Alex Evans Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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@LargerUsNetwork founder, author of The Myth Gap, professor in practice @UniofNewcastle, senior fellow @NYUCIC, believer in our better nature

The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity--And Will Determine the Fate of the Human Race
Daniel Z. Lieberman
Just started this book and it’s shaping up to be *very* fun. (The author is a professor of clinical psychiatry and also wrote The Molecule of More, a superb book on how dopamine shapes our lives. And he’s our next guest on the larger us podcast! Can’t wait.) https://t.co/xQ0H7LVsw7
Paperback, 2019
$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Origins of Totalitarianism
Hannah Arendt
It's something Hannah Arendt understood very well when she said in her 1951 book The Origins of Totalitarianism that: https://t.co/TG9ZkRwmQx
Out of stock

Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals
Saul Alinsky
Here's how Saul Alinsky put it in the last of his 13 'Rules for Radicals': "Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it."
Paperback, 1989
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Authoritarian Dynamic
Karen Stenner
Especially when it fires up what @karen_stenner calls the authoritarian dynamic. https://t.co/q8ZkxOFqBQ
Paperback, 2005
$35.00$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
Rebecca Solnit
@LucyGoBag @hellturn I like Rebecca Solnit’s A Paradise Built in Hell
Paperback, 2010
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Totalitarianism: Part Three of the Origins of Totalitarianism
Hannah Arendt
It's something Hannah Arendt understood very well when she said in her 1951 book The Origins of Totalitarianism that: https://t.co/TG9ZkRwmQx
Paperback, 2011
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Watchmen: The Deluxe Edition
Alan Moore
@karen_stenner It’s also more or less the plot of Alan Moore’s graphic novel Watchmen, in which a billionaire fakes an alien invasion as a way to overcome rampant polarisation / growing authoritarianism / threat of nuclear conflict by creating a Them to kick start a global Us
Hardcover, 2013
$39.99$20.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book