18 books like Authority and the Individual

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Civilization Edward Carpenter · 1889 · 175p · ≈ 5h · Challenging Preface to complete edition.--Civilisation: its cause and cure.--Modern science: a criticism.--The science of the future: a forecast.--Defence of criminals: a criticism of morality.--Exfoliation: Lamarck versus Darwin.--Custom.--A rational and humane science.--The new morality.--Appendix--being notes on some of the characteristics and customs of pre-civilised peoples. Shares: Cultural Policy, Cultural, Public Policy, Popular culture

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism Shoshana Zuboff · 2018 · ★ 4.1 · 704p · ≈ 23h · Moderate "Shoshana Zuboff, named "the true prophet of the information age" by the Financial Times, has always been ahead of her time. Her seminal book In the Age of the Smart Machine foresaw the consequences of a then-unfolding era of computer technology. Now, three decades later she asks why the once-celebrated miracle of digital is turning into a nightmare. Zuboff tackles the social, political,… Shares: Cultural Policy, Cultural, Public Policy, Anthropology

Horizons of Anthropology Sol Tax · 1964 · ★ 3.6 · 288p · ≈ 9h · Moderate The scientific study of human evolution and culture is about a hundred years old. This volume surveys its achievements and methods. Originally published more than forty years ago, the volume's contributors include people who have shaped anthropology's future. As Gluckman says in his Preface, the contributions "point to the horizons of increasing understanding of man, his evolution and his social… Shares: Cultural Policy, Cultural, Public Policy, Anthropology

Artificial knowing Alison Adam · 1997 · 216p · ≈ 7h · Moderate "In Artificial Knowing, Alison Adam boldly challenges the Artificial Intelligence (AI) view of the world which prescribes the masculine as the norm and excludes other knowers and knowledge, specifically women. Adam fills a large gap in science and technology studies by showing us how gender is inscribed in AI-based computer systems." "By locating feminist theory in relation to science and… Shares: Cultural Policy, Public Policy, Anthropology, Political science

Freakonomics Steven D. Levitt · 2005 · ★ 4.0 · 336p · ≈ 11h · Moderate A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? How much do parents really matter? How did the legalization of abortion affect the rate of violent crime? These may not sound like typical questions for an economist to ask. But… Shares: Popular culture, Social Science, Psychology

Two Treatises on Government John Locke · 1689 · ★ 4.5 · 422p · ≈ 14h · Demanding The “Two Treatises of Government” is about the former false principles and foundation of sir Robert Filmer and his followers. They are detected and overthrown. The latter is an essay concerning the true original extent and end of civil government.Please Note: This book is easy to read in true text, not scanned images that can sometimes be difficult to decipher. The Microsoft eBook has a… Shares: Authority, Political science, Philosophy

The 48 Laws of Power Robert Greene · 1998 · ★ 4.1 · 195p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this piercing work distills three thousand years of the history of power in to forty-eight well explicated laws. As attention--grabbing in its design as it is in its content, this bold volume outlines the laws of power in their unvarnished essence, synthesizing the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun-tzu, Carl von Clausewitz, and other great thinkers. Some… Shares: Power, Political science, Psychology

What the dog saw and other adventure stories Malcolm Gladwell · 2009 · ★ 4.0 · 410p · ≈ 13h · Moderate What is the difference between choking and panicking? Why are there dozens of varieties of mustard-but only one variety of ketchup? What do football players teach us about how to hire teachers? What does hair dye tell us about the history of the 20th century? In the past decade, Malcolm Gladwell has written three books that have radically changed how we understand our world and ourselves: The… Shares: Popular culture, Social psychology, Psychology

Hovels to Highrise Anne Power · 1993 · 464p · ≈ 15h · Moderate This takes the historical, political and social changes relating to housing in five European countries, and considers the housing history and traditions which have lead to growing tensions within their most disadvantaged communities. Shares: Social Science, Political science

Growing Yourself Up Jenny Brown, MSW · 2012 · 276p · ≈ 9h · Moderate To be human is to be in relationships. We can't survive without them but at the same time it's in our relationships that we so easily come unravelled. There are certain relationships that seem to just do us in. Either we feel like we lose ourselves or we feel burnt out from unsuccessful efforts to make things right for another. In our relationships we can experience the very best of ourselves and… Shares: Social psychology, Psychology

Escape from Freedom Erich Fromm · 1941 · ★ 4.3 · 276p · ≈ 9h · Challenging Escape from Freedom is a book by the Frankfurt-born psychoanalyst Erich Fromm, first published in the United States by Farrar & Rinehart in 1941 with the title Escape from Freedom and a year later as The Fear of Freedom in UK by Routledge & Kegan Paul. It was translated into German and first published in 1952 under the title 'Die Angst vor der Freiheit' (The Fear of Freedom). In the book, Fromm… Shares: Individualism, Social psychology, Psychology

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Robert M. Pirsig · 1974 · ★ 3.8 · 430p · ≈ 14h · Moderate "The real cycle you're working on is a cycle called 'yourself.'"One of the most important and influential books of the past half-century, Robert M. Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is a powerful, moving, and penetrating examination of how we live and a meditation on how to live better. The narrative of a father on a summer motorcycle trip across America's Northwest with his… Shares: Popular culture, Philosophy, Psychology

Illustrations of universal progress Herbert Spencer · 1864 · 451p · ≈ 15h · Challenging 15 works of Herbert Spencer English philosopher, biologist, sociologist, and prominent classical liberal political theorist of the Victorian era (1820-1903) This ebook presents a collection of 15 works of Herbert Spencer. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected. Table of Contents: Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Illustrations of Universal Progress - A… Shares: Political science, Philosophy

The manufacture of madness Thomas Stephen Szasz · 1970 · ★ 4.1 · 383p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Intends to show that the belief in mental illness and the social actions to which it leads have the same moral implications and political consequences as had the belief in witchcraft and the social actions to which it led. Shares: Public Policy, Social psychology

Anthem Ayn Rand · 1936 · ★ 3.6 · 80p · ≈ 2h · Challenging Anthem is a tale of a future dark age of the great “we” – a world that deprives individuals of name, independence, and values. He lived in the dark ages of the future. In a loveless world he dared to love the woman of his choice. In an age that had lost all traces of science and civilization he had the courage to seek and find knowledge. But these were not the crimes for which he would be hunted… Shares: Individualism, Philosophy, Psychology

Mille plateaux Gilles Deleuze · 1980 · ★ 4.3 · 610p · ≈ 20h · Moderate « Avec Hume, l'empirisme ne se définit plus essentiellement par l'origine sensible des idées. Il développe trois problèmes, les relations, les cas, les illusions.D'une part, les relations sont toujours extérieures à leurs termes, et dépendent de principes d'association qui en déterminent l'établissement et l'exercice (croyance). D'autre part, ces principes d'association n'agissent qu'en fonction… Shares: Social psychology, Philosophy, Psychology

The Definitive Book of Body Language Allan Pease · 2004 · ★ 4.0 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Moderate This book isolates and examines each component of body language and gesture and makes you more aware of your own non-verbal cues and signals and demonstrates how people communicate with each other using them. Shares: Social psychology, Psychology

The Structural Study of Myth and Totemism Edmund Ronald Leach · 1967 · 206p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Designed to provoke controversy, the papers in this volume concentrate on two main themes: the study of myth and totemism. Starting with an English translation of La Geste d'Asdiwal, which is widely considered to be the most brilliant of all of Lévi-Strauss's shorter expositions of his technique of myth analysis, the volume also contains criticism of this essay. The second part of the volume… Shares: Anthropology, Social Science

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