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Hillbilly Highway: The Transappalachian Migration and the Making of a White Working Class by Max Fraser
Hillbilly Highway: The Transappalachian Migration and the Making of a White Working Class
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Max Fraser

Hillbilly Highway: The Transappalachian Migration and the Making of a White Working Class

Max Fraser

10 hours, 9 minutes • first pub 2023 (editions) user-added

nonfiction historical history sociology
Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics by Adam Rutherford

Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics

Adam Rutherford

288 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

5.0mikefromco's review
nonfiction history science challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The Story of China: The Epic History of a World Power from the Middle Kingdom to Mao and the China Dream by Michael Wood

The Story of China: The Epic History of a World Power from the Middle Kingdom to Mao and the China Dream

Michael Wood

624 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

mikefromco's review
nonfiction history informative slow-paced
Servants of the Damned by David Enrich

Servants of the Damned

David Enrich

10 hours, 45 minutes • first pub 2022 (editions)

4.0mikefromco's review
nonfiction history politics informative medium-paced
The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters by Tom Nichols

The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters

Tom Nichols

8 hours, 41 minutes • first pub 2016 (editions)

3.0mikefromco's review
nonfiction politics psychology science reflective slow-paced
Homelessness Is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns by Gregg Colburn, Clayton Page Aldern

Homelessness Is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns

Gregg Colburn, Clayton Page Aldern

6 hours, 22 minutes • first pub 2022 (editions) user-added

3.5mikefromco's review
nonfiction economics politics reference challenging informative medium-paced
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed by James C. Scott

Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

James C. Scott

445 pages • first pub 1998 (editions)

5.0mikefromco's review
nonfiction economics history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty by Daron Acemoğlu, James A. Robinson

Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty

Daron Acemoğlu, James A. Robinson

17 hours, 55 minutes • first pub 2012 (editions) user-added

nonfiction economics history politics challenging informative slow-paced
Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know by Adam M. Grant

Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

Adam M. Grant

320 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

4.0mikefromco's review
nonfiction business economics psychology self help informative reflective medium-paced
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, Volume 1 by Robert A. Caro

The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, Volume 1

The Power Broker #1

Robert A. Caro

22 hours, 23 minutes • first pub 1974 (editions)

nonfiction biography history politics informative reflective slow-paced