Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism and Minding Other People's Business by Roxane Gay
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Category: Current Affairs
Since the publication of her groundbreaking books Bad Feminist and Hunger, Roxane Gay has continued to tackle big issues embroiling society - state-sponsored violence and mass shootings, women's rights post-Dobbs, online disinformation, and the limits of empathy - alongside more individually personal ma ...Show more
Escape - How a Generation Shaped, Destroyed and Survived the Internet by Marie Le Conte
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Category: Current Affairs
The must-read exploration of the birth and death of the internet, from award-winning journalist Marie Le Conte.
The Givenness of Things by Marilynne Robinson
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Category: Current Affairs
Robinson has plumbed the depths of the human spirit in her trilogy of novels - Pulitzer Prize-winning Gilead, Orange-Prize winning Home and National Book Critics Circle Award-winning Lila - and in her moving essay collection When I Was a Child I Read Books. Now, in The Givenness of Things, she brings a ...Show more
Invasion: Inside Russia's War on Ukraine by Luke Harding
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Category: Current Affairs
The first account of the Ukraine war, from the award-winning journalist and #1 New York Times selling author of Collusion and Shadow State who forecasted Putin's dark adventurist ambitions. For months, the omens had pointed in one scarcely believable direction: Russia was about to invade Ukraine. And ye ...Show more
Here be Monsters: Is Technology Reducing Our Humanity? by Richard King
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Category: Current Affairs
Technology is developing fast — so fast that it threatens to overwhelm the very species whose genius lies in its technological cunning: us. From the metaverse to genetic engineering and mood-altering pharmaceuticals, to cybersex and cyberwar and the widespread automation of work, new technologies are re ...Show more
Eurowhiteness - Culture, Empire and Race in the European Project by Hans Kundnani
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Category: Current Affairs
The European Union is often seen as a cosmopolitan rejection of violent nationalism. Yet the idea of Europe has a long, problematic history--in medieval times, it was synonymous with Christianity; in the modern era, it became associated with "whiteness." Eurowhiteness exposes the EU as a vehicle for im ...Show more
City of Lions - Portrait of a City in Two Acts: Lviv, Then and Now by Jozef Wittlin; Philippe Sands; Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Translator)
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Category: Current Affairs
The Ukrainian city Lviv's many names (Lviv, Lvov, Lwow, Lemberg, Leopolis) bear witness to its conflicted past - it has, at one time or another, belonged to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Poland, Russia and Germany, and has brought forth numerous famous artists and intellectuals. My Lwow, Jozef Wittlin's ...Show more
The Sparrows of Kabul by Fred Smith
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Category: Current Affairs
When the US announced their intention to pull out of Afghanistan by September 2021, few anticipated how quickly the Taliban would overrun the Afghan National Security Forces. As Kabul fell two weeks before the deadline, those with reason to fear the new regime rushed to the airport desperate to find a w ...Show more
How To Raise an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
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Category: Current Affairs
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER How do we talk to our children about racism? How do we teach children to be antiracist? How are kids at different ages experiencing race? How are racist structures impacting children? How can we inspire our children to avoid our mistakes, to be better, to make the world better? ...Show more
The Machine Age: An Idea, a History, a Warning by Robert Skidelsky
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Category: Current Affairs
A sweeping history of humanity's relationship with machines, showing how we got here and what happens next Faith in technological fixes for our problems is waning. Automation, which promised relief from toil, has reactivated the long-standing fear of job redundancy. Information technology, meant to lib ...Show more
The Politics of Time: Gaining Control in the Age of Uncertainty by Guy Standing
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Category: Current Affairs
The renowned radical economist Guy Standing turns his attention to our time, and how to reclaim it Time has always been political. Throughout history, how we use our time has been defined and controlled by the powerful, and today is no exception. But we can reclaim control, and in this book, the pioneer ...Show more
The Persuaders: Winning Hearts and Minds in a Divided Age by Anand Giridharadas
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Category: Current Affairs
A riveting insider account of how activists, politicians, educators and citizens are working to change minds, bridge divisions and save democracy from the bestselling author of Winners Take All It once seemed possible to build a political movement out of people with different ideas, different identities ...Show more