Most Read This Week In Academic

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Most Read This Week Tagged "Academic"

Vida contemplativa: Elogio de la inactividad
Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia
Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want
Cold Intimacies: The Making of Emotional Capitalism
Why Machines Learn: The Elegant Math Behind Modern AI
Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia
The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality
Pox Romana: The Plague That Shook the Roman World (Turning Points in Ancient History)
The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time
Ordinary Notes
Cannibal Capitalism: How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet—and What We Can Do About It
Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class
Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness
Wrong: How Media, Politics, and Identity Drive Our Appetite for Misinformation
Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War
Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life
Love Triangle: How Trigonometry Shapes the World
Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism
They Flew: A History of the Impossible
The Age of the Strongman: How the Cult of the Leader Threatens Democracy around the World
Neuroqueer Heresies: Notes on the Neurodiversity Paradigm, Autistic Empowerment, and Postnormal Possibilities
How Religion Evolved: And Why It Endures
Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation
Queens of the Wild: Pagan Goddesses in Christian Europe: An Investigation
Uncommon Sense Teaching: Practical Insights in Brain Science to Help Students Learn
Pollution Is Colonialism
Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism
The Longest Con: How Grifters, Swindlers, and Frauds Hijacked American Conservatism
The Myth of American Idealism: How U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers the World
Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City
Calling In: How to Start Making Change with Those You'd Rather Cancel
All Desire Is a Desire for Being (Penguin Classics)
Wînipêk: Visions of Canada from an Indigenous Centre
Disaster Nationalism: The Downfall of Liberal Civilization
Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want
A Programme of Absolute Disorder: Decolonizing the Museum
Raving
Fundamentals of Data Engineering: Plan and Build Robust Data Systems
Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice
How to Go Mad without Losing Your Mind: Madness and Black Radical Creativity (Black Outdoors: Innovations in the Poetics of Study)
How the World Became Rich: The Historical Origins of Economic Growth
The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World
The Great Experiment: Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and How They Can Endure
An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #6)
The White Bonus: Five Families and the Cash Value of Racism in America
The Four Pivots: Reimagining Justice, Reimagining Ourselves
Integrated: How American Schools Failed Black Children
The Philosophy of Translation
Christian Supremacy: Reckoning with the Roots of Antisemitism and Racism
It's Not That Radical: Climate Action to Transform Our World
Slaves for Peanuts: A Story of Conquest, Liberation, and a Crop That Changed History
Shakespeare's Sisters: How Women Wrote the Renaissance
How to Stop Fascism: History, Ideology, Resistance
The Deorhord: An Old English Bestiary
Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health (Outspoken by Pluto)
Designing Machine Learning Systems: An Iterative Process for Production-Ready Applications
21st Century Monetary Policy: The Federal Reserve from the Great Inflation to COVID-19
The Hidden Kingdom of Fungi: Exploring the Microscopic World in Our Forests, Homes, and Bodies
The Power of Us: Harnessing Our Shared Identities to Improve Performance, Increase Cooperation, and Promote Social Harmony
Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature
The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet
The Voltage Effect: How to Make Good Ideas Great and Great Ideas Scale
Swamplands: Tundra Beavers, Quaking Bogs, and the Improbable World of Peat
Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains
Complaint!
Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice
From Plato to Christ: How Platonic Thought Shaped the Christian Faith
Transgender Marxism
Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound
The Medieval Scriptorium: Making Books in the Middle Ages
Open Circuits: The Inner Beauty of Electronic Components (Packaging may vary)
The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America
Breaking Things at Work: The Luddites Are Right About Why You Hate Your Job
Our Lives in Their Portfolios: Why Asset Managers Own the World
Culture Creep: Notes on the Pop Apocalypse
The Opposite of Cheating: Teaching for Integrity in the Age of AI (Volume 4) (Teaching, Engaging, and Thriving in Higher Ed)
The Democracy of Species
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
A Nation of Shopkeepers: The Unstoppable Rise of the Petite Bourgeoisie
Immediacy: Or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism
Corpses, Fools and Monsters
Imperfect Victims: Criminalized Survivors and the Promise of Abolition Feminism (Gender and Justice Book 8)
Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic
Experiments in Imagining Otherwise
The Gilded Cage: Technology, Development, and State Capitalism in China
Big Fiction: How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature
Nine Black Robes: Inside the Supreme Court's Drive to the Right and Its Historic Consequences ― A Supreme Court Book
Reading for Our Lives: A Literacy Action Plan from Birth to Six
Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care
AI and Machine Learning for Coders: A Programmer's Guide to Artificial Intelligence
The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantilizes our Governments and Warps our Economies
The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance
Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence
The Only Study Guide You'll Ever Need: Simple tips, tricks and techniques to help you ace your studies and pass your exams!
Scorched Earth: Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World
Asian American Histories of the United States (ReVisioning History)
What Do You Want Out of Life?: A Philosophical Guide to Figuring Out What Matters

R.M. Engelhardt
“ One of the more interesting things you'll notice in the entire history of poetry & poets, art & artists is those useless untalented individuals that call themselves " experts" or " critics" . The sad fact is that throughout that same history people actually were gullible and listened to them and bought their books or paintings. We no longer live in the age where poets were mass- read or rockstars but even now, in the 21st century we unfortunately must still deal with these ridiculous fops who me ...more ”
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Abhijit Naskar
“ I have an uncompromising principle against the use of AI in literature. ”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

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