Most Read This Week In Academic

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Most Read This Week Tagged "Academic"

Vida contemplativa: Elogio de la inactividad
Mania (Kings of Grove Academy #1)
Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class
A Short History of Trans Misogyny
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
Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism
Cannibal Capitalism: How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet—and What We Can Do About It
More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI
Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia
How to Talk to a Science Denier: Conversations with Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy Reason
Raving
Uncommon Sense Teaching: Practical Insights in Brain Science to Help Students Learn
Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War
The Ideological Brain: The Radical Science of Flexible Thinking
The Feminist Killjoy Handbook: The Radical Potential of Getting in the Way
The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantilizes our Governments and Warps our Economies
Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism
How Religion Evolved: And Why It Endures
To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism
Culture Creep: Notes on the Pop Apocalypse
Disaster Nationalism: The Downfall of Liberal Civilization
Love Triangle: How Trigonometry Shapes the World
The Myth of American Idealism: How U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers the World
Why Machines Learn: The Elegant Math Behind Modern AI
The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time
Cold Intimacies: The Making of Emotional Capitalism
Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life
Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation
The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet
White Skin, Black Fuel: On the Danger of Fossil Fascism
Invention and Innovation: A Brief History of Hype and Failure
Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness
The Value of a Whale: On the Illusions of Green Capitalism
Pox Romana: The Plague That Shook the Roman World (Turning Points in Ancient History)
Fundamentals of Data Engineering: Plan and Build Robust Data Systems
All Desire Is a Desire for Being (Penguin Classics)
Immediacy: Or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism
Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care
Ordinary Notes
Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science
The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America
Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice
Roses for Hedone: On Queer Hedonism and World-Making Through Pleasure
An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #6)
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
Horror: A Very Short Introduction
The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality
China's Gilded Age: The Paradox of Economic Boom and Vast Corruption
Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health (Outspoken by Pluto)
The Story of Work: A New History of Humankind
Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want
A Programme of Absolute Disorder: Decolonizing the Museum
Seduced by Story: The Use and Abuse of Narrative
The Hidden Kingdom of Fungi: Exploring the Microscopic World in Our Forests, Homes, and Bodies
A Nation of Shopkeepers: The Unstoppable Rise of the Petite Bourgeoisie
They Flew: A History of the Impossible
Nine Black Robes: Inside the Supreme Court's Drive to the Right and Its Historic Consequences
Corpses, Fools and Monsters
The Power of Us: Harnessing Our Shared Identities to Improve Performance, Increase Cooperation, and Promote Social Harmony
Wrong: How Media, Politics, and Identity Drive Our Appetite for Misinformation
Asian American Histories of the United States (ReVisioning History)
Breaking Things at Work: The Luddites Are Right About Why You Hate Your Job
Vector: A Surprising Story of Space, Time, and Mathematical Transformation
Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence
The Great Experiment: Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and How They Can Endure
Shakespeare's Sisters: How Women Wrote the Renaissance
Please Miss: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Penis
The Opposite of Cheating: Teaching for Integrity in the Age of AI (Volume 4) (Teaching, Engaging, and Thriving in Higher Ed)
Complaint!
The Longest Con: How Grifters, Swindlers, and Frauds Hijacked American Conservatism
The End of Burnout: Why Work Drains Us and How to Build Better Lives
The Rise and Fall of the EAST: How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology Brought China Success, and Why They Might Lead to Its Decline
Reconsidering Reparations: Why Climate Justice and Constructive Politics Are Needed in the Wake of Slavery and Colonialism
System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot
First Comes Love
Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains
Big Fiction: How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature
Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice
Sexual Revolution: Modern Fascism and the Feminist Fightback
How the World Became Rich: The Historical Origins of Economic Growth
Slaves for Peanuts: A Story of Conquest, Liberation, and a Crop That Changed History
Pollution Is Colonialism
And the Category Is.: Inside New York's Vogue, House, and Ballroom Community
Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation
The Elements of Choice: Why the Way We Decide Matters
Sentience: The Invention of Consciousness
The Wife of Bath: A Biography
Experiments in Imagining Otherwise
The White Bonus: Five Families and the Cash Value of Racism in America
The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America
What Do You Want Out of Life?: A Philosophical Guide to Figuring Out What Matters
The Medieval Scriptorium: Making Books in the Middle Ages
Wînipêk: Visions of Canada from an Indigenous Centre
Imperfect Victims: Criminalized Survivors and the Promise of Abolition Feminism (Gender and Justice Book 8)
Mute Compulsion. A Theory of the Economic Power of Capital
Mean Girl Feminism: How White Feminists Gaslight, Gatekeep, and Girlboss (Feminist Media Studies)
Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic

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While it may be hard to live with generalizations, it is inconceivable to live without them.
Peter Gay, Schnitzler's Century: The Making of Middle Class Culture, 1815-1914

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