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

Us Against Them

av Donald R. Kinder • 2009

An instinct to split the world into us and them shapes nearly every American political opinion.

3.97

🧠 Political Psychology 📊 Public Opinion 👥 Intergroup Relations 🎯 In-Group Bias 🔍 Prejudice Research

Us Against Them

An instinct to split the world into us and them shapes nearly every American political opinion.

av Donald R. Kinder 2009 354 sidor

3.97

33 betyg

🧠 Political Psychology 📊 Public Opinion 👥 Intergroup Relations 🎯 In-Group Bias 🔍 Prejudice Research

Cuts Both Ways

av Candice Brathwaite • 2022

After her brother's murder, a London teen falls for a boy who might know the killer.

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🖤 Black British 🏫 Elite Private School 💔 Sibling Grief ☠️ Forbidden Love 🔺 Love Triangle

Cuts Both Ways

After her brother's murder, a London teen falls for a boy who might know the killer.

av Candice Brathwaite 2022 320 sidor

3.74

500+ betyg

🖤 Black British 🏫 Elite Private School 💔 Sibling Grief ☠️ Forbidden Love 🔺 Love Triangle

The Pursuit of Loneliness

av Philip Slater • 1970

America chose self-reliance. It got loneliness, and the hidden need for others is turning to rage.

4.08

287

🏛️ Cultural Criticism 🇺🇸 American Culture 🏚️ Social Alienation 🧍 Individualism Critique ⚙️ Technological Critique

The Pursuit of Loneliness

America chose self-reliance. It got loneliness, and the hidden need for others is turning to rage.

av Philip Slater 1970 208 sidor

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287 betyg

🏛️ Cultural Criticism 🇺🇸 American Culture 🏚️ Social Alienation 🧍 Individualism Critique ⚙️ Technological Critique

They Call You Back

av Tim Z. Hernandez • 2024

1948 crash: 28 Mexican dead labeled 'deportees.' One writer's hunt to learn and return their names.

4.46

🕳️ Historical Erasure 🌳 Family History 🧬 Intergenerational Trauma 🦋 Mexican Diaspora 🇲🇽 Chicano Memoir

They Call You Back

1948 crash: 28 Mexican dead labeled 'deportees.' One writer's hunt to learn and return their names.

av Tim Z. Hernandez 2024 272 sidor

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35 betyg

🕳️ Historical Erasure 🌳 Family History 🧬 Intergenerational Trauma 🦋 Mexican Diaspora 🇲🇽 Chicano Memoir

Medical Gaslighting

av Ilana Jacqueline • 2024

How to prepare, keep cool, and fight back when doctors dismiss your pain.

4.39

133

🩺 Women's Health ⚖️ Medical Bias 📢 Self-Advocacy 💊 Pain Management 🧠 Trauma Recovery

Medical Gaslighting

How to prepare, keep cool, and fight back when doctors dismiss your pain.

av Ilana Jacqueline 2024 264 sidor

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🩺 Women's Health ⚖️ Medical Bias 📢 Self-Advocacy 💊 Pain Management 🧠 Trauma Recovery

Empire's Crossroads

av Carrie Gibson • 2014

Five centuries of sugar, slavery, and empire: how a handful of islands made the modern world.

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🏝️ Caribbean History ⛓️ Atlantic Slavery ✊ Haitian Revolution 🍬 Sugar And Empire 🏃 Slave Resistance

Empire's Crossroads

Five centuries of sugar, slavery, and empire: how a handful of islands made the modern world.

av Carrie Gibson 2014 448 sidor

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500+ betyg

🏝️ Caribbean History ⛓️ Atlantic Slavery ✊ Haitian Revolution 🍬 Sugar And Empire 🏃 Slave Resistance

Unusually Cruel

av Marc Morjé Howard • 2017

Ten times the prisoners of Europe, and not because of crime: four forces behind American punishment.

4.39

🏛️ Mass Incarceration 🛠️ Criminal Justice Reform 🧑🏿‍⚖️ Racial Bias In Justice ⚖️ Prosecutorial Power 🚪 Prison Conditions

Unusually Cruel

Ten times the prisoners of Europe, and not because of crime: four forces behind American punishment.

av Marc Morjé Howard 2017 296 sidor

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41 betyg

🏛️ Mass Incarceration 🛠️ Criminal Justice Reform 🧑🏿‍⚖️ Racial Bias In Justice ⚖️ Prosecutorial Power 🚪 Prison Conditions

The Psychology of Totalitarianism

av Mattias Desmet • 2023

Reason was meant to free us. It left us isolated, anxious, and begging for an absolute master.

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🧠 Mass Psychology 🗳️ Political Psychology ⛓️ Totalitarianism Studies 🏭 Critique Of Technocracy 🔬 Epistemology Of Science

The Psychology of Totalitarianism

Reason was meant to free us. It left us isolated, anxious, and begging for an absolute master.

av Mattias Desmet 2023 256 sidor

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🧠 Mass Psychology 🗳️ Political Psychology ⛓️ Totalitarianism Studies 🏭 Critique Of Technocracy 🔬 Epistemology Of Science

Making Race and Nation

av Anthony W. Marx • 1997

To unify warring whites, America and South Africa traded black rights. Brazil chose a quieter cage.

3.89

109

🌐 Comparative Politics 🧬 Race And Ethnicity 🏗️ Nation Building 🔨 Racial Formation 🚧 Segregation

Making Race and Nation

To unify warring whites, America and South Africa traded black rights. Brazil chose a quieter cage.

av Anthony W. Marx 1997 412 sidor

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🌐 Comparative Politics 🧬 Race And Ethnicity 🏗️ Nation Building 🔨 Racial Formation 🚧 Segregation

The Left Behind

av Robert Wuthnow • 2018

Rural America's anger is grief: not for lost jobs, but for communities where belonging meant duty.

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🏡 Rural America 😤 Cultural Resentment 🏙️ Urban Rural Divide 📉 Moral Decline ⛪ Religion And Politics

The Left Behind

Rural America's anger is grief: not for lost jobs, but for communities where belonging meant duty.

av Robert Wuthnow 2018 200 sidor

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🏡 Rural America 😤 Cultural Resentment 🏙️ Urban Rural Divide 📉 Moral Decline ⛪ Religion And Politics

I Stop Somewhere

av T.E. Carter • 2018

A murdered girl's ghost watches from a rotting house as her killer charms his next victim.

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🪦 Dead Girl Narrator 🏘️ Small Town Secrets 🤝 Survivor Solidarity 🔥 Feminist Rage 🌫️ Bleak Small Town

I Stop Somewhere

A murdered girl's ghost watches from a rotting house as her killer charms his next victim.

av T.E. Carter 2018 320 sidor

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🪦 Dead Girl Narrator 🏘️ Small Town Secrets 🤝 Survivor Solidarity 🔥 Feminist Rage 🌫️ Bleak Small Town

Uneasy Alliances

av Paul Frymer • 1999

The two-party system sidelines race by design, taking its most loyal voters for granted.

3.85

🇺🇸 American Politics 🏛️ Two-Party System 🖤 Racial Politics 🗣️ Political Representation 🔗 Institutional Racism

Uneasy Alliances

The two-party system sidelines race by design, taking its most loyal voters for granted.

av Paul Frymer 1999 224 sidor

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🇺🇸 American Politics 🏛️ Two-Party System 🖤 Racial Politics 🗣️ Political Representation 🔗 Institutional Racism

Reclaiming Body Trust

av Hilary Kinavey • 2022

Diet culture taught you to distrust your body. Healing that relationship requires zero pounds lost.

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🫂 Body Image Healing 🚫 Anti-Diet ✊ Body Liberation 💪 Fat Acceptance 🍽️ Food Freedom

Reclaiming Body Trust

Diet culture taught you to distrust your body. Healing that relationship requires zero pounds lost.

av Hilary Kinavey 2022 320 sidor

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🫂 Body Image Healing 🚫 Anti-Diet ✊ Body Liberation 💪 Fat Acceptance 🍽️ Food Freedom

Exceptional America

av Mugambi Jouet • 2017

Why the richest democracy has the most prisoners, the angriest politics, and the fiercest faith.

3.98

🌍 Comparative Politics ⚡ Political Polarization 🧠 Anti-Intellectualism ⛪ Christian Fundamentalism 🔗 Mass Incarceration

Exceptional America

Why the richest democracy has the most prisoners, the angriest politics, and the fiercest faith.

av Mugambi Jouet 2017 358 sidor

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51 betyg

🌍 Comparative Politics ⚡ Political Polarization 🧠 Anti-Intellectualism ⛪ Christian Fundamentalism 🔗 Mass Incarceration

The Curse of God

av Harris Sultan • 2018

Predatory prophet, flawed scripture, impossible god: an ex-Muslim states the case against Islam.

3.91

159

🗣️ Ex-Muslim Voices ⚛️ New Atheism ☪️ Islamic Theology 😈 Problem Of Evil ⚖️ Secular Morality

The Curse of God

Predatory prophet, flawed scripture, impossible god: an ex-Muslim states the case against Islam.

av Harris Sultan 2018 250 sidor

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159 betyg

🗣️ Ex-Muslim Voices ⚛️ New Atheism ☪️ Islamic Theology 😈 Problem Of Evil ⚖️ Secular Morality

Kill Switch

av Adam Jentleson • 2021

The filibuster was born to protect slavery, not debate. That sin still decides who governs.

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🏛️ Congressional Gridlock ⏳ Filibuster History ⚖️ Minority Rule 🚧 Procedural Obstruction 🏚️ Institutional Decay

Kill Switch

The filibuster was born to protect slavery, not debate. That sin still decides who governs.

av Adam Jentleson 2021 352 sidor

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🏛️ Congressional Gridlock ⏳ Filibuster History ⚖️ Minority Rule 🚧 Procedural Obstruction 🏚️ Institutional Decay

American Poison

av Eduardo Porter • 2020

White America starved the safety net to keep it from minorities. Then inequality came for everyone.

3.91

270

🧱 Us Race Relations 🔍 Structural Racism 🏛️ Welfare State ⛓️ Mass Incarceration 🗳️ Political Polarization

American Poison

White America starved the safety net to keep it from minorities. Then inequality came for everyone.

av Eduardo Porter 2020 272 sidor

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🧱 Us Race Relations 🔍 Structural Racism 🏛️ Welfare State ⛓️ Mass Incarceration 🗳️ Political Polarization

The Girls Who Went Away

av Ann Fessler • 2006

A million and a half women surrendered babies before Roe. What we believe about them is wrong.

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🏛️ American Adoption History 🎙️ Oral History ⚖️ Adoption Ethics ✊ Women's Bodily Autonomy 🤫 Silence And Shame

The Girls Who Went Away

A million and a half women surrendered babies before Roe. What we believe about them is wrong.

av Ann Fessler 2006 354 sidor

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🏛️ American Adoption History 🎙️ Oral History ⚖️ Adoption Ethics ✊ Women's Bodily Autonomy 🤫 Silence And Shame

Sins of My Father

av Kelvin Pierce • 2020

Two orphan girls from Georgia pulled the son of a white supremacist from life of hate.

3.79

🚩 Memoir Of Extremism 💢 White Supremacy 💔 Childhood Trauma 👶 Adoption Memoir 📚 Anti-Racism

Sins of My Father

Two orphan girls from Georgia pulled the son of a white supremacist from life of hate.

av Kelvin Pierce 2020 301 sidor

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62 betyg

🚩 Memoir Of Extremism 💢 White Supremacy 💔 Childhood Trauma 👶 Adoption Memoir 📚 Anti-Racism

Creating a New Racial Order

av Jennifer L. Hochschild • 2012

Genomics and a new generation erode racial boundaries. Poverty and prisons redraw them.

3.37

🏗️ Racial Formation 🧩 Multiracial Identity 🧬 Genomics And Race 🚧 Structural Racism ⛓️ Mass Incarceration

Creating a New Racial Order

Genomics and a new generation erode racial boundaries. Poverty and prisons redraw them.

av Jennifer L. Hochschild 2012 280 sidor

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19 betyg

🏗️ Racial Formation 🧩 Multiracial Identity 🧬 Genomics And Race 🚧 Structural Racism ⛓️ Mass Incarceration

The Black Messiah

av Albert B. Cleage Jr. • 1989

Jesus was a Black revolutionary. Paul built a slave religion on his grave.

4.35

🏴 Black Theology ✊ Black Power 🔍 White Supremacy Critique ⛪ Anti-Colonial Christianity 🔗 Collective Liberation

The Black Messiah

Jesus was a Black revolutionary. Paul built a slave religion on his grave.

av Albert B. Cleage Jr. 1989 278 sidor

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17 betyg

🏴 Black Theology ✊ Black Power 🔍 White Supremacy Critique ⛪ Anti-Colonial Christianity 🔗 Collective Liberation

Bête noire

av Éric Dupond-Moretti • 2012

In French courts, judges shield their own, experts peddle junk, and acquittals mean war.

3.80

186

🏛️ Criminal Justice ⚖️ Wrongful Conviction 🛡️ Criminal Defense 📖 Legal Memoir 🚔 Police Misconduct

Bête noire

In French courts, judges shield their own, experts peddle junk, and acquittals mean war.

av Éric Dupond-Moretti 2012 248 sidor

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🏛️ Criminal Justice ⚖️ Wrongful Conviction 🛡️ Criminal Defense 📖 Legal Memoir 🚔 Police Misconduct

Nation on the Take

av Wendell Potter • 2016

Six billion dollars bought the 2012 election. This is what the donors got for their money.

3.97

126

💰 Money In Politics 🏛️ Corporate Lobbying 🗳️ Political Corruption ⛓️ Regulatory Capture 👑 Oligarchy

Nation on the Take

Six billion dollars bought the 2012 election. This is what the donors got for their money.

av Wendell Potter 2016 288 sidor

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💰 Money In Politics 🏛️ Corporate Lobbying 🗳️ Political Corruption ⛓️ Regulatory Capture 👑 Oligarchy

Presidents, Populism, and the Crisis of Democracy

av William G. Howell • 2020

The Constitution was designed for inaction; that structural flaw now fuels populist demagogues.

3.87

🇺🇸 American Politics 📢 Populism 📜 Constitutional Reform 🏛️ Presidential Power 🏢 Congressional Dysfunction

Presidents, Populism, and the Crisis of Democracy

The Constitution was designed for inaction; that structural flaw now fuels populist demagogues.

av William G. Howell 2020 256 sidor

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🇺🇸 American Politics 📢 Populism 📜 Constitutional Reform 🏛️ Presidential Power 🏢 Congressional Dysfunction

Bereketli Topraklar Üzerinde

av Orhan Kemal • 1954

Three men walk to the cotton mills carrying blankets on their backs and wages in their heads.

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📖 Social Realism 🚶 Rural Migration ⚒️ Worker Exploitation 💔 Shattered Dreams 🤝 Tested Friendship

Bereketli Topraklar Üzerinde

Three men walk to the cotton mills carrying blankets on their backs and wages in their heads.

av Orhan Kemal 1954 377 sidor

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📖 Social Realism 🚶 Rural Migration ⚒️ Worker Exploitation 💔 Shattered Dreams 🤝 Tested Friendship

Destructive Trends in Mental Health

av Rogers H. Wright • 2005

Therapy now invents disorders, buries science, and rewards victimhood. Patients pay the price.

3.95

🧠 Clinical Psychology 🏷️ Diagnostic Overreach ⚖️ Psychology Ethics 🎭 Victimhood Culture 🪄 Pseudoscience Critique

Destructive Trends in Mental Health

Therapy now invents disorders, buries science, and rewards victimhood. Patients pay the price.

av Rogers H. Wright 2005 384 sidor

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21 betyg

🧠 Clinical Psychology 🏷️ Diagnostic Overreach ⚖️ Psychology Ethics 🎭 Victimhood Culture 🪄 Pseudoscience Critique

Vulture Capitalism

av Grace Blakeley • 2024

The free market is a myth: the economy is planned by oligarchs and serves only them.

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🏛️ Political Economy 🏢 Corporate Power 💰 Neoliberalism 🌍 Imperialism 🗳️ Economic Democracy

Vulture Capitalism

The free market is a myth: the economy is planned by oligarchs and serves only them.

av Grace Blakeley 2024 360 sidor

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🏛️ Political Economy 🏢 Corporate Power 💰 Neoliberalism 🌍 Imperialism 🗳️ Economic Democracy

Party of One

av Anneli Rufus • 2003

Your preference for solitude isn't a disorder. Society just needs you to believe it is.

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🫂 Solitude And Society 🔇 Introversion Advocacy 🧬 Temperament Psychology 🎨 Creative Solitude 📺 Cultural Criticism

Party of One

Your preference for solitude isn't a disorder. Society just needs you to believe it is.

av Anneli Rufus 2003 286 sidor

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🫂 Solitude And Society 🔇 Introversion Advocacy 🧬 Temperament Psychology 🎨 Creative Solitude 📺 Cultural Criticism

Improving Poor People

av Michael B. Katz • 1995

Why America keeps trying to fix the poor instead of poverty, and what history reveals.

3.83

📉 Poverty Policy 🏛️ Welfare State 🎯 Blaming The Victim ⚖️ Structural Inequality 🏙️ Urban Poverty

Improving Poor People

Why America keeps trying to fix the poor instead of poverty, and what history reveals.

av Michael B. Katz 1995 192 sidor

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12 betyg

📉 Poverty Policy 🏛️ Welfare State 🎯 Blaming The Victim ⚖️ Structural Inequality 🏙️ Urban Poverty

Lynching and Leisure

av Terry Anne Scott • 2022

Lynching was entertainment, complete with chartered trains, souvenir bones, and Sunday sightseers.

4.20

📜 Jim Crow Era 🩸 Racial Terror 🎪 Public Spectacle 👻 White Supremacy 🏭 Racial Capitalism

Lynching and Leisure

Lynching was entertainment, complete with chartered trains, souvenir bones, and Sunday sightseers.

av Terry Anne Scott 2022 394 sidor

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📜 Jim Crow Era 🩸 Racial Terror 🎪 Public Spectacle 👻 White Supremacy 🏭 Racial Capitalism

These United States

av Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore • 2015

For fifty years, equality won. Then inequality struck back. A century of America's unfinished fight.

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111

🇺🇸 Modern American History 💰 Economic Inequality ⚒️ Labor History ✊🏾 Civil Rights Movement 🌐 American Foreign Policy

These United States

For fifty years, equality won. Then inequality struck back. A century of America's unfinished fight.

av Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore 2015 736 sidor

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🇺🇸 Modern American History 💰 Economic Inequality ⚒️ Labor History ✊🏾 Civil Rights Movement 🌐 American Foreign Policy

Wobblies and Zapatistas

av Staughton Lynd • 2008

What the Zapatistas and the Wobblies got right that both Marxists and anarchists keep missing.

3.89

473

🏴 Libertarian Socialism 📜 Radical History ✊ Direct Action 🔄 Horizontalism 🌽 Indigenous Resistance

Wobblies and Zapatistas

What the Zapatistas and the Wobblies got right that both Marxists and anarchists keep missing.

av Staughton Lynd 2008 288 sidor

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🏴 Libertarian Socialism 📜 Radical History ✊ Direct Action 🔄 Horizontalism 🌽 Indigenous Resistance

All Our Relations

av Winona LaDuke • 1999

How Native lands became a dumping ground for 16 nuclear waste sites, and the fight back.

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🌿 Indigenous Rights 🌍 Environmental Justice 🏞️ Land Rights ✊ Grassroots Activism 🪔 Cultural Preservation

All Our Relations

How Native lands became a dumping ground for 16 nuclear waste sites, and the fight back.

av Winona LaDuke 1999 243 sidor

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🌿 Indigenous Rights 🌍 Environmental Justice 🏞️ Land Rights ✊ Grassroots Activism 🪔 Cultural Preservation

Coaching for Transformation

av Martha Lasley • 2016

Beyond asking questions: presence, shadow work, and unlocking a client's deepest potential.

4.52

🏛️ Coaching Methodology 👂 Active Listening 🧩 Parts Work 🌱 Humanistic Psychology 🌑 Shadow Work

Coaching for Transformation

Beyond asking questions: presence, shadow work, and unlocking a client's deepest potential.

av Martha Lasley 2016

4.52

23 betyg

🏛️ Coaching Methodology 👂 Active Listening 🧩 Parts Work 🌱 Humanistic Psychology 🌑 Shadow Work

Hell to Pay

av Michael Lind • 2023

Stagnant wages aren't fate. They were engineered by a decades-long campaign to crush worker power.

3.93

🧑‍🔧 Labor Economics 🏛️ Political Economy 💸 Wage Inequality 🪧 Union Decline 🎓 Credentialism

Hell to Pay

Stagnant wages aren't fate. They were engineered by a decades-long campaign to crush worker power.

av Michael Lind 2023 240 sidor

3.93

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🧑‍🔧 Labor Economics 🏛️ Political Economy 💸 Wage Inequality 🪧 Union Decline 🎓 Credentialism

Who Rules America Now? A View for the 80's

av G. William Domhoff • 1083

Exclusive clubs, think tanks, and family offices: how a tiny ruling class kept the American agenda.

4.17

🏛️ Political Sociology 🧐 Class Analysis 💰 Wealth Inequality 🏢 Corporate Influence 👑 Elite Theory

Who Rules America Now? A View for the 80's

Exclusive clubs, think tanks, and family offices: how a tiny ruling class kept the American agenda.

av G. William Domhoff 1083 256 sidor

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🏛️ Political Sociology 🧐 Class Analysis 💰 Wealth Inequality 🏢 Corporate Influence 👑 Elite Theory

American Exceptionalism and Civil Religion

av John D. Wilsey • 2015

The belief that God chose America has fueled conquest, racism, and self-delusion. An honest history.

4.17

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🏛️ Civil Religion 🇺🇸 American Exceptionalism ✝️ Christian Nationalism ⛪ Religion And Politics 📜 Political Theology

American Exceptionalism and Civil Religion

The belief that God chose America has fueled conquest, racism, and self-delusion. An honest history.

av John D. Wilsey 2015 263 sidor

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🏛️ Civil Religion 🇺🇸 American Exceptionalism ✝️ Christian Nationalism ⛪ Religion And Politics 📜 Political Theology

The Urge

av Carl Erik Fisher • 2022

Addiction is an ancient divided self, stoked by industry and racial policy into a modern crisis.

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📜 History Of Addiction 🏥 History Of Medicine 💊 Drug Policy 🧠 Weakness Of Will 💰 Behavioral Economics

The Urge

Addiction is an ancient divided self, stoked by industry and racial policy into a modern crisis.

av Carl Erik Fisher 2022 400 sidor

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📜 History Of Addiction 🏥 History Of Medicine 💊 Drug Policy 🧠 Weakness Of Will 💰 Behavioral Economics

The Wisdom of Plagues

av Donald G. Mcneil Jr. • 2024

Pandemics are human-made disasters. COVID proved it, and 25 years of reporting shows exactly how.

4.11

343

🦠 Infectious Disease 🦇 Zoonotic Spillover 🛡️ Pandemic Preparedness 🩺 Medical Misinformation 💉 Vaccine Debates

The Wisdom of Plagues

Pandemics are human-made disasters. COVID proved it, and 25 years of reporting shows exactly how.

av Donald G. Mcneil Jr. 2024 368 sidor

4.11

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🦠 Infectious Disease 🦇 Zoonotic Spillover 🛡️ Pandemic Preparedness 🩺 Medical Misinformation 💉 Vaccine Debates

The Captured Economy

av Brink Lindsey • 2017

Why the economy works for the rich and against everyone else. Four policy levers, no conspiracy.

3.89

416

🔒 Regulatory Capture 💸 Rent-Seeking 📉 Economic Inequality 🏗️ Land Use Regulation 🏦 Financial Regulation

The Captured Economy

Why the economy works for the rich and against everyone else. Four policy levers, no conspiracy.

av Brink Lindsey 2017 232 sidor

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🔒 Regulatory Capture 💸 Rent-Seeking 📉 Economic Inequality 🏗️ Land Use Regulation 🏦 Financial Regulation

Into the Clear Blue Sky

av Rob Jackson • 2024

We could clean the atmosphere within a generation. The fastest lever most people overlook: methane.

4.02

131

🛠️ Climate Solutions 🧹 Carbon Removal ⚖️ Climate Justice ⚡ Energy Transition 🌾 Food Systems

Into the Clear Blue Sky

We could clean the atmosphere within a generation. The fastest lever most people overlook: methane.

av Rob Jackson 2024 304 sidor

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🛠️ Climate Solutions 🧹 Carbon Removal ⚖️ Climate Justice ⚡ Energy Transition 🌾 Food Systems

Can Democracy Survive Global Capitalism?

av Robert Kuttner • 2018

Centrists killed the alternative to laissez-faire. Now the far right is rising from the corpse.

4.10

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🏛️ Political Economy 💸 Neoliberalism Critique 🏦 Financial Deregulation 👷 Precarious Work 🚩 Authoritarian Populism

Can Democracy Survive Global Capitalism?

Centrists killed the alternative to laissez-faire. Now the far right is rising from the corpse.

av Robert Kuttner 2018 384 sidor

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🏛️ Political Economy 💸 Neoliberalism Critique 🏦 Financial Deregulation 👷 Precarious Work 🚩 Authoritarian Populism

The Global Police State

av William I. Robinson • 2020

The global economy no longer absorbs people. It cages them, and profits.

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💰 Political Economy 🌐 Global Capitalism 📹 Mass Surveillance 🔒 Mass Incarceration 📉 Neoliberalism

The Global Police State

The global economy no longer absorbs people. It cages them, and profits.

av William I. Robinson 2020 208 sidor

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💰 Political Economy 🌐 Global Capitalism 📹 Mass Surveillance 🔒 Mass Incarceration 📉 Neoliberalism

Man Up

av Cynthia Miller-Idriss • 2025

The radicalization pipeline for mass violence doesn't start with ideology. It starts with misogyny.

3.95

200

💣 Violent Extremism 🚺 Gender-Based Violence 💻 Online Radicalization 🧨 Toxic Masculinity ⚪ White Supremacy

Man Up

The radicalization pipeline for mass violence doesn't start with ideology. It starts with misogyny.

av Cynthia Miller-Idriss 2025 330 sidor

3.95

200 betyg

💣 Violent Extremism 🚺 Gender-Based Violence 💻 Online Radicalization 🧨 Toxic Masculinity ⚪ White Supremacy

Vote for US

av Joshua A. Douglas • 2019

How to fix American elections from the ground up, with reforms that are already winning.

4.17

🗳️ Elections And Voting ✊ Voting Rights 🌱 Grassroots Organizing 💰 Campaign Finance Reform 📊 Ranked Choice Voting

Vote for US

How to fix American elections from the ground up, with reforms that are already winning.

av Joshua A. Douglas 2019 352 sidor

4.17

65 betyg

🗳️ Elections And Voting ✊ Voting Rights 🌱 Grassroots Organizing 💰 Campaign Finance Reform 📊 Ranked Choice Voting

Trans Like Me

av C.N. Lester • 2017

Media distortion and medical myth keep trans lives invisible. A personal unlearning of both.

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🏳️‍⚧️ Trans Rights 📰 Media Criticism ✊ Intersectional Feminism 🌈 Gender Diversity 🩺 Trans Health Care

Trans Like Me

Media distortion and medical myth keep trans lives invisible. A personal unlearning of both.

av C.N. Lester 2017 240 sidor

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1 000+ betyg

🏳️‍⚧️ Trans Rights 📰 Media Criticism ✊ Intersectional Feminism 🌈 Gender Diversity 🩺 Trans Health Care

Harvest the Vote

av Jane Kleeb • 2020

Democrats lost rural America by walking away. A Nebraska organizer shows how to win it back.

3.82

214

🏘️ Rural Politics ✊ Grassroots Organizing 🏢 Corporate Power 🏡 Property Rights 🏥 Healthcare Access

Harvest the Vote

Democrats lost rural America by walking away. A Nebraska organizer shows how to win it back.

av Jane Kleeb 2020 224 sidor

3.82

214 betyg

🏘️ Rural Politics ✊ Grassroots Organizing 🏢 Corporate Power 🏡 Property Rights 🏥 Healthcare Access

Corporation Nation

av Charles Derber • 1998

The biggest threat to American democracy isn't in the White House. It's in the corner office.

3.74

🏢 Corporate Power 💰 Corporate Welfare 🤝 Stakeholder Capitalism 🗳️ Economic Democracy ✊ Labor Movements

Corporation Nation

The biggest threat to American democracy isn't in the White House. It's in the corner office.

av Charles Derber 1998 384 sidor

3.74

65 betyg

🏢 Corporate Power 💰 Corporate Welfare 🤝 Stakeholder Capitalism 🗳️ Economic Democracy ✊ Labor Movements

White Storm

av Martin Gelin • 2025

An unhealed racial wound, centuries old, is finally devouring American democracy from the inside.

4.66

👥 Us Race Relations 🏛️ American Democracy ⛓️ Systemic Racism 📜 Historical Revisionism ⚠️ White Supremacy

White Storm

An unhealed racial wound, centuries old, is finally devouring American democracy from the inside.

av Martin Gelin 2025 400 sidor

4.66

35 betyg

👥 Us Race Relations 🏛️ American Democracy ⛓️ Systemic Racism 📜 Historical Revisionism ⚠️ White Supremacy

Whitewashing Race

av Michael K. Brown • 2003

Race-neutral America is a myth. Policy, not prejudice alone, built a ten-to-one racial wealth gap.

4.14

160

🏛️ Systemic Racism 💰 Racial Wealth Gap 👁️ Color-Blind Ideology 👤 White Privilege 🏢 Institutional Racism

Whitewashing Race

Race-neutral America is a myth. Policy, not prejudice alone, built a ten-to-one racial wealth gap.

av Michael K. Brown 2003 349 sidor

4.14

160 betyg

🏛️ Systemic Racism 💰 Racial Wealth Gap 👁️ Color-Blind Ideology 👤 White Privilege 🏢 Institutional Racism

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