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I can't wait to read Vladimir Miskovic's new book, Dreaming Reality. Connecting the latest findings from neuroscience with insights from the world's mystical traditions. Vlad is a neuroscientist turned monk, a brilliant thinker and amazing human. Monks don't do book tours or self promotion, so please help me spread the news about his book! read more about it on the Harvard University Press website: https://lnkd.in/gf4VRTcj

A reading list of new and classic books that explore Black lives, history, culture, and experiences, ranging from a revelatory account of Black innovation in American opera to a lyrical meditation on Black leadership today. February may have flown by, but there’s still time to save 30% off these and other Black History Month titles through March 15 with promo code BHM30.

New from Los Angeles Review of Books: "All the Campus Lawyers?should be of great interest to all who are concerned about higher education, even if they are not particularly interested in the role of attorneys working for universities. Guard and Jacobsen have done a stunning job in their research, using examples from schools across the country. They especially focus on recent events, making the book a timely primer of what is happening in universities today. They do a superb job of summarizing the many cases that have involved colleges and universities. Indeed, in their introduction, they present, in a graphic, an indication of how much such litigation has increased. Their last chapter looks ahead to the issues likely to confront campuses in the future." Read the full review: https://lnkd.in/d7uWDGSr About the book: https://lnkd.in/dfisedwC

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Entrepreneurialism is a work ethic, argues historian Erik Baker. “It enjoins us to work more intensely than we need to and leaves us feeling devoid of purpose when we don’t have work, or the right kind of work, to do.” It’s also exhausting. In this excerpt from Make Your Own Job, he explains how the entrepreneurial work ethic took hold and what’s behind our current epidemic of burnout…

How did the entrepreneurial work ethic take hold? Why have innovation and initiative overshadowed thrift and persistence? Make Your Own Job is a sweeping new history of the changing meaning of work in the U.S.—from Horatio Alger to Instagram influencers. Our shift to individual hustle culture, historian Erik Baker argues, has entrenched and legitimized a society of mounting economic insecurity and inequality. Read more: https://lnkd.in/eVQCUqCZ

Thank you, President Barack Obama, for including Daniel Susskind’s Growth on your Favorite Books of 2024 list! Over the past two centuries, economic growth has freed billions from the struggle for subsistence and made our lives far healthier and longer. Yet prosperity has come at a price: environmental destruction, desolation of local cultures, the rise of vast inequalities and more. Many now claim that the only way forward is through “degrowth,” deliberately shrinking our economic footprint. But to abandon humanity’s progress would be folly. Instead, Susskind argues, we must keep growth but redirect it—making it reflect what we truly value. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/e8F9thn7 Don’t forget to save 30% with the code HOL24, now through 12/31.

NPR's Maureen Corrigan recommends the Letters of Emily Dickinson on Fresh Air, listing it among her favorite books of 2024: "1,304 letters are collected here and, still, they're not enough." Listen: https://lnkd.in/gnu7gMjw Read more: https://lnkd.in/g-rHWZ3w

"What is the use of Greek and Latin literature?" In Antigone, enjoy this special reprint of W.H.D. Rouse's roaring defense of the classics, "Machines or Mind?" (1911). Rouse was among the first editors of the Loeb Classical Library. Read: https://lnkd.in/ex75KB8G

??? Join us for a live Q&A with Aaron Reeves and Sam Friedman, where they will be interviewed by our very own, Alona Ferber, about their new book ‘Born to Rule’. The book is a uniquely data-rich analysis of the British elite from the Victorian era to today: who gets in, how they get there, what they like and look like, where they go to school, and what politics they perpetuate. “An exhilarating and revelatory picture of the British establishment.” —Tom Clark, Prospect Click the link to come along and meet the authors in person, enjoy a glass of wine and ask a question or two: https://lnkd.in/eA2wRU-U