The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt
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Category: Social Thought
Jonathan Haidt has spent his career speaking truth and wisdom in some of the most difficult spaces – communities polarized by politics and religion, campuses battling culture wars, and now the mental health emergency hitting teenagers today in many countries around the world. In The Anxious Generation, ...Show more
Why We Die: The New Science of Ageing and the Quest for Immortality by Venki Ramakrishnan
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Category: Social Thought
The knowledge of death is so terrifying that we live most of our lives in denial of it. Our fear of death has underpinned our religions, inspired our cultures, and also driven our science. Today we are living through a revolution in biology. Giant strides are being made in our understanding of why we a ...Show more
Peripathetic: Notes on (un)belonging by Cher Tan
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Category: Social Thought
There was something so captivating about always being on the edge, on that shaky precipice of promise — something new and something cool was just lurking around the corner and we’d arrive at it if we kick around long enough. Peripathetic is about shit jobs. About being who you are and who you aren’t o ...Show more
Dear Ijeawele, Or A Feminist Manifesto In Fifteen Suggestion by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Category: Social Thought
A powerful statement about feminism today from "one of the world's great contemporary writers" (Barack Obama), the author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists.A few years ago, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie received a letter from a childhood friend, a new mother who wanted to know how to raise her bab ...Show more
Vulture Capitalism: Corproate crimes, backdoor bailouts, and the death of freedom by Grace Blakeley
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Category: Social Thought
All over the world, democracy is in crisis. Liberal political systems are straining under the pressure imposed by authoritarian strong men undermining institutions, the rule of law and the international system that governs relations between countries. Obvious examples include Donald Trump and Boris John ...Show more
We Can Do Better: A Departure into the World of Tomorrow by Maja Gopel
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Category: Social Thought
After her previous book, Rethinking Our World, eloquently untangled the complex world we live in, Maja G pel delivers the encouragement and the tools we need to go into action and build the world we want to live in. Humanity is undergoing a massive process of transformation, and the way we live will cha ...Show more
Not Now, Not Ever: Ten Years On From the Misogyny Speech by Julia Gillard
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Category: Social Thought
This is a barn-burning piece of Australian feminist history in the making.MATILDA, BETTER READ THAN DEADThen it was done. After staying silent, I'd had my say. At no time did I feel worked up or hotly angry. I felt strong, measured, controlled. Yet emotion did play its role in the energy of the speech. ...Show more
Just Friends: On the joy, influence and power of friendship by Gyan Yankovich
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Category: Social Thought
Voice memos, care packages, hours-long phone conversations, treasured traditions that go back decades, glasses held aloft during wedding toasts, hands held at funerals, first cuddles with newborns, work lunches with work wives, taking it to the group chat - our friendships touch and enrich every part of ...Show more
All About Love by Bell Hooks
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Category: Social Thought | Series: Love Song to the Nation
THE ACCLAIMED FIRST VOLUME IN HER "LOVE SONG TO THE NATION" "The word 'love' is most often defined as a noun, yet . . . we would all love better if we used it as a verb," writes bell hooks as she comes out fighting and on fire in All About Love. Here, at her most provocative and intensely personal, the ...Show more
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
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Category: Social Thought | Series: Picador Classic
With an introduction by Will Self A classic work of psychology, this international bestseller provides a groundbreaking insight into the human mind. If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self - himself - he cannot know it, because he is no longer t ...Show more
Awakenings by Oliver Sacks
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Category: Social Thought | Series: Picador Collection
'The story of a disease that plunged its victims into a prison of viscous time, and the drug that catapulted them out of it' - GuardianHailed as a medical classic, and the subject of a major feature film as well as radio and stage plays and various TV documentaries, Awakenings by Oliver Sacks is the ext ...Show more
Seeing Others: How to Redefine Worth in a Divided World by Michèle Lamont
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Category: Social Thought
From internationally renowned sociologist Michèle Lamont, a game-changing argument about what we value and why How do we measure our self-worth? For many of us, it signifies accomplishment, self-reliance, and wealth. Decades of neoliberalism have driven our definition of success. Yet, as we have amasse ...Show more