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Flowers of Fire: The Inside Story of South Korea's Feminist Movement and What It Means for Women's Rights Worldwide

by Hawon Jung  · 21 Mar 2023  · 401pp  · 112,589 words

past few years, South Korean women have pushed back like never before. Inspired by the #MeToo campaign in the United States and a surge of feminist movements at home, South Korea’s #MeToo story is one of the most successful in Asia and beyond. Women like Kim and Na-Young have fought

from outside the movement but also from within: lack of resources, burnout, and endless online squabbles over who qualifies as “real” feminists. And like many feminist movements elsewhere, past and present—or grassroots social movements of any kind—South Korean women and their activism are far from perfect; they can be smart

write it”—I set out to write this book. This book largely portrays the lives of the people who led or powered the South Korean feminist movements from 2015 to 2021, which ushered in many monumental legal, social, and cultural changes. This book shows the battles—both the crushing defeats and the

how few laws there were to punish sexual assault and domestic abuse, meant that creating new laws to name and punish such violence became the feminist movement’s top priority. So, beginning in the late eighties, a community of advocates, lawyers, and scholars rallied behind victims of high-profile abuse cases, conducted

had fought for democratization] realized that without feminism, political democracy would remain incomplete forever,” she continued, “and they decided to chart their own path of feminist movement—while still keeping their roots in the fight for democracy and wider social activism.” This new generation of feminists was also among the first to

. CHAPTER 4 As bizarre as it may sound, it was a respiratory disease from the Middle East that helped begin a new chapter of the feminist movement in the late 2010s. In 2015, the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) swept through South Korea, infecting more than 180 people. It was the largest

ordinary South Korean woman that became a blockbuster, selling more than 1.3 million copies in South Korea and becoming a rallying cry of the feminist movement at home and beyond. Kim Ji-Young, Born 1982, published in October 2016, portrays the everyday sexism and discrimination the title character experiences. Translated into

one [woman] less” in Spanish), respectively in support of the then-ongoing campaign to abolish the abortion laws in Ireland102 and a new wave of feminist movement in Argentina that would eventually play a key role in legalizing abortion there.103 Some others also waved banners that said, “Zalegalizuje aborcję” (“Legalize abortion

were ready to talk, and society was not ready to listen to them at all even if they would speak,” she said. “But the new feminist movement triggered by the Gangnam Station murder changed it all—more women could speak up with less fears of social stigma, knowing their voices would be

feminists in South Korea, as they find themselves facing a barrage of attacks. South Korea is hardly alone, though. In Spain, a powerful wave of feminist movements sparked by a high-profile gang-rape of a woman in 2016 gave rise to the advance of a far-right party that espoused anti

victory marked the culmination of this wave of backlash. The marriage of right-wing politics with anti-feminism is a familiar story worldwide,5 with feminist movements often marked by a step forward followed by two steps back—a modicum of progress followed by years of backlash. But the ferocity of the

advocating 6B4T were shut down, and the term was banned on a major online platform where the campaigners shared their thoughts.25 South Korea’s feminist movement also resonated widely in Japan, another neighbor in Northeast Asia. “South Korea’s robust political and feminist activism like the candlelight rallies and #MeToo campaign

, April 24, 2019, https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2019/04/spain-vox-feminism/587824/ Adrien Vincente,”Spanish Feminist movement faces far-right backlash,” AFP, January 11, 2019, https://sg.news.yahoo.com/spanish-feminist-movement-faces-far-backlash-035348625.html 2Leta Hong Fincher, “Why Peng Shuai Has China’s Leaders Spooked,” The New

the result of its investigation into sexual harassment involving former Seoul mayor], press release, January 25, 2021 7Cheon Gwan-Yul, [The way the comrade of feminist movement let Park Won-Soon go], SisaIn, November 29, 2021, https://www.sisain.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=42599 8Choi Jin-Ryeol, [Lee Jun-Seok

is erasing “radical” accounts that shun men and the patriarchy,” Quartz, April 14, 2021, https://qz.com/1996143/chinas-douban-censors-ideas-from-south-korean-feminist-movement/ Manya Koetse, “Censorship of Chinese 6B4T & Feminist Groups Prompts Wave of Support for “Douban Sisters,” What’s on Weibo, April 13, 2021, https://www.whatsonweibo

The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature

by Matt Ridley  · 14 Aug 1993  · 474pp  · 136,787 words

Professional women value the earning capacity of their husbands more, not less, than low-earning women. Even a survey of fifteen powerful leaders of the feminist movement revealed that they wanted still more powerful men. As Buss’s colleague Bruce Ellis put it, ‘Women’s sexual tastes become more, rather than less

One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter

by Scaachi Koul  · 7 Mar 2017  · 178pp  · 61,242 words

, and temples are merely there for your enjoyment. In the second, India is a country lurching forward awkwardly, suffering a rape epidemic, incapable of a feminist movement or proper health care, a place where people shit and piss in the streets, where the caste system has ruined entire generations, where poverty is

Women & Power: A Manifesto

by Mary Beard  · 2 Nov 2017  · 50pp  · 15,155 words

of life, and, as long as that continues to be true, we will need to understand and engage with the ideas and history of the feminist movement. ISBN 978 1 78125 837 8

So Sad Today: Personal Essays

by Melissa Broder  · 15 Mar 2016  · 140pp  · 47,093 words

when I see feminism used as clickbait, it kind of makes me want to puke or die. This is not a condemnation of the contemporary feminist movement (or movements), but a revulsion to clickbait. To engage in depth with the ephemeral that is marketing culture makes my inner witch nauseous. I feel

The Ape That Understood the Universe: How the Mind and Culture Evolve

by Steve Stewart-Williams  · 12 Sep 2018  · 1,132pp  · 156,379 words

States, women’s stronger preference for financial prospects persisted right through the twentieth century, even surviving the Sexual Revolution and the second wave of the feminist movement in the 1960s and 70s.96 Meanwhile, anthropological research suggests that the sex difference isn’t limited to modern, industrialized nations. Jonathan Gottschall and colleagues

Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language

by Amanda Montell  · 27 May 2019  · 212pp  · 68,649 words

the 1970s, there was simply no canon of empirical data on the subject. The dawn of this field of study coincided with the second-wave feminist movement, when there was a larger political need to understand the hidden sexism in English. Anyone who was anyone in the field of sociolinguistics at the

. Grammar, Romaine argues, is a feminist concern, and there’s a reason why suffixes and noun agreement have been at the center of the French feminist movement in a way that they haven’t in the United States. That’s because, in languages with grammatical gender, the sexist implications are out in

reform. It’s no coincidence that Native Tongue, the Wickedary, and Robin Lakoff’s Language and Woman’s Place were published during the second-wave feminist movement. During that highly political era, social empowerment inspired linguistic empowerment. But interest in gender and language reform ebbs and flows. Zimman says that in the

Priceless: The Myth of Fair Value (And How to Take Advantage of It)

by William Poundstone  · 1 Jan 2010  · 519pp  · 104,396 words

which of the following was more likely to be true: Linda is a bank teller. Linda is a bank teller and is active in the feminist movement. Eight-five percent rated the second statement more likely than the first. That’s ridiculous. The only way Linda can be a bank teller and

The Great Mental Models: General Thinking Concepts

by Shane Parrish  · 22 Nov 2019  · 147pp  · 39,910 words

also participated in anti-nuclear demonstrations. Which is more probable? Linda is a bank teller. Linda is a bank teller and is active in the feminist movement. The majority of respondents chose option 2. Why? The wording used to describe her suggests Linda is feminist. But Linda could only be a bank

Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks

by Scott J. Shapiro  · 523pp  · 154,042 words

she also participated in antinuclear demonstrations. Which is more probable? Linda is a bank teller. Linda is a bank teller and is active in the feminist movement. In numerous studies, approximately 80 percent of participants thought it more likely that Linda was a teller active in the

feminist movement. To them, Linda seems like a feminist. Indeed, she fits the feminist stereotype to a T: a young woman who cares about social justice, is

A Book for Her

by Bridget Christie  · 1 Jul 2015  · 252pp  · 85,441 words

I'm Judging You: The Do-Better Manual

by Luvvie Ajayi  · 12 Sep 2016  · 232pp  · 78,701 words

Secrets of the Sprakkar

by Eliza Reid  · 15 Jul 2021

The Diet Myth: Why America's Obsessions With Weight Is Hazardous to Your Health

by Paul Campos  · 4 May 2005

Thinking, Fast and Slow

by Daniel Kahneman  · 24 Oct 2011  · 654pp  · 191,864 words

Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes

by Maria Konnikova  · 3 Jan 2013  · 317pp  · 97,824 words

Lurking: How a Person Became a User

by Joanne McNeil  · 25 Feb 2020  · 239pp  · 80,319 words

Nothing Personal: My Secret Life in the Dating App Inferno

by Nancy Jo Sales  · 17 May 2021  · 445pp  · 135,648 words

Future Sex

by Emily Witt  · 10 Oct 2016  · 197pp  · 64,958 words

The Science of Fear: How the Culture of Fear Manipulates Your Brain

by Daniel Gardner  · 23 Jun 2009  · 542pp  · 132,010 words

Everything's Trash, but It's Okay

by Phoebe Robinson  · 15 Oct 2018  · 257pp  · 90,857 words

Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness

by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein  · 7 Apr 2008  · 304pp  · 22,886 words

Also Human: The Inner Lives of Doctors

by Caroline Elton  · 1 Mar 2018  · 351pp  · 101,051 words

Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong-And the New Research That's Rewriting the Story

by Angela Saini  · 29 May 2017  · 296pp  · 86,188 words

The Platinum Age of Television: From I Love Lucy to the Walking Dead, How TV Became Terrific

by David Bianculli  · 15 Nov 2016  · 676pp  · 203,386 words

Human Diversity: The Biology of Gender, Race, and Class

by Charles Murray  · 28 Jan 2020  · 741pp  · 199,502 words

Singularity Rising: Surviving and Thriving in a Smarter, Richer, and More Dangerous World

by James D. Miller  · 14 Jun 2012  · 377pp  · 97,144 words

The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Parents Are Going Broke

by Elizabeth Warren and Amelia Warren Tyagi  · 17 Aug 2004  · 318pp  · 93,502 words

Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick

by Maya Dusenbery  · 6 Mar 2018  · 504pp  · 147,722 words

Statistics hacks

by Bruce Frey  · 9 May 2006  · 755pp  · 121,290 words

Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time

by Brigid Schulte  · 11 Mar 2014  · 455pp  · 133,719 words

Riding Rockets: The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut

by Mike Mullane  · 24 Jan 2006  · 506pp  · 167,034 words

Duped: Double Lives, False Identities, and the Con Man I Almost Married

by Abby Ellin  · 15 Jan 2019  · 340pp  · 91,745 words

American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers

by Nancy Jo Sales  · 23 Feb 2016  · 487pp  · 147,238 words

The Smart Wife: Why Siri, Alexa, and Other Smart Home Devices Need a Feminist Reboot

by Yolande Strengers and Jenny Kennedy  · 14 Apr 2020

Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters

by Steven Pinker  · 14 Oct 2021  · 533pp  · 125,495 words

The New Prophets of Capital

by Nicole Aschoff  · 10 Mar 2015  · 128pp  · 38,187 words

The Equality Machine: Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future

by Orly Lobel  · 17 Oct 2022  · 370pp  · 112,809 words

Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World

by Naomi Klein  · 11 Sep 2023

Work in the Future The Automation Revolution-Palgrave MacMillan (2019)

by Robert Skidelsky Nan Craig  · 15 Mar 2020

No Such Thing as Society

by Andy McSmith  · 19 Nov 2010  · 613pp  · 151,140 words

Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980

by Rick Perlstein  · 17 Aug 2020

Men Who Hate Women: From Incels to Pickup Artists, the Truth About Extreme Misogyny and How It Affects Us All

by Laura Bates  · 2 Sep 2020  · 364pp  · 119,398 words

The Problem With Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries

by Kathi Weeks  · 8 Sep 2011  · 350pp  · 110,764 words

State of Emergency: The Way We Were

by Dominic Sandbrook  · 29 Sep 2010  · 932pp  · 307,785 words

The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

by Michael Lewis  · 6 Dec 2016  · 336pp  · 113,519 words

The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century

by Steven Pinker  · 1 Jan 2014  · 477pp  · 106,069 words

How the Mind Works

by Steven Pinker  · 1 Jan 1997  · 913pp  · 265,787 words

Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle

by Silvia Federici  · 4 Oct 2012  · 277pp  · 80,703 words

Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars From 4Chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right

by Angela Nagle  · 6 Jun 2017  · 122pp  · 38,022 words

Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything About Race, Gender, and Identity―and Why This Harms Everybody

by Helen Pluckrose and James A. Lindsay  · 14 Jul 2020  · 378pp  · 107,957 words

Who Are We—And Should It Matter in the 21st Century?

by Gary Younge  · 27 Jun 2011  · 298pp  · 89,287 words

The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time

by Yascha Mounk  · 26 Sep 2023

Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone

by Sarah Jaffe  · 26 Jan 2021  · 490pp  · 153,455 words

The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives

by Leonard Mlodinow  · 12 May 2008  · 266pp  · 86,324 words

Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches From the Wrong Side of History

by Nellie Bowles  · 13 May 2024  · 207pp  · 62,397 words

We Need New Stories: Challenging the Toxic Myths Behind Our Age of Discontent

by Nesrine Malik  · 4 Sep 2019

One Less Car: Bicycling and the Politics of Automobility

by Zack Furness and Zachary Mooradian Furness  · 28 Mar 2010  · 532pp  · 155,470 words

Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl Wudunn  · 7 Sep 2008  · 332pp  · 104,587 words

How to Be a Liberal: The Story of Liberalism and the Fight for Its Life

by Ian Dunt  · 15 Oct 2020

Mindware: Tools for Smart Thinking

by Richard E. Nisbett  · 17 Aug 2015  · 397pp  · 109,631 words

Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism

by Peter Marshall  · 2 Jan 1992  · 1,327pp  · 360,897 words

The Pursuit of Power: Europe, 1815-1914

by Richard J. Evans  · 31 Aug 2016  · 976pp  · 329,519 words

What's Left?: How Liberals Lost Their Way

by Nick Cohen  · 15 Jul 2015  · 414pp  · 121,243 words

Snakes and Ladders: The Great British Social Mobility Myth

by Selina Todd  · 11 Feb 2021  · 598pp  · 150,801 words

You Are Not So Smart

by David McRaney  · 20 Sep 2011  · 270pp  · 83,506 words

Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

by Premilla Nadasen  · 10 Oct 2023  · 288pp  · 82,972 words

Capitalism and Its Critics: A History: From the Industrial Revolution to AI

by John Cassidy  · 12 May 2025  · 774pp  · 238,244 words

The Government of No One: The Theory and Practice of Anarchism

by Ruth Kinna  · 31 Jul 2019  · 405pp  · 103,723 words

Equality

by Darrin M. McMahon  · 14 Nov 2023  · 534pp  · 166,876 words

Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents—and What They Mean for America's Future

by Jean M. Twenge  · 25 Apr 2023  · 541pp  · 173,676 words

Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right

by Jennifer Burns  · 18 Oct 2009  · 495pp  · 144,101 words

The Idea of Israel: A History of Power and Knowledge

by Ilan Pappe  · 30 Apr 2012  · 387pp  · 120,092 words

Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (And Why We Don't Talk About It)

by Elizabeth S. Anderson  · 22 May 2017  · 205pp  · 58,054 words

The Great Good Place: Cafes, Coffee Shops, Bookstores, Bars, Hair Salons, and Other Hangouts at the Heart of a Community

by Ray Oldenburg  · 17 Aug 1999

A People's History of the United States

by Howard Zinn  · 2 Jan 1977  · 913pp  · 299,770 words

Autonomia: Post-Political Politics 2007

by Sylvere Lotringer, Christian Marazzi  · 2 Aug 2005

Basic Income: A Radical Proposal for a Free Society and a Sane Economy

by Philippe van Parijs and Yannick Vanderborght  · 20 Mar 2017

The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations

by Christopher Lasch  · 1 Jan 1978

Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle East

by Robin Wright  · 28 Feb 2008  · 648pp  · 165,654 words

Social Capital and Civil Society

by Francis Fukuyama  · 1 Mar 2000

1968: The Year That Rocked the World

by Mark Kurlansky  · 30 Dec 2003  · 538pp  · 164,533 words

Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy

by Talia Lavin  · 14 Jul 2020  · 231pp  · 71,299 words

Peggy Seeger

by Jean R. Freedman

The Smartphone Society

by Nicole Aschoff

The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts

by Loren Grush  · 11 Sep 2023  · 375pp  · 127,360 words

Practical Anarchism: A Guide for Daily Life

by Scott. Branson  · 14 Jun 2022  · 198pp  · 63,612 words

The Lost Art of Dress

by Przybyszewski, Linda  · 442pp  · 121,863 words

A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet

by Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore  · 16 Oct 2017  · 335pp  · 89,924 words

The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World

by Adrian Wooldridge  · 2 Jun 2021  · 693pp  · 169,849 words

Rage Inside the Machine: The Prejudice of Algorithms, and How to Stop the Internet Making Bigots of Us All

by Robert Elliott Smith  · 26 Jun 2019  · 370pp  · 107,983 words

Lift: Fitness Culture, From Naked Greeks and Acrobats to Jazzercise and Ninja Warriors

by Daniel Kunitz  · 4 Jul 2016  · 321pp  · 92,258 words

The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War

by Malcolm Gladwell  · 26 Apr 2021  · 161pp  · 49,972 words

Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire

by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri  · 1 Jan 2004  · 475pp  · 149,310 words

Capitalism: A Ghost Story

by Arundhati Roy  · 5 May 2014  · 91pp  · 26,009 words

Empire

by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri  · 9 Mar 2000  · 1,015pp  · 170,908 words

Keeping Up With the Quants: Your Guide to Understanding and Using Analytics

by Thomas H. Davenport and Jinho Kim  · 10 Jun 2013  · 204pp  · 58,565 words

The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution

by Jonathan Eig  · 12 Oct 2014  · 420pp  · 121,881 words

Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris

by Richard Kluger  · 1 Jan 1996  · 1,157pp  · 379,558 words

Going Dark: The Secret Social Lives of Extremists

by Julia Ebner  · 20 Feb 2020  · 309pp  · 79,414 words

The State and the Stork: The Population Debate and Policy Making in US History

by Derek S. Hoff  · 30 May 2012

Autistic Community and the Neurodiversity Movement: Stories From the Frontline

by Steven K. Kapp  · 19 Nov 2019

Yucatan: Cancun & Cozumel

by Bruce Conord and June Conord  · 31 Aug 2000

Animal Spirits: The American Pursuit of Vitality From Camp Meeting to Wall Street

by Jackson Lears

Roller-Coaster: Europe, 1950-2017

by Ian Kershaw  · 29 Aug 2018  · 736pp  · 233,366 words

Stories Are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind

by Annalee Newitz  · 3 Jun 2024  · 251pp  · 68,713 words

Au Contraire!: Figuring Out the French

by Gilles Asselin and Ruth Mastron  · 14 Apr 2001

White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

by Nancy Isenberg  · 20 Jun 2016  · 709pp  · 191,147 words

Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals

by Robert M. Pirsig  · 1 Jan 1991  · 497pp  · 146,551 words

Au Contraire: Figuring Out the French

by Gilles Asselin and Ruth Mastron  · 1 Dec 2000

Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010

by Charles Murray  · 1 Jan 2012  · 397pp  · 121,211 words

Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain

by Abby Norman  · 6 Mar 2018  · 323pp  · 107,963 words

The Democracy Project: A History, a Crisis, a Movement

by David Graeber  · 13 Aug 2012  · 284pp  · 92,387 words

What We Owe the Future: A Million-Year View

by William MacAskill  · 31 Aug 2022  · 451pp  · 125,201 words

Cultural Backlash: Trump, Brexit, and Authoritarian Populism

by Pippa Norris and Ronald Inglehart  · 31 Dec 2018

Milk!

by Mark Kurlansky  · 450pp  · 114,766 words

Radical Uncertainty: Decision-Making for an Unknowable Future

by Mervyn King and John Kay  · 5 Mar 2020  · 807pp  · 154,435 words

Evidence-Based Technical Analysis: Applying the Scientific Method and Statistical Inference to Trading Signals

by David Aronson  · 1 Nov 2006

Carjacked: The Culture of the Automobile and Its Effect on Our Lives

by Catherine Lutz and Anne Lutz Fernandez  · 5 Jan 2010  · 269pp  · 104,430 words

The Behavioral Investor

by Daniel Crosby  · 15 Feb 2018  · 249pp  · 77,342 words

America, You Sexy Bitch: A Love Letter to Freedom

by Meghan McCain and Michael Black  · 31 May 2012  · 367pp  · 117,340 words

Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest

by Zeynep Tufekci  · 14 May 2017  · 444pp  · 130,646 words

When to Rob a Bank: ...And 131 More Warped Suggestions and Well-Intended Rants

by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner  · 4 May 2015  · 306pp  · 85,836 words

Composing a Further Life: The Age of Active Wisdom

by Mary Catherine Bateson  · 13 Sep 2010  · 287pp  · 99,131 words

Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right

by Arlie Russell Hochschild  · 5 Sep 2016  · 435pp  · 120,574 words

This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate

by Naomi Klein  · 15 Sep 2014  · 829pp  · 229,566 words

On Writing Well (30th Anniversary Edition)

by William Zinsser  · 1 Jan 1976  · 309pp  · 95,644 words

Understanding Power

by Noam Chomsky  · 26 Jul 2010

Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Story of Anonymous

by Gabriella Coleman  · 4 Nov 2014  · 457pp  · 126,996 words

Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models

by Gabriel Weinberg and Lauren McCann  · 17 Jun 2019

Global Catastrophic Risks

by Nick Bostrom and Milan M. Cirkovic  · 2 Jul 2008

USA Travel Guide

by Lonely, Planet

The Authoritarians

by Robert Altemeyer  · 2 Jan 2007  · 298pp  · 87,023 words

The Digital Party: Political Organisation and Online Democracy

by Paolo Gerbaudo  · 19 Jul 2018  · 302pp  · 84,881 words

The Ones We've Been Waiting For: How a New Generation of Leaders Will Transform America

by Charlotte Alter  · 18 Feb 2020  · 504pp  · 129,087 words

The Divided Nation: A History of Germany, 1918-1990

by Mary Fulbrook  · 14 Oct 1991  · 934pp  · 135,736 words

A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing (Eleventh Edition)

by Burton G. Malkiel  · 5 Jan 2015  · 482pp  · 121,672 words

Infotopia: How Many Minds Produce Knowledge

by Cass R. Sunstein  · 23 Aug 2006

50 Psychology Classics

by Tom Butler-Bowdon  · 14 Oct 2007  · 363pp  · 109,374 words

The Human Tide: How Population Shaped the Modern World

by Paul Morland  · 10 Jan 2019  · 405pp  · 121,999 words

A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing

by Burton G. Malkiel  · 10 Jan 2011  · 416pp  · 118,592 words

Korea--Culture Smart!

by Culture Smart!  · 15 Jun 201  · 124pp  · 37,476 words

The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living Since the Civil War (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)

by Robert J. Gordon  · 12 Jan 2016  · 1,104pp  · 302,176 words

IRL: Finding Realness, Meaning, and Belonging in Our Digital Lives

by Chris Stedman  · 19 Oct 2020  · 307pp  · 101,998 words

The Ecotechnic Future: Envisioning a Post-Peak World

by John Michael Greer  · 30 Sep 2009

Microtrends: The Small Forces Behind Tomorrow's Big Changes

by Mark Penn and E. Kinney Zalesne  · 5 Sep 2007  · 458pp  · 134,028 words

The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program That Shaped Our World

by Vincent Bevins  · 18 May 2020  · 393pp  · 115,178 words

Flight of the WASP

by Michael Gross  · 562pp  · 177,195 words

The American Dream Is Not Dead: (But Populism Could Kill It)

by Michael R. Strain  · 25 Feb 2020  · 98pp  · 27,609 words

Terms of Service: Social Media and the Price of Constant Connection

by Jacob Silverman  · 17 Mar 2015  · 527pp  · 147,690 words

The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality

by Bhaskar Sunkara  · 1 Feb 2019  · 324pp  · 86,056 words

Lonely Planet Brazil

by Lonely Planet  · 1,410pp  · 363,093 words

Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--And How to Think Deeply Again

by Johann Hari  · 25 Jan 2022  · 390pp  · 120,864 words

Pivotal Decade: How the United States Traded Factories for Finance in the Seventies

by Judith Stein  · 30 Apr 2010  · 497pp  · 143,175 words

The Targeter: My Life in the CIA, Hunting Terrorists and Challenging the White House

by Nada Bakos  · 3 Jun 2019

After the New Economy: The Binge . . . And the Hangover That Won't Go Away

by Doug Henwood  · 9 May 2005  · 306pp  · 78,893 words

Pax Technica: How the Internet of Things May Set Us Free or Lock Us Up

by Philip N. Howard  · 27 Apr 2015  · 322pp  · 84,752 words

Brave New World of Work

by Ulrich Beck  · 15 Jan 2000  · 236pp  · 67,953 words

Track Changes

by Matthew G. Kirschenbaum  · 1 May 2016  · 519pp  · 142,646 words

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

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