Books that I've listened to for my #AcademicRunPlaylist
AcademicRunPlaylist Public
Created by bwaber
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Fatal invention by Dorothy E. Roberts
5 stars
Explores the ways science, politics, and large corporations affect race in the twenty-first century, discussing the efforts and results of …
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Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
4 stars
As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As …
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Poor Economics by Abhijit V. Banerjee, Esther Duflo
4 stars
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty (2011) is a non-fiction book by Abhijit V. …
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Race After Technology by Ruha Benjamin
4 stars
From everyday apps to complex algorithms, Ruha Benjamin cuts through tech-industry hype to understand how emerging technologies can reinforce White …
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The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman
4 stars
Even the smartest among us can feel inept as we fail to figure out which light switch or oven burner …
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Chokepoint Capitalism by Rebecca Giblin, Cory Doctorow
4 stars
A call to action for the creative class and labor movement to rally against the power of Big Tech and …
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The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber, David Wengrow
5 stars
The renowned activist and public intellectual David Graeber teams up with the professor of comparative archaeology David Wengrow to deliver …
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Slouching Towards Utopia by Bradford DeLong
4 stars
An examination of global economic behavior in the long twentieth century from 1870 to 2010.
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Capitalism without capital by Haskel, Jonathan, Stian Westlake
5 stars
"Early in the twenty-first century, a quiet revolution occurred. For the first time, the major developed economies began to invest …
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