Book Genre: Sociology / Anthropology

Upheaval

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In his international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our understanding of what makes civilizations rise and fall. Now, in his third book in this monumental trilogy, he reveals how successful nations recover from crises while adopting selective changes -- a coping mechanism more commonly associated…

God Is Not Great

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In "God Is Not Great," Christopher Hitchens critiques religion as a man-made construct that leads to repression, advocating for a secular life grounded in science and reason.

A Distant Mirror

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In this revelatory work, Barbara W. Tuchman examines not only the great rhythms of history but the grain and texture of domestic life.

Collapse

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My view is that, if environmentalists aren’t willing to engage with big businesses, which are among the most powerful forces in the modern world, it won’t be possible to solve the world’s environmental problems. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed – My Perspective Jared Diamond’s Collapse: How Societies Choose…

Guns, Germs, and Steel

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Understanding is more often used to try to alter an outcome than to repeat or perpetuate it. That’s why psychologists try to understand the minds of murderers and rapists, why social historians try to understand genocide, and why physicians try to understand the causes of human disease. Those investigators do…