We Can Do Better: A Departure into the World of Tomorrow by Maja Gopel
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
After her previous book, Rethinking Our World, eloquently untangled the complex world we live in, Maja G pel delivers the encouragement and the tools we need to go into action and build the world we want to live in. Humanity is undergoing a massive process of transformation, and the way we live will cha ...Show more
A Land Without Borders: My Journey Around East Jerusalem and the West Bank by Nir Baram
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: General Adult
Award-winning journalist and author Nir Baram spent a year and a half travelling around the West Bank and East Jerusalem. In this fascinating recount of that journey, Baram navigates the conflict-ridden regions and hostile terrain to speak with a wide range of people, among them Palestinian-Israeli citi ...Show more
All About Love by Bell Hooks
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Love Song to the Nation
THE ACCLAIMED FIRST VOLUME IN HER "LOVE SONG TO THE NATION" "The word 'love' is most often defined as a noun, yet . . . we would all love better if we used it as a verb," writes bell hooks as she comes out fighting and on fire in All About Love. Here, at her most provocative and intensely personal, the ...Show more
Class: A Graphic Guide by Laura Harvey, Sarah Leaney
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Graphic Guides
What do we mean by social class in the 21st century?
The Palace by Gareth Russell
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
'If a house could gossip, this is the book that Hampton Court would whisper. An enjoyable and readable stroll through 500 years of Hampton Court history: royal residents, common visitors, thieves, invaders and ghosts' PHILIPPA GREGORYFor centuries, Hampton Court has been a place of power, scandal and in ...Show more
The Other Pandemic: How QAnon Contaminated the World by James Ball
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist James Ball takes us into the depths of the internet to trace the origins and rapid ascent of QAnon, the movement that mutated from a niche online conspiracy theory into the world's first digital pandemic.*A Financial Times Book to Read in 2023* Imagine a ...Show more
Fear An Alternate History by Robert Peckham
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
A ground-breaking examination of the societal impact of fear that gives us a thrilling new insight on world history. It's been said that, after 9/11, the 2008 financial crash and the Covid-19 pandemic, we're a more fearful society than ever before. Yet fear, and the panic it produces, have long been dr ...Show more
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
A leading translation of Stoic philosophy in wise and practical aphorisms that have inspired Bill Clinton, Ryan Holiday, Anna Kendrick and many more. Written in Greek by an intellectual Roman emperor without any intention of publication, the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius offer a wide range of fascinati ...Show more
The Power of Ideas Words of Faith and Wisdom by Jonathan Sacks
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
'One of the world's great voices for moral, spiritual, and historical awareness and for global peace' - The John Templeton Foundation 'One of the great moral thinkers of our time' - Robert D. Putnam, author of Bowling Alone With a foreword by HRH The Prince of Wales Following his death in Nov ...Show more
The Social Brain - The Psychology of Successful Groups by Tracey Camilleri; Samantha Rockey; Robin Dunbar
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
'A remarkable and important book . . . a highly accessible, timely and invaluable guide to anybody working in groups.' Prof Paul Gilbert OBE ___________________________________________________ How many people does the ideal team contain? How do groups bond, earn trust and forge shared identities? How ca ...Show more
The White Album by Joan Didion
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
An extraordinary report on the aftermath of the 1960s in America by the New York Times-bestselling author of South and West and Slouching Towards Bethlehem.In this landmark essay collection, Joan Didion brilliantly interweaves her own "bad dreams" with those of a nation confronting the dark underside of ...Show more
The History of Philosophy by A. C. Grayling
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
The first authoritative and accessible single-volume history of philosophy to cover both Western and Eastern traditions, from one of the world's most eminent thinkers The story of philosophy is an epic tale, spanning civilizations and continents. It explores some of the most creative minds in history. B ...Show more