18 Top nonfiction books like Hanging Out: The Radical Power of Killing Time by Sheila Liming

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Hanging Out: The Radical Power of Killing Time

By: Sheila Liming

3.18

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

"Hide your phone, stop hustling for a second, and read this passionate argument for the importance …

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Hanging Out: The Radical Power of Killing Time by Sheila Liming , here is a list of 18 books like this:

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1. Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair

By: Sarah Schulman

3.74

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

From intimate relationships to global politics, Sarah Schulman observes a continuum: that inflated … read more

Similar categories in Sarah Schulman's Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair book and Sheila Liming's Hanging Out: The Radical Power of Killing Time

  • nonfiction
  • psychology
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2. Several People Are Typing

By: Calvin Kasulke

3.65

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

A work-from-home comedy where WFH meets WTF. Told entirely through clever and captivating Slack … read more

Similar categories in Calvin Kasulke's Several People Are Typing book and Sheila Liming's Hanging Out: The Radical Power of Killing Time

"what is a workplace but a cult where everyone gets paid"

-Calvin Kasulke, Several People Are Typing

"When is have a break? We already had lunch, man. The next break happens when the work is over. I showed you on your gcal, remember? When is have a break from self meat? LOL. Uh, death, I guess. But t…"

-Calvin Kasulke, Several People Are Typing

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3. Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind

By: Mike Jay

3.94

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

A provocative and original history of the scientists and writers, artists and philosophers who took… read more

Similar categories in Mike Jay's Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind book and Sheila Liming's Hanging Out: The Radical Power of Killing Time

  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • health
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4. Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock

By: Jenny Odell

3.61

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In her first book, How to Do Nothing, Jenny Odell wrote about the importance of disconnecting from … read more

Similar categories in Jenny Odell's Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock book and Sheila Liming's Hanging Out: The Radical Power of Killing Time

  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • self help
"Most living entities and systems on this planet obviously do not live by the Western human clock (though some, like the crows who memorize a city's daily garbage truck route, do of course adapt to th…"

-Jenny Odell, Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock

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5. The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

By: Amanda Montell

3.54

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Cultish and host of the podcast Sounds Like a Cult, a delicious blen… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Montell's The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality book and Sheila Liming's Hanging Out: The Radical Power of Killing Time

  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • sociology
  • self help
"While magical thinking is an age-old quirk, overthinking feels distinct to the modern era—a product of our innate superstitions clashing with information overload, mass loneliness, and a capitalistic…"

-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

"Information transmission research suggests that folks with higher anxiety are quicker to engage with, and slower to disengage from, negative information; so "as a trait and state," anxiety itself per…"

-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

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6. The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center

By: Rhaina Cohen

3.95

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Why do we place romantic partnership on a pedestal? What do we lose when we expect one person to me… read more

Similar categories in Rhaina Cohen's The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center book and Sheila Liming's Hanging Out: The Radical Power of Killing Time

  • relationships
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • self help
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7. How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

By: Jenny Odell

3.68

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

When the technologies we use every day collapse our experiences into 24/7 availability, platforms f… read more

Similar categories in Jenny Odell's How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy book and Sheila Liming's Hanging Out: The Radical Power of Killing Time

  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • essays
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8. I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself: One Woman's Pursuit of Pleasure in Paris

By: Glynnis MacNicol

3.59

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

When you’re a woman smack in so-called “middle age” you are not promised anything at all other than… read more

Similar categories in Glynnis MacNicol's I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself: One Woman's Pursuit of Pleasure in Paris book and Sheila Liming's Hanging Out: The Radical Power of Killing Time

  • nonfiction
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9. Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet

By: Taylor Lorenz

3.62

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Acclaimed Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz presents a groundbreaking social history of the in… read more

Similar categories in Taylor Lorenz's Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet book and Sheila Liming's Hanging Out: The Radical Power of Killing Time

  • cultural
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
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10. Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence

By: Kate Crawford

3.99

Format: 288 pages, ebook

The hidden costs of artificial intelligence, from natural resources and labor to privacy, equality,… read more

Similar categories in Kate Crawford's Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence book and Sheila Liming's Hanging Out: The Radical Power of Killing Time

  • nonfiction
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11. 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

Similar categories in Kyle Chayka's Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture book and Sheila Liming's Hanging Out: The Radical Power of Killing Time

  • cultural
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • psychology
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12. The Lights: Poems

By: Ben Lerner

3.84

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

A formally ambitious and intensely felt new volume from the author of 10:04 and The Topeka School. … read more

Similar categories in Ben Lerner's The Lights: Poems book and Sheila Liming's Hanging Out: The Radical Power of Killing Time

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13. The Sitter

By: Angela O'Keeffe

3.77

Format: 180 pages, Paperback

Paris, 2020. A writer is confined to her hotel room during the early days of the pandemic, struggli… read more

Similar categories in Angela O'Keeffe's The Sitter book and Sheila Liming's Hanging Out: The Radical Power of Killing Time

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14. The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence

By: Matteo Pasquinelli

4.14

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

A social history of AI that finally reveals its roots in the spatial computation of industrial fact… read more

Similar categories in Matteo Pasquinelli's The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence book and Sheila Liming's Hanging Out: The Radical Power of Killing Time

  • nonfiction
  • sociology
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15. 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

Similar categories in W. David Marx's Status and Culture: How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Change book and Sheila Liming's Hanging Out: The Radical Power of Killing Time

  • cultural
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • psychology
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16. Everyday Utopia: What 2,000 Years of Wild Experiments Can Teach Us About the Good Life

By: Kristen R. Ghodsee

3.99

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling tour through 2,000 years of audacious utopian thinking and experiments, exploring better… read more

Similar categories in Kristen R. Ghodsee's Everyday Utopia: What 2,000 Years of Wild Experiments Can Teach Us About the Good Life book and Sheila Liming's Hanging Out: The Radical Power of Killing Time

  • nonfiction
  • sociology
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17. All the Gold Stars: Reimagining Ambition and the Ways We Strive

By: Rainesford Stauffer

3.56

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From journalist and author of An Ordinary Age , an examination, dismantling, and reconstruction of … read more

Similar categories in Rainesford Stauffer's All the Gold Stars: Reimagining Ambition and the Ways We Strive book and Sheila Liming's Hanging Out: The Radical Power of Killing Time

  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
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18. Hanging Out: The Radical Power of Killing Time

By: Sheila Liming

3.18

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

"Hide your phone, stop hustling for a second, and read this passionate argument for the importance … read more

Similar categories in Sheila Liming's Hanging Out: The Radical Power of Killing Time book and Sheila Liming's Hanging Out: The Radical Power of Killing Time

  • cultural
  • relationships
  • health
  • research
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • sociology
  • self help
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19. The Fall of Roe: The Rise of a New America

By: Elizabeth Dias

4.53

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

From two top New York Times journalists, the breathtaking untold story of the plan to overturn Roe … read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Dias's The Fall of Roe: The Rise of a New America book and Sheila Liming's Hanging Out: The Radical Power of Killing Time

  • nonfiction
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20. What It Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World

By: Prentis Hemphill

4.54

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From one of the most prominent voices in the trauma conversation comes a groundbreaking new way to … read more

Similar categories in Prentis Hemphill's What It Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World book and Sheila Liming's Hanging Out: The Radical Power of Killing Time

  • health
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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21. The Myth of Making It: A Workplace Reckoning

By: Samhita Mukhopadhyay

3.90

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

We can bury the girlboss, but what comes next? The former executive editor of Teen Vogue tells the … read more

Similar categories in Samhita Mukhopadhyay's The Myth of Making It: A Workplace Reckoning book and Sheila Liming's Hanging Out: The Radical Power of Killing Time

  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • self help

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3.61

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3.54

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3.95

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3.68

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4.13

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4.22

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