Work: A History of How we spend our Time
By: James Suzman
3.85
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A revolutionary new history of humankind through the prism of work by leading anthropologist James …
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1. The Human Zoo: A Zoologist's Study of the Urban Animal
By: Desmond Morris
4.00
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
This study concerns the city dweller. Morris finds remarkable similarities with captive zoo animals… read more
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2. The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
By: David Graeber
3.61
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Where does the desire for endless rules, regulations, and bureaucracy come from? How did we come to… read more
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3. The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
By: Jared Diamond
4.08
Format: 407 pages, Paperback
At some point during the last 100,000 years, humans began exhibiting traits and behavior that disti… read more
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"If our ethical code makes a purely arbitrary distinction between humans and all other species, then we have a code based on naked selfishness devoid of any higher principle."-Jared Diamond, The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
"Isn't language loss a good thing, because fewer languages mean easier communication among the world's people? Perhaps, but it's a bad thing in other respects. Languages differ in structure and vocabu…"-Jared Diamond, The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
4. Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
By: David Graeber
4.03
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling writer David Graeber, a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfi… read more
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"Economies around the world have, increasingly, become vast engines for producing nonsense."-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
"Bullshit jobs regularly induce feelings of hopelessness, depression, and self-loathing. They are forms of spiritual violence directed at the essence of what it means to be a human being."-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
"What we are witnessing is the rise of those forms of popular culture that office workers can produce and consume during the scattered, furtive shards of time they have at their disposal in workplaces…"-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
"A fact-finding commission is a way of telling the public that the government is doing something it is not. But a large corporations will behave exactly the same way, if, say, there are revealed to be…"-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
5. Internet
By: Mikko Hyppönen
4.11
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Internet on parasta ja pahinta mitä meille on tapahtunut. Suomen tunnetuin tietoturva-asiantunti… read more
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6. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
By: David Graeber
4.20
Format: 692 pages, Hardcover
A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions abo… read more
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"Humans - from this other perspective, which is just as extreme in its own way - are at best an arbitrary constellation of cultural elements, perhaps assembled according to some prevailing spirit, cod…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"One might ask, how could that most basic element of all human freedoms, the freedom to make promises and commitments and thus build relationships, be turned into its very opposite: into peonage, serf…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"There is an obvious objection to evolutionary models which assume that our strongest social ties are based on close biological kinship: many humans just don’t like their families very much. And this …"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"In the Middle Ages, most people in other parts of the world who actually knew anything about northern Europe at all considered it an obscure and uninviting backwater full of religious fanatics who, a…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
7. Goodbye, Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land
By: Jacob Mikanowski
4.09
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Eastern Europe is disappearing. Not off the map of course, but as an idea. Today it calls to min… read more
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8. Paljastus - Tarina dopinguutisesta ja toimittajasta, joka haluttiin vaientaa
By: Johanna Aatsalo
3.97
Format: 319 pages, Hardcover
Totuus, jota kukaan ei halunnut kuulla. Nuori naistoimittaja julkaisee dopinguutisen, joka ravis… read more
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9. Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture
By: Kyle Chayka
3.68
Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition
A history and investigation of a world ruled by algorithms, which determine the shape of culture it… read more
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10. The Things We Make: The Unknown History of Invention from Cathedrals to Soda Cans
By: Bill Hammack
3.75
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Discover the secret method used to build the world… For millennia, humans have used one simple m… read more
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11. Milk! A 10,000-Year Food Fracas
By: Mark Kurlansky
3.61
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
Mark Kurlansky's first global food history since the bestselling Cod and Salt; the fascinating cult… read more
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"Scientists estimate that between 1945 and 1958, the power of the nuclear weapons exploded in the world was equal to eight hundred times the power of the Hiroshima bomb. With each explosion, tiny part…"-Mark Kurlansky, Milk! A 10,000-Year Food Fracas
12. Kapitalismin suuri illuusio
By: Riina Tanskanen
4.30
Format: 261 pages, Hardcover
Kapitalismi on täynnä virheitä. Riina Tanskanen ja Samu Kuoppa esittelevät yhdeksän keskeistä valhe… read more
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13. Martti J. Kari : Käsikirjoitukset eivät pala
By: Laura Halminen
4.14
Format: 431 pages, Hardcover
Suureen kansansuosioon nousseen tiedustelueverstin ainutlaatuinen testamentti. Martti J. Karin m… read more
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14. Rakkaat sanat
By: Janne Saarikivi
3.77
Format: 274 pages, Paperback
Sanathan ovat simppeleitä olioita. Semmoisen kun kakaisee ulos, kuulija tietää missä mennään ja pul… read more
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15. Work: A History of How we spend our Time
By: James Suzman
3.85
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A revolutionary new history of humankind through the prism of work by leading anthropologist James … read more
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16. Status and Culture: How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Change
By: W. David Marx
3.87
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
The book lays out how individuals in pursuit of status trigger the cultural mechanisms behind taste… read more
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18. The Meritocracy Trap: How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite
By: Daniel Markovits
3.83
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A revolutionary new argument from eminent Yale Law professor Daniel Markovits attacking the false p… read more
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19. Kymmenen haavaa Amerikan sydämessä
By: Anna-Sofia Berner
4.03
Format: 301 pages, Hardcover
Kerronnallinen kuvaus Amerikasta, jonka yhteiskunnan haavat heijastuvat ympäri maailman. Valaise… read more
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20. The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World
By: Adrian Wooldridge
3.87
Format: 481 pages, Hardcover
'This unique and fascinating history explains why the blame now being piled upon meritocracy for ma… read more
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21. Madoff: The Final Word
By: Richard Behar
3.75
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Fifteen years after Bernie Madoff’s arrest, renowned investigative journalist Richard Behar deliver… read more
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