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<div class="goodreads-book" data-title="Undaunted: Living Fiercely into Climate Meltdown in an Authoritarian World" data-author="Carolyn Baker">
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<p class="goodreads-author">Carolyn Baker</p>
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<span class="goodreads-date">Finished: 07/07/2026</span>
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<div class="goodreads-description-text">At the conclusion of the 2021 COP 26 climate summit with its disappointing outcomes, inhabitants of planet Earth are confronted with the reality that by 2050, or sooner, large parts of the Earth could be uninhabitable. We are indisputably living in the Sixth Great Extinction.
We know that countless humans are reeling with climate anxiety and experiencing fear, anger, grief, despair, dread, and understandably attempting to cope with the reality of potential human extinction with massive amounts of denial. This book offers an alternative to being consumed with either denial or despair.
At its core is the existential issue of climate catastrophe and how to live into it with compassionate, clear-eyed, vibrant, awakened intention. While this perspective is harrowing, even more formidable is the prospect of doing so in a global milieu in which deeply divided nations and individuals are opting to abandon democratic institutions and procedures in favor of authoritarian models of governance.
Undaunted offers neither phony fixes nor merciless melancholy in the face of our daunting predicament. It assumes that both the reader and the author will face moments of despair going forward, but it offers skills and practices for living undaunted in the face of humanity’s most unprecedented ordeals.</div>
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<div class="goodreads-book" data-title="How to Blow Up a Pipeline" data-author="Andreas Malm">
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51686708" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">How to Blow Up a Pipeline</a>
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<p class="goodreads-author">Andreas Malm</p>
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<span class="goodreads-year">Published: 2021</span>
<span class="goodreads-date">Finished: 06/07/2026</span>
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<div class="goodreads-description-text">The science on climate change has been clear for a very long time now. Yet despite decades of appeals, mass street protests, petition campaigns, and peaceful demonstrations, we are still facing a booming fossil fuel industry, rising seas, rising emission levels, and a rising temperature. With the stakes so high, why haven’t we moved beyond peaceful protest?
In this lyrical manifesto, noted climate scholar (and saboteur of SUV tires and coal mines) Andreas Malm makes an impassioned call for the climate movement to escalate its tactics in the face of ecological collapse. We need, he argues, to force fossil fuel extraction to stop—with our actions, with our bodies, and by defusing and destroying its tools. We need, in short, to start blowing up some oil pipelines.
Offering a counter-history of how mass popular change has occurred, from the democratic revolutions overthrowing dictators to the movement against apartheid and for women’s suffrage, Malm argues that the strategic acceptance of property destruction and violence has been the only route for revolutionary change. In a braided narrative that moves from the forests of Germany and the streets of London to the deserts of Iraq, Malm offers us an incisive discussion of the politics and ethics of pacifism and violence, democracy and social change, strategy and tactics, and a movement compelled by both the heart and the mind. Here is how we fight in a world on fire.</div>
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<div class="goodreads-book" data-title="The Waves" data-author="Virginia Woolf">
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<p class="goodreads-author">Virginia Woolf</p>
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<span class="goodreads-year">Published: 1931</span>
<span class="goodreads-date">Finished: 04/07/2026</span>
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<div class="goodreads-description-text">Tracing the lives of a group of friends, The Waves follows their development from childhood to middle age. While social events, individual achievements and disappointments form its narrative, the novel is most remarkable for the rich poetic language that expresses the inner life of its characters: their aspirations, their triumphs and regrets, their awareness of unity and isolation.
Separately and together, they query the relationship of past to present, and the meaning of life itself. Perhaps more than any other of Woolf's novels, The Waves conveys the endless complexities of human experience.</div>
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<div class="goodreads-book" data-title="On Bullshit" data-author="Harry G. Frankfurt">
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/229108626" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">On Bullshit</a>
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<p class="goodreads-author">Harry G. Frankfurt</p>
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<span class="goodreads-year">Published: 2005</span>
<span class="goodreads-date">Finished: 28/06/2026</span>
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<div class="goodreads-description-text">One of the most prominent features of our world is that there is so much bullshit. Yet we have no clear understanding of what bullshit is, how it’s different from lying, what purposes it serves, and what it means. In his acclaimed bestseller On Bullshit, which was featured on The Daily Show and 60 Minutes, Harry Frankfurt, who was one of the world’s most influential moral philosophers, explores one of the most serious problems of our politics and our world. This twentieth anniversary edition features a postscript in which Frankfurt emphasizes that “indifference to the truth is extremely dangerous.”
With his characteristic combination of philosophical acuity, psychological insight, and wry humor, Frankfurt argues that bullshitters misrepresent themselves to their audience not as liars do—that is, by deliberately making false claims about what’s true. Rather, bullshitters seek to convey a certain impression of themselves without being concerned about whether anything at all is true. They quietly change the rules governing the conversation so that claims about truth and falsity are irrelevant. Although bullshit can take innocent forms, excessive indulgence in it can eventually undermine the bullshitter’s capacity to tell the truth in a way that lying doesn’t. Liars at least acknowledge that the truth matters. Because of this, Frankfurt says, “bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are.”
Remarkably prescient and insightful, On Bullshit is a small book that explains a great deal about our time.</div>
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<div class="goodreads-book" data-title="Hayek's Bastards: The Neoliberal Roots of the Populist Right" data-author="Quinn Slobodian">
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/243022077" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Hayek's Bastards: The Neoliberal Roots of the Populist Right</a>
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<p class="goodreads-author">Quinn Slobodian</p>
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<span class="goodreads-year">Published: 2025</span>
<span class="goodreads-date">Finished: 28/06/2026</span>
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<div class="goodreads-description-text">Neoliberals should have seen the end of the Cold War as a total victory—but they didn’t. Instead, they saw the chameleon of communism changing colors from red to green. The poison of civil rights, feminism, and environmentalism ran through the veins of the body politic and they needed an antidote.
To defy demands for equality, many neoliberals turned to nature. Race, intelligence, territory, and precious metal would be bulwarks against progressive politics. Reading and misreading the writings of their sages, Friedrich Hayek and Ludwig von Mises, they articulated a philosophy of three hards—hardwired human nature, hard borders, and hard money—and forged the alliances with racial psychologists, neoconfederates, ethnonationalists, and goldbugs that would become known as the alt-right.
Following Hayek’s bastards from Murray Rothbard to Charles Murray to Javier Milei, we find that key strains of the Far Right emerged within the neoliberal intellectual movement not against it. What has been reported as an ideological backlash against neoliberal globalization in recent years is often more of a frontlash. This history of ideas shows us that the reported clash of opposites is more like a family feud.</div>
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<div class="goodreads-book" data-title="The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking (Canons)" data-author="Olivia Laing">
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<p class="goodreads-author">Olivia Laing</p>
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<span class="goodreads-year">Published: 2013</span>
<span class="goodreads-date">Finished: 26/06/2026</span>
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<div class="goodreads-description-text">Why is it that some of the greatest works of literature have been produced by writers in the grip of alcoholism, an addiction that cost them personal happiness and caused harm to those who loved them? In The Trip to Echo Spring, Olivia Laing examines the link between creativity and alcohol through the work and lives of six extraordinary F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, John Berryman, John Cheever, and Raymond Carver.
All six of these writers were alcoholics, and the subject of drinking surfaces in some of their finest work, from Cat on a Hot Tin Roof to A Moveable Feast . Often, they did their drinking Hemingway and Fitzgerald ricocheting through the cafés of Paris in the 1920s; Carver and Cheever speeding to the liquor store in Iowa in the icy winter of 1973.
Olivia Laing grew up in an alcoholic family herself. One spring, wanting to make sense of this ferocious, entangling disease, she took a journey across America that plunged her into the heart of these overlapping lives. As she travels from Cheever's New York to Williams's New Orleans, and from Hemingway's Key West to Carver's Port Angeles, she pieces together a topographical map of alcoholism, from the horrors of addiction to the miraculous possibilities of recovery. Beautiful, captivating, and original, The Trip to Echo Spring strips away the myth of the alcoholic writer to reveal the terrible price creativity can exert.</div>
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<div class="goodreads-book" data-title="I Hate Men" data-author="Pauline Harmange">
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<p class="goodreads-author">Pauline Harmange</p>
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<span class="goodreads-year">Published: 2020</span>
<span class="goodreads-date">Finished: 25/06/2026</span>
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<div class="goodreads-description-text">Women, especially feminists and lesbians, have long been accused of hating men. Our instinct is to deny it at all costs. (After all, women have been burnt at the stake for admitting to less.)
But what if mistrusting men, disliking men - and yes, maybe even hating men - is, in fact, a useful response to sexism? What if such a response offers a way out of oppression, a means of resistance? What if it even offers a path to joy, solidarity and sisterhood?
In this sparkling essay, as mischievous and provocative as it is urgent and serious, Pauline Harmange interrogates modern attitudes to feminism and makes a rallying cry for women to find a greater love for each other - and themselves.</div>
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<div class="goodreads-book" data-title="We Need to Tax Billionaires" data-author="Gabriel Zucman">
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/246665170" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">We Need to Tax Billionaires</a>
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<p class="goodreads-author">Gabriel Zucman</p>
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<span class="goodreads-year">Published: 2025</span>
<span class="goodreads-date">Finished: 24/06/2026</span>
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<div class="goodreads-description-text">While ordinary citizens pay around half of their income in tax, billionaires pay often close to zero income tax - because they earn almost all their income through companies.
The solution is the 2% “Zucman tax”: a minimum tax on the ultra-rich themselves, advocated by economist and global expert on the taxation of wealth Gabriel Zucman. We need to tax billionaires, and this game-changing book shows us why now is the moment.</div>
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<div class="goodreads-book" data-title="Spinoza, Atheist" data-author="Steven Nadler">
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<p class="goodreads-author">Steven Nadler</p>
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<span class="goodreads-date">Finished: 20/06/2026</span>
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<div class="goodreads-description-text">In 1656, a young Amsterdam merchant was excommunicated by his Portuguese-Jewish community in the harshest terms it had ever used. Baruch Spinoza was accused of unspecified “horrifying heresies,” but the precise reasons for his expulsion remain a mystery. When he published his Theological-Political Treatise in 1670, which was condemned as “the most atheistic book ever written,” he began to reveal to the world what his heresies may have been. Yet ever since the eighteenth century, most readers and scholars have assumed that Spinoza was a pantheist—even a “God-intoxicated man,” as the poet Novalis put it. After all, how could a person whose books are suffused with talk of God be an atheist? In Spinoza, Atheist, Steven Nadler, one of the world’s leading authorities on the philosopher, aims to settle the question and show that that’s exactly what he was.
Nadler makes a powerful case that there is no real divinity for Spinoza. God is Nature, and isn’t an object of worshipful awe or religious reverence but can only be understood through philosophy and science. There is nothing supernatural—no mystery, ineffability, or sublimity. Spinoza does speak of “blessedness” and “salvation,” but these, too, are to be understood in natural and rational terms, as the peace of mind and happiness that come from understanding ourselves and the world.
Whether Spinoza believed in God is a fascinating and enduring controversy. Spinoza, Atheist promises to transform our understanding of his views and to make clear just how radical a thinker he was and remains.</div>
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<div class="goodreads-book" data-title="A Discourse on the Method" data-author="René Descartes">
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<p class="goodreads-author">René Descartes</p>
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<span class="goodreads-year">Published: 1637</span>
<span class="goodreads-date">Finished: 19/06/2026</span>
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<div class="goodreads-description-text">Descartes' Discourse marks a watershed in European thought; in it, the author sets out in brief his radical new philosophy, which begins with a proof of the existence of the self (the famous "cogito ergo sum"). Next he deduces from it the existence and nature of God, and ends by offering a radical new account of the physical world and of human and animal nature.
Written in everyday language and meant to be read by common people of the day, it swept away all previous philosophical traditions. This new translation is an ideal introduction to Descartes for the general reader.
It is accompanied by a substantial introductory essay from Renaissance scholar Ian Maclean that is designed to provide in-depth historical and philosophical context. The essay draws on Descartes' correspondence to examine what brought him to write his great work, and the impact it had on his contemporaries.</div>
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