8 Top sociology books like The Next Apocalypse: The Art and Science of Survival by Chris Begley

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The Next Apocalypse: The Art and Science of Survival

By: Chris Begley

3.69

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In this insightful book, an underwater archaeologist and survival coach shows how understanding the…

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1. White Line Fever: The Autobiography

By: Lemmy Kilmister , Janiss Garza

3.04

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

One of music's most notorious frontmen leads a headbanging, voyeuristic odyssey into sex, drugs, an… read more

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2. Bloodsucking Fiends (A Love Story, #1)

By: Christopher Moore

4.03

Format: None pages, Paperback

There is an alternate cover edition . Jody never asked to become a vampire. But when she wakes up … read more

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3. This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate

By: Naomi Klein

3.31

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Forget everything you think you know about global warming. It's not about carbon - it's about capit… read more

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4. An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)

By: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

4.37

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The first history of the United States told from the perspective of indigenous peoples Today in… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Of a thousand Red Stick and allied insurgents, eight hundred were killed. [Andrew] Jackson lost forty-nine men."

-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)

"Once elected president, Jackson lost no time in initiating the removal of all Indigenous farmers and the destruction of all their towns in the South."

-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)

"[Theodore] Roosevelt referred to [Emilio] Aguinaldo as a "renegade Pawnee" and observed that Filipinos did not have the right to govern their country just because they happened to occupy it."

-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)

"The establishment of the missions and presidios from San Diego and Los Angeles and Santa Barbara to Carmel, San Francisco, and Sonoma, traces the colonization of California's Indigenous nations. The …"

-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)

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5. How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them

By: Barbara F. Walter

4.25

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Civil wars are the biggest danger to world peace today - this book shows us why they happen, and ho… read more

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  • social science
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • society
  • sociology
"For a society to fracture along identity lines, you need mouthpieces - people who are willing to make discriminatory appeals and pursue discriminatory policies in the name of a particular group. They…"

-Barbara F. Walter, How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them

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6. Jewish Space Lasers: The Rothschilds and 200 Years of Conspiracy Theories

By: Mike Rothschild

3.84

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

With the current rise of antisemitism, this important book looks at how one Jewish family —the Roth… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • society
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7. 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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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • sociology
"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

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8. The End is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses

By: Dan Carlin

3.91

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The creator of the wildly popular award-winning podcast Hardcore History looks at some of the apoca… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • science
"But it's never wise to bet against any of the four horsemen long term. Their historical track record is horrifyingly good."

-Dan Carlin, The End is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses

"It may seem strange to suggest that high levels of illness might make human beings tougher, but the effect on a society of relatively regular and lethal epidemics and the mortality they cause certain…"

-Dan Carlin, The End is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses

"The human ripples of pain are still heartbreaking when made visible to us now. Our friend Agnolo the Fat wrote: “Father abandoned child, wife husband, one brother another; for this illness seemed to …"

-Dan Carlin, The End is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses

"History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up,' Voltaire reportedly said. The observation refers to the argument that fortunes of nations or civiliza…"

-Dan Carlin, The End is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses

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9. 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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  • science
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • archaeology
  • sociology
  • anthropology
"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

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10. Rehearsals for Living

By: Robyn Maynard

4.48

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A revolutionary collaboration about the world we're living in now, between two of our most importan… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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11. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017

By: Rashid Khalidi

4.50

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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12. Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

By: Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

4.00

Format: 157 pages, Paperback

A powerful indictment of the ways elites have co-opted radical critiques of racial capitalism to se… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • sociology
"A philosopher Briana Toole clarifies, by itself, one's social location only puts a person in a position to know; 'epistemic privilege' or advantage, on the other hand, is achieved only through delibe…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

"Elites do often make the environment worse and block solutions, but to blame the problem of elite capture entirely on their moral successes and failures is to confuse effect for cause. The true probl…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

"To opt for deference, rather than interdependence, may soothe short-term psychological wounds. But it does so at a steep cost: it may undermine the goals that motivated the project--and it entrenches…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

"As Carter G. Woodson realized, many of our decisions are shaped by decisions that someone with more power made before us. The whole social structure affects how institutional systems, like schools, f…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

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13. The Next Civil War: Dispatches from the American Future

By: Stephen Marche

3.66

Format: 238 pages, Hardcover

The United States is coming to an end. The only question is how. “Should be required reading for a… read more

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  • social science
  • history
  • nonfiction
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14. American Spy

By: Lauren Wilkinson

3.50

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

What if your sense of duty required you to betray the man you love? One woman struggles to choose b… read more

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"I learned that a secret is power, that power in application is force, that force is strength, and strength advantage."

-Lauren Wilkinson, American Spy

"I had the impulse to see you. There was something defeated in his voice and his posture. “I know what you are, and I know I can’t trust you. But I can’t trust anyone. At least you’re beautiful. And w…"

-Lauren Wilkinson, American Spy

"You’ve likely never seen me like that. Almost no one has. It has never earned me anything to share my darker self with other people. The only anger I ever expose to the world is through implication, …"

-Lauren Wilkinson, American Spy

"After I heard, I switched the radio to music and turned it up as load as it would go and let myself cry...You've likely never seen me like that. Almost no one has. It has never earned me anything to …"

-Lauren Wilkinson, American Spy

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15. The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War

By: Jeff Sharlet

4.02

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An unmatched guide to the religious dimensions of American politics, Jeff Sharlet journeys into cor… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • sociology
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16. Born to Be Hanged: The Epic Story of the Gentlemen Pirates Who Raided the South Seas, Rescued a Princess, and Stole a Fortune

By: Keith Thomson

3.80

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Discover the “fascinating and outrageously readable” account of the roguish acts of the first pirat… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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17. Playmakers: How the NFL Really Works (And Doesn't)

By: Mike Florio

3.54

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The story of a modern NFL that can’t get out of its own way—and can’t stop making money In recent … read more

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  • nonfiction
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18. Abolition. Feminism. Now.

By: Angela Y. Davis

4.31

Format: 150 pages, Paperback

An urgent, vital manifesto of intersectional, internationalist, abolitionist feminism, from leading… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • sociology
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19. We Won't Be Here Tomorrow and Other Stories

By: Margaret Killjoy

4.39

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

Death cults, queer love, and the end of everything. Spaceships, man-eating lesbian mermaids, sw… read more

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"Let the apocalypse not be the lifting of the veil, let it be the lowering."

-Margaret Killjoy, We Won't Be Here Tomorrow and Other Stories

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20. No More Police: A Case for Abolition

By: Mariame Kaba

4.59

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

An instant national best seller A persuasive primer on police abolition from two veteran organizer… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • sociology
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21. The Next Apocalypse: The Art and Science of Survival

By: Chris Begley

3.69

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In this insightful book, an underwater archaeologist and survival coach shows how understanding the… read more

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  • social science
  • survival
  • history
  • science
  • nonfiction
  • society
  • archaeology
  • sociology
  • anthropology

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