A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster by Rebecca Solnit
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"The freshest, deepest, most optimistic account of human nature I've come across in years." -Bill McKibben The most startling thing about disasters, according to award-winning author Rebecca Solnit, is not merely that so many people rise to the occasion, but that they do so with joy. hat joy reveals an ...Show more
Reagan - An American Journey by Bob Spitz
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From New York Times bestselling biographer Bob Spitz, a rich biography of an epic American life, capturing what made Ronald Reagan so beloved and so transformational. More than five years in the making, based on hundreds of interviews and access to previously unavailable documents, and infused with ...Show more
The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy by Michael Lewis
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The morning after Trump was elected president, the people who ran the US Department of Energy - an agency that deals with some of the most powerful risks facing humanity - waited to welcome the incoming administration's transition team. Nobody appeared. Across the US government, the same thing happened- ...Show more
On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal by Naomi Klein
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#1 New York Times and internationally bestselling author Naomi Klein makes the case for a Green New Deal in this "keenly argued, well-researched, and impassioned" manifesto (The Washington Post). An instant bestseller, On Fire shows Klein at her most prophetic and philosophical, investigating the clim ...Show more
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson
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The 10th anniversary edition, with new chapters on the crash, Chimerica, and cryptocurrency In this updated edition, Niall Ferguson brings his classic financial history of the world up to the present day, tackling the populist backlash that followed the 2008 crisis, the descent of "Chimerica" into a ...Show more
Genesis: On the Deep Origin of Societies by Edward O. Wilson
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'With Genesis, Wilson inspires awe ... His message is that selection has shaped a society that is characterized by cooperation and division of labour' Nature Of all species that have ever existed on earth, only one has reached human levels of intelligence and social organisation: us. Why? In Genesis, ce ...Show more
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism by Robin DiAngelo
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Anger. Fear. Guilt. Denial. Silence. These are the ways in which ordinary white people react when it is pointed out to them that they have done or said something that has - unintentionally - caused racial offence or hurt. After, all, a racist is the worst thing a person can be, right? But these reaction ...Show more
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know by Malcolm Gladwell
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Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Outliers, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers -- and why they often go wrong. How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he c ...Show more
White Girls by Hilton Als
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'I defy you to read this book and come away with a mind unchanged' John Jeremiah Sullivan 'Als has a serious claim to be regarded as the next James Baldwin' Observer 'I see how we are all the same, that none of us are white women or black men; rather, we're a series of mouths, and that every mouth needs ...Show more
Globalization and Its Discontents by Joseph Stiglitz
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From Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz, Globalization and its Discontents is the bestselling expose of the all-powerful organizations that control our lives.Joseph Stiglitz's landmark book lifted the lid on how globalization was hurting those it was meant to help. Many of its predictions came true, and it ...Show more
Bullshit Jobs - A Theory by David Graeber
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'Spectacular and terrifyingly true' Owen Jones'Thought-provoking and funny' The TimesBe honest: if your job didn't exist, would anybody miss it? Have you ever wondered why not? Up to 40% of us secretly believe our jobs probably aren't necessary. In other words: they are bullshit jobs. This book shows wh ...Show more
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture & Society
'Essential. A compelling and damning exploration of the abuse of one of our basic human rights: shelter.' --Owen Jones 'If I could require the president to read one book it would be Evicted' --Zadie Smith Arleen spends nearly all her money on rent but is kicked out with her kids in Milwaukee's coldest ...Show more