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“Breaking Through Power: it’s easier than we think” by Ralph Nader
“Democracy in America” by Alexis de Tocqueville; First Signet Classic Printing, New York 2001 (first published 1835)
“Drive: The Surprising Truth about what Motivates Us” by Daniel Pink
“Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence” by David Goleman; HarperCollins Publishers, New York 2013; Ebook ISBN 9780062114976
“Inside Jokes” by Matthew M. Hurley, Daniel C. Dennett, and Reginald B. Adams, Jr.
“Made to Stick” by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
“Mindset: The New Psychology of Success” by Carol Dweck; Random House, New York 2006; Ebook ISBN 9781588365231
“Progress and Poverty” by Henry George
“Religion for Atheists” by Alain de Botton; Pantheon Books, New York 2012
“State of Confusion: Political Manipulation and the Assault on the American Mind” by Bryant Welch
“The Art of the Gathering” by Priya Parker
“The Better Angels of Our Nature” by Steven Pinker; Penguin Books, London 2011
“The Enigma of Reason” by Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber
“The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Along” by Steven Sloman and Phillip Fernbach
“The National System of Political Economy” by Freidrich List; Translated from the German by Sampson S. Lloyd Augustus M. Kelley Publishers, New York, 1966 (first published 1856)
“The New Americans: Economic, Demographic, and Fiscal Effects of Immigration” by The National Research Council
“The Wealth of Nations” by Adam Smith
“Thinking, Fast and Slow”, by Daniel Kahneman
“Undoing Gender” by Judith Butler; Routledge New York 2004
“Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Hear” By Karima Bennoune

Quote Mining Completed

“A Concept of Social Law” by François Ewald; Translated from the French by Iain Fraser in “Dilemmas of Law in the Welfare State”; European University Institute, Berlin 1985
“A Russian Looks At America” by Aleksandr Borisovich Lakier; Translated from the Russian and Edited by Arnold Schrier and Joyce Story University of Chicago Press, 1979 (first published 1859)
“Accumulation & Power: An Economic History of the United States” by Richard B. Du Boff; M.E. Sharpe, New York 1989
“Administrative Behavior” by Herbert A. Simon; The Free Press, New York 1997 (first published 1947)
“Cannibals all! or, Slaves without masters” by George Fitzhugh
“Critique of Practical Reason” by Immanuel Kant; Hackett Publishing Company, Indianapolis/Cambridge 2002 (first published 1788)
“Death of the Liberal Class” by Chris Hedges; Nation Books, New York 2010
“Democracy in Chains” by Nancy MacLean
“Denial” by Ajit Varki & Danny Brower; Twelve, Hachette Book Group, New York 2013
“Drive: The Surprising Truth about what Motivates Us” by Daniel Pink
“E-topia” by William J. Mitchell; The MIT Press, Cambridge, 2000
“Failure is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in her own words” by Lynn Sherr; Times Books, Random House, Inc, New York 1995
“Illuminations” by Walter Benjamin; Schocken Books, New York 2007; first published 1950
“Law as Medium and Law as Institution” by Jürgen Habermas; Translated from the German by Iain Fraser and Constance Meldrum in “Dilemmas of Law in the Welfare State”; European University Institute, Berlin 1985
“Life and Times of Fredrick Douglass” by Fredrick Douglass; Literary Classics of the United States, New York 1994 [Autobiographies]; first published 1881
“Made to Stick” by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
“Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass” by Fredrick Douglass; Signet Classics, New York 2005; first published 1845
“Preliminary Materials For a Theory of the Young-Girl” by Tiqqun; Semiotext(e), Los Angeles 2012
“Public Opinion” by Walter Lippmann; Free Press Paperbacks, New York 1997 (first published 1922)
“The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own One” by William K. Black; University of Texas Press, Austin 2005
“The Prince” by Niccolo Machiavelli; Bantam Dell, New York, 2003 (first published 1513)
“The Road To Serfdom” by Friedrich Hayek; The University of Chicago Press, London 2007; first published 1944
“The Sublime Object of Ideology” by Slavoj Zizek; Verso, London and New York, 2008 (first published 1989)
“To Afghanistan and Back” by Ted Rall; NBM Publishing 2002
“WAR IS A RACKET” by Smedley Butler; Feral House 2003; first published 1935

Maybe Coming Eventually

Thomas Piketty - Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Thomas Metzinger - Being No One: The Self-Model Theory of Subjectivity
Daniel Kahneman - Thinking, Fast and Slow
Claire A. Hill, Richard W. Painter - Better Bankers, Better Banks: Promoting Good Business through Contractual Commitment
Susan Cain - Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
Alain de Botton - Religion for Atheists: A Non-believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion
Ralph Nader - Breaking Through Power: It's Easier Than We Think
Dan Ariely - Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
Barbara Oakley - A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science
Carol S. Dweck - Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
Charles Duhigg - The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
Daniel Goleman - Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence
Daniel H. Pink - Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
Sheldon Wolin - Democracy Inc
Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann - The Social Construction of Reality
The Federalist Papers
Herbert J. Storing - What the Anti-Federalists Were for: The Political Thought of the Opponents of the Constitution
Aristotle - Ethics
Joe Burns - Reviving the Strike
Julien Benda - The Treason of the Intellectuals
Leon Festinger - When Prophecy Fails
Sun Tzu - The Art of War
Lewis Wolpert - The Triumph of the Embryo
Karl Marx - Capital, vol 1
Nassim Nicholas Taleb - The Black Swan
Michel Foucault - Discipline and Punish
Rita Carter - Explaining Consciousness
Benjamin Franklin - The Autobiography of
Laurence H. Shoup - Imperial Brain Trust: The Council on Foreign Relations and United States Foreign Policy
Frances E. Jensen - The Teenage Brain: A Neuroscientist's Survival Guide to Raising Adolescents and Young Adults
Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Brothers Karamazov
Lucretius - The Nature of Things
Gary Wills - Bomb Power
Henry Thoreaou - Civil Disobedience
Sheryl Sandberg - Lean In
Nelson Mandela - Long Walk to Freedom
Slavoj Zizek - The Ticklish Subject
Slavoj Zizek - The Fragile Absolute
Slavoj Zizek - The Plague of Fantasies
Peter H. Diamandis - Abundance
Christopher Hitchens - God is not Great
Bernard Wood - Human Evolution
Pedro Ángel Palou - Pobre Patria mía
Arthur Hertzberg - Jews
Mortality - Christopher Hitchens
Michael Bakunin - God and the State
Vladimir Lenin - State and Revolution
Thomas Paine - Rights of Man
Robert Anton Wilson - Quantum Psychology
Benjamin Graham - The Intelligent Investor
Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky - Manufacturing Consent
Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini - Inevitable Illusions
Stock Investing for Dummies
Philip Fisher - Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits
Bond Investing for Dummies
Bill O-Reilly - Culture Warrior
Michelle Malkin - Unhinged
Nicole Ball - The Structure of the Defense Industry
Mitchell Heisman - Suicide Note
John Locke - An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Brian Rotman - Signifying Nothing
Avi Shlaim - The Iron Wall
Chris Hedges - War is a Force that Gives us Meaning
Hannah Arendt - Eichmann in Jerusalem
Ward Churchill - A Little Matter of Genocide
Bill Moyers - Doing Democracy
Noam Chomsky - A New Generation Draws the Line
Noam Chomsky - Propaganda and the Public Mind
George Orwell - Homage to Catalonia
Thomas Myers - Anatomy Trains
Ha-Joon Chang - 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism
Ha-Joon Chang - Economics: A User's Guide
Minqi Li - The Rise of China and the Demise of the Capitalist World Economy
Ted Rall - Silk Road to Ruin
Keith Johnson - Acoustic and Auditory Phonetics
Tom Engelhardt - The American Way of War
Henry Thoreau - Civil Disobedience and Other Essays
Ha-Joon Chang - Kicking Away the Ladder
Deane Juhan - Job's Body
Chalmers Johnson - The Sorrows of Empire
Noam Chomsky - Necessary Illusions
John Bellamy Foster - Marx's Ecology
Susan Brownmiller - Against Our Will
Zbigniew Brzezinski - The Grand Chessboard
Richard Dawkins - The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True
Elizabeth Keckley - Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House
Alan Crawford - Thunder on the Right
Anton Chekhov - Selected Stories
Selina Siak Chin Yoke - The Woman Who Breathed Two Worlds (Malayan #1)
Tom Nichols - The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters
Chip Heath - Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
Timothy Snyder - On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Scott Rigby - Glued to Games: How Video Games Draw Us in and Hold Us Spellbound
Richard H. Thaler - Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
Thomas S. Kuhn - The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Doug Henwood - Wall Street: How It Works and for Whom
Steven Sloman - The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone
Hugo Mercier - The Enigma of Reason
Sara E. Gorman - Denying to the Grave: Why We Ignore the Facts That Will Save Us
Booker T. Washington - Up from Slavery
Seneca - Letters from a Stoic : Volume I
Oliver Sacks - Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
Barbara Oakley - Mindshift: Break Through Obstacles to Learning and Discover Your Hidden Potential
Seth Godin - Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
Stephen Crane - The Red Badge of Courage
Lawrence Wright - The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
Gad Saad - Evolutionary Psychology In The Business Sciences
Jon Ronson - The Elephant in the Room
Samuel Ringgold Ward - Autobiography of a Fugitive Negro: His Anti-Slavery Labours in the United States, Canada, and England
Ron Ashkenas - Simply Effective: How to Cut Through Complexity in Your Organization and Get Things Done
Johanne Hildebrandt - The Unbroken Line of the Moon
David Cay Johnston - The Making of Donald Trump
Liza Featherstone - False Choices: The Faux Feminism of Hillary Rodham Clinton
Matthew M. Hurley, Daniel C. Dennett, Reginald B. Adams - Inside Jokes: Using Humor to Reverse-Engineer the Mind
Thelma Adams - The Last Woman Standing

Awareness, deeper psychological awareness itself, must become America’s new Manhattan Project.

Posted on February 17, 2019February 17, 2019Author Bryant WelchCategories State of Confusion

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