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Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy by Thomas Sowell
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsBasic Economics is a citizen's guide to economics-for those who want to understand how the economy works but have no interest in jargon or equations. Sowell reveals the general principles behind any kind of economy-capitalist, socialist, feudal, and so on. In readable language, he shows how to critique economic policies in terms of the incentives they create, rather than the goals they proclaim...Categorized as:
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![The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward R. Tufte]()
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward R. Tufte
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe classic book on statistical graphics, charts, tables. Theory and practice in the design of data graphics, 250 illustrations of the best (and a few of the worst) statistical graphics, with detailed analysis of how to display data for precise, effective, quick analysis. Design of the high-resolution displays, small multiples. Editing and improving graphics. The data-ink ratio... -
![The Path to Power by Robert A. Caro]()
The Path to Power by Robert A. Caro
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsThis is the story of the rise to national power of a desperately poor young man from the Texas Hill Country. The Path to Power reveals in extraordinary detail the genesis of the almost superhuman drive, energy & ambition that set LBJ apart... -
![What It Takes: The Way to the White House by Richard Ben Cramer]()
What It Takes: The Way to the White House by Richard Ben Cramer
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAn American Iliad in the guise of contemporary political reportage, What It Takes penetrates the mystery at the heart of all presidential campaigns: How do presumably ordinary people acquire that mixture of ambition, stamina, and pure shamelessness that makes a true candidate? As he recounts the frenzied course of the 1988 presidential race -- and scours the psyches of contenders from George... -
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![An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back by Elisabeth Rosenthal]()
An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back by Elisabeth Rosenthal
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA New York Times bestseller/Washington Post Notable Book of 2017/NPR Best Books of 2017/Wall Street Journal Best Books of 2017 "This book will serve as the definitive guide to the past and future of health care in America...Categorized as:
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![The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family by Jesselyn Cook]()
The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family by Jesselyn Cook
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe riveting story of five families shattered by pernicious, pervasive conspiracy theories, and how we might set ourselves free from a crisis that could haunt American life for generations.“SHED MY DNA”: three excruciating words uttered by a QAnon-obsessed mother, once a highly respected lawyer, to her only son, once the closest person in her life...Categorized as:
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![The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World by Max Fisher]()
The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World by Max Fisher
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom a New York Times investigative reporter and Pulitzer Prize finalist, “an essential book for our times” (Ezra Klein), tracking the high-stakes inside story of how Big Tech’s breakneck race to drive engagement—and profits—at all costs fractured the worldWe all have a vague sense that social media is bad for our minds, for our children, and for our democracies...Categorized as:
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![Crippled: Austerity and the Demonization of Disabled People by Frances Ryan]()
Crippled: Austerity and the Demonization of Disabled People by Frances Ryan
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe austerity crisis and threat to disability rights. New updated edition includes the impact of COVID on Britain's 14 million disabled people.In austerity Britain, disabled people have been recast as worthless scroungers...Categorized as:
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![Der tiefe Graben: Die Geschichte der gespaltenen Staaten von Amerika by Ezra Klein]()
Der tiefe Graben: Die Geschichte der gespaltenen Staaten von Amerika by Ezra Klein
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsDiscover how today’s rigidly partisan politics came to be, why we all participate in it, and what it means for America’s future—from star journalist, political commentator, and cofounder of Vox, Ezra Klein. Over the past 50 years, our partisan identities have merged with our racial, religious, geographic, ideological, and cultural identities...Categorized as:
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![Working by Studs Terkel]()
Working by Studs Terkel
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsStuds Terkel records the voices of America. Men and women from every walk of life talk to him, telling him of their likes and dislikes, fears, problems, and happinesses on the job. Once again, Terkel has created a rich and unique document that is as simple as conversation, but as subtle and heartfelt as the meaning of our lives... -
![What Have We Done: The Moral Injury of Our Longest Wars by David Wood]()
What Have We Done: The Moral Injury of Our Longest Wars by David Wood
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Wood, a battlefield view of moral injury, the signature wound of America's 21st century wars. Most Americans are now familiar with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and its prevalence among troops...Categorized as:
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![How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt]()
How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsFor readers of On Tyranny and Why Nations Fail, a bracing look at the demise of liberal democracies around the world--and a roadmap for rescuing our own...Categorized as:
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![The Women’s Atlas by Joni Seager]()
The Women’s Atlas by Joni Seager
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA visually stunning survey of up-to-the-minute global data, the Women’s Atlas redefines what an atlas means.The most comprehensive and accessible global analysis of key issues facing womentoday, the advances that have been made and the distances still to be travelled...Categorized as:
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![Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change by Victor Papanek]()
Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change by Victor Papanek
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsDesign for the Real World has, since its first appearance twenty-five years ago, become a classic. Translated into twenty-three languages, it is one of the world's most widely read books on design... -
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![Storming Heaven: LSD and the American Dream by Jay Stevens]()
Storming Heaven: LSD and the American Dream by Jay Stevens
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsStorming Heaven is a riveting history of LSD and its influence on American culture. Jay Stevens uses the "curious molecule" known as LSD as a kind of tracer bullet, illuminating one of postwar America's most improbable shadow-histories...Categorized as:
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![Education for Critical Consciousness by Paulo Freire]()
Education for Critical Consciousness by Paulo Freire
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratings...Categorized as:
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![America: The Farewell Tour by Chris Hedges]()
America: The Farewell Tour by Chris Hedges
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsChris Hedges’s profound and provocative examination of America in crisis is “an exceedingly…provocative book, certain to arouse controversy, but offering a point of view that needs to be heard” ( Booklist ), about how bitter hopelessness and malaise have resulted in a culture of sadism and hate...Categorized as:
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![Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass by Theodore Dalrymple]()
Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass by Theodore Dalrymple
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsHere is a searing account-probably the best yet published-of life in the underclass and why it persists as it does. Theodore Dalrymple, a British psychiatrist who treats the poor in a slum hospital and a prison in England, has seemingly seen it all... -
![Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine by Thomas Hager, Angelo Di Loreto]()
Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine by Thomas Hager, Angelo Di Loreto
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsBehind every landmark drug is a story. It could be an oddball researcher's genius insight, a catalyzing moment in geopolitical history, a new breakthrough technology, or an unexpected but welcome side effect discovered during clinical trials...Categorized as:
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![Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism by Benedict Anderson]()
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism by Benedict Anderson
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsWhat makes people love and die for nations, as well as hate and kill in their name? While many studies have been written on nationalist political movements, the sense of nationality--the personal and cultural feeling of belonging to a nation--has not received proportionate attention...Categorized as:
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![The Storm Is Here: An American Crucible by Luke Mogelson]()
The Storm Is Here: An American Crucible by Luke Mogelson
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe New Yorker's award-winning war correspondent returns to his own country to chronicle its accelerating civic breakdown, in an indelible eyewitness narrative of startling explanatory powerAfter years of living abroad and covering the Global War on Terrorism, Luke Mogelson went home in early 2020 to report on the social discord that the pandemic was bringing to the fore across the US... -
![Audience of One: Television, Donald Trump, and the Fracturing of America by James Poniewozik]()
Audience of One: Television, Donald Trump, and the Fracturing of America by James Poniewozik
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAn incisive cultural history that captures a fractious nation through the prism of television and the rattled mind of a celebrity president.Television has entertained America, television has ensorcelled America, and with the election of Donald J. Trump, television has conquered America...Categorized as:
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![QAnon and On: A Short and Shocking History of Internet Conspiracy Cults by Van Badham]()
QAnon and On: A Short and Shocking History of Internet Conspiracy Cults by Van Badham
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn QAnon and On, Guardian columnist Van Badham delves headfirst into the QAnon conspiracy theory, unpicking the why, how and who behind this century’s most dangerous and far-fetched internet cult...Categorized as:
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![Autism's False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure by Paul A. Offit]()
Autism's False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure by Paul A. Offit
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA London researcher was the first to assert that the combination measles-mumps-rubella vaccine known as MMR caused autism in children. Following this "discovery," a handful of parents declared that a mercury-containing preservative in several vaccines was responsible for the disease. If mercury caused autism, they reasoned, eliminating it from a child's system should treat the disorder...Categorized as:
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![White Kids: Growing Up with Privilege in a Racially Divided America by Margaret A. Hagerman]()
White Kids: Growing Up with Privilege in a Racially Divided America by Margaret A. Hagerman
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsRiveting stories of how affluent, white children learn about race American kids are living in a world of ongoing public debates about race, daily displays of racial injustice, and for some, an increased awareness surrounding diversity and inclusion. In this heated context, sociologist Margaret A...Categorized as:
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![The Ethics/Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect/Selected Letters by Baruch Spinoza, Seymour Feldman]()
The Ethics/Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect/Selected Letters by Baruch Spinoza, Seymour Feldman
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSince their publications in 1982, Samuel Shirley's translations of Spinoza's Ethics and Selected Letters have been commended for their accuracy and readability. Now with the addition of his new translation of Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect this enlarged edition will be even more useful to students of Spinoza's thought...Categorized as:
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![Flat Earth News: An Award-winning Reporter Exposes Falsehood, Distortion and Propaganda in the Global Media by Nick Davies]()
Flat Earth News: An Award-winning Reporter Exposes Falsehood, Distortion and Propaganda in the Global Media by Nick Davies
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAfter years of working as a respected journalist, Nick Davies broke the unwritten rule of the media by investigating the practices of his fellow colleagues. In this eye-opening exposé, Davies uncovers an industry awash in corruption and bias...Categorized as:
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![Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction by Maia Szalavitz]()
Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction by Maia Szalavitz
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER More people than ever before see themselves as addicted to, or recovering from, addiction, whether it be alcohol or drugs, prescription meds, sex, gambling, porn, or the internet. But despite the unprecedented attention, our understanding of addiction is trapped in unfounded 20th century ideas, addiction as a crime or as brain disease, and in equally outdated treatment...Categorized as:
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![Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality by Anne Fausto-Sterling]()
Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality by Anne Fausto-Sterling
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWhy do some people prefer heterosexual love while others fancy the same sex? Is sexual identity biologically determined or a product of convention? In this brilliant and provocative book, the acclaimed author of Myths of Gender argues that even the most fundamental knowledge about sex is shaped by the culture in which scientific knowledge is produced... -
![The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays by Mikhail Bakhtin, Michael Holquist]()
The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays by Mikhail Bakhtin, Michael Holquist
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThese essays reveal Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975)--known in the West largely through his studies of Rabelais and Dostoevsky--as a philosopher of language, a cultural historian, and a major theoretician of the novel. The Dialogic Imagination presents, in superb English translation, four selections from Voprosy literatury i estetiki (Problems of literature and esthetics), published in Moscow in 1975...Categorized as:
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