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Hidden Systems by Dan Nott
We use water, electricity, and the internet every day–but how do they actually work? And what’s the plan to keep …
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We use water, electricity, and the internet every day–but how do they actually work? And what’s the plan to keep …
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The world has finally awoken to the reality of climate breakdown and ecological collapse. Now we must face up to …
A really strongly argued expression of the need to abandon GDP. Similar in nature to “Slow Down” by Kohei Saito but with a less academic framing (making it more approachable to people who aren’t Marxist scholars).
When a bitter dispute over her parents will grows bitter, Bergljot is drawn back into the orbit of the family …
When a bitter dispute over her parents will grows bitter, Bergljot is drawn back into the orbit of the family …
The award-winning author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold returns with a rapturous and revelatory novel about a …
A love story, an adventure, and an epic of the frontier, Larry McMurtry’s Pulitzer Prize— winning classic, Lonesome Dove, the …
It starts out like an old-timey "King of the Hill." You've got your Hank (Call) your Dale (Gus) your Bill (Pea Eye) and Boomhauer (Jake). It's a lot of trash talking and joking around and cows. Then it gets pretty racist pretty fast (more than you might expect since it isn't actually of the period). It stays pretty racist for the remaining 75% of the book.
The award-winning author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold returns with a rapturous and revelatory novel about a …
Why, in our affluent society, do so many people live in poverty, without access to health care, working multiple jobs …
Why, in our affluent society, do so many people live in poverty, without access to health care, working multiple jobs …
In this existential murder mystery, it is Christmas Eve, and fifty-five-year-old professor Pål Andersen is alone, drinking coffee and cognac …