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Alex Evans Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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@LargerUsNetwork founder, author of The Myth Gap, professor in practice @UniofNewcastle, senior fellow @NYUCIC, believer in our better nature

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Book Cover for: 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

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
Alex EvansAlex Evans

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
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Book Cover for: Origins of Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt

Origins of Totalitarianism

Hannah Arendt
Alex EvansAlex Evans

It's something Hannah Arendt understood very well when she said in her 1951 book The Origins of Totalitarianism that: https://t.co/TG9ZkRwmQx

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Book Cover for: Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals, Saul Alinsky

Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals

Saul Alinsky
Alex EvansAlex Evans

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
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Book Cover for: The Authoritarian Dynamic, Karen Stenner

The Authoritarian Dynamic

Karen Stenner
Alex EvansAlex Evans

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
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Book Cover for: A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster, Rebecca Solnit

A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster

Rebecca Solnit
Alex EvansAlex Evans

@LucyGoBag @hellturn I like Rebecca Solnit’s A Paradise Built in Hell

Paperback, 2010

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Totalitarianism: Part Three of the Origins of Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt

Totalitarianism: Part Three of the Origins of Totalitarianism

Hannah Arendt
Alex EvansAlex Evans

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
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Book Cover for: Watchmen: The Deluxe Edition, Alan Moore

Watchmen: The Deluxe Edition

Alan Moore
Alex EvansAlex Evans

@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
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