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Crisis
Karin Boye Malin Forst is a precocious, devout twenty-year-old woman attending a Stockholm teachers’ college in the 1930s. Confounded by a sudden crisis of faith, Malin plunges into a depression and a paralysis of will. Oscillating between poetic prose, social realism, fragments of correspo více

Johnny the Walrus
Matt Walsh Johnny is a little boy with a big imagination. One day he pretends to be a big scary dinosaur, the next day he’s a knight in shining armor or a playful puppy. But when the internet people find out Johnny likes to make-believe, he’s forced to make a decision between the little boy více

Stress in Plants: The Hidden Half
Rishikesh Upadhyay This book, in a comprehensive manner, provides an overview of the challenges of increasing crop or agricultural productivity to meet the demands of a growing population, linking descriptions of physiological, ecological, biochemical and molecular activity in plants with their tol více

The Life of Plants in a Changing Environment
Rishikesh Upadhyay Plants experience stress due to environmental changes, either in biotic or abiotic form, during their life cycle. Non-heritable modifications in morphological, physiological or biochemical characteristics tend to reduce or decrease growth and productivity, and sometimes lead to d více

The Meritocracy Trap
Daniel Markovits A revolutionary new argument from eminent Yale Law professor Daniel Markovits attacking the false promise of meritocracy It is an axiom of American life that advantage should be earned through ability and effort. Even as the country divides itself at every turn, the meritocra více

The Precipice
Toby Ord If all goes well, human history is just beginning. But this vast future is under threat. Oxford philosopher Toby Ord explores the risks to humanity, from climate change and nuclear war, to the arguably greater threats on the horizon, including engineered pandemics and unaligned a více

The Tyranny of Merit
Michael J. Sandel These are dangerous times for democracy. We live in an age of winners and losers, where the odds are stacked in favour of the already fortunate. Stalled social mobility and entrenched inequality give the lie to the promise that "you can make it if you try". And the consequence is více

This Is Vegan Propaganda (And Other Lies the Meat Industry Tells You)
Ed Winters Every time we eat, we have the power to radically transform the world we live in. Our choices can help alleviate the most pressing issues we face today: the climate crisis, infectious and chronic diseases, human exploitation and, of course, non-human exploitation. Undeniably, více

Why I Write
Ravi Verma A philosophical and lyrical essay examining creative expression, existential inquiry, and cognitive continuity. Reflecting on memory, suffering, and the preservation of human experience, the work explores writing as an epistemic instrument to navigate uncertainty, construct meani více