The Shame Machine: Who Profits in the New Age of Humiliation
By: Cathy O'Neil
3.39
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A clear-eyed warning about the increasingly destructive influence of America’s “shame industrial co…
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1. A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
By: Rebecca Solnit
3.95
Format: 353 pages, Hardcover
A startling investigation of what people do in disasters and why it matters Why is it that in the a… read more
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"Disaster shocks us out of slumber, but only skillful efforts keeps us awake."-Rebecca Solnit, A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
"Utopia itself is rarely more than an ideal or an ephemeral pattern on which to shape the real possibilities before us."-Rebecca Solnit, A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
"Tobin James Mueller: 'No one is turned away, my one rule. I never say no. That's one of the reasons it became a utopia."-Rebecca Solnit, A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
"It's tempting to ask why if you fed your neighbors during the time of the earthquake and fire, you didn't do so before or after."-Rebecca Solnit, A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
2. Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement
By: Ashley Shew
4.30
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
A manifesto exploding what we think we know about disability, and arguing that disabled people are … read more
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- science
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- sociology
- technology
3. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
By: Naomi Klein
4.22
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more
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"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
4. Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracy Theories Became a Health Threat
By: Derek Beres
4.10
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Conspirituality takes a deep dive into the troubling phenomenon of influencers who have curdled New… read more
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5. Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back
By: Rebecca Giblin
4.26
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
A call to action for the creative class and labor movement to rally against the power of Big Tech a… read more
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6. 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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7. The Urge: Our History of Addiction
By: Carl Erik Fisher
4.04
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An authoritative, illuminating, and deeply humane history of addiction--a phenomenon that remains b… read more
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"Diagnosis is the art of discernment, of distinguishing one state from another. But how exactly do we define the boundaries of what is normal? This question has dominated the scientific investigation …"-Carl Erik Fisher, The Urge: Our History of Addiction
"Does history give us any hope for this kind of pragmatic and pluralistic perspective? . . .Today, amid our latest addiction epidemics, we are faced with another precious and rare opportunity for synt…"-Carl Erik Fisher, The Urge: Our History of Addiction
8. Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything
By: Kelly Weill
3.79
Format: 245 pages, Hardcover
Since 2015, there has been a spectacular boom in a centuries-old delusion: that the earth is flat. … read more
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9. Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
By: Virginia Eubanks
4.01
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
A powerful investigative look at data-based discrimination—and how technology affects civil and hum… read more
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- sociology
- science
10. The Shame Machine: Who Profits in the New Age of Humiliation
By: Cathy O'Neil
3.39
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A clear-eyed warning about the increasingly destructive influence of America’s “shame industrial co… read more
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- society
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11. Emotional: How Feelings Shape Our Thinking
By: Leonard Mlodinow
3.84
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
We’ve all been told that thinking rationally is the key to success. But at the cutting edge of scie… read more
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12. The Gospel of Wellness: Gyms, Gurus, Goop, and the False Promise of Self-Care
By: Rina Raphael
3.74
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Journalist Rina Raphael looks at the explosion of the wellness how it stems from legitimate compla… read more
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13. Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music
By: Alex Ross
4.18
Format: 784 pages, Hardcover
Alex Ross, renowned New Yorker music critic and author of the international bestseller and Pulitzer… read more
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14. The Quick Fix: Why Fad Psychology Can't Cure Our Social Ills
By: Jesse Singal
3.93
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An investigative journalist exposes the many holes in today's bestselling behavioral science, and a… read more
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15. Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility
By: Rebecca Solnit
3.98
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
An energizing case for hope about the climate comes from Rebecca Solnit, called the voice of the re… read more
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"To hope is to accept despair as an emotion but not as an analysis. To recognize that what is unlikely is possible, just as what is likely is not inevitable. To understand that difficult is not the sa…"-Rebecca Solnit, Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility
"What gives me hope is that human history is full of examples of people across the ages who have risen to face the great challenges of their time and have succeeded. Victory is not the arrival in some…"-Rebecca Solnit, Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility
"These are among the many foundation stones of this new world we have built, and the work continues. I know all this seemed impossible a decade ago, when it felt as if everything was falling apart and…"-Rebecca Solnit, Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility
16. Profit and Punishment: How America Criminalizes the Poor in the Name of Justice
By: Tony Messenger
4.27
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Pulitzer Prize winner Tony Messenger offers the first humane, journalistic expose of an American tr… read more
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17. A Passion for Ignorance: What We Choose Not to Know and Why
By: Renata Salecl
3.45
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
An original and provocative exploration of our capacity to ignore what is inconvenient or traumatic… read more
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18. McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality
By: Ronald E. Purser
3.68
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
A lively and razor-sharp critique of mindfulness as it has been enthusiastically co-opted by corpor… read more
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"Individual happiness seems hollow unless all human beings are free of oppression, poverty, and violence — as well as free to speak and act in the public sphere. This doesn’t mean we have to be misera…"-Ronald E. Purser, McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality
19. Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World
By: Meredith Broussard
3.77
Format: 237 pages, Hardcover
A guide to understanding the inner workings and outer limits of technology and why we should never … read more
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"I heard people repeat the same promises about the bright technological future, but I saw the digital world replicate the inequalities of the “real"-Meredith Broussard, Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World
"Our collective enthusiasm for applying computer technology to every aspect of life has resulted in a tremendous amount of poorly designed technology. That badly designed technology is getting in the …"-Meredith Broussard, Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World
"Unfortunately, wacky ideas have dominated the public dialogue in tech to the point that important conversations about social issues have been drowned out or dismissed for years. Some of the ideas tha…"-Meredith Broussard, Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World
20. Am I Normal?
By: Sarah Chaney
3.66
Format: 324 pages, Hardcover
A deep dive into the strange science of the 'Normal', and the roots of an anxiety-ridden modern obs… read more
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21. What Are Children For?: On Ambivalence and Choice
By: Anastasia Berg
3.65
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A modern argument grounded in philosophy and culture about childbearing ambivalence and how to over… read more
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