Man-Made: How the bias of the past is being built into the future by Tracey Spicer
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Category: social issues
Walkley Award-winning journalist Tracey Spicer exposes the next frontier of feminism. Man Made aims to open readers’ eyes to a transformative technological shift in society and give them the tools to make positive change. `Mum, I want a robot slave.’ Broadcaster Tracey Spicer had an epiphany when her ...Show more
Breaker Morant by Peter FitzSimons
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Category: History
The epic story of the Boer War and Harry 'Breaker' Morant: drover, horseman, bush poet - murderer or hero? Most Australians have heard of the Boer War and of Harry 'Breaker' Morant, a figure who rivals Ned Kelly as an archetypal Australian folk hero. But Morant was a complicated man. Born in England an ...Show more
Irish Folk & Fairy Tales: Ancient Wisdom, Fables & Folkore by J. K. JACKSON
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Category: Ancient History/Mythology | Series: Flame Tree Collector's Editions Ser.
Fairy stories, especially from the fertile landscape of Ireland where the supernatural grew from the legends of the Celts, are the magic stories of everyday folk seeking solutions to the challenges of the day. This spritely new collection brings together the fables and stories of banshees, kings, trembl ...Show more
Viking Folk and Fairy Tales - Ancient Wisdom, Fables and Folkore by J. K. Jackson (Editor); S. Hodge (Introduction by)
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Category: Ancient History/Mythology | Series: Flame Tree Collector's Editions Ser.
Character-forming moral fables, Viking and Nordic folk and fairy tales take the magic of the natural world and combine it with the practical common sense of the everyday. Good folk are rewarded for their hard work, the honest and the faithful are valued by the gods: treasured tales from Hans Christian A ...Show more
Scotland's Forgotten Past: A History of the Mislaid, Misplaced and Misunderstood by Alistair Moffat
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Category: Ancient History/Mythology
Entertaining and provocative, this book from an expert on Scotland's cultural heritage reveals the lost history of an ancient, proud nation. While Scotland's history cannot be separated from its kings and queens, saints, and warriors, there is a rich story to tell about the country's lesser-known place ...Show more
We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Ireland Since 1958 by Fintan O'Toole
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Category: History
The #1 Irish Times bestseller. WINNER of the An Post Irish Book Awards. 'A clear-eyed, myth-dispelling masterpiece' Marian Keyes 'Sweeping, authoritative and profoundly intelligent' Colm Tóibín, Guardian 'With the pace and twists of an enthralling novel and the edge of a fine sword' Diarmaid Ferriter ...Show more
The Earth Transformed: An Untold History by Peter Frankopan
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Category: History
Most people can name the influential leaders and major battles of the past. Few can name the most destructive storms, the worst winters, the most devastating droughts. In The Earth Transformed, ground-breaking historian Peter Frankopan reconnects us with our ancestors who, like us, worshipped, exploited ...Show more
Abandon Every Hope: Essays for the Dead by Hayley Singer
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Category: social issues
Abandon Every Hope mournfully investigates the literatures of the slaughterhouse and a world motivated by profitable death, to ultimately ask- where does this horror begin and how can it end?;Can anyone smell the suffering of souls? Of sadness, of hell on earth? Hell, I imagine, has a smell that bloats ...Show more
Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington; Ishmael Reed (Introduction by); Robert J. Norrell (Afterword by)
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Category: History
One of the foremost African American intellectual leaders of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Booker T. Washington, an educator, author, and orator, is best known for his advocacy of black progress through education and entrepreneurship. The Norton Library edition of his seminal autobiography, Up ...Show more
She/He/They/Me - An Interactive Guide to the Gender Binary by Robyn Ryle
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Category: social issues
An accessible guide for learning about gender identity for those questioning their own genders, generally curious about gender, or interested in better understanding someone else's identity. If you've ever questioned the logic of basing an entire identity around what you have between your legs, it's tim ...Show more
The Library: A Fragile History by Andrew Pettegree, Arthur der Weduwen
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Category: History
A SUNDAY TIMES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR'Timely ... a long and engrossing survey of the library' FT'A sweeping, absorbing history, deeply researched' Richard Ovenden, author of Burning the BooksFamed across the known world, jealously guarded by private collectors, built up over centuries, destroyed i ...Show more