**Federico Marcon, "Fascism: The History of a Word" (U Chicago Press, 2025)**

"_...How did the terms “fascism” and “fascist” come to be in the first place? How and in what circumstances have they been used? How can they be understood today? And what are the advantages (or disadvantages) of using “fascism” to make sense of interwar authoritarianism as well as contemporary politics?"

https://megaphone.link/NBNK8883506816.

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Hey Masto !
C'est quoi tes livres de récit de non-fiction préférés ? (Moins essai que narration littéraire, documentaire ou journalistique)

#livre
#conseillecture
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#journadon

Code Name: Pale Horse (️️) #Nonfiction #Truecrime #Memoir

An eye-opening and crucial true story of one man risking his life to infiltrate the most dangerous neo-Nazi group in the United States. When Scott Payne was growing up, he never envisioned a future that included what happened on Halloween night 2019. Out in the woods of Georgia, he tried desperately to save a goat from being sacrificed in a ritual by a group of neo-Nazis...

https://www.coryd.dev/reading/books/9781668032909

An Inspiring Must-Read for All My Fellow Doom-Scrollers

This book will change the way you view optimism, pessimism, and how we can frame our activism to get things done.
https://bookriot.com/hope-in-the-dark-by-rebecca-solnit/

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@indieauthors

Flight of the Seventh Moon by Lynn Andrews https://hokkaidomarket.net/books-info.php?item=1183 #NONFICTION #BOOKS #BOOKSHOP #HOKKAIDO #SPIRITUALITY #NEWAGE #FICTION #NATIVEAMERICAN #WOMENSSTUDIES #INDIGENOUS #RELIGION #bookstodon

No Electricity, No Life by Colin D. McCaig, 2025

Electrical Forces Govern Great Swathes of Biology

This book presents the essential electrical events that shaped the creation of a planet that can support life, shaped membrane formation, single cell formation, single cell wound healing, multicellularity, epithelial tissues, basement membranes and many other biological events.

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-68827-0

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#electricity
#Springer

Art or Scribbles? In the Eye of the Beholder: The Evolutionary Emergence of Visual Communication by Iain Davidson, 2025

The book is about how art arose; and how it became what we call art today. How did art emerge from the relationships between people and the things they produce and the ideas of producers? How do people manipulate those relationships in their own society? How do outsiders work out the ways in which those relationships were used to make art?

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#history

Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World by John Vaillant, 2023

A stunning account of a colossal wildfire that collided with a city, and a panoramic exploration of the rapidly changing relationship between fire and humankind from the award-winning, best-selling author of The Tiger and The Golden Spruce.

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#Canada

The Palgrave Handbook of Climate Resilient Societies by Robert C. Brears, 2020

The effects of climate change are beginning to be felt around the world with rising temperatures, changing precipitation levels, more frequent and severe storms and longer more intensive droughts threatening human life and livelihoods and damaging property and infrastructure.

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#ClimateChange
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#Palgrave

Social Engineering Hacking Systems, Nations, and Societies by Michael Erbschloe, 2019, CRC

This book analyzes the use of social engineering as a tool to hack random systems and target specific systems in several dimensions of society. It shows how social engineering techniques are employed well beyond what hackers do to penetrate computer systems.

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**Calculus Made Easy by Silvanus P. Thompson**

"_Read or download for free_"

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33283.

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Ice: Chilling Stories from a Disappearing World by DK, 2019

From the mighty mammoths and deserts of ice to early explorers and polar survival, come face to face with one of Earth's greatest resources: ice.

With captivating CGIs, illustrations, and photography, DK's Ice will take young readers on an epic journey from the ice age to modern day, exploring how icy worlds are created, how creatures live in these harsh environments and the impact of climate change.

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A Companion to Byzantium by Liz James, 2010

Using new methodological and theoretical approaches, A Companion to Byzantium presents an overview of the Byzantine world from its inception in 330 A.D. to its fall to the Ottoman Turks in 1453.

Provides an accessible overview of eleven centuries of Byzantine society.

Introduces the most recent scholarship that is transforming the field of Byzantine studies.

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#history
#Byzantium

We, Programmers A Chronicle of Coders from Ada to AI by Robert C. Martin, 2025

In We, Programmers, software legend Robert C. Martin—"Uncle Bob"—dives deep into the world of programming, exploring the lives of the groundbreaking pioneers who built the foundation of modern computing. From Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace to Alan Turing, Grace Hopper, and Dennis Ritchie, Martin shines a light on the figures whose brilliance and perseverance changed the world.

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I am currently reading the German translation of "The art of darkness:
The history of goth" by John Robb.
It's a long and thorough non-fiction book, covering lots of topics, among them of course the music of the goth subculture.

Here is the publisher's page:
https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526176769/

NEW RELEASE!
Aspects of the Novel by E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster offers an analysis of aspects of the novel. #nonfiction

Find it here: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/e-m-forster/aspects-of-the-novel