Juridik

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Juridik Boksammanfattningar

The Best Minds

av Jonathan Rosen • 2023

He was the face of schizophrenia recovery. Then he murdered his pregnant fiancée.

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🌪️ Schizophrenia Narratives 🔬 Forensic Psychiatry 🏛️ Insanity Defense 🏥 Deinstitutionalization 🎓 Meritocracy Critique

The Best Minds

He was the face of schizophrenia recovery. Then he murdered his pregnant fiancée.

av Jonathan Rosen 2023 576 sidor

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🌪️ Schizophrenia Narratives 🔬 Forensic Psychiatry 🏛️ Insanity Defense 🏥 Deinstitutionalization 🎓 Meritocracy Critique

Migrations to Solitude

av Sue Halpern • 1992

Hospitals, homes, monasteries: privacy is vanishing everywhere, and the cost is measured in dignity.

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🔐 Privacy Erosion ⚕️ Medical Ethics 🧘 Contemplative Solitude 🏚️ Homelessness 🕯️ End Of Life Care

Migrations to Solitude

Hospitals, homes, monasteries: privacy is vanishing everywhere, and the cost is measured in dignity.

av Sue Halpern 1992 224 sidor

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🔐 Privacy Erosion ⚕️ Medical Ethics 🧘 Contemplative Solitude 🏚️ Homelessness 🕯️ End Of Life Care

9 Lessons in Brexit

av Ivan Rogers • 2019

Nine lessons on why the UK lost the Brexit negotiations, from a diplomat who was there.

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🇬🇧 Brexit 🇪🇺 Eu Politics 🤝 Trade Negotiations 🏛️ Sovereignty Debates 🦊 Realpolitik

9 Lessons in Brexit

Nine lessons on why the UK lost the Brexit negotiations, from a diplomat who was there.

av Ivan Rogers 2019 46 sidor

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🇬🇧 Brexit 🇪🇺 Eu Politics 🤝 Trade Negotiations 🏛️ Sovereignty Debates 🦊 Realpolitik

Diagnosis

av Jane M. Hightower • 2008

Your tuna sandwich contains a neurotoxin, and the government knew it long before your doctor did.

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🔬 Environmental Toxicology 🏛️ Public Health Policy 💼 Regulatory Capture 🍽️ Food Politics 🔍 Medical Detective Stories

Diagnosis

Your tuna sandwich contains a neurotoxin, and the government knew it long before your doctor did.

av Jane M. Hightower 2008 328 sidor

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🔬 Environmental Toxicology 🏛️ Public Health Policy 💼 Regulatory Capture 🍽️ Food Politics 🔍 Medical Detective Stories

The Triumph of Doubt

av David Michaels • 2020

Tobacco wrote the manual for burying inconvenient science. Every other industry now uses it.

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🏭 Corporate Malfeasance 🩺 Public Health Policy 🤥 Science Denialism 📢 Disinformation Campaigns 🏛️ Regulatory Capture

The Triumph of Doubt

Tobacco wrote the manual for burying inconvenient science. Every other industry now uses it.

av David Michaels 2020 344 sidor

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🏭 Corporate Malfeasance 🩺 Public Health Policy 🤥 Science Denialism 📢 Disinformation Campaigns 🏛️ Regulatory Capture

International Organizations

av Margaret P. Karns • 2004

How global cooperation actually works: the UN, regional bodies, and the NGOs bridging state limits.

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🏛️ Global Governance 🏢 International Organizations 🤝 Multilateralism 🇺🇳 United Nations 📚 IR Theory

International Organizations

How global cooperation actually works: the UN, regional bodies, and the NGOs bridging state limits.

av Margaret P. Karns 2004 603 sidor

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🏛️ Global Governance 🏢 International Organizations 🤝 Multilateralism 🇺🇳 United Nations 📚 IR Theory

The Case That Never Dies

av Lloyd C. Gardner • 2004

The Lindbergh conviction hung on a ladder, marked money, and witnesses. None of it held.

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🕵️ Historical True Crime 🏚️ Depression Era 📰 Trial By Media 🌟 Celebrity Justice 🔍 Forensic Evidence

The Case That Never Dies

The Lindbergh conviction hung on a ladder, marked money, and witnesses. None of it held.

av Lloyd C. Gardner 2004 480 sidor

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🕵️ Historical True Crime 🏚️ Depression Era 📰 Trial By Media 🌟 Celebrity Justice 🔍 Forensic Evidence

Free Speech

av Jacob Mchangama • 2022

Free speech has a 2,500-year losing streak, and the playbook for silencing it hasn't changed.

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📚 Intellectual History 🗣️ Free Speech 🚫 Censorship 🏛️ Classical Liberalism ⛓️ Authoritarianism

Free Speech

Free speech has a 2,500-year losing streak, and the playbook for silencing it hasn't changed.

av Jacob Mchangama 2022 528 sidor

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📚 Intellectual History 🗣️ Free Speech 🚫 Censorship 🏛️ Classical Liberalism ⛓️ Authoritarianism

Political Order and Political Decay

av Francis Fukuyama • 2014

Build democracy before the state, and politics becomes clientelism, not good government.

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🌐 Comparative Politics 🏛️ State Building 🏚️ Institutional Decay ⚙️ Bureaucracy 🤝 Clientelism

Political Order and Political Decay

Build democracy before the state, and politics becomes clientelism, not good government.

av Francis Fukuyama 2014 672 sidor

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🌐 Comparative Politics 🏛️ State Building 🏚️ Institutional Decay ⚙️ Bureaucracy 🤝 Clientelism

The Art of Political Murder

av Francisco Goldman • 2007

Bishop Gerardi proved the Army's guilt. Two days later he was dead, his garrison floor mopped.

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🇬🇹 Guatemalan Civil War 🎯 Political Assassination 📋 Truth Commissions 🔒 State Impunity ⚖️ Transitional Justice

The Art of Political Murder

Bishop Gerardi proved the Army's guilt. Two days later he was dead, his garrison floor mopped.

av Francisco Goldman 2007 396 sidor

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🇬🇹 Guatemalan Civil War 🎯 Political Assassination 📋 Truth Commissions 🔒 State Impunity ⚖️ Transitional Justice

The Infernal Machine

av Steven Johnson • 2024

Dynamite was meant to destroy governments. It built the most powerful one: the surveillance state.

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🏴 Anarchist History 💣 History Of Terrorism 🔬 Forensic History 🕵️‍♂️ Surveillance History 🏭 Labor History

The Infernal Machine

Dynamite was meant to destroy governments. It built the most powerful one: the surveillance state.

av Steven Johnson 2024 368 sidor

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🏴 Anarchist History 💣 History Of Terrorism 🔬 Forensic History 🕵️‍♂️ Surveillance History 🏭 Labor History

An Economist in the Real World

av Kaushik Basu • 2015

Laws coordinate expectations, not just punish. What India's chief economist learned the hard way.

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🏗️ Development Economics 🇮🇳 Indian Economy 💰 Monetary Policy 🛡️ Corruption Control 🍚 Food Security

An Economist in the Real World

Laws coordinate expectations, not just punish. What India's chief economist learned the hard way.

av Kaushik Basu 2015 240 sidor

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🏗️ Development Economics 🇮🇳 Indian Economy 💰 Monetary Policy 🛡️ Corruption Control 🍚 Food Security

Christianity and Critical Race Theory

av Robert Chao Romero • 2023

Racism is pervasive, not rare. A theologian argues CRT and Christianity share that core insight.

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📚 Critical Race Theory ⚖️ Racial Justice ✝️ Christian Theology 🔍 Systemic Racism 🗳️ Faith And Politics

Christianity and Critical Race Theory

Racism is pervasive, not rare. A theologian argues CRT and Christianity share that core insight.

av Robert Chao Romero 2023 209 sidor

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📚 Critical Race Theory ⚖️ Racial Justice ✝️ Christian Theology 🔍 Systemic Racism 🗳️ Faith And Politics

Slavery by Another Name

av Douglas A. Blackmon • 2008

The 13th Amendment's exception for criminals became a new slavery that lasted eighty years.

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⛓️ Forced Labor 📜 Jim Crow Era 🏗️ Reconstruction Era 🔗 Mass Incarceration Origins 💰 Racial Capitalism

Slavery by Another Name

The 13th Amendment's exception for criminals became a new slavery that lasted eighty years.

av Douglas A. Blackmon 2008 480 sidor

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⛓️ Forced Labor 📜 Jim Crow Era 🏗️ Reconstruction Era 🔗 Mass Incarceration Origins 💰 Racial Capitalism

Beyond Reasonable Doubt

av Robert Dugoni • 2024

A biotech CEO accused of murder. Her defender: the childhood rival who knows she's a liar.

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🏛️ Courtroom Drama 💔 Female Rivals 🔪 Sociopath Character ⚖️ Defense Attorney 🧠 Psychological Suspense

Beyond Reasonable Doubt

A biotech CEO accused of murder. Her defender: the childhood rival who knows she's a liar.

av Robert Dugoni 2024 365 sidor

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🏛️ Courtroom Drama 💔 Female Rivals 🔪 Sociopath Character ⚖️ Defense Attorney 🧠 Psychological Suspense

How to Lose a Country

av Ece Temelkuran • 2019

A democracy collapses step by step, and the playbook looks the same from Turkey to the West.

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🗳️ Democratic Backsliding 🎙️ Populist Movements 📰 Post-Truth Politics 👩 Misogyny And Politics 🤝 Resistance Movements

How to Lose a Country

A democracy collapses step by step, and the playbook looks the same from Turkey to the West.

av Ece Temelkuran 2019 289 sidor

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🗳️ Democratic Backsliding 🎙️ Populist Movements 📰 Post-Truth Politics 👩 Misogyny And Politics 🤝 Resistance Movements

The Art of Trial Warfare

av Michael S. Waddington • 2016

Sun Tzu's classic warfare text, read straight as a trial manual: opposing counsel is the enemy.

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⚖️ Trial Advocacy 🗣️ Courtroom Persuasion 🔍 Cross-Examination 📜 Military Philosophy ⚔️ Military Strategy Applied

The Art of Trial Warfare

Sun Tzu's classic warfare text, read straight as a trial manual: opposing counsel is the enemy.

av Michael S. Waddington 2016 148 sidor

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⚖️ Trial Advocacy 🗣️ Courtroom Persuasion 🔍 Cross-Examination 📜 Military Philosophy ⚔️ Military Strategy Applied

Entitled

av Kate Manne • 2020

The entitlement that fuels incel killers also explains why doctors dismiss pain and rapists walk.

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👑 Male Entitlement 📚 Feminist Philosophy ⚖️ Rape Culture 🩺 Medical Sexism 🧹 Domestic Labor

Entitled

The entitlement that fuels incel killers also explains why doctors dismiss pain and rapists walk.

av Kate Manne 2020 269 sidor

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👑 Male Entitlement 📚 Feminist Philosophy ⚖️ Rape Culture 🩺 Medical Sexism 🧹 Domestic Labor

Sidewalk

av Mitchell Duneier • 1999

Some of the most disorderly figures on the sidewalk are also the ones preventing real crime.

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🛝 Urban Ethnography 💰 Informal Economies 🚨 Broken Windows Debate 👮 Police Discretion 🚶‍♀️ Street Harassment

Sidewalk

Some of the most disorderly figures on the sidewalk are also the ones preventing real crime.

av Mitchell Duneier 1999 400 sidor

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🛝 Urban Ethnography 💰 Informal Economies 🚨 Broken Windows Debate 👮 Police Discretion 🚶‍♀️ Street Harassment

Life Without Lawyers

av Philip K. Howard • 2009

America didn't add too many laws. Law itself became the mindset, and common sense lost.

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⚖️ Legal Reform 📋 Tort Reform 🏛️ Bureaucratic Dysfunction 🛡️ Liability Culture 🗽 Classical Liberalism

Life Without Lawyers

America didn't add too many laws. Law itself became the mindset, and common sense lost.

av Philip K. Howard 2009 224 sidor

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⚖️ Legal Reform 📋 Tort Reform 🏛️ Bureaucratic Dysfunction 🛡️ Liability Culture 🗽 Classical Liberalism

Civil Procedure

av Joseph W. Glannon • 1992

Where can you sue? A step-by-step framework cuts through the fog of personal jurisdiction and venue.

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🧑‍⚖️ Civil Procedure 🏛️ Federal Courts ⚖️ Litigation Basics 📚 Law School Study Aids 🎓 1L Curriculum

Civil Procedure

Where can you sue? A step-by-step framework cuts through the fog of personal jurisdiction and venue.

av Joseph W. Glannon 1992 679 sidor

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🧑‍⚖️ Civil Procedure 🏛️ Federal Courts ⚖️ Litigation Basics 📚 Law School Study Aids 🎓 1L Curriculum

The New Age of Sexism

av Laura Bates • 2025

Deepfake porn and biased code run AI, and the industry is looking away.

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🎯 Algorithmic Bias 📵 Online Harassment 📜 Tech Regulation 👩‍💻 Feminist Technology ⚖️ Data Justice

The New Age of Sexism

Deepfake porn and biased code run AI, and the industry is looking away.

av Laura Bates 2025 352 sidor

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🎯 Algorithmic Bias 📵 Online Harassment 📜 Tech Regulation 👩‍💻 Feminist Technology ⚖️ Data Justice

The Great Contradiction

av Joseph J. Ellis • 2025

To create a nation, the founders protected slavery. Indian removal was the other price of union.

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🏛️ Founding Era 📜 Constitutional History ⛓️ Slavery And The Founders 🪶 Indian Removal ⚖️ Liberty And Slavery

The Great Contradiction

To create a nation, the founders protected slavery. Indian removal was the other price of union.

av Joseph J. Ellis 2025 240 sidor

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🏛️ Founding Era 📜 Constitutional History ⛓️ Slavery And The Founders 🪶 Indian Removal ⚖️ Liberty And Slavery

How to Test Negative for Stupid

av John Kennedy • 2025

The capital is a separate country. A senator who refuses to play along explains why and what to do.

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📜 Political Memoir 🗣️ Conservative Commentary 🔍 Washington Insider ⚔️ Culture War 🛂 Border Security

How to Test Negative for Stupid

The capital is a separate country. A senator who refuses to play along explains why and what to do.

av John Kennedy 2025 220 sidor

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📜 Political Memoir 🗣️ Conservative Commentary 🔍 Washington Insider ⚔️ Culture War 🛂 Border Security

Context

av Cory Doctorow • 2011

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🕸️ Internet Freedom 📜 Copyright Reform 🔐 Digital Rights 🏛️ Platform Politics 📚 Digital Publishing

Context

av Cory Doctorow 2011 241 sidor

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🕸️ Internet Freedom 📜 Copyright Reform 🔐 Digital Rights 🏛️ Platform Politics 📚 Digital Publishing

Confessions Of A Cannibal

av Robert Keller • 2015

A detective planted a lie in the newspaper. The cannibal mailed back his recipe.

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🔪 Serial Killers 🍖 Cannibalism 📰 Classic True Crime 🧠 Criminal Psychology ⚖️ Insanity Defense

Confessions Of A Cannibal

A detective planted a lie in the newspaper. The cannibal mailed back his recipe.

av Robert Keller 2015 117 sidor

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🔪 Serial Killers 🍖 Cannibalism 📰 Classic True Crime 🧠 Criminal Psychology ⚖️ Insanity Defense

The Problem of Twelve

av John Coates • 2023

A few institutions now own and control almost everything: an old democratic trap with no clean exit.

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🏛️ Corporate Governance ⚖️ Financial Regulation 💪 Concentrated Power 🗳️ Shareholder Activism 💰 Private Equity

The Problem of Twelve

A few institutions now own and control almost everything: an old democratic trap with no clean exit.

av John Coates 2023 190 sidor

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🏛️ Corporate Governance ⚖️ Financial Regulation 💪 Concentrated Power 🗳️ Shareholder Activism 💰 Private Equity

Owning the Sun

av Alexander Zaitchik • 2022

How patents turned medicine into a monopoly. The century-long story from Aspirin to COVID.

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🏭 Pharmaceutical Industry ⚖️ Intellectual Property 💊 Medical Monopolies 🔬 Public Science 🏛️ Antitrust

Owning the Sun

How patents turned medicine into a monopoly. The century-long story from Aspirin to COVID.

av Alexander Zaitchik 2022 304 sidor

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🏭 Pharmaceutical Industry ⚖️ Intellectual Property 💊 Medical Monopolies 🔬 Public Science 🏛️ Antitrust

Reconstruction

av Eric Foner • 1988

A brief, revolutionary experiment in interracial democracy. Why the country abandoned it.

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🏛️ Reconstruction Era 🗳️ Black Political Agency 🤝 Interracial Democracy 🔥 Racial Terror 🌾 Land And Labor

Reconstruction

A brief, revolutionary experiment in interracial democracy. Why the country abandoned it.

av Eric Foner 1988 690 sidor

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🏛️ Reconstruction Era 🗳️ Black Political Agency 🤝 Interracial Democracy 🔥 Racial Terror 🌾 Land And Labor

Keep Quiet

av Lisa Scottoline • 2014

A father covers up his son's hit-and-run, but a witness demands payment for what he saw.

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🏠 Domestic Thriller 🔒 Family Secrets 🤫 Cover Up 😔 Guilty Conscience 💰 Blackmail

Keep Quiet

A father covers up his son's hit-and-run, but a witness demands payment for what he saw.

av Lisa Scottoline 2014 338 sidor

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🏠 Domestic Thriller 🔒 Family Secrets 🤫 Cover Up 😔 Guilty Conscience 💰 Blackmail

Worse Than Slavery

av David M. Oshinsky • 1996

Slavery ended. Mississippi made convicts cheaper than slaves and built an empire on their labor.

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🏗️ Convict Leasing ⚖️ Jim Crow Justice 🏛️ Southern History 🔒 Mass Incarceration 🔗 Prison Labor

Worse Than Slavery

Slavery ended. Mississippi made convicts cheaper than slaves and built an empire on their labor.

av David M. Oshinsky 1996 320 sidor

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🏗️ Convict Leasing ⚖️ Jim Crow Justice 🏛️ Southern History 🔒 Mass Incarceration 🔗 Prison Labor

Confessions of a Wall Street Analyst

av Daniel Reingold • 2006

Wall Street analysts weren't objective. They were dealmakers. One top-ranked insider tells all.

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🏦 Wall Street Culture 📡 Telecom Bubble 📉 Corporate Fraud ⚖️ Conflicts Of Interest 🔍 Information Asymmetry

Confessions of a Wall Street Analyst

Wall Street analysts weren't objective. They were dealmakers. One top-ranked insider tells all.

av Daniel Reingold 2006 384 sidor

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🏦 Wall Street Culture 📡 Telecom Bubble 📉 Corporate Fraud ⚖️ Conflicts Of Interest 🔍 Information Asymmetry

The Fight in the Fields

av Susan Ferriss • 1997

How a migrant farmworker built a movement so large that 40,000 people marched at his funeral.

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🏭 Labor History 🌎 Chicano History 🌾 Agricultural Labor ✊ Grassroots Organizing ☮️ Nonviolent Resistance

The Fight in the Fields

How a migrant farmworker built a movement so large that 40,000 people marched at his funeral.

av Susan Ferriss 1997 352 sidor

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🏭 Labor History 🌎 Chicano History 🌾 Agricultural Labor ✊ Grassroots Organizing ☮️ Nonviolent Resistance

The Fifth Domain

av Richard A. Clarke • 2019

A new battlefield has emerged online. Defense is up to companies and individuals not just government

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🔒 Cybersecurity ⚔️ Cyber Warfare 📊 Cyber Risk Management 🔐 Personal Data Security ☁️ Cloud Security

The Fifth Domain

A new battlefield has emerged online. Defense is up to companies and individuals not just government

av Richard A. Clarke 2019 352 sidor

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🔒 Cybersecurity ⚔️ Cyber Warfare 📊 Cyber Risk Management 🔐 Personal Data Security ☁️ Cloud Security

A Brief History of the World in 47 Borders

av Jonn Elledge • 2024

Guesses, grudges, and a pope: 47 borders that explain why the map looks this way.

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🗺️ Political Geography 🧭 Cartographic History 🌍 Popular Geopolitics 🏛️ Imperial Partition 🗾 Partition Trauma

A Brief History of the World in 47 Borders

Guesses, grudges, and a pope: 47 borders that explain why the map looks this way.

av Jonn Elledge 2024 368 sidor

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🗺️ Political Geography 🧭 Cartographic History 🌍 Popular Geopolitics 🏛️ Imperial Partition 🗾 Partition Trauma

The Top Ten Myths of American Health Care

av Sally C. Pipes • 2008

The 46 million uninsured is a mirage; government is the real problem.

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🏥 Healthcare Policy 📉 Free-Market Economics 🇨🇦 Single-Payer Critique 💊 Pharmaceutical Industry 🏛️ Government Failure

The Top Ten Myths of American Health Care

The 46 million uninsured is a mirage; government is the real problem.

av Sally C. Pipes 2008 182 sidor

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🏥 Healthcare Policy 📉 Free-Market Economics 🇨🇦 Single-Payer Critique 💊 Pharmaceutical Industry 🏛️ Government Failure

The NFT Handbook

av Matt Fortnow • 2021

Set royalties, bypass galleries, and build a collector community: a guide to making it in NFTs.

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🖼️ Nfts ⛓️ Blockchain Technology 🎨 Digital Art 💰 Creator Economy 🔑 Digital Ownership

The NFT Handbook

Set royalties, bypass galleries, and build a collector community: a guide to making it in NFTs.

av Matt Fortnow 2021 288 sidor

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🖼️ Nfts ⛓️ Blockchain Technology 🎨 Digital Art 💰 Creator Economy 🔑 Digital Ownership

Giving Up Is Unforgivable

av Joyce Vance • 2025

Spotting the slow dismantling of democracy, and the citizen playbook for stopping it.

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🏛️ American Democracy ⚠️ Authoritarianism ⚖️ Rule Of Law 🗳️ Voting Rights 📰 Media Literacy

Giving Up Is Unforgivable

Spotting the slow dismantling of democracy, and the citizen playbook for stopping it.

av Joyce Vance 2025 208 sidor

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🏛️ American Democracy ⚠️ Authoritarianism ⚖️ Rule Of Law 🗳️ Voting Rights 📰 Media Literacy

War Against the Weak

av Edwin Black • 2003

Carnegie and Rockefeller funded America's eugenics; Hitler learned from it and built the Holocaust.

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🧬 Eugenics History 🧪 Scientific Racism ⚖️ Forced Sterilization 💰 Philanthropy Critique 📜 Immigration Policy

War Against the Weak

Carnegie and Rockefeller funded America's eugenics; Hitler learned from it and built the Holocaust.

av Edwin Black 2003 592 sidor

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🧬 Eugenics History 🧪 Scientific Racism ⚖️ Forced Sterilization 💰 Philanthropy Critique 📜 Immigration Policy

The South Was Right!

av James Ronald Kennedy • 1991

The South legally seceded. The North invaded for economic gain. The rest is propaganda.

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🏴 Lost Cause 🏡 Southern Identity 📜 Historical Revisionism 🏛️ State Sovereignty ✂️ Secession

The South Was Right!

The South legally seceded. The North invaded for economic gain. The rest is propaganda.

av James Ronald Kennedy 1991 431 sidor

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🏴 Lost Cause 🏡 Southern Identity 📜 Historical Revisionism 🏛️ State Sovereignty ✂️ Secession

Dark Tide

av Stephen Puleo • 2003

A 25-foot wave of molasses killed 21 people because one company ignored every warning sign.

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🏭 Industrial Disasters ⚙️ Engineering Failures 💼 Corporate Negligence ⚖️ Courtroom Drama 🌊 Disaster Narratives

Dark Tide

A 25-foot wave of molasses killed 21 people because one company ignored every warning sign.

av Stephen Puleo 2003 273 sidor

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🏭 Industrial Disasters ⚙️ Engineering Failures 💼 Corporate Negligence ⚖️ Courtroom Drama 🌊 Disaster Narratives

Unforgiving Places

av Jens Ludwig • 2025

Most shootings begin as arguments. The neighborhood, not the motive, determines who dies.

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🧠 Behavioral Economics 🏙️ Urban Violence 🔫 Gun Policy 🤔 Cognitive Biases 🗣️ Conflict De-Escalation

Unforgiving Places

Most shootings begin as arguments. The neighborhood, not the motive, determines who dies.

av Jens Ludwig 2025 352 sidor

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🧠 Behavioral Economics 🏙️ Urban Violence 🔫 Gun Policy 🤔 Cognitive Biases 🗣️ Conflict De-Escalation

Legal Guide for Starting & Running a Small Business

av Fred S. Steingold Attorney • 2021

The legal traps that sink small businesses, and the plain-English map for protecting your assets.

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⚖️ Small Business Law 🏢 Business Formation 🛡️ Liability Protection 👥 Employment Law 🧾 Small Business Taxes

Legal Guide for Starting & Running a Small Business

The legal traps that sink small businesses, and the plain-English map for protecting your assets.

av Fred S. Steingold Attorney 2021 416 sidor

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⚖️ Small Business Law 🏢 Business Formation 🛡️ Liability Protection 👥 Employment Law 🧾 Small Business Taxes

Foot Soldier of the Constitution

av Teesta Setalvad • 2017

She documented a massacre the state wanted forgotten. Then the state came after her.

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🇮🇳 Indian Politics 🕌 Communal Violence ✊ Legal Activism ⚖️ Human Rights Law 📜 Public Interest Litigation

Foot Soldier of the Constitution

She documented a massacre the state wanted forgotten. Then the state came after her.

av Teesta Setalvad 2017 226 sidor

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🇮🇳 Indian Politics 🕌 Communal Violence ✊ Legal Activism ⚖️ Human Rights Law 📜 Public Interest Litigation

A Theory of Justice

av John Rawls • 1971

A thought experiment: pick society's rules without knowing your place in it. Two principles follow.

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🏛️ Political Philosophy ⚖️ Distributive Justice 📜 Social Contract 🕊️ Liberal Egalitarianism 🤔 Normative Ethics

A Theory of Justice

A thought experiment: pick society's rules without knowing your place in it. Two principles follow.

av John Rawls 1971 824 sidor

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🏛️ Political Philosophy ⚖️ Distributive Justice 📜 Social Contract 🕊️ Liberal Egalitarianism 🤔 Normative Ethics

The Strange Career of Jim Crow

av C. Vann Woodward • 1955

Jim Crow: a system built in the 1890s, started in the North, and never inevitable.

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🏗️ Reconstruction Era 🚂 Jim Crow Era 🏚️ Southern History ⚖️ Race And Law 📜 Revisionist History

The Strange Career of Jim Crow

Jim Crow: a system built in the 1890s, started in the North, and never inevitable.

av C. Vann Woodward 1955 245 sidor

4.14

3 000+ betyg

🏗️ Reconstruction Era 🚂 Jim Crow Era 🏚️ Southern History ⚖️ Race And Law 📜 Revisionist History

Edmund Burke

av Russell Kirk • 2014

Prophet of the Terror, defender of American rights. The founder of modern conservatism.

4.03

306

🏛️ Political Biography 📚 Conservative Thought 🇬🇧 British Politics 🧠 Party Politics 🎙️ Oratory & Rhetoric

Edmund Burke

Prophet of the Terror, defender of American rights. The founder of modern conservatism.

av Russell Kirk 2014 300 sidor

4.03

306 betyg

🏛️ Political Biography 📚 Conservative Thought 🇬🇧 British Politics 🧠 Party Politics 🎙️ Oratory & Rhetoric

Patterns of Democracy

av Arend Lijphart • 1999

Democracies that share power broadly govern better than winner-take-all systems, on every measure.

3.68

500+

📊 Comparative Politics 📜 Democratic Theory 🗳️ Electoral Systems 🤝 Power Sharing 🏛️ Institutional Design

Patterns of Democracy

Democracies that share power broadly govern better than winner-take-all systems, on every measure.

av Arend Lijphart 1999 368 sidor

3.68

500+ betyg

📊 Comparative Politics 📜 Democratic Theory 🗳️ Electoral Systems 🤝 Power Sharing 🏛️ Institutional Design

Copaganda

av Alec Karakatsanis • 2025

The hidden PR system that converts police spin into headlines and crime panic into tougher laws.

4.49

500+

🎥 Media Criticism ⚖️ Criminal Justice 🔒 Mass Incarceration 🗞️ News Manipulation 😨 Fear Politics

Copaganda

The hidden PR system that converts police spin into headlines and crime panic into tougher laws.

av Alec Karakatsanis 2025 432 sidor

4.49

500+ betyg

🎥 Media Criticism ⚖️ Criminal Justice 🔒 Mass Incarceration 🗞️ News Manipulation 😨 Fear Politics

The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution

av Joseph Fishkin • 2022

A lost constitutional tradition: preventing oligarchy as the government's first duty.

4.10

🏦 Political Economy 📜 Constitutional History ⚖️ Economic Justice 🛠️ Labor History 🌾 Populism

The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution

A lost constitutional tradition: preventing oligarchy as the government's first duty.

av Joseph Fishkin 2022 640 sidor

4.10

40 betyg

🏦 Political Economy 📜 Constitutional History ⚖️ Economic Justice 🛠️ Labor History 🌾 Populism

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