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Politik Boksammanfattningar

The Logic of Political Survival

av Bruce Bueno de Mesquita • 2003

Why democracies build roads and dictatorships build patronage: the math of political survival.

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🏛️ Political Incentives 🌍 Comparative Politics 🧮 Rational Choice 🗳️ Public Choice Theory 🔒 Authoritarian Politics

The Logic of Political Survival

Why democracies build roads and dictatorships build patronage: the math of political survival.

av Bruce Bueno de Mesquita 2003 550 sidor

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🏛️ Political Incentives 🌍 Comparative Politics 🧮 Rational Choice 🗳️ Public Choice Theory 🔒 Authoritarian Politics

The Wisdom of Crowds

av James Surowiecki • 2004

Four rules make crowds smarter than experts. Most organizations break every one of them.

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🧠 Collective Intelligence 🧪 Behavioral Economics 👥 Group Decision Making 🌐 Cognitive Diversity 📈 Market Efficiency

The Wisdom of Crowds

Four rules make crowds smarter than experts. Most organizations break every one of them.

av James Surowiecki 2004 306 sidor

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🧠 Collective Intelligence 🧪 Behavioral Economics 👥 Group Decision Making 🌐 Cognitive Diversity 📈 Market Efficiency

Lost Islamic History

av Firas Alkhateeb • 2014

Slaughter, forced conversion, cultural erasure: the violent truth of Islamic rule in India.

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🏰 Medieval India ⚔️ Islamic Conquests 🤝 Hindu-Muslim Relations 🗺️ Partition Of 1947 🔥 Religious Persecution

Lost Islamic History

Slaughter, forced conversion, cultural erasure: the violent truth of Islamic rule in India.

av Firas Alkhateeb 2014 217 sidor

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🏰 Medieval India ⚔️ Islamic Conquests 🤝 Hindu-Muslim Relations 🗺️ Partition Of 1947 🔥 Religious Persecution

Medieval India

av Satish Chandra • 1997

The Mughal Empire: built by cannons, held by tolerance, broken by orthodoxy. Two centuries, one arc.

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🕌 Mughal Empire 🏰 Medieval India 👑 Imperial History 📜 Dynastic History ☪️ Indo-Islamic History

Medieval India

The Mughal Empire: built by cannons, held by tolerance, broken by orthodoxy. Two centuries, one arc.

av Satish Chandra 1997 550 sidor

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🕌 Mughal Empire 🏰 Medieval India 👑 Imperial History 📜 Dynastic History ☪️ Indo-Islamic History

The House of Morgan

av Ron Chernow • 1990

Before the Federal Reserve, a single private bank rescued Wall Street and answered to no one.

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🏛️ Banking History 👑 Financial Dynasties 📈 Wall Street History 🎩 Gilded Age ⚖️ Financial Regulation

The House of Morgan

Before the Federal Reserve, a single private bank rescued Wall Street and answered to no one.

av Ron Chernow 1990 812 sidor

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🏛️ Banking History 👑 Financial Dynasties 📈 Wall Street History 🎩 Gilded Age ⚖️ Financial Regulation

Dissolving Illusions

av Suzanne Humphries • 2013

Infectious disease death rates fell before vaccines. Credit goes to sanitation, not shots.

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🏥 Medical History 💉 Vaccine Controversy 🏘️ Public Health 🚰 Sanitation And Health 🦠 Disease And Society

Dissolving Illusions

Infectious disease death rates fell before vaccines. Credit goes to sanitation, not shots.

av Suzanne Humphries 2013 530 sidor

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🏥 Medical History 💉 Vaccine Controversy 🏘️ Public Health 🚰 Sanitation And Health 🦠 Disease And Society

God Is Not Great

av Christopher Hitchens • 2007

The case against God: holy books authored by humans, moral codes that fail their own standards.

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🧠 New Atheism 🌍 Secular Humanism 🔍 Religious Critique 📜 Textual Criticism 🔒 Sexual Repression

God Is Not Great

The case against God: holy books authored by humans, moral codes that fail their own standards.

av Christopher Hitchens 2007 307 sidor

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🧠 New Atheism 🌍 Secular Humanism 🔍 Religious Critique 📜 Textual Criticism 🔒 Sexual Repression

Power

av Jeffrey Pfeffer • 2010

Modesty, authenticity, trust: the leadership industry sells them. Power buys something else.

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🏢 Organizational Politics 📈 Career Strategy ⚡ Power Dynamics 📣 Self-Promotion 🪞 Narcissism At Work

Power

Modesty, authenticity, trust: the leadership industry sells them. Power buys something else.

av Jeffrey Pfeffer 2010 288 sidor

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🏢 Organizational Politics 📈 Career Strategy ⚡ Power Dynamics 📣 Self-Promotion 🪞 Narcissism At Work

The Network State

av Balaji S. Srinivasan • 2022

Startup companies become unicorns. What if startup communities become countries?

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🚀 Startup Societies 🌐 Digital Sovereignty ⚖️ Moral Innovation 🔗 Network Society 🔐 Crypto Anarchism

The Network State

Startup companies become unicorns. What if startup communities become countries?

av Balaji S. Srinivasan 2022 262 sidor

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🚀 Startup Societies 🌐 Digital Sovereignty ⚖️ Moral Innovation 🔗 Network Society 🔐 Crypto Anarchism

The Real Book of Real Estate

av Robert T. Kiyosaki • 2010

The overlooked real estate play: make money from zoning approvals instead of renovation.

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🏗️ Real Estate Development 🏠 Property Investing 📋 Zoning And Land Use 🗳️ Local Politics 🔍 Due Diligence

The Real Book of Real Estate

The overlooked real estate play: make money from zoning approvals instead of renovation.

av Robert T. Kiyosaki 2010 464 sidor

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🏗️ Real Estate Development 🏠 Property Investing 📋 Zoning And Land Use 🗳️ Local Politics 🔍 Due Diligence

Imminent

av Luis Elizondo • 2024

The Pentagon's UFO chief reveals crash retrievals, non-human remains, and the decades-old coverup.

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🕵️ Military Intelligence 🛸 Ufo Disclosure 📂 Government Coverups 💥 Crash Retrievals ✈️ Aerospace Anomalies

Imminent

The Pentagon's UFO chief reveals crash retrievals, non-human remains, and the decades-old coverup.

av Luis Elizondo 2024 275 sidor

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🕵️ Military Intelligence 🛸 Ufo Disclosure 📂 Government Coverups 💥 Crash Retrievals ✈️ Aerospace Anomalies

I Am Malala

av Malala Yousafzai • 2014

A Pakistani schoolgirl's blog angered the Taliban. They answered with a bullet on her school bus.

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📚 Girls' Education ✊ Youth Activism 🚫 Taliban Oppression 💪 Feminist Activism 🌍 Global Education

I Am Malala

A Pakistani schoolgirl's blog angered the Taliban. They answered with a bullet on her school bus.

av Malala Yousafzai 2014 230 sidor

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📚 Girls' Education ✊ Youth Activism 🚫 Taliban Oppression 💪 Feminist Activism 🌍 Global Education

The Trial and Death of Socrates

av Plato

Athens tried its greatest thinker. He turned a death sentence into philosophy's founding argument.

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🏛️ Ancient Philosophy 🧠 Intellectual Humility ⚔️ Moral Courage 🔍 Self-Examination 🗳️ Civic Duty

The Trial and Death of Socrates

Athens tried its greatest thinker. He turned a death sentence into philosophy's founding argument.

av Plato 58 sidor

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🏛️ Ancient Philosophy 🧠 Intellectual Humility ⚔️ Moral Courage 🔍 Self-Examination 🗳️ Civic Duty

Practical Ethics

av Peter Singer • 1979

Suffering, equally weighed, rewrites what we owe the poor, the dying, and every creature that feels.

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🧭 Applied Ethics ⚖️ Utilitarianism 🐾 Animal Ethics 🌍 Global Poverty 🌿 Environmental Ethics

Practical Ethics

Suffering, equally weighed, rewrites what we owe the poor, the dying, and every creature that feels.

av Peter Singer 1979 356 sidor

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🧭 Applied Ethics ⚖️ Utilitarianism 🐾 Animal Ethics 🌍 Global Poverty 🌿 Environmental Ethics

The Sociological Imagination

av C. Wright Mills • 1959

Private pain is a public problem in disguise—and most social science hides the connection.

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📚 Sociological Theory ✊ Critical Sociology 🎙️ Public Intellectualism 🏛️ Bureaucracy Critique 🛠️ Research As Craft

The Sociological Imagination

Private pain is a public problem in disguise—and most social science hides the connection.

av C. Wright Mills 1959 248 sidor

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📚 Sociological Theory ✊ Critical Sociology 🎙️ Public Intellectualism 🏛️ Bureaucracy Critique 🛠️ Research As Craft

The Discovery of India

av Jawaharlal Nehru • 1946

From a British prison, one leader retraces five millennia of Indian civilization: who are we?

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🪧 Anticolonial Movements 🇬🇧 British Colonialism 🕉️ Cultural Synthesis 📜 Civilizational History 💰 Colonial Economics

The Discovery of India

From a British prison, one leader retraces five millennia of Indian civilization: who are we?

av Jawaharlal Nehru 1946 656 sidor

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🪧 Anticolonial Movements 🇬🇧 British Colonialism 🕉️ Cultural Synthesis 📜 Civilizational History 💰 Colonial Economics

Design Justice

av Sasha Costanza-Chock • 2020

Design decides who benefits and who gets hurt. The communities on the losing end are now leading.

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🫱🏾‍🫲🏽 Participatory Design ⚖️ Tech Ethics 🤖 Algorithmic Bias ✊🏿 Intersectional Feminism 🔍 Critical Design Studies

Design Justice

Design decides who benefits and who gets hurt. The communities on the losing end are now leading.

av Sasha Costanza-Chock 2020 360 sidor

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🫱🏾‍🫲🏽 Participatory Design ⚖️ Tech Ethics 🤖 Algorithmic Bias ✊🏿 Intersectional Feminism 🔍 Critical Design Studies

Corruptible

av Brian Klaas • 2021

Power corrupts, but that is only half the problem. The other half: corruptible people chase power.

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😈 Dark Triad Leadership 🧠 Psychology Of Power 🧬 Evolutionary Mismatch 🏢 Organizational Design 🗳️ Power Accountability

Corruptible

Power corrupts, but that is only half the problem. The other half: corruptible people chase power.

av Brian Klaas 2021 319 sidor

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😈 Dark Triad Leadership 🧠 Psychology Of Power 🧬 Evolutionary Mismatch 🏢 Organizational Design 🗳️ Power Accountability

The Undiscovered Self

av C.G. Jung • 1961

The mass state erases the individual; the psyche you ignore becomes the tyrant's best tool.

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🧠 Depth Psychology 📚 Jungian Psychology 💭 Dream Interpretation 🌑 Shadow Work 👥 Mass Psychology

The Undiscovered Self

The mass state erases the individual; the psyche you ignore becomes the tyrant's best tool.

av C.G. Jung 1961 112 sidor

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🧠 Depth Psychology 📚 Jungian Psychology 💭 Dream Interpretation 🌑 Shadow Work 👥 Mass Psychology

Naked Economics

av Charles Wheelan • 2002

Markets are brilliant and broken. Incentives explain why. Economics without the equations.

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📚 Economic Literacy 🧭 Incentives And Behavior ⚠️ Market Failures 🌐 Globalization And Trade 🌱 Development Economics

Naked Economics

Markets are brilliant and broken. Incentives explain why. Economics without the equations.

av Charles Wheelan 2002 384 sidor

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📚 Economic Literacy 🧭 Incentives And Behavior ⚠️ Market Failures 🌐 Globalization And Trade 🌱 Development Economics

The Meritocracy Trap

av Daniel Markovits • 2019

The myth that talent determines success now drives inequality further than old money ever did.

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🏦 Economic Inequality 🏠 Class In America 📊 Labor Market Polarization 🎓 Elite Education 🔄 Cumulative Inequality

The Meritocracy Trap

The myth that talent determines success now drives inequality further than old money ever did.

av Daniel Markovits 2019 442 sidor

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🏦 Economic Inequality 🏠 Class In America 📊 Labor Market Polarization 🎓 Elite Education 🔄 Cumulative Inequality

A Promised Land

av Barack Obama • 2020

The Obama presidency from the inside: economic crisis, the healthcare battle, and the cost of hope.

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📖 Presidential Memoirs 🏛️ American Politics 🏥 Healthcare Reform 📉 Economic Crisis Response 🧑🏾‍🦱 Racial Identity

A Promised Land

The Obama presidency from the inside: economic crisis, the healthcare battle, and the cost of hope.

av Barack Obama 2020 768 sidor

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📖 Presidential Memoirs 🏛️ American Politics 🏥 Healthcare Reform 📉 Economic Crisis Response 🧑🏾‍🦱 Racial Identity

The Origins of Totalitarianism

av Hannah Arendt • 1951

Before the camps, tyranny. After, something wholly new: total domination.

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🏛️ Totalitarianism 🧠 Political Theory 📚 Continental Philosophy ✡️ Antisemitism 🌍 Imperialism

The Origins of Totalitarianism

Before the camps, tyranny. After, something wholly new: total domination.

av Hannah Arendt 1951 527 sidor

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🏛️ Totalitarianism 🧠 Political Theory 📚 Continental Philosophy ✡️ Antisemitism 🌍 Imperialism

Unfair

av Adam Benforado • 2015

Justice assumes rational minds and perfect memories. Neuroscience shows we have neither.

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⚖️ Criminal Justice Reform 🧠 Cognitive Biases 🎭 Implicit Bias ⛓️ Wrongful Convictions 🗣️ False Confessions

Unfair

Justice assumes rational minds and perfect memories. Neuroscience shows we have neither.

av Adam Benforado 2015 379 sidor

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⚖️ Criminal Justice Reform 🧠 Cognitive Biases 🎭 Implicit Bias ⛓️ Wrongful Convictions 🗣️ False Confessions

Biblical Critical Theory

av Christopher Watkin • 2022

The Bible's story fits neither left nor right. It rewrites modern debates from the ground up.

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📖 Biblical Theology 🔍 Cultural Critique 🏛️ Political Theology 🌐 Faith And Culture 📢 Prophetic Witness

Biblical Critical Theory

The Bible's story fits neither left nor right. It rewrites modern debates from the ground up.

av Christopher Watkin 2022 672 sidor

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📖 Biblical Theology 🔍 Cultural Critique 🏛️ Political Theology 🌐 Faith And Culture 📢 Prophetic Witness

A People’s History of the United States

av Howard Zinn • 1980

The history you learned in school is a cover story for class war, genocide, and slave revolts.

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📖 Revisionist History 🔍 History From Below 🦅 American Empire 🏚️ Settler Colonialism ✊ Class Struggle

A People’s History of the United States

The history you learned in school is a cover story for class war, genocide, and slave revolts.

av Howard Zinn 1980 729 sidor

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📖 Revisionist History 🔍 History From Below 🦅 American Empire 🏚️ Settler Colonialism ✊ Class Struggle

Beyond Order

av Jordan B. Peterson • 2021

Order alone will not save you. Twelve rules for navigating the chaos that comes anyway.

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🧠 Clinical Psychology 🌌 Existential Psychology 🏋️ Personal Responsibility 💔 Trauma Processing 🧩 Intellectual Humility

Beyond Order

Order alone will not save you. Twelve rules for navigating the chaos that comes anyway.

av Jordan B. Peterson 2021 432 sidor

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🧠 Clinical Psychology 🌌 Existential Psychology 🏋️ Personal Responsibility 💔 Trauma Processing 🧩 Intellectual Humility

How to Do Nothing

av Jenny Odell • 2019

Your attention is being mined. The most radical response: do nothing.

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💸 Attention Economy 📵 Digital Detox ✊ Quiet Resistance 🌎 Bioregionalism 💻 Tech Critique

How to Do Nothing

Your attention is being mined. The most radical response: do nothing.

av Jenny Odell 2019 232 sidor

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💸 Attention Economy 📵 Digital Detox ✊ Quiet Resistance 🌎 Bioregionalism 💻 Tech Critique

The Fourth Industrial Revolution

av Klaus Schwab • 2016

Physical, digital, and biological tech are merging. Jobs, governments, and selves will be rewritten.

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🌀 Technological Disruption 🔧 Future Of Work 🏙️ Technology And Society 🤖 Ai And Automation 🔬 Emerging Technologies

The Fourth Industrial Revolution

Physical, digital, and biological tech are merging. Jobs, governments, and selves will be rewritten.

av Klaus Schwab 2016 192 sidor

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🌀 Technological Disruption 🔧 Future Of Work 🏙️ Technology And Society 🤖 Ai And Automation 🔬 Emerging Technologies

Read Write Own

av Chris Dixon • 2024

The architecture for internet networks no single company can control: ownership built into the code.

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🌐 Internet History 🔑 Digital Ownership 🪙 Token Economics 🔗 Network Effects ⛓️ Decentralization

Read Write Own

The architecture for internet networks no single company can control: ownership built into the code.

av Chris Dixon 2024 320 sidor

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🌐 Internet History 🔑 Digital Ownership 🪙 Token Economics 🔗 Network Effects ⛓️ Decentralization

Human Action

av Ludwig von Mises • 1940

All of civilization, from prices to peace, comes from people acting to improve their own condition.

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🏛️ Austrian Economics 🗽 Classical Liberalism 🌐 Spontaneous Order 💎 Subjective Value 🧮 Economic Calculation

Human Action

All of civilization, from prices to peace, comes from people acting to improve their own condition.

av Ludwig von Mises 1940 924 sidor

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🏛️ Austrian Economics 🗽 Classical Liberalism 🌐 Spontaneous Order 💎 Subjective Value 🧮 Economic Calculation

Poor Economics

av Abhijit V. Banerjee • 2011

Poverty is not one problem but many small ones. Randomized trials reveal which fixes actually work.

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🏗️ Development Economics 🌍 Global Poverty 🧪 Randomized Controlled Trials 📊 Evidence-Based Policy 🧠 Behavioral Economics

Poor Economics

Poverty is not one problem but many small ones. Randomized trials reveal which fixes actually work.

av Abhijit V. Banerjee 2011 320 sidor

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🏗️ Development Economics 🌍 Global Poverty 🧪 Randomized Controlled Trials 📊 Evidence-Based Policy 🧠 Behavioral Economics

One-Dimensional Man

av Herbert Marcuse • 1964

The prison of comfort: needs manufactured, desires satisfied, the very idea of escape erased.

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🏛️ Frankfurt School 🔍 Critical Theory ⚙️ Technological Domination 🛒 Consumer Culture Critique 🧠 Ideology Critique

One-Dimensional Man

The prison of comfort: needs manufactured, desires satisfied, the very idea of escape erased.

av Herbert Marcuse 1964 260 sidor

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🏛️ Frankfurt School 🔍 Critical Theory ⚙️ Technological Domination 🛒 Consumer Culture Critique 🧠 Ideology Critique

After the Prophet

av Lesley Hazleton • 2009

Islam's great schism began with a succession crisis, a scandal, and a grandson's massacre.

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🕌 Sunni-Shia Divide 📜 Early Islamic History 👑 Succession Crisis ⚔️ Religious Civil Wars 🕊️ Martyrdom

After the Prophet

Islam's great schism began with a succession crisis, a scandal, and a grandson's massacre.

av Lesley Hazleton 2009 256 sidor

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🕌 Sunni-Shia Divide 📜 Early Islamic History 👑 Succession Crisis ⚔️ Religious Civil Wars 🕊️ Martyrdom

The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

av Max Weber • 1904

Fear of damnation made work a sacred duty. From that anxious discipline grew modern capitalism.

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🏭 Economic Sociology ⛪ Sociology Of Religion ⚙️ Rationalization Theory 🌍 Secularization Theory 💰 Capitalism Critique

The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

Fear of damnation made work a sacred duty. From that anxious discipline grew modern capitalism.

av Max Weber 1904 320 sidor

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🏭 Economic Sociology ⛪ Sociology Of Religion ⚙️ Rationalization Theory 🌍 Secularization Theory 💰 Capitalism Critique

Calling Bullshit

av Carl T. Bergstrom • 2020

Numbers and algorithms are the new bullshit. Two scientists hand you the detection kit.

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🧠 Critical Thinking 📊 Data Literacy 📰 Media Literacy 🦠 Misinformation 📈 Statistical Thinking

Calling Bullshit

Numbers and algorithms are the new bullshit. Two scientists hand you the detection kit.

av Carl T. Bergstrom 2020 336 sidor

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🧠 Critical Thinking 📊 Data Literacy 📰 Media Literacy 🦠 Misinformation 📈 Statistical Thinking

Deception Point

av Dan Brown • 2001

An analyst verifying NASA's Arctic meteorite finds flawless evidence of an elaborate, deadly hoax.

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🖥️ Techno-Thriller ❄️ Arctic Thriller 🏛️ Political Conspiracy 🔬 Scientist Heroes 🚁 Military Chase

Immersiv

Deception Point

An analyst verifying NASA's Arctic meteorite finds flawless evidence of an elaborate, deadly hoax.

av Dan Brown 2001 556 sidor

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🖥️ Techno-Thriller ❄️ Arctic Thriller 🏛️ Political Conspiracy 🔬 Scientist Heroes 🚁 Military Chase

Is Everyone Really Equal?

av Özlem Sensoy • 2011

The most comfortable explanation for inequality is individual failure. It's also the most wrong.

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🎓 Social Justice Education 📚 Critical Race Theory 🔀 Intersectionality ⚖️ Systemic Inequality ✊ Anti-Racism

Is Everyone Really Equal?

The most comfortable explanation for inequality is individual failure. It's also the most wrong.

av Özlem Sensoy 2011 288 sidor

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🎓 Social Justice Education 📚 Critical Race Theory 🔀 Intersectionality ⚖️ Systemic Inequality ✊ Anti-Racism

Trust Me, I'm Lying

av Ryan Holiday • 2012

Blogs run on lies. A former insider shows who supplies them and why truth loses.

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📰 Media Manipulation 📈 Attention Economy 🔍 Misinformation 😡 Outrage Culture 🎙️ Media Criticism

Trust Me, I'm Lying

Blogs run on lies. A former insider shows who supplies them and why truth loses.

av Ryan Holiday 2012 259 sidor

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📰 Media Manipulation 📈 Attention Economy 🔍 Misinformation 😡 Outrage Culture 🎙️ Media Criticism

India Way,The - Strategies for an uncertain world

av S. Jaishankar • 2020

India traded non-alignment for a strategy of engaging all sides at once. The architect explains why.

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🇮🇳 Indian Foreign Policy 🌏 Asian Geopolitics 🇨🇳 China India Relations 🌊 Indo Pacific Geopolitics ⚖️ Balance Of Power

India Way,The - Strategies for an uncertain world

India traded non-alignment for a strategy of engaging all sides at once. The architect explains why.

av S. Jaishankar 2020 240 sidor

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🇮🇳 Indian Foreign Policy 🌏 Asian Geopolitics 🇨🇳 China India Relations 🌊 Indo Pacific Geopolitics ⚖️ Balance Of Power

The Cult of Trump

av Steven Hassan • 2019

A four-part control system that locks in a president's followers and blinds them to how it works.

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🏛️ Political Cults ⚠️ Authoritarian Politics 🧠 Undue Influence 📺 Media Manipulation ⛪ Evangelical Politics

The Cult of Trump

A four-part control system that locks in a president's followers and blinds them to how it works.

av Steven Hassan 2019 320 sidor

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🏛️ Political Cults ⚠️ Authoritarian Politics 🧠 Undue Influence 📺 Media Manipulation ⛪ Evangelical Politics

The Matthew Effect

av Daniel Rigney • 2010

Why a small head start in science, money, or the classroom rarely stays small.

3.65

🏛️ Inequality Studies 📈 Cumulative Advantage 💰 Wealth Concentration 🔄 Privilege Reproduction ⚖️ Systemic Inequality

The Matthew Effect

Why a small head start in science, money, or the classroom rarely stays small.

av Daniel Rigney 2010 176 sidor

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🏛️ Inequality Studies 📈 Cumulative Advantage 💰 Wealth Concentration 🔄 Privilege Reproduction ⚖️ Systemic Inequality

Poverty, by America

av Matthew Desmond • 2023

Poverty in America persists by design, fueled by exploitation and welfare that flows to the top.

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🏚️ Housing Exploitation 🛠️ Labor Exploitation 💰 Affluent Welfare 🏘️ Residential Segregation 🚧 Opportunity Hoarding

Poverty, by America

Poverty in America persists by design, fueled by exploitation and welfare that flows to the top.

av Matthew Desmond 2023 284 sidor

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🏚️ Housing Exploitation 🛠️ Labor Exploitation 💰 Affluent Welfare 🏘️ Residential Segregation 🚧 Opportunity Hoarding

Devil on the Cross

av Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o • 1980

Having lost everything, a Nairobi woman enters a grotesque contest where thieves are the winners.

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🎭 Political Allegory ✊ Feminist Awakening 💰 Systemic Corruption 🇰🇪 Post-Independence Kenya 🌪️ Surreal Allegory

Devil on the Cross

Having lost everything, a Nairobi woman enters a grotesque contest where thieves are the winners.

av Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o 1980 256 sidor

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🎭 Political Allegory ✊ Feminist Awakening 💰 Systemic Corruption 🇰🇪 Post-Independence Kenya 🌪️ Surreal Allegory

Blueprint for Revolution

av Srdja Popovic • 2015

Rice pudding, Lego men, and the nonviolent playbook that wins twice as often as violence.

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🕊️ Civil Resistance 🌱 Grassroots Organizing 🧱 Movement Building 🤝 Coalition Building 🎭 Creative Resistance

Blueprint for Revolution

Rice pudding, Lego men, and the nonviolent playbook that wins twice as often as violence.

av Srdja Popovic 2015 304 sidor

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🕊️ Civil Resistance 🌱 Grassroots Organizing 🧱 Movement Building 🤝 Coalition Building 🎭 Creative Resistance

The Foundation Trilogy

av Isaac Asimov • 1953

The galactic empire is dying. One mathematician plants two foundations to shorten the dark age.

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🪐 Galactic Empire 🎭 Hidden Puppet Masters 🏛️ Political Intrigue 🧬 Mutant Threat 🤝 Trade And Diplomacy

The Foundation Trilogy

The galactic empire is dying. One mathematician plants two foundations to shorten the dark age.

av Isaac Asimov 1953 679 sidor

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🪐 Galactic Empire 🎭 Hidden Puppet Masters 🏛️ Political Intrigue 🧬 Mutant Threat 🤝 Trade And Diplomacy

Hood Feminism

av Mikki Kendall • 2020

The feminism that fights for the corner office ignores women who can't afford lunch. Their agenda.

4.35

64 000+

🖤 Black Feminism 🍲 Food Insecurity ⚖️ Reproductive Justice 🔗 Systemic Racism 🎨 Colorism

Hood Feminism

The feminism that fights for the corner office ignores women who can't afford lunch. Their agenda.

av Mikki Kendall 2020 267 sidor

4.35

64 000+ betyg

🖤 Black Feminism 🍲 Food Insecurity ⚖️ Reproductive Justice 🔗 Systemic Racism 🎨 Colorism

The Wealth of Nations

av Adam Smith • 2010

How a pin factory explains prosperity, and why free exchange allocates it better than governments.

3.91

421

🏛️ Political Economy 🔧 Division Of Labor 🤝 Free Markets 📈 Economic Growth ⏳ Economic History

The Wealth of Nations

How a pin factory explains prosperity, and why free exchange allocates it better than governments.

av Adam Smith 2010 416 sidor

3.91

421 betyg

🏛️ Political Economy 🔧 Division Of Labor 🤝 Free Markets 📈 Economic Growth ⏳ Economic History

On the Edge

av Nate Silver • 2024

One tribe calculates risk; one avoids it. This divide now shapes American life more than politics.

3.66

5 000+

🎲 Risk Cultures 📊 Quantitative Thinking 🎮 Game Theory 🧠 Behavioral Economics ⚔️ Culture Wars

On the Edge

One tribe calculates risk; one avoids it. This divide now shapes American life more than politics.

av Nate Silver 2024 576 sidor

3.66

5 000+ betyg

🎲 Risk Cultures 📊 Quantitative Thinking 🎮 Game Theory 🧠 Behavioral Economics ⚔️ Culture Wars

Practical Wisdom

av Barry Schwartz • 2010

Rules and incentives are making professionals worse at their jobs. Aristotle knew the fix.

3.70

500+

🏛️ Virtue Ethics 🧠 Moral Psychology ⚖️ Professional Ethics 🏢 Institutional Critique 🔨 Philosophy Of Work

Practical Wisdom

Rules and incentives are making professionals worse at their jobs. Aristotle knew the fix.

av Barry Schwartz 2010 324 sidor

3.70

500+ betyg

🏛️ Virtue Ethics 🧠 Moral Psychology ⚖️ Professional Ethics 🏢 Institutional Critique 🔨 Philosophy Of Work

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