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A State of Fear by Laura Dodsworth

This is a book about fear. Fear of a virus. Fear of death. Fear of losing our jobs, our democracy, …

The Virus in The Age of Madness by Bernard-Henri Lévy

Leningrad by Michael K. Jones

Describes life in the Russian city of Leningrad during World War II.

Bad pharma by Ben Goldacre

We like to imagine that medicine is based on evidence and the results of fair tests. In reality, those tests …

The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson

The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons (Hyperion Cantos, #2)

On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature called the Shrike. …

This Is Not Propaganda by Peter Pomerantsev

Media Control by Noam Chomsky

Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies is a 1989 book by United States academic Noam Chomsky concerning political power …

Hyperion by Dan Simmons (Hyperion Cantos, #1)

On the world called Hyperion, beyond the reach of galactic law, waits a creature called the Shrike. There are those …

The brain by David Eagleman

"The dramatic story of the brain's role in creating our world, our experience of it, and ourselves; the basis for …

Consciousness explained by Daniel C. Dennett

V for Vendetta by Alan Moore, David Lloyd, Alan Moore

"Good evening, London." It's nine o'clock and this is The Voice of Fate... It is the Fifth of the Eleventh, …

Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber by Mike Isaac

In June 2017, Travis Kalanick, the hard-charging CEO of Uber, was ousted in a boardroom coup that capped a brutal …

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel. It depicts the education of an …

A little history of philosophy by Nigel Warburton