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ryanfb rated Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome: 5 stars
ryanfb rated Existential Physics: 4 stars
ryanfb rated The Greatest Invention: 5 stars
ryanfb rated Kill It with Fire: 5 stars
Kill It with Fire by Marianne Bellotti
“Kill it with fire,” the typical first reaction to a legacy system falling into obsolescence, is a knee-jerk approach that …
ryanfb rated Africa's Struggle for Its Art: 5 stars
ryanfb rated Elite Capture: 5 stars
Elite Capture by Olufemi O. Taiwo
A powerful indictment of the ways elites have co-opted radical critiques of racial capitalism to serve their own ends.
“Identity …
ryanfb rated Smashing Statues: 5 stars
Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany (The Gregg Press science fiction series)
During an interstellar war one side develops a language, Babel-17, that can be used as a weapon. Learning it turns …
ryanfb rated Cooking Gene: 5 stars
Michael W. Twitty: Cooking Gene (2017, HarperCollins Publishers)
Cooking Gene by Michael W. Twitty
A renowned culinary historian offers a fresh perspective on our most divisive cultural issue, race, in this illuminating memoir of …
ryanfb rated Lurking: How a Person Became a User: 5 stars
Lurking: How a Person Became a User by Joanne McNeil
A concise but wide-ranging personal history of the internet from—for the first time—the point of view of the user
In …
ryanfb rated Four Lost Cities: 5 stars
Four Lost Cities by Annalee Newitz (duplicate)
A quest to explore some of the most spectacular ancient cities in human history—and figure out why people abandoned them. …