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

Better Than Carrots or Sticks

av Dominique Smith • 2015

Punishment doesn't teach. Repair does. A classroom discipline framework that works at every level.

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2 000+

🕊️ Restorative Justice 🏫 Classroom Management 🤝 Positive Discipline 🌱 School Culture 🧠 Social Emotional Learning

Better Than Carrots or Sticks

Punishment doesn't teach. Repair does. A classroom discipline framework that works at every level.

av Dominique Smith 2015 208 sidor

3.92

2 000+ betyg

🕊️ Restorative Justice 🏫 Classroom Management 🤝 Positive Discipline 🌱 School Culture 🧠 Social Emotional Learning

The Matthew Effect

av Daniel Rigney • 2010

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

3.65

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

The Matthew Effect

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

av Daniel Rigney 2010 176 sidor

3.65

46 betyg

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

Blueprint for Revolution

av Srdja Popovic • 2015

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

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2 000+

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

Blueprint for Revolution

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

av Srdja Popovic 2015 304 sidor

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2 000+ betyg

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

Poverty, by America

av Matthew Desmond • 2023

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

4.27

63 000+

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

Poverty, by America

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

av Matthew Desmond 2023 284 sidor

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63 000+ betyg

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

Devil on the Cross

av Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o • 1980

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

3.93

2 000+

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

Devil on the Cross

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

av Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o 1980 256 sidor

3.93

2 000+ betyg

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

Hood Feminism

av Mikki Kendall • 2020

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

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64 000+

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

Hood Feminism

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

av Mikki Kendall 2020 267 sidor

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64 000+ betyg

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

Blindspot

av Mahzarin R. Banaji • 2013

A reaction-time test can reveal biases your conscious mind rejects, and strategies to close the gap.

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6 000+

🧠 Cognitive Bias 🎭 Implicit Bias 👥 Social Psychology 📊 Behavioral Science ✊ Anti-Racism

Blindspot

A reaction-time test can reveal biases your conscious mind rejects, and strategies to close the gap.

av Mahzarin R. Banaji 2013 254 sidor

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6 000+ betyg

🧠 Cognitive Bias 🎭 Implicit Bias 👥 Social Psychology 📊 Behavioral Science ✊ Anti-Racism

Obedience to Authority

av Stanley Milgram • 1974

Two-thirds of people will shock a stranger to death if a lab coat tells them to.

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👥 Social Psychology ⚡ Destructive Obedience 🧲 Situational Forces 🧩 Cognitive Dissonance ⚖️ Moral Psychology

Obedience to Authority

Two-thirds of people will shock a stranger to death if a lab coat tells them to.

av Stanley Milgram 1974 256 sidor

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👥 Social Psychology ⚡ Destructive Obedience 🧲 Situational Forces 🧩 Cognitive Dissonance ⚖️ Moral Psychology

The Beauty Myth

av Naomi Wolf • 1990

Beauty standards are a weapon of social control, and they intensify every time women advance.

3.91

31 000+

🏛️ Body Politics 🍽️ Diet Culture 🌊 Third Wave Feminism 👁️ Female Objectification 📺 Media Representation

The Beauty Myth

Beauty standards are a weapon of social control, and they intensify every time women advance.

av Naomi Wolf 1990 368 sidor

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31 000+ betyg

🏛️ Body Politics 🍽️ Diet Culture 🌊 Third Wave Feminism 👁️ Female Objectification 📺 Media Representation

Teaching to Transgress

av bell hooks • 1994

Teaching as resistance: bell hooks demands a classroom that confronts power, not just transmits it.

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13 000+

📚 Critical Pedagogy ✊🏿 Anti-Racist Education 🚺 Feminist Pedagogy 🌍 Multicultural Education 🌱 Holistic Education

Teaching to Transgress

Teaching as resistance: bell hooks demands a classroom that confronts power, not just transmits it.

av bell hooks 1994 216 sidor

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📚 Critical Pedagogy ✊🏿 Anti-Racist Education 🚺 Feminist Pedagogy 🌍 Multicultural Education 🌱 Holistic Education

Women, Race, & Class

av Angela Y. Davis • 1981

From abolition to abortion, the women's movement has a race problem it has never solved.

4.59

35 000+

🖤 Black Feminism 🧩 Intersectionality 🏥 Reproductive Justice 🏠 Domestic Labor 🌱 Abolitionist Roots

Women, Race, & Class

From abolition to abortion, the women's movement has a race problem it has never solved.

av Angela Y. Davis 1981 288 sidor

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🖤 Black Feminism 🧩 Intersectionality 🏥 Reproductive Justice 🏠 Domestic Labor 🌱 Abolitionist Roots

The Shock Doctrine

av Naomi Klein • 2007

Chile 1973, Iraq 2003, New Orleans 2005: each crisis was followed by the same economic playbook.

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🏛️ Political Economy 🏢 Corporate Power 🏗️ Privatization 🌪️ Disaster Politics 💣 War Profiteering

The Shock Doctrine

Chile 1973, Iraq 2003, New Orleans 2005: each crisis was followed by the same economic playbook.

av Naomi Klein 2007 672 sidor

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🏛️ Political Economy 🏢 Corporate Power 🏗️ Privatization 🌪️ Disaster Politics 💣 War Profiteering

Punching the Air

av Ibi Zoboi • 2020

Convicted after a fight, a Black teen artist paints the truth the courtroom would not hear.

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🎨 Art As Survival ⚖️ Wrongful Conviction 🔒 Juvenile Detention ✊🏾 Racial Injustice 🖋️ Novel In Verse

Punching the Air

Convicted after a fight, a Black teen artist paints the truth the courtroom would not hear.

av Ibi Zoboi 2020 400 sidor

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🎨 Art As Survival ⚖️ Wrongful Conviction 🔒 Juvenile Detention ✊🏾 Racial Injustice 🖋️ Novel In Verse

Meeting the Shadow

av Connie Zweig • 1991

You cut off half of who you are in childhood. Becoming whole means taking it back.

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2 000+

🧠 Jungian Psychology 🌑 Shadow Work 🔒 Emotional Repression 🎭 Self-Deception 🌐 Collective Unconscious

Meeting the Shadow

You cut off half of who you are in childhood. Becoming whole means taking it back.

av Connie Zweig 1991 357 sidor

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🧠 Jungian Psychology 🌑 Shadow Work 🔒 Emotional Repression 🎭 Self-Deception 🌐 Collective Unconscious

All Boys Aren't Blue

av George M. Johnson • 2020

Inside his grandmother's home, safety. Outside: a world unprepared for a Black queer boy.

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🏳️‍🌈 Black Queer Experience 🌱 Coming-Of-Age Memoir 💪 Redefining Masculinity 🔍 Sexual Self-Discovery 🏠 Family Foundations

All Boys Aren't Blue

Inside his grandmother's home, safety. Outside: a world unprepared for a Black queer boy.

av George M. Johnson 2020 304 sidor

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🏳️‍🌈 Black Queer Experience 🌱 Coming-Of-Age Memoir 💪 Redefining Masculinity 🔍 Sexual Self-Discovery 🏠 Family Foundations

Samhällets olycksbarn

av Victor Hugo • 1987

An escaped convict builds a virtuous life while a relentless inspector hunts him down.

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800 000+

🏛️ Historical Epic 📖 Social Novel 🕊️ Redemption Arc 🔗 Ex-Convict Protagonist 🏴 Revolutionary Paris

Immersiv

Samhällets olycksbarn

An escaped convict builds a virtuous life while a relentless inspector hunts him down.

av Victor Hugo 1987 1488 sidor

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🏛️ Historical Epic 📖 Social Novel 🕊️ Redemption Arc 🔗 Ex-Convict Protagonist 🏴 Revolutionary Paris

Dark Alliance

av Gary Webb • 1998

The CIA's Contra army needed money. The cocaine they smuggled to get it fueled LA's crack epidemic.

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2 000+

🕵️ Investigative Journalism 💥 Crack Epidemic 🕶️ Covert Operations 💊 Drug War Origins 🌎 Cold War Interventions

Dark Alliance

The CIA's Contra army needed money. The cocaine they smuggled to get it fueled LA's crack epidemic.

av Gary Webb 1998 601 sidor

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🕵️ Investigative Journalism 💥 Crack Epidemic 🕶️ Covert Operations 💊 Drug War Origins 🌎 Cold War Interventions

Far From The Tree

av Andrew Solomon • 2012

Your child is deaf, a prodigy, or a criminal. None of it came from you.

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🧬 Nature Vs Nurture 🧠 Neurodiversity ♿ Social Model Of Disability 🖋️ Narrative Journalism 👪 Special Needs Parenting

Far From The Tree

Your child is deaf, a prodigy, or a criminal. None of it came from you.

av Andrew Solomon 2012 976 sidor

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22 000+ betyg

🧬 Nature Vs Nurture 🧠 Neurodiversity ♿ Social Model Of Disability 🖋️ Narrative Journalism 👪 Special Needs Parenting

Doughnut Economics

av Kate Raworth • 2017

GDP growth cooks the planet. A two-boundary goal replaces it; the space inside remakes economics.

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15 000+

🌍 Ecological Economics 📉 Post-Growth Economics 🌎 Planetary Boundaries 🔄 Systems Thinking 🧠 Behavioral Economics

Doughnut Economics

GDP growth cooks the planet. A two-boundary goal replaces it; the space inside remakes economics.

av Kate Raworth 2017 320 sidor

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🌍 Ecological Economics 📉 Post-Growth Economics 🌎 Planetary Boundaries 🔄 Systems Thinking 🧠 Behavioral Economics

Anarchy, State, and Utopia

av Robert Nozick • 1974

What if taxation is forced labor, and the only just state barely governs?

3.74

6 000+

🏛️ Political Philosophy 📜 Classical Liberalism 🗽 Libertarian Thought ⚖️ Distributive Justice 🛡️ Individual Rights

Anarchy, State, and Utopia

What if taxation is forced labor, and the only just state barely governs?

av Robert Nozick 1974 367 sidor

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6 000+ betyg

🏛️ Political Philosophy 📜 Classical Liberalism 🗽 Libertarian Thought ⚖️ Distributive Justice 🛡️ Individual Rights

I'm Just Saying

av Milan Kordestani • 2023

The skill of civil discourse: self-awareness, listening, and the mental focus to stay in the room.

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📣 Civil Discourse 🗣️ Conversation Skills 🤝 Conflict Resolution 🏛️ Political Polarization 👂 Active Listening

I'm Just Saying

The skill of civil discourse: self-awareness, listening, and the mental focus to stay in the room.

av Milan Kordestani 2023 268 sidor

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📣 Civil Discourse 🗣️ Conversation Skills 🤝 Conflict Resolution 🏛️ Political Polarization 👂 Active Listening

Fierce Self-Compassion

av Kristin Neff • 2021

Self-compassion has a fierce side. It sets boundaries, channels anger, and demands what you deserve

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3 000+

🤗 Self-Compassion 💪 Women's Empowerment ✊ Social Justice Feminism 🔥 Anger As Fuel 🚧 Boundary Setting

Fierce Self-Compassion

Self-compassion has a fierce side. It sets boundaries, channels anger, and demands what you deserve

av Kristin Neff 2021 384 sidor

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3 000+ betyg

🤗 Self-Compassion 💪 Women's Empowerment ✊ Social Justice Feminism 🔥 Anger As Fuel 🚧 Boundary Setting

The Reason You Walk

av Wab Kinew • 2015

His father endured residential school. His final lesson: how to forgive, and how to die.

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4 000+

🧡 Indigenous Memoir 🏚️ Residential Schools 🪶 Anishinaabe Culture 🤝 Reconciliation ✊ Indigenous Activism

The Reason You Walk

His father endured residential school. His final lesson: how to forgive, and how to die.

av Wab Kinew 2015 273 sidor

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🧡 Indigenous Memoir 🏚️ Residential Schools 🪶 Anishinaabe Culture 🤝 Reconciliation ✊ Indigenous Activism

Last Chance in Texas

av John Hubner • 2005

At a Texas juvenile prison, violent offenders reenact their crimes. Only one in ten reoffends.

4.29

500+

⚖️ Juvenile Justice 🔄 Offender Rehabilitation 🫂 Restorative Justice 📚 Correctional Education 🧠 Trauma-Informed Care

Last Chance in Texas

At a Texas juvenile prison, violent offenders reenact their crimes. Only one in ten reoffends.

av John Hubner 2005 304 sidor

4.29

500+ betyg

⚖️ Juvenile Justice 🔄 Offender Rehabilitation 🫂 Restorative Justice 📚 Correctional Education 🧠 Trauma-Informed Care

How to Be an Antiracist

av Ibram X. Kendi • 2019

Racist policies produce racist ideas, not ignorance. The only real options are complicity or action.

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🏗️ Structural Racism 📖 Modern Antiracism 📚 Critical Race Theory 🔀 Intersectionality ⚖️ Systemic Inequity

How to Be an Antiracist

Racist policies produce racist ideas, not ignorance. The only real options are complicity or action.

av Ibram X. Kendi 2019 305 sidor

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🏗️ Structural Racism 📖 Modern Antiracism 📚 Critical Race Theory 🔀 Intersectionality ⚖️ Systemic Inequity

The Long Loneliness

av Dorothy Day • 1952

From bohemian journalist to Catholic radical: she fed the hungry while the church debated doctrine.

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✝️ Radical Catholicism ✊ Faith And Activism 🏘️ Intentional Community 🥖 Voluntary Poverty 🧑 Personalism

The Long Loneliness

From bohemian journalist to Catholic radical: she fed the hungry while the church debated doctrine.

av Dorothy Day 1952 288 sidor

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5 000+ betyg

✝️ Radical Catholicism ✊ Faith And Activism 🏘️ Intentional Community 🥖 Voluntary Poverty 🧑 Personalism

Lost Connections

av Johann Hari • 2018

What if depression signals disconnection, not disease: we've lost community, meaning, nature.

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🌐 Social Determinants Of Health 🤝 Social Connection 🩹 Trauma-Informed Care 🧒 Adverse Childhood Experiences 🌳 Eco-Therapy

Lost Connections

What if depression signals disconnection, not disease: we've lost community, meaning, nature.

av Johann Hari 2018 416 sidor

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🌐 Social Determinants Of Health 🤝 Social Connection 🩹 Trauma-Informed Care 🧒 Adverse Childhood Experiences 🌳 Eco-Therapy

Counseling the Culturally Diverse

av Derald Wing Sue • 1981

Why standard therapy fails diverse clients, and the clinical skills that keep them in the room.

3.80

1 000+

🧑‍🏫 Multicultural Counseling 🌍 Cross-Cultural Therapy ✊ Social Justice Advocacy 🛡️ Anti-Racist Therapy 🧠 Multicultural Psychology

Counseling the Culturally Diverse

Why standard therapy fails diverse clients, and the clinical skills that keep them in the room.

av Derald Wing Sue 1981 648 sidor

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1 000+ betyg

🧑‍🏫 Multicultural Counseling 🌍 Cross-Cultural Therapy ✊ Social Justice Advocacy 🛡️ Anti-Racist Therapy 🧠 Multicultural Psychology

The Spook Who Sat by the Door

av Sam Greenlee • 1969

A black CIA recruit secretly trains a Chicago street gang to fight a guerrilla war.

4.34

3 000+

🔥 Guerrilla Resistance 🎭 Double Life 💔 Friends To Enemies ✊🏿 Black Liberation 📜 Civil Rights Era

The Spook Who Sat by the Door

A black CIA recruit secretly trains a Chicago street gang to fight a guerrilla war.

av Sam Greenlee 1969 256 sidor

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🔥 Guerrilla Resistance 🎭 Double Life 💔 Friends To Enemies ✊🏿 Black Liberation 📜 Civil Rights Era

Animal Liberation

av Peter Singer • 1975

Sentience, not species, determines who matters morally. The book that changed how we treat animals.

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11 000+

🐾 Animal Ethics 🏭 Factory Farming ✊ Animal Rights ⚖️ Utilitarianism 💔 Animal Suffering

Animal Liberation

Sentience, not species, determines who matters morally. The book that changed how we treat animals.

av Peter Singer 1975 354 sidor

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🐾 Animal Ethics 🏭 Factory Farming ✊ Animal Rights ⚖️ Utilitarianism 💔 Animal Suffering

Hegemony and Socialist Strategy

av Ernesto Laclau • 1985

Consensus is a mirage. Conflict is ineradicable; any left project that forgets this fails.

3.82

1 000+

🏛️ Political Theory 📚 Post-Marxism 🗳️ Radical Democracy ⚖️ Hegemony Studies ⚔️ Agonistic Pluralism

Hegemony and Socialist Strategy

Consensus is a mirage. Conflict is ineradicable; any left project that forgets this fails.

av Ernesto Laclau 1985 198 sidor

3.82

1 000+ betyg

🏛️ Political Theory 📚 Post-Marxism 🗳️ Radical Democracy ⚖️ Hegemony Studies ⚔️ Agonistic Pluralism

Girls & Sex

av Peggy Orenstein • 2016

Girls learn to perform sex before they want it. Orenstein asked 70 of them why.

4.07

11 000+

👯 Sexual Double Standards 🎓 Hookup Culture 🪞 Body Image ✋ Consent Culture ⛪ Purity Culture

Girls & Sex

Girls learn to perform sex before they want it. Orenstein asked 70 of them why.

av Peggy Orenstein 2016 303 sidor

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👯 Sexual Double Standards 🎓 Hookup Culture 🪞 Body Image ✋ Consent Culture ⛪ Purity Culture

The Big Nine

av Amy Webb • 2019

Nine companies control AI's future. Their blind spots are becoming everyone's problem.

3.75

2 000+

🏢 Big Tech ⚖️ Ai Ethics 📊 Algorithmic Bias 🛡️ Ai Safety 🏛️ Ai Governance

The Big Nine

Nine companies control AI's future. Their blind spots are becoming everyone's problem.

av Amy Webb 2019 336 sidor

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2 000+ betyg

🏢 Big Tech ⚖️ Ai Ethics 📊 Algorithmic Bias 🛡️ Ai Safety 🏛️ Ai Governance

Grading for Equity

av Joe Feldman • 2018

Traditional grades sort kids for factories. Here's how to measure learning, not compliance.

4.19

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📊 Grading Reform ⚖️ Education Equity 📐 Standards-Based Grading 🧠 Implicit Bias 🌱 Growth Mindset

Grading for Equity

Traditional grades sort kids for factories. Here's how to measure learning, not compliance.

av Joe Feldman 2018 296 sidor

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📊 Grading Reform ⚖️ Education Equity 📐 Standards-Based Grading 🧠 Implicit Bias 🌱 Growth Mindset

Twitter and Tear Gas

av Zeynep Tufekci • 2017

Twitter can fill a square overnight. Why that speed so often leads to a movement's collapse.

4.08

1 000+

🧑‍💻 Digital Activism 📢 Attention Economics 🛡️ Information Warfare 🚪 Media Gatekeeping 🤝 Collective Action

Twitter and Tear Gas

Twitter can fill a square overnight. Why that speed so often leads to a movement's collapse.

av Zeynep Tufekci 2017 326 sidor

4.08

1 000+ betyg

🧑‍💻 Digital Activism 📢 Attention Economics 🛡️ Information Warfare 🚪 Media Gatekeeping 🤝 Collective Action

The Struggle for Recognition

av Axel Honneth • 1996

Social conflicts are fights for dignity, not just resources, driven by withheld recognition.

4.14

299

📚 Social Philosophy 🧩 Identity Formation ⚔️ Social Conflict 🧠 Moral Psychology 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Self And Society

The Struggle for Recognition

Social conflicts are fights for dignity, not just resources, driven by withheld recognition.

av Axel Honneth 1996 240 sidor

4.14

299 betyg

📚 Social Philosophy 🧩 Identity Formation ⚔️ Social Conflict 🧠 Moral Psychology 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Self And Society

No Logo

av Naomi Klein • 2000

Products became logos, logos became lifestyles, and public life became a mall.

3.89

32 000+

🌐 Corporate Globalization 🛒 Consumer Culture 🏭 Labor Exploitation ✊ Anti-Globalization 🔗 Global Supply Chains

No Logo

Products became logos, logos became lifestyles, and public life became a mall.

av Naomi Klein 2000 544 sidor

3.89

32 000+ betyg

🌐 Corporate Globalization 🛒 Consumer Culture 🏭 Labor Exploitation ✊ Anti-Globalization 🔗 Global Supply Chains

From Poor Law to Welfare State

av Walter I. Trattner • 1974

How America turned helping the poor from an act of justice into a judgment on character.

3.69

318

🏛️ Social Welfare History 🇺🇸 American Social Policy ⚖️ Poverty And Morality 🏥 Institutional Care ⛪ Religious Charity

From Poor Law to Welfare State

How America turned helping the poor from an act of justice into a judgment on character.

av Walter I. Trattner 1974 464 sidor

3.69

318 betyg

🏛️ Social Welfare History 🇺🇸 American Social Policy ⚖️ Poverty And Morality 🏥 Institutional Care ⛪ Religious Charity

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

av Maya Angelou • 1969

After an assault at eight, she went mute for five years. Then books taught her to speak.

4.30

500 000+

📖 Literary Memoir 🌱 Coming Of Age Memoir 🏚️ Jim Crow South 💔 Childhood Sexual Abuse 🎤 Finding Your Voice

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

After an assault at eight, she went mute for five years. Then books taught her to speak.

av Maya Angelou 1969 289 sidor

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📖 Literary Memoir 🌱 Coming Of Age Memoir 🏚️ Jim Crow South 💔 Childhood Sexual Abuse 🎤 Finding Your Voice

En ekonomisk torped

av John Perkins • 2005

A former insider reveals how the US uses debt to control poor nations and extract trillions.

3.87

39 000+

🌍 International Development 🌐 Geopolitics 💰 Debt Imperialism 🕵️ Whistleblower Memoir 🏢 Corporate Power

En ekonomisk torped

A former insider reveals how the US uses debt to control poor nations and extract trillions.

av John Perkins 2005 384 sidor

3.87

39 000+ betyg

🌍 International Development 🌐 Geopolitics 💰 Debt Imperialism 🕵️ Whistleblower Memoir 🏢 Corporate Power

Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

av Christopher Sergel • 1995

In 1930s Alabama, Scout's father defends a Black man, forcing her to see her town's hidden face.

4.51

24 000+

🏘️ Small Town South ⚖️ Courtroom Drama 👧 Child Narrator 🕊️ Unjustly Accused 🌱 Coming Of Age Classic

Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

In 1930s Alabama, Scout's father defends a Black man, forcing her to see her town's hidden face.

av Christopher Sergel 1995 128 sidor

4.51

24 000+ betyg

🏘️ Small Town South ⚖️ Courtroom Drama 👧 Child Narrator 🕊️ Unjustly Accused 🌱 Coming Of Age Classic

Patriot

av Alexei Navalny • 2024

Poisoned by the state, arrested on return, dead at 47. His prison cell testament.

4.51

16 000+

🇷🇺 Russian Politics ⛓️ Authoritarian Regimes 💰 Anti-Corruption ✊ Dissident Memoirs 🔒 Political Prisoners

Patriot

Poisoned by the state, arrested on return, dead at 47. His prison cell testament.

av Alexei Navalny 2024 496 sidor

4.51

16 000+ betyg

🇷🇺 Russian Politics ⛓️ Authoritarian Regimes 💰 Anti-Corruption ✊ Dissident Memoirs 🔒 Political Prisoners

A Gift of Hope

av Danielle Steel • 2012

She gave teddy bears to homeless men. The toughest cried, and her grief began to heal.

3.98

2 000+

🏠 Homelessness 🚐 Street Outreach 🧸 Dignity Restoration 🎒 Direct Aid 🏚️ Housing Insecurity

A Gift of Hope

She gave teddy bears to homeless men. The toughest cried, and her grief began to heal.

av Danielle Steel 2012 144 sidor

3.98

2 000+ betyg

🏠 Homelessness 🚐 Street Outreach 🧸 Dignity Restoration 🎒 Direct Aid 🏚️ Housing Insecurity

The Cancer Journals

av Audre Lorde • 1980

A Black lesbian poet, after mastectomy, rejects the prosthesis and discovers what silence costs.

4.43

5 000+

🩺 Cancer Memoir ✊🏾 Intersectional Feminism 🖤 Black Feminism 💪 Bodily Autonomy 🏥 Feminist Health

The Cancer Journals

A Black lesbian poet, after mastectomy, rejects the prosthesis and discovers what silence costs.

av Audre Lorde 1980 104 sidor

4.43

5 000+ betyg

🩺 Cancer Memoir ✊🏾 Intersectional Feminism 🖤 Black Feminism 💪 Bodily Autonomy 🏥 Feminist Health

Native Son

av Richard Wright • 1940

A Black chauffeur in segregated Chicago accidentally kills a white heiress and tries to hide it.

4.04

100 000+

🏙️ Urban Poverty 🏛️ Segregation Era 🔥 Accidental Killing 🏃 Fugitive On The Run ⚖️ Courtroom Drama

Native Son

A Black chauffeur in segregated Chicago accidentally kills a white heiress and tries to hide it.

av Richard Wright 1940 504 sidor

4.04

100 000+ betyg

🏙️ Urban Poverty 🏛️ Segregation Era 🔥 Accidental Killing 🏃 Fugitive On The Run ⚖️ Courtroom Drama

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