Books like Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
12 books with a reading profile close to Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond. Deep and outward-looking; a moderate read.
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Also deep and outward-looking · history, analytical
Michelle Alexander argues that the American legal system functions as a contemporary mechanism of racial control, effectively relegating millions of Black men to a permanent second-class status.
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The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
Also deep and outward-looking · history, analytical
Steven Pinker argues that physical violence has steadily decreased over centuries, reaching its historical nadir in the modern era.
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Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement
Also deep and outward-looking · history, analytical
Angela Davis connects disparate liberation efforts through a framework of intersectional internationalism.
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History of Beauty
by Umberto Eco
Also outward-looking · history, analytical
Umberto Eco examines the shifting definitions of aesthetics in Western civilization from ancient Greece to the dawn of the twenty-first century.
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The Shock of the New
Also deep and outward-looking · history, analytical
Robert Hughes traces the evolution of modern art from the late nineteenth century through the 1970s, framing the movement as a response to the rapid rise of industrial technology and urban life.
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Scenes from Deep Time
Also deep and outward-looking · history, analytical
In Scenes from Deep Time, M.
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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Also deep and outward-looking · history, analytical
Richard Rothstein identifies the specific local, state, and federal policies that created and enforced residential segregation across the United States.
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Art Under Control in North Korea
by Jane Portal
Also outward-looking · history, analytical
Jane Portal examines the institutional mechanisms through which the North Korean state dictates artistic production.
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Powers and Prospects
by Noam Chomsky
Also deep and outward-looking · history, analytical
In this collection of essays and lectures, Noam Chomsky analyzes the intersection of international relations, geopolitical power, and elite control over economic policy.
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The Oxford Illustrated History of the Renaissance
Also outward-looking · history, analytical
Gordon Campbell coordinates a chronological survey that expands the Renaissance beyond its traditional fifteenth-century Tuscan borders.
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Women, Race & Class
Also deep · history, analytical
Angela Davis maps the historical intersection of abolitionism and the early women’s suffrage movement to demonstrate how the priorities of middle-class white women often excluded the needs of Black women.
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Leonardo da Vinci
by Martin Kemp
Also deep and outward-looking · history, analytical
Martin Kemp presents a cohesive analysis of Leonardo da Vinci’s career by linking his artistic output to his scientific inquiries.
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