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Books for When You Want Anger With Somewhere to Go
Books for When You Want Anger With Somewhere to Go
by book_guy  • 
2 in common: No shortcuts and Fight Like Hell
Anger becomes more useful when you can name the arrangements behind it, hear from the people affected and argue about what might change them. This selection moves between organising studies...
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Books About Science as a Human History
Books About Science as a Human History
by book_guy  • 
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A glass plate full of stars, a tape measure in a lab, and a packet of seeds sent across the Atlantic all have a place in the history of science. These books follow people collecting, testing, and...
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Maritime History About Trade, Labor, and Life Beyond the Captain
Maritime History About Trade, Labor, and Life Beyond the Captain
by book_guy  • 
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A voyage can begin with a dockworker’s shift, a recruiter’s promise, or an order that leaves the passenger no choice. These books follow the people who loaded ships, kept them moving, or had to...
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Books About Translation That Reveal the Choices Behind a Sentence
Books About Translation That Reveal the Choices Behind a Sentence
by book_guy  • 
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What happens to a pun, a line of verse, or a character’s way of speaking when it has to work in another language? These books give you actual passages and decisions to think through. Start with...
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Labour Organisers Who Built Lasting Worker Institutions
Labour Organisers Who Built Lasting Worker Institutions
by list_wrangler  • 
On a similar theme
Strikes make headlines; institutions are what last. This list is about the organisers who turned moments of anger into unions, federations, wage boards and international bodies that still bargain...
Politics
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Illustrated Books That Explain How Things Work
Illustrated Books That Explain How Things Work
by curious_compiler  • 
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These are books where the pictures do the explaining. Each one takes a machine, a building, a street's buried pipes or the inside of a cell and draws it, cuts it open or lays it out until someone...
Education
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Books About Work That Get the Small Details Right
Books About Work That Get the Small Details Right
by book_guy  • 
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Competence is usually less glamorous than it looks from the outside. These books notice the preparation, repetition, fatigue and awkward human exchanges that let a job continue. They range from...
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Books About How Cities Became the Places They Are
Books About How Cities Became the Places They Are
by book_guy  • 
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For readers who look at motorways, tenement blocks, underground lines and public squares and ask who chose those alignments and who was displaced to make room. These urban histories expose the...
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Science Fiction About Work, Debt and Getting By in the Future
Science Fiction About Work, Debt and Getting By in the Future
by book_guy  • 
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A future feels different when someone has to pay for repairs, negotiate a contract or find a place to live after losing a job. These books make material conditions part of the story: service...
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Women Writers Who Changed What the Novel Could Do
Women Writers Who Changed What the Novel Could Do
by book_guy  • 
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A reading map for discovering how a novel can change the way time, thought and a speaking voice reach us. Each writer has a suggested book that makes her particular experiment tangible, from...
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Books That Make Hope Feel Earned
Books That Make Hope Feel Earned
by book_guy  • 
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Hope is more convincing when the work behind it remains visible. These novels, memoirs and reported accounts find it in practical care, resistance, persistent relationships and changed ways of...
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Historical Novels About Women Whose Work Made a Difference
Historical Novels About Women Whose Work Made a Difference
by book_guy  • 
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A bridge needs finishing, a dictionary needs new words, and a vaccine needs a different line of inquiry. In these historical novels, the work itself gets a share of the page. Some follow women you...
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Post-Apocalyptic Books About What People Build Afterwards
Post-Apocalyptic Books About What People Build Afterwards
by book_guy  • 
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The first emergency is only the beginning. These books stay interested in the work afterwards: growing food, repairing useful things, sharing authority, raising children and deciding what...
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