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The Social Contract
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The Social Network
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The Social Contract
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
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21 Jump Street
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The Knick
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The Corner
2000s
The Corner is a 2000 HBO drama television miniseries based on the nonfiction book The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood (1997) by David Simon and Ed Burns, and adapted for television by David Simon and David Mills. It premiered on HBO in the United States on April 16, 2000, and concluded its s...
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In Search of Lost Time
1910s
Memory, time, and the social world of Belle Époque France across seven volumes.
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The Social Network
2010s
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Welcome to the N.H.K.
2000s
Twenty-two-year-old college dropout Tatsuhiro Satou has been a hikikomori for almost four years now. In his isolation, he has come to believe in many obscure conspiracy theories, but there is one in particular which he holds unshakable faith in: the theory that the evil conspirator behind his shut-in NEET (Not in Em...
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The Social Network
The founding of Facebook. Ambition, betrayal, and the loneliness of connection.
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The Knick
The Knick is an American period medical drama television series on Cinemax created by Jack Amiel and Michael Begler and directed by Steven Soderbergh. The series follows Dr. John W. Thackery and the staff at a fictionalized version of the Knickerbocker Hospital in New York City during the early twentieth century. Am...
Books 1980s
The Bonfire of the Vanities
The Bonfire of the Vanities is a 1987 satirical novel by Tom Wolfe. The story is a drama about ambition, racism, social class, politics, and greed in 1980s New York City, and centers on three main characters: WASP bond trader Sherman McCoy, Jewish assistant district attorney Larry Kramer, and British expatriate jour...
Anime 2010s
Parasyte: The Maxim
All of a sudden, they arrived: parasitic aliens that descended upon Earth and quickly infiltrated humanity by burrowing into the brains of vulnerable targets. These insatiable beings acquire full control of their host and are able to morph into a variety of forms in order to feed on unsuspecting prey. Sixteen-year-o...
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21 Jump Street
Two underachieving cops go undercover at a high school and discover the social order has flipped. A self-aware buddy comedy that shouldn't work but does.
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Essays 1960s
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Paradigm shifts and the nature of scientific progress. The most cited book in the social sciences.