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hermetic

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Sat Jan 2, 2021, 03:38 PM Jan 2021

15 NF standouts for reading this year

According to Bloomberg Opinion

‘Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art’ by Rebecca Wragg Sykes
‘An Outsider’s Guide to Humans: What Science Taught Me About What We Do and Who We Are’
‘Imperfect Union: How Jessie and John Frémont Mapped the West, Invented Celebrity, and Helped Cause the Civil War’
‘If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future’ by Jill Lepore
‘Free to Move: Foot Voting, Migration, and Political Freedom’ by Ilya Somin
‘Driving While Black: African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights’ by Gretchen Sorin
‘Unbelievers: An Emotional History of Doubt’ by Alec Ryrie
‘The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes’ by Zachary D. Carter
‘Steadfast Democrats: How Social Forces Shape Black Political Behavior’
‘The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World’ by Virginia Postrel
‘Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art’ by James Nestor
'The Origins of You: How Childhood Shapes Later Life’
‘The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous’
‘Silver, Sword and Stone: Three Crucibles in the Latin American Story’ by Marie Arana
‘Why We Swim’ by Bonnie Tsul

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-12-19/the-best-nonfiction-books-of-2020

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15 NF standouts for reading this year (Original Post) hermetic Jan 2021 OP
We got the Keynes book here. JMK interesting on so many levels. empedocles Jan 2021 #1
Ty! SheltieLover Jan 2021 #2
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