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Money Code Space: Hidden Power in Bitcoin, Blockchain, and Decentralisation

By Jack Parkin

Following the catastrophic events of the 2008 global financial crisis, an anonymous hacker released Bitcoin to claw back power from commercial and central banks. It quickly garnered an enthusiastic following who sought to forge a stable and democratic global economy--a world free from hierarchy and control.

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Pragmatism's Evolution: Organism and Environment in American Philosophy

By Trevor Pearce

"In Pragmatism's Evolution, Trevor Pearce demonstrates that the philosophical tradition of pragmatism owes an enormous debt to specific biological debates in the late 1800s, especially those concerning the role of the environment in development and evolution. The various thinkers associated with pragmatism, from Charles Sanders Peirce to Jane Addams and beyond, were towering figures in American intellectual life. Nevertheless, few realize the full extent of their engagement with new developments in the biological sciences. Delve into James's Principles of Psychology and you will discover humans and cuttlefish alike actively shaping their perceptions; browse through Du Bois' The Souls of Black Folk and you will encounter an evolutionary analysis of black leadership; open up Dewey's Democracy and Education and you will find a whole chapter on the role of the environment. If we want to understand the pragmatists and their influence, Pearce argues, we need to understand the relationship between pragmatism and biology"--.

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Deconstruction: An American Institution

By Gregory Jones-Katz

The basic story of the rise, reign, and fall of deconstruction as a literary and philosophical groundswell is well known among scholars. In this intellectual history, Gregory Jones-Katz aims to transform the broader understanding of a movement that has been frequently misunderstood, mischaracterized, and left for dead--even as its principles and influence transformed literary studies and a host of other fields in the humanities.

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Hunting Girls: Sexual Violence from the Hunger Games to Campus Rape

By Kelly Oliver

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Beyond Biocentrism: Rethinking Time, Space, Consciousness, and the Illusion of Death

By Robert Lanza, Bob Berman

Biocentrism shocked the world with a radical rethinking of the nature of reality. But that was just the beginning. In Beyond Biocentrism , acclaimed biologist Robert Lanza, one of TIME Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in 2014, and leading astronomer Bob Berman, take the reader on an intellectual thrill-ride as they re-examine everything we thought we knew about life, death, the universe, and the nature of reality itself.