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Spiritomb

Sociology Anthropology

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#303
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Passions Between Women

Passions Between Women
  • Emma Donoghue
00 reads
#304
Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender
Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender
  • Kit Heyam
4.515 reads
#305
Why You Like It: The Science and Culture of Musical Taste
Why You Like It: The Science and Culture of Musical Taste
  • Nolan Gasser
12 reads
#306
Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement from Cubits to Quantum Constants
Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement from Cubits to Quantum Constants
  • James Vincent
53 reads
#307
One Good Turn: A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw
One Good Turn: A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw
  • Witold Rybczynski
01 read
#308
Fabric of Civilization
Fabric of Civilization
  • Virginia Postrel
4.49 reads
#309
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Keywords

Keywords
  • John Patrick Leary
31 read
#310
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Words Matter

Words Matter: Meaning and Power
  • Sally McConnell-Ginet
00 reads
#311
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The Prodigal Tongue

The Prodigal Tongue: The Love-Hate Relationship Between American and British English
  • Lynne Murphy
10 reads
#312
No One Helped: Kitty Genovese, New York City, and the Myth of Urban Apathy
No One Helped: Kitty Genovese, New York City, and the Myth of Urban Apathy
  • Marcia M. Gallo
00 reads
#313
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The Creation of Inequality

The Creation of Inequality: How Our Prehistoric Ancestors Set the Stage for Monarchy, Slavery, and Empire
  • Kent V. Flannery
  • Joyce Marcus
00 reads
#314
The Gay and Lesbian Theatrical Legacy: A Biographical Dictionary of Major Figures in American Stage History in the Pre-Stonewall Era
The Gay and Lesbian Theatrical Legacy: A Biographical Dictionary of Major Figures in American Stage History in the Pre-Stonewall Era
    00 reads
    #315
    The Big Myth
    The Big Myth
    • Naomi Oreskes
    • Erik M. Conway
    43 reads
    #316
    The Power of Vulnerability: Teachings of Authenticity, Connections and Courage
    The Power of Vulnerability: Teachings of Authenticity, Connections and Courage
    • BrenĂ© Brown
    4.6342 reads
    #317
    How Doctors Think
    How Doctors Think
    • Jerome Groopman
    3.7725 reads
    #318
    The Science of Abolition: How Slaveholders Became the Enemies of Progress
    The Science of Abolition: How Slaveholders Became the Enemies of Progress
    • Eric Herschthal
    00 reads
    #319
    The Great American Shopping Experience: The History of American Retail from Main Street to the Mall
    The Great American Shopping Experience: The History of American Retail from Main Street to the Mall
    • Stephen H. Provost
    00 reads
    #320
    Masters of Sex: The Life and Times of William Masters and Virginia Johnson, the Couple Who Taught America How to Love
    Masters of Sex: The Life and Times of William Masters and Virginia Johnson, the Couple Who Taught America How to Love
    • Thomas Maier
    01 read
    #321
    Bread and Circuses: Theories of Mass Culture As Social Decay
    Bread and Circuses: Theories of Mass Culture As Social Decay
    • Patrick Brantlinger
    00 reads
    #322
    Bad Jews: A History of American Jewish Politics and Identities
    Bad Jews: A History of American Jewish Politics and Identities
    • Emily Tamkin
    00 reads
    #323
    Language, Capitalism, Colonialism: Toward a Critical History
    Language, Capitalism, Colonialism: Toward a Critical History
    • Monica Heller
    • Bonnie Mcelhinny
    00 reads
    #324
    Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How it Changes Us
    Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How it Changes Us
    • Brian Klaas
    4.333 reads
    #325
    System Error
    System Error
    • Mehran Sahami
    • Rob Reich
    • Jeremy Weinstein
    01 read
    #326
    Tree Story: The History of the World Written in Rings
    Tree Story: The History of the World Written in Rings
    • Valerie Trouet
    41 read
    #327
    Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous
    Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous
    • Gabriella Coleman
    3.58 reads
    #328
    Recoding Gender
    Recoding Gender
    • Janet Abbate
    00 reads
    #329
    Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked
    Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked
    • Adam Alter
    3.7546 reads
    #330
    The Gunning of America: Business and the Making of American Gun Culture
    The Gunning of America: Business and the Making of American Gun Culture
    • Pamela Haag
    51 read
    #331
    The Misinformation Age
    The Misinformation Age
    • Cailin O'Connor
    • James Owen Weatherall
    41 read
    #332
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    Tech Stress

    Tech Stress: How Technology is Hijacking Our Lives, Strategies for Coping, and Pragmatic Ergonomics
    • Erik Peper
    • Richard Harvey
    • Nancy Faass
    00 reads
    #333
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    The Political Brain

    The Political Brain
    • Drew Westen
    00 reads
    #334
    Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class
    Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class
    • Barbara Ehrenreich
    4.53 reads
    #335
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    American Exceptionalism and American Innocence

    American Exceptionalism and American Innocence: A People's History of Fake News—From the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror
    • Roberto Sirvent
    • Danny Haiphong
    00 reads
    #336
    Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
    Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
    • Tim Marshall
    4.2314 reads
    #337
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    The Psychology of Computer Programming

    The Psychology of Computer Programming
    • Gerald M. Weinberg
    4.675 reads
    #338
    Lurking: How a Person Became a User
    Lurking: How a Person Became a User
    • Joanne McNeil
    3.8610 reads
    #339
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    Atlas of AI

    Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence
    • Kate Crawford
    00 reads
    #340
    Hackers
    Hackers
    • Steven Levy
    4.0962 reads
    #341
    The Soul of A New Machine
    The Soul of A New Machine
    • Tracy Kidder
    4.54 reads
    #342
    Where Wizards Stay Up Late
    Where Wizards Stay Up Late
    • Katie Hafner
    • Matthew Lyon
    3.9222 reads
    #343
    Coders
    Coders
    • Clive Thompson
    4.0828 reads
    #344
    Quarantine Life from Cholera to COVID-19: What Pandemics Teach Us About Parenting, Work, Life, and Communities from the 1700s to Today
    Quarantine Life from Cholera to COVID-19: What Pandemics Teach Us About Parenting, Work, Life, and Communities from the 1700s to Today
    • Kari Nixon
    00 reads
    #345
    Uncanny Valley
    Uncanny Valley
    • Anna Wiener
    3.9133 reads
    #346
    Targeted: The Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower's Inside Story of How Big Data, Trump, and Facebook Broke Democracy and How It Can Happen Again
    Targeted: The Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower's Inside Story of How Big Data, Trump, and Facebook Broke Democracy and How It Can Happen Again
    • Brittany Kaiser
    00 reads
    #347
    Breaking News: The Remaking of Journalism and Why It Matters Now
    Breaking News: The Remaking of Journalism and Why It Matters Now
    • Alan Rusbridger
    52 reads
    #348
    The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth
    The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth
    • Kristin Henning
    00 reads
    #349
    Moving Up without Losing Your Way: The Ethical Costs of Upward Mobility
    Moving Up without Losing Your Way: The Ethical Costs of Upward Mobility
    • Jennifer Morton
    21 read
    #350
    First Among Men: George Washington and the Myth of American Masculinity
    First Among Men: George Washington and the Myth of American Masculinity
    • Maurizio Valsania
    00 reads
    #351
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    Insurrections of the Mind

    Insurrections of the Mind: 100 Years of Politics and Culture in America
    • Franklin Foer
    01 read
    #352
    South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
    South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
    • Imani Perry
    3.868 reads
    #353
    The Second Amendment
    The Second Amendment
    • Michael Waldman
    3.836 reads
    #354
    Laziness Does Not Exist
    Laziness Does Not Exist
    • Devon Price
    3.9452 reads
    #355
    The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power
    The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power
    • Deirdre Mask
    4.1223 reads
    #356
    Our Babies, Ourselves
    Our Babies, Ourselves
    • Meredith Small
    45 reads
    #357
    Humankind: A Hopeful History
    Humankind: A Hopeful History
    • Rutger Bregman
    4.3498 reads
    #358
    Between Us
    Between Us
    • Batja Mesquita
    3.52 reads
    #359
    Conspiracy: Why the Rational Believe the Irrational
    Conspiracy: Why the Rational Believe the Irrational
    • Michael Shermer
    43 reads
    #360
    Buried
    Buried
      4.254 reads
      #361
      Adrift: America in 100 Charts
      Adrift: America in 100 Charts
      • Scott Galloway
      4.255 reads
      #362
      Just Queer Folks: Gender and Sexuality in Rural America
      Just Queer Folks: Gender and Sexuality in Rural America
      • Colin R. Johnson
      00 reads
      #363
      Hearts and Minds: A People's History of Counterinsurgency
      Hearts and Minds: A People's History of Counterinsurgency
        00 reads
        #364
        Popular Dictatorships: Crises, Mass Opinion, and the Rise of Electoral Authoritarianism
        Popular Dictatorships: Crises, Mass Opinion, and the Rise of Electoral Authoritarianism
        • Aleksandar Matovski
        00 reads
        #365
        The Weaponisation of Everything
        The Weaponisation of Everything
        • Mark Galeotti
        00 reads
        #366
        O Say Can You Hear?: A Cultural Biography of "The Star-Spangled Banner"
        O Say Can You Hear?: A Cultural Biography of "The Star-Spangled Banner"
        • Mark Clague
        31 read
        #367
        Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream
        Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream
        • Alissa Quart
        01 read
        #368
        The Chaos Machine
        The Chaos Machine
        • Max Fisher
        3.8931 reads
        #369
        American Exceptionalism: A New History of an Old Idea
        American Exceptionalism: A New History of an Old Idea
        • Ian Tyrrell
        00 reads
        #370
        Beyond Rationality
        Beyond Rationality
        • Alex Mintz
        00 reads
        #371
        They Want to Kill Americans: The Militias, Terrorists, and Deranged Ideology of the Trump Insurgency
        They Want to Kill Americans: The Militias, Terrorists, and Deranged Ideology of the Trump Insurgency
        • Malcolm W. Nance
        46 reads
        #372
        Smashing Statues
        Smashing Statues
        • Erin L. Thompson
        00 reads
        #373
        The Invention of Power: Popes, Kings, and the Birth of the West
        The Invention of Power: Popes, Kings, and the Birth of the West
        • Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
        21 read
        #374
        Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century
        Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century
        • Daniel Treisman
        • Sergei Guriev
        02 reads
        #375
        I the People: The Rhetoric of Conservative Populism in the United States
        I the People: The Rhetoric of Conservative Populism in the United States
        • Paul Elliott Johnson
        00 reads
        #376
        Gender Diversity: Crosscultural Variations
        Gender Diversity: Crosscultural Variations
        • Serena Nanda
        00 reads
        #377
        Enforcing Order: An Ethnography of Urban Policing
        Enforcing Order: An Ethnography of Urban Policing
        • Didier Fassin
        00 reads
        #378
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        Odd Girl Out

        Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls
        • Rachel Simmons
        46 reads
        #379
        Cover 8

        Liquidated

        Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street
        • Karen Ho
        4.52 reads
        #380
        Black feminist thought: Knowledge, consciousness, and the politics of empowerment
        Black feminist thought: Knowledge, consciousness, and the politics of empowerment
        • Patricia Hill Collins
        45 reads
        #381
        The Gospel of Wellness
        The Gospel of Wellness
        • Rina Raphael
        3.439 reads
        #382
        Nonviolence: Twenty-Five Lessons from the History of a Dangerous Idea
        Nonviolence: Twenty-Five Lessons from the History of a Dangerous Idea
        • Mark Kurlansky
        43 reads
        #383
        Mythology of the White Proletariat
        Mythology of the White Proletariat
        • J. Sakai
        00 reads
        #384
        The Devil Is Here in These Hills: West Virginia's Coal Miners and Their Battle for Freedom
        The Devil Is Here in These Hills: West Virginia's Coal Miners and Their Battle for Freedom
        • James R. Green
        51 read
        #385
        The Possessive Investment in Whiteness
        The Possessive Investment in Whiteness
        • George Lipsitz
        4.53 reads
        #386
        The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America
        The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America
        • Thomas King
        4.4138 reads
        #387
        Looking for the Good War: American Amnesia and the Violent Pursuit of Happiness
        Looking for the Good War: American Amnesia and the Violent Pursuit of Happiness
        • Elizabeth D. Samet
        3.333 reads
        #388
        Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis
        Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis
        • Robert D. Putnam
        4.337 reads
        #389
        After the Ivory Tower Falls: How College Broke the American Dream and Blew Up Our Politics—and How to Fix It
        After the Ivory Tower Falls: How College Broke the American Dream and Blew Up Our Politics—and How to Fix It
        • Will Bunch
        31 read
        #390
        Limbo: Blue-Collar Roots, White-Collar Dreams
        Limbo: Blue-Collar Roots, White-Collar Dreams
        • Alfred Lubrano
        52 reads
        #391
        Kids These Days
        Kids These Days
        • Malcolm Harris
        3.9111 reads
        #392
        The Great Leveler
        The Great Leveler
        • Walter Scheidel
        48 reads
        #393
        The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History
        The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History
        • Katherine Ashenburg
        3.46 reads
        #394
        The Potato: How the Humble Spud Rescued the Western World
        The Potato: How the Humble Spud Rescued the Western World
        • Larry Zuckerman
        31 read
        #395
        Tea: The Drink that Changed the World
        Tea: The Drink that Changed the World
        • Laura C. Martin
        32 reads
        #396
        The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters
        The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters
        • Rose George
        3.758 reads
        #397
        Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do and What It Says About Us
        Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do and What It Says About Us
        • Tom Vanderbilt
        3.7832 reads
        #398
        A History of the Breast
        A History of the Breast
        • Marilyn Yalom
        00 reads
        #399
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        The Founding Myth

        The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American
        • Andrew L. Seidel
        • Susan Jacoby
        41 read
        #400
        Founding Myths
        Founding Myths
        • Ray Raphael
        00 reads
        #401
        Extreme North: A Cultural History
        Extreme North: A Cultural History
        • Bernd Brunner
        • Jefferson Chase (Translator)
        51 read
        #402
        Bears: A Brief History
        Bears: A Brief History
        • Bernd Brunner
        • Lori Lantz (Translator)
        00 reads