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Mike Caulfield 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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Researcher working on misinfo/information literacy at @UW. New book: Verified, from UChicago Nov 2023. Also at mikecaulfield . bluesky . social

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Book Cover for: The City & the City, China Miéville

The City & the City

China Miéville
Mike CaulfieldMike Caulfield

I imagine this is a The City & the City China Miéville situation https://t.co/BAM8NzBNDE

Paperback, 2010

$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Connections, James Burke

Connections

James Burke
Mike CaulfieldMike Caulfield

@danielwinlander You've got to start with something that happened in a cafe in 1942 Serbia, like the James Burke opening Connections.

Paperback, 2007

$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity--And Why This Harms Everybody, Helen Pluckrose

Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity--And Why This Harms Everybody

Helen Pluckrose
Mike CaulfieldMike Caulfield

@DocPhoenix "As Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay noted in their 2020 book Cynical Theories..." uh yeah I'd stay to hear this but I made a strong commitment to organize my sock drawer tonight

Paperback, 2022

$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Anthem Rand by Ayn Rand: Novel, Ayn Rand

Anthem Rand by Ayn Rand: Novel

Ayn Rand
Mike CaulfieldMike Caulfield

I lived through seeing my small New Hampshire town overrun by these folks. It's not even cheapness with most of them, it's more they all think they are delivering a monologue in an Ayn Rand novel. Your town becomes a Hollywood set for their little personal film. It sucks. https://t.co/GaChf7R6xe

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Book Cover for: Outbreaks: The Sociology of Collective Behavior, Jerry D. Rose

Outbreaks: The Sociology of Collective Behavior

Jerry D. Rose
Mike CaulfieldMike Caulfield

@RVAwonk I haven't seen any specifically -- I was reading Chapter 2 of Jerry D. Rose's introductory book _Outbreaks_ before bed, and was struck by how much the models there had to offer.

Paperback, 1982

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Republic of Lies: American Conspiracy Theorists and Their Surprising Rise to Power, Anna Merlan

Republic of Lies: American Conspiracy Theorists and Their Surprising Rise to Power

Anna Merlan
Mike CaulfieldMike Caulfield

This is a great policy that I am going to adopt as well, and could make the world a better place fairly quickly. I can actually start by saying @annamerlan's book Republic of Lies is an incredible example of how to write a pacey, engaging book that doesn't short the academic side https://t.co/WYhggILQqw

Paperback, 2020

$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Doctor Who: Scratchman, Tom Baker

Doctor Who: Scratchman

Tom Baker
Mike CaulfieldMike Caulfield

Watching the Tom Baker Doctor Who's with my Dad and how much we loved it. When they zoomed into that hand in The Hand of Fear in fall of 1976, one of my earliest memories of anything. https://t.co/VE2qRGJ97Y

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Book Cover for: The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy, Michael Lewis

The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy

Michael Lewis
Mike CaulfieldMike Caulfield

It's really striking how much the Musk takeover of Twitter has resembled the actions of the 2016 post-election transition team of the Trump administration as described in Michael Lewis's The Fifth Risk. Someone should write about that.

Paperback, 2019

$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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