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Sapiens

par Yuval Noah Harari • 2011

The one skill that let humans conquer the planet: inventing things we all pretend are real.

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🌍 Big History 🧬 Cultural Evolution 🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🔬 History Of Science 🏛️ Social Hierarchy

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Sapiens

The one skill that let humans conquer the planet: inventing things we all pretend are real.

par Yuval Noah Harari 2011 456 pages

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🌍 Big History 🧬 Cultural Evolution 🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🔬 History Of Science 🏛️ Social Hierarchy

Tous winners

par Malcolm Gladwell • 2008

Mastery takes roughly ten thousand hours. Getting those hours takes luck, not just grit.

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🏆 Sociology Of Success 📊 Achievement Research 📈 Accumulated Advantage 🌍 Cultural Legacies 🏋️ Deliberate Practice

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Tous winners

Mastery takes roughly ten thousand hours. Getting those hours takes luck, not just grit.

par Malcolm Gladwell 2008 309 pages

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🏆 Sociology Of Success 📊 Achievement Research 📈 Accumulated Advantage 🌍 Cultural Legacies 🏋️ Deliberate Practice

Le point de bascule

par Malcolm Gladwell • 2000

Three rules govern social epidemics, and the people who start them aren't who you'd expect.

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🦠 Social Contagion 🗣️ Word Of Mouth 🧠 Behavioral Influence 🏙️ Situational Psychology 🕸️ Network Effects

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Le point de bascule

Three rules govern social epidemics, and the people who start them aren't who you'd expect.

par Malcolm Gladwell 2000 204 pages

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🦠 Social Contagion 🗣️ Word Of Mouth 🧠 Behavioral Influence 🏙️ Situational Psychology 🕸️ Network Effects

Behave

par Robert M. Sapolsky • 2017

Trace any human act through neurons, hormones, and evolution. Free will disappears at every scale.

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🧬 Behavioral Biology 🧪 Neurochemistry 💉 Hormones And Behavior 🌱 Nature Nurture 🔗 Free Will Debate

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Behave

Trace any human act through neurons, hormones, and evolution. Free will disappears at every scale.

par Robert M. Sapolsky 2017 790 pages

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🧬 Behavioral Biology 🧪 Neurochemistry 💉 Hormones And Behavior 🌱 Nature Nurture 🔗 Free Will Debate

Respirer

par James Nestor • 2020

You take 25,000 breaths a day. Most of them are making you sick.

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🫁 Respiratory Health 🌬️ Breathing Techniques 👃 Nasal Breathing 🧠 Body-Mind Connection 🌿 Holistic Health

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Respirer

You take 25,000 breaths a day. Most of them are making you sick.

par James Nestor 2020 280 pages

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🫁 Respiratory Health 🌬️ Breathing Techniques 👃 Nasal Breathing 🧠 Body-Mind Connection 🌿 Holistic Health

The Comfort Crisis

par Michael Easter • 2021

Your body expects hunger, cold, and exhaustion. Comfort broke the contract.

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🧬 Evolutionary Health 🧩 Evolutionary Mismatch 🏛️ Modern Stoicism ⚡ Hormetic Stress ⏳ Intermittent Fasting

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The Comfort Crisis

Your body expects hunger, cold, and exhaustion. Comfort broke the contract.

par Michael Easter 2021 284 pages

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🧬 Evolutionary Health 🧩 Evolutionary Mismatch 🏛️ Modern Stoicism ⚡ Hormetic Stress ⏳ Intermittent Fasting

La Molécule du plus

par Daniel Z. Lieberman • 2018

Dopamine delivers wanting, not pleasure. It falls silent the moment you arrive.

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🧠 Neurochemistry 🔄 Hedonic Adaptation 💉 Addiction Science ❤️ Relationship Science 🎯 Attention Management

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La Molécule du plus

Dopamine delivers wanting, not pleasure. It falls silent the moment you arrive.

par Daniel Z. Lieberman 2018 240 pages

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🧠 Neurochemistry 🔄 Hedonic Adaptation 💉 Addiction Science ❤️ Relationship Science 🎯 Attention Management

L'homme sauvage et l'enfant

par Robert Bly • 1990

Modern manhood offers two broken scripts. One Grimm tale reveals a third, and it hurts.

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🧠 Masculine Psychology 🏺 Jungian Psychology 📖 Fairy Tale Analysis 👨‍👦 Father-Son Bond 🧱 Emotional Boundaries

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L'homme sauvage et l'enfant

Modern manhood offers two broken scripts. One Grimm tale reveals a third, and it hurts.

par Robert Bly 1990 304 pages

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🧠 Masculine Psychology 🏺 Jungian Psychology 📖 Fairy Tale Analysis 👨‍👦 Father-Son Bond 🧱 Emotional Boundaries

The Fourth Turning Is Here

par Neil Howe • 2023

An 80-year cycle pushes America toward a 2030 crisis. The last two ended in total war.

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🌀 Cyclical History 🧬 Generational Theory ⚠️ Crisis Cycles 🔮 Social Forecasting 🇺🇸 American Crisis

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The Fourth Turning Is Here

An 80-year cycle pushes America toward a 2030 crisis. The last two ended in total war.

par Neil Howe 2023 592 pages

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🌀 Cyclical History 🧬 Generational Theory ⚠️ Crisis Cycles 🔮 Social Forecasting 🇺🇸 American Crisis

Emotions Revealed

par Paul Ekman • 2003

Emotions hijack you in milliseconds. Spot them on any face before they cost you.

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🎭 Facial Expressions 🧠 Basic Emotions 🧘 Emotional Regulation 💬 Nonverbal Communication 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology

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Emotions Revealed

Emotions hijack you in milliseconds. Spot them on any face before they cost you.

par Paul Ekman 2003 240 pages

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🎭 Facial Expressions 🧠 Basic Emotions 🧘 Emotional Regulation 💬 Nonverbal Communication 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology

De l'inégalité parmi les sociétés

par Jared Diamond • 2005

Eurasia had wheat and an east-west axis. The Americas didn't. Geography decided who conquered whom.

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🗺️ Macrohistory 🌍 Geographic Determinism 🧬 Biogeography 🔄 Cultural Evolution 🏛️ Human Prehistory

De l'inégalité parmi les sociétés Résumé

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De l'inégalité parmi les sociétés

Eurasia had wheat and an east-west axis. The Americas didn't. Geography decided who conquered whom.

par Jared Diamond 2005 498 pages

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🗺️ Macrohistory 🌍 Geographic Determinism 🧬 Biogeography 🔄 Cultural Evolution 🏛️ Human Prehistory

A Billion Wicked Thoughts

par Ogi Ogas • 2011

A billion anonymous searches expose the true architecture of male and female desire.

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🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 💑 Mate Selection 🔥 Sexual Desire ⚡ Gender Differences 💻 Internet Data

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A Billion Wicked Thoughts

A billion anonymous searches expose the true architecture of male and female desire.

par Ogi Ogas 2011 418 pages

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🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 💑 Mate Selection 🔥 Sexual Desire ⚡ Gender Differences 💻 Internet Data

End Times

par Peter Turchin • 2023

Ten millennia of data point to two conditions for state collapse. America now meets both.

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📊 Quantitative History 💥 Political Instability 👑 Elite Theory ✊ Revolution Theory 🏚️ State Collapse

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End Times

Ten millennia of data point to two conditions for state collapse. America now meets both.

par Peter Turchin 2023 368 pages

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📊 Quantitative History 💥 Political Instability 👑 Elite Theory ✊ Revolution Theory 🏚️ State Collapse

Technopoly

par Neil Postman • 1992

When a culture worships its tools, the old stories that held it together quietly disappear.

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🎙️ Media Ecology 💻 Technology Criticism 📊 Information Overload ⚙️ Technological Determinism 🔬 Scientism

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Technopoly

When a culture worships its tools, the old stories that held it together quietly disappear.

par Neil Postman 1992 222 pages

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🎙️ Media Ecology 💻 Technology Criticism 📊 Information Overload ⚙️ Technological Determinism 🔬 Scientism

Fous comme nous

par Ethan Watters • 2009

Exporting American psychiatric definitions changes mental illness from the inside, not just what doctors call it.

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🩺 Medical Anthropology 🌍 Global Mental Health 🗺️ Culture-Bound Syndromes 💊 Pharmaceutical Marketing 🔁 Diagnostic Looping Effects

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Fous comme nous

Exporting American psychiatric definitions changes mental illness from the inside, not just what doctors call it.

par Ethan Watters 2009 320 pages

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🩺 Medical Anthropology 🌍 Global Mental Health 🗺️ Culture-Bound Syndromes 💊 Pharmaceutical Marketing 🔁 Diagnostic Looping Effects

The Chaos Machine

par Max Fisher • 2022

Algorithms learned that fear and fury keep you watching, then optimized for your worst instincts.

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💸 Attention Economy 📢 Online Radicalization 😤 Moral Outrage 🧠 Evolutionary Psychology ⚙️ Tech Criticism

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The Chaos Machine

Algorithms learned that fear and fury keep you watching, then optimized for your worst instincts.

par Max Fisher 2022 350 pages

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💸 Attention Economy 📢 Online Radicalization 😤 Moral Outrage 🧠 Evolutionary Psychology ⚙️ Tech Criticism

Pakistan

par Anatol Lieven • 2011

Why Pakistan outlasts every prediction of its collapse: kinship, not government, runs the country.

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🗳️ South Asian Politics 👥 Kinship Politics 💬 Failed State Debate 🪖 Military And Politics 🔬 Political Anthropology

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Pakistan

Why Pakistan outlasts every prediction of its collapse: kinship, not government, runs the country.

par Anatol Lieven 2011 592 pages

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🗳️ South Asian Politics 👥 Kinship Politics 💬 Failed State Debate 🪖 Military And Politics 🔬 Political Anthropology

Le serpent cosmique

par Jeremy Narby • 1998

A Stanford anthropologist argues Amazonian shamans see their own DNA as twin luminous serpents.

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🌿 Ethnobotany 🍄 Psychedelics 🪶 Indigenous Knowledge 🐍 Comparative Mythology 🔬 Anthropology Of Science

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Le serpent cosmique

A Stanford anthropologist argues Amazonian shamans see their own DNA as twin luminous serpents.

par Jeremy Narby 1998 257 pages

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🌿 Ethnobotany 🍄 Psychedelics 🪶 Indigenous Knowledge 🐍 Comparative Mythology 🔬 Anthropology Of Science

Friendship

par Lydia Denworth • 2020

Loneliness kills like smoking. The biology of friendship, from macaques to MRI, reveals why.

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🧬 Evolutionary Psychology 🧠 Social Neuroscience 💔 Loneliness And Health 👥 Friendship Science 👵 Healthy Aging

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Friendship

Loneliness kills like smoking. The biology of friendship, from macaques to MRI, reveals why.

par Lydia Denworth 2020 312 pages

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🧬 Evolutionary Psychology 🧠 Social Neuroscience 💔 Loneliness And Health 👥 Friendship Science 👵 Healthy Aging

Passport to Magonia

par Jacques F. Vallée • 1969

UFOs are genuine but not alien. They are fairies and demons repackaged for the space age.

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🛸 Ufology 🧚 Fairy Lore 🃏 Trickster Archetype 📚 Comparative Mythology 👁️ Hidden Intelligences

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Passport to Magonia

UFOs are genuine but not alien. They are fairies and demons repackaged for the space age.

par Jacques F. Vallée 1969

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🛸 Ufology 🧚 Fairy Lore 🃏 Trickster Archetype 📚 Comparative Mythology 👁️ Hidden Intelligences

The Invention of Tradition

par Eric J. Hobsbawm • 1983

Most timeless rituals were built recently, assembled when rapid change broke old social bonds.

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🏛️ Manufactured Heritage 🏗️ Nation Building 🎭 Political Ritual 🌍 Colonial Knowledge 🔨 Marxist History

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The Invention of Tradition

Most timeless rituals were built recently, assembled when rapid change broke old social bonds.

par Eric J. Hobsbawm 1983 320 pages

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🏛️ Manufactured Heritage 🏗️ Nation Building 🎭 Political Ritual 🌍 Colonial Knowledge 🔨 Marxist History

Suicidal Empathy

par Gad Saad • 2026

Too much empathy, aimed wrong, can destroy the civilization extending it. An evolutionary diagnosis.

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🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🗳️ Political Commentary 💔 Empathy Critique 🔬 Science And Ideology ⚖️ Trade-Off Thinking

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Suicidal Empathy

Too much empathy, aimed wrong, can destroy the civilization extending it. An evolutionary diagnosis.

par Gad Saad 2026

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🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🗳️ Political Commentary 💔 Empathy Critique 🔬 Science And Ideology ⚖️ Trade-Off Thinking

Creators, Conquerors, and Citizens

par Robin Waterfield • 2018

One culture, a thousand warring city-states: the split that built ancient Greece and doomed it.

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🏛️ Ancient Greece 🗳️ Democratic Origins 🏺 Greek Identity ⚡ Ancient Religion ⚔️ Hoplite Warfare

Creators, Conquerors, and Citizens Résumé

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Creators, Conquerors, and Citizens

One culture, a thousand warring city-states: the split that built ancient Greece and doomed it.

par Robin Waterfield 2018 511 pages

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🏛️ Ancient Greece 🗳️ Democratic Origins 🏺 Greek Identity ⚡ Ancient Religion ⚔️ Hoplite Warfare

Sextinction

par Debra Soh • 2026

When mating brains built for scarcity collide with porn, apps, and AI companions, intimacy loses.

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🧠 Mating Psychology 💔 Modern Sexuality 📱 Digital Intimacy 💰 Sexual Marketplace 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology

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Sextinction

When mating brains built for scarcity collide with porn, apps, and AI companions, intimacy loses.

par Debra Soh 2026 336 pages

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🧠 Mating Psychology 💔 Modern Sexuality 📱 Digital Intimacy 💰 Sexual Marketplace 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology

Day of Empire

par Amy Chua • 2007

Dominating the world has always required one thing: taking in the talent everyone else rejects.

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🏛️ Comparative History 👑 Empire Studies 📉 Rise And Fall 🌍 Geopolitics ♟️ Grand Strategy

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Day of Empire

Dominating the world has always required one thing: taking in the talent everyone else rejects.

par Amy Chua 2007 432 pages

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🏛️ Comparative History 👑 Empire Studies 📉 Rise And Fall 🌍 Geopolitics ♟️ Grand Strategy

Gods, Voices, and the Bicameral Mind

par Marcel Kuijsten • 2016

Your inner voice is barely 3000 years old. Before it, humans heard gods.

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🧠 Consciousness Studies 🏺 Cognitive Archaeology 📜 History Of Consciousness 👂 Hearing Voices 🙏 Cognitive Science Of Religion

Gods, Voices, and the Bicameral Mind Résumé

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Gods, Voices, and the Bicameral Mind

Your inner voice is barely 3000 years old. Before it, humans heard gods.

par Marcel Kuijsten 2016 312 pages

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🧠 Consciousness Studies 🏺 Cognitive Archaeology 📜 History Of Consciousness 👂 Hearing Voices 🙏 Cognitive Science Of Religion

Twelve Tribes

par Ethan Michaeli • 2021

Half of Israel's next generation comes from communities rejecting the state. The reckoning is here.

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🇮🇱 Israeli Politics 🌍 Middle East Conflict 🏛️ Tribalism 🎙️ Immersive Journalism 📊 Demographic Shifts

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Twelve Tribes

Half of Israel's next generation comes from communities rejecting the state. The reckoning is here.

par Ethan Michaeli 2021 464 pages

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🇮🇱 Israeli Politics 🌍 Middle East Conflict 🏛️ Tribalism 🎙️ Immersive Journalism 📊 Demographic Shifts

Nexus

par Yuval Noah Harari • 2024

The history of information is the history of power. The next chapter has no human author.

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🕸️ Information Networks 🏛️ Macro-History 📖 Shared Myths ⚠️ Ai Safety 📋 Bureaucracy And Power

Nexus

The history of information is the history of power. The next chapter has no human author.

par Yuval Noah Harari 2024 528 pages

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🕸️ Information Networks 🏛️ Macro-History 📖 Shared Myths ⚠️ Ai Safety 📋 Bureaucracy And Power

Seuls ensemble

par Sherry Turkle • 2011

Robots comfort the elderly, screens raise children. What we lose when machines mediate intimacy.

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🤖 Social Robotics 📱 Digital Isolation 🎭 Online Identity 💌 Mediated Intimacy 🔔 Always On Culture

Seuls ensemble

Robots comfort the elderly, screens raise children. What we lose when machines mediate intimacy.

par Sherry Turkle 2011 384 pages

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🤖 Social Robotics 📱 Digital Isolation 🎭 Online Identity 💌 Mediated Intimacy 🔔 Always On Culture

Homo Deus

par Yuval Noah Harari • 2015

We tamed hunger and war. Now we chase immortality and godhood. The chase may end us.

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🔭 Big History 🔮 Futurism 🤖 Artificial Intelligence ⚠️ Existential Risk 🧠 Consciousness Studies

Homo Deus

We tamed hunger and war. Now we chase immortality and godhood. The chase may end us.

par Yuval Noah Harari 2015 449 pages

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🔭 Big History 🔮 Futurism 🤖 Artificial Intelligence ⚠️ Existential Risk 🧠 Consciousness Studies

Le dilemme de l'omnivore

par Michael Pollan • 2006

Corn and oil, not sunlight, power what we eat. Four meals traced to their hidden origins.

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🏭 Food Systems 🌽 Industrial Agriculture 🌾 Sustainable Farming 🐄 Ethical Eating 🌍 Food And Climate

Le dilemme de l'omnivore

Corn and oil, not sunlight, power what we eat. Four meals traced to their hidden origins.

par Michael Pollan 2006 710 pages

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🏭 Food Systems 🌽 Industrial Agriculture 🌾 Sustainable Farming 🐄 Ethical Eating 🌍 Food And Climate

Liquid Modernity

par Zygmunt Bauman • 1999

The old power controlled territory. The new power leaves before the bill arrives.

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🌊 Late Modernity 🏛️ Cultural Theory 👤 Individualization 🛒 Consumer Society 📉 Precarity

Liquid Modernity

The old power controlled territory. The new power leaves before the bill arrives.

par Zygmunt Bauman 1999 240 pages

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🌊 Late Modernity 🏛️ Cultural Theory 👤 Individualization 🛒 Consumer Society 📉 Precarity

The Righteous Mind

par Jonathan Haidt • 2012

Reason didn't evolve to find truth. It evolved to defend whatever your group already believes.

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🧠 Moral Psychology 🔴 Political Polarization ⚡ Moral Intuition 👥 Group Psychology 🧬 Evolutionary Ethics

The Righteous Mind

Reason didn't evolve to find truth. It evolved to defend whatever your group already believes.

par Jonathan Haidt 2012 530 pages

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🧠 Moral Psychology 🔴 Political Polarization ⚡ Moral Intuition 👥 Group Psychology 🧬 Evolutionary Ethics

Kâmasûtra

par Mallanaga Vātsyāyana

You know its positions. You missed the ancient masterclass in desire, marriage, and living well.

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🏛️ Ancient India 🕉️ Hindu Ethics 🔥 Sexual Techniques 💃 Courtesan Culture 🎯 Seduction

Kâmasûtra

You know its positions. You missed the ancient masterclass in desire, marriage, and living well.

par Mallanaga Vātsyāyana 186 pages

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🏛️ Ancient India 🕉️ Hindu Ethics 🔥 Sexual Techniques 💃 Courtesan Culture 🎯 Seduction

L'imaginaire national

par Benedict Anderson • 1983

Your nation is not ancient. Print markets, colonial maps, and selective forgetting built it.

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🏗️ Nation Building 🗳️ Political Identity 📚 Print Culture 🏛️ Social Construction 🧠 Cultural Memory

L'imaginaire national

Your nation is not ancient. Print markets, colonial maps, and selective forgetting built it.

par Benedict Anderson 1983 224 pages

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🏗️ Nation Building 🗳️ Political Identity 📚 Print Culture 🏛️ Social Construction 🧠 Cultural Memory

Simulacres et Simulation

par Jean Baudrillard • 1981

What's left of reality when the map no longer copies the territory but creates it?

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🏛️ French Theory 🔮 Postmodern Philosophy 🔣 Semiotics 📺 Media Criticism 🎭 Cultural Criticism

Simulacres et Simulation

What's left of reality when the map no longer copies the territory but creates it?

par Jean Baudrillard 1981 164 pages

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🏛️ French Theory 🔮 Postmodern Philosophy 🔣 Semiotics 📺 Media Criticism 🎭 Cultural Criticism

Le Gène égoïste

par Richard Dawkins • 1976

Natural selection works for genes, not for you. They built you to serve them.

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🧬 Evolutionary Biology 🤝 Evolution Of Cooperation 🦊 Behavioral Ecology 🐒 Animal Behavior 🎲 Evolutionary Game Theory

Le Gène égoïste

Natural selection works for genes, not for you. They built you to serve them.

par Richard Dawkins 1976 360 pages

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🧬 Evolutionary Biology 🤝 Evolution Of Cooperation 🦊 Behavioral Ecology 🐒 Animal Behavior 🎲 Evolutionary Game Theory

Une histoire de tout, ou presque...

par Bill Bryson • 2004

What science knows about the universe, and the accident-prone humans who figured it out.

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Une histoire de tout, ou presque...

What science knows about the universe, and the accident-prone humans who figured it out.

par Bill Bryson 2004 544 pages

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Bullshit Jobs

par David Graeber • 2018

Up to 40 percent of workers believe their jobs are pointless. They are probably right.

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🏭 Critique Of Capitalism 🏛️ Economic Anthropology 💼 Meaningful Work 🪪 Work And Identity 📋 Office Absurdity

Bullshit Jobs

Up to 40 percent of workers believe their jobs are pointless. They are probably right.

par David Graeber 2018 359 pages

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🏭 Critique Of Capitalism 🏛️ Economic Anthropology 💼 Meaningful Work 🪪 Work And Identity 📋 Office Absurdity

How Emotions Are Made

par Lisa Feldman Barrett • 2017

Emotions aren't hardwired. They're built fresh each time from prediction, body, and culture.

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🔬 Affective Neuroscience 🧠 Psychology Of Emotion 🔮 Predictive Processing 🧘 Body Mind Connection 🌍 Cultural Psychology

How Emotions Are Made

Emotions aren't hardwired. They're built fresh each time from prediction, body, and culture.

par Lisa Feldman Barrett 2017 425 pages

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🔬 Affective Neuroscience 🧠 Psychology Of Emotion 🔮 Predictive Processing 🧘 Body Mind Connection 🌍 Cultural Psychology

Pour en finir avec Dieu

par Richard Dawkins • 2006

Religion is a delusion that survives by infecting children. A biologist makes the case for atheism.

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🧬 Evolutionary Biology 🏛️ Philosophy Of Religion 📖 Religious Critique 🚫 New Atheism 🔬 Scientific Skepticism

Pour en finir avec Dieu

Religion is a delusion that survives by infecting children. A biologist makes the case for atheism.

par Richard Dawkins 2006 374 pages

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🧬 Evolutionary Biology 🏛️ Philosophy Of Religion 📖 Religious Critique 🚫 New Atheism 🔬 Scientific Skepticism

Self-Made Man

par Norah Vincent • 2006

Eighteen months passing as a man. She uncovered the emotional isolation that male privilege hides.

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📰 Participatory Journalism 😶 Male Emotions 🤝 Male Bonding 👨‍👦 Father-Son Bond 🏆 Male Privilege

Self-Made Man

Eighteen months passing as a man. She uncovered the emotional isolation that male privilege hides.

par Norah Vincent 2006 290 pages

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📰 Participatory Journalism 😶 Male Emotions 🤝 Male Bonding 👨‍👦 Father-Son Bond 🏆 Male Privilege

The Posthuman

par Rosi Braidotti • 2013

Humanism promised progress but delivered exclusion. A theory of what we become next.

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📚 Critical Theory 🤖 Posthumanism 🐾 Animal Studies 🌍 Anthropocene 🏛️ Biopolitics

The Posthuman

Humanism promised progress but delivered exclusion. A theory of what we become next.

par Rosi Braidotti 2013 180 pages

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📚 Critical Theory 🤖 Posthumanism 🐾 Animal Studies 🌍 Anthropocene 🏛️ Biopolitics

Le voyage de l'héroïne

par Maureen Murdock • 1990

The hero's journey was never made for women. Here is the map they actually walk.

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🧠 Jungian Psychology 🌒 Goddess Spirituality 👸 Feminine Archetypes 🌑 Mother Wound 🌗 Shadow Work

Le voyage de l'héroïne

The hero's journey was never made for women. Here is the map they actually walk.

par Maureen Murdock 1990 229 pages

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🧠 Jungian Psychology 🌒 Goddess Spirituality 👸 Feminine Archetypes 🌑 Mother Wound 🌗 Shadow Work

The Fourth Turning

par William Strauss • 1996

America's history runs on an 80-year cycle of four social seasons. The crisis season has begun.

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🕰️ Cyclical History 👥 Generational Dynamics ⚠️ Crisis Forecasting 🏚️ Institutional Decay 🌋 Cultural Upheaval

The Fourth Turning

America's history runs on an 80-year cycle of four social seasons. The crisis season has begun.

par William Strauss 1996 400 pages

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🕰️ Cyclical History 👥 Generational Dynamics ⚠️ Crisis Forecasting 🏚️ Institutional Decay 🌋 Cultural Upheaval

Je t'aime, je te trompe

par Esther Perel • 2017

Happy couples have affairs. What that reveals about love, desire, and monogamy.

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💔 Infidelity Studies 🧠 Relationship Psychology 🛋️ Couples Therapy 🔥 Sexual Desire 💍 Modern Monogamy

Je t'aime, je te trompe

Happy couples have affairs. What that reveals about love, desire, and monogamy.

par Esther Perel 2017 352 pages

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💔 Infidelity Studies 🧠 Relationship Psychology 🛋️ Couples Therapy 🔥 Sexual Desire 💍 Modern Monogamy

Le Maître et son Émissaire

par Iain McGilchrist • 2009

Your brain's two halves build opposing worlds. Western civilization chose the wrong one.

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🧠 Cognitive Neuroscience 🔮 Consciousness Studies 👁️ Embodied Cognition 📖 Phenomenology 🌍 Cultural Evolution

Le Maître et son Émissaire

Your brain's two halves build opposing worlds. Western civilization chose the wrong one.

par Iain McGilchrist 2009 534 pages

4.36

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🧠 Cognitive Neuroscience 🔮 Consciousness Studies 👁️ Embodied Cognition 📖 Phenomenology 🌍 Cultural Evolution

It's Not You, It's Biology.

par Joe Quirk • 2008

Men and women want different things because sperm and eggs have conflicting goals.

4.04

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🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🦚 Mating Behavior 💃 Sexual Selection 🔗 Pair Bonding 👀 Mate Choice

It's Not You, It's Biology.

Men and women want different things because sperm and eggs have conflicting goals.

par Joe Quirk 2008 272 pages

4.04

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🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🦚 Mating Behavior 💃 Sexual Selection 🔗 Pair Bonding 👀 Mate Choice

Staying with the Trouble

par Donna J. Haraway • 2016

There is no escape from collapse, only forging ties with critters, compost, and the dead.

4.04

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🐙 Multispecies Kinship 🌿 Ecological Entanglement ♀️ Feminist Theory 🐝 More-Than-Human Ethics 🔬 Science Studies

Staying with the Trouble

There is no escape from collapse, only forging ties with critters, compost, and the dead.

par Donna J. Haraway 2016 312 pages

4.04

2 000+ évaluations

🐙 Multispecies Kinship 🌿 Ecological Entanglement ♀️ Feminist Theory 🐝 More-Than-Human Ethics 🔬 Science Studies

Le déni de la mort

par Ernest Becker • 1973

Every culture, religion, and heroic ambition is built on a single buried fear: your own death.

4.05

16 000+

🧠 Existential Psychology 💀 Death Anxiety 📚 Existentialism 🛋️ Psychoanalytic Theory 🪦 Mortality And Meaning

Le déni de la mort

Every culture, religion, and heroic ambition is built on a single buried fear: your own death.

par Ernest Becker 1973 336 pages

4.05

16 000+ évaluations

🧠 Existential Psychology 💀 Death Anxiety 📚 Existentialism 🛋️ Psychoanalytic Theory 🪦 Mortality And Meaning

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