Most Read This Week In Academic

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Most Read This Week Tagged "Academic"

To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism
The Longest Con: How Grifters, Swindlers, and Frauds Hijacked American Conservatism
The Myth of American Idealism: How U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers the World
When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life
The Six Loves of James I
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
Vida contemplativa: Elogio de la inactividad
Why Machines Learn: The Elegant Math Behind Modern AI
Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism
Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation
The Feminist Killjoy Handbook: The Radical Potential of Getting in the Way
Raving
Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time
Fundamentals of Data Engineering: Plan and Build Robust Data Systems
Cannibal Capitalism: How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet—and What We Can Do About It
Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness
Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation
Culture Creep: Notes on the Pop Apocalypse
Wînipêk: Visions of Canada from an Indigenous Centre
Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War
Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health (Outspoken by Pluto)
Invention and Innovation: A Brief History of Hype and Failure
The Great Experiment: Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and How They Can Endure
Love Triangle: How Trigonometry Shapes the World
The Opposite of Cheating: Teaching for Integrity in the Age of AI (Volume 4) (Teaching, Engaging, and Thriving in Higher Ed)
A Programme of Absolute Disorder: Decolonizing the Museum
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
Scorched Earth: Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World
Experiments in Imagining Otherwise
A Short History of Trans Misogyny
Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence
Ordinary Notes
Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class
Mute Compulsion. A Theory of the Economic Power of Capital
Cold Intimacies: The Making of Emotional Capitalism
The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality
Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics
Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice
How the World Became Rich: The Historical Origins of Economic Growth
The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World
Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism
Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science
Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will
Breaking the Social Media Prism: How to Make Our Platforms Less Polarizing
Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice
An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #6)
Reconsidering Reparations: Why Climate Justice and Constructive Politics Are Needed in the Wake of Slavery and Colonialism
The Ideological Brain: The Radical Science of Flexible Thinking
Transgender Marxism
Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia
Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want
How to Stop Fascism: History, Ideology, Resistance
The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How To Decolonize the Creative Classroom
How to Inhabit Time: Understanding the Past, Facing the Future, Living Faithfully Now
Breaking Things at Work: The Luddites Are Right About Why You Hate Your Job
All Desire Is a Desire for Being (Penguin Classics)
How Religion Evolved: And Why It Endures
Twilight of the Godlings: The Shadowy Beginnings of Britain's Supernatural Beings
Rescuing Socrates: How the Great Books Changed My Life and Why They Matter for a New Generation
The Voltage Effect: How to Make Good Ideas Great and Great Ideas Scale
The Value of a Whale: On the Illusions of Green Capitalism
Metamodernism: The Future of Theory
Disaster Nationalism: The Downfall of Liberal Civilization
Imperfect Victims: Criminalized Survivors and the Promise of Abolition Feminism (Gender and Justice Book 8)
The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is: A History, a Philosophy, a Warning
Swamplands: Tundra Beavers, Quaking Bogs, and the Improbable World of Peat
The End of Burnout: Why Work Drains Us and How to Build Better Lives
System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot
Roses for Hedone: On Queer Hedonism and World-Making Through Pleasure
Please Miss: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Penis
On Property: Policing, Prisons, and the Call for Abolition
The Hidden Kingdom of Fungi: Exploring the Microscopic World in Our Forests, Homes, and Bodies
Complaint!
The Only Study Guide You'll Ever Need: Simple tips, tricks and techniques to help you ace your studies and pass your exams!
Horror: A Very Short Introduction
Uncommon Sense Teaching: Practical Insights in Brain Science to Help Students Learn
Sexual Revolution: Modern Fascism and the Feminist Fightback
Big Fiction: How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature
Immediacy: Or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism
Nine Black Robes: Inside the Supreme Court's Drive to the Right and Its Historic Consequences
The Transcendent Brain: Spirituality in the Age of Science
The Elements of Choice: Why the Way We Decide Matters
The White Bonus: Five Families and the Cash Value of Racism in America
Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality
Corpses, Fools and Monsters
The Wife of Bath: A Biography
Cheap Speech: How Disinformation Poisons Our Politics―and How to Cure It
Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad
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
Asian American Histories of the United States (ReVisioning History)
Pollution Is Colonialism
Vector: A Surprising Story of Space, Time, and Mathematical Transformation
Mean Girl Feminism: How White Feminists Gaslight, Gatekeep, and Girlboss (Feminist Media Studies)
The Rise and Fall of the EAST: How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology Brought China Success, and Why They Might Lead to Its Decline
Reading for Our Lives: A Literacy Action Plan from Birth to Six
A Nation of Shopkeepers: The Unstoppable Rise of the Petite Bourgeoisie
Slaves for Peanuts: A Story of Conquest, Liberation, and a Crop That Changed History

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

Alok   Mishra
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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