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The Elephant in the Brain by Kevin Simler, Robin Hanson
Human beings are primates, and primates are political animals. Our brains, therefore, are designed not just to hunt and gather, …
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How to Know a Person by David Brooks
As David Brooks observes, “There is one skill that lies at the heart of any healthy person, family, school, community …
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Seeing Others by Michèle Lamont
Acclaimed Harvard sociologist makes the case for reexamining what we value to prioritize recognition—the quest for respect—in an age that …
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Ambiguity Machines: and Other stories by Vandana Singh
After the success of her collection The Woman Who Thought She Was a Planet, Vandana Singh returns to the short …
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Against the Grain by James C. Scott (Yale agrarian studies series)
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Why did humans abandon hunting and gathering for sedentary communities dependent on livestock and cereal grains, and governed by precursors …
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Free, Fair and Alive by David Bollier, Silke Helfrich
The power of the commons as a free, fair system of provisioning and governance beyond capitalism, socialism, and other -isms. …
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Tackling some of humanity’s oldest questions along with new quandaries only he could imagine, these stories will change the way …
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11 June, 1930. On a ship floating near the Atlantic island of Nonsuch, a curious steel ball is lowered 3000 …
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A $500 House in Detroit by Drew Philp
"A young writer's sincere search (with his dog) for an authentic life--buying a ruined house in Detroit for $500, fixing …
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Aged thirty-one, Catrina Davies was renting a box-room in a house in Bristol, which she shared with four other adults …
