Most Read This Week In Academic

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Most Read This Week Tagged "Academic"

Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia
Mania (Kings of Grove Academy #1)
The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want
Vida contemplativa: Elogio de la inactividad
Cannibal Capitalism: How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet—and What We Can Do About It
Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism
Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class
Love Triangle: How Trigonometry Shapes the World
Raving
Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism
Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War
The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time
Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century
Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation
Why Machines Learn: The Elegant Math Behind Modern AI
Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia
Designing Machine Learning Systems: An Iterative Process for Production-Ready Applications
Fundamentals of Data Engineering: Plan and Build Robust Data Systems
Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness
All Desire Is a Desire for Being (Penguin Classics)
The Rise and Fall of the EAST: How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology Brought China Success, and Why They Might Lead to Its Decline
Disaster Nationalism: The Downfall of Liberal Civilization
Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want
Immediacy: Or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism
Ordinary Notes
The Hidden Kingdom of Fungi: Exploring the Microscopic World in Our Forests, Homes, and Bodies
Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature
The Voltage Effect: How to Make Good Ideas Great and Great Ideas Scale
White Skin, Black Fuel: On the Danger of Fossil Fascism
Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice
An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #6)
The Medieval Scriptorium: Making Books in the Middle Ages
Roses for Hedone: On Queer Hedonism and World-Making Through Pleasure
Culture Creep: Notes on the Pop Apocalypse
Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life
More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI
Wînipêk: Visions of Canada from an Indigenous Centre
A Nation of Shopkeepers: The Unstoppable Rise of the Petite Bourgeoisie
They Flew: A History of the Impossible
Pox Romana: The Plague That Shook the Roman World (Turning Points in Ancient History)
A Short History of Trans Misogyny
21st Century Monetary Policy: The Federal Reserve from the Great Inflation to COVID-19
The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality
The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantilizes our Governments and Warps our Economies
The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet
How to Talk to a Science Denier: Conversations with Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy Reason
Open Circuits: The Inner Beauty of Electronic Components (Packaging may vary)
The Longest Con: How Grifters, Swindlers, and Frauds Hijacked American Conservatism
To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism
The Magic Books: A History of Enchantment in 20 Medieval Manuscripts
The Myth of American Idealism: How U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers the World
Wrong: How Media, Politics, and Identity Drive Our Appetite for Misinformation
The Opposite of Cheating: Teaching for Integrity in the Age of AI (Volume 4) (Teaching, Engaging, and Thriving in Higher Ed)
The Ideological Brain: The Radical Science of Flexible Thinking
Vector: A Surprising Story of Space, Time, and Mathematical Transformation
Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science
The Philosophy of Translation
Corpses, Fools and Monsters
Shakespeare's Sisters: How Women Wrote the Renaissance
Experiments in Imagining Otherwise
How to Stop Fascism: History, Ideology, Resistance
Nine Black Robes: Inside the Supreme Court's Drive to the Right and Its Historic Consequences
Reading for Our Lives: A Literacy Action Plan from Birth to Six
Believers: Making a Life at the End of the World
Rescuing Socrates: How the Great Books Changed My Life and Why They Matter for a New Generation
How Religion Evolved: And Why It Endures
AI and Machine Learning for Coders: A Programmer's Guide to Artificial Intelligence
Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice
How the World Became Rich: The Historical Origins of Economic Growth
The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition
Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality
Metamodernism: The Future of Theory
Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence
A History of Water: Being an Account of a Murder, an Epic and Two Visions of Global History
Scorched Earth: Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World
Coalitions of the Weak: Elite Politics in China from Mao's Stratagem to the Rise of Xi (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)
Queens of the Wild: Pagan Goddesses in Christian Europe: An Investigation
And the Category Is.: Inside New York's Vogue, House, and Ballroom Community
The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World
The Great Experiment: Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and How They Can Endure
The End of Burnout: Why Work Drains Us and How to Build Better Lives
Complaint!
Uncommon Sense Teaching: Practical Insights in Brain Science to Help Students Learn
On Property: Policing, Prisons, and the Call for Abolition
No Study Without Struggle: Confronting Settler Colonialism in Higher Education
Transgender Marxism
The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America
Pollution Is Colonialism
Freedom from the Market: America’s Fight to Liberate Itself from the Grip of the Invisible Hand
Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound
Breaking the Social Media Prism: How to Make Our Platforms Less Polarizing
Cold Intimacies: The Making of Emotional Capitalism
Breaking Things at Work: The Luddites Are Right About Why You Hate Your Job
The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America
Sentience: The Invention of Consciousness
What Do You Want Out of Life?: A Philosophical Guide to Figuring Out What Matters
The White Bonus: Five Families and the Cash Value of Racism in America
Mute Compulsion. A Theory of the Economic Power of Capital
Mean Girl Feminism: How White Feminists Gaslight, Gatekeep, and Girlboss (Feminist Media Studies)

Hanna  Hasl-Kelchner
Fairness isn’t about charity. It’s smart business.
Hanna Hasl-Kelchner, Seeking Fairness at Work: Cracking the New Code of Greater Employee Engagement, Retention & Satisfaction

Stephanie Witter
I’m the guy who knows how you can hurt so much that your insides feel like they’re cut and bleeding.
Stephanie Witter, Patch Up

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