Here at the LIT-SIS blog, we’re always looking for a good read, especially around an upcoming break. In no particular order, here are some non-fiction books we recommend you read during the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday – many of them will provide fodder for interesting coversation at the dinner table! If you read any of them, let us know what you think!

Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
Rest is Resistance: A Manifesto
The Persuaders: At the Front Lines of the Fight for Hearts, Minds, and Democracy
Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know
Legal Protection for Traditional Knowledge: Towards a New Law for Indigenous Intellectual Property
Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools, Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism

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