert Operations 📢 Propaganda Critique 💣 Military Intervention

Rogue State

The world's leading democracy has overthrown forty governments since 1945, calling it freedom.

av William Blum 2000 393 sidor

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🏛️ U.S. Foreign Policy 🦅 American Imperialism 🕵️ Covert Operations 📢 Propaganda Critique 💣 Military Intervention

A Vindication of the Rights of Women

av Mary Wollstonecraft • 1792

Women aren't born inferior; they're trained to be. The 1792 argument that invented modern feminism.

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🌱 Proto-Feminism 🏛️ Political Philosophy 🎓 Women's Education 💍 Marriage Reform 💼 Economic Independence

A Vindication of the Rights of Women

Women aren't born inferior; they're trained to be. The 1792 argument that invented modern feminism.

av Mary Wollstonecraft 1792 224 sidor

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🌱 Proto-Feminism 🏛️ Political Philosophy 🎓 Women's Education 💍 Marriage Reform 💼 Economic Independence

Coffee Life in Japan (Volume 36)

av Merry White • 2012

A tea-loving nation now ranks third in global coffee consumption. Its cafés hold the explanation.

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🫘 Coffee Culture 🏠 Third Spaces 🇯🇵 Japanese Culture 🏙️ Urban Anthropology 🍽️ Food Anthropology

Coffee Life in Japan (Volume 36)

A tea-loving nation now ranks third in global coffee consumption. Its cafés hold the explanation.

av Merry White 2012 240 sidor

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🫘 Coffee Culture 🏠 Third Spaces 🇯🇵 Japanese Culture 🏙️ Urban Anthropology 🍽️ Food Anthropology

Holy Bible

av Anonymous • 2001

At the foot of a holy mountain, a nation learned what it means to belong to a holy God.

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🙏 Sacred Scripture 📜 Hebrew Bible ⚖️ Biblical Law 🏺 Covenant Theology ☁️ Divine Guidance

Holy Bible

At the foot of a holy mountain, a nation learned what it means to belong to a holy God.

av Anonymous 2001 1243 sidor

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🙏 Sacred Scripture 📜 Hebrew Bible ⚖️ Biblical Law 🏺 Covenant Theology ☁️ Divine Guidance

The New Lombard Street

av Perry G. Mehrling • 2010

The Fed's 1873 playbook broke in 2008. The new role: dealer of last resort.

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🏦 Central Banking 📜 Monetary History 🔧 Financial Plumbing 🔄 Credit Cycles 🕶️ Shadow Banking

The New Lombard Street

The Fed's 1873 playbook broke in 2008. The new role: dealer of last resort.

av Perry G. Mehrling 2010 192 sidor

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🏦 Central Banking 📜 Monetary History 🔧 Financial Plumbing 🔄 Credit Cycles 🕶️ Shadow Banking

Paper Soldiers

av Saleha Mohsin • 2024

Treasury secretaries turned the dollar into a weapon. Now the world is engineering its replacement.

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🏛️ Financial History 💵 Reserve Currency ⚔️ Economic Warfare 🇺🇸 American Hegemony 🌐 Political Economy

Paper Soldiers

Treasury secretaries turned the dollar into a weapon. Now the world is engineering its replacement.

av Saleha Mohsin 2024 304 sidor

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🏛️ Financial History 💵 Reserve Currency ⚔️ Economic Warfare 🇺🇸 American Hegemony 🌐 Political Economy

Goliath

av Matt Stoller • 2019

A century ago, America broke the trusts. An intellectual counterrevolution brought them back.

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⚖️ Antitrust Policy 🏢 Corporate Power 🔄 Neoliberalism 📜 New Deal Economics 🎓 Chicago School Economics

Goliath

A century ago, America broke the trusts. An intellectual counterrevolution brought them back.

av Matt Stoller 2019 605 sidor

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⚖️ Antitrust Policy 🏢 Corporate Power 🔄 Neoliberalism 📜 New Deal Economics 🎓 Chicago School Economics

Entanglement

av Amir D. Aczel • 2002

Einstein rejected instantaneous quantum links; he lost. The proof that reality is nonlocal is in.

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⚛️ Quantum Physics 🔬 Modern Physics 📖 History Of Physics 🔗 Quantum Entanglement 🤯 Quantum Weirdness

Entanglement

Einstein rejected instantaneous quantum links; he lost. The proof that reality is nonlocal is in.

av Amir D. Aczel 2002 304 sidor

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⚛️ Quantum Physics 🔬 Modern Physics 📖 History Of Physics 🔗 Quantum Entanglement 🤯 Quantum Weirdness

Autobiography

av John Stuart Mill • 1873

Greek at three, a breakdown at twenty, and the poet who taught him to feel.

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📖 Intellectual Autobiography ⚖️ Utilitarianism 🗽 Classical Liberalism 🇬🇧 Victorian Britain 🧒 Child Prodigies

Autobiography

Greek at three, a breakdown at twenty, and the poet who taught him to feel.

av John Stuart Mill 1873 263 sidor

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📖 Intellectual Autobiography ⚖️ Utilitarianism 🗽 Classical Liberalism 🇬🇧 Victorian Britain 🧒 Child Prodigies

The New World Order

av Ralph Epperson • 1990

Secret societies hid a blueprint on the dollar bill for erasing religion, property, and nations.

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🕴️ Secret Societies 🔺 Esoteric Symbolism 🏛️ Masonic Conspiracy 👁️ Illuminati History 🌐 One-World Government

The New World Order

Secret societies hid a blueprint on the dollar bill for erasing religion, property, and nations.

av Ralph Epperson 1990 357 sidor

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🕴️ Secret Societies 🔺 Esoteric Symbolism 🏛️ Masonic Conspiracy 👁️ Illuminati History 🌐 One-World Government

Good Reasonable People

av Keith Payne • 2024

Why the other side isn't crazy: the same self-justifying mind runs us all.

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🧠 Political Psychology 🤔 Motivated Reasoning 🎭 Identity And Politics 🏗️ Structural Inequality 🏙️ Rural-Urban Divide

Good Reasonable People

Why the other side isn't crazy: the same self-justifying mind runs us all.

av Keith Payne 2024 272 sidor

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🧠 Political Psychology 🤔 Motivated Reasoning 🎭 Identity And Politics 🏗️ Structural Inequality 🏙️ Rural-Urban Divide

Black Flags

av Joby Warrick • 2015

How a petty Jordanian criminal became the world's most hunted terrorist and the blueprint for ISIS.

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🕌 Jihadist Movements 🔎 Terrorist Biography ☯️ Sectarian Conflict 🎯 Counterterrorism 💥 Radicalization

Black Flags

How a petty Jordanian criminal became the world's most hunted terrorist and the blueprint for ISIS.

av Joby Warrick 2015 368 sidor

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🕌 Jihadist Movements 🔎 Terrorist Biography ☯️ Sectarian Conflict 🎯 Counterterrorism 💥 Radicalization

Language City

av Ross Perlin • 2024

Seven hundred languages pack New York City. Most are on the verge of silence.

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🗽 Endangered Languages 🌍 Linguistic Diversity 📚 Language Preservation 🏙️ Immigrant Communities 🧠 Linguistic Anthropology

Language City

Seven hundred languages pack New York City. Most are on the verge of silence.

av Ross Perlin 2024 432 sidor

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🗽 Endangered Languages 🌍 Linguistic Diversity 📚 Language Preservation 🏙️ Immigrant Communities 🧠 Linguistic Anthropology

The End of Race Politics

av Coleman Hughes • 2024

Colorblindness was once anti-racism's core demand. Today it is treated as the enemy.

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