Trust - America's Best Chance by Pete Buttigieg
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Category: Current Affairs
'His campaign was historic for all America' GuardianTrust will be our essential tool as we face unique challenges of the decades ahead.In a century warped by terrorism, Trumpism, financial collapse, populism, systemic racism, Russian interference and a global pandemic, trust within and among nations has ...Show more
The Outlaw Ocean: Crime and Survival in the Last Untamed Frontier by Ian Urbina
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Category: Current Affairs
'Just incredible' NAOMI KLEIN**New York Times Bestseller**The Outlaw Ocean is a riveting, adrenalin-fuelled tour of a vast, lawless and rampantly criminal world that few have ever seen- the high seas.The oceans are some of the last untamed frontiers on our planet.Too big to police, and under no clear in ...Show more
The Fragile Earth: Writing from the New Yorker on Climate Change by David Remnick (Editor); Henry Finder (Editor)
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Category: Current Affairs
A classic collection of the New Yorker's most urgent and groundbreaking reporting from the front lines of the climate emergency In 1989, just one year after climatologist James Hansen first came before a Senate committee and testified that the earth was now warmer than it had ever been in recorded histo ...Show more
Who Gets to Be Smart: Privilege, Power and Knowledge by Bri Lee
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Category: Current Affairs
In 2018 Bri Lee's brilliant young friend Damian is named a Rhodes Scholar, an apex of academic achievement. When she goes to visit him and takes a tour of Oxford and Rhodes House, she begins questioning her belief in a system she has previously revered, as she learns the truth behind what Virginia Woolf ...Show more
The Phantom God - What Neuroscience Reveals about the Compulsion to Believe by John C. Wathey
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Category: Cultural Studies | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Does neuroscience have anything to say about religious belief or the existence of God? Some have tried to answer this question, but, in doing so, most have strayed from the scientific method. In The Phantom God, computational biologist and neuroscientist John C. Wathey, Ph.D., tackles this problem he ...Show more
The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love by bell hooks
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Category: Cultural Studies
With the courage, honesty, and compassion that have made her one of America's most provocative authorities on modern culture, bell hooks takes on the interior lives of men and answers their most intimate questions about love. Everyone needs to love and be loved -- even men. In this groundbreaking book, ...Show more
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin, James Baldwin
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Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Twentieth Century Classics Ser.
At once a powerful evocation of his early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice to both the individual and the body politic, James Baldwin galvanized the nation in the early days of the civil rights movement with his eloquent manifesto. The Fire Next Time st ...Show more
The Divider - Trump in the White House, 2017-2021 by Peter Baker; Susan Glasser
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Category: Current Affairs
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "The most comprehensive and detailed account of the Trump presidency yet published."--The Washington Post * A Best Book of the Year: The New Yorker and Financial Times"A sumptuous feast of astonishing tales...The more one reads, the more one wishes to read."--NPR.comThe insid ...Show more
How Politics Works: The Concepts Visually Explained by .
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Category: Current Affairs
A jargon-free, highly visual guide to every aspect of politics, from political philosophy to 21st-century activismDiscover everything you need to know about political history and thought, and the inner workings of governments around the world with this unique graphic guide. Combining clear, jargon-free ...Show more
How to Protect Bookstores and Why: The Present and Future of Bookselling by Danny Caine
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Category: Current Affairs
Why bookstores matter and how we can helpCan bookstores save the world? As bastions of culture, anchors of local retail districts, community gathering places, and the source of new ideas, inspiration, and delight, maybe they can. But only if we protect them and the critical roles they fill in our commun ...Show more
Looking for the Hidden Folk - How Iceland's Elves Can Save the Earth by Nancy Marie Brown
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Category: Cultural Studies
In exploring how Icelanders interact with nature--and their idea that elves live among us--Nancy Marie Brown shows us how altering our perceptions of the environment can be a crucial first step toward saving it. Icelanders believe in elves. Why does that make you laugh?, asks Nancy Marie Brown in this ...Show more
Something Out of Place: Women & Disgust by Eimear McBride
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Category: Cultural Studies
A blistering, galvanising essay from Eimear McBride, award-winning author of A Girl is a Half-formed Thing.