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by Quinn Slobodian · 4 Apr 2023 · 360pp · 107,124 words
private government of corporations has little space for the alternative visions of collectives, other than those that reproduce its own dominance. As one of the foundational texts of tech criticism notes, Silicon Valley often forgets its Hegel at its own risk.77 The German philosopher taught that the master is always dependent
Reskilling America: Learning to Labor in the Twenty-First Century
by Katherine S. Newman and Hella Winston · 18 Apr 2016 · 338pp · 92,465 words
of strikes in the mines and the auto factories tried to block the evaporation of jobs and the export of industry. Willis’s book, a foundational text in the “Birmingham School” of cultural sociology, very nearly describes a world gone by. The same transition gripped the factory towns of the Midwest and
How to Kill a City: The Real Story of Gentrification
by Peter Moskowitz · 7 Mar 2017 · 288pp · 83,690 words
case of Detroit, the corporations and nonprofits that have replaced them) have managed to turn a blind eye to the warnings of the profession’s foundational texts. Cities have pursued whole-hog Richard Florida’s strategies for wooing millennials without considering the serious limitations of those strategies and the profound effects they
The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning With the Myth of the Good Billionaire
by Tim Schwab · 13 Nov 2023 · 618pp · 179,407 words
in Dispute with Foundation,” GeekWire, October 9, 2018, https://www.geekwire.com/2018/judge-former-bill-melinda-gates-tech-leader-entitled-4-9m-damages-dispute-foundation/#:~:text=A%20King%20County%20judge%20has,as%20a%20%E2%80%9Cbroken%20promise.%E2%80%9D. appellate court: Patrick Dorrian, “Gates Foundation Breached Contract of ‘Chief
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by Francis Fukuyama · 29 Sep 2014 · 828pp · 232,188 words
them openly today. One of the most sustained critiques of democracy was provided by the philosopher John Stuart Mill, whose On Liberty has been a foundational text for liberals since its publication in 1859. In Thoughts on Parliamentary Government, published in 1861 before the Second Reform Act, Mill made several arguments against
The Hidden Globe: How Wealth Hacks the World
by Atossa Araxia Abrahamian · 7 Oct 2024 · 336pp · 104,899 words
Singapore, informed my view of the state. Alma Beauvais was the fact-checker on this chapter. Lon Fuller’s Legal Fiction is one of the foundational texts for The Hidden Globe. I return to it often. 4. In the Zones To tell the story of special economic zones in terms that nonexperts
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by Amy Reading · 6 Mar 2012 · 349pp · 112,333 words
Norfleet as himself and supposedly directed by a relative of D. W. Griffith’s, but what film existed has been lost since the 1920s. The foundational text of Norfleet’s story is his autobiography, Norfleet: The Actual Experiences of a Texas Rancher’s 30,000-Mile Transcontinental Chase After Five Confidence Men
On the Road to Kandahar: Travels Through Conflict in the Islamic World
by Jason Burke · 21 May 2025 · 323pp · 108,377 words
wars and rapine of post-classical Europe) had been translated into Arabic by Christian scholars serving the Abbasid emperors. Without that work, many of the foundational texts of European thought would have been lost. The Beit al-Hikma was long gone, of course, and there was little room for such extraordinary scholarship
Empire of Guns
by Priya Satia · 10 Apr 2018 · 927pp · 216,549 words
went to the Americas, too. In 1676, one of his Scottish adherents, Robert Barclay, penned the Apology for the True Christian Divinity, which became the foundational text of Quaker doctrine and practice, including the testimony against all wars. Quakers were forbidden to bear arms or send others in their place or give
The Economic Weapon
by Nicholas Mulder · 15 Mar 2021
sanctions as weak and ineffective, arguing that they were merely a way to signal commitment to peace and condemn aggression.3 E. H. Carr’s foundational text of international relations realism, The Twenty Years’ Crisis (1939), held that the League’s sanctions were misguided since the countries imposing them were not prepared
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Why Liberalism Failed
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The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
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