The Future of Geography: How power and politics in space will change our world by Tim Marshall
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Spy satellites orbiting the Moon. Space metals worth billions. Humans on Mars within our lifetimes. This isn’t science fiction. It’s astropolitics. We’re entering a new space race – and it could revolutionise life on Earth. Space: the new frontier, a wild and lawless place. It is already central to com ...Show more
This is Europe The Way We Live Now by Ben Judah
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Category: Politics and Current Affairs
What does it now mean to call yourself European? Who makes up this population of 750 million, sprawled from Ireland to Ukraine, from Sweden to Turkey? Who has always called it home, and who has newly arrived from elsewhere? Who are the people who drive our long-distance lorries, steward our criss-crossi ...Show more
Oath and Honor: the explosive inside story from the most senior Republican to stand up to Donald Trump by Liz Cheney
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Category: Politics and Current Affairs
In the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election, Donald Trump and many around him, including certain other elected Republican officials, intentionally breached their oath to the US Constitution: they ignored the rulings of dozens of courts, plotted to overturn a lawful election, and provoked a violen ...Show more
50 Democracy Ideas You Really Need to Know by Adam Fleming
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In a series of 50 accessible essays, Adam Fleming introduces and explains the history, key ideas and tools of democracy developed by some of the world's greatest thinkers - spanning from the ancient Greeks to the present day. From the right to vote to the monarchy, viral politics to Brexit, 50 Democrac ...Show more
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Davis; Frank Barat (Editor); Cornel West (Preface by)
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Category: Politics and Current Affairs
In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis illuminates the connections between struggles against state violence and oppression throughout history and around the world. Reflecting on the importance of black feminism, intersectionality, ...Show more
The Great Divide: Australia's Housing Mess and How to Fix It; Quarterly Essay 92 by Alan Kohler
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Category: Politics and Current Affairs
What caused Australia's housing crisis - and how we might fix it One of the great mysteries of Australian life is that a land of sweeping plains, with one of the lowest population densities on the planet, has a shortage of land for houses. As a result, Sydney's median house price is the second most exp ...Show more
China After Mao: The Rise of a Superpower by Frank Dikotter
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Category: Politics and Current Affairs
'A revolutionary book' Sunday Times ... 'A pulsating account' Peter Frankopan .... *A SPECTATOR AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR* How did the People's Republic of China transform from a backwater economy in the 1970s into the world superpower of today? Drawing on hundreds of previously unseen archiv ...Show more
Israelophobia: The Newest Version of the Oldest Hatred and What To Do About It by Jake Wallis Simons
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Category: Politics and Current Affairs
'This is an important and necessary book by a superb and subtle writer. There's no one more qualified to write it than Jake Wallis Simons, both as ground-breaking Middle East security correspondent and Editor of the Jewish Chronicle. It analyses the often prejudiced coverage and intense scrutiny of Isra ...Show more
The Divider - Trump in the White House, 2017-2021 by Peter Baker; Susan Glasser
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Category: Politics and 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
Jacinda Ardern: The Story of an Extraordinary Leader by Michelle Duff
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Category: Politics and Current Affairs
In depth analysis of Jacinda Ardern's extraordinary leadership as Prime Minister of New Zealand. Fully updated and revised edition, now including the 2020 election and New Zealand's Covid-19 response, the Whakaari/White Island tragedy, Ardern's shock resignation and what she's doing now. Michelle Duff d ...Show more
A Woman I Know: female spies, double identities, and a new story of the Kennedy assassination by Mary Haverstick
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Category: Politics and Current Affairs | Reading Level: near fine
The true story of a filmmaker whose unexpected investigation of her film's subject opened a new window onto the world of Cold War espionage, CIA secrets, and the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Independent filmmaker Mary Haverstick thought she'd stumbled onto the project of a lifetime - a biopic of a ...Show more
Faking It: Artificial Intelligence in a Human World by Toby Walsh
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Category: Politics and Current Affairs
A prescient analysis of what makes artificial intelligence so ... artificial Artificially intelligent machines are set to play an increasingly important role in our lives. They will take the dirty tasks of life off our hands, as well as the dull, the difficult and the dangerous - which is a good thing. ...Show more