We Are Feminist - An Infographic History of the Women's Rights Movement by Helen Pankhurst (Foreword by)
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Celebrate the achievements of women and their fight for equality with this inspirational and insightful infographic history of the global women's rights movement, from the mid-nineteenth century to present day. Sometimes we need a joyful, visual timeline to reflect on just how far the women's movement ...Show more
Facebook: The Inside Story by Steven Levy
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
'A penetrating account of the momentous consequences of a reckless young company with the power to change the world' Brad Stone, author of The Everything Store and The Upstarts How much power and influence does Facebook have over our lives? How has it changed how we interact with one another? And what i ...Show more
The Flip: Who You Really Are and Why it Matters by Jeffrey J. Kripal
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Why do we know so much more about the cosmos than our own consciousness? Are there limits to the scientific method? Why do we assume that only science, mathematics and technology reveal truth? The Flip shows us what happens when we realise that consciousness is fundamental to the cosmos and not some ran ...Show more
Genesis: On the Deep Origin of Societies by Edward O. Wilson
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
'With Genesis, Wilson inspires awe ... His message is that selection has shaped a society that is characterized by cooperation and division of labour' Nature Of all species that have ever existed on earth, only one has reached human levels of intelligence and social organisation: us. Why? In Genesis, ce ...Show more
50 Drag Queens Who Changed the World by JONES, DAN
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50 Drag Queens Who Changed the World is a tribute to the hugely influential pioneers who have shaped the fantastic world of drag, as well as the queens of today that we all know and love. Learn about the wild and brilliant lives of Mama Ru and the best-loved Drag Race superstars, including Alaska, Bia ...Show more
The New Parisienne - The Women and Ideas Shaping Paris and Beyond by Lindsey Tramuta; Joann Pai (By (photographer))
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
In a follow-up to the popular The New Paris, Lindsey Tramuta explores the impact that the women of Paris have had on the rapidly evolving culture of their city The New Parisienne focuses on one of the city's most prominent features, its women. Lifting the veil on the mythologized Parisian woman--white, ...Show more
The Metamorphoses of Kinship by Maurice Godelier; Nora Scott (Translator)
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
With marriage in decline, divorce on the rise and the demise of the nuclear family, it is clear that the structures of kinship in the modern West are in a state of flux. In The Metamorphoses of Kinship, the world-renowned anthropologist Maurice Godelier contextualises these developments, surveying the a ...Show more
Snowden's Box - Trust in the Age of Surveillance by Jessica Bruder; Dale Maharidge
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
One day in the spring of 2013, a box appeared outside a fourth-floor apartment door in Brooklyn, New York. The recipient, who didn't know the sender, only knew she was supposed to bring this box to a friend, who would ferry it to another friend. This was Edward Snowden's box printouts of documents provi ...Show more
The Burmese Labyrinth by Carlos Sardina Galache
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
A Nation in Perpetual Conflict with Itself In 2011, Burma embarked on a democratic transition that promised to distance the country from the legacy of a brutal military regime. Four years later, the first free election in decades saw a landslide victory for the party of celebrated Nobel Prize-winner Aun ...Show more
The System: Who Owns the Internet, and How It Owns Us by James Ball
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Reading Level: very good
The internet is a network of physical cables and connections, a web of wires enmeshing the world, linking huge data centres to one another and eventually to us. All are owned by someone, financed by someone, regulated by someone. We refer to the internet as abstract from reality. By doing so, we obscure ...Show more
How Do We Know We're Doing It Right? Essays on Modern Life by Pandora Sykes
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'Pandora is my personal guru on all things relating to the zeitgeist. How lucky you are that she can now be yours too.' - Dolly Alderton Modern life is full of choices. We're told that happiness lies within and we can be whoever we want to be. But with endless possibility comes a feeling of restlessnes ...Show more
The Unnamable Present by Roberto Calasso
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Tourists, terrorists, secularists, hackers, fundamentalists, transhumanists, algorithmicians: in this book Roberto Calasso considers the tribes that inhabit and inform the world today. A world that feels more elusive than ever before. This book, the ninth part of a work in progress, is a meditation on t ...Show more