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Showing posts with label Books Social Sciences. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Books Social Sciences. Show all posts
Thursday, July 11, 2024

Book Review: Fluke: Chance, Chaos and Why Everything We Do Matters. Brian Klaas (2024).

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In one of my favorite lines from my song Strangers , I posed a rhetorical question: “Who can trace the mysterious chain of events that now...
Saturday, February 11, 2023

Book Review: Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do about It (2022). Richard V Reeves.

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I recently read this truly excellent book by Richard Reeves, on a topic which the author mentions he was discouraged from writing about by s...
Friday, December 30, 2022

Book Review: God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor and the Search for Meaning (2021). Meghan O’Gieblyn.

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Here as the subject for my last post and review for 2022 is one of the more unusual and challenging, yet fun books I’ve read this year. I d...

Book Review: The Loop: How Technology is Creating a World Without Choices and How to Fight Back (2022). Jacob Ward.

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As we approach the end of 2022, and the beginning of a new year, I’m posting my last two book reviews of this first year of my blog, which I...
Monday, November 28, 2022

Book Review: Trigger Points: Inside the Mission to Stop Mass Shootings in America (2022). Mark Follman.

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By now, after decades of horrifying mass shootings across the United States, in schools, malls, grocery stores, post offices, concerts, movi...
Friday, September 30, 2022

Honorable Mentions: Automation, Data and the Big Companies of the Tech Economy.

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Today I thought I'd share another group of reviews of five good books I read from a few years back, in my ongoing "Honorable Mentio...
Wednesday, September 21, 2022

Book Review: Our Own Worst Enemy: The Assault from Within on Modern Democracy (2021). Tom Nichols.

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As you’ll recall, just last week, I did an “Honorable Mentions” post on five books about authoritarianism, democracy and recent politics. Co...
Wednesday, September 14, 2022

Honorable Mentions: Democracy, Authoritarianism, and American Politics.

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Today I'm doing another of my "honorable mentions" posts, featuring another five good books I've read that focus on simila...