The Growth Delusion: Wealth, Poverty, and the Well-Being of Nations
By: David Pilling
4.07
Format: 277 pages, Kindle Edition
A provocative critique of the pieties and fallacies of our obsession with economic growth We live i…
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1. The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World from Scratch
By: Lewis Dartnell
3.76
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
How would you go about rebuilding a technological society from scratch? If our technological societ… read more
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- history
- environment
2. The Two Kinds of Decay
By: Sarah Manguso
3.73
Format: 238 pages,
At twenty-one, just as she was starting to comprehend the puzzles of adulthood, Sarah Manguso was f… read more
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3. Letters of Note: An Eclectic Collection of Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience
By: Shaun Usher
3.99
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Letters of Noteis a collection of one hundred and twenty five of the world's most entertaining, ins… read more
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- history
4. Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class
By: Owen Jones
4.09
Format: 298 pages, Paperback
In modern Britain, the working class has become an object of fear and ridicule. From Little Britain… read more
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"High Priestess of the Slagocracy"-Owen Jones, Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class
"Demonisation is the ideological backbone of an unequal society."-Owen Jones, Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class
"Taken together, New Labour policies have helped to build a series of overlapping chav caricatures: the feckless, the non-aspirational, the scrounger, the dysfunctional and the disorderly. To hear thi…"-Owen Jones, Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class
5. An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back
By: Elisabeth Rosenthal
3.57
Format: None pages, Paperback
A New York Times bestseller "The definitive guide to the past and future of health care in America.… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- business
6. Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator
By: Ryan Holiday
0.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
You've seen it all before. A malicious online rumor costs a company millions. A political sideshow … read more
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7. Detroit: An American Autopsy
By: Charlie LeDuff
3.40
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
In the heart of America, a metropolis is quietly destroying itself. Detroit, once the richest city … read more
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8. A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future
By: Daniel H. Pink
4.26
Format: None pages,
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9. 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism
By: Ha-Joon Chang
3.00
Format: 136 pages,
In "23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism", one of today's most iconoclastic thinkers dest… read more
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10. Capitalism & Slavery
By: Eric Williams , None
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Slavery helped finance the Industrial Revolution in England. Plantation owners, shipbuilders, and m… read more
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11. 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
12. Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic
By: Simon Winchester
3.84
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
From the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kindergart… read more
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- audiobook
13. Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
By: Yanis Varoufakis
4.01
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
The #1 bestselling economist shows how capitalism has been replaced by a more exploitative system, … read more
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- nonfiction
- economics
- sociology
- business
- audiobook
"Il profitto è vulnerabile alla competizione di mercato, mentre la rendita non lo è."-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
"Se non è un mercato capitalista, in cosa entriamo, buon Dio, quando andiamo su amazon.com ?"-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
"Oltre ad avvertirci che ogni nuova epoca forgiata da qualche tecnologia rivoluzionaria produce una generazione che “mai passerà un giorno immune da fatica e dolore, struggendosi anche di notte"-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
"La rivoluzione digitale potrebbe consistere nel trasformare i lavoratori salariati in proletari del cloud, che vivono una vita sempre più precaria e stressante sotto il controllo invisibile di capi a…"-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
14. Ravenous: How to get ourselves and our planet into shape
By: Henry Dimbleby
4.39
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
You may not be aware of this - not consciously, at least - but you do not control what you eat. Eve… read more
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- nonfiction
- environment
- audiobook
15. The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend
By: Rob Copeland
4.04
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The unauthorized, unvarnished story of famed Wall Street hedge-fund manager Ray Dalio. Ray Dalio… read more
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- audiobook
16. The Journey of Humanity: The Origins of Wealth and Inequality
By: Oded Galor
3.85
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A landmark, radically uplifting account of our species' progress from one of the world's pre-eminen… read more
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"У 1579-му міська рада Гданська наказала непомітно втопити винахідника нового верстата для плетіння тасьми, який загрожував традиційним виробникам цієї продукції."-Oded Galor, The Journey of Humanity: The Origins of Wealth and Inequality
"Дуже часто рекомендації західних держав щодо розвитку політики в бідніших країнах мало відрізняються від «ритуалів відновлення» в жителів острова Танна. Вони передбачають зовнішню імітацію інститутів…"-Oded Galor, The Journey of Humanity: The Origins of Wealth and Inequality
"У 1958 році американський політолог Едвард Бенфілд сформулював впливову теорію, відповідно до якої низький рівень економічного розвитку в цьому регіоні пов’язаний з міцними родинними зв’язками. За йо…"-Oded Galor, The Journey of Humanity: The Origins of Wealth and Inequality
"Після Великого повстання проти Римської імперії, яке спалахнуло в Юдеї 66 року н. е., римляни знищили Єрусалим і Єрусалимський храм. Кілька основних течій юдаїзму зникло, зокрема садукеї (священники …"-Oded Galor, The Journey of Humanity: The Origins of Wealth and Inequality
17. How to Think Like a Cat
By: Stéphane Garnier
3.45
Format: 176 pages, ebook
Do cats worry about retirement? Nope. Do cats do things they don’t want to do? Definitely not. Do c… read more
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18. How to Win an Argument: An Ancient Guide to the Art of Persuasion (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers)
By: Marcus Tullius Cicero
3.67
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
All of us are faced countless times with the challenge of persuading others, whether we're trying t… read more
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19. Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny
By: Robert Wright
3.98
Format: 450 pages, Kindle Edition
In his bestselling The Moral Animal, Robert Wright applied the principles of evolutionary biology t… read more
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"Your brain may give birth to any technology, but other brains will decide whether the technology thrives. The number of possible technologies is infinite, and only a few pass this test of affinity wi…"-Robert Wright, Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny
20. The Growth Delusion: Wealth, Poverty, and the Well-Being of Nations
By: David Pilling
4.07
Format: 277 pages, Kindle Edition
A provocative critique of the pieties and fallacies of our obsession with economic growth We live i… read more
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- nonfiction
- society
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21. Eat the Apple: A Memoir
By: Matt Young
3.67
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Eat the Apple is a twisted, and darkly hilarious story of American youth and masculinity in an age … read more
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