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What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat by Aubrey Gordon
25 ratingsFrom the creator of Your Fat Friend, an explosive indictment of the systemic and cultural bias facing plus-size people that will move us toward creating an agenda for fat justice.Anti-fatness is everywhere...Categorized as:
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Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom by bell hooks
24 ratingsIn Teaching to Transgress, bell hooks—writer, teacher, and insurgent black intellectual—writes about a new kind of education, educations as the practice of freedom. Teaching students to "transgress" against racial, sexual, and class boundaries in order to achieve the gift of freedom is, for hooks, the teacher's most important goal...Categorized as:
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You're the Only One I've Told: The Stories Behind Abortion by Meera Shah
16 ratings"Moving, multifaceted, and deeply human...as eye-opening as it is compelling” —Cecile Richards, author of Make Trouble At a time where reproductive rights are at risk, these vital stories of diverse individuals serve as a reminder of the importance of empathy, finding community and motivating advocacy For a long time, when people asked Dr...Categorized as:
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Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power by Audre Lorde
12 ratingsThere are many kinds of power, used and unused, acknowledged or otherwise. Thus begins this powerful essay; Uses of the Erotic defines the power of the erotic, names the process by which women have been stripped of this power, and considers how women can reclaim it...Categorized as:
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Männer, Männlichkeit und Liebe by bell hooks
24 ratings»Männer können nicht lieben, wenn ihnen die Kunst zu lieben nicht beigebracht wurde. Es ist nicht wahr, dass Männer sich nicht ändern wollen. Wahr ist, dass viele Männer Angst vor Veränderung haben. Um lieben zu können, müssen Männer imstande sein, sich von ihrem Wunsch zu verabschieden, andere zu beherrschen...Categorized as:
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Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life by Marshall B. Rosenberg
26 ratingsDo you hunger for skills to improve the quality of your relationships, to deepen your sense of personal empowerment or to simply communicate more effectively? Unfortunately, for centuries our culture has taught us to think and speak in ways that can actually perpetuate conflict, internal pain and even violence...Categorized as:
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White Women: Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better by Regina Jackson, Saira Rao
12 ratingsA no-holds-barred guidebook aimed at white women who want to stop being nice and start dismantling white supremacy... -
Men Who Hate Women: From Incels to Pickup Artists: The Truth about Extreme Misogyny and How It Affects Us All by Laura Bates
20 ratingsThe first comprehensive undercover look at the terrorist movement no one is talking about.Men Who Hate Women examines the rise of secretive extremist communities who despise women and traces the roots of misogyny across a complex spider web of groups. It includes eye-opening interviews with former members of these communities, the academics studying this movement, and the men fighting back...Categorized as:
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Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty by Abhijit V. Banerjee, Esther Duflo
24 ratingsWinner of the 2011 Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Best Business Book of the Year AwardBillions of government dollars, and thousands of charitable organizations and NGOs, are dedicated to helping the world's poor. But much of their work is based on assumptions that are untested generalizations at best, harmful misperceptions at worst...Categorized as:
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The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World by Melinda French Gates
32 ratingsA debut from Forbes' third most powerful woman in the world, Melinda Gates, a timely and necessary call to action for women's empowerment.For the last twenty years, Melinda Gates has been on a mission. Her goal, as co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, has been to find solutions for people with the most urgent needs, wherever they live... -
An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back by Elisabeth Rosenthal
18 ratingsA New York Times bestseller/Washington Post Notable Book of 2017/NPR Best Books of 2017/Wall Street Journal Best Books of 2017 "This book will serve as the definitive guide to the past and future of health care in America...Categorized as:
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The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World by Max Fisher
14 ratingsFrom a New York Times investigative reporter and Pulitzer Prize finalist, “an essential book for our times” (Ezra Klein), tracking the high-stakes inside story of how Big Tech’s breakneck race to drive engagement—and profits—at all costs fractured the worldWe all have a vague sense that social media is bad for our minds, for our children, and for our democracies...Categorized as:
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The Authority Gap: Why Women Are Still Taken Less Seriously Than Men, and What We Can Do About It by Mary Ann Sieghart
14 ratingsAn incisive, intersectional look at the mother of all gender biases: a resistance to women’s authority and power. Every woman has a story of being underestimated, ignored, challenged, or patronized in the workplace. Maybe she tried to speak up in a meeting, only to be talked over by male colleagues. Or a client addressed her male subordinate instead of her... -
Blueprint for Black Power: A Moral, Political, and Economic Imperative for the Twenty-First Century by Amos N. Wilson
6 ratings"Blueprint for Black Power details a master plan for the power revolution necessary for Black survival in the 21st century. Blueprints posits that an African American/Caribbean/Pan-African bloc would be most potent for the generation and delivery of Black power in the United States and the World to counter White and Asian power networks. Wilson frames this imperative by deconstructing the U.S...Categorized as:
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Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy by Francis Fukuyama
16 ratingsThe second volume of the bestselling landmark work on the history of the modern stateWriting in The Wall Street Journal, David Gress called Francis Fukuyama's Origins of Political Order "magisterial in its learning and admirably immodest in its ambition...Categorized as:
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A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles by Thomas Sowell
16 ratingsControversies in politics arise from many sources, but the conflicts that endure for generations or centuries show a remarkably consistent pattern. In this classic work, Thomas Sowell analyzes this pattern...Categorized as:
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Society Must Be Defended: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1975-1976 by Michel Foucault
16 ratingsAn examination of relations between war and politicsFrom 1971 until his death in 1984, Michel Foucault taught at the Collège de France, perhaps the most prestigious intellectual institution in Europe. Each year, in a series of 12 public lectures, Foucault sought to explain his research of the previous year...Categorized as:
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The Person You Mean to Be: How Good People Fight Bias by Dolly Chugh, Laszlo Bock
16 ratings“ an engaging, evidence-based book about how to battle biases, champion diversity and inclusion, and advocate for those who lack power and privilege. Dolly Chugh makes a convincing case that being an ally isn’t about being a good person—it’s about constantly striving to be a better person...Categorized as:
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Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time by Jeff Speck
18 ratingsJeff Speck has dedicated his career to determining what makes cities thrive. And he has boiled it down to one key factor: walkability. The very idea of a modern metropolis evokes visions of bustling sidewalks, vital mass transit, and a vibrant, pedestrian-friendly urban core... -
For the Love of Men by Liz Plank
18 ratingsA nonfiction investigation into masculinity, For the Love of Men provides actionable steps for how to be a man in the modern world while also exploring how being a man has evolved.In 2019, traditional masculinity is both rewarded and sanctioned. Men grow up being told that boys don’t cry and dolls are for girls... -
Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems by Abhijit V. Banerjee
20 ratingsFiguring out how to deal with today's critical economic problems is perhaps the great challenge of our time. Much greater than space travel or perhaps even the next revolutionary medical breakthrough, what is at stake is the whole idea of the good life as we have known it...Categorized as:
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How to Create a Vegan World: A Pragmatic Approach by Tobias Leenaert
10 ratingsIn this thought-provoking book, Tobias Leenaert leaves well-trodden animal advocacy paths and takes a fresh look at the strategies, objectives, and communication of the vegan and animal rights movement. He argues that, given our present situation, with entire societies dependent on using animals, we need a very pragmatic approach...Categorized as:
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Crippled: Austerity and the Demonization of Disabled People by Frances Ryan
10 ratingsThe austerity crisis and threat to disability rights. New updated edition includes the impact of COVID on Britain's 14 million disabled people.In austerity Britain, disabled people have been recast as worthless scroungers...Categorized as:
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Der tiefe Graben: Die Geschichte der gespaltenen Staaten von Amerika by Ezra Klein
24 ratingsDiscover how today’s rigidly partisan politics came to be, why we all participate in it, and what it means for America’s future—from star journalist, political commentator, and cofounder of Vox, Ezra Klein. Over the past 50 years, our partisan identities have merged with our racial, religious, geographic, ideological, and cultural identities...Categorized as:
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Trans Like Me: A Journey for All of Us by C.N. Lester
14 ratingsWhat does it mean to be transgender? How do we discuss the subject? In this eye-opening book, C.N...Categorized as:
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The Case Against the Sexual Revolution: A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century by Louise Perry
14 ratingsDitching the stuffy hang-ups and benighted sexual traditionalism of the past is an unambiguously positive thing.The sexual revolution has liberated us to enjoy a heady mixture of erotic freedom and personal autonomy.Right? Wrong, argues Louise Perry in her provocative new book...Categorized as:
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The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century by Amia Srinivasan
18 ratingsThrilling, sharp, and deeply humane, philosopher Amia Srinivasan's The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century upends the way we discuss—or avoid discussing—the problems and politics of sex...Categorized as:
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The Courage of Truth: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1983-1984 by Michel Foucault, الزواوي بغوره
6 ratingsThe Courage of the Truth is the last course that Michel Foucault delivered at the Collège de France. Here, he continues the theme of the previous year's lectures in exploring the notion of "truth-telling" in politics to establish a number of ethically irreducible conditions based on courage and conviction...Categorized as:
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Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction by Maia Szalavitz
6 ratingsFrom “one of the bravest, smartest writers about addiction anywhere” (Johann Hari, New York Times bestselling author)—the untold story of harm reduction, a surprisingly simple idea with enormous power Drug overdoses now kill more Americans annually than guns, cars or breast cancer. But we have tried to solve this national crisis with policies that only made matters worse... -
Unlearn Patriarchy by Lisa Jaspers, Naomi Ryland
8 ratingsObwohl wir inzwischen im 21. Jahrhundert leben, herrscht noch immer das Patriarchat. Warum zur Hölle ist das so? Und was kann jede: r persönlich dazu beitragen, die häufig unbewussten toxischen Strukturen zu erkennen und aufzulösen? Dieser Sammelband mit bekannten Autor:innen bietet Hilfestellung. Sich gegen das Patriarchat zur Wehr zu setzen, ist besonders im Alltag schwierig...Categorized as:
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