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 Day God Saw Me as Black

av D. Danyelle Thomas • 2024

She learned to hide her queerness in the pews. Now she demands a Black, queer God.

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📖 Womanist Theology 📝 Spiritual Memoir 🔒 Purity Culture 🌈 Queer Theology 🌍 Decolonizing Faith

The Day God Saw Me as Black

She learned to hide her queerness in the pews. Now she demands a Black, queer God.

av D. Danyelle Thomas 2024 240 sidor

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469 betyg

📖 Womanist Theology 📝 Spiritual Memoir 🔒 Purity Culture 🌈 Queer Theology 🌍 Decolonizing Faith

Rebooting Justice

av Benjamin H. Barton • 2017

Justice is too expensive for most Americans. The surprising cure: fewer lawyers and smarter systems.

3.90

🏛️ Access To Justice ⚖️ Legal System Reform 🔗 Criminal Justice Reform 💻 Technology And Law 📜 Occupational Licensing

Rebooting Justice

Justice is too expensive for most Americans. The surprising cure: fewer lawyers and smarter systems.

av Benjamin H. Barton 2017 242 sidor

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29 betyg

🏛️ Access To Justice ⚖️ Legal System Reform 🔗 Criminal Justice Reform 💻 Technology And Law 📜 Occupational Licensing

Leaving Microsoft to Change the World

av John Wood • 2006

A trekking trip, an empty library: why a Microsoft exec quit to build schools across Asia.

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🚀 Social Entrepreneurship 🌍 Global Development 📖 Founder Memoir 🏘️ Community Development 👧 Girls' Education

Leaving Microsoft to Change the World

A trekking trip, an empty library: why a Microsoft exec quit to build schools across Asia.

av John Wood 2006 272 sidor

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🚀 Social Entrepreneurship 🌍 Global Development 📖 Founder Memoir 🏘️ Community Development 👧 Girls' Education

Get Rich or Lie Trying

av Symeon Brown • 2022

The influencer dream is built on sweatshops, bot farms, and surgical debt the camera never shows.

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🤑 Influencer Economy 🏗️ Platform Capitalism 👁️ Attention Economy 👗 Fast Fashion 🎣 Internet Scams

Get Rich or Lie Trying

The influencer dream is built on sweatshops, bot farms, and surgical debt the camera never shows.

av Symeon Brown 2022 248 sidor

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🤑 Influencer Economy 🏗️ Platform Capitalism 👁️ Attention Economy 👗 Fast Fashion 🎣 Internet Scams

Capital City

av Samuel Stein • 2019

Gentrification is not a market outcome. It is policy, written by the real estate industry.

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🏙️ Urban Political Economy 🏗️ Gentrification Studies 🚚 Urban Displacement 📖 Marxist Urban Theory 🏠 Housing Justice

Capital City

Gentrification is not a market outcome. It is policy, written by the real estate industry.

av Samuel Stein 2019 202 sidor

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🏙️ Urban Political Economy 🏗️ Gentrification Studies 🚚 Urban Displacement 📖 Marxist Urban Theory 🏠 Housing Justice

Writing My Wrongs

av Shaka Senghor • 2013

He shot a man and went to prison. In solitary, he found a pen, and everything changed.

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🏛️ Mass Incarceration 🔗 Prison Memoir 🕊️ Redemption Narratives 🧸 Childhood Trauma 📓 Journaling For Healing

Writing My Wrongs

He shot a man and went to prison. In solitary, he found a pen, and everything changed.

av Shaka Senghor 2013 268 sidor

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🏛️ Mass Incarceration 🔗 Prison Memoir 🕊️ Redemption Narratives 🧸 Childhood Trauma 📓 Journaling For Healing

It's About Damn Time

av Arlan Hamilton • 2020

The outsider's playbook for turning low expectations into a venture capital firm and a movement.

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🏦 Venture Capital 🎭 Imposter Syndrome 🤝 Strategic Networking 🔄 Personal Reinvention 🌐 Diversity In Tech

It's About Damn Time

The outsider's playbook for turning low expectations into a venture capital firm and a movement.

av Arlan Hamilton 2020 224 sidor

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🏦 Venture Capital 🎭 Imposter Syndrome 🤝 Strategic Networking 🔄 Personal Reinvention 🌐 Diversity In Tech

Red Paint

av Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe • 2022

Medicine failed her. She drove to the Skagit River and let ancestral waters do the healing.

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🪶 Indigenous Memoir 🧬 Intergenerational Trauma 🌿 Cultural Reclamation ✍🏽 Native Women Writers 🕯️ Ancestral Healing

Red Paint

Medicine failed her. She drove to the Skagit River and let ancestral waters do the healing.

av Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe 2022 240 sidor

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🪶 Indigenous Memoir 🧬 Intergenerational Trauma 🌿 Cultural Reclamation ✍🏽 Native Women Writers 🕯️ Ancestral Healing

The Socialist Manifesto

av Bhaskar Sunkara • 2019

Capitalism was an accident, socialism a response. A history of what followed, and what comes next.

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🗳️ Democratic Socialism 📚 Marxism 🏭 Labor History 🔍 Class Analysis ✊ Anti-Capitalism

The Socialist Manifesto

Capitalism was an accident, socialism a response. A history of what followed, and what comes next.

av Bhaskar Sunkara 2019 288 sidor

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🗳️ Democratic Socialism 📚 Marxism 🏭 Labor History 🔍 Class Analysis ✊ Anti-Capitalism

An Analysis of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique

av Elizabeth Whitaker • 2017

A 15-year reunion questionnaire exposed the misery no one was talking about, and a revolution began.

3.49

✊ Second Wave Feminism 📖 Feminist Theory 🎓 Womens Studies ⚧️ Gender Roles 🏠 Domestic Ideology

An Analysis of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique

A 15-year reunion questionnaire exposed the misery no one was talking about, and a revolution began.

av Elizabeth Whitaker 2017 116 sidor

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✊ Second Wave Feminism 📖 Feminist Theory 🎓 Womens Studies ⚧️ Gender Roles 🏠 Domestic Ideology

The Mars Room

av Rachel Kushner • 2018

She killed her stalker. Now a women's prison will take everything else.

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🏚️ Prison Fiction 💔 Motherhood And Loss 🫂 Found Family 🏙️ Gritty Realism 🌁 San Francisco

The Mars Room

She killed her stalker. Now a women's prison will take everything else.

av Rachel Kushner 2018 338 sidor

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🏚️ Prison Fiction 💔 Motherhood And Loss 🫂 Found Family 🏙️ Gritty Realism 🌁 San Francisco

Ain't No Makin' It

av Jay MacLeod • 2008

One group believed hard work would save them; the other didn't. Class position decided their fates.

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🏙️ Urban Poverty 📝 Ethnographic Sociology ⚖️ Class Inequality 🔄 Social Reproduction 🚧 Structural Barriers

Ain't No Makin' It

One group believed hard work would save them; the other didn't. Class position decided their fates.

av Jay MacLeod 2008 537 sidor

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🏙️ Urban Poverty 📝 Ethnographic Sociology ⚖️ Class Inequality 🔄 Social Reproduction 🚧 Structural Barriers

Transforming Leadership

av James MacGregor Burns • 2003

Leadership has two modes: the deal-making kind and the kind that reshapes what people want.

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🏛️ Political Leadership 📜 Political Philosophy ⚖️ Values-Based Leadership 🔄 Leader Follower Dynamics ⚡ Creative Conflict

Transforming Leadership

Leadership has two modes: the deal-making kind and the kind that reshapes what people want.

av James MacGregor Burns 2003 340 sidor

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🏛️ Political Leadership 📜 Political Philosophy ⚖️ Values-Based Leadership 🔄 Leader Follower Dynamics ⚡ Creative Conflict

The Listening Society

av Hanzi Freinacht • 2017

Political systems ignore how minds grow. A blueprint for a state that develops its citizens.

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🏛️ Political Philosophy 📖 Social Theory 🪜 Adult Development 🏥 Welfare State Reform 🧬 Cultural Evolution

The Listening Society

Political systems ignore how minds grow. A blueprint for a state that develops its citizens.

av Hanzi Freinacht 2017 475 sidor

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🏛️ Political Philosophy 📖 Social Theory 🪜 Adult Development 🏥 Welfare State Reform 🧬 Cultural Evolution

In Our Hands

av Charles Murray • 2006

Eliminate every welfare program. Send every adult one check. It costs less and ends poverty.

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🏦 Universal Basic Income 📋 Welfare Reform 🏘️ Civil Society 🗽 Libertarian Economics 🛡️ Social Insurance

In Our Hands

Eliminate every welfare program. Send every adult one check. It costs less and ends poverty.

av Charles Murray 2006 152 sidor

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🏦 Universal Basic Income 📋 Welfare Reform 🏘️ Civil Society 🗽 Libertarian Economics 🛡️ Social Insurance

Red Roulette

av Desmond Shum • 2021

From poverty to billions, she partnered with premiers. Then Beijing made her vanish.

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🇨🇳 Chinese Politics 💰 Crony Capitalism ⚖️ Authoritarian Regimes 🔗 Elite Networks ✍️ Dissident Memoir

Red Roulette

From poverty to billions, she partnered with premiers. Then Beijing made her vanish.

av Desmond Shum 2021

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🇨🇳 Chinese Politics 💰 Crony Capitalism ⚖️ Authoritarian Regimes 🔗 Elite Networks ✍️ Dissident Memoir

Crime & Punishment

av Russell Marks • 2015

Prison punishes disadvantage, not crime. The alternatives that reduce reoffending work elsewhere.

4.08

🏛️ Criminal Justice Reform 🇦🇺 Australian Politics 🤝 Restorative Justice 🧠 Therapeutic Jurisprudence 💰 Justice Reinvestment

Crime & Punishment

Prison punishes disadvantage, not crime. The alternatives that reduce reoffending work elsewhere.

av Russell Marks 2015 226 sidor

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🏛️ Criminal Justice Reform 🇦🇺 Australian Politics 🤝 Restorative Justice 🧠 Therapeutic Jurisprudence 💰 Justice Reinvestment

Womanhood

av Laura Dodsworth • 2019

100 women photographed from a perspective they'd never seen themselves: their own vulva.

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⚖️ Body Politics 📸 Documentary Photography ✊ Sex-Positive Feminism 🗣️ Oral History 💔 Body Shame

Womanhood

100 women photographed from a perspective they'd never seen themselves: their own vulva.

av Laura Dodsworth 2019 336 sidor

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⚖️ Body Politics 📸 Documentary Photography ✊ Sex-Positive Feminism 🗣️ Oral History 💔 Body Shame

A Human Algorithm

av Flynn Coleman • 2019

Machines are learning to think. The real question is whether we will remember how to feel.

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🤖 Ai Ethics 💼 Future Of Work ⚖️ Algorithmic Bias 🧠 Machine Consciousness 🌍 Diversity In Tech

A Human Algorithm

Machines are learning to think. The real question is whether we will remember how to feel.

av Flynn Coleman 2019 336 sidor

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🤖 Ai Ethics 💼 Future Of Work ⚖️ Algorithmic Bias 🧠 Machine Consciousness 🌍 Diversity In Tech

Climate Justice

av Mary Robinson • 2018

Climate change is a human rights crisis. Frontline communities are showing the world how to respond.

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⚖️ Climate Justice ✊ Human Rights 🌱 Grassroots Activism 🌿 Indigenous Knowledge 👩‍💼 Women's Leadership

Climate Justice

Climate change is a human rights crisis. Frontline communities are showing the world how to respond.

av Mary Robinson 2018 176 sidor

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⚖️ Climate Justice ✊ Human Rights 🌱 Grassroots Activism 🌿 Indigenous Knowledge 👩‍💼 Women's Leadership

No Is Not Enough

av Naomi Klein • 2017

Chaos as political strategy: its roots in neoliberal failure, and the coalition that can defeat it.

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🏦 Political Economy ✊ Progressive Activism 🌀 Crisis Politics 🌍 Climate Justice 💸 Economic Inequality

No Is Not Enough

Chaos as political strategy: its roots in neoliberal failure, and the coalition that can defeat it.

av Naomi Klein 2017

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🏦 Political Economy ✊ Progressive Activism 🌀 Crisis Politics 🌍 Climate Justice 💸 Economic Inequality

Mismeasure of Woman

av Carol Tavris • 1992

Men's bodies became the universal template, and a century of science mistook women for broken men.

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🧪 Science And Sexism 🏥 Medical Sexism 👤 Male As Default 🏗️ Gender Constructs 🧠 Psychology And Gender

Mismeasure of Woman

Men's bodies became the universal template, and a century of science mistook women for broken men.

av Carol Tavris 1992 400 sidor

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🧪 Science And Sexism 🏥 Medical Sexism 👤 Male As Default 🏗️ Gender Constructs 🧠 Psychology And Gender

Interrupting Silence

av Walter Brueggemann • 2018

Silence shelters the powerful, not the sacred. Why the Bible commands interruption, not quiet.

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✊ Liberation Theology 🔥 Prophetic Tradition 📖 Biblical Ethics 🌈 Progressive Christianity ✊ Faith And Activism

Interrupting Silence

Silence shelters the powerful, not the sacred. Why the Bible commands interruption, not quiet.

av Walter Brueggemann 2018 128 sidor

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✊ Liberation Theology 🔥 Prophetic Tradition 📖 Biblical Ethics 🌈 Progressive Christianity ✊ Faith And Activism

Below Stairs

av Margaret Powell • 1968

She cooked their banquets in early 1900s England, and they forgot she existed.

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🧹 Domestic Service 👷 Working Class Memoir 🇬🇧 British Social History 🕰️ Early 1900s Britain 🍳 Cooking Memoir

Below Stairs

She cooked their banquets in early 1900s England, and they forgot she existed.

av Margaret Powell 1968 288 sidor

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🧹 Domestic Service 👷 Working Class Memoir 🇬🇧 British Social History 🕰️ Early 1900s Britain 🍳 Cooking Memoir

Why Race and Culture Matter in Schools

av Tyrone C. Howard • 2010

Race predicts who gets suspended, tracked, and left behind. The best schools don't ignore it.

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⚖️ Educational Equity 📉 Achievement Gap 🧑‍🏫 Culturally Responsive Teaching 🏛️ Critical Race Theory In Education ✊ Social Justice Education

Why Race and Culture Matter in Schools

Race predicts who gets suspended, tracked, and left behind. The best schools don't ignore it.

av Tyrone C. Howard 2010 208 sidor

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⚖️ Educational Equity 📉 Achievement Gap 🧑‍🏫 Culturally Responsive Teaching 🏛️ Critical Race Theory In Education ✊ Social Justice Education

Americanized

av Sara Saedi • 2018

She thought she was American. Her sister's confession at thirteen proved otherwise.

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🗽 Immigrant Memoir 🇮🇷 Iranian Diaspora 🪪 Cultural Identity 🏛️ Immigration System 📋 Undocumented Youth

Americanized

She thought she was American. Her sister's confession at thirteen proved otherwise.

av Sara Saedi 2018 288 sidor

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🗽 Immigrant Memoir 🇮🇷 Iranian Diaspora 🪪 Cultural Identity 🏛️ Immigration System 📋 Undocumented Youth

Small Wonder

av Barbara Kingsolver • 2002

A novelist watches hummingbirds and dying rivers and finds the lesson America keeps ignoring.

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🍃 Nature Writing 🌍 Environmental Ethics 🌱 Sustainable Living 🌸 Ecofeminism ✍️ Writing Life

Small Wonder

A novelist watches hummingbirds and dying rivers and finds the lesson America keeps ignoring.

av Barbara Kingsolver 2002 300 sidor

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🍃 Nature Writing 🌍 Environmental Ethics 🌱 Sustainable Living 🌸 Ecofeminism ✍️ Writing Life

Rewriting the Rules of the American Economy

av Joseph E. Stiglitz • 2015

A Nobel economist reveals which rules broke the American economy, and how to fix them.

3.98

291

🏛️ Political Economy 📉 Inequality Economics 💰 Rent-Seeking 👷 Labor Markets 🏦 Financialization

Rewriting the Rules of the American Economy

A Nobel economist reveals which rules broke the American economy, and how to fix them.

av Joseph E. Stiglitz 2015 256 sidor

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🏛️ Political Economy 📉 Inequality Economics 💰 Rent-Seeking 👷 Labor Markets 🏦 Financialization

Some People Need Killing

av Patricia Evangelista • 2023

The president told police to kill. The crowd cheered. A journalist reports the dead and asks why.

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🇵🇭 Philippine History 💊 Drug War ⚰️ Extrajudicial Killings 👮 Police Violence 🛡️ Impunity

Some People Need Killing

The president told police to kill. The crowd cheered. A journalist reports the dead and asks why.

av Patricia Evangelista 2023 428 sidor

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🇵🇭 Philippine History 💊 Drug War ⚰️ Extrajudicial Killings 👮 Police Violence 🛡️ Impunity

Ethical Leadership and Decision Making in Education

av Joan Poliner Shapiro • 2000

Four lenses for education's hardest calls, so you look past the rulebook to the student.

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📚 Educational Leadership ⚖️ Applied Ethics 📖 Case Method 🪞 Reflective Practice 🔲 Ethical Frameworks

Ethical Leadership and Decision Making in Education

Four lenses for education's hardest calls, so you look past the rulebook to the student.

av Joan Poliner Shapiro 2000 200 sidor

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📚 Educational Leadership ⚖️ Applied Ethics 📖 Case Method 🪞 Reflective Practice 🔲 Ethical Frameworks

Strange Rites

av Tara Isabella Burton • 2020

Americans didn't quit religion. They replaced church with SoulCycle, fandom, and social justice.

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🇺🇸 American Religion 📊 Sociology Of Religion 🌱 Secular Spirituality 🧩 Personalized Faith 🛒 Spiritual Marketplace

Strange Rites

Americans didn't quit religion. They replaced church with SoulCycle, fandom, and social justice.

av Tara Isabella Burton 2020 301 sidor

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🇺🇸 American Religion 📊 Sociology Of Religion 🌱 Secular Spirituality 🧩 Personalized Faith 🛒 Spiritual Marketplace

All Souls

av Michael Patrick MacDonald • 1999

His mother buried four sons. Southie's code demanded no one ask why.

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🏙️ Urban Poverty 🏛️ Boston History 🍀 Irish American 🚌 Busing Crisis 🤫 Code Of Silence

All Souls

His mother buried four sons. Southie's code demanded no one ask why.

av Michael Patrick MacDonald 1999 263 sidor

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🏙️ Urban Poverty 🏛️ Boston History 🍀 Irish American 🚌 Busing Crisis 🤫 Code Of Silence

Pay Up

av Reshma Saujani • 2022

The workplace broke mothers, and the pandemic proved it. Nine fixes employers refuse to make.

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👩‍💼 Working Mothers ⚖️ Workplace Equity 💰 Unpaid Labor 🍼 Intensive Parenting 🔥 Burnout Culture

Pay Up

The workplace broke mothers, and the pandemic proved it. Nine fixes employers refuse to make.

av Reshma Saujani 2022 234 sidor

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👩‍💼 Working Mothers ⚖️ Workplace Equity 💰 Unpaid Labor 🍼 Intensive Parenting 🔥 Burnout Culture

Nelson Mandela

av Martin Meredith • 1997

They put him on trial to silence him. His dock statement made apartheid the defendant instead.

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🇿🇦 South African History ✊ Anti-Apartheid Movement 🔗 Political Imprisonment ⛓️ Colonial Resistance 🗽 Freedom Fighters

Nelson Mandela

They put him on trial to silence him. His dock statement made apartheid the defendant instead.

av Martin Meredith 1997 596 sidor

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🇿🇦 South African History ✊ Anti-Apartheid Movement 🔗 Political Imprisonment ⛓️ Colonial Resistance 🗽 Freedom Fighters

No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

av Greta Thunberg • 2019

Eight years of carbon budget left. The speeches that turned one school strike into a global alarm.

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🌍 Climate Science ✊ Climate Activism 🧒 Youth Activism ⚖️ Climate Justice 🧭 Climate Ethics

No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

Eight years of carbon budget left. The speeches that turned one school strike into a global alarm.

av Greta Thunberg 2019 112 sidor

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🌍 Climate Science ✊ Climate Activism 🧒 Youth Activism ⚖️ Climate Justice 🧭 Climate Ethics

Making Globalization Work

av Joseph E. Stiglitz • 2006

Rich nations wrote global trade rules for themselves. A Nobel economist's plan to rewrite them.

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🌍 International Development 📊 Development Economics ⚡ Anti-Neoliberalism 🏛️ Global Governance 🚢 Trade Policy

Making Globalization Work

Rich nations wrote global trade rules for themselves. A Nobel economist's plan to rewrite them.

av Joseph E. Stiglitz 2006 384 sidor

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🌍 International Development 📊 Development Economics ⚡ Anti-Neoliberalism 🏛️ Global Governance 🚢 Trade Policy

Inciting Joy

av Ross Gay • 2022

Why skateboarders share everything: a poet's case for joy in grief and refusal to be useful.

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🎁 Gift Economies 🐢 Slowing Down 💗 Vulnerability 🌱 Transformative Grief 🏫 Unschooling

Inciting Joy

Why skateboarders share everything: a poet's case for joy in grief and refusal to be useful.

av Ross Gay 2022 256 sidor

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🎁 Gift Economies 🐢 Slowing Down 💗 Vulnerability 🌱 Transformative Grief 🏫 Unschooling

Alex Cross's Trial

av James Patterson • 2009

Sent by Roosevelt to probe Mississippi lynchings, a lawyer learns his oldest friend leads the Klan.

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⚖️ Legal Thriller 🌾 Jim Crow South 🤝 Unlikely Allies ✊ Community Resistance 💔 Friend Turned Enemy

Alex Cross's Trial

Sent by Roosevelt to probe Mississippi lynchings, a lawyer learns his oldest friend leads the Klan.

av James Patterson 2009 380 sidor

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⚖️ Legal Thriller 🌾 Jim Crow South 🤝 Unlikely Allies ✊ Community Resistance 💔 Friend Turned Enemy

Griftopia

av Matt Taibbi • 2010

From the ballot box to the commodities pit, one unified hustle is picking every American pocket.

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📰 Financial Journalism 🫧 Bubble Economics 🏛️ Systemic Corruption 🎛️ Regulatory Capture 💸 Predatory Finance

Griftopia

From the ballot box to the commodities pit, one unified hustle is picking every American pocket.

av Matt Taibbi 2010 253 sidor

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📰 Financial Journalism 🫧 Bubble Economics 🏛️ Systemic Corruption 🎛️ Regulatory Capture 💸 Predatory Finance

Coming Apart

av Charles Murray • 2012

Post-1963, the working class unraveled while a new elite sealed itself away.

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🧱 Class Divide 📉 Cultural Decline 🤝 Social Capital 🏛️ Elite Isolation ⛪ Secularization

Coming Apart

Post-1963, the working class unraveled while a new elite sealed itself away.

av Charles Murray 2012 416 sidor

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🧱 Class Divide 📉 Cultural Decline 🤝 Social Capital 🏛️ Elite Isolation ⛪ Secularization

Know Your Power

av Nancy Pelosi • 2008

She ran for Congress at 47 with five children. Her precinct-by-precinct organizing made her Speaker.

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🗳️ Women In Politics 📖 Political Memoirs 🏛️ Democratic Politics 🌱 Grassroots Organizing 👩‍🏫 Mentorship For Women

Know Your Power

She ran for Congress at 47 with five children. Her precinct-by-precinct organizing made her Speaker.

av Nancy Pelosi 2008 192 sidor

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🗳️ Women In Politics 📖 Political Memoirs 🏛️ Democratic Politics 🌱 Grassroots Organizing 👩‍🏫 Mentorship For Women

How Change Happens

av Leslie R. Crutchfield • 2018

Six factors determine whether a movement wins or dies. None of them start in Washington.

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📢 Social Movements ✊ Community Organizing 🗳️ Political Strategy 📖 Narrative Change 🏗️ Movement Building

How Change Happens

Six factors determine whether a movement wins or dies. None of them start in Washington.

av Leslie R. Crutchfield 2018 240 sidor

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📢 Social Movements ✊ Community Organizing 🗳️ Political Strategy 📖 Narrative Change 🏗️ Movement Building

The Great Escape

av Saket Soni • 2023

Trapped in a US labor camp, hundreds of Indian men escaped, then began a 1,500-mile march.

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⛓️ Labor Trafficking 🚨 Immigration Enforcement ✊ Labor Organizing 📜 Indentured Servitude ⚖️ Legal Battles

The Great Escape

Trapped in a US labor camp, hundreds of Indian men escaped, then began a 1,500-mile march.

av Saket Soni 2023 368 sidor

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⛓️ Labor Trafficking 🚨 Immigration Enforcement ✊ Labor Organizing 📜 Indentured Servitude ⚖️ Legal Battles

Black Folk

av Blair L.M. Kelley • 2023

Forged in slavery, the Black working class built power through community, not just wages.

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🔨 American Labor History 💰 Black Economic History 🏭 Working Class Studies ✊ Labor Organizing 👩🏿 Black Women Workers

Black Folk

Forged in slavery, the Black working class built power through community, not just wages.

av Blair L.M. Kelley 2023 352 sidor

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🔨 American Labor History 💰 Black Economic History 🏭 Working Class Studies ✊ Labor Organizing 👩🏿 Black Women Workers

The Lightmaker's Manifesto

av Karen Walrond • 2021

Passion can burn you out. Curiosity won't. A guide to activism that lasts.

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🎉 Joyful Activism 🌱 Sustainable Activism 🛀 Activist Self-Care 🎁 Finding Your Gifts 🔍 Curiosity Practice

The Lightmaker's Manifesto

Passion can burn you out. Curiosity won't. A guide to activism that lasts.

av Karen Walrond 2021 245 sidor

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🎉 Joyful Activism 🌱 Sustainable Activism 🛀 Activist Self-Care 🎁 Finding Your Gifts 🔍 Curiosity Practice

Please Stop Laughing at Us...

av Jodee Blanco • 2008

Traditional punishment fails bullies. A survivor's guide to what heals the scars and stops torment.

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🚸 School Bullying 📖 Survivor Memoir 🫂 Compassionate Discipline 🌱 Trauma Healing ✋ Anti-Bullying

Please Stop Laughing at Us...

Traditional punishment fails bullies. A survivor's guide to what heals the scars and stops torment.

av Jodee Blanco 2008 506 sidor

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🚸 School Bullying 📖 Survivor Memoir 🫂 Compassionate Discipline 🌱 Trauma Healing ✋ Anti-Bullying

Criminology For Dummies

av Steven Briggs • 2009

From motive to handcuffs to sentencing: every piece of the criminal justice puzzle, explained.

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🎓 Criminology Primers ⚖️ Criminal Justice System 🔍 Crime Theories 📜 Criminal Law Basics 👮 Law Enforcement

Criminology For Dummies

From motive to handcuffs to sentencing: every piece of the criminal justice puzzle, explained.

av Steven Briggs 2009 384 sidor

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🎓 Criminology Primers ⚖️ Criminal Justice System 🔍 Crime Theories 📜 Criminal Law Basics 👮 Law Enforcement

The Water Is Wide

av Pat Conroy • 1972

The island kids couldn't tell time. Their teacher drove them to Washington.

4.17

27 000+

📚 Teaching Memoir ⚖️ School Inequality 🌴 American South 🧑‍🏫 Progressive Education 🏛️ Teacher Vs Bureaucracy

The Water Is Wide

The island kids couldn't tell time. Their teacher drove them to Washington.

av Pat Conroy 1972 260 sidor

4.17

27 000+ betyg

📚 Teaching Memoir ⚖️ School Inequality 🌴 American South 🧑‍🏫 Progressive Education 🏛️ Teacher Vs Bureaucracy

Edge of Eternity

av Ken Follett • 2014

Three families fight the Cold War from their kitchens: East Berlin, Washington, and Moscow.

4.21

100 000+

🧱 Cold War Saga 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Multi-Generational Epic 🏛️ Political Intrigue 💞 Interracial Romance 👁️ Surveillance State

Edge of Eternity

Three families fight the Cold War from their kitchens: East Berlin, Washington, and Moscow.

av Ken Follett 2014 36 sidor

4.21

100 000+ betyg

🧱 Cold War Saga 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Multi-Generational Epic 🏛️ Political Intrigue 💞 Interracial Romance 👁️ Surveillance State

Hi Honey, I'm Homo!

av Matt Baume • 2023

How sitcoms smuggled queer life past the censors and changed what America saw as normal.

4.30

2 000+

📺 Television History 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Representation 🎭 Sitcom History 📚 Queer History 📰 Media Criticism

Hi Honey, I'm Homo!

How sitcoms smuggled queer life past the censors and changed what America saw as normal.

av Matt Baume 2023 288 sidor

4.30

2 000+ betyg

📺 Television History 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Representation 🎭 Sitcom History 📚 Queer History 📰 Media Criticism

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