Private Revolutions: Coming of Age in a New China by Yuan Yang
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A Sunday Times, Observer and Waterstones Best Book of 2024 This is a book about the coming of age of four women born in China in the 1980s and 1990s, dreaming of better futures. It is about Leiya, who wants to escape the fate of the women in her village. Still underage, she bluffs her way on to the fact ...Show more
The Trial of Vladimir Putin by Geoffrey Robertson QC
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There have been dozens of books about the Russian President since he launched his illegal invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Some have examined the historical aspects of the conflict, others have analysed its military and geopolitical importance. However, none so far have looked purely at the legal c ...Show more
Griffith Review 84: Attachment Styles
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Category: Politics and Current Affairs | Series: Griffith Review Ser.
The attachments we form shape our experience of the world and our understanding of who we are. ‘Hell is other people', wrote Jean-Paul Sartre, his point being less about misanthropy and more about how entwined our self-perception is with the ways in which others perceive us. And alongside our personal r ...Show more
Unlocking Your Inner Zelensky - Lessons We Can All Learn from an Unexpected Leader by Jessie Asya Kanzer
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Volodymyr Zelensky captivated the world when his country was invaded by Russia in February 2022. His appearances were accompanied by countless inspiring statements. But there's a single one that informs Unlocking Your Inner Zelensky: "We are all simple people." Jessie Kanzer sees Zelensky as a Spiri ...Show more
The Making of the Modern Middle East: A Personal History by Jeremy Bowen
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A Spectator Book of the YearA New Statesman Book of the Year'An illuminating and riveting read.' - Jonathan DimblebyJeremy Bowen, the International Editor of the BBC, has been covering the Middle East since 1989 and is uniquely placed to explain its complex past and its troubled present.In The Making of ...Show more
We Need To Talk About Xi: What we need to know about the world's most powerful leader by Michael Dillon
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A short, urgent book that sorts the fact from the fiction about Xi Jinping - one of the world's most powerful political leaders - to truly understand how he came to power, his hold on China and why we should care. Meet the most powerful leader in the world. Chinese premier Xi Jinping graces our televisi ...Show more
What Every Radical Should Know About State Repression: a Guide for activists by Victor Serge
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This classic manual on repression by revolutionary activist Victor Serge offers fascinating anecdotes about the tactics of police provocateurs and an analysis of the documents of the tsarist secret police in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution. With a new introduction by Howard Zinn collaborator and ...Show more
Four Shots in the Night by Henry Hemming
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'A truly page-turning, compulsive and also profoundly moving narrative. Superb.' JAMES HOLLAND ... 'Gripping, urgent, superbly reported and brilliantly written' DAN JONES HOW THE DEATH OF A SPY IN THE IRA LED TO THE BIGGEST MURDER INVESTIGATION IN BRITISH HISTORY. On 26th May 1986, the body of an unde ...Show more
The Russian FSB: A Concise History of the Federal Security Service by Kevin P. Riehle
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Category: Politics and Current Affairs | Series: Concise Histories of Intelligence Ser.
An introduction to Putin’s formidable intelligence and security organization Since its founding in 1995, the FSB, Russia’s Federal Security Service, has regained the majority of the domestic security functions of the Soviet-era KGB. Under Vladimir Putin, who served as FSB director just before becoming p ...Show more
Vulture Capitalism: Corproate crimes, backdoor bailouts, and the death of freedom by Grace Blakeley
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All over the world, democracy is in crisis. Liberal political systems are straining under the pressure imposed by authoritarian strong men undermining institutions, the rule of law and the international system that governs relations between countries. Obvious examples include Donald Trump and Boris John ...Show more
Cuckooland: Where the Rich Own the Truth by Tom Burgis
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"It was easy for Vladimir Putin. He could erase the past by hurling secret files into his KGB station’s furnace at the end of the Cold War. In the era of globalised corruption he has since helped to create, destroying the past is not so simple. Every bribe, every kickback to a crony, every transfer of d ...Show more
Griffith Review 83 Past Perfect by Carody Culver (Editor)
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Category: Politics and Current Affairs | Series: Griffith Review Ser.
The past, famously, is a foreign country — but in the twenty-first century, it’s one in which we increasingly seek solace. No matter the relentless pace of technological innovation and the digitisation of everything from money to media – our appetites for retro design and aesthetics, for cultural produc ...Show more