The Surprise Party: How the Coalition Went from Chaos to Comeback by Aaron Patrick
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Category: Current Affairs
Disunity is said to be death in politics - but not in 2019. In The Surprise Party, Aaron Patrick tells how the Coalition came back from the brink. Patrick interviews key insiders to reveal the story behind the scenes - the turning points and the cunning schemes. He covers the fall of Turnbull and the fa ...Show more
The Road to Ruin: The Global Elite's Secret Plan for the Next Financial Crisis by James Rickards
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Category: Current Affairs
The bestselling author of The Death of Money on how investors can prepare for the next financial panic - and why it's coming sooner than you think. The global economy has made what seems like an incredible comeback after the financial crisis of 2008. Yet this comeback is artificial. Central banks have p ...Show more
Destined for War: America, China and Thucydides's Trap by Graham Allison
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Category: Current Affairs
When Athens went to war with Sparta some 2,500 years ago, the Greek historian Thucydides identified one simple cause- a rising power threatened to displace a ruling one, leading inexorably to conflict. As Graham Allison explains, in the past 500 years, great powers have found themselves in 'Thucydides's ...Show more
Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty; Arthur Goldhammer (translator)
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Category: Current Affairs
What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality, the concentration of wealth, and the prospects for economic growth lie at the heart of political economy. But satisfactory answers have been hard to find for lack o ...Show more
Dear Zealots: Letters from a Divided Land by Amos Oz
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Category: Current Affairs
'Concise, evocative... Dear Zealotsis not just a brilliantbook of thoughts and ideas - it is a depiction of the struggle of one man who, for decades, has insisted on keeping a sharp, strident and lucid perspective in the face of chaos and at times of madness' David Grossman, winner of the Man Booker Int ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 71: Follow the Leader: Democracy and the Rise of the Strongman by Laura Tingle
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Category: Current Affairs | Series: Quarterly Essay
In this crisp and timely essay, Laura Tingle examines political leadership in general - some profiles in courage, and cunning - as well as styles of leadership. She looks at Macron and Merkel, Keating and Obama.Tingle notes that leaders must command not only their country, but also their party. Where do ...Show more
Born Trump by Emily Jane Fox
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Category: Current Affairs
Who is Donald J. Trump? To truly understand America's forty-fifth president, argues Vanity Fair journalist Emily Jane Fox, you must know his children, whose own stories provide the key to unlocking what makes him tick. Born Trump is Fox's dishy, deeply reported, and richly detailed look at Trump's five ...Show more
From Russia with Blood by Heidi Blake
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Category: Current Affairs
Orwell Prize-nominated journalist Heidi Blake uncovers exclusive details of Vladimir Putin's worldwide meddling with dissident voices. This is the explosive and true story of how Russia operates in our cities, right under the noses of the most powerful nations in the world, and why even they can't stop ...Show more
Outnumbered - Exploring the Algorithms That Control Our Lives by David Sumpter
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Category: Current Affairs
Our increasing reliance on technology and the Internet has opened a window for mathematicians and data researchers to gaze through into our lives. Using the data they are constantly collecting about where we travel, where we shop, what we buy, what interests us, they can begin to predict our daily habit ...Show more
American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts by Chris McGreal
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Category: Current Affairs
A comprehensive portrait of a uniquely American epidemic-devastating in its findings and damning in its conclusionsThe opioid epidemic has been called one of the greatest mistakes of modern medicine. But calling it a mistake is a generous rewriting of history. Driven by greed, incompetence, and indiffer ...Show more
The Treacherous Path by Vladimir Yakuni
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Category: Current Affairs
In 1991, Vladimir Yakunin, a Soviet diplomat and KGB officer, returned from his posting in New York to a country that no longer existed. The state that he had served for all his adult life had been dissolved, the values he knew abandoned. Millions of his compatriots suffered as their savings disappeare ...Show more
Facebook: The Inside Story by Steven Levy
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Category: Current Affairs
In his sophomore year of college, Mark Zuckerberg created a simple website to serve as a campus social network. But the site caught on like wildfire, and soon students nationwide were on Facebook. Today, Facebook is nearly unrecognizable from Zuckerberg's first, modest iteration. It has grown into a tec ...Show more