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The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture
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The Myth of Normal

By Gabor Maté , Daniel Maté ,

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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
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The Swerve

By Stephen Greenblatt ,

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The Jewish Century
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The Jewish Century

By Yuri Slezkine ,

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Future Shock
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Future Shock

By Alvin Toffler ,

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The Long Shadow: The Great War and the Twentieth Century
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The Long Shadow

By David Reynolds ,

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One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
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One-Dimensional Man

By Herbert Marcuse ,

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The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition Into the Forces of History
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The Lucifer Principle

By Howard Bloom ,

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All That Is Solid Melts Into Air: The Experience of Modernity
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All That Is Solid Melts Into Air

By Marshall Berman ,

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Overcome by Modernity: History, Culture, and Community in Interwar Japan
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Overcome by Modernity

By Harry D. Harootunian ,

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What We Owe the Future
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What We Owe the Future

By William MacAskill ,

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Between Past and Future: Eight Exercises in Political Thought
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Between Past and Future

By Hannah Arendt , Jerome Kohn ,

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Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future
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Progress

By Johan Norberg ,

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Liquid Modernity
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Liquid Modernity

By Zygmunt Bauman ,

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The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
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The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

By Samuel P. Huntington ,

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Modernity and the Holocaust
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Modernity and the Holocaust

By Zygmunt Bauman ,

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How Russia Shaped the Modern World: From Art to Anti-Semitism, Ballet to Bolshevism
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How Russia Shaped the Modern World

By Steven G. Marks ,

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Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World
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Vermeer's Hat

By Timothy Brook ,

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Wealth Explosion: The Nature and Origins of Modernity
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Wealth Explosion

By Stephen Davies ,

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The Palliative Society: Pain Today
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The Palliative Society

By Byung-Chul Han , Daniel Steuer (translator) ,

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The Climate of History in a Planetary Age
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The Climate of History in a Planetary Age

By Dipesh Chakrabarty ,

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Taj Mahal: The Illumined Tomb- An Anthology of Seventeenth-Century Mughal and European Documentary Sources
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Taj Mahal

By W.E. Begley (editor) , Z.A. Desai (translator) ,

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The Third Wave: The Classic Study of Tomorrow
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The Third Wave

By Alvin Toffler ,

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Nationalism
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Nationalism

By Rabindranath Tagore ,

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On the Move: Mobility in the Modern Western World
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On the Move

By Timothy Cresswell ,

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Civilization Critical: Energy, Food, Nature, and the Future
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Civilization Critical

By Darrin Qualman ,

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The Scottish World: A Journey Into the Scottish Diaspora
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The Scottish World

By Billy Kay ,

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The Intimacies of Four Continents
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The Intimacies of Four Continents

By Lisa Lowe ,

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The Ethics of Authenticity
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The Ethics of Authenticity

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The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution
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The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self

By Carl R. Trueman ,

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The Scottish Enlightenment: The Scots' Invention of the Modern World
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The Scottish Enlightenment

By Arthur Herman ,

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German Modernities from Wilhelm to Weimar: A Contest of Futures
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German Modernities from Wilhelm to Weimar

By Geoff Eley (editor) , Jennifer L. Jenkins (editor) , Tracie Matysik (editor)

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The Future of Nostalgia
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The Future of Nostalgia

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A Brief History of the Human Race
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A Brief History of the Human Race

By Michael Cook ,

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Periodization and Sovereignty: How Ideas of Feudalism and Secularization Govern the Politics of Time
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Periodization and Sovereignty

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Essays: Moral, Political, and Literary
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Essays

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Himalaya
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Himalaya

By Eric Valli , Anne de Sales ,

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The Very Best of Caitlín R. Kiernan
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The Very Best of Caitlín R. Kiernan

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Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations
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Thank You for Being Late

By Thomas L. Friedman ,

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Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity
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Sources of the Self

By Charles Taylor ,

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The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity: Twelve Lectures
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The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity

By Jurgen Habermas , Frederick G. Lawrence (translator) ,

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21 Lessons for the 21st Century
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21 Lessons for the 21st Century

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The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge
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The Evolution of Everything

By Matt Ridley ,

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A Secular Age
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A Secular Age

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How the Scots Invented the Modern World
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How the Scots Invented the Modern World

By Arthur Herman ,

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Lean Logic: A Dictionary for the Future and How to Survive It
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Lean Logic

By David Fleming , Shaun Chamberlin (editor) ,

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The Shortcut: Why Intelligent Machines Do Not Think Like Us
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The Shortcut

By Nello Cristianini ,

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K-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher from 2004 - 2016
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K-punk

By Mark Fisher , Darren Ambrose (editor) ,

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The Ethnic Origins of Nations
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The Ethnic Origins of Nations

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Thought and Change
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Thought and Change

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The Homeless Mind: Modernization and Consciousness
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The Homeless Mind

By Peter L. Berger , Brigitte Berger , Hansfried Kellner

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Age of Anger: A History of the Present
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Age of Anger

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Motel of the Mysteries
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Motel of the Mysteries

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The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis
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The Empathic Civilization

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Knowledge And Decisions
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Knowledge And Decisions

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Europeana: A Brief History of the Twentieth Century
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Europeana

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The Private Life of Mrs Sharma
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The Private Life of Mrs Sharma

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Towards the Light: The Story of the Struggles for Liberty and Rights that Made the Modern West
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Towards the Light

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