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Most Read This Week Tagged "Academic"

The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want
Vida contemplativa: Elogio de la inactividad
Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class
Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia
Mania (Kings of Grove Academy #1)
Immediacy: Or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism
Raving
Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia
The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality
Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
Love Triangle: How Trigonometry Shapes the World
Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation
The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet
Culture Creep: Notes on the Pop Apocalypse
The Ideological Brain: The Radical Science of Flexible Thinking
The Longest Con: How Grifters, Swindlers, and Frauds Hijacked American Conservatism
Cannibal Capitalism: How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet—and What We Can Do About It
They Flew: A History of the Impossible
Nine Black Robes: Inside the Supreme Court's Drive to the Right and Its Historic Consequences
Why Machines Learn: The Elegant Math Behind Modern AI
The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time
Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness
To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism
Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life
21st Century Monetary Policy: The Federal Reserve from the Great Inflation to COVID-19
Uncommon Sense Teaching: Practical Insights in Brain Science to Help Students Learn
The Myth of American Idealism: How U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers the World
Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War
More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI
Disaster Nationalism: The Downfall of Liberal Civilization
Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism
Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice
Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century
The Hidden Kingdom of Fungi: Exploring the Microscopic World in Our Forests, Homes, and Bodies
Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice
Pollution Is Colonialism
Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism
Experiments in Imagining Otherwise
How Religion Evolved: And Why It Endures
A Short History of Trans Misogyny
Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will
The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How To Decolonize the Creative Classroom
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
Please Miss: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Penis
The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantilizes our Governments and Warps our Economies
A Programme of Absolute Disorder: Decolonizing the Museum
Slaves for Peanuts: A Story of Conquest, Liberation, and a Crop That Changed History
Pox Romana: The Plague That Shook the Roman World (Turning Points in Ancient History)
Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health (Outspoken by Pluto)
On Property: Policing, Prisons, and the Call for Abolition
Cold Intimacies: The Making of Emotional Capitalism
White Skin, Black Fuel: On the Danger of Fossil Fascism
The Elements of Choice: Why the Way We Decide Matters
All Desire Is a Desire for Being (Penguin Classics)
Sentience: The Invention of Consciousness
The Wife of Bath: A Biography
Corpses, Fools and Monsters
A History of Water: Being an Account of a Murder, an Epic and Two Visions of Global History
Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad
From Plato to Christ: How Platonic Thought Shaped the Christian Faith
Wrong: How Media, Politics, and Identity Drive Our Appetite for Misinformation
Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care
What Do You Want Out of Life?: A Philosophical Guide to Figuring Out What Matters
The Voltage Effect: How to Make Good Ideas Great and Great Ideas Scale
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 Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America
Ordinary Notes
Shakespeare's Sisters: How Women Wrote the Renaissance
Roses for Hedone: On Queer Hedonism and World-Making Through Pleasure
An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #6)
Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound
Two Houses, Two Kingdoms: A History of France and England, 1100–1300
Wînipêk: Visions of Canada from an Indigenous Centre
Complaint!
China's Gilded Age: The Paradox of Economic Boom and Vast Corruption
The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World
Reconsidering Reparations: Why Climate Justice and Constructive Politics Are Needed in the Wake of Slavery and Colonialism
Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want
Fundamentals of Data Engineering: Plan and Build Robust Data Systems
System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot
Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains
And the Category Is.: Inside New York's Vogue, House, and Ballroom Community
Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation
The Rise and Fall of the EAST: How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology Brought China Success, and Why They Might Lead to Its Decline
A Nation of Shopkeepers: The Unstoppable Rise of the Petite Bourgeoisie
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
The White Bonus: Five Families and the Cash Value of Racism in America
Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic
Vector: A Surprising Story of Space, Time, and Mathematical Transformation
The Medieval Scriptorium: Making Books in the Middle Ages
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
Imperfect Victims: Criminalized Survivors and the Promise of Abolition Feminism (Gender and Justice Book 8)
Mean Girl Feminism: How White Feminists Gaslight, Gatekeep, and Girlboss (Feminist Media Studies)
Sexual Revolution: Modern Fascism and the Feminist Fightback

If there is one central intellectual reality at the end of the twentieth century, it is that the biological approach to psychiatry--treating mental illness as a genetically influenced disorder of brain chemistry--has been a smashing success. Freud's ideas, which dominated the history of psychiatry for the past half century, are now vanishing like the last snows of winter. ...more
Edward Shorter, A History of Psychiatry: From the Era of the Asylum to the Age of Prozac

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Sadly, but certainly, a promising genre of literature in poetry that began with pomp and a loud thud, a banger and an emphatic entry in the public domain with so many expectations, has been circumambulating the corridors of university classrooms and the decision war-rooms of the government-funded and apparently biased award bodies.
Alok Mishra

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