Hello! I'm hoping the title makes sense. What I mean is, I have gotten into the habit of loving the feeling of discovering a long held assumption of mine is either wrong or a lot more nuanced than I am giving it credit for.
Most recently this happened with "Debt – The First 5000 years" by David Graeber which has me looking at debt, and how the concept arises in civilisation much differently than I initially had.
But I don't want a book about debt for my next one, I want a random topic, subject or industry that's just an interesting deep dive, well researched, and eloquently explained.
These are other books I've recently read have had a similar effect:
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Ishmael and The Story of B, Daniel Quinn
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On Becoming A Person, Carl Rogers
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Range, David Epstein
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Elephant in the Brain, Simler & Hansom
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Amusing Ourselves to Death, Neil Postman,
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Bad Men, David Buss
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The book on the taboo against knowing who you are, Alan Watts
All help is of course very much appreciated, and I hope everyone has a lovely day.
by MahimSalam
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I recommend White Rage by Carol Anderson. Has some fascinating information about racism + American politics. I assign this book to students and the most common reaction is “I never learned this / knew this before”
[The Fish That Ate the Whale](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13166586-the-fish-that-ate-the-whale) by Rich Cohen.
This is a story of self-made man, who affected the global history, especially in the USA and Latin America.
Debt: the first 5,000 years, by David Graeber
and
The Dawn of Everything, by David Graeber and David Wengrew
Ishmael! Was gonna be my first recommendation, but it’s already on your list. Malcolm Gladwell books all-His books challenge conventional wisdom, presenting counterintuitive ideas or findings that push readers to reconsider their assumptions.
Marshall Sahlins, *Stone Age Economics* (why “progress” usually isn’t).
Germaine Tillion, *The Republic of Cousins* (why Abrahamic religious codes of marriage and sexual morality are really about hanging on to unherited wealth).
How to hide an empire (American colonialism)