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Category Archives: Non-fiction

The Zookeepers’ War: An Incredible True Story from the Cold War

Two zoos, one in West Berlin and the other in East Berlin, mere miles apart and separated by the Berlin Wall, wrestle with each other at the apex of their popularity.

Posted byCarlenMay 4, 2022May 4, 2022Posted inArchives, Non-fiction

An American Sickness

Unsettling and cruel tactics that actors in the healthcare industry use to profit lucratively off patients, and how to resist.

Posted byCarlenMarch 26, 2022April 5, 2022Posted inArchives, Non-fiction

The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic – and How it Changed Science, Cities and the Modern World

How two men battled Victorian London’s deadliest cholera outbreak, and what we can learn from their public health efforts.

Posted byCarlenFebruary 23, 2022March 1, 2022Posted inArchives, Non-fiction

Enhancing Government: Federalism for the 21st Century

A re-imagining of federalism and how to restructure it to empower both federal and state governments.

Posted byCarlenFebruary 16, 2022February 25, 2022Posted inArchives, Non-fiction

Citizens of London – The Americans Who Stood with Britain in Its Darkest, Finest Hour

The tremendous impact that US Ambassador Gil Winant, CBS reporter Ed Murrow, and businessman Averell Harriman had on the sprawling events of WWII.

Posted byCarlenFebruary 9, 2022February 14, 2022Posted inArchives, Non-fiction

Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few

How big corporations and Wall Street have transformed each of capitalism’s building blocks in their favor.

Posted byCarlenFebruary 2, 2022February 4, 2022Posted inArchives, Non-fiction

How to Blow Up a Pipeline: Learning to Fight in a World on Fire

The future of climate activism, and how to turn fury into action.

Posted byCarlenJanuary 27, 2022January 27, 2022Posted inArchives, Non-fiction

A Queer History of the United States

The remarkable, and oft invisible, influence of the LGBTQ+ community on the United States.

Posted byCarlenJanuary 19, 2022January 21, 2022Posted inArchives, Non-fiction

The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister’s Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine

How Joseph Lister and his use of antiseptics revolutionized the frightening state of 19th-century medicine.

Posted byCarlenJanuary 12, 2022January 12, 2022Posted inArchives, Non-fiction

The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail – But Some Don’t

The unusual and often unseen powers of predictive statistics, and how they mold our lives and actions.

Posted byCarlenJanuary 5, 2022January 11, 2022Posted inArchives, Non-fiction

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