Ego is the Enemy: The Fight to Master Our Greatest Opponent by Ryan Holiday
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Category: Social Thought
It's wrecked the careers of promising young geniuses. It's evaporated great fortunes and run companies into the ground. It's made adversity unbearable and turned struggle into shame. Every great philosopher has warned against it, in our most lasting stories and countless works of art, in all culture and ...Show more
Lost at Sea by Jon Ronson
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Category: Social Thought
Updated edition. Now includes the complete text of Frank: The True Story that Inspired the Movie. Jon Ronson has been on patrol with America's real-life superheroes and to a UFO convention in the Nevada desert with Robbie Williams. He's met a man who tried to split the atom in his kitchen and asked a co ...Show more
The Kingdom of Speech by Tom Wolfe
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Category: Social Thought
"A great journalist with a whip-like satirical prose style...Wolfe's great gift is to make the heavy seem light and this book is such an entertaining polemic that I read it in a day and immediately wanted to read it again." (Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times). Tom Wolfe, whose legend began in journalism, ta ...Show more
Orientalism by Edward W. Said
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Category: Social Thought | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
ORIENTALISM is one of the greatest and most influential of books of ideas to be published since the end of the European empires. For generations now it has defined our understanding of colonialism and empire and with each passing year its influence becomes if anything even greater. Edward Said, the not ...Show more
Crossing the Unknown Sea by David Whyte
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Category: Social Thought
Crossing the Unknown Sea shows how poetry and practicality, far from being mutually exclusive, reinforce each other to give every aspect of our lives meaning and direction. For anyone who wants to deepen their connection to their work-or find out what their life's work is-this book is essential to navig ...Show more
Food of the Gods by Terence McKenna
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Category: Social Thought
"A journey is some of the Earth's most endangered people in the remote Upper Amazon. . . . a look at the rituals of the Bwiti cults of Gabon and Zaire. . . . . a field watch on the easting habits of 'stoned' apes and chimpanzees - these adventures are all a part of ethnobotanis t Terence McKenna's extra ...Show more
There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness by Carlo Rovelli
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Category: Social Thought
One of the most inspiring and counter-intuitive thinkers of our age, the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, transforms the way we think about the world with his reflections on science, history and humanity. In this collection of writings, the logbook of an intelligence always on the m ...Show more
Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-Reader by Vivian Gornick
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Category: Social Thought
I sometimes think I was born reading ... I can't remember the time when I didn't have a book in my hands, my head lost to the world around me. A celebration of the delights of rereading from the acclaimed author of The Odd Woman and the City In nine essays that meld criticism and memoir, Gornick retur ...Show more
A Theory of Everyone: Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We're Going by Michael Muthukrishna
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Category: Social Thought
A blueprint for a better future.Playing on the phrase "a theory of everything" in physics, Michael Muthukrishna's ambitious, original and deeply hopeful book, offers a unified theory of human behavior, culture, and society - a theory of everyone.In A Theory of Everyone, Muthukrishna draws on the most re ...Show more
On Pandemics Deadly Diseases from Bubonic Plague to Coronavirus by David Waltner-Towes
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Category: Social Thought
ritten by a leading epidemiologist, this engrossing book answers our questions about animal diseases that jump to humans - called zoonoses - including why they have become more common in recent history, and what we can do about them. Almost all pandemics and epidemics - including SARS, Ebola and now COV ...Show more
The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule by Angela Saini
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Category: Social Thought
'I learned something new on every page of this totally essential book' Sathnam SangheraAward-winning science journalist Angela Saini goes in search of the true roots of what we call patriarchy, uncovering a complex history of how it first became embedded in societies and spread across the globe from pre ...Show more
The Secrets We Share by Nova Weetman
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Category: Social Thought | Series: Secrets
Clem is slowly rebuilding her life after a house fire destroyed everything. She's about to start high school with her two best friends and she's finally settled into living with her dad in their tiny flat. But when her mum unexpectedly moves in, Clem feels like there's no space for her.Then she meets Ma ...Show more