Most Read This Week In Academic

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Most Read This Week Tagged "Academic"

Culture Creep: Notes on the Pop Apocalypse
When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life
Mania (Kings of Grove Academy #1)
Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia
Vida contemplativa: Elogio de la inactividad
The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want
Raving
A Short History of Trans Misogyny
The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time
The Waiting Game: The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens
Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War
Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness
Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia
The Opposite of Cheating: Teaching for Integrity in the Age of AI (Volume 4) (Teaching, Engaging, and Thriving in Higher Ed)
Wînipêk: Visions of Canada from an Indigenous Centre
The Feminist Killjoy Handbook: The Radical Potential of Getting in the Way
Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation
To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism
The Myth of American Idealism: How U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers the World
Why Machines Learn: The Elegant Math Behind Modern AI
Pox Romana: The Plague That Shook the Roman World (Turning Points in Ancient History)
Cold Intimacies: The Making of Emotional Capitalism
Ordinary Notes
The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality
Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism
Love Triangle: How Trigonometry Shapes the World
Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health (Outspoken by Pluto)
The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantilizes our Governments and Warps our Economies
Complaint!
Rescuing Socrates: How the Great Books Changed My Life and Why They Matter for a New Generation
Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class
The End of Burnout: Why Work Drains Us and How to Build Better Lives
The Only Study Guide You'll Ever Need: Simple tips, tricks and techniques to help you ace your studies and pass your exams!
The Ideological Brain: The Radical Science of Flexible Thinking
Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice
Reading for Our Lives: A Literacy Action Plan from Birth to Six
Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice
Pollution Is Colonialism
They Flew: A History of the Impossible
Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism
How Religion Evolved: And Why It Endures
From Plato to Christ: How Platonic Thought Shaped the Christian Faith
Nine Black Robes: Inside the Supreme Court's Drive to the Right and Its Historic Consequences
The Longest Con: How Grifters, Swindlers, and Frauds Hijacked American Conservatism
Roses for Hedone: On Queer Hedonism and World-Making Through Pleasure
Cannibal Capitalism: How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet—and What We Can Do About It
The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World
Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence
Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will
Breaking the Social Media Prism: How to Make Our Platforms Less Polarizing
Swamplands: Tundra Beavers, Quaking Bogs, and the Improbable World of Peat
21st Century Monetary Policy: The Federal Reserve from the Great Inflation to COVID-19
Scorched Earth: Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World
Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War
Uncommon Sense Teaching: Practical Insights in Brain Science to Help Students Learn
Disaster Nationalism: The Downfall of Liberal Civilization
Invention and Innovation: A Brief History of Hype and Failure
The Bonds of Inequality: Debt and the Making of the American City
The Rise and Fall of the EAST: How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology Brought China Success, and Why They Might Lead to Its Decline
On Property: Policing, Prisons, and the Call for Abolition
Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century
A Programme of Absolute Disorder: Decolonizing the Museum
Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want
Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation
Breaking Things at Work: The Luddites Are Right About Why You Hate Your Job
Corpses, Fools and Monsters
The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition
The Power of Us: Harnessing Our Shared Identities to Improve Performance, Increase Cooperation, and Promote Social Harmony
In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities
Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life
Mute Compulsion. A Theory of the Economic Power of Capital
An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #6)
Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care
Asian American Histories of the United States (ReVisioning History)
Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature
Fundamentals of Data Engineering: Plan and Build Robust Data Systems
Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains
Queens of the Wild: Pagan Goddesses in Christian Europe: An Investigation
Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science
How to Stop Fascism: History, Ideology, Resistance
Vector: A Surprising Story of Space, Time, and Mathematical Transformation
Imperfect Victims: Criminalized Survivors and the Promise of Abolition Feminism (Gender and Justice Book 8)
Slaves for Peanuts: A Story of Conquest, Liberation, and a Crop That Changed History
Big Fiction: How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature
Believers: Making a Life at the End of the World
The White Bonus: Five Families and the Cash Value of Racism in America
A Nation of Shopkeepers: The Unstoppable Rise of the Petite Bourgeoisie
All Desire Is a Desire for Being (Penguin Classics)
Immediacy: Or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism
Experiments in Imagining Otherwise
How to Inhabit Time: Understanding the Past, Facing the Future, Living Faithfully Now
The Mark of Slavery: Disability, Race, and Gender in Antebellum America (Volume 1)
The Wife of Bath: A Biography
Mean Girl Feminism: How White Feminists Gaslight, Gatekeep, and Girlboss (Feminist Media Studies)
What Do You Want Out of Life?: A Philosophical Guide to Figuring Out What Matters
Sexual Revolution: Modern Fascism and the Feminist Fightback
Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic
Sustainability: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Wrong: How Media, Politics, and Identity Drive Our Appetite for Misinformation

Judith Rich Harris
Someone who thinks up a new theory is the last person who should be trusted with the job of testing it. A new theory should be tested by independent researchers who aren’t cronies of the theorist and who don’t have an axe to grind. It’s division of labor again: proposing theories and doing research to test them are jobs that should be carried out by different entities. “A good theory should go in advance of the evidence,” the evolutionary psychologist Geoffrey Miller said in a recent interview ...more
Judith Rich Harris, No Two Alike: Human Nature and Human Individuality

Alok   Mishra
Meaningful literary criticism is like penance to please Bhagwan Shiva and ask for wisdom for the world instead of material things for oneself when God appears! Such is the spiritual gravity of deep, reflective engagement with literature.
Alok Mishra

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