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Who Cares Wins: Reasons for Optimism in our Changing World by Lily Cole
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
Optimism demands action. Optimism is an active choice. Optimism is not naïve and it is not impossible. We are living in an age of turmoil, destruction and uncertainty. Global warming has reached terrifying heights of severity, human expansion has caused the extinction of countless species, and Neolibera ...Show more
When America Stopped Being Great: A History of the Present by Nick Bryant
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
The presidency of Donald Trump is commonly seen as an historical accident. In When America Stopped Being Great, Nick Bryant argues that by 2016 it had become almost historically inescapable. In this highly personal account, drawing on decades of covering Washington for the BBC, Bryant shows how the bill ...Show more
War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence by Ronan Farrow
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
A harrowing exploration of the collapse of American diplomacy and the abdication of global leadership, by the winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in Public Service. US foreign policy is undergoing a dire transformation, forever changing America's place in the world. Institutions of diplomacy and devel ...Show more
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER Sapiens shows us where we came from. Homo Deus shows us where we're going. Yuval Noah Harari envisions a near future in which we face a new set of challenges. Homo Deus explores the projects, dreams and nightmares that will shape the twenty-first century and beyond - from o ...Show more
Prince Andrew: Epstein and the Palace by Nigel Cawthorne
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
Buckingham Palace’s greatest fear came true when the FBI arrested Prince Andrew’s friend Jeffrey Epstein on charges of under-age sex trafficking. Just before the marriage of Kate and Wills, a snapshot of Andrew with his arm around the naked midriff of the billionaire’s most articulate victim had surface ...Show more
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
#1 New York Times Bestseller From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity's creation and evolution--a #1 international bestseller--that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be "human." One hundred thou ...Show more
Liar's Circus: A Strange and Terrifying Journey Into the Upside-Down World of Trump's MAGA Rallies by Carl Hoffman
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
In this work of daring and immersive contemporary anthropology, Carl Hoffman, who has written about the most dangerous and remote corners of the world, journeys deep inside Donald Trump's rallies seeking to understand the strange and powerful tribe that forms the president's base. This book proceeds fr ...Show more
The Expendables: How the middle class got screwed by globalisation by Jeff Rubin
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
A provocative, far-reaching account of how the middle class got stuck with the bill for globalisation, and how the blowback — from Brexit to Trump to populist Europe — will change the developed world. Real wages have not risen much for decades. Union membership has collapsed. Full-time employment is be ...Show more
Making Sense: Conversations on Consciousness, Morality, and the Future of Humanity by Sam Harris
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
"Civilization rests on a series of successful conversations." -Sam Harris Neuroscientist, philosopher, podcaster and bestselling author Sam Harris, has been exploring some of the greatest questions concerning the human mind, society, and the events that shape our world. Harris' search for deeper underst ...Show more
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
Not being racist is not enough. We have to be antiracist. In this rousing and deeply empathetic book, Ibram X. Kendi, founding director of the Antiracism Research and Policy Center, shows that when it comes to racism, neutrality is not an option: until we become part of the solution, we can only be par ...Show more
Veni, Vidi, Vici: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Romans but Were Afraid to Ask by Peter Jones; James Nightingale (Editor)
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
The Romans left a long-lasting legacy and their influence can still be seen all around us, from our calendar and coins to our language and laws, but how much do we really know about them? Help is at hand in the form of this bookwhich tells the remarkable, and often surprising, story of the Romans and th ...Show more
Voices of History: Speeches That Changed the World by Simon Sebag Montefiore
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
VOICES OF HISTORY celebrates the great speeches of world history and cultural life. In this exuberant collection, acclaimed historian Simon Sebag Montefiore takes us on a journey from ancient times to the twenty-first century: some speeches are heroic and inspiring; some diabolical and atrocious; some a ...Show more
