nonfiction

I am looking for #academia and #nonfiction #authors and #scicomm people who want to do some AMA-style events on Lemmy. The few I ran on Reddit were fun, and it makes an excellent opportunity for public outreach as people feel comfortable in an informal space, ECRs especially. These are great if you have a paper you want to rizz too. It's a good outreach thing; I always think 1:1 talking to people is the most successful and impactful. @phdstudents @academicchatter

读过 To Sell Is Human 🌕🌕🌑🌑🌑
这类畅销书是不是有个写作模版？就是在仅有的几个观点上加超多的案例和说明，最后你拧一拧水分，发现篇幅至少可以减少六七成以上。

#business #nonfiction #sales

读过 To Sell Is Human
https://neodb.social/book/5he83rZgFeXHbhcngPTRS1
这类畅销书是不是有个写作模版？就是在仅有的几个观点上加超多的案例和说明，最后你拧一拧水分，发现篇幅至少可以减少六七成以上。
#business #nonfiction #sales

❗❗❗ INCOMING: a book announcement ❗❗❗

This is going to turn out either frabjously amazeballs or utterly disastrous.

https://courtcan.com/2024/09/26/incoming-a-book-announcement/

#AppetiteForParadox #WIP #PeterRollins #pyrotheology #WritingCommunity #nonfiction #MyNextRead #philosophy #theology #DeathOfGodTheology #AtheismForLent #theism #atheism #christianity #faith #doubt

Hi guys!

I’m new to mastodon and the fediverse. I’m still trying to figure things out but so far this seems pretty cool!

Here is a list of my interests:
#kpop
#kdrama
#anime
#manga
#genshinimpact
#books
#nonfiction

I am also a part of the #lgbtq community and came here because of #tiktok

I hope to find lots of friends so if you follow me i’ll follow you back!

#newhere #introduction

Here is my #introduction because I’m #newhere.

Like so many others, I’m a refugee from Meta/X. Mastodon is giving me some hope that I might find a #community in social media. Happily married. Resident of Florida but currently on slow travel in Costa Rica. My passions are: #writing – my web site (link in profile) has info on my novels and occasional #popculture essays - #movies , #reading #fiction and #nonfiction , and #photography

I look forward to connecting with the Mastodon community!

ALT

Kerry Ferrand is a New Zealander making book review videos, covering both fiction and non-fiction. You can follow at:

➡️ @kerry_ferrand

There are already seven videos uploaded, you can browse them all at https://spectra.video/a/kerry_ferrand/videos

The videos have subtitles in English, click CC to see them.

#FeaturedPeerTube #Books #BookReviews #Fiction #NonFiction #NewZealand #PeerTube #PeerTubers

finished reading Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑
by Ed Conway.

A high-octane tour through the materials that underlie our civilisation: sand, salt, steel, copper, oil & lithium. So many intriguing side notes that sent me off down rabbit holes (African ghost miners!). Really brings home the mammoth scale, complexity & interconnectedness of these critical industries that we take for granted. But also highlights their fragility, the environmental damage they cause, and the immense difficulty of reforming them to be sustainable.

#BookReview #Books #Bookstodon #NonFiction #MaterialsScience

@WildWoila @wildwoila@wyrms.de

📖 **Peak Human: What We Can Learn from the Rise and Fall of Golden Ages**

“_In Peak Human, acclaimed historian Johan Norberg examines seven of humanity’s greatest civilizations – ancient Athens, the Roman Republic, Abbasid Baghdad, Song China, Renaissance Italy, the Dutch Republic and the Anglosphere – and asks: how do we ensure that our current golden age doesn’t end?_”

🔗 https://atlantic-books.co.uk/book/peak-human/.

#Nonfiction #Book #Bookstodon #History #Histodons @bookstodon @histodons

The Dogs of Mariupol: Russia’s Invasion and the Forging of Ukraine’s Iron Generation by Tom Mutch, 2025

It painstakingly documents the immense human catastrophe wrought on Ukrainian society and the divisions between those who fought and those who fled.

@bookstodon
@ukraine
#books
#nonfiction
#Ukraine
#Mariupol

ALT

Picked up this book from the used bin of my local bookstore yesterday: You Are Not A Gadget by Jaron Lanier. Written in 2010 but very prescient and relevant to our current techno cultural world. It examines the ways in which software and technology shape thought and society.
#BookStodon #nonfiction #technology
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ALT

finished reading Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑
by Tim Harford.

The importance of randomness & spontaneity in creativity & problem-solving. Plans, order & rationality are often counter-productive! So don't beat yourself up about meeting simplistic measures of performance. The tech discussion is a bit dated, but the principles are extremely relevant to AI. Ginormous gender blind-spot.

#BookReview #Books #Bookstodon #Nonfiction #Productivity #Creativity

@WildWoila @wildwoila@wyrms.de

How Britain privatised itself into failure

Britain outsourced its state – now private firms profit while public services crumble. In Failed State, Sam Freedman explains what went wrong

#MustRead #book #BookReview #NonFiction #Privatized #outsourcing #ProfitsOverPeople #Britain https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/the-state-for-sale-how-britain-privatised-itself-into-failure/

🇺🇸 📖 **The Book That All Americans Should Be Reading Now**

"_A nation’s prosperity is not a given. It is constantly shaped by the strength and character of its institutions. If you want to see how a country will do economically in the long run, look at its institutions.

🔗 https://www.zmescience.com/other/economics/the-book-that-all-americans-should-be-reading-now/.

#Economy #Economics #Nonfiction #Books #Bookstodon @economics @bookstodon