Social Warming: The Dangerous and Polarising Effects of Social Media
By: Charles Arthur
3.76
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Nobody meant for this to happen. Facebook didn’t mean to facilitate a genocide. Twitter didn’t want…
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1. How We Die: Reflections of Life's Final Chapter
By: Sherwin B. Nuland
4.07
Format: 278 pages, Paperback
A runaway bestseller and National Book Award winner, Sherwin Nuland's How We Die has become the def… read more
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- nonfiction
"Hope can still exist even when rescue is impossible."-Sherwin B. Nuland, How We Die: Reflections of Life's Final Chapter
"Every life is different from any that has gone before it, and so is every death."-Sherwin B. Nuland, How We Die: Reflections of Life's Final Chapter
"Though everyone may yearn for a tranquil death, the basic instinct to stay alive is a far more powerful force"-Sherwin B. Nuland, How We Die: Reflections of Life's Final Chapter
"Not death but disease is the real enemy, disease the malign force that requires confrontation. Death is the surcease that comes when the exhausting battle has been lost."-Sherwin B. Nuland, How We Die: Reflections of Life's Final Chapter
2. The Story of Stuff: How Our Obsession with Stuff is Trashing the Planet, Our Communities, and our Health—and a Vision for Change
By: Annie Leonard
4.08
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A classic exposé in company with An Inconvenient Truth and Silent Spring, The Story of Stuff expand… read more
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- nonfiction
- sociology
- audiobook
"the assumptions that "pollution is the price of progress" or that "we must choose between jobs and the environment" have long limited our creative thinking about innovative solutions that can be good…"-Annie Leonard, The Story of Stuff: How Our Obsession with Stuff is Trashing the Planet, Our Communities, and our Health—and a Vision for Change
"We depend on this planet to eat, drink, breathe, and live. Figuring out how to keep our life support system running needs to be our number-one priority. Nothing is more important than finding a way t…"-Annie Leonard, The Story of Stuff: How Our Obsession with Stuff is Trashing the Planet, Our Communities, and our Health—and a Vision for Change
3. Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
By: Atul Gawande , None
3.98
Format: 574 pages,
In gripping accounts of true cases, surgeon Atul Gawande explores the power and the limits of medic… read more
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- nonfiction
4. Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner
By: Judy Melinek , T.J. Mitchell
3.18
Format: 183 pages, Hardcover
The fearless memoir of a young forensic pathologist's rookie season as a NYC medical examiner, and … read more
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- nonfiction
5. Eating Animals
By: Jonathan Safran Foer
4.12
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
Brilliantly synthesizing philosophy, literature, science, memoir and his own detective work, Eating… read more
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6. Everyday Sexism
By: Laura Bates
4.26
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
In 2012 after being sexually harassed on London public transport Laura Bates, a young journalist, s… read more
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- sociology
- audiobook
"Women who lead, read"-Laura Bates, Everyday Sexism
"Disbelief is the first great silencer."-Laura Bates, Everyday Sexism
"This is not a men vs women issue. It’s about people vs prejudice."-Laura Bates, Everyday Sexism
"Women are silenced by both the invisibility and the acceptability of the problem."-Laura Bates, Everyday Sexism
7. Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
By: Merlin Sheldrake
4.35
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
There is a lifeform so strange and wondrous that it forces us to rethink how life works…Neither pla… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"I have tried to find ways to enjoy the ambiguities that fungi present, but it's not always easy to be comfortable in the space created by open questions. Agoraphobia can set in. It's tempting to hide…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
"Anthropomorphism is usually thought of as an illusion that arises like a blister in soft human minds: untrained, undisciplined, unhardened. There are good reasons for this: when we humanise the world…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
"Fungi make worlds. They also unmake them. There are lots of ways to catch them in the act. When you cook mushroom soup, or just eat it. When you go out gathering mushrooms, or buy them. When you ferm…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
8. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
By: Saidiya Hartman
4.46
Format: 441 pages, Paperback
A breathtaking exploration of the lives of young black women in the early twentieth century. In … read more
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- nonfiction
"No, Kropotkin never described black women's mutual aid societies or the chorus in Mutual Aid, although he imagined animal society in its rich varieties & the forms of cooperation & mutuality found am…"-Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
9. Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?
By: Julie Smith
3.88
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Drawing on years of experience as a clinical psychologist, online sensation Dr Julie Smith provides… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"When we focus on trying to fix the problem, it is easy to underestimate the power of simply being there."-Julie Smith, Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?
"In acceptance, the new reality is still not OK. It is still not as we want it to be. But we begin to take on the new reality, listen to our needs, open up to new experiences and make connections."-Julie Smith, Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?
10. Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food
By: Chris van Tulleken
4.43
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A manifesto to change how you eat and how you think about the human body. It’s not you, it’s the… read more
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- audiobook
11. Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
By: Cal Newport
4.06
Format: 302 pages, Kindle Edition
Minimalism is the art of knowing how much is just enough. Digital minimalism applies this idea to o… read more
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- technology
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Who could justify trading a lifetime of stress and backbreaking labor for better blinds? Is a nicer-looking window treatment really worth so much of your life?"-Cal Newport, Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
"Digital minimalism definitively does not reject the innovations of the internet age, but instead rejects the way so many people currently engage with these tools."-Cal Newport, Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
"The thought process that went into building these applications, Facebook being the first of them, . . . was all about: “How do we consume as much of your time and conscious attention as possible?"-Cal Newport, Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
"For many people, their compulsive phone use papers over a void created by a lack of a well-developed leisure life. Reducing the easy distraction without also filling the void can make life unpleasant…"-Cal Newport, Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
12. The Trading Game: A Confession
By: Gary Stevenson
4.26
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A vivid, blistering memoir that takes readers inside the high-stakes drama and hubris of the tradin… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
13. 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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- nonfiction
- 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
14. Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now
By: Jaron Lanier
3.58
Format: 146 pages, Hardcover
Jaron Lanier, the world-famous Silicon Valley scientist-pioneer who first alerted us to the danger… read more
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- audiobook
- social media
- nonfiction
- sociology
- technology
"Go to where you are kindest"-Jaron Lanier, Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now
"Each of us has an inner troll."-Jaron Lanier, Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now
"Statistics are reliable, but only as idiot demons."-Jaron Lanier, Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now
"Fake people are a cultural denial-of-service attack."-Jaron Lanier, Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now
15. 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
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- nonfiction
- society
- sociology
- technology
16. How to Break Up with Your Phone: The 30-Day Plan to Take Back Your Life
By: Catherine Price
3.92
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
Packed with tested strategies and practical tips, this book is the essential, life-changing guide f… read more
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- technology
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"In short, if ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to look at your phone."-Catherine Price, How to Break Up with Your Phone: The 30-Day Plan to Take Back Your Life
"Flow is a term coined by the psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi to describe the feeling you get when you’re completely and totally engaged in an experience. People can experience flow when they’re …"-Catherine Price, How to Break Up with Your Phone: The 30-Day Plan to Take Back Your Life
"If you wanted to invent a device that could rewire our minds, if you wanted to create a society of people who were perpetually distracted, isolated, and overtired, if you wanted to weaken our memorie…"-Catherine Price, How to Break Up with Your Phone: The 30-Day Plan to Take Back Your Life
"Every moment of attention we spend scrolling through social media is attention spent making money for someone else. The numbers are staggering: a New York Times analysis calculated that as of 20414, …"-Catherine Price, How to Break Up with Your Phone: The 30-Day Plan to Take Back Your Life
17. Superior: The Return of Race Science
By: Angela Saini
4.24
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Superior tells the disturbing story of the persistent thread of belief in biological racial differe… read more
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- sociology
- audiobook
"Nobody has ever found any genes linking ethnicity or race to school results. Like Henry Garrett half a century earlier, [Gerhard] Meisenberg chooses to skip over the social, historical, and economic …"-Angela Saini, Superior: The Return of Race Science
18. How Not to Be Wrong: The Art of Changing Your Mind
By: James O'Brien
3.98
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
There’s no point having a mind if you never change it In his bestselling How To Be Right , James pr… read more
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- society
- audiobook
19. Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics
By: Adam Rutherford
4.11
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
How did an obscure academic idea pave the way to the Holocaust within just fifty years? Control is … read more
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- nonfiction
- sociology
- audiobook
"However, if your understanding of a science extends only to the point where your political preconceptions are supported, then you are an ideologue, not a scientist."-Adam Rutherford, Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics
"The press loves a heretic, especially one who can set fire to things and then walk away to look for the next pile of kindling. It is more problematic when the arsonist is in the heart of government, …"-Adam Rutherford, Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics
20. Get Rich or Lie Trying: Ambition and Deceit in the New Influencer Economy
By: Symeon Brown
3.86
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
More than one fifth of children want to become influencers and it's easy to understand why. What if… read more
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- social media
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- society
- sociology
- audiobook
"Politicians and popular culture have attached heroism to entrepreneurship."-Symeon Brown, Get Rich or Lie Trying: Ambition and Deceit in the New Influencer Economy
"The internet was supposed to democratise the spread of information and make companies more open by elevating the independent voice of consumers, but the world of surgery is just one example of how ea…"-Symeon Brown, Get Rich or Lie Trying: Ambition and Deceit in the New Influencer Economy
"In a world where we are encouraged to fake it, the first person you have to convince is yourself. Self-deception is the first step in an economy that thrives off the need to present such demeaning wo…"-Symeon Brown, Get Rich or Lie Trying: Ambition and Deceit in the New Influencer Economy
"In recent decades, aspiration has been heavily wrapped up not in what we aim to do, achieve or create but in what we can afford to buy. Young adults and teenagers have been under more and more pressu…"-Symeon Brown, Get Rich or Lie Trying: Ambition and Deceit in the New Influencer Economy
21. Social Warming: The Dangerous and Polarising Effects of Social Media
By: Charles Arthur
3.76
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Nobody meant for this to happen. Facebook didn’t mean to facilitate a genocide. Twitter didn’t want… read more
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