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Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber
Category: Business
'Spectacular and terrifyingly true' Owen Jones'Thought-provoking and funny' The TimesBe honest: if your job didn't exist, would anybody miss it? Have you ever wondered why not? Up to 40% of us secretly believe our jobs probably aren't necessary. In other words: they are bullshit jobs. This book shows wh ...Show more
Bullshit Jobs - A Theory by David Graeber
Category: Politics
'Spectacular and terrifyingly true' Owen Jones'Thought-provoking and funny' The TimesBe honest: if your job didn't exist, would anybody miss it? Have you ever wondered why not? Up to 40% of us secretly believe our jobs probably aren't necessary. In other words: they are bullshit jobs. This book shows wh ...Show more
Bullshit Jobs - A Theory by David Graeber
Category: Non-Fiction
From bestselling writer David Graeber, a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfilling jobs, and their consequences.Does your job make a meaningful contribution to the world? In the spring of 2013, David Graeber asked this question in a playful, provocative essay titled "On the Phenome ...Show more
Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber
Category: Non-Fiction
Economic history states that money replaced a bartering system, yet there isn't any evidence to support this axiom. Anthropologist Graeber presents a stunning reversal of this conventional wisdom. For more than 5000 years, humans have used elaborate credit systems to buy and sell goods. Since the beginn ...Show more
Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber
Category: Non-Fiction
Before there was money, there was debtEvery economics textbook says the same thing: Money was invented to replace onerous and complicated barter systems-to relieve ancient people from having to haul their goods to market. The problem with this version of history? There's not a shred of evidence to suppo ...Show more
Debt : The First 5,000 Years,Updated and Expanded by David Graeber
Category: Business
Before there was money, there was debt. Every economics textbook says the same thing: Money was invented to replace onerous and complicated barter systems-to relieve ancient people from having to haul their goods to market. The problem with this version of history? There's not a shred of evidence to sup ...Show more
Debt: The First 5,000 Years,Updated and Expanded by David Graeber
Category: Business
The classic work on debt, now is a special tenth anniversary edition Before there was money, there was debt. Every economics textbook says the same thing- Money was invented to replace onerous and complicated barter systems-to relieve ancient people from having to haul their goods to market. The problem ...Show more
Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia by David Graeber
Category: Reference
A rumbustious retelling of the birth of the Enlightenment, from the bestselling radical author of The Dawn of Everything The Enlightenment did not begin in Europe. Its true origins lie thousands of miles away on the island of Madagascar, in the late seventeenth century, when it was home to several thou ...Show more
Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia by David Graeber
Category: Reference
One of The New Yorker's Best Books of 2023 The final book from David Graeber, the iconic intellectual, activist, and co-author of the New York Times bestseller, The Dawn of Everything. Pirates have long lived in the realm of romance and fantasy, symbolizing risk, lawlessness, and radical visions of free ...Show more
The Dawn of Everything - A New History of Humanity by David Graeber; David Wengrow
Category: History
A trailblazing account of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution--from the development of agriculture and cities to the emergence of "the state," political violence, and social inequality--and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation.For generations, ...Show more
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber, David Wengrow
Category: History
A breathtakingly ambitious retelling of the earliest human societies offers a new understanding of world history. For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike - either free and equal, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could be achieved only by sacrifi ...Show more
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber, David Wengrow
Category: Science
'Pacey and potentially revolutionary' Sunday Times 'Iconoclastic and irreverent ... an exhilarating read' The Guardian 'This is not a book. This is an intellectual feast' Nassim Nicholas Taleb For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike - either free and equal, or thu ...Show more