📖 El Paso by Jazmine Ulloa (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️) #Journalism #Politics #History #Nonfiction
From New York Times reporter Jazmine Ulloa, a sweeping human history of El Paso, revealing violence, power, and privilege at play in America's most famous border town. El Paso has been called the "Ellis Island" of America's southern border, a mountain pass cum border town cum bifurcated metropolis where past meets future, and...
What if the systems shaping your life were never really neutral?
My book Systems Against the Self: Privacy, Power, and Resistance in the Modern Age explores how surveillance, digital identity, behavioural control, automation, and dependency have become normal parts of modern life, often hidden behind convenience, safety, and polished design.
It looks at how these systems shape what you see, how you behave, and what starts to feel normal, while also offering a path towards privacy, security, self-custody, resilience, and stronger households and communities.
Get it here: https://books2read.com/b/systems-aginst-the-self
#Privacy #Surveillance #DigitalIdentity #Freedom #SelfSovereignty #Books #Nonfiction #Technology
We don't talk about grief, and yet the #neurodivergent community feels is acutely. This #nonfiction anthology explores grief in all its forms. #OwnVoices include authors who are #AuDHD and #ActuallyAutistic.
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I'd recommend Alexander Stubb's book THE TRIANGLE OF POWER (Alexander Stubb is the President of Finland) if you want to try to understand how we reached the current point in world history.
It's well written, well researched, insightful and prescient.
A Field Guide to the Cohutta Wilderness by Javier Velazquez is a book I have wanted to exist in the world for so long that a couple years ago, I started sketching out whether I could write it myself. I am deeply grateful to the author for putting in the time and effort to create a proper field guide to the natural and environmental history of the Cohutta Mountains.
Field Guide To The Cohutta Wilderness by Javier Velazquez -> https://www.nateshivar.com/30844/field-guide-to-the-cohutta-wilderness-by-javier-velazquez/
I finished 9 books in March 2026. Still enjoying and making progress on the #Spellmonger and #DungeonCrawlerCarl series. Both have a lot of books, and they're on the longer side. My roomie is also listening to the Spellmonger books and had spoiled a few minor things for me when they were ahead. I have now passed them by roughly two books, to my estimation. 🎉
My #nonfiction book this month was James Nestor's Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art, which I listened to sped up. It was fascinating and kind of blew my mind a little bit. I highly recommend it, especially for anyone suffering from sleep apnea and/or crooked teeth. (CW: medical procedures, animal testing, and a passing mention of cannibalism.)
We don’t like to think about death, but the way we die says a lot about how we live.
My latest review explores No Ordinary Deaths: A People's History of Mortality by Molly Conisbee, a book about how even the most ordinary deaths are shaped by culture, community, and time.
#books #bookstadon #history #socialhistory #reading #bookblogging #grief #death #bereavement #belief #nonfiction
Most people can feel that something is changing.
Privacy is treated as negotiable. Convenience comes bundled with exposure. More of life depends on proving who you are in ways systems will accept. Platforms shape what people see, what they feel, and what starts to seem normal.
My book Systems Against the Self: Privacy, Power, and Resistance in the Modern Age explores how surveillance, digital identity, behavioural control, automation, and dependency became normal parts of modern life, and what ordinary people can do in response.
Get it here: https://books2read.com/b/systems-aginst-the-self
#Privacy #Surveillance #DigitalIdentity #Freedom #SelfSovereignty #Books #Nonfiction #Technology
🇯🇵 🎙️ 📖 Tojo: The Rise and Fall of Japan's Most Controversial World War II General
🔗 https://newbooksnetwork.com/tojo
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