Social rättvisa

Böcker i denna genre belyser samhällets djupaste ojämlikheter och de modiga individer som arbetar för att åtgärda dem genom protest, politik och gräsrotsrörelser. Dessa kraftfulla verk granskar systemiska hinder kring ras, klass, kön och mänskliga rättigheter samtidigt som de erbjuder ramverk för att skapa meningsfull social förändring och bygga mer rättvisa samhällen.

Social rättvisa Boksammanfattningar

The Emperor Wears No Clothes

av Jack Herer • 1992

Cannabis was outlawed not for public safety, but to protect timber, oil, and newspaper empires.

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🌿 Cannabis History 🏭 Industrial Hemp 🚫 Drug Prohibition ♻️ Renewable Resources 💊 Medical Cannabis

The Emperor Wears No Clothes

Cannabis was outlawed not for public safety, but to protect timber, oil, and newspaper empires.

av Jack Herer 1992 291 sidor

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🌿 Cannabis History 🏭 Industrial Hemp 🚫 Drug Prohibition ♻️ Renewable Resources 💊 Medical Cannabis

Gaga Feminism

av J. Jack Halberstam • 2012

Normal failed. A weirder, messier feminism built on performance, chaos, and political disruption.

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🏳️‍🌈 Queer Theory 📚 Feminist Theory 🎭 Gender Performance 🌊 Sexual Fluidity 🤰 Reproductive Politics

Gaga Feminism

Normal failed. A weirder, messier feminism built on performance, chaos, and political disruption.

av J. Jack Halberstam 2012 232 sidor

3.56

500+ betyg

🏳️‍🌈 Queer Theory 📚 Feminist Theory 🎭 Gender Performance 🌊 Sexual Fluidity 🤰 Reproductive Politics

Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows

av Melanie Joy • 2009

A hidden belief system decides which animals you befriend and which you eat.

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🍽️ Food Ethics 🐾 Animal Rights 🏭 Factory Farming 🧠 Psychology Of Meat 🤔 Cognitive Dissonance

Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows

A hidden belief system decides which animals you befriend and which you eat.

av Melanie Joy 2009 204 sidor

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🍽️ Food Ethics 🐾 Animal Rights 🏭 Factory Farming 🧠 Psychology Of Meat 🤔 Cognitive Dissonance

Getting Beyond Better

av Roger L. Martin • 2015

Real social change replaces a broken equilibrium with a just one. Here's the strategic process.

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356

🧩 Social Entrepreneurship 💡 Social Innovation 🔁 Systems Change ⚖️ Value Creation Models 📐 Scaling Impact

Getting Beyond Better

Real social change replaces a broken equilibrium with a just one. Here's the strategic process.

av Roger L. Martin 2015 272 sidor

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356 betyg

🧩 Social Entrepreneurship 💡 Social Innovation 🔁 Systems Change ⚖️ Value Creation Models 📐 Scaling Impact

Outcasts United

av Warren St. John • 2009

War refugees, a parking lot soccer team, one coach, and the Georgia town forced to change.

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⚽ Youth Sports 🏠 Refugee Resettlement 🏟️ Sports And Community 📰 Immersion Journalism 🏡 Small Town America

Outcasts United

War refugees, a parking lot soccer team, one coach, and the Georgia town forced to change.

av Warren St. John 2009 240 sidor

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8 000+ betyg

⚽ Youth Sports 🏠 Refugee Resettlement 🏟️ Sports And Community 📰 Immersion Journalism 🏡 Small Town America

Criminology

av Tim Newburn • 2018

Crime is a political label. The most effective prevention has nothing to do with prison.

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🕵️ Criminology ⚖️ Criminal Justice 👁️ Social Control 🏷️ Labeling Theory 🔍 Critical Criminology

Criminology

Crime is a political label. The most effective prevention has nothing to do with prison.

av Tim Newburn 2018 160 sidor

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🕵️ Criminology ⚖️ Criminal Justice 👁️ Social Control 🏷️ Labeling Theory 🔍 Critical Criminology

What's Math Got to Do with It?

av Jo Boaler • 2008

Why ability grouping and timed tests backfire, and what builds mathematical thinkers instead.

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🧮 Math Education 🔍 Inquiry-Based Learning 😟 Math Anxiety 🤝 Collaborative Learning ⚖️ Educational Equity

What's Math Got to Do with It?

Why ability grouping and timed tests backfire, and what builds mathematical thinkers instead.

av Jo Boaler 2008 218 sidor

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🧮 Math Education 🔍 Inquiry-Based Learning 😟 Math Anxiety 🤝 Collaborative Learning ⚖️ Educational Equity

The Business of Baby

av Jennifer Margulis • 2013

The birth industry profits when you lose control: what to question and when to say no.

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🏥 Maternity Care 💰 Corporate Medicine 📊 Evidence-Based Birth 🌿 Natural Childbirth ✊ Birth Advocacy

The Business of Baby

The birth industry profits when you lose control: what to question and when to say no.

av Jennifer Margulis 2013 368 sidor

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🏥 Maternity Care 💰 Corporate Medicine 📊 Evidence-Based Birth 🌿 Natural Childbirth ✊ Birth Advocacy

Aftershocks of Disaster

av Yarimar Bonilla • 2019

After Maria, Puerto Ricans found the worst disaster wasn't the storm. It was colonial rule.

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🇵🇷 Puerto Rican History 🌴 Caribbean Politics 🌀 Disaster Response 🤝 Mutual Aid 🏚️ Disaster Capitalism

Aftershocks of Disaster

After Maria, Puerto Ricans found the worst disaster wasn't the storm. It was colonial rule.

av Yarimar Bonilla 2019 404 sidor

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🇵🇷 Puerto Rican History 🌴 Caribbean Politics 🌀 Disaster Response 🤝 Mutual Aid 🏚️ Disaster Capitalism

Saving Capitalism

av Robert B. Reich • 2004

Capitalism's rules are written by the powerful, and the rest of us pay the price.

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🏛️ Political Economy 📉 Economic Inequality 🏗️ Market Regulation 🏢 Corporate Power ⚒️ Labor And Unions

Saving Capitalism

Capitalism's rules are written by the powerful, and the rest of us pay the price.

av Robert B. Reich 2004 219 sidor

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🏛️ Political Economy 📉 Economic Inequality 🏗️ Market Regulation 🏢 Corporate Power ⚒️ Labor And Unions

How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division

av Elif Shafak • 2020

We have never been more connected, nor more divided. Storytelling, not information, is the bridge.

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🗳️ Political Division 🤝 Civic Engagement 🔁 Echo Chambers 📚 Narrative Empathy 💬 Emotional Honesty

How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division

We have never been more connected, nor more divided. Storytelling, not information, is the bridge.

av Elif Shafak 2020 45 sidor

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🗳️ Political Division 🤝 Civic Engagement 🔁 Echo Chambers 📚 Narrative Empathy 💬 Emotional Honesty

Twelve Years a Slave

av Solomon Northup • 2013

Drugged and chained, a free New York violinist begins twelve years as a Louisiana slave.

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🎋 American Slavery ⛓️ Slave Narratives 📜 Abolitionist Literature 🕯️ Survival Under Bondage 🩸 Plantation Brutality

Twelve Years a Slave

Drugged and chained, a free New York violinist begins twelve years as a Louisiana slave.

av Solomon Northup 2013 363 sidor

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🎋 American Slavery ⛓️ Slave Narratives 📜 Abolitionist Literature 🕯️ Survival Under Bondage 🩸 Plantation Brutality

The Autistic Brain

av Temple Grandin • 2013

A free Black man is sold into slavery; a single smuggled letter holds his escape.

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🔗 American Slavery 📜 Slave Narratives ⛓ Kidnapping And Captivity 🏚️ Plantation Life 🛡️ Survival And Resistance

The Autistic Brain

A free Black man is sold into slavery; a single smuggled letter holds his escape.

av Temple Grandin 2013 240 sidor

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🔗 American Slavery 📜 Slave Narratives ⛓ Kidnapping And Captivity 🏚️ Plantation Life 🛡️ Survival And Resistance

Sand Talk

av Tyson Yunkaporta • 2019

Linear time and reductionist logic got us into this mess. An Indigenous framework shows the way out.

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🧠 Indigenous Knowledge 🇦🇺 Aboriginal Australia 🔄 Systems Thinking ✊ Colonialism Critique 🌱 Sustainable Living

Sand Talk

Linear time and reductionist logic got us into this mess. An Indigenous framework shows the way out.

av Tyson Yunkaporta 2019 256 sidor

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🧠 Indigenous Knowledge 🇦🇺 Aboriginal Australia 🔄 Systems Thinking ✊ Colonialism Critique 🌱 Sustainable Living

Between Barack and a Hard Place

av Tim Wise • 2009

Obama's election didn't end racism; it adapted it to look like respect.

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🧱 Structural Racism ⚪ White Privilege 💰 Racial Wealth Gap 👁️ Colorblind Ideology 🙈 White Denial

Between Barack and a Hard Place

Obama's election didn't end racism; it adapted it to look like respect.

av Tim Wise 2009 159 sidor

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🧱 Structural Racism ⚪ White Privilege 💰 Racial Wealth Gap 👁️ Colorblind Ideology 🙈 White Denial

Thick

av Tressie McMillan Cottom • 2019

Black women are punished for complexity, so embracing every contradiction becomes its own rebellion.

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✊🏿 Black Feminist Thought ⚖️ Critical Race Theory 💄 Beauty As Capital 🏥 Healthcare Disparities 🎩 Respectability Politics

Thick

Black women are punished for complexity, so embracing every contradiction becomes its own rebellion.

av Tressie McMillan Cottom 2019 248 sidor

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✊🏿 Black Feminist Thought ⚖️ Critical Race Theory 💄 Beauty As Capital 🏥 Healthcare Disparities 🎩 Respectability Politics

Becoming a Helper

av Marianne Schneider Corey • 1988

Therapy training demands more self-work than technique. A guide to the person you must become.

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🧑‍🎓 New Counselors 🛠️ Counseling Skills 🏥 Clinical Training 🪞 Self-Aware Practice ⚖️ Ethical Frameworks

Becoming a Helper

Therapy training demands more self-work than technique. A guide to the person you must become.

av Marianne Schneider Corey 1988 432 sidor

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🧑‍🎓 New Counselors 🛠️ Counseling Skills 🏥 Clinical Training 🪞 Self-Aware Practice ⚖️ Ethical Frameworks

Bad Mexicans

av Kelly Lytle Hernández • 2022

The Mexican Revolution began with ink, not gunpowder. The U.S. fought to stop it.

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🪖 Mexican Revolution 🏜️ Borderlands History 🏴 Anarchist Movements ✊ Labor Strikes 🌍 Anti-Colonialism

Bad Mexicans

The Mexican Revolution began with ink, not gunpowder. The U.S. fought to stop it.

av Kelly Lytle Hernández 2022 372 sidor

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2 000+ betyg

🪖 Mexican Revolution 🏜️ Borderlands History 🏴 Anarchist Movements ✊ Labor Strikes 🌍 Anti-Colonialism

Loud

av Drew Afualo • 2024

A blueprint for living loud, reclaiming 'mean,' and making misogyny face consequences.

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🧠 Internalized Misogyny 💪 Body Neutrality 🎤 Reclaiming Your Voice 🏡 Self-Sufficiency 🚧 Setting Boundaries

Loud

A blueprint for living loud, reclaiming 'mean,' and making misogyny face consequences.

av Drew Afualo 2024 256 sidor

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🧠 Internalized Misogyny 💪 Body Neutrality 🎤 Reclaiming Your Voice 🏡 Self-Sufficiency 🚧 Setting Boundaries

Ethics in the Real World

av Peter Singer • 2016

A philosopher's case that buying a luxury watch when children are dying is an ethical failure.

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⚖️ Applied Ethics 🏛️ Moral Philosophy 🌍 Effective Altruism 📊 Utilitarianism 🐾 Animal Rights

Ethics in the Real World

A philosopher's case that buying a luxury watch when children are dying is an ethical failure.

av Peter Singer 2016 336 sidor

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⚖️ Applied Ethics 🏛️ Moral Philosophy 🌍 Effective Altruism 📊 Utilitarianism 🐾 Animal Rights

Decolonial Daughter

av Lesley-Ann Brown • 2018

Letters from a Black mother to her European son about the colonial past they carry together.

4.13

📚 Postcolonial Theory 📜 Colonial Legacy 🩹 Generational Trauma 🌗 Cultural Hybridity 🪞 Internalized Racism

Decolonial Daughter

Letters from a Black mother to her European son about the colonial past they carry together.

av Lesley-Ann Brown 2018 231 sidor

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86 betyg

📚 Postcolonial Theory 📜 Colonial Legacy 🩹 Generational Trauma 🌗 Cultural Hybridity 🪞 Internalized Racism

Ace

av Angela Chen • 2020

The world assumes everyone wants sex. Asexuality reveals what that assumption costs all of us.

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📘 Asexuality Studies 🌈 Queer Theory 📏 Sexual Normativity 🤝 Non-Sexual Intimacy 🛡️ Consent Culture

Ace

The world assumes everyone wants sex. Asexuality reveals what that assumption costs all of us.

av Angela Chen 2020 210 sidor

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📘 Asexuality Studies 🌈 Queer Theory 📏 Sexual Normativity 🤝 Non-Sexual Intimacy 🛡️ Consent Culture

Små stora ting

av Jodi Picoult • 2016

Removed from a white newborn's care for being Black, a nurse stands trial for his death.

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🎯 Wrongful Accusation ⚖️ Courtroom Drama 🔗 Systemic Racism 🩺 Medical Ethics 💡 Racial Awakening

Små stora ting

Removed from a white newborn's care for being Black, a nurse stands trial for his death.

av Jodi Picoult 2016 510 sidor

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🎯 Wrongful Accusation ⚖️ Courtroom Drama 🔗 Systemic Racism 🩺 Medical Ethics 💡 Racial Awakening

The Five Most Important Questions You Will Ever Ask About Your Organization

av Peter F. Drucker • 1993

Drucker's five questions for detecting organizational drift and the discipline to reverse it.

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📋 Organizational Assessment 🏛️ Nonprofit Management 🗺️ Strategic Planning 🎯 Mission-Driven Orgs ✂️ Strategic Focus

The Five Most Important Questions You Will Ever Ask About Your Organization

Drucker's five questions for detecting organizational drift and the discipline to reverse it.

av Peter F. Drucker 1993 144 sidor

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📋 Organizational Assessment 🏛️ Nonprofit Management 🗺️ Strategic Planning 🎯 Mission-Driven Orgs ✂️ Strategic Focus

My Bondage and My Freedom

av Frederick Douglass • 1855

One brawl with a slave-breaker taught him he was a man. Then he taught a nation.

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🏚️ American Slavery 📖 Slave Narrative ✊ Abolitionist Movement ✊🏾 Black Abolitionism 🔗 Self Emancipation

My Bondage and My Freedom

One brawl with a slave-breaker taught him he was a man. Then he taught a nation.

av Frederick Douglass 1855 432 sidor

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🏚️ American Slavery 📖 Slave Narrative ✊ Abolitionist Movement ✊🏾 Black Abolitionism 🔗 Self Emancipation

Letter to the American Church

av Eric Metaxas • 2022

Why a silent American Church is repeating the German Church's fatal mistake under Hitler.

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🕊️ Dietrich Bonhoeffer 🏛️ Faith And Politics ✝️ Costly Discipleship 📣 Prophetic Voice 🇺🇸 American Evangelicalism

Letter to the American Church

Why a silent American Church is repeating the German Church's fatal mistake under Hitler.

av Eric Metaxas 2022 159 sidor

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🕊️ Dietrich Bonhoeffer 🏛️ Faith And Politics ✝️ Costly Discipleship 📣 Prophetic Voice 🇺🇸 American Evangelicalism

Building Social Business

av Muhammad Yunus • 1997

A business that returns your money and not a penny more. It beats charity and it scales.

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🚀 Social Entrepreneurship 💰 Microfinance 🤝 Poverty Alleviation 🏗️ Social Enterprise 📊 Bottom Of The Pyramid

Building Social Business

A business that returns your money and not a penny more. It beats charity and it scales.

av Muhammad Yunus 1997 255 sidor

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🚀 Social Entrepreneurship 💰 Microfinance 🤝 Poverty Alleviation 🏗️ Social Enterprise 📊 Bottom Of The Pyramid

In Defense of Witches

av Mona Chollet • 2018

The witch hunts never ended; they just traded the stake for courtroom, clinic, and gossip.

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🧙 Witch Trials 🚫 Childfree Women 👵 Aging Women 🏥 Medical Misogyny ✊ Bodily Autonomy

In Defense of Witches

The witch hunts never ended; they just traded the stake for courtroom, clinic, and gossip.

av Mona Chollet 2018 308 sidor

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🧙 Witch Trials 🚫 Childfree Women 👵 Aging Women 🏥 Medical Misogyny ✊ Bodily Autonomy

Stolen Pride

av Arlie Russell Hochschild • 2024

Shame from economic decline, redirected into racial blame, powers today's right-wing resurgence.

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🏛️ American Politics 🌾 Rural Sociology 🏭 Deindustrialization ⛰️ Appalachian Studies 😤 Political Emotion

Stolen Pride

Shame from economic decline, redirected into racial blame, powers today's right-wing resurgence.

av Arlie Russell Hochschild 2024 400 sidor

4.02

1 000+ betyg

🏛️ American Politics 🌾 Rural Sociology 🏭 Deindustrialization ⛰️ Appalachian Studies 😤 Political Emotion

Fellow Creatures

av Christine M. Korsgaard • 2018

Value only exists relative to a creature; human superiority over animals was never coherent.

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221

🔎 Animal Ethics 🏛️ Moral Philosophy 🧠 Kantian Ethics 🐾 Animal Consciousness ⚖️ Anti-Speciesism

Fellow Creatures

Value only exists relative to a creature; human superiority over animals was never coherent.

av Christine M. Korsgaard 2018 268 sidor

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🔎 Animal Ethics 🏛️ Moral Philosophy 🧠 Kantian Ethics 🐾 Animal Consciousness ⚖️ Anti-Speciesism

It's Not Hysteria

av Karen Tang • 2024

Your symptoms are real: a gynecologist's plan to get the diagnosis and care you're owed.

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🩺 Reproductive Health 🗣️ Self-Advocacy 🤥 Medical Gaslighting 😣 Chronic Pelvic Pain 🧪 Hormone Health

It's Not Hysteria

Your symptoms are real: a gynecologist's plan to get the diagnosis and care you're owed.

av Karen Tang 2024 384 sidor

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🩺 Reproductive Health 🗣️ Self-Advocacy 🤥 Medical Gaslighting 😣 Chronic Pelvic Pain 🧪 Hormone Health

Tangled Up in Blue

av Rosa Brooks • 2021

A law professor joined the police. The training is built to save officers, not the public.

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🚔 Policing Reform ⚖️ Biased Policing 🎯 Police Training 🔗 Criminal Justice Reform ✋ Use Of Force

Tangled Up in Blue

A law professor joined the police. The training is built to save officers, not the public.

av Rosa Brooks 2021 413 sidor

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🚔 Policing Reform ⚖️ Biased Policing 🎯 Police Training 🔗 Criminal Justice Reform ✋ Use Of Force

Health At Every Size

av Linda Bacon • 2008

Weight stigma kills; dieting backfires. The biology-rooted case for health without the scale.

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🩺 Health At Every Size 🧠 Intuitive Eating ✊ Fat Acceptance ⚖️ Weight Stigma 💔 Emotional Eating

Health At Every Size

Weight stigma kills; dieting backfires. The biology-rooted case for health without the scale.

av Linda Bacon 2008 374 sidor

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🩺 Health At Every Size 🧠 Intuitive Eating ✊ Fat Acceptance ⚖️ Weight Stigma 💔 Emotional Eating

Listen, Little Man!

av Wilhelm Reich • 1946

Tyranny keeps winning because ordinary people fear real life more than a dictator.

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🏛️ Mass Psychology 🔗 Freudo-Marxism 🐦 Fear Of Freedom 🧠 Authoritarian Personality 💔 Emotional Repression

Listen, Little Man!

Tyranny keeps winning because ordinary people fear real life more than a dictator.

av Wilhelm Reich 1946 144 sidor

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🏛️ Mass Psychology 🔗 Freudo-Marxism 🐦 Fear Of Freedom 🧠 Authoritarian Personality 💔 Emotional Repression

The Answer to How Is Yes

av Peter Block • 2003

The question 'How?' is a detour. The one that comes before it changes everything.

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🎯 Purpose At Work 🏢 Organizational Culture 🐢 Anti-Productivity 📚 Self-Directed Learning 🏛️ Organizational Development

The Answer to How Is Yes

The question 'How?' is a detour. The one that comes before it changes everything.

av Peter Block 2003 202 sidor

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🎯 Purpose At Work 🏢 Organizational Culture 🐢 Anti-Productivity 📚 Self-Directed Learning 🏛️ Organizational Development

The Truth About Stories

av Thomas King • 2003

How colonial narratives invented 'the Indian' to justify erasure, and how Native stories fight back.

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🔴 Native Identity ✊ Storytelling As Resistance 🌌 Indigenous Cosmology 🗣️ Oral Tradition 🗑️ Cultural Erasure

The Truth About Stories

How colonial narratives invented 'the Indian' to justify erasure, and how Native stories fight back.

av Thomas King 2003 184 sidor

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🔴 Native Identity ✊ Storytelling As Resistance 🌌 Indigenous Cosmology 🗣️ Oral Tradition 🗑️ Cultural Erasure

A History of the World in 21 Women

av Jenni Murray • 2018

A personal history of the world, told through 21 women who refused to be told no.

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🕰️ Women In History 💪 Defying Gender Norms 🔥 Trailblazing Women ⭐ Feminist Icons 👑 Women Leaders

A History of the World in 21 Women

A personal history of the world, told through 21 women who refused to be told no.

av Jenni Murray 2018 304 sidor

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🕰️ Women In History 💪 Defying Gender Norms 🔥 Trailblazing Women ⭐ Feminist Icons 👑 Women Leaders

You Are What You Speak

av Robert Lane Greene • 2011

Grammar rules are recent inventions, language decline is a myth, and purism is identity politics.

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🗣️ Sociolinguistics 🏛️ Language Policy 🧹 Language Purism ⚖️ Linguistic Prejudice 🧠 Language Myths

You Are What You Speak

Grammar rules are recent inventions, language decline is a myth, and purism is identity politics.

av Robert Lane Greene 2011 320 sidor

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🗣️ Sociolinguistics 🏛️ Language Policy 🧹 Language Purism ⚖️ Linguistic Prejudice 🧠 Language Myths

Free the Children

av Craig Kielburger • 1998

A 12-year-old Canadian reads about a murdered activist, then goes to find the child laborers.

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🧒 Child Labor ✊ Youth Activism 🌍 Global Poverty 📜 Children's Rights 🌱 Grassroots Activism

Free the Children

A 12-year-old Canadian reads about a murdered activist, then goes to find the child laborers.

av Craig Kielburger 1998

4.14

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🧒 Child Labor ✊ Youth Activism 🌍 Global Poverty 📜 Children's Rights 🌱 Grassroots Activism

The Audacity of Hope

av Barack Obama • 2006

Two parties have turned Americans into enemies. One senator's argument that most of us are not.

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🇺🇸 American Politics 📖 Political Memoir ⚡ Political Polarization 🤝 Bipartisanship 🗣️ Race In America

The Audacity of Hope

Two parties have turned Americans into enemies. One senator's argument that most of us are not.

av Barack Obama 2006 320 sidor

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🇺🇸 American Politics 📖 Political Memoir ⚡ Political Polarization 🤝 Bipartisanship 🗣️ Race In America

Broken Code

av Jeff Horwitz • 2023

Instagram harmed teen mental health. Facebook buried proof; whistleblower documents forced it out.

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📱 Social Media Platforms ⚖️ Big Tech Accountability 📣 Tech Whistleblowers 📈 Algorithmic Amplification 🛡️ Content Moderation

Broken Code

Instagram harmed teen mental health. Facebook buried proof; whistleblower documents forced it out.

av Jeff Horwitz 2023 528 sidor

3.88

500+ betyg

📱 Social Media Platforms ⚖️ Big Tech Accountability 📣 Tech Whistleblowers 📈 Algorithmic Amplification 🛡️ Content Moderation

Feminism for the 99%

av Cinzia Arruzza • 2019

Mainstream feminism wants more women at the top. Anticapitalist feminism wants no top at all.

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✊ Anticapitalist Feminism 🧹 Social Reproduction 🩺 Crisis Of Care 💼 Liberal Feminism Critique 🌍 Anti-Imperialist Politics

Feminism for the 99%

Mainstream feminism wants more women at the top. Anticapitalist feminism wants no top at all.

av Cinzia Arruzza 2019 85 sidor

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✊ Anticapitalist Feminism 🧹 Social Reproduction 🩺 Crisis Of Care 💼 Liberal Feminism Critique 🌍 Anti-Imperialist Politics

We Are Dancing for You

av Cutcha Risling Baldy • 2018

Colonialism targeted Indigenous women's power; reviving a puberty ceremony is the counteroffensive.

4.51

171

🌸 Indigenous Women's Power 🕯️ Ceremony And Ritual 🏛️ Settler Colonialism 📝 Ethnographic Critique 🩸 Menstruation Beliefs

We Are Dancing for You

Colonialism targeted Indigenous women's power; reviving a puberty ceremony is the counteroffensive.

av Cutcha Risling Baldy 2018 205 sidor

4.51

171 betyg

🌸 Indigenous Women's Power 🕯️ Ceremony And Ritual 🏛️ Settler Colonialism 📝 Ethnographic Critique 🩸 Menstruation Beliefs

Seven Women

av Eric Metaxas • 2015

The seven women history admires had something in common that most accounts leave out.

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🕊️ Christian Biography 🙏 Heroines Of Faith 🔥 Faith Under Fire ⚖️ Christian Activism 📖 Vocation And Calling

Seven Women

The seven women history admires had something in common that most accounts leave out.

av Eric Metaxas 2015 256 sidor

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🕊️ Christian Biography 🙏 Heroines Of Faith 🔥 Faith Under Fire ⚖️ Christian Activism 📖 Vocation And Calling

Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men

av Lundy Bancroft • 2002

Abuse isn't about his anger or his past. It's about what he believes he deserves.

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🏚️ Domestic Abuse 🧠 Abuser Psychology ⛓️ Power And Control 🤍 Abuse Recovery ⚧️ Gender And Power

Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men

Abuse isn't about his anger or his past. It's about what he believes he deserves.

av Lundy Bancroft 2002 408 sidor

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18 000+ betyg

🏚️ Domestic Abuse 🧠 Abuser Psychology ⛓️ Power And Control 🤍 Abuse Recovery ⚧️ Gender And Power

The Skin We're In

av Desmond Cole • 2020

A year of Black resistance that forced Canada to face the racism its politeness hides.

4.44

10 000+

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🧭 Career Exploration 🏥 Social Work Practice 🌅 Day In The Life 👔 Professional Memoirs 📋 Case Studies

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4.46

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Niceness, silence, white feminism: how white women uphold racism without raising their voices.

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