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David Graeber's 'Pirate Enlightenment,' Patricia Engel's 'Faraway World': 5 new must-read books
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIn search of something good to read? USA TODAY's Barbara VanDenburgh scopes out the shelves for this...
Did pirates advance democracy? David Graeber's last book makes the case
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year ago'Pirate Enlightenment,' by David Graeber, late co-author of the bestselling 'Dawn of Everything,' locates the possible dawn of democracy in Madagascar.
Why Patagonia — yes, that Patagonia — is rebooting a forgotten climate history classic
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoBeginning 385 million years ago, trees made the proliferation of life on Earth possible. With the...
Read these 20 books if you want to level up your knowledge of the stock market
Business Insider via Yahoo Finance· 6 months agoLegendary investor Michael Burry attends the premiere of "The Big Short".Andrew Toth/Getty Images...
The Abuses of Prehistory
The New Republic via Yahoo News· 1 month agoOur prehistoric ancestors never went away. This is what Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari argued in his international blockbuster Sapiens: A Brief...
Opinion: Why would anyone want a paleo diet? We're desperate for half-truths about human origins
Los Angeles Times Opinion via Yahoo News· 3 months agoHuman evolution is such a long and messy process that anyone with a theory can find evidence for it...
The Ludicrous, Depressing Appeal of the Crypto Guy
The New Republic via Yahoo News· 9 months agoIn his monumental history Debt: The First 5,000 Years, the anthropologist David Graeber accused economists of inventing “imaginary villages” as the...
Salem's 2022 most checked-out books for kids, teens and adults
Statesman Journal via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe Salem Public Library has seen a steady increase in returning visitors since reopening following...
Hitting the Books: The fall 2022 reading list
Engadget· 2 years agoWelcome back, gentle reader, to the second installment of Hitting the Books Quarterly. This time around we’ve got a seven-layer dip of delicious...
Hotlist: Most popular at the library
Columbia Daily Tribune via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAdult fiction "The Big Door Prize" by M.O. Walsh "Sparring Partners" by John Grisham "Where the Crawdads Sing" by Delia Owens "The 6:20 Man" by David...