Author: Olรบfแบนฬmi O. Tรกรญwรฒ Rating: โญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธ This short but impactful book talks about identity politics and how it went from an initial concept meant to build solidarity between different groups who had similar interests to a way for people to further niche themselves down into a set of identities that was then set in opposition... Continue Reading →
Author: Matthew Desmond Rating: โญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธ Everyone who lives in America should read this book. This should be required reading for all high school students, all university students, everyone who is elected to a public office, I donโt care if itโs city, county, state or federal, they should have to read this book. In the project... Continue Reading →
Author: Lynsey Hanley Rating: โญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธ This book traces the history of council housing in the UK, which is housing owned by the local authority and usually rented to low-income people for a fraction of the price of market rent. Most council housing was built after World Wars I and II in an attempt to clear... Continue Reading →
Author: Tom Burgis Rating: โญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธ This book was written by an investigative journalist and tells an intricate and far-reaching story about corruption, criminals, dirty money and how theyโre linked into power structures throughout the world. The author traces the struggles of a banker trying to hold is employer to account for their efforts to help... Continue Reading →
Author: Peter Hopkirk Rating: โญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธ This is a book about various people who tried to reach Tibet, largely in the late 1800s to early-mid 1900s. Tibet is a famously isolated country. There was a lot of intrigue surrounding it as well as a lot of fascination, especially in the West with the mythical aura around... Continue Reading →
Author: Sonia Purnell Rating: โญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธ This was an amazing book. Firstly, the subject was amazing, but also, the author did such a good job documenting her story. This is the story of Virgina Hall, an American woman who worked for the Special Operations Executive (SOE), which was an espionage agency formed in the early days... Continue Reading →
Author: Ed Yong Rating: โญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธ This book is a fascinating account about how animals sense the world. In each chapter, the author covers a sense, how it works, the kind of sensory receptors these animals have, and how they use that sense. He talks to researchers and conservationists. He visits animals both in labs and... Continue Reading →
Author: bell hooks Rating: โญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโจ In this book, bell hooks challenges the cultural norm of seeing romantic love as the โultimateโ love that people can have. She observes that weโre told to value this sort of love over the kinds we have with friends or family, and questions why this is. At the same time,... Continue Reading →
Author: Ann Pettifor Rating: โญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธ I have some mixed feelings about this book. Itโs only 160 pages long (not counting references), and it reads like a very long opinion piece. While I like short, concise books, I feel that this was more of the former and not enough of the latter. The main points of... Continue Reading →
Author: John Bryan Starr Rating: โญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธ I donโt need to point out the importance of China in the world today. Itโs the second most populous country in the world, one of the richest (by overall GDP), arguably the most influential in East Asia and one of the most instrumental in the rest of the world,... Continue Reading →
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