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Book Cover for: God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning, Meghan O'Gieblyn

God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning

Meghan O'Gieblyn
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Will AI change what it means to be human? On The Gray Area, @seanilling talks with essayist Meghan O'Gieblyn, author of God, Human, Animal, Machine, a book about how the way we understand human nature has been interwoven with how we understand our own technology. Listen:… https://t.co/TYw9h2LQIk

Paperback, 2022

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Black Guy Dies First: Black Horror Cinema from Fodder to Oscar, Robin R. Means Coleman

The Black Guy Dies First: Black Horror Cinema from Fodder to Oscar

Robin R. Means Coleman
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The co-author of the new book “The Black Guy Dies First” talks with @alissamarie about the Oscars, Black horror, and the future of Hollywood’s attempts at inclusivity. https://t.co/skPAr0CV8e

Paperback, 2023

$24.99$12.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: While Justice Sleeps: A Thriller, Stacey Abrams

While Justice Sleeps: A Thriller

Stacey Abrams
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Stacey Abrams’s new thriller, While Justice Sleeps, has a long scene on the intricacies of court-packing. Abrams told Vox that scene used to be a whole chapter until she cut it down. “That was rough. That was some of the most fun I had writing.” https://t.co/kW3PoFw3YK

Paperback, 2022

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Road: Pulitzer Prize Winner, Cormac McCarthy

The Road: Pulitzer Prize Winner

Cormac McCarthy
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Cormac McCarthy’s first novel since The Road is out now, and there’s another in December. Read our full review of both books here. https://t.co/NfuhYH09C2

Paperback, 2007

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: How to Prevent the Next Pandemic, Bill Gates

How to Prevent the Next Pandemic

Bill Gates
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Bill Gates answers five questions on how to prevent the next pandemic — and how to reduce global inequality. https://t.co/wfaGoIZees

Paperback, 2023

$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
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"It's really easy to work with people's anger and whip up a mob... The elite are quite good at spotting and using the hate that’s already there." @LyndseyStonebri talks to @seanilling about Hannah Arendt and the politics of totalitarianism. https://t.co/1z7cQskGc8

Paperback, 2011

$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom, Derecka Purnell

Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom

Derecka Purnell
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On Vox Conversations, @FabiolaCineas talks with author, lawyer, and organizer @dereckapurnell about her recent book Becoming Abolitionists. They discuss Derecka's journey to defending the idea of police abolition, and what that position really entails. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/imagine-a-future-with-no-police/id1081584611?i=1000548472352

Paperback, 2022

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond Productivity Culture, Jenny Odell

Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond Productivity Culture

Jenny Odell
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Jenny Odell’s Saving Time and Pooja Laksmin’s Real Self-Care are two new books aiming to create concrete solutions to the problem of living within capitalism. https://t.co/Ov6dc5de4J

Paperback, 2024

$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Our Missing Hearts: Reese's Book Club: A Novel, Celeste Ng

Our Missing Hearts: Reese's Book Club: A Novel

Celeste Ng
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Our Missing Hearts, Celeste Ng’s new dystopian novel, is deceptively retro. https://t.co/XD7YhCGaSC

Paperback, 2023

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Piranesi, Susanna Clarke

Piranesi

Susanna Clarke
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In Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi, a mysterious house never gives up its secrets. https://www.vox.com/culture/22677485/piranesi-susanna-clarke-vox-book-club?utm_campaign=vox&utm_content=chorus&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

Paperback, 2021

$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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