Listen Liberal: or whatever happened to the party of the people by Thomas Frank
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
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Ecology of Wisdom by Arne Naess
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'The smaller we come to feel ourselves compared with the mountain, the nearer we come to participating in its greatness.' Philosopher, mountaineer, activist and visionary, Arne Naess's belief that all living things have value made him one of the most inspirational figures in the environmental movement. ...Show more
False Choices: The Faux Feminism of Hillary Rodham Clinton by Lisa Featherstone
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Hillary Rodham Clinton is one of the most powerful women in world politics, and the irrational right-wing hatred of Clinton has fed her progressive appeal, helping turn her into a feminist icon. To get a woman in the White House, it's thought, would be an achievement for all women everywhere, a kind of ...Show more
The Happiness Industry: How the Government and Big Business Sold Us Well-Being by William Davies
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In the past decade, governments and corporations have become increasingly interested in measuring the way people feel: 'the Happiness index', 'Gross National Happiness', 'well-being' and positive psychology have come to dominate the way we live our lives. As a result, our emotions have become a new reso ...Show more
Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War by Svetlana Alexievich
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Winner of the Nobel Prize: "For her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time." (Swedish Academy, Nobel Prize citation) From 1979 to 1989 a million Soviet troops engaged in a devastating war in Afghanistan that claimed 50,000 casualties - and the youth and humanity of many te ...Show more
Religion and Science by Bertrand Russell
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In this timely work, Russell, philosopher, agnostic, mathematician, and renowned peace advocate, offers a brief yet insightful study of the conflicts between science and traditional religion during the last four centuries. Examining accounts in which scientific advances clashed with Christian doctrine o ...Show more
The Water Kingdom by Philip Ball
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics
A secret history of China - a fresh new way of thinking about a people, a civilisation, an epic story. The Water Kingdom takes us on a grand journey through China's past and present, offering a unique window through which we can begin to grasp the overwhelming complexity and teeming energy of the countr ...Show more
Weed by David Schmader
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We're in the midst of a legal weed renaissance. Stranger writer and performer David Schmader is your witty and well-baked tour guide to the brave new world of legal marijuana. This definitive, hands-on and experienced guide to the potential new world of non-criminalised recreational marijuana will educa ...Show more
Serial Liars: How Lawyers Get the Money and Get the Criminals Off by Evan Whitton
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Why the Lawyer-Run Adversary System Is Immoral, How it Happened, and the Solution
In Other Words: Forty Years of Essays by Goenawan Mohamad
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Goenawan Mohamad is one of Indonesia's foremost literary figures and public intellectuals, and this translated volume of essays, from 1968 to 2014, demonstrates the breadth of his perceptive and elegant commentary on literature, faith, mythology, politics, history and Indonesian life. With almost 100 sh ...Show more
37th Parallel - Secret Truth UFO Highway by Ben Mezrich
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Like "Agent Mulder" of The X-Files, computer programmer and sheriff's deputy Zukowski is obsessed with tracking down UFO reprints in Colorado. He would take the family with him on weekend trips to look for evidence of aliens. But this innocent hobby takes on a sinister urgency when Zukowski learns of mu ...Show more
Nemesis - One Man and the Battle for Rio by Misha Glenny
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
'Breaking Bad meets City of God' Roberto Saviano, author of Gomorrah HUSBAND. This is the story of an ordinary man who became the king of the largest slum in Rio, the head of a drug cartel and Brazil's most notorious criminal. FATHER. A man who tried to bring welfare and justice to a playground of gang ...Show more