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Patriot: A Memoir by Alexei Navalny, Алексей Навальный
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe powerful and moving memoir of a fearless political opposition leader who paid the ultimate price for his beliefs.Alexei Navalny began writing Patriot shortly after his near-fatal poisoning in 2020... -
![Nicht gemeldete Wahrheiten über COVID-19 und Lockdowns: Teil 2: Update und Untersuchung von Lockdowns als Strategie by Alex Berenson]()
Nicht gemeldete Wahrheiten über COVID-19 und Lockdowns: Teil 2: Update und Untersuchung von Lockdowns als Strategie by Alex Berenson
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![Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson]()
Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson
Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsFrom the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate story of the most fascinating and controversial innovator of our era—a rule-breaking visionary who helped to lead the world into the era of electric vehicles, private space exploration, and artificial intelligence. Oh, and took over Twitter... -
![Fix the System, Not the Women by Laura Bates]()
Fix the System, Not the Women by Laura Bates
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratings'Get your daughters to read this, but only after your partners and sons have finished it’ Jo Brand'An astute and persuasive page-turner' Observer'A blistering manifesto for change' Dr Pragya Agarwal_____________________________________________________Too often, we blame women. For walking home alone at night. For not demanding a seat at the table... -
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![Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital by Chris Myers Asch, George Derek Musgrove]()
Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital by Chris Myers Asch, George Derek Musgrove
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMonumental in scope and vividly detailed, Chocolate City tells the tumultuous, four-century story of race and democracy in our nation's capital... -
![The Children by David Halberstam]()
The Children by David Halberstam
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe Children is Halberstam's moving evocation of the early days of the civil rights movement, as seen thru the story of the young people--the Children--who met in the 60s & went on to lead the revolution... -
![Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming by Paul Hawken]()
Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming by Paul Hawken
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn the face of widespread fear and apathy, an international coalition of researchers, professionals, and scientists have come together to offer a set of realistic and bold solutions to climate change. One hundred techniques and practices are described here—some are well known; some you may have never heard of... -
![Building a Movement to End the New Jim Crow: an organizing guide by Daniel Hunter]()
Building a Movement to End the New Jim Crow: an organizing guide by Daniel Hunter
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsExpanding on the call to action in Michelle Alexander's acclaimed best-seller, The New Jim Crow, this accessible organizing guide puts tools in your hands to help you and your group understand how to make meaningful, effective change... -
![Where Children Sleep by James Mollison]()
Where Children Sleep by James Mollison
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 11 ratings“Where Children Sleep” presents English-born photographer James Mollison’s large-format photographs of children’s bedrooms around the world—from the U.S.A., Mexico, Brazil, England, Italy, Israel and the West Bank, Kenya, Senegal, Lesotho, Nepal, China and India—alongside portraits of the children themselves... -
![Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better by Jennifer Pahlka]()
Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better by Jennifer Pahlka
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratings“The book I wish every policymaker would read... -
![Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage by Paulo Freire]()
Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage by Paulo Freire
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis book displays the striking creativity and profound insight that characterized Freire's work to the very end of his life-an uplifting and provocative exploration not only for educators, but also for all that learn and live... -
![How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between by Bent Flyvbjerg, Dan Gardner]()
How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between by Bent Flyvbjerg, Dan Gardner
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe secrets to successfully planning and delivering projects on any scale—from home renovation to space exploration—by the world’s leading expert on megaprojects “This book is important, timely, instructive, and entertaining. What more could you ask for?”—Daniel Kahneman, Nobel Prize–winning author of Thinking, Fast and Slow “Over-budget and over-schedule is an inevitability... -
![Tom Morello at Minetta Lane Theatre: Speaking Truth to Power Through Stories and Song by Tom Morello]()
Tom Morello at Minetta Lane Theatre: Speaking Truth to Power Through Stories and Song by Tom Morello
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratings"Can music change the world? Of course it can, it does every day. Music sure as hell changed me." - Tom MorelloRock god. Justice fighter. Rabble-rouser. Ivy Leaguer. An American renegade and fearless truth teller. Rage Against the Machine’s guitar virtuoso, Tom Morello, is many things, but perhaps he himself sums it up best: a one man revolution... -
![Why I March: Images from the Women's March Around the World by Abrams Books]()
Why I March: Images from the Women's March Around the World by Abrams Books
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAn inspiring photographic account of the worldwide Women's March of 2017--one of the biggest peaceful protests in history.On January 21, 2017, five million people in eighty-two countries and on all seven continents stood up with one voice. The Women's March began with one cause, women's rights, but quickly became a movement around the many issues that were hotly debated during the 2016 U.S... -
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![Faucian Bargain: The Most Powerful and Dangerous Bureaucrat in American History by Steve Deace, Todd Erzen]()
Faucian Bargain: The Most Powerful and Dangerous Bureaucrat in American History by Steve Deace, Todd Erzen
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratings*Running Time => 2hrs. and 56mins... -
![What Can a Body Do?: How We Meet the Built World by Sara Hendren]()
What Can a Body Do?: How We Meet the Built World by Sara Hendren
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsNamed a Best Book of the Year by NPR and LitHubWinner of the 2021 Science in Society Journalism Book PrizeA fascinating and provocative new way of looking at the things we use and the spaces we inhabit, and a call to imagine a better-designed world for us all...Categorized as:
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![Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality by Richard Kluger]()
Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality by Richard Kluger
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSimple Justice is generally regarded as the classic account of the U.S. Supreme Court’s epochal decision outlawing racial segregation and the centerpiece of African-Americans’ ongoing crusade for equal justice under law.The 1954 Supreme Court ruling in the case of Brown v. Board of Education brought centuries of legal segregation in this country to an end... -
![How To Be A Liberal by Ian Dunt]()
How To Be A Liberal by Ian Dunt
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom Brexit Britain to Donald Trump's America, nationalists are launching an all-out assault on liberal values. In this groundbreaking new book, Ian Dunt tells the story of liberalism, from its birth in the fight against absolute monarchy to the modern-day resistance against the new populism... -
![Inventing Bitcoin: The Technology Behind The First Truly Scarce and Decentralized Money Explained by Yan Pritzker]()
Inventing Bitcoin: The Technology Behind The First Truly Scarce and Decentralized Money Explained by Yan Pritzker
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBitcoin may well be the greatest invention of our time, and most people have no idea what it is, or how it works. Walking through its invention step by step, this short two hour read is critical before you invest.No technical expertise required! Read it, then share it with your loved ones.“It was much quicker and easier to understand than I expected [.. -
![Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement by Ashley Shew]()
Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement by Ashley Shew
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA manifesto exploding what we think we know about disability, and arguing that disabled people are the real experts when it comes to technology and disability.When bioethicist and professor Ashley Shew became a self-described “hard-of-hearing chemobrained amputee with Crohn’s disease and tinnitus,” there was no returning to “normal...Categorized as:
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![The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World by Antony Loewenstein]()
The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World by Antony Loewenstein
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHow Israel makes a killing from the occupation of PalestineIsrael’s military industrial complex uses the occupied, Palestinian territories as a testing ground for weaponry and surveillance technology that they then export around the world to despots and democracies...Categorized as:
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![Flowers of Fire: The Inside Story of South Korea's Feminist Movement and What It Means for Women's Rights Worldwide by Hawon Jung]()
Flowers of Fire: The Inside Story of South Korea's Feminist Movement and What It Means for Women's Rights Worldwide by Hawon Jung
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAn eye-opening firsthand account of the ongoing and trailblazing feminist movement in South Korea—one that the world should be watching... -
![I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle, With a New Preface by Charles M. Payne]()
I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle, With a New Preface by Charles M. Payne
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThis momentous work offers a groundbreaking history of the early civil rights movement in the South with new material that situates the book in the context of subsequent movement literature... -
![The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good? by Michael J. Sandel]()
The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good? by Michael J. Sandel
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThese are dangerous times for democracy. We live in an age of winners and losers, where the odds are stacked in favour of the already fortunate. Stalled social mobility and entrenched inequality give the lie to the promise that "you can make it if you try"... -
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![Vaccinated: One Man's Quest to Defeat the World's Deadliest Diseases by Paul A. Offit]()
Vaccinated: One Man's Quest to Defeat the World's Deadliest Diseases by Paul A. Offit
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsMaurice Hilleman's mother died a day after he was born and his twin sister stillborn. As an adult, he said that he felt he had escaped an appointment with death. He made it his life's work to see that others could do the same... -
![Capital and Ideology by Thomas Piketty]()
Capital and Ideology by Thomas Piketty
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe epic successor to one of the most important books of the century: at once a retelling of global history, a scathing critique of contemporary politics, and a bold proposal for a new and fairer economic system.Thomas Piketty's bestselling Capital in the Twenty-First Century galvanized global debate about inequality... -
![The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America by Greg Grandin]()
The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America by Greg Grandin
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom a Pulitzer Prize winner, a new and eye-opening interpretation of the meaning of the frontier, from early westward expansion to Trump's border wall.Ever since this nation's inception, the idea of an open and ever-expanding frontier has been central to American identity... -
![Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy by Adam Jentleson]()
Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy by Adam Jentleson
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsEvery major decision governing our diverse, majority-female, and increasingly liberal country bears the stamp of the United States Senate, an institution controlled by people who are almost exclusively white, overwhelmingly male, and disproportionately conservative... -
![Down with the System: A Memoir by Serj Tankian]()
Down with the System: A Memoir by Serj Tankian
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAn exhilarating, thoughtful, and beautifully written debut memoir by musician, songwriter, and lead singer-lyricist of Grammy award-winning metal band, System of a Down, Serj Tankian Serj Tankian will be the first to admit that his band, System of a Down, was “unlikely a chart-topper as had ever existed in modern music a band of Armenian-Americans playing a practically unclassifiable clash of... -
![Everybody loves a good drought by Palagummi Sainath]()
Everybody loves a good drought by Palagummi Sainath
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe human face of poverty The poor in India are, too often, reduced to statistics. In the dry language of development reports and economic projections, the true misery of the 312 million who live below the poverty line, or the 26 million displaced by various projects, or the 13 million who suffer from tuberculosis gets overlooked...
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