Category: Book Reviews
Best Non-fiction Books of 2018
The Best Non-fiction Books of 2018 2018 was another tumultuous year in politics around the world. People are still struggling to make sense of the rise of populism, alternative facts, nativism and authoritarianism. (Did you know that sales of Orwell’s 1984 soared 10,000 percent in 2016 – the publisher could not meet demand.) Most of […]
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TRUTH WARS: How we will survive fake news, post-truth, and the war on science
Truth Wars Wars are part of human history, but 20th century nuclear weapons made them more destructive than ever. Wisdom prevailed; here we still are. Truth wars, that is fighting over truth, are also a bloody part of our history, and 21st century technology has brought new combatants: for example, a fake news industry, and […]
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Book Review – The Knowledge Illusion – Why We Never Think Alone
Knowledge Illusion: Inspiring, paradigm shifting perspective on knowledge – and what humans can achieve together The Knowledge Illusion tells us something depressing – we don’t know nearly as much INDIVIDUALLY as we think, and something liberating – COLLECTIVELY, thinking together, we can achieve magical things. Day in and day out we use objects, such as […]
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