Beyond Belief: How Pentecostal Christianity Is Taking Over the World by Elle Hardy
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
How has a Christian movement, founded at the turn of the twentieth century by the son of freed slaves, become the fastest-growing religion on Earth? Neo-Charismatic Pentecostalism has some 600 million followers worldwide, and by 2050 their numbers will grow to 1 billion: that's one in ten people. This i ...Show more
The Trial of Henry Kissinger by Christopher Hitchens
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Reading Level: very good
Drawing on first-hand testimony, previously unpublished documentation and broad sweeps through material released under the Freedom of Information Act, Christopher Hitchens mounts a devastating indictment of a man whose ambition and ruthlessness, he alleges, have directly resulted in both individual murd ...Show more
The Posthuman by Rosi Braidotti
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
The Posthuman offers both an introduction and major contribution to contemporary debates on the posthuman. Digital 'second life', genetically modified food, advanced prosthetics, robotics and reproductive technologies are familiar facets of our globally linked and technologically mediated societies. Thi ...Show more
The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman
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Category: Design
The ultimate guide to human-centered design Even the smartest among us can feel inept as we fail to figure out which light switch or oven burner to turn on, or whether to push, pull, or slide a door. The fault, argues this ingenious-even liberating-book, lies not in ourselves, but in product design that ...Show more
The Lives of the Saints: The Laureate Lectures by Sebastian Barry
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
From A Long Long Way, his Booker shortlisted novel about the Irish soldiers who fought for Britain during the First World War to his Donal McCann starring hit play, The Steward of Christendom; from his first Costa Book of the Year winning novel The Secret Scripture to his second, Days Without End, a dec ...Show more
Marx (The Great Philosophers) by Terry Eagleton
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Great Philosophers Ser.
'We are free when, like artists, we produce without the goad of physical necessity' Karl MarxFor Marx, freedom entailed release from commercial labour. In this highly engaging account, Eagleton outlines the relationship between production, labour and ownership which lie at the core of Marx's thinking. M ...Show more
Consequences of Capitalism: Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance by Noam Chomsky; Marv Waterstone
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Is there an alternative to capitalism? In this landmark text Chomsky and Waterstone chart a critical map for a more just and sustainable society.'Covid-19 has revealed glaring failures and monstrous brutalities in the current capitalist system. It represents both a crisis and an opportunity. Everything ...Show more
The 2000s Made Me Gay: Essays on Pop Culture by Grace Perry
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
From The Onion and Reductress contributor, this collection of essays is a hilarious nostalgic trip through beloved 2000s media, interweaving cultural criticism and personal narrative to examine how a very straight decade forged a very queer womanHonest, funny, smart, and illuminating." --Anna Drezen, co ...Show more
Gothic: An Illustrated History by Roger Luckhurst
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Over the centuries the Gothic has been revived and rewritten to reflect the anxieties of each era. It encompasses the weird, the feared and the uncanny; haunted places and people; and monsters that act as mirrors to ourselves and society. In this lavishly illustrated volume Roger Luckhurst explores how ...Show more
The Philosophy Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained by DK
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Big Ideas Simply Explained
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Minima Moralia - Reflections from Damaged Life by Theodor W. Adorno
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Written between 1944 and 1947, Minima Moralia is a collection of rich, lucid aphorisms and essays about life in modern capitalist society. Adorno casts his penetrating eye across society in mid-century America and finds a life deformed by capitalism. This is Adorno's theoretical and literary masterpiece ...Show more
Perennial Philosophy by Aldous Huxley
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
An inspired gathering of religious writings that reveals the "divine reality" common to all faiths, collected by Aldous Huxley "The Perennial Philosophy," Aldous Huxley writes, "may be found among the traditional lore of peoples in every region of the world, and in its fully developed forms it has a pla ...Show more