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Sapiens

av 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.

av Yuval Noah Harari 2011 456 sider

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1 000 000+ vurderinger

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

Outliers

av 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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Outliers

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

av Malcolm Gladwell 2008 309 sider

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800 000+ vurderinger

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

Vippepunktet

av 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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Vippepunktet

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

av Malcolm Gladwell 2000 204 sider

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800 000+ vurderinger

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

Behave

av 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.

av Robert M. Sapolsky 2017 790 sider

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32 000+ vurderinger

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

Breath

av 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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Breath

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

av James Nestor 2020 280 sider

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100 000+ vurderinger

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

The Comfort Crisis

av 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.

av Michael Easter 2021 284 sider

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38 000+ vurderinger

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

The Molecule of More

av 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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The Molecule of More

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

av Daniel Z. Lieberman 2018 240 sider

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19 000+ vurderinger

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

Iron John

av 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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Iron John

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

av Robert Bly 1990 304 sider

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7 000+ vurderinger

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

The Fourth Turning Is Here

av 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.

av Neil Howe 2023 592 sider

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2 000+ vurderinger

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

Emotions Revealed

av 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.

av Paul Ekman 2003 240 sider

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7 000+ vurderinger

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

Guns, Germs, and Steel

av 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

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Guns, Germs, and Steel

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

av Jared Diamond 2005 498 sider

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400 000+ vurderinger

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

A Billion Wicked Thoughts

av 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.

av Ogi Ogas 2011 418 sider

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4 000+ vurderinger

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

End Times

av Peter Turchin • 2023

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

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2 000+

📊 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.

av Peter Turchin 2023 368 sider

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2 000+ vurderinger

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

Technopoly

av Neil Postman • 1992

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

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5 000+

🎙️ 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.

av Neil Postman 1992 222 sider

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5 000+ vurderinger

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

Crazy Like Us

av 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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Crazy Like Us

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

av Ethan Watters 2009 320 sider

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4 000+ vurderinger

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

The Chaos Machine

av 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.

av Max Fisher 2022 350 sider

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8 000+ vurderinger

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

Pakistan

av 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.

av Anatol Lieven 2011 592 sider

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2 000+ vurderinger

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

The Cosmic Serpent

av 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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The Cosmic Serpent

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

av Jeremy Narby 1998 257 sider

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7 000+ vurderinger

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

Friendship

av Lydia Denworth • 2020

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

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500+

🧬 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.

av Lydia Denworth 2020 312 sider

3.64

500+ vurderinger

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

Passport to Magonia

av 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.

av Jacques F. Vallée 1969

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1 000+ vurderinger

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

The Invention of Tradition

av 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.

av Eric J. Hobsbawm 1983 320 sider

3.95

1 000+ vurderinger

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

Suicidal Empathy

av 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.

av Gad Saad 2026

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1 000+ vurderinger

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

Creators, Conquerors, and Citizens

av 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 Sammendrag

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Creators, Conquerors, and Citizens

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

av Robin Waterfield 2018 511 sider

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436 vurderinger

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

Sextinction

av Debra Soh • 2026

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

3.72

109

🧠 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.

av Debra Soh 2026 336 sider

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109 vurderinger

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

Day of Empire

av 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.

av Amy Chua 2007 432 sider

3.77

500+ vurderinger

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

Gods, Voices, and the Bicameral Mind

av Marcel Kuijsten • 2016

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

3.93

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

Gods, Voices, and the Bicameral Mind Sammendrag

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Gods, Voices, and the Bicameral Mind

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

av Marcel Kuijsten 2016 312 sider

3.93

69 vurderinger

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

Twelve Tribes

av Ethan Michaeli • 2021

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

3.93

145

🇮🇱 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.

av Ethan Michaeli 2021 464 sider

3.93

145 vurderinger

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

Nexus

av 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.

av Yuval Noah Harari 2024 528 sider

4.16

51 000+ vurderinger

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

Alone Together

av Sherry Turkle • 2011

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

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6 000+

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

Alone Together

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

av Sherry Turkle 2011 384 sider

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6 000+ vurderinger

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

Homo Deus

av 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.

av Yuval Noah Harari 2015 449 sider

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200 000+ vurderinger

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

The Omnivore's Dilemma

av Michael Pollan • 2006

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

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200 000+

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

The Omnivore's Dilemma

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

av Michael Pollan 2006 710 sider

4.19

200 000+ vurderinger

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

Liquid Modernity

av 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.

av Zygmunt Bauman 1999 240 sider

4.12

5 000+ vurderinger

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

The Righteous Mind

av Jonathan Haidt • 2012

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

4.19

66 000+

🧠 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.

av Jonathan Haidt 2012 530 sider

4.19

66 000+ vurderinger

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

Kamasutra

av Mallanaga Vātsyāyana

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

3.45

6 000+

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

Kamasutra

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

av Mallanaga Vātsyāyana 186 sider

3.45

6 000+ vurderinger

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

Imagined Communities

av Benedict Anderson • 1983

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

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16 000+

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

Imagined Communities

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

av Benedict Anderson 1983 224 sider

4.11

16 000+ vurderinger

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

Simulacra and Simulation

av Jean Baudrillard • 1981

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

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16 000+

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

Simulacra and Simulation

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

av Jean Baudrillard 1981 164 sider

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16 000+ vurderinger

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

The Selfish Gene

av Richard Dawkins • 1976

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

4.16

100 000+

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

The Selfish Gene

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

av Richard Dawkins 1976 360 sider

4.16

100 000+ vurderinger

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

A Short History of Nearly Everything

av Bill Bryson • 2004

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

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A Short History of Nearly Everything

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

av Bill Bryson 2004 544 sider

4.22

400 000+ vurderinger

Bullshit Jobs

av David Graeber • 2018

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

4.02

35 000+

🏭 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.

av David Graeber 2018 359 sider

4.02

35 000+ vurderinger

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

How Emotions Are Made

av Lisa Feldman Barrett • 2017

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

4.09

13 000+

🔬 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.

av Lisa Feldman Barrett 2017 425 sider

4.09

13 000+ vurderinger

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

The God Delusion

av Richard Dawkins • 2006

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

3.90

200 000+

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

The God Delusion

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

av Richard Dawkins 2006 374 sider

3.90

200 000+ vurderinger

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

Self-Made Man

av Norah Vincent • 2006

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

3.44

6 000+

📰 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.

av Norah Vincent 2006 290 sider

3.44

6 000+ vurderinger

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

The Posthuman

av Rosi Braidotti • 2013

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

3.82

500+

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

The Posthuman

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

av Rosi Braidotti 2013 180 sider

3.82

500+ vurderinger

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

The Heroine's Journey

av Maureen Murdock • 1990

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

3.90

2 000+

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

The Heroine's Journey

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

av Maureen Murdock 1990 229 sider

3.90

2 000+ vurderinger

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

The Fourth Turning

av William Strauss • 1996

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

3.87

7 000+

🕰️ 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.

av William Strauss 1996 400 sider

3.87

7 000+ vurderinger

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

The State of Affairs

av Esther Perel • 2017

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

4.36

23 000+

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

The State of Affairs

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

av Esther Perel 2017 352 sider

4.36

23 000+ vurderinger

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

The Master and His Emissary

av Iain McGilchrist • 2009

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

4.36

4 000+

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

The Master and His Emissary

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

av Iain McGilchrist 2009 534 sider

4.36

4 000+ vurderinger

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

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