The Decadent Society - How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success by Ross Douthat
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Category: SOCIETY AND CULTURE | Reading Level: good-very good
From the New York Times columnist and bestselling author of Bad Religion, a "clever and stimulating" (The New York Times Book Review) portrait of how our turbulent age is defined by dark forces seemingly beyond our control. Today the Western world seems to be in crisis. But beneath our social media fren ...Show more
Mediocre - The Dangerous Legacy of White Male Power by Ijeoma Oluo
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Category: SOCIETY AND CULTURE | Reading Level: near fine
From the author of the Sunday Times and number 1 New York Times bestseller So You Want to Talk About Race, a subversive history of white male American identity. 'Deftly combines history and sociological study with personal narrative, and the result is both uncomfortable and illuminating' Washington Post ...Show more
Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win by Peter Schweizer
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Category: SOCIETY AND CULTURE
How the Biden family bagged some $31 million from individuals with direct ties to the highest levels of Chinese intelligence-and Joe Biden personally benefited while softening his position on China, How the families of congressional leaders from both sides of the aisle have secured hundreds of millions ...Show more
Growing Up Disabled in Australia by Carly Findlay
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Category: SOCIETY AND CULTURE | Series: Growing Up
'My body and its place in the world seemed quite normal to me.' 'I didn't grow up disabled, I grew up with a problem. A problem those around me wanted to fix.' 'We have all felt that uncanny sensation that someone is watching us.' 'The diagnosis helped but it didn't fix everything.' 'Don't fear the labe ...Show more
Boys Will Be Boys - Power, patriarchy and the toxic bonds of mateship by Clementine Ford
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Category: SOCIETY AND CULTURE | Reading Level: very good
Clementine Ford reports that one of the questions she is most asked in person and online is 'how do I raise my son to be a feminist? How do I make sure he's a supporter rather than a perpetrator?' That is a question that many parents with sons are haunted by. Now that Clem is mother to a baby boy of her ...Show more
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Noam Chomsky Edward S Herman
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Category: SOCIETY AND CULTURE | Reading Level: good-very good
Contrary to the usual image of the press in its search for truth, this book depict how an underlying elite consensus largely structures all facets of the news. It is an account of how propagandistic our mass media are, and how we can learn to read them and see their function in a radical way. It reveals ...Show more
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
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Category: SOCIETY AND CULTURE | Reading Level: very good
Called the work of "a mesmerizing storyteller with deep compassion and memorable prose" (Publishers Weekly) and the book that, "anyone interested in natural history, botany, protecting nature, or Native American culture will love," by Library Journal, Braiding Sweetgrass is poised to be a classic of nat ...Show more
Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
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Category: SOCIETY AND CULTURE | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
First published in Portuguese in 1968, Pedagogy of the Oppressed was translated and published in English in 1970. The methodology of the late Paulo Freire has helped to empower countless impoverished and illiterate people throughout the world. Freire's work has taken on especial urgency in the United St ...Show more
Ultra-Processed People: Why Do We All Eat Stuff That Isn't Food ... and Why Can't We Stop? by Chris van Tulleken
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Category: SOCIETY AND CULTURE
An eye-opening investigation into the science, economics, history and production of ultra-processed food.It's not you, it's the food.We have entered a new 'age of eating' where most of our calories come from an entirely novel set of substances called Ultra-Processed Food, food which is industrially proc ...Show more