The Empathy Diaries: A Memoir
By: Sherry Turkle
3.96
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
“A beautiful book… an instant classic of the genre.” —Dwight Garner, New York Times • A New York Ti…
Want to Read $ 11.99"The way we live now is an experiment in which we are the human subjects -- treated as objects by the technology we have created. Our apps use us as much as we use our apps. We are treated as objects when we are swept up as data to be bought and sold on an international market. Or when our attention is manipulated by our devices, not just to keep us glued to them but to determine what we read, what images we see, and what programs get to see us. We reduce ourselves to objects when we are addressed by machine-generated text or voices, because to be understood, we can only respond in ways that such objects can understand. When we are treated as objects, we are encouraged to object4ify one another and, of course, ourselves."-Sherry Turkle, The Empathy Diaries: A Memoir
"The way we live now is an experiment in which we are the human subjects -- treated as objects by the technology we have created. Our apps use us as much as we use our apps. We are treated as objects when we are swept up as data to be bought and sold on an international market. Or when our attention is manipulated by our devices, not just to keep us glued to them but to determine what we read, what images we see, and what programs get to see us. We reduce ourselves to objects when we are addressed by machine-generated text or voices, because to be understood, we can only respond in ways that such objects can understand. When we are treated as objects, we are encouraged to object4ify one another and, of course, ourselves."-Sherry Turkle, The Empathy Diaries: A Memoir
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1. Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics: Mental Illness in Rural Ireland
By: Nancy Scheper-Hughes
3.68
Format: 407 pages, Paperback
TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY EDITION, UPDATED AND EXPANDED When Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics was … read more
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"Then, as we turned the final curve past the abandoned little hamlet of Ballydubh, with the village almost out of sight, he forced me to turn around and take in the full sweep of the mountains and the…"-Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics: Mental Illness in Rural Ireland
2. The Professor's House
By: Willa Cather , A.S. Byatt
3.77
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
On the eve of his move to a new, more desirable residence, Professor Godfrey St. Peter finds himsel… read more
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"He knew that he was terribly selfish about personal pleasures, fought for them. if a thing gave him delight, he got it, if he sold his shirt for it. By doing without many so-called necessities he had…"-Willa Cather, The Professor's House
"To people off alone, as we were, there is something stirring about finding evidence of human labour and care in the soil of an empty country. It comes to you as a sort of message, makes you feel diff…"-Willa Cather, The Professor's House
"It struck him that the seasons sometimes gain by being brought into the house, just as they gain by being brought into painting, and into poetry. The hand, fastidious and bold which selected and plac…"-Willa Cather, The Professor's House
"I had no plans, I wanted nothing but to get back to the mesa and live a free life and breathe free air, and never, never again to see hundreds of little black-coated men pouring out of white building…"-Willa Cather, The Professor's House
3. The Songlines
By: Bruce Chatwin
3.97
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
In this extraordinary book, Bruce Chatwin has adapted a literary form common until the eighteenth c… read more
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- biography
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"A journey is a fragment of Hell."-Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines
"Senza costrizione non si potrebbe fondare nessun insediamento. [...]"-Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines
"Quali sono, quindi le prime impressioni che un bimbo nomade ha del mondo? Un capezzolo dondolante e una cascata d'oro."-Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines
"Proust, more perspicaciously than any other writer, reminds us that the 'walks' of childhood form the raw material of our intelligence."-Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines
4. Riddley Walker
By: Russell Hoban
4.17
Format: None pages,
In the far distant future, the country laid waste by nuclear holocaust, twelve-year-old Riddley Wal… read more
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5. The Gardener and the Carpenter: What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us About the Relationship Between Parents and Children
By: Alison Gopnik
3.93
Format: 316 pages, ebook
One of the world's leading child psychologists shatters the myth of "good parenting" Caring deeply … read more
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6. Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell
By: David Yaffe
3.78
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
An intimate new biography of Joni Mitchell, one of the greatest musicians of the twentieth century … read more
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7. Vesper Flights
By: Helen Macdonald
4.10
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Animals don't exist in order to teach us things, but that is what they have always done, and most … read more
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"There's a special phenomenology to walking in woods in winter."-Helen Macdonald, Vesper Flights
"We call them murmurations, but the Danish term, sort sol , is better: black sun."-Helen Macdonald, Vesper Flights
"For even if we don't believe in miracles, they are there, and they are waiting for us to find them."-Helen Macdonald, Vesper Flights
"(P)ulling at your heart on purpose is a compulsion as particular and disconcerting as pressing on a healing bruise."-Helen Macdonald, Vesper Flights
8. Grief Is for People
By: Sloane Crosley
3.91
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Following the death of her closest friend, Sloane Crosley explores multiple kinds of loss in this d… read more
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"Grief is for people, not things."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"Suicide is a tax on human consciousness."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"How will he know you loved him," she asks, "unless you try to destroy yourself?"-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
"Pictures should be of what you see, not of what the world sees when it sees you."-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People
9. The Hebrew Teacher
By: Maya Arad
4.04
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Three Israeli women, their lives altered by immigration to the United States, seek to overcome cris… read more
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"״ילד לא צריך בכלל מסיבה גדולה עד גיל ארבע,״ פוסקת רוית. ״מה, בארץ עושים רק עם הסבתות, הדודים...״ ״אבל זו הבעיה, אין פה סבתות,״ היא מחווה את דעתה. ״איי,״ מלכה מסכימה, ״זאת בדיוק הבעיה. אין פה סבתות.״"-Maya Arad, The Hebrew Teacher
"יועד לוגם מהכוס ומעווה את פניו. ״חרא קפה.״ ״בפעם הבאה תלך לקפה מול הספרייה,״ היא מציעה לו טיפ של מקומיים. רק לפני שנה פתחו אותו, וכל הקמפוס מדבר עליו: כמו בניו יורק, כמו בסן פרנסיסקו, בסיאטל: קלייה ע…"-Maya Arad, The Hebrew Teacher
10. The Flowering Wand: Rewilding the Sacred Masculine
By: Sophie Strand
4.28
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
A deep exploration of the regenerative and magical secrets of sacred masculinity hidden in familiar… read more
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- psychology
11. The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science
By: Kate Zernike
4.42
Format: 411 pages, Hardcover
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who broke the story, the inspiring account of the sixtee… read more
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- biography
- biography memoir
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- science
"The women had spent their careers trying not to think about being women, hoping they would be seen as scientists. But as the first or only in so many settings, they felt they had to live up to a high…"-Kate Zernike, The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science
12. Acceptance: A Memoir
By: Emi Nietfeld
4.21
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A luminous, generation-defining memoir of foster care and homelessness, Harvard and Big Tech, exami… read more
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"Any exclusive system is a system of exclusion."-Emi Nietfeld, Acceptance: A Memoir
"Everyone who dealt with disadvantaged kids, from therapists to college admissions officers, treated us as if we could overcome any abuse or neglect with sheer force of will."-Emi Nietfeld, Acceptance: A Memoir
"Adults viewed suicidal ideation as a pathology. But for me it was logic. Weighing the bad against the good, projecting forward to decide if life was worth sticking around for."-Emi Nietfeld, Acceptance: A Memoir
13. The Mirror Book
By: Charlotte Grimshaw
3.91
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Brave, explosive, and thought-provoking, this is a powerful memoir from a critically acclaimed writ… read more
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14. Morningside Heights
By: Joshua Henkin
3.71
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
When Ohio-born Pru Steiner arrives in New York in 1976, she follows in a long tradition of young pe… read more
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"Tell me all the things I'm going to forget." "With every person it's different." "Will I forget to love you?" "I hope not." "Don't let me forget to love you."-Joshua Henkin, Morningside Heights
15. There Are No Accidents
By: Jessie Singer
4.33
Format: None pages, None
A journalist recounts the surprising history of accidents and reveals how they’ve come to define al… read more
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"It is an act of love to demand accountability for the dead. And it takes rage to prevent the same accidents from happening again."-Jessie Singer, There Are No Accidents
"Blame and the punishment that follows may satisfy the thirst for vengeance. But we cannot punish and learn at the same time. Punishment keeps in place the belief that the system is safe and the human…"-Jessie Singer, There Are No Accidents
16. I Never Thought of It That Way
By: Monica Guzmán
3.93
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
We think we have the answers, but we need to be asking a lot more questions. Partisanship is up,… read more
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17. Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV
By: Emily Nussbaum
4.02
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Who invented reality TV, the world’s most dangerous pop-culture genre, and why can’t we look away f… read more
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18. Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer
By: Steven Johnson
4.20
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
As a species we have doubled our life expectancy in just one hundred years. All the advances of mod… read more
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19. The Empathy Diaries: A Memoir
By: Sherry Turkle
3.96
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
“A beautiful book… an instant classic of the genre.” —Dwight Garner, New York Times • A New York Ti… read more
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"The way we live now is an experiment in which we are the human subjects -- treated as objects by the technology we have created. Our apps use us as much as we use our apps. We are treated as objects …"-Sherry Turkle, The Empathy Diaries: A Memoir
20. The Future Was Now: Madmen, Mavericks, and the Epic Sci-Fi Summer of 1982
By: Chris Nashawaty
4.24
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From legendary entertainment journalist and author of Caddyshack comes a rollicking history of 1980… read more
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21. Shameless: Republicans' Deliberate Dysfunction and the Battle to Preserve Democracy
By: Brian Tyler Cohen
4.43
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From the first content creator to interview President Biden, leading progressive voice Brian Tyler … read more
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"These are manipulation tactics happening at the hands of the very people whom voters have been groomed to trust. Republicans may claim to hate the Democrats, but frankly there is no one they have mor…"-Brian Tyler Cohen, Shameless: Republicans' Deliberate Dysfunction and the Battle to Preserve Democracy
