Hidden Games - The Surprising Power of Game Theory to Explain Irrational Human Behaviour by Moshe Hoffman; Erez Yoeli
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
In Hidden Games, MIT economists Moshe Hoffman and Erez Yoeli find a surprising middle ground between the hyperrationality of classical economics and the hyper-irrationality of behavioural economics. They call it hidden games. Reviving game theory, Hoffman and Yoeli use it to explain our most puzzling be ...Show more
Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male Power by Ijeoma Oluo
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
From the TIME 100 author of the Sunday Times and number 1 New York Times bestseller So You Want to Talk About Race, a subversive history of white male American identity -- now with a new preface. 'One of the most admired writers and "internet yellers" around... [Mediocre is] ever more vital... Oluo's m ...Show more
There Is No Society? Individuals and Community in Pandemic Times by Ekaterina Degot (Editor); David Riff (Editor)
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Leading theorists from Silvia Federici to Eva Illouz address the pandemic's intensification of neoliberal alienation The success of "social distancing" as a strategy against the COVID-19 pandemic resonates acutely with neoliberalism's destruction of the very notion of society itself. This was most famo ...Show more
Intact: A Defence of the Unmodified Body by Clare Chambers
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
'A must-read for psychotherapists, doctors and everyone else who enjoys connecting ideas' Philippa Perry 'Compassionate and challenging, warmly human and coolly rigorous. . . I am now thinking afresh about how I live in my own body, in a world where, as Clare Chambers argues, nobody's body is ever allow ...Show more
The Vanishing Middle Class - Prejudice and Power in a Dual Economy by Peter Temin
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Reading Level: very good
Why the United States has developed an economy divided between rich and poor and how racism helped bring this about. The United States is becoming a nation of rich and poor, with few families in the middle. In this book, MIT economist Peter Temin offers an illuminating way to look at the vanishing middl ...Show more
Writing in the Dark - Essays on Literature and Politics by David Grossman; Jessica Cohen (Translator)
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Profound essays on Israel, literature, and language from one of the country's most respected and best-loved voices Throughout his career, David Grossman has been a voice for peace and reconciliation between Israel and its Arab citizens and neighbors. In these six essays on politics and culture in Israel ...Show more
Big Beautiful Female Theory - 10 Pack by Eloise Grills
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Drums in the Distance - Journeys into the Global Far Right by Joe Mulhall
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
'Mulhall watches the extreme right revival from the inside - as an anti-fascist infiltrator criss-crossing the global networks of modern fascism - but he brings a deep analytical focus. By the end of it we understand one thing: the threat of a second fascist era is real.' Paul Mason, author of Postcapit ...Show more
Internet for the People by Ben Tarnoff
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
In Internet for the People, leading tech writer Ben Tarnoff offers an answer. The internet is broken, he argues, because it is owned by private firms and run for profit. Google annihilates your privacy and Facebook amplifies right-wing propaganda because it is profitable to do so. But the internet wasn' ...Show more
The Gift of Fear - Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence by Gavin de Becker
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Protect yourself by learning how to trust -- and act on -- your instincts with the "empowering" #1 bestseller from personal safety expert Gavin de Becker (Boston Globe). A carjacker lurking in a shopping mall parking lot. An abusive husband pounding on the door. A disgruntled employee brandishing a ...Show more
The Baby on the Fire Escape: Creativity, Motherhood, and the Mind-Baby Problem by Julie Phillips
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
An insightful, provocative, and witty exploration of the relationship between motherhood and art--for anyone who is a mother, wants to be, or has ever had one. What does a great artist who is also a mother look like? What does it mean to create, not in "a room of one's own," but in a domestic space? In ...Show more