Society & Culture Book Summaries - Page 2

Humankind

Rutger Bregman

Humankind

A Hopeful History

Status Anxiety

Alain de Botton

Status Anxiety

How social isolation and meritocracy cause fear of underachievement and how to solve this

Losing Eden

Lucy Jones

Losing Eden

Why Our Minds Need the Wild

The War For Kindness

Jamil Zaki

The War For Kindness

Building Empathy in a Fractured World

White Fragility

Robin DiAngelo

White Fragility

Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

Myanmar's Enemy Within

Francis Wade

Myanmar's Enemy Within

Buddhist Violence and the Making of a Muslim “Other”

Orientalism

Edward W. Said

Orientalism

Western Conceptions of the Orient

Hood Feminism

Mikki Kendall

Hood Feminism

Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

Beyond Culture

Edward Hall

Beyond Culture

A Journey of self-discovery

Deep Medicine

Eric Topol

Deep Medicine

How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again

Empire of Pain

Patrick Radden Keefe

Empire of Pain

The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

Feeding You Lies

Vani Hari

Feeding You Lies

How to Unravel the Food Industry’s Playbook and Reclaim Your Health

The Power of Myth

Joseph Campbell with Bill Moyers

The Power of Myth

From ancient myths to Han Solo

Me and White Supremacy

Layla Saad

Me and White Supremacy

How to Recognise Your Privilege, Combat Racism and Change the World

Amusing Ourselves to Death

Neil Postman

Amusing Ourselves to Death

Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

Fair Play

Eve Rodsky

Fair Play

A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do (and More Life to Live)

Forget the Alamo

Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson and Jason Stanford

Forget the Alamo

The Rise and Fall of an American Myth

Arabs

Tim Mackintosh-Smith

Arabs

A 3,000 Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires

Four Hundred Souls

Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain

Four Hundred Souls

A COMMUNITY HISTORY OF AFRICAN AMERICA, 1619–2019

Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race

Reni Eddo-Lodge

Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race

Understand racism and white privilege

Picasso's War

Hugh Eakin

Picasso's War

How Modern Art Came to America

The Warmth of Other Suns

Isabel Wilkerson

The Warmth of Other Suns

The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

2030

Mauro F. Guillén

2030

How Today's Biggest Trends Will Collide and Reshape the Future of Everything

Collapse

Jared Diamond

Collapse

How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

The Broken Ladder

Keith Payne

The Broken Ladder

How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Die

White Trash

Nancy Isenberg

White Trash

The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

Morality

Jonathan Sacks

Morality

Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times

Beowulf

Unknown

Beowulf

A Young Warrior’s Battle With Beasts and His Rise to Kingship