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

Girls on Film

av Alicia Malone • 2022

Landing her dream job as a TCM host was only act one of her film education.

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🎬 Film Criticism 🎞️ Classic Cinema ✊ Feminist Media Criticism 🖼️ Representation In Media 📖 Media Memoir

Girls on Film

Landing her dream job as a TCM host was only act one of her film education.

av Alicia Malone 2022 199 sidor

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🎬 Film Criticism 🎞️ Classic Cinema ✊ Feminist Media Criticism 🖼️ Representation In Media 📖 Media Memoir

Billionaire, Nerd, Saviour, King

av Anupreeta Das • 2024

From monopolist to saint: Bill Gates's image was manufactured. His hidden empire was not.

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💻 Big Tech 💰 Billionaire Critique ⚖️ Wealth Inequality 🔎 Investigative Biography 🏢 Corporate Power

Billionaire, Nerd, Saviour, King

From monopolist to saint: Bill Gates's image was manufactured. His hidden empire was not.

av Anupreeta Das 2024 330 sidor

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💻 Big Tech 💰 Billionaire Critique ⚖️ Wealth Inequality 🔎 Investigative Biography 🏢 Corporate Power

Conversations with RBG

av Jeffrey Rosen • 2019

She built gender equality case by case, often representing men. The legal mind behind Notorious RBG.

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⚖️ Constitutional Law 👩‍⚖️ Women And The Law 🏛️ Judicial Restraint 📜 Strategic Litigation 🩺 Reproductive Rights

Conversations with RBG

She built gender equality case by case, often representing men. The legal mind behind Notorious RBG.

av Jeffrey Rosen 2019 272 sidor

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⚖️ Constitutional Law 👩‍⚖️ Women And The Law 🏛️ Judicial Restraint 📜 Strategic Litigation 🩺 Reproductive Rights

The Silenced Majority

av Amy Goodman • 2012

The news decides which wars and uprisings didn't happen. Here is what they buried.

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251

📻 Independent Media 📺 Media Criticism 🔍 Investigative Journalism ✊ Grassroots Movements 💸 Economic Inequality

The Silenced Majority

The news decides which wars and uprisings didn't happen. Here is what they buried.

av Amy Goodman 2012 380 sidor

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251 betyg

📻 Independent Media 📺 Media Criticism 🔍 Investigative Journalism ✊ Grassroots Movements 💸 Economic Inequality

Seeing through the Smoke

av Peter Grinspoon • 2023

Your body's ancient cannabis system changes everything about the drug war and medicine.

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🧑‍⚕️ Medical Cannabis ⚖️ Drug Policy Reform 🛡️ Harm Reduction 🔬 Cannabinoid Science 🌿 Plant Medicine

Seeing through the Smoke

Your body's ancient cannabis system changes everything about the drug war and medicine.

av Peter Grinspoon 2023 427 sidor

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87 betyg

🧑‍⚕️ Medical Cannabis ⚖️ Drug Policy Reform 🛡️ Harm Reduction 🔬 Cannabinoid Science 🌿 Plant Medicine

Static

av Amy Goodman • 2006

When government lies, the press should expose it. Instead, they broadcast the script.

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384

📺 Media Criticism 🌐 U.S. Foreign Policy 🔍 Investigative Journalism 🤫 Government Secrecy 📢 Whistleblowing

Static

When government lies, the press should expose it. Instead, they broadcast the script.

av Amy Goodman 2006 338 sidor

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📺 Media Criticism 🌐 U.S. Foreign Policy 🔍 Investigative Journalism 🤫 Government Secrecy 📢 Whistleblowing

How Woke Won

av Joanna Williams • 2022

Woke ideology was not a grassroots uprising: it was imposed from above to divide and control.

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🏛️ Identity Politics ⚔️ Culture Wars 🎓 Academic Freedom 🗣️ Free Speech 😢 Victimhood Culture

How Woke Won

Woke ideology was not a grassroots uprising: it was imposed from above to divide and control.

av Joanna Williams 2022 305 sidor

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🏛️ Identity Politics ⚔️ Culture Wars 🎓 Academic Freedom 🗣️ Free Speech 😢 Victimhood Culture

Lead from the Outside

av Stacey Abrams • 2018

The system wasn't built for outsiders. A tactical guide to hacking ambition, money, and power.

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✊🏽 Minority Leadership 🗳️ Political Ambition 🚧 Systemic Barriers 💰 Financial Literacy 😨 Fear As Fuel

Lead from the Outside

The system wasn't built for outsiders. A tactical guide to hacking ambition, money, and power.

av Stacey Abrams 2018 226 sidor

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✊🏽 Minority Leadership 🗳️ Political Ambition 🚧 Systemic Barriers 💰 Financial Literacy 😨 Fear As Fuel

Radical Friendship

av Kate Johnson • 2021

How to build friendships that survive hard times, hold truth, and push back against injustice.

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🧠 Buddhist Psychology ✊ Engaged Buddhism 💗 Loving-Kindness 🗣️ Authentic Communication 🕊️ Spiritual Friendships

Radical Friendship

How to build friendships that survive hard times, hold truth, and push back against injustice.

av Kate Johnson 2021 232 sidor

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🧠 Buddhist Psychology ✊ Engaged Buddhism 💗 Loving-Kindness 🗣️ Authentic Communication 🕊️ Spiritual Friendships

"I Have Nothing to Hide"

av Heidi Boghosian • 2021

Mass surveillance survives on one belief: privacy is for wrongdoers. Twenty myths keep it expanding.

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🛰️ Mass Surveillance 🔒 Digital Privacy 🏢 Corporate Surveillance 👮 Predictive Policing 🔐 Encryption Politics

"I Have Nothing to Hide"

Mass surveillance survives on one belief: privacy is for wrongdoers. Twenty myths keep it expanding.

av Heidi Boghosian 2021 240 sidor

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🛰️ Mass Surveillance 🔒 Digital Privacy 🏢 Corporate Surveillance 👮 Predictive Policing 🔐 Encryption Politics

Breaking the Bamboo Ceiling

av Jane Hyun • 2005

The values that made you excel now cap your career. Rewire, not reject: the playbook.

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🎋 Asian American 🏢 Corporate Leadership 🌐 Cross-Cultural Communication 🪪 Bicultural Identity 🌈 Diversity And Inclusion

Breaking the Bamboo Ceiling

The values that made you excel now cap your career. Rewire, not reject: the playbook.

av Jane Hyun 2005 352 sidor

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🎋 Asian American 🏢 Corporate Leadership 🌐 Cross-Cultural Communication 🪪 Bicultural Identity 🌈 Diversity And Inclusion

What Now?

av Yael Shy • 2017

Buddhist practice for twenty-something chaos: meditation for anxiety, heartbreak, and staying human.

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🧘 Buddhist Meditation 🎓 Early Adulthood 💗 Emotional Awareness 🌍 Sustainable Activism 🤝 Mindful Relationships

What Now?

Buddhist practice for twenty-something chaos: meditation for anxiety, heartbreak, and staying human.

av Yael Shy 2017 226 sidor

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🧘 Buddhist Meditation 🎓 Early Adulthood 💗 Emotional Awareness 🌍 Sustainable Activism 🤝 Mindful Relationships

When It Is Darkest

av Rory O'Connor • 2022

Unbearable pain, not a death wish, drives suicide. The pain has a shape we can interrupt.

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🛡️ Suicide Prevention 🆘 Suicide Intervention 🖤 Suicide Loss 🏷️ Mental Health Stigma 🏥 Public Health Approach

When It Is Darkest

Unbearable pain, not a death wish, drives suicide. The pain has a shape we can interrupt.

av Rory O'Connor 2022 352 sidor

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🛡️ Suicide Prevention 🆘 Suicide Intervention 🖤 Suicide Loss 🏷️ Mental Health Stigma 🏥 Public Health Approach

Move Fast and Break Things

av Jonathan Taplin • 2017

How three digital monopolies gutted music and news, and why democracy is their next casualty.

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🏢 Platform Capitalism 🔗 Tech Monopolies 🎨 Creative Economy 📡 Surveillance Advertising ©️ Digital Copyright

Move Fast and Break Things

How three digital monopolies gutted music and news, and why democracy is their next casualty.

av Jonathan Taplin 2017 320 sidor

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🏢 Platform Capitalism 🔗 Tech Monopolies 🎨 Creative Economy 📡 Surveillance Advertising ©️ Digital Copyright

Aging Thoughtfully

av Martha C. Nussbaum • 2017

Wrinkles, retirement, and desire: a moral philosopher's guide to the challenges of growing old.

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🏛️ Philosophy Of Aging 📊 Retirement Policy 🧬 Aging Bodies 💋 Aging And Sexuality 🤝 Aging And Friendship

Aging Thoughtfully

Wrinkles, retirement, and desire: a moral philosopher's guide to the challenges of growing old.

av Martha C. Nussbaum 2017 261 sidor

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🏛️ Philosophy Of Aging 📊 Retirement Policy 🧬 Aging Bodies 💋 Aging And Sexuality 🤝 Aging And Friendship

Education of a Felon

av Edward Bunker • 1999

A career criminal's brutal education behind bars, and how literature gave him a way out.

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⛓️ Prison Memoir 💰 Career Criminal 🔪 Prison Survival 🔄 Recidivism 🧒 Juvenile Injustice

Education of a Felon

A career criminal's brutal education behind bars, and how literature gave him a way out.

av Edward Bunker 1999 320 sidor

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⛓️ Prison Memoir 💰 Career Criminal 🔪 Prison Survival 🔄 Recidivism 🧒 Juvenile Injustice

I'm Judging You

av Luvvie Ajayi • 2016

Common sense is dead. A manual for navigating a world of selfish friends and clout chasers.

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🤝 Social Etiquette 📝 Cultural Criticism ✊ Intersectional Feminism 🗣️ Everyday Racism 📱 Social Media Critique

I'm Judging You

Common sense is dead. A manual for navigating a world of selfish friends and clout chasers.

av Luvvie Ajayi 2016 241 sidor

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🤝 Social Etiquette 📝 Cultural Criticism ✊ Intersectional Feminism 🗣️ Everyday Racism 📱 Social Media Critique

Touched Out

av Amanda Montei • 2023

From consent to care work: how motherhood traps women in a system that owns their bodies.

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👩‍👧 Modern Motherhood ✊ Feminist Critique 🫂 Care Work ✋ Bodily Autonomy 🛑 Consent And Boundaries

Touched Out

From consent to care work: how motherhood traps women in a system that owns their bodies.

av Amanda Montei 2023 256 sidor

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👩‍👧 Modern Motherhood ✊ Feminist Critique 🫂 Care Work ✋ Bodily Autonomy 🛑 Consent And Boundaries

On Fascism

av Matthew C. Macwilliams • 2020

Forty percent of Americans carry latent authoritarianism, waiting for fear to flip the switch.

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🏛️ American Politics 📏 Authoritarian Personality 😨 Fear-Based Politics 🏚️ Democratic Erosion ⚖️ Civil Liberties

On Fascism

Forty percent of Americans carry latent authoritarianism, waiting for fear to flip the switch.

av Matthew C. Macwilliams 2020 200 sidor

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🏛️ American Politics 📏 Authoritarian Personality 😨 Fear-Based Politics 🏚️ Democratic Erosion ⚖️ Civil Liberties

Already Toast

av Kate Washington • 2021

Her husband's cancer made her an unpaid nurse. The system was counting on it.

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🏥 Medical Memoir 🔥 Caregiver Burnout 👨‍👩‍👧 Family Caregiving 👩 Gendered Care Work 🏛️ Healthcare Critique

Already Toast

Her husband's cancer made her an unpaid nurse. The system was counting on it.

av Kate Washington 2021 224 sidor

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🏥 Medical Memoir 🔥 Caregiver Burnout 👨‍👩‍👧 Family Caregiving 👩 Gendered Care Work 🏛️ Healthcare Critique

The Conversation

av Robert Livingston • 2021

Racism's biggest obstacle is not hatred but the widespread disbelief that it exists.

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✊ Antiracism Practice 🧠 Implicit Bias 🧱 Structural Racism 🌈 Diversity And Inclusion 👥 Intergroup Dynamics

The Conversation

Racism's biggest obstacle is not hatred but the widespread disbelief that it exists.

av Robert Livingston 2021 368 sidor

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✊ Antiracism Practice 🧠 Implicit Bias 🧱 Structural Racism 🌈 Diversity And Inclusion 👥 Intergroup Dynamics

How to Spend $50 Billion to Make the World a Better Place

av Bjørn Lomborg • 2006

Climate change or malaria? Economists priced both; the returns were not what anyone assumed.

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🧮 Effective Altruism ⚖️ Cost-Benefit Analysis 🌍 International Development 🏥 Global Health 🌡️ Climate Economics

How to Spend $50 Billion to Make the World a Better Place

Climate change or malaria? Economists priced both; the returns were not what anyone assumed.

av Bjørn Lomborg 2006 206 sidor

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🧮 Effective Altruism ⚖️ Cost-Benefit Analysis 🌍 International Development 🏥 Global Health 🌡️ Climate Economics

The Hidden History of Burma

av Thant Myint-U • 2019

Colonial racial order, heroin capital, Facebook hate: the real story of Burma's collapse.

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🇲🇲 Myanmar 🗳️ Burmese Politics 🌏 Southeast Asian History ⛓️ Colonial Legacies ⚔️ Ethnic Conflict

The Hidden History of Burma

Colonial racial order, heroin capital, Facebook hate: the real story of Burma's collapse.

av Thant Myint-U 2019 304 sidor

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🇲🇲 Myanmar 🗳️ Burmese Politics 🌏 Southeast Asian History ⛓️ Colonial Legacies ⚔️ Ethnic Conflict

Safe

av Mark Daley • 2024

They became a family of four. Foster care's goal was to make them three again.

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🏠 Foster Care 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Parenting ⚖️ Child Welfare Reform 🧠 Trauma-Informed Care 💔 Ambiguous Loss

Safe

They became a family of four. Foster care's goal was to make them three again.

av Mark Daley 2024 304 sidor

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🏠 Foster Care 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Parenting ⚖️ Child Welfare Reform 🧠 Trauma-Informed Care 💔 Ambiguous Loss

Activist Theology

av Robyn Henderson-Espinoza • 2019

You can’t think your way to justice. A queer theologian’s charge to turn belief into action.

3.96

🏳️‍🌈 Queer Theology ✊ Liberation Theology 🕊️ Faith In Action 🌍 Spiritual Activism ⛪ Progressive Christianity

Activist Theology

You can’t think your way to justice. A queer theologian’s charge to turn belief into action.

av Robyn Henderson-Espinoza 2019 137 sidor

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🏳️‍🌈 Queer Theology ✊ Liberation Theology 🕊️ Faith In Action 🌍 Spiritual Activism ⛪ Progressive Christianity

One Dress. One Year.

av Bethany Winz • 2016

One girl, one dress, 365 days: a fight against trafficking that unraveled her first.

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🔗 Human Trafficking ✊ Teen Activism 🙏 Faith In Action 👕 Everyday Activism 💔 Perfectionism

One Dress. One Year.

One girl, one dress, 365 days: a fight against trafficking that unraveled her first.

av Bethany Winz 2016 160 sidor

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🔗 Human Trafficking ✊ Teen Activism 🙏 Faith In Action 👕 Everyday Activism 💔 Perfectionism

Daddy Issues

av Katherine Angel • 2019

Behind every sentimentalized father is a story of possession that feminism forgot to tell.

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👨‍👧 Father-Daughter Dynamics 📺 Cultural Criticism 🏠 Patriarchal Family 🪞 Narcissistic Parents 💔 Family Trauma

Daddy Issues

Behind every sentimentalized father is a story of possession that feminism forgot to tell.

av Katherine Angel 2019 128 sidor

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👨‍👧 Father-Daughter Dynamics 📺 Cultural Criticism 🏠 Patriarchal Family 🪞 Narcissistic Parents 💔 Family Trauma

Paper Girl

av Beth Macy • 2025

A Pell Grant was her exit from working-class Ohio. Four decades later, the road is closed.

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🏡 Rural America 👷 Working-Class Memoir 🏭 Post-Industrial Decline 🔄 Generational Poverty 🔀 Political Polarization

Paper Girl

A Pell Grant was her exit from working-class Ohio. Four decades later, the road is closed.

av Beth Macy 2025 368 sidor

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🏡 Rural America 👷 Working-Class Memoir 🏭 Post-Industrial Decline 🔄 Generational Poverty 🔀 Political Polarization

The Grim Sleeper

av Christine Pelisek • 2016

He murdered Black women for decades while police looked away. A piece of pizza ended it.

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🕵️ Serial Murder Cases 📁 Cold Case Investigations 🤝 Police Mistrust 💊 Crack Epidemic 👤 Marginalized Victims

The Grim Sleeper

He murdered Black women for decades while police looked away. A piece of pizza ended it.

av Christine Pelisek 2016 325 sidor

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🕵️ Serial Murder Cases 📁 Cold Case Investigations 🤝 Police Mistrust 💊 Crack Epidemic 👤 Marginalized Victims

Onkel Toms stuga

av Harriet Beecher Stowe • 1999

Debt sells a good man south and sends a terrified mother scrambling across the frozen Ohio.

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⛓️‍💥 Abolitionist Fiction 💌 Sentimental Novel ✝️ Christ Figure 👼 Angelic Child 💔 Families Torn Apart

Onkel Toms stuga

Debt sells a good man south and sends a terrified mother scrambling across the frozen Ohio.

av Harriet Beecher Stowe 1999 438 sidor

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⛓️‍💥 Abolitionist Fiction 💌 Sentimental Novel ✝️ Christ Figure 👼 Angelic Child 💔 Families Torn Apart

Notes on a Silencing

av Lacy Crawford • 2020

Two senior boys assaulted a 15-year-old. The boarding school spent decades burying what happened.

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🏫 Boarding Schools 📖 Survivor Memoir 🚨 Sexual Assault ⚖️ Victim Blaming 🏛️ Institutional Betrayal

Notes on a Silencing

Two senior boys assaulted a 15-year-old. The boarding school spent decades burying what happened.

av Lacy Crawford 2020 400 sidor

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🏫 Boarding Schools 📖 Survivor Memoir 🚨 Sexual Assault ⚖️ Victim Blaming 🏛️ Institutional Betrayal

The Economics of Innocent Fraud

av John Kenneth Galbraith • 2004

Free markets, consumer choice, central bank rescue: stories the powerful tell to hide their control.

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🌐 Political Economy 🏛️ Institutional Economics 🏢 Corporate Power 📢 Manufactured Demand 📋 Corporate Governance

The Economics of Innocent Fraud

Free markets, consumer choice, central bank rescue: stories the powerful tell to hide their control.

av John Kenneth Galbraith 2004 81 sidor

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🌐 Political Economy 🏛️ Institutional Economics 🏢 Corporate Power 📢 Manufactured Demand 📋 Corporate Governance

Paint Your Town Red

av Matthew Brown • 2021

38 million to 111 million: the spending shift that rebuilt a town.

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🏘️ Localism 🗳️ Economic Democracy 🤝 Worker Cooperatives 🛒 Local Procurement 🗣️ Participatory Democracy

Paint Your Town Red

38 million to 111 million: the spending shift that rebuilt a town.

av Matthew Brown 2021 176 sidor

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🏘️ Localism 🗳️ Economic Democracy 🤝 Worker Cooperatives 🛒 Local Procurement 🗣️ Participatory Democracy

Excellent Daughters

av Katherine Zoepf • 2016

Young Arab women are renegotiating sex, marriage, and honor, far from the headlines.

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👩 Arab Women 🕌 Islamic Feminism 🌸 Arab Spring ⚔️ Honor Cultures ⚠️ Sexual Violence

Excellent Daughters

Young Arab women are renegotiating sex, marriage, and honor, far from the headlines.

av Katherine Zoepf 2016 258 sidor

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👩 Arab Women 🕌 Islamic Feminism 🌸 Arab Spring ⚔️ Honor Cultures ⚠️ Sexual Violence

Ambitious Like a Mother

av Lara Bazelon • 2022

Mothers are told their ambition hurts their kids. The evidence shows it helps them.

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👩‍💼 Working Motherhood 💪 Female Ambition 🍼 Intensive Mothering ⚖️ Gender Double Standards 💰 Financial Independence

Ambitious Like a Mother

Mothers are told their ambition hurts their kids. The evidence shows it helps them.

av Lara Bazelon 2022 272 sidor

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👩‍💼 Working Motherhood 💪 Female Ambition 🍼 Intensive Mothering ⚖️ Gender Double Standards 💰 Financial Independence

Broke, USA

av Gary Rivlin • 2010

How pawnshops and payday lenders turned the working poor into a multi-billion dollar market.

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🦈 Predatory Lending 🏚️ Poverty Economics 🚪 Financial Exclusion 🏠 Subprime Crisis 🔄 Debt Cycles

Broke, USA

How pawnshops and payday lenders turned the working poor into a multi-billion dollar market.

av Gary Rivlin 2010 358 sidor

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🦈 Predatory Lending 🏚️ Poverty Economics 🚪 Financial Exclusion 🏠 Subprime Crisis 🔄 Debt Cycles

The Dangerous Act of Worship

av Mark Labberton • 2007

The test of worship is not the music but the justice that follows. Most congregations fail.

3.93

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⛪ Liturgical Theology 🔥 Prophetic Imagination 🌿 Sabbath Keeping ✝️ Radical Discipleship ⚖️ Biblical Justice

The Dangerous Act of Worship

The test of worship is not the music but the justice that follows. Most congregations fail.

av Mark Labberton 2007 200 sidor

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⛪ Liturgical Theology 🔥 Prophetic Imagination 🌿 Sabbath Keeping ✝️ Radical Discipleship ⚖️ Biblical Justice

Cloudmoney

av Brett Scott • 2022

Cash blocks total surveillance of your spending. Banks and tech firms are dismantling it together.

3.66

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💳 Digital Payments 🏦 Cashless Society 👁️ Financial Surveillance 🏢 Corporate Power 💻 Tech Criticism

Cloudmoney

Cash blocks total surveillance of your spending. Banks and tech firms are dismantling it together.

av Brett Scott 2022 304 sidor

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💳 Digital Payments 🏦 Cashless Society 👁️ Financial Surveillance 🏢 Corporate Power 💻 Tech Criticism

Blood Money

av Peter Schweizer • 2024

China attacks with fentanyl, gun switches, TikTok. The silence from Washington is bought.

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🏛️ Us-China Relations 🌍 Geopolitical Conflict 💊 Opioid Crisis 🔫 State-Sponsored Crime 📱 Information Warfare

Blood Money

China attacks with fentanyl, gun switches, TikTok. The silence from Washington is bought.

av Peter Schweizer 2024 316 sidor

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🏛️ Us-China Relations 🌍 Geopolitical Conflict 💊 Opioid Crisis 🔫 State-Sponsored Crime 📱 Information Warfare

A Bigger Prize

av Margaret Heffernan • 2014

Competition sharpens, we're told. In business, science, and schools, the evidence says it dulls.

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📎 Collaborative Models 🔥 Intrinsic Motivation ☣️ Toxic Competition ⚖️ Meritocracy Critique 💻 Open Source Innovation

A Bigger Prize

Competition sharpens, we're told. In business, science, and schools, the evidence says it dulls.

av Margaret Heffernan 2014 416 sidor

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📎 Collaborative Models 🔥 Intrinsic Motivation ☣️ Toxic Competition ⚖️ Meritocracy Critique 💻 Open Source Innovation

Having Nothing, Possessing Everything

av Michael Mather • 2018

A pastor stopped tallying what his poor neighborhood lacked. What he found rewrote his calling.

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🗺️ Asset-Based Community Development 🏙️ Urban Ministry 💰 Community Economics 🍽️ Radical Hospitality ✊ Faith-Based Organizing

Having Nothing, Possessing Everything

A pastor stopped tallying what his poor neighborhood lacked. What he found rewrote his calling.

av Michael Mather 2018 160 sidor

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🗺️ Asset-Based Community Development 🏙️ Urban Ministry 💰 Community Economics 🍽️ Radical Hospitality ✊ Faith-Based Organizing

Demanding the Impossible

av Peter H. Marshall • 1992

Self-rule predates the state. Anarchist thought from ancient Taoism to the modern era.

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🏴 Anarchist Thought 🌿 Spontaneous Order ✊ Anti-Authoritarianism 🤝 Mutual Aid 🗳️ Self-Governance

Demanding the Impossible

Self-rule predates the state. Anarchist thought from ancient Taoism to the modern era.

av Peter H. Marshall 1992 767 sidor

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🏴 Anarchist Thought 🌿 Spontaneous Order ✊ Anti-Authoritarianism 🤝 Mutual Aid 🗳️ Self-Governance

Can We All Be Feminists?

av June Eric-Udorie • 2018

Mainstream feminism's blind spots: seventeen women the movement left behind.

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🌐 Intersectional Feminism 📝 Feminist Anthologies 🍩 Fat Acceptance ♿ Disability Justice ✊🏿 Womanist Thought

Can We All Be Feminists?

Mainstream feminism's blind spots: seventeen women the movement left behind.

av June Eric-Udorie 2018 288 sidor

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🌐 Intersectional Feminism 📝 Feminist Anthologies 🍩 Fat Acceptance ♿ Disability Justice ✊🏿 Womanist Thought

The Violence Project

av Jillian Peterson • 2021

Mass shootings are not random. They follow a pattern, and a layered defense can break it.

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🔫 Mass Shootings 🛡️ Violence Prevention 🧠 Childhood Trauma 🆘 Crisis Intervention 🦠 Social Contagion

The Violence Project

Mass shootings are not random. They follow a pattern, and a layered defense can break it.

av Jillian Peterson 2021 242 sidor

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🔫 Mass Shootings 🛡️ Violence Prevention 🧠 Childhood Trauma 🆘 Crisis Intervention 🦠 Social Contagion

How to Think Like a Woman

av Regan Penaluna • 2023

Sexism drove her from philosophy. Four forgotten women thinkers showed her how to find her way back.

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📚 Feminist Philosophy 🚫 Academic Sexism 🪞 Internalized Misogyny 🗣️ Recovering Lost Voices 🕰️ Early Modern Philosophy

How to Think Like a Woman

Sexism drove her from philosophy. Four forgotten women thinkers showed her how to find her way back.

av Regan Penaluna 2023 320 sidor

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📚 Feminist Philosophy 🚫 Academic Sexism 🪞 Internalized Misogyny 🗣️ Recovering Lost Voices 🕰️ Early Modern Philosophy

What We Owe Each Other

av Minouche Shafik • 2021

The safety net is fraying from childhood to old age. A single plan to rewire it.

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🏛️ Social Policy 📉 Economic Inequality 👷 Labor Markets 🎓 Education Reform 👶 Early Childhood

What We Owe Each Other

The safety net is fraying from childhood to old age. A single plan to rewire it.

av Minouche Shafik 2021

3.85

1 000+ betyg

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The Givers

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When the richest Americans give, they also take: control over public life, without a vote.

3.73

485

🏛️ Money In Politics 💰 Wealth And Democracy 🕶️ Dark Money 💼 Venture Philanthropy 💸 Billionaire Influence

The Givers

When the richest Americans give, they also take: control over public life, without a vote.

av David Callahan 2017 352 sidor

3.73

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One book in his house growing up. Now he owns 3,500 and publishes his own.

3.74

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🏭 Working Class Literature 📚 Bibliophilia 🎓 Autodidact Stories 🎭 Kitchen-Sink Realism 🖨️ Print Culture

No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy

One book in his house growing up. Now he owns 3,500 and publishes his own.

av Mark Hodkinson 2022 360 sidor

3.74

500+ betyg

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Saving Five

av Amanda Nguyen • 2025

Her rape kit had a six-month destruction clock. That betrayal launched a civil rights fight.

4.25

4 000+

📖 Survivor Memoirs ⚖️ Sexual Assault Justice 💔 Trauma And Healing 🏛️ Legislative Advocacy 🌊 Grief Processing

Saving Five

Her rape kit had a six-month destruction clock. That betrayal launched a civil rights fight.

av Amanda Nguyen 2025 224 sidor

4.25

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Imperfect Courage

av Jessica Honegger • 2018

Move before confidence shows up. A fair-trade founder's playbook for acting while still afraid.

4.07

1 000+

🌍 Social Entrepreneurship 🏃 Action Over Perfection 🤝 Female Collaboration ✊ Everyday Activism ✝️ Christian Women's Leadership

Imperfect Courage

Move before confidence shows up. A fair-trade founder's playbook for acting while still afraid.

av Jessica Honegger 2018 240 sidor

4.07

1 000+ betyg

🌍 Social Entrepreneurship 🏃 Action Over Perfection 🤝 Female Collaboration ✊ Everyday Activism ✝️ Christian Women's Leadership

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