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Politik Boksammanfattningar

Everybody Lies

av Seth Stephens-Davidowitz • 2017

Google searches expose the racism, fear, and desire that surveys and social media carefully hide.

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📊 Big Data 🖥️ Digital Behavior 🙈 Hidden Bias 🧠 Behavioral Economics 🔍 Revealed Preferences

Everybody Lies

Google searches expose the racism, fear, and desire that surveys and social media carefully hide.

av Seth Stephens-Davidowitz 2017 338 sidor

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📊 Big Data 🖥️ Digital Behavior 🙈 Hidden Bias 🧠 Behavioral Economics 🔍 Revealed Preferences

The Making of Asian America

av Erika Lee • 2015

Asian American history begins with Spanish galleons in Mexico, a century before the Gold Rush.

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🏛️ Asian American History 🌏 Asian Diaspora 🚢 Transpacific History ✋ Anti Asian Racism ⚖️ Legal Exclusion

The Making of Asian America

Asian American history begins with Spanish galleons in Mexico, a century before the Gold Rush.

av Erika Lee 2015 528 sidor

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🏛️ Asian American History 🌏 Asian Diaspora 🚢 Transpacific History ✋ Anti Asian Racism ⚖️ Legal Exclusion

Chaos

av Tom O'Neill • 2019

The Manson story was a lie built to hide the CIA's mind-control experiments in Haight-Ashbury.

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🏛️ Government Cover-Ups 🧠 Mind Control Programs 👮 Police Corruption 🎭 Manufactured Narratives 📝 Investigative Journalism

Chaos

The Manson story was a lie built to hide the CIA's mind-control experiments in Haight-Ashbury.

av Tom O'Neill 2019 504 sidor

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🏛️ Government Cover-Ups 🧠 Mind Control Programs 👮 Police Corruption 🎭 Manufactured Narratives 📝 Investigative Journalism

Policy Paradox

av Deborah Stone • 1988

Policy runs on stories and symbols more than spreadsheets. The winner defines the problem.

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🏛️ Policy Analysis 🔲 Framing Effects 🏗️ Social Construction 🎭 Symbolic Politics 🗣️ Political Rhetoric

Policy Paradox

Policy runs on stories and symbols more than spreadsheets. The winner defines the problem.

av Deborah Stone 1988 428 sidor

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🏛️ Policy Analysis 🔲 Framing Effects 🏗️ Social Construction 🎭 Symbolic Politics 🗣️ Political Rhetoric

Homo Sacer

av Giorgio Agamben • 1994

Sovereignty's hidden purpose, revealed by a forgotten Roman law: the power to produce killable life.

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📚 Continental Philosophy ⚖️ Political Theory 🧬 Biopolitics 👑 Sovereignty 🔍 Critical Theory

Homo Sacer

Sovereignty's hidden purpose, revealed by a forgotten Roman law: the power to produce killable life.

av Giorgio Agamben 1994 208 sidor

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📚 Continental Philosophy ⚖️ Political Theory 🧬 Biopolitics 👑 Sovereignty 🔍 Critical Theory

Dominion

av Tom Holland • 2019

Secularism, human rights, even atheism: a historian shows why these are all products of the cross.

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✝️ Church History 🏛️ Western Civilization 🎭 Cultural History 💡 Intellectual History 🏺 Ancient World

Dominion

Secularism, human rights, even atheism: a historian shows why these are all products of the cross.

av Tom Holland 2019 624 sidor

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✝️ Church History 🏛️ Western Civilization 🎭 Cultural History 💡 Intellectual History 🏺 Ancient World

Svar till historien

av Mohammed Reza Pahlavi • 1979

The Shah's final word: clerics, communists, and allies who abandoned him. Three millennia ended.

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🏛️ Iranian History 📜 Political Memoirs 🌍 Foreign Intervention 🔥 Revolutionary Politics 🥶 Cold War History

Svar till historien

The Shah's final word: clerics, communists, and allies who abandoned him. Three millennia ended.

av Mohammed Reza Pahlavi 1979 345 sidor

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🏛️ Iranian History 📜 Political Memoirs 🌍 Foreign Intervention 🔥 Revolutionary Politics 🥶 Cold War History

The Crowd

av Gustave Le Bon • 1895

When a crowd forms, reason exits. What steps in is ancient, impulsive, and easily guided.

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🧠 Crowd Psychology ✊ Mass Movements 🌀 Suggestibility 🐑 Groupthink 🎙️ Political Rhetoric

The Crowd

When a crowd forms, reason exits. What steps in is ancient, impulsive, and easily guided.

av Gustave Le Bon 1895 104 sidor

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🧠 Crowd Psychology ✊ Mass Movements 🌀 Suggestibility 🐑 Groupthink 🎙️ Political Rhetoric

The Corrosion of Character

av Richard Sennett • 1996

Flexible work promised freedom. It delivered the slow erosion of loyalty, trust, and a stable self.

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🪤 Precarious Labor 🎭 Work And Identity 🏭 Post-Fordist Economy 📖 Critical Theory 🏢 Corporate Alienation

The Corrosion of Character

Flexible work promised freedom. It delivered the slow erosion of loyalty, trust, and a stable self.

av Richard Sennett 1996 176 sidor

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🪤 Precarious Labor 🎭 Work And Identity 🏭 Post-Fordist Economy 📖 Critical Theory 🏢 Corporate Alienation

The Will to Change

av bell hooks • 2003

Men are starving for love; patriarchy is the famine. A feminist vision reclaiming the male heart.

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🧔 Masculinity Studies 🎭 Emotional Repression 🏛️ Patriarchy Critique 🌱 Healthy Masculinity ✊🏿 Black Feminism

The Will to Change

Men are starving for love; patriarchy is the famine. A feminist vision reclaiming the male heart.

av bell hooks 2003 208 sidor

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🧔 Masculinity Studies 🎭 Emotional Repression 🏛️ Patriarchy Critique 🌱 Healthy Masculinity ✊🏿 Black Feminism

Woke, Inc.

av Vivek Ramaswamy • 2021

Social justice as corporate shield: a CEO exposes how causes mask a massive power grab.

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🏢 Stakeholder Capitalism ⚡ Corporate Power 🌱 ESG Investing 🎭 Performative Activism ⚖️ Democratic Backsliding

Woke, Inc.

Social justice as corporate shield: a CEO exposes how causes mask a massive power grab.

av Vivek Ramaswamy 2021 368 sidor

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🏢 Stakeholder Capitalism ⚡ Corporate Power 🌱 ESG Investing 🎭 Performative Activism ⚖️ Democratic Backsliding

Strategy Safari

av Henry Mintzberg • 1998

Ten schools of strategic thought, each partly right, each dangerously incomplete on its own.

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🧭 Strategic Management 📚 Management Theory 🗺️ Strategy Frameworks 🏢 Organizational Theory 🔄 Contingency Theory

Strategy Safari

Ten schools of strategic thought, each partly right, each dangerously incomplete on its own.

av Henry Mintzberg 1998 461 sidor

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🧭 Strategic Management 📚 Management Theory 🗺️ Strategy Frameworks 🏢 Organizational Theory 🔄 Contingency Theory

The Evolution of Cooperation

av Robert Axelrod • 1984

Egoists cooperate when tomorrow matters. The simplest strategy in a computer tournament proved it.

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🎲 Game Theory 🧬 Evolutionary Game Theory 🧠 Rational Choice Theory 🤝 Cooperation Strategies 🔄 Reciprocity

The Evolution of Cooperation

Egoists cooperate when tomorrow matters. The simplest strategy in a computer tournament proved it.

av Robert Axelrod 1984 264 sidor

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🎲 Game Theory 🧬 Evolutionary Game Theory 🧠 Rational Choice Theory 🤝 Cooperation Strategies 🔄 Reciprocity

Death by China

av Peter Navarro • 2011

America armed its biggest rival: every dollar spent at Walmart helped finance the Chinese military.

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🇺🇸 Economic Nationalism 🏭 Authoritarian Capitalism 💱 Currency Manipulation ⚔️ Trade War Literature 💻 Cyber Warfare

Death by China

America armed its biggest rival: every dollar spent at Walmart helped finance the Chinese military.

av Peter Navarro 2011 303 sidor

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🇺🇸 Economic Nationalism 🏭 Authoritarian Capitalism 💱 Currency Manipulation ⚔️ Trade War Literature 💻 Cyber Warfare

How to Listen When Markets Speak

av Lawrence G. McDonald • 2024

The thirty-year deflation is dead. Inflation is back, and the old portfolio is lethal.

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🌡️ Inflation Hedging ⛏️ Commodity Supercycles 📉 Value Investing 💵 Sound Money 💲 Dollar Reserve Currency

How to Listen When Markets Speak

The thirty-year deflation is dead. Inflation is back, and the old portfolio is lethal.

av Lawrence G. McDonald 2024 272 sidor

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🌡️ Inflation Hedging ⛏️ Commodity Supercycles 📉 Value Investing 💵 Sound Money 💲 Dollar Reserve Currency

The Panama Papers

av Frederik Obermaier • 2016

11.5 million documents arrived at a German newspaper, exposing the secret world of offshore wealth.

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🏝️ Offshore Finance 🏛️ Political Corruption 🔍 Investigative Journalism 📢 Whistleblowing 💰 Money Laundering

The Panama Papers

11.5 million documents arrived at a German newspaper, exposing the secret world of offshore wealth.

av Frederik Obermaier 2016 366 sidor

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🏝️ Offshore Finance 🏛️ Political Corruption 🔍 Investigative Journalism 📢 Whistleblowing 💰 Money Laundering

Globalization and Its Discontents Revisited

av Joseph E. Stiglitz • 2002

Trade rules written by the rich, enforced by the IMF: the damage, and an alternative.

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💸 Financial Crises 🌍 Development Economics ⚖️ Global Inequality 🏛️ Neoliberalism Critique 📉 Structural Adjustment

Globalization and Its Discontents Revisited

Trade rules written by the rich, enforced by the IMF: the damage, and an alternative.

av Joseph E. Stiglitz 2002 495 sidor

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💸 Financial Crises 🌍 Development Economics ⚖️ Global Inequality 🏛️ Neoliberalism Critique 📉 Structural Adjustment

The Autobiography Of Malcolm X

av Malcolm X • 1965

He enters prison a street hustler and leaves with a dictionary, a new name, and a mission.

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🏛️ Political Autobiography ✊🏾 Civil Rights Era 🇺🇸 Black American History 📖 Prison Education 🔄 Conversion Narrative

The Autobiography Of Malcolm X

He enters prison a street hustler and leaves with a dictionary, a new name, and a mission.

av Malcolm X 1965 460 sidor

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🏛️ Political Autobiography ✊🏾 Civil Rights Era 🇺🇸 Black American History 📖 Prison Education 🔄 Conversion Narrative

The All New Don't Think of an Elephant!

av George Lakoff • 2004

Argue in your opponent's words and you've already lost. How frames, not facts, control politics.

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📣 Political Messaging 🧠 Cognitive Linguistics 🖼️ Frame Analysis 💡 Conceptual Metaphor ⚖️ Moral Foundations

The All New Don't Think of an Elephant!

Argue in your opponent's words and you've already lost. How frames, not facts, control politics.

av George Lakoff 2004 192 sidor

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📣 Political Messaging 🧠 Cognitive Linguistics 🖼️ Frame Analysis 💡 Conceptual Metaphor ⚖️ Moral Foundations

Systems Thinking For Social Change

av David Peter Stroh • 2015

Why well-meaning solutions backfire, and where to intervene in a system so change actually lasts.

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🧠 Systems Thinking 🌍 Social Change ⚠️ Unintended Consequences 🎯 Leverage Points 🧩 Mental Models

Systems Thinking For Social Change

Why well-meaning solutions backfire, and where to intervene in a system so change actually lasts.

av David Peter Stroh 2015 264 sidor

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🧠 Systems Thinking 🌍 Social Change ⚠️ Unintended Consequences 🎯 Leverage Points 🧩 Mental Models

Free to Choose

av Milton Friedman • 1979

Economic freedom isn't one value among many. It is the mechanism that delivers all the others.

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🏪 Free Market Economics 🏛️ Classical Liberalism 🎓 Chicago School 💰 Monetarism ⚠️ Government Failure

Free to Choose

Economic freedom isn't one value among many. It is the mechanism that delivers all the others.

av Milton Friedman 1979 356 sidor

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🏪 Free Market Economics 🏛️ Classical Liberalism 🎓 Chicago School 💰 Monetarism ⚠️ Government Failure

How Minds Change

av David McRaney • 2022

Facts alone don't change minds: the science of persuasion and a method that does.

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🧪 Persuasion Science 🌐 Belief Systems 🧠 Cognitive Biases 🏘️ Group Identity 🔄 Attitude Change

How Minds Change

Facts alone don't change minds: the science of persuasion and a method that does.

av David McRaney 2022 353 sidor

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🧪 Persuasion Science 🌐 Belief Systems 🧠 Cognitive Biases 🏘️ Group Identity 🔄 Attitude Change

Win Every Argument

av Mehdi Hasan • 2023

A veteran interviewer's playbook for winning arguments, from the dinner table to live television.

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🎤 Public Speaking 🗣️ Debate And Rhetoric 🏛️ Classical Rhetoric 🎯 Persuasion Techniques 📡 Political Communication

Win Every Argument

A veteran interviewer's playbook for winning arguments, from the dinner table to live television.

av Mehdi Hasan 2023 336 sidor

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🎤 Public Speaking 🗣️ Debate And Rhetoric 🏛️ Classical Rhetoric 🎯 Persuasion Techniques 📡 Political Communication

The Twenty Years' Crisis, 1919-1939

av Edward Hallett Carr • 1939

When the peace of 1919 ignored power, power waited twenty years and answered.

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🏛️ International Relations ⚔️ Political Realism 📅 Interwar Period 💪 Power Politics 📜 Diplomatic History

The Twenty Years' Crisis, 1919-1939

When the peace of 1919 ignored power, power waited twenty years and answered.

av Edward Hallett Carr 1939 244 sidor

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🏛️ International Relations ⚔️ Political Realism 📅 Interwar Period 💪 Power Politics 📜 Diplomatic History

A History of Western Philosophy

av Bertrand Russell • 1945

A history of philosophy that reads not like a textbook but like a three-thousand-year argument.

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🏛️ Western Thought 📜 Intellectual History 🗺️ Philosophical Survey 🔬 Empiricism 📐 Analytic Philosophy

A History of Western Philosophy

A history of philosophy that reads not like a textbook but like a three-thousand-year argument.

av Bertrand Russell 1945 906 sidor

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🏛️ Western Thought 📜 Intellectual History 🗺️ Philosophical Survey 🔬 Empiricism 📐 Analytic Philosophy

The Machiavellians

av James Burnham • 1943

Self-government is a myth hiding rule by elites. Liberty demands they check each other.

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🏛️ Elite Theory ⚔️ Political Realism 🔄 Circulation Of Elites 🗳️ Critique Of Democracy 🎭 Ideology And Power

The Machiavellians

Self-government is a myth hiding rule by elites. Liberty demands they check each other.

av James Burnham 1943 305 sidor

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🏛️ Elite Theory ⚔️ Political Realism 🔄 Circulation Of Elites 🗳️ Critique Of Democracy 🎭 Ideology And Power

Amusing Ourselves to Death

av Neil Postman • 1985

The real danger isn't censorship. It's a culture so entertained it forgets how to think.

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🏞️ Media Ecology 📰 Media Criticism 🗳️ Political Communication 📡 Medium Theory 👁️ Attention Economy

Amusing Ourselves to Death

The real danger isn't censorship. It's a culture so entertained it forgets how to think.

av Neil Postman 1985 184 sidor

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🏞️ Media Ecology 📰 Media Criticism 🗳️ Political Communication 📡 Medium Theory 👁️ Attention Economy

The Filter Bubble

av Eli Pariser • 2011

Every click surrenders your free will to an algorithm. The only fix: quit social media entirely.

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📱 Social Media Critique 🫧 Filter Bubbles 🎛️ Digital Manipulation ⏳ Attention Economy 💾 Data Labor

The Filter Bubble

Every click surrenders your free will to an algorithm. The only fix: quit social media entirely.

av Eli Pariser 2011 304 sidor

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📱 Social Media Critique 🫧 Filter Bubbles 🎛️ Digital Manipulation ⏳ Attention Economy 💾 Data Labor

Autocracy, Inc.

av Anne Applebaum • 2024

A global network of dictators runs autocracies like for-profit firms. Democracies bankroll them.

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🌐 Global Autocracy 💰 Kleptocracy 🚫 Authoritarianism 📉 Democratic Backsliding 📡 Information Warfare

Autocracy, Inc.

A global network of dictators runs autocracies like for-profit firms. Democracies bankroll them.

av Anne Applebaum 2024 224 sidor

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🌐 Global Autocracy 💰 Kleptocracy 🚫 Authoritarianism 📉 Democratic Backsliding 📡 Information Warfare

Walden Or, Life In The Woods And "On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience"

av Henry David Thoreau • 1849

The modern noise machine drowns out life. Two years in a one-room cabin taught him why.

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🌿 Transcendentalism 🏡 Simple Living 🌲 Nature Writing ✊ Civil Disobedience 🛠️ Self-Reliance

Walden Or, Life In The Woods And "On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience"

The modern noise machine drowns out life. Two years in a one-room cabin taught him why.

av Henry David Thoreau 1849 305 sidor

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🌿 Transcendentalism 🏡 Simple Living 🌲 Nature Writing ✊ Civil Disobedience 🛠️ Self-Reliance

The Art of Invisibility

av Kevin D. Mitnick • 2017

From encrypted messages to burner devices, a hacker guide to vanishing from always-on surveillance.

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🛡️ Digital Privacy 🔒 Operational Security 👁️ Mass Surveillance 🕵️ Personal Anonymity 🔐 Information Security

The Art of Invisibility

From encrypted messages to burner devices, a hacker guide to vanishing from always-on surveillance.

av Kevin D. Mitnick 2017 320 sidor

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🛡️ Digital Privacy 🔒 Operational Security 👁️ Mass Surveillance 🕵️ Personal Anonymity 🔐 Information Security

Intellectuals and Society

av Thomas Sowellm • 2009

The most educated minds keep getting the biggest questions wrong. It is not bad luck.

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🏛️ Political Philosophy 📢 Social Criticism 🧠 Intellectual Overreach 📜 Classical Liberalism ⚙️ Social Engineering

Intellectuals and Society

The most educated minds keep getting the biggest questions wrong. It is not bad luck.

av Thomas Sowellm 2009 680 sidor

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🏛️ Political Philosophy 📢 Social Criticism 🧠 Intellectual Overreach 📜 Classical Liberalism ⚙️ Social Engineering

Civilization

av Niall Ferguson • 2011

Five hundred years of Western rule rested on six innovations. The rest have now caught up.

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📈 Rise Of The West ⚖️ Comparative History 🔭 Macrohistory 🏦 Institutional Economics 📊 Economic History

Civilization

Five hundred years of Western rule rested on six innovations. The rest have now caught up.

av Niall Ferguson 2011 464 sidor

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📈 Rise Of The West ⚖️ Comparative History 🔭 Macrohistory 🏦 Institutional Economics 📊 Economic History

How an Economy Grows and Why It Crashes

av Peter D. Schiff • 2010

A cartoon island parable about why stimulus and easy credit always end in a crash.

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🏫 Austrian Economics 📖 Economic Literacy 📉 Inflation Critique 🔄 Economic Cycles 🫧 Debt And Bubbles

How an Economy Grows and Why It Crashes

A cartoon island parable about why stimulus and easy credit always end in a crash.

av Peter D. Schiff 2010 256 sidor

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🏫 Austrian Economics 📖 Economic Literacy 📉 Inflation Critique 🔄 Economic Cycles 🫧 Debt And Bubbles

How Fascism Works

av Jason F. Stanley • 2018

A philosopher isolates ten political tactics that turn democratic citizens into hostile tribes.

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🏛️ Authoritarian Politics ⚔️ Us Vs Them 📢 Propaganda Techniques 🕵️ Conspiracy Theories 🎓 Anti-Intellectualism

How Fascism Works

A philosopher isolates ten political tactics that turn democratic citizens into hostile tribes.

av Jason F. Stanley 2018 218 sidor

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🏛️ Authoritarian Politics ⚔️ Us Vs Them 📢 Propaganda Techniques 🕵️ Conspiracy Theories 🎓 Anti-Intellectualism

Dance of Thieves

av Mary E. Pearson • 2018

A queen's spy is shackled to the young outlaw lord she was sent to expose.

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🖤 Enemies To Lovers ⛓️ Forced Proximity 👥 Dual Pov 🗡️ Badass Heroine 🕯️ Slow Burn Romance

Dance of Thieves

A queen's spy is shackled to the young outlaw lord she was sent to expose.

av Mary E. Pearson 2018 512 sidor

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🖤 Enemies To Lovers ⛓️ Forced Proximity 👥 Dual Pov 🗡️ Badass Heroine 🕯️ Slow Burn Romance

Selections from the Prison Notebooks

av Antonio Gramsci • 1947

Why revolutions fail: a jailed Marxist argues the real fight is over culture and common sense.

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🏛️ Cultural Hegemony 🧠 Political Consciousness ⚒️ Class Struggle 🔍 Ideology Critique 📚 Western Marxism

Selections from the Prison Notebooks

Why revolutions fail: a jailed Marxist argues the real fight is over culture and common sense.

av Antonio Gramsci 1947 579 sidor

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🏛️ Cultural Hegemony 🧠 Political Consciousness ⚒️ Class Struggle 🔍 Ideology Critique 📚 Western Marxism

The Construction of Social Reality

av John Rogers Searle • 1995

Money and marriage aren't physical facts. They run on a hidden logic of collective agreement.

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🧱 Social Ontology 📐 Analytic Philosophy 🤝 Social Construction 🗣️ Philosophy Of Language 📜 Constitutive Rules

The Construction of Social Reality

Money and marriage aren't physical facts. They run on a hidden logic of collective agreement.

av John Rogers Searle 1995 256 sidor

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🧱 Social Ontology 📐 Analytic Philosophy 🤝 Social Construction 🗣️ Philosophy Of Language 📜 Constitutive Rules

The Narrow Corridor

av Daron Acemoğlu • 2019

Freedom dies in tyranny and in anarchy. It only lives when society fights the state to a standstill.

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🌍 Comparative Politics 🏗️ State Building 🏦 Institutional Economics 🗽 Political Freedom ⛓️ Authoritarianism

The Narrow Corridor

Freedom dies in tyranny and in anarchy. It only lives when society fights the state to a standstill.

av Daron Acemoğlu 2019 560 sidor

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🌍 Comparative Politics 🏗️ State Building 🏦 Institutional Economics 🗽 Political Freedom ⛓️ Authoritarianism

Naked Economics

av Charles Wheelan • 2002

Forget the jargon: economics is really about incentives, and they explain nearly everything.

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Naked Economics

Forget the jargon: economics is really about incentives, and they explain nearly everything.

av Charles Wheelan 2002 384 sidor

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Bloodlands

av Timothy Snyder • 2010

14 million murdered between Hitler and Stalin, a zone where each regime's massacres fed the other's.

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🌍 Eastern Europe 🏭 Soviet History 🥀 Mass Starvation 🎯 Civilian Targeting ⚖️ Comparative Genocide

Bloodlands

14 million murdered between Hitler and Stalin, a zone where each regime's massacres fed the other's.

av Timothy Snyder 2010 524 sidor

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🌍 Eastern Europe 🏭 Soviet History 🥀 Mass Starvation 🎯 Civilian Targeting ⚖️ Comparative Genocide

Expert Political Judgment

av Philip E. Tetlock • 2005

Political pundits barely beat chance. Those who change their minds and doubt themselves do best.

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🔮 Political Forecasting 🧠 Expert Judgment 🧩 Cognitive Biases 🎲 Probabilistic Thinking 🤔 Intellectual Humility

Expert Political Judgment

Political pundits barely beat chance. Those who change their minds and doubt themselves do best.

av Philip E. Tetlock 2005 344 sidor

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🔮 Political Forecasting 🧠 Expert Judgment 🧩 Cognitive Biases 🎲 Probabilistic Thinking 🤔 Intellectual Humility

Bad Therapy

av Abigail Shrier • 2024

Therapy promised healthier kids. It gave us the most medicated, least resilient generation yet.

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🧒 Childhood Resilience 🚁 Overparenting Critique 👨‍👩‍👧 Parental Authority 📱 Screen Time Effects 💊 Overdiagnosis Critique

Bad Therapy

Therapy promised healthier kids. It gave us the most medicated, least resilient generation yet.

av Abigail Shrier 2024 297 sidor

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🧒 Childhood Resilience 🚁 Overparenting Critique 👨‍👩‍👧 Parental Authority 📱 Screen Time Effects 💊 Overdiagnosis Critique

Destiny Disrupted

av Tamim Ansary • 2009

For centuries, Muslim empires were the center of the world. Then the story got rewritten.

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🕌 Islamic History 📖 Narrative History 🔄 Counter-Narrative ✨ Islamic Golden Age 🏛️ Colonialism And Empire

Destiny Disrupted

For centuries, Muslim empires were the center of the world. Then the story got rewritten.

av Tamim Ansary 2009 390 sidor

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🕌 Islamic History 📖 Narrative History 🔄 Counter-Narrative ✨ Islamic Golden Age 🏛️ Colonialism And Empire

Feminism är för alla

av bell hooks • 2000

Feminism is about ending sexism, not fighting men. A primer that opens the door to everyone.

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🤝 Intersectional Feminism 🗣️ Consciousness Raising 🩺 Reproductive Rights 💄 Beauty Standards 👶 Feminist Parenting

Feminism är för alla

Feminism is about ending sexism, not fighting men. A primer that opens the door to everyone.

av bell hooks 2000 124 sidor

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🤝 Intersectional Feminism 🗣️ Consciousness Raising 🩺 Reproductive Rights 💄 Beauty Standards 👶 Feminist Parenting

India After Gandhi

av Ramachandra Guha • 2007

Born in chaos and dismissed as ungovernable, India became the world's largest democracy.

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🇮🇳 Indian History 🏛️ Postcolonial History 🏗️ Nation Building 🗳️ Democratic Endurance 💔 Partition History

India After Gandhi

Born in chaos and dismissed as ungovernable, India became the world's largest democracy.

av Ramachandra Guha 2007 912 sidor

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🇮🇳 Indian History 🏛️ Postcolonial History 🏗️ Nation Building 🗳️ Democratic Endurance 💔 Partition History

Long Walk to Freedom

av Nelson Mandela • 1994

His 27-year imprisonment is legend. The decades of organizing that led there tell the real story.

4.36

94 000+

✊ Anti-Apartheid Struggle 🇿🇦 South African History 📖 Political Memoirs 🚶 Civil Disobedience 🌄 Political Awakening

Long Walk to Freedom

His 27-year imprisonment is legend. The decades of organizing that led there tell the real story.

av Nelson Mandela 1994 558 sidor

4.36

94 000+ betyg

✊ Anti-Apartheid Struggle 🇿🇦 South African History 📖 Political Memoirs 🚶 Civil Disobedience 🌄 Political Awakening

Tales of Power

av Carlos Castaneda • 1974

A world where the state redefines peace, freedom, truth; one diary is the last act of defiance.

4.12

7 000+

🏴 Totalitarianism 👁️ Mass Surveillance 🧠 Thought Control 📜 Historical Revisionism 🗣️ Language And Power

Tales of Power

A world where the state redefines peace, freedom, truth; one diary is the last act of defiance.

av Carlos Castaneda 1974 304 sidor

4.12

7 000+ betyg

🏴 Totalitarianism 👁️ Mass Surveillance 🧠 Thought Control 📜 Historical Revisionism 🗣️ Language And Power

Lords of Finance

av Liaquat Ahamed • 2009

The Great Depression was not inevitable; four powerful bankers steered the world into it.

4.04

16 000+

🏦 Central Banking History 🥇 Gold Standard 📉 Great Depression History 💥 Financial Crises 📖 Popular Economics

Lords of Finance

The Great Depression was not inevitable; four powerful bankers steered the world into it.

av Liaquat Ahamed 2009 564 sidor

4.04

16 000+ betyg

🏦 Central Banking History 🥇 Gold Standard 📉 Great Depression History 💥 Financial Crises 📖 Popular Economics

Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me)

av Carol Tavris • 2007

Why smart people double down on bad decisions, rewrite history, and refuse to admit error.

4.04

29 000+

🧠 Cognitive Dissonance 🎭 Self-Deception 🔄 Motivated Reasoning 👁️ Bias Blind Spot 💭 Memory Distortion

Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me)

Why smart people double down on bad decisions, rewrite history, and refuse to admit error.

av Carol Tavris 2007 292 sidor

4.04

29 000+ betyg

🧠 Cognitive Dissonance 🎭 Self-Deception 🔄 Motivated Reasoning 👁️ Bias Blind Spot 💭 Memory Distortion

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