Most Read This Week In Academic

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Most Read This Week Tagged "Academic"

Culture Creep: Notes on the Pop Apocalypse
When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life
Mania (Kings of Grove Academy #1)
The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want – Exposing Surveillance Capitalism and Artificial Intelligence Myths in Information Technology Today
Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia
Vida contemplativa: Elogio de la inactividad
Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War
Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness
Why Machines Learn: The Elegant Math Behind Modern AI
Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation
Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
White Skin, Black Fuel: On the Danger of Fossil Fascism
The Myth of American Idealism: How U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers the World
Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia
The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality
The Feminist Killjoy Handbook: The Radical Potential of Getting in the Way
Cannibal Capitalism: How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet—and What We Can Do About It
The Waiting Game: The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens
Immediacy: Or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism
Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class
Love Triangle: How Trigonometry Shapes the World
Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism
Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century
The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantilizes our Governments and Warps our Economies
To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism
The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America
Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will
Ordinary Notes
Uncommon Sense Teaching: Practical Insights in Brain Science to Help Students Learn
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
Pollution Is Colonialism
Cold Intimacies: The Making of Emotional Capitalism
Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism
Rescuing Socrates: How the Great Books Changed My Life and Why They Matter for a New Generation
All Desire Is a Desire for Being (Penguin Classics)
Raving
A Short History of Trans Misogyny
Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science
Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence
The Longest Con: How Grifters, Swindlers, and Frauds Hijacked American Conservatism
The Ideological Brain: The Radical Science of Flexible Thinking
Roses for Hedone: On Queer Hedonism and World-Making Through Pleasure
Invention and Innovation: A Brief History of Hype and Failure
The Great Experiment: Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and How They Can Endure
The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World
The Rise and Fall of the EAST: How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology Brought China Success, and Why They Might Lead to Its Decline
Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want
Sexual Revolution: Modern Fascism and the Feminist Fightback
Two Houses, Two Kingdoms: A History of France and England, 1100–1300
System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot
Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation
Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life
From Plato to Christ: How Platonic Thought Shaped the Christian Faith
The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How To Decolonize the Creative Classroom
Vector: A Surprising Story of Space, Time, and Mathematical Transformation
Breaking the Social Media Prism: How to Make Our Platforms Less Polarizing
Please Miss: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Penis
The Value of a Whale: On the Illusions of Green Capitalism
21st Century Monetary Policy: The Federal Reserve from the Great Inflation to COVID-19
Horror: A Very Short Introduction
Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics
An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #6)
Wînipêk: Visions of Canada from an Indigenous Centre
The Bonds of Inequality: Debt and the Making of the American City
China's Gilded Age: The Paradox of Economic Boom and Vast Corruption
Reading for Our Lives: A Literacy Action Plan from Birth to Six
The End of Burnout: Why Work Drains Us and How to Build Better Lives
Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health (Outspoken by Pluto)
Big Fiction: How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature
How the World Became Rich: The Historical Origins of Economic Growth
Fundamentals of Data Engineering: Plan and Build Robust Data Systems
Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains
And the Category Is.: Inside New York's Vogue, House, and Ballroom Community
A Programme of Absolute Disorder: Decolonizing the Museum
Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice
Breaking Things at Work: The Luddites Are Right About Why You Hate Your Job
They Flew: A History of the Impossible
Experiments in Imagining Otherwise
Nine Black Robes: Inside the Supreme Court's Drive to the Right and Its Historic Consequences
How to Inhabit Time: Understanding the Past, Facing the Future, Living Faithfully Now
The Transcendent Brain: Spirituality in the Age of Science
How Religion Evolved: And Why It Endures
Wrong: How Media, Politics, and Identity Drive Our Appetite for Misinformation
Seduced by Story: The Use and Abuse of Narrative
How to Stop Fascism: History, Ideology, Resistance
The Opposite of Cheating: Teaching for Integrity in the Age of AI (Volume 4) (Teaching, Engaging, and Thriving in Higher Ed)
Mute Compulsion. A Theory of the Economic Power of Capital
Disaster Nationalism: The Downfall of Liberal Civilization
Imperfect Victims: Criminalized Survivors and the Promise of Abolition Feminism (Gender and Justice Book 8)
Slaves for Peanuts: A Story of Conquest, Liberation, and a Crop That Changed History
Believers: Making a Life at the End of the World
Mean Girl Feminism: How White Feminists Gaslight, Gatekeep, and Girlboss (Feminist Media Studies)
The White Bonus: Five Families and the Cash Value of Racism in America
A Nation of Shopkeepers: The Unstoppable Rise of the Petite Bourgeoisie
Corpses, Fools and Monsters
The Wife of Bath: A Biography
The Mark of Slavery: Disability, Race, and Gender in Antebellum America (Volume 1)
What Do You Want Out of Life?: A Philosophical Guide to Figuring Out What Matters
Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic

She never knew how Hard it could truly get until She was drowning, just Beneath the surface, Unable to catch even a Breath of air as she Strangled herself, encumbering Herself with Meaningless tasks and studies, burdening Herself with Meaningless thoughts and duties, No matter how much her heart Willed her to rest, Her brain told her to Keep going, and, inevitably, She broke
-L.S.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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