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Category Archives: 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

The New Jim Crow

How did this come to be in colorblind America: the mass incarceration and social immobilization of so many of its minorities?

Posted byCarlenDecember 15, 2021December 15, 2021Posted inArchives, Non-fiction

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

A book that spans the widest breadths—from the beginning of our species, through our cognitive, agricultural, and industrial revolutions, to the present.

Posted byCarlenDecember 8, 2021December 13, 2021Posted inArchives, Non-fiction

The Making of Asian America: A History

A sweeping history of Asians in the Americas, their struggles and triumphs, which have been invisible for too long.

Posted byCarlenDecember 2, 2021December 2, 2021Posted inArchives, Non-fiction

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