The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order by Samuel P. Huntington
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Reading Level: General Adult
Based on the author's seminal article in Foreign Affairs, Samuel P. Huntington's The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order is a provocative and prescient analysis of the state of world politics after the fall of communism. In this incisive work, the renowned political scientist explain ...Show more
Dataclysm: Who We are (When We Think No One's Looking) by Christian Rudder
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
An irreverent, provocative, and visually fascinating look at what our online lives reveal about who we really are - and how this deluge of data will transform the science of human behaviour. Big Data is used to spy on us, hire and fire us, and sell us things we don't need. In 'Dataclysm', Christian Rudd ...Show more
Bad News: Last Journalists in a Dictatorship by Anjan Sundaram
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Hearing a blast, journalist Anjan Sundaram headed uphill towards the sound. Grenade explosions are not entirely unusual in the city of Kigali; dissidents throw them in public areas to try and destabilise the government and, since moving to Rwanda, he had observed an increasing number of them. What was u ...Show more
Confidence Game: The Psychology of the Con and Why We Fall for it ... Every Time by Maria Konnikova
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
True con artists - the Bernie Madoffs, the Clark Rockefellers, the Lance Armstrongs - are elegant, outsized personalities, artists of persuasion and exploiters of trust. They hold a deep, enigmatic fascination for us. But how do they do it? Why are they successful? And what keeps us falling for it, over ...Show more
Summer Before the Dark: Stefan Zweig and Joseph Roth, Ostend 1936 by Volker Weidermann
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week It's as if they're made for each other. Two men, both falling, but holding each other up for a time. Ostend, 1936: the Belgian seaside town is playing host to a coterie of artists, intellectuals and madmen, who find themselves in limbo while Europe gazes into an abyss of f ...Show more
Becoming Freud: The Making of a Psychoanalyst by Adam Phillips
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Jewish Lives
The Human Network: How to Get Connected and Why it Matters by Matthew O. Jackson
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Discover the landmark new big idea that is revolutionising our understanding of human interaction.
The Writer's Library - The Authors You Love on the Books That Changed Their Lives by Nancy Pearl; Jeff Schwager
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
With a Foreword by Susan Orlean, twenty-three of today's living literary legends, including Donna Tartt, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Andrew Sean Greer, Laila Lalami, and Michael Chabon, reveal the books that made them think, brought them joy, and changed their lives in this intimate, moving, and insightful colle ...Show more
The Meritocracy Trap by Daniel Markovits
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Reading Level: very good
Even in the midst of runaway economic inequality and dangerous social division, it remains an axiom of modern life that meritocracy reigns supreme and promises to open opportunity to all. The idea that reward should follow ability and effort is so entrenched in our psyche that, even as society divides i ...Show more
The Gift: How the Creative Spirit Transforms the World by Lewis Hyde
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Canons
The Gift brilliantly argues for the importance of creativity in our increasingly money-driven society. Reaching deep into literature, anthropology and psychology Lewis Hyde's modern masterpiece has at its heart the simple and important idea that a 'gift' can inspire and change our lives.
Joyous Science by Friedrich Nietzsche; R Kevin Hill (Trans)
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
The Joyous Scienceis a liberating voyage of discovery as Nietzsche's realization that 'God is dead' and his critique of morality, the arts and modernity give way to an exhilarating doctrine of self-emancipation and the concept of eternal recurrence. Here is Nietzsche at his most personal and affirmative ...Show more
The Good Immigrant USA by Nikesh Shukla; Chimene Suleyman
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
An urgent collection of essays by first and second-generation immigrants, exploring what it's like to be othered in an increasingly divided America. From Trump's proposed border wall and travel ban to the marching of White Supremacists in Charlottesville, America is consumed by tensions over immigration ...Show more