Wake up: Why the World Has Gone Nuts by Piers Morgan
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
'The biggest threat to our freedom in the 21st century isn't coronavirus but hysterically woke liberals trying to kill democracy by suppressing free speech. 'This is my clarion call, as a liberal myself, for them to stop screaming, shaming and cancelling everyone they disagree with, and start being par ...Show more
Kremlin Winter - Russia and the Second Coming of Vladimir Putin by Robert Service
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
Vladimir Putin has dominated Russian politics since Boris Yeltsin relinquished the presidency in his favour in May 2000. He served two terms as president, before himself relinquishing the post to his prime minister, Dimitri Medvedev, only to return to presidential power for a third time in 2012.Putin's ...Show more
The Quiet Americans: Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War by Scott Anderson
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
At the end of World War II, the United States dominated the world militarily, economically, and in moral standing - seen as the victor over tyranny and a champion of freedom. But it was clear - to some - that the Soviet Union was already executing a plan to expand and foment revolution around the world. ...Show more
Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man by Emmanuel Acho
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
An urgent primer on race and racism, from the host of the viral hit video series Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man" "You cannot fix a problem you do not know you have." So begins Emmanuel Acho in his essential guide to the truths Americans need to know to address the systemic racism that has ...Show more
Escape from Camp 14 by Blaine Harden - Alliance by Blaine Harden
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY | Reading Level: 16
Now a major documentary film Twenty-seven years ago, Shin Dong-hyuk was born inside Camp 14, one of five sprawling political prisons in the mountains of North Korea. Located about 55 miles north of Pyongyang, the labor camp is a 'complete control district,' a no-exit prison where the only sentence is li ...Show more
Truth Is Trouble: The strange case of Israel Folau, or How Free Speech Became So Complicated by Malcolm Knox
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
Why did the sacking of rugby player Israel Folau over his social media posts become one of the nation's most polarizing controversies? How could one man's religious views activate so many people in modern Australia? And what does the sides people found themselves on tell us about the kind of country we' ...Show more
The Truths We Hold - An American Journey by Kamala Harris
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY | Reading Level: very good
A New York Times bestseller From one of America's most inspiring political leaders, a book about the core truths that unite us, and the long struggle to discern what those truths are and how best to act upon them, in her own life and across the life of our country. Senator Kamala Harris's commitment to ...Show more
Tiberius with a Telephone: Life and Stories of William McMahon by Patrick Mullins
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
Winner of the National Biography Award 2020. William McMahon was a significant, if widely derided and disliked, figure in Australian politics in the second half of the twentieth century. This biography tells the story of his life, his career, and his doomed attempts to recast views of his much-maligne ...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
140 Days to Hiroshima - The Story of Japan's Last Chance to Avert Armageddon (HB) by David Dean Barrett
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
During the closing months of the Second World War, as America's strategic bombing campaign incinerated Japan's cities, two military giants were locked in a death embrace of cultural differences and diplomatic intransigence. The leaders of the United States called for the 'unconditional surrender' of the ...Show more
China's Grand Strategy and Australia's Future in the New Global Order by Geoff Raby
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
Disruption has blown the old world apart. The rise of China, Trump's America First policies, division within Europe and successful defiance by authoritarian states are affecting the shape of the emerging new order. Human rights, rule of law, free media and longstanding global institutions all seem set t ...Show more
Red Line - The Unravelling of Syria and the Race to Destroy the Most Dangerous Arsenal in the World by Joby Warrick
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
In August 2012, Syrian president Bashar al-Assad was clinging to power in a vicious civil war. Concerned that Assad might resort to chemical weapons, the international community warned that any such use would cross "a red line", warranting a military response. When a year later Assad bombed the Damascus ...Show more