No is Not Enough by Naomi Klein
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
Trump, as extreme as he is, is less an aberration than a logical conclusion - a pastiche of pretty much all the worst and most dangerous trends of the past half century. A one-man megabrand, with wife and children as spin-off brands . . . ' Remember when it all seemed to be getting better? Before Trump ...Show more
The Lady and the Generals: Aung San Suu Kyi and Burma's Struggle for Freedom by Peter Popham
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
Nobel Peace Prize winner, Aung San Suu Kyi, is a symbol of supreme courage in the face of tyranny. Released from house arrest in 2010, she led her party to a dramatic victory in Burma's first free general election in a generation. Acclaimed biographer, Peter Popham, describes how, inspired by her leader ...Show more
The Ten Types of Human - A new understanding of who we are and who we can be by Dexter Dias
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY | Reading Level: near fine
This book will introduce you to ten people. In a way, you already know them. Only you don't - not really. In a sense, they are you. Only they're not entirely. They inform and shape the most important decisions in your life. But you're almost certainly unaware of their intervention. They are the Ten Type ...Show more
Night Trains: The Rise and Fall of the Sleeper by Martin Andrew
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY | Reading Level: Scholarly/Undergraduate
Night trains have long fascinated us with the possibilities of their private sleeping compartments, gilded dining cars, champagne bars and wealthy travellers. Authors from Agatha Christie to Graham Greene have used night trains to tell tales of romance, intrigue and decadence against a rolling backgroun ...Show more
Paul Keating: the Big-Picture Leader by Troy Bramston
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY | Reading Level: General Adult
Drawing on around 15 hours of new interviews with Keating, coupled with access to his extensive personal files, this book tells the story of a political warrior's rise to power, from the outer suburbs of Sydney through Young Labor and into parliament at just 25 years of age, serving as a minister in the ...Show more
The Holocaust: A New History by Laurence Rees
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
This landmark work answers two of the most fundamental questions in history - how, and why, did the Holocaust happen? Laurence Rees has spent twenty-five years meeting survivors and perpetrators of the Third Reich and the Holocaust. Now, in his magnum opus, he combines largely unpublished testimony with ...Show more
One Child: Life, Love and Parenthood in Modern China by Mei Fong
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
For over three decades, China exercised unprecedented control over the reproductive habits of its billion citizens. Now, with its economy faltering just as it seemed poised to become the largest in the world, the Chinese government has brought an end to its one-child policy. It may once have seemed a sh ...Show more
The Untold History of the United States by Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY | Reading Level: good
"The Untold History of the United States" is filmmaker Oliver Stone and historian Peter Kuznick's riveting landmark account of the rise and decline of the American empire - the most powerful and dominant nation the world has ever seen. Probing the dark corners of the administrations of 17 presidents, fr ...Show more
The Lost City of the Monkey God by Douglas Preston
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
Since the days of conquistador Hernan Cortes, rumours have circulated about a lost city of immense wealth hidden deep in the Honduran interior. Indigenous tribes speak of ancestors who fled there to escape the Spanish invaders, and warn the legendary city is cursed: to enter it is a death sentence. They ...Show more
The Book Smugglers of Timbuktu: The Race to Reach the Fabled City and the Fantastic Effort to Save its Past by Charlie English
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY | Reading Level: very good
Two tales of a city: The historical race to reach one of the world's most mythologized places, and the story of how a contemporary band of archivists and librarians, fighting to save its ancient manuscripts from destruction at the hands of al Qaeda, added another layer to the legend. To Westerners, the ...Show more
Insane Clown President: Dispatches from the American Circus by Matt Taibbi
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
"The thing is, when you actually think about it, it's not funny. Given what's at stake, it's more like the opposite, like the first sign of the collapse of the United States as a global superpower. Twenty years from now, when we're all living like prehistory hominids and hunting rats with sticks, we'll ...Show more
Dear Quentin: Letters of a Governor-General by Quentin Bryce
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
As Australia's first female Governor-General, Quentin Bryce handwrote more than fifty letters each week. She wrote to those she had met and connected with as her role took her from palaces to outback schools, from war zones to memorials, from intimate audiences to lavish ceremonies. She received even mo ...Show more