A Renaissance of Our Own: A Memoir and Manifesto on Reimagining by Rachel Cargle
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Category: Current Affairs
How we can use knowledge, empathy and action to reimagine the world around usOver the past year, we have seen a profound awakening. Institutions and communities have taken down statues and flags, the names of white supremacists in universities and on buildings have been replaced and as we continue to se ...Show more
Why Smart Women Make Bad Decisions: And How Critical Thinking Can Protect Them by Annie McCubbin
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Category: Current Affairs
This is a laugh out loud, narrative-driven self-help book. Think Bridget Jones gets a critical makeover. In Why Smart Women Make Bad Decisions, our protagonist Kat is learning that the philosophy of 'Believe-in-yourself-and Magic-will-happen' will not deliver her a better life. Her story, which reco ...Show more
A Tiger Rules the Mountain: Cambodia’s Pursuit of Democracy by Gordon Conochie
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Category: Current Affairs
Cambodia’s Hun Sen is the world’s longest-serving prime minister, in power since 1985. In 2013, Sen’s rule came under threat when the exiled opposition leader, Sam Rainsy, unexpectedly returned just before a national election. One hundred thousand supporters hailed him at the airport as protests swept t ...Show more
Banzeiro Òkòtó by Eliane Brum
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Category: Current Affairs
A confrontation with the destruction of the Amazon by a writer who moved her life into the heart of the forest. Eliane Brum reveals the direct links between structural inequities rooted in gender, race, class, and even species, and the suffering that capitalism and climate breakdown wreak on those who a ...Show more
Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence by Amy B. Zegart
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Category: Current Affairs
A riveting account of espionage for the digital age, from one of America’s leading intelligence experts Spying has never been more ubiquitous-or less understood. The world is drowning in spy movies, TV shows, and novels, but universities offer more courses on rock and roll than on the CIA and there are ...Show more
Regime Change: Towards a Postliberal Future by Patrick Deneen
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Category: Current Affairs
Classical liberalism promised to overthrow the old aristocracy, creating an order in which individuals could create their own identities and futures. To some extent it did--but it has also demolished the traditions and institutions that nourished ordinary people and created a new and exploitative ruling ...Show more
Irresistible: How Cuteness Wired our Brains and Conquered the World by Joshua Paul Dale
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Category: Current Affairs
The psychology and biology behind what we find cute, and how cuteness has shaped cultures around the world.
Why Governments Get It Wrong - And How They Can Get It Right by Dennis C. Grube
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Category: Current Affairs
'This humane, accessible and lucid work will enlighten any voter, and remind any would-be - or currently serving - politician of the pitfalls to avoid' - TLS As the list of U-turns grows ever longer, the cost of living crisis intensifies and mortgage rates rise, we really need those in charge to get it ...Show more
Tyranny of the Minority: How to Reverse an Authoritarian Turn, and Forge a Democracy for All by Daniel Ziblatt, Steven Levitsky
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Category: Current Affairs
An urgent follow-up to bestseller How Democracies Die, by two world-leading experts on democracy In this incisive and razor-sharp analysis of one of the most important issues facing us today, leading Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt draw on their combined expertise of over 40 years ...Show more
The Russo-Ukrainian War by Serhii Plokhy
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Category: Current Affairs
An illuminating account of the war in Ukraine - its historical roots, its course, its possible outcomes - from the bestselling, award-winning author of Chernobyl On 24 February 2022, Russia stunned the world by launching an invasion of Ukraine. In the midst of checking on the family and friends who we ...Show more
Nomad Century by Gaia Vince
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Category: Current Affairs
We are facing a species emergency. With every degree of temperature rise, a billion people will be displaced from the zone in which humans have lived for thousands of years. From Bangladesh to Sudan to the western United States, and in cities from Cardiff to New Orleans to Shanghai, the quadruple threat ...Show more
Utopia for Realists by Rutger Bregman
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Category: Current Affairs
We live in a time of unprecedented upheaval, when technology and so-called progress have made us richer but more uncertain than ever before. We have questions about the future, society, work, happiness, family and money, and yet no political party is providing us with the answers. We need a new movemen ...Show more