The Riddles Of The Sphinx: Inheriting The Feminist History Of The Crossword Puzzle by Anna Shechtman
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Combining the soul-baring confessional of Brain on Fire and the addictive storytelling of The Queen’s Gambit, a renowned puzzle creator’s compulsively readable memoir and history of the crossword puzzle as an unexpected site of women’s work and feminist protest. The indisputable “queen of crosswords,” ...Show more
The 7 Deadly Myths: Antisemitism From the Time of Christ to Kanye West (Second Edition, Revised and Supplemented) by Alex Ryvchin
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This revised and supplemented second edition features some of the author's most probing essays and speeches on antisemitism, published here for the first time. The 7 Deadly Myths traces antisemitism from its earliest origins to the present day and uncovers the dangerous conspiracy theories that have cor ...Show more
Pixel Flesh: How Toxic Beauty Culture Harms Women by Ellen Atlanta
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'I am surrounded by women who are emblems of modern feminism and #Girlboss culture. These same women admit to me in private that the hardest part of the day is getting dressed, that they Facetune their photos, obsess over diets, break down over their appearance and spend thousands on invasive treatments ...Show more
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: A Palestine Story by Nathan Thrall
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** Winner 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction ** A gripping, intimate story of one heartbreaking day in Palestine that reveals lives, loves, enmities, and histories in violent collision. Milad is five years old and excited for his school trip to a theme park on the outskirts of Jerusalem, but tragedy ...Show more
If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution by Vincent Bevins
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From 2010 to 2020, more people took part in protests than at any other point in human history. Why has success been so elusive? From the so-called Arab Spring to Gezi Park in Turkey, from Ukraine's Euromaidan to student rebellions in Chile and Hong Kong, the second decade of the twenty-first century wa ...Show more
The American Beast: Essays, 2012-2022 by Jill Lepore
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A panoptical vision of modern America, from the brilliant mind of Jill Lepore.The past decade has marked a shift in America's trajectory. Jill Lepore, the acclaimed writer and New Yorker columnist, has been tracing its contested storylines in real time, beginning with the run-up to Donald Trump's electi ...Show more
Living in an Upside Down World by Rabbi Ralph Genende
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Who Owns the Moon? : In Defence of Humanity's Common Interests in Space by A. C. Grayling
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Silicon for microchips; manganese for batteries; titanium for missiles. The moon contains a wealth of natural resources. So, as the Earth's supplies have begun to dwindle, it is no surprise that the world's superpowers and wealthiest corporations have turned their eyes to the stars. As this new Space Ra ...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
Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet by Chris Dixon
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A playbook for the future of the internet written by the world's most successful blockchain investor What will the internet of the future look like? The internet of today is a far cry from its early promise of a decentralized, democratic network of unbridled innovation. In the past decade, the interne ...Show more
Israelophobia: The Newest Version of the Oldest Hatred and What To Do About It by Jake Wallis Simons
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'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
Just Friends: On the joy, influence and power of friendship by Gyan Yankovich
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Voice memos, care packages, hours-long phone conversations, treasured traditions that go back decades, glasses held aloft during wedding toasts, hands held at funerals, first cuddles with newborns, work lunches with work wives, taking it to the group chat - our friendships touch and enrich every part of ...Show more