jfairbairn rated How to Do Nothing: 5 stars
How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell
In a world where addictive technology is designed to buy and sell our attention, and our value is determined by …
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jfairbairn rated The World-Ending Fire: 5 stars
The World-Ending Fire by Wendell Berry
In a time when our relationship to the natural world is ruled by the violence and greed of unbridled consumerism, …
jfairbairn rated The Bright Ages: 4 stars
The Bright Ages by Matthew Gabriele, David M. Perry
A lively and magisterial popular history that refutes common misperceptions of the European Middle Ages, showing the beauty and communion …
jfairbairn rated Tending the Wild: 5 stars
jfairbairn rated Short nights of the Shadow Catcher: 5 stars
Short nights of the Shadow Catcher by Timothy Egan
How a lone man's epic obsession led to one of America's greatest cultural treasures: Prizewinning writer Timothy Egan tells the …
jfairbairn rated Lean Enterprise: 4 stars
Trevor Owens, Obie Fernandez: Lean Enterprise (2014, Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John)
Lean Enterprise by Trevor Owens, Obie Fernandez
"Even in a tough economic climate, the startup business community has found a way to create innovative, game-changing products in …
jfairbairn rated The Haier model: 2 stars
jfairbairn rated Writing to learn: 4 stars
Writing to learn by William Zinsser
In an engaging personal journey, Zinsser takes the reader into many surprising corners of knowledge and demonstrates that every field …
jfairbairn rated Empowered: 3 stars
jfairbairn rated How to Take Smart Notes: 5 stars
How to Take Smart Notes by Sönke Ahrens
An informational book that describes and advocates for the note taking system of the German sociologist Niklas Luhmann. The author's …
jfairbairn rated Lean Enterprise: 3 stars
jfairbairn rated The Dawn of Everything: 5 stars
The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber, David Wengrow
A breathtakingly ambitious retelling of the earliest human societies offers a new understanding of world history
For generations, our remote …
jfairbairn rated Wintering: 3 stars
Wintering by Katherine May
Sometimes you slip through the cracks: unforeseen circumstances like an abrupt illness, the death of a loved one, a break …
jfairbairn rated Palaces for the people: 5 stars
Palaces for the people by Eric Klinenberg
"An eminent sociologist--and coauthor, with Aziz Ansari, of the #1 New York Times bestseller Modern Romance--makes the provocative case that …
