Only 5-star books from my list
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Created by Ben Waber
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Weathering by Arline T Geronimus
5 stars
Fusing science and social justice, renowned public health researcher Dr. Arline T. Geronimus offers an urgent and necessary book exploring …
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Sugar is everywhere in the western diet, blamed for epidemics of obesity, diabetes, and other modern maladies. Our addiction to …
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Japanese Reflections on World War II and the American Occupation by Ran Ying Porter, Edgar Porter
5 stars
This book presents an unforgettable up-close account of the effects of World War II and the subsequent American occupation on …
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Frail Professionalism by Richard Moorhead
5 stars
Bad lawyering has come under increasing focus though NDAs, SLAPPs, the banking crisis, and latterly the UK’s Post Office scandal, …
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Digital Exiles by Andreas Hackl
5 stars
Digital Exiles opens a rare window into the world of refugees trying to survive and thrive in an increasingly digitalized …
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No Mākou ka Mana by Kamanamaikalani Beamer
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Na Makou ka Mana asserts that the founders of the Hawaiian Kingdom exercised their own agency and were not just …
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Disposable Workers by Paul Osterman
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Companies cannot exist without workers, but they are increasingly reluctant to have employees. Instead of providing the benefits and protections …
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European Guilds by Sheilagh Ogilvie, Joel Mokyr (Princeton economic history of the Western world)
5 stars
A comprehensive analysis of European craft guilds through eight centuries of economic history
Guilds ruled many crafts and trades …
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Encounters at the Heart of the World by Elizabeth A. Fenn
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We mainly know of the Mandan Indians—iconic plains people whose teeming, busy towns on the upper Missouri River were for …
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Memory Lands by Christine M. DeLucia
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Noted historian Christine DeLucia offers a major reconsideration of the violent seventeenth-century conflict in northeastern America known as King Philip’s …
