deegpoes rated Braiding Sweetgrass: 4 stars

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As …
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As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As …
Very dense academic text but a fascinating historical study.
The way he quotes the bizarre theories 18th century doctors as statements of fact reflects on how we view science now and how we may come to view our current scientific understanding of the mind.
A House of Pomegranates by Oscar Wilde
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed is a book by James C. …
The extraordinary sequel to Dune, the greatest science fiction novel of all time. Twelve years after his victory over House …
Be careful what you wish for...Once upon a time there was a fairy godmother named Desiderata who had a good …
Los medios conservadores presentan a las feministas como mujeres antihombres, siempre enfadadas. Pero muy al contrario, el feminismo ha logrado …
The Ego and Its Own (German: Der Einzige und sein Eigentum; meaningfully translated as The Individual and his Property …
Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, heir to a noble family …
The author shows that before there was money, there was debt. For 5,000 years humans have lived in societies divided …
The essence of primitivism: the naturalist fallacy and the causal fallacy + cherrypicking egalitarian non-agricultural societies.
If anything it is an ideology by and for despair.
An eye-opening study of the Sisyphean tasks imposed on blue- and white collar wageworkers, as a mechanism of control, due to incompetence of rulers and/or by grindset moralism. Graeber investigates the historic and contemporary anthropology of work-ethic and the politics of subjection behind it. His conclusion: workers of the world, stop working!