The Inner Level: How More Equal Societies Reduce Stress, Restore Sanity and Improve Everyone's Well-Being
By: Richard G. Wilkinson
4.20
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking investigation of how inequality infects our minds and gets under our skin Why a…
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1. Poverty Safari
By: Darren McGarvey
3.87
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
People from deprived communities all around Britain feel misunderstood and unheard. Darren McGarvey… read more
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- nonfiction
- sociology
2. The Places in Between
By: Rory Stewart
3.89
Format: 7 pages, Paperback
In January 2002 Rory Stewart walked across Afghanistan-surviving by his wits, his knowledge of Pers… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
3. Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
By: Cass R. Sunstein , Richard H. Thaler
3.84
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
From the winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Economics, Richard H. Thaler, and Cass R. Sunstein: a r… read more
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"Just as no building lacks an architecture, so no choice lacks a context."-Cass R. Sunstein, Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
"As good architects know, seemingly arbitrary decisions, such as where to locate the bathrooms, will have subtle influences on how the people who use the building interact. Every trip to the bathroom …"-Cass R. Sunstein, Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
4. The Panama Papers
By: Bastian Obermayer , Frederik Obermaier
3.90
Format: 205 pages, Paperback
Late one evening, investigative journalist Bastian Obermayer receives an anonymous message offering… read more
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- politics
- economics
- nonfiction
5. Pandemic (The Extinction Files #1)
By: A.G. Riddle
3.88
Format: 144 pages,
A deadly outbreak in Kenya. A conspiracy beyond imagination. And a race to save humanity in its dar… read more
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6. The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom
By: Slavomir Rawicz
2.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
The harrowing true tale of seven escaped Soviet prisoners who desperately marched out of Siberia th… read more
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7. Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise
By: Robert Pool , K. Anders Ericsson
4.03
Format: None pages, ebook
A survey of the psychology of expertise, providing techniques for developing mastery of any skill, … read more
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8. Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers
By: Robert M. Sapolsky
3.88
Format: None pages, Paperback
Renowned primatologist Robert Sapolsky offers a completely revised and updated edition of his most … read more
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9. God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning
By: Meghan O'Gieblyn
4.27
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
A meditation on what it might mean to be human in an age of ever-accelerating technology. read more
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- psychology
- audiobook
"As black-box technologies become more widespread, there have been no shortage of demands for increased transparency. In 2016 the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation included in its st…"-Meghan O'Gieblyn, God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning
10. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
By: Rory Stewart
4.36
Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition
A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabi… read more
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"Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these sug…"-Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
11. Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
By: Edmund Conway
4.52
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil, and lithium. These fundamental materials have created empires, razed… read more
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"You can get anything you want from anywhere in the world at a bargain price, but don't [whatever you do] expect to understand how it was made or how it got to you."-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
"Brothers and sisters,’ said the man. ‘I want to tell you this. The greatest thing on earth is to have the love of God in your heart, and the next greatest thing is to have electricity in your house.’…"-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
"To say that concrete is everywhere is hardly an exaggeration. Despite the fact that we only began mass producing this mixture of sand, aggregates and cement just over a century ago, there are now mor…"-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
"A few years ago some geologists sifted through the data [and] estimated that the amount of sand, soil and rock we humans mine and quarry and dredge each year is some 24 times greater than the amount …"-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
12. Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis
By: James Davies
4.25
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
In Britain alone, more than 20% of the adult population take a psychiatric drug in any one year. Th… read more
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- psychology
- mental health
- nonfiction
- economics
- sociology
- audiobook
"I have asked them to pay attention to what they have just said. In particular to their use of the phrase “mental illness"-James Davies, Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis
"If our basic needs were neglected: our need for safety, economic security, loving connection, autonomy, self-realization and meaningful work, our need to feel equal and respected, then poor emotional…"-James Davies, Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis
"What we need is a profound rethinking of the nature of suffering itself, and what it is trying to highlight and ask us to change. We need to repoliticise emotional discontent in the minds of teachers…"-James Davies, Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis
"Tim Kasser: ‘The heyday of humanistic psychology was in the 1960s and 1970s, when Keynes dominated. But since the rise of neo-liberalism from the 1980s, we’ve seen an influx of cognitive behavioural …"-James Davies, Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis
13. Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life
By: Dacher Keltner
3.64
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Awe is mysterious. How do we begin to quantify the goose bumps we feel when we see the Grand Canyon… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
- audiobook
14. Lives of the Stoics: The Art of Living from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius
By: Ryan Holiday
4.04
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling authors of The Daily Stoic comes an inspiring guide to the lives of the Stoics… read more
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- psychology
- audiobook
"When good men come to bad ends,"-Ryan Holiday, Lives of the Stoics: The Art of Living from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius
"No parent should outlive their children. To lose eight of them? So young? It staggers the mind. “Unfair"-Ryan Holiday, Lives of the Stoics: The Art of Living from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius
"You owe it to yourself and to the world to actively engage with the brief moment you have with this planet. You cannot retreat exclusively into ideas. You must contribute."-Ryan Holiday, Lives of the Stoics: The Art of Living from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius
"It is a striking contrast, an emperor and a slave sharing and loving the same philosophy, the latter figure greatly influencing the former, but it is not a contradiction—nor would it have seemed odd …"-Ryan Holiday, Lives of the Stoics: The Art of Living from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius
15. Why We Fight: The Roots of War and the Paths to Peace
By: Christopher Blattman
3.93
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
“ Why We Fight reflects Blattman’s expertise in economics, political science, and history… Blattma… read more
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- psychology
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- society
- economics
- sociology
16. Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism
By: George Monbiot
4.44
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
A sharp, fiercely argued takedown of neoliberalism that not only defines this slippery concept but … read more
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17. Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock's Gender Service for Children
By: Hannah Barnes
4.40
Format: 455 pages, Hardcover
Time to Think goes behind the headlines to reveal the truth about the NHS’s flagship gender service… read more
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"GIDS’s own limited data, which found ‘no evidence of change in psychological function’ with puberty-blocker treatment."-Hannah Barnes, Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock's Gender Service for Children
"The Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) has undoubtedly helped some people. It has unquestionably harmed others."-Hannah Barnes, Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock's Gender Service for Children
"NHS England. Why did they allow the early blocking of puberty to be rolled out as routine practice without demanding to see some data supporting this radical shift? Why didn’t it insist on seeing any…"-Hannah Barnes, Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock's Gender Service for Children
"It is mad,’ was the reply. Hutchinson paused. When one of the leaders of a service that helps children to access powerful, life-changing drugs comments that what they’re doing is ‘mad’, there is clea…"-Hannah Barnes, Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock's Gender Service for Children
18. Belt and Road: A Chinese World Order
By: Bruno Maçães
3.77
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
China's Belt and Road strategy is acknowledged to be the most ambitious geopolitical initiative of … read more
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19. The Inner Level: How More Equal Societies Reduce Stress, Restore Sanity and Improve Everyone's Well-Being
By: Richard G. Wilkinson
4.20
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking investigation of how inequality infects our minds and gets under our skin Why a… read more
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- social science
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- mental health
- nonfiction
- social justice
- society
- economics
- sociology
- audiobook
20. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
By: Yuval Noah Harari
4.11
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discove… read more
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21. History for Tomorrow: Inspiration from the Past for the Future of Humanity
By: Roman Krznaric
4.13
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
What can humankind’s rich history of radical revolts teach us about the power of disobedience to ta… read more
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