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When Plants Dream did something that few books about drugs do. It tried it's hardest to convince me that I need to try ayahuasca. Any book I've ready about opium, weed or other drugs, there’s usually some point on why you shouldn't do them. But not here!

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Enchantress of Numbers by Jennifer Chiaverini, 2017

New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini illuminates the fascinating life of Ada Byron King, Countess of Lovelace—Lord Byron's daughter, the world's first computer programmer, and a woman whose exceptional contributions to science and technology have been too long unsung.

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The only legitimate child of Lord Byron, the most brilliant, revered, and scandalous of the Romantic poets, Ada was destined for fame long before her birth. Estranged from Ada's father, who was infamously "mad, bad, and dangerous to know," Ada's mathematician mother is determined to save her only child from her perilous Byron heritage. Banishing fairy tales and make-believe from the nursery, Ada's mother provides her daughter with a rigorous education grounded in mathematics and science. Any troubling spark of imagination—or worse yet, passion or poetry—is promptly extinguished. Or so her mother believes.

Read Harder Challenge 2026: Read a Nonfiction Comic

A new year means a new Read Harder Challenge! The 2026 challenge includes plenty of nonfiction prompts, including 5.) Read...
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This is not a story about politics. It’s about brothers. About duty. About staring death in the face and not blinking.
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Hope: The Autobiography by Pope Francis & Jorge Mario Bergoglio, 2025

Hope is the first autobiography in history ever to be published by a Pope. Written over six years, this complete autobiography starts in the early years of the twentieth century, with Pope Francis’s Italian roots and his ancestors’ courageous migration to Latin America, continuing through his childhood, the enthusiasms and preoccupations of his youth, his vocation, adult life

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and the whole of his papacy up to the present day.

In recounting his memories with intimate narrative force (not forgetting his own personal passions), Pope Francis deals unsparingly with some of the crucial moments of his papacy and writes candidly, fearlessly, and prophetically about some of the most important and controversial questions of our present times.

Encyclopedia of Religious Ethics by William Schweiker, 2022

A comprehensive, innovative, and authoritative view of moral inquiry engaged with the resources of the world’s religions

Encompassing three comprehensive volumes, the Encyclopedia of Religious Ethics introduces fundamental issues in moral inquiry, explores the world’s major moral traditions, and surveys specific moral issues across a wide range of human experiences.

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This landmark work defines the meaning, task, and various forms of religious ethics to guide readers through critical inquiry of religious and moral life across historical periods, geography, and cultural traditions. The Encyclopedia features contributions by an extraordinary panel of ethicists, historians, theologians, philosophers, political theorists, and other experts that draw from and revise religious sources to explore basic themes in moral theory and address contemporary ethical and political problems.
Each volume is devoted to a particular element of religious ethics. Volume I - Moral Inquiry helps readers understand diverse religious and moral traditions, the social practices and institutions used for their transmission, and the methods and approaches used for their comparison. Volume II – Moral Tradition describes the established historical traditions of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Indian religions, Chinese religions, African religions, and religions of the Americas.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781118499528

Conscious Life by John S. Torday , Rob G. Sacco, 2025

Bridging Cellular Origins, Quantum Realities, and Cosmic Connections

Understanding consciousness is the most important scientific principle left to be understood. The conventional way of thinking about evolution is focused on materiality, whereas a true understanding of evolution can only be understood by re-focusing on the flow of energy in service to Symbiogenesis.

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This book focuses on the role of quantum mechanics in the process of evolution, based on the perspective of energy flow rather than the description of biologic materiality. A basic understanding of that frame-shift is comparable to the Periodic Table of Elements showing the interrelationship between the alchemical description of matter and its energetic origin in the Big Bang. Based on the author's earlier works going back 25 years regarding the role of cell-cell communication in development and speciation, this book is designed to encourage an across space-time perspective on how and why we have evolved.

"Energy and Evolution posits that the flow of energy is the primary force driving evolution in our Universe. This perspective offers a superior framework for understanding biological complexity and environmental adaptability. Evolution is presented not as a series of random mutations and adaptations but as a cohesive and purposeful progression toward enhanced communication and efficiency within and between organisms.

🇺🇸 📖 **The Great Contradiction: The Tragic Side of the American Founding**

"_The author’s new book focuses on two “tragic contradictions”: the Founding Fathers’ failure to adopt measures to eliminate slavery in the new nation or to grant security for America’s native tribes."

🔗 https://www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/the-great-contradiction-the-tragic-side-of-the-american-founding.

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What makes me BELONG? Is it the colour of my skin? The accent I use? Where I was born? Or where I grew up? Or is it the legal wording on a piece of paper? Yes. And no. medium.com/@nshooter11/... #language #opinion #non-fiction #multilinguial #welcome #belonging

If Language Is the Great Divid...

We're sharing our favorite #longreads of 2025 over the next two weeks.

Bookmark our Best of 2025 page to catch up on the latest year-end essays and lists of notable editors' picks:

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Do you know any good books about Search And Rescue (written for the general public)?

pinging @ai6yr and anyone else who knows

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Books About Queer Resistance for the 2026 Read Harder Challenge

Learning about how queer people have resisted oppression throughout history can help inspire us to do the same today.
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Hello, I’m Eckhard Lohse – Thoughtsmith.
Author of 60+ nonfiction books, resonance architect, and active in ME/CFS and Long COVID advocacy.
My posts are resonance fragments: clear, concise, and crafted to spark social innovation and orientation.
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Silhouette of a person facing a glowing frame. A metaphor for reflection, resonance, and transition.

Hallo, ich bin Eckhard Lohse – Durchdenker.
Autor von über 60 Sachbüchern, Resonanzarchitekt und aktiv in der ME/CFS‑ und Long COVID‑Advocacy.
Meine Beiträge sind Resonanzsplitter: klar, kurz, durchdacht – für soziale Innovation und Orientierung.
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The Iberian World 1450-1820 by Fernando Bouza et al, 2019

The Iberian World: 1450–1820 brings together, for the first time in English, the latest research in Iberian studies, providing in-depth analysis of fifteenth- to early nineteenth-century Portugal and Spain, their European possessions, and the African, Asian, and American peoples that were under their rule.

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Featuring innovative work from leading historians of the Iberian world, the book adopts a strong transnational and comparative approach, and offers the reader an interdisciplinary lens through which to view the interactions, entanglements, and conflicts between the many peoples that were part of it. The volume also analyses the relationships and mutual influences between the wide range of actors, polities, and centres of power within the Iberian monarchies, and draws on recent advances in the field to examine key aspects such as Iberian expansion, imperial ideologies, and the constitution of colonial societies.
Divided into four parts and combining a chronological approach with a set of in-depth thematic studies, The Iberian World brings together previously disparate scholarly traditions surrounding the history of European empires and raises awareness of the global dimensions of Iberian history. It is essential reading for students and academics of early modern Spain and Portugal.

Inside the Machine by Megan Prelinger, 2015

Art and Invention in the Electronic Age

A visual history of the electronic age captures the collision of technology and art—and our collective visions of the future.

A hidden history of the twentieth century's brilliant innovations—as seen through art and images of electronics that fed the dreams of millions.

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A rich historical account of electronic technology in the twentieth century, Inside the Machine journeys from the very origins of electronics, vacuum tubes, through the invention of cathode-ray tubes and transistors to the bold frontier of digital computing in the 1960s.

But, as cultural historian Megan Prelinger explores here, the history of electronics in the twentieth century is not only a history of scientific discoveries carried out in laboratories across America. It is also a story shaped by a generation of artists, designers, and creative thinkers who gave imaginative form to the most elusive matter of all: electrons and their revolutionary applications.

At Home A Short History of Private Life
Special Illustrated Edition by Bill Bryson, 2013

A fascinating excursion into the history behind the place we call home.

"Houses aren't refuges from history. They are where history ends up."

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Bill Bryson and his family live in a Victorian parsonage in a part of England where nothing of any great significance has happened since the Romans decamped. Yet one day, he began to consider how very little he knew about the ordinary things of life as he found it in that comfortable home. To remedy this, he formed the idea of journeying about his house from room to room to "write a history of the world without leaving home." The bathroom provides the occasion for a history of hygiene; the bedroom, sex, death, and sleep; the kitchen, nutrition and the spice trade; and so on, as Bryson shows how each has figured in the evolution of private life.

Women in the Third World by Nelly P. Stromquist, 1998

An Encyclopedia of Contemporary Issues

"Provides timely information and insight into the complex issues facing women living in the economically, culturally, and politically diverse Third World. An excellent resource."

"For quick, reliable, coverage of women's issues in developing countries, [this] is a concise reference work written by more than 80 international experts."

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The Cambridge World History of Human Disease by Kenneth F. Kiple, 2008

Combining recent medical discoveries with historical and geographical scholarship, The Cambridge World History of Human Disease traces the concept of disease throughout history and in each major world region. It offers the history and geography of each significant human disease--both historical and contemporary--from AIDS to yellow fever...

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