Cloudmoney: Cash, Cards, Crypto and the War for our Wallets by Brett Scott
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
'A wonderfully revolutionary text' - YANIS VAROUFAKISThe reach of corporations into our lives via cards and apps has never been greater; many of us rarely use cash these days. But what we're told is a natural and inevitable move is the work of powerful interests. And the great battle of our time is the ...Show more
The New Heretics - Understanding the Conspiracy Theories Polarizing the World by Andy Thomas
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Through their part in some huge controversies, conspiracy theorists are being branded the Number One Enemies of our times - the new heretics. They are seen to threaten the very fabric of modern society, spreading doubts and fears that result in Washington Capitol invasions, transmission mast burnings or ...Show more
Hidden Games - The Surprising Power of Game Theory to Explain Irrational Human Behaviour by Moshe Hoffman; Erez Yoeli
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
In Hidden Games, MIT economists Moshe Hoffman and Erez Yoeli find a surprising middle ground between the hyperrationality of classical economics and the hyper-irrationality of behavioural economics. They call it hidden games. Reviving game theory, Hoffman and Yoeli use it to explain our most puzzling be ...Show more
White Feminism by Koa Beck
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
'Koa Beck writes with passion and insight about the knotted history of racism within women's movements and feminist culture, past and present. Curious, rigorous, and ultimately generous, White Feminism is a pleasure and an education.' Rebecca Traister, New York Times bestselling author of Good and Mad'I ...Show more
Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male Power by Ijeoma Oluo
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
From the TIME 100 author of the Sunday Times and number 1 New York Times bestseller So You Want to Talk About Race, a subversive history of white male American identity -- now with a new preface. 'One of the most admired writers and "internet yellers" around... [Mediocre is] ever more vital... Oluo's m ...Show more
Talking About a Revolution by Yassmin Abdel-Magied
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
With her trademark optimism, sass, boldness and search for answers, across a collection of new and revisited essays, Yassmin Abdel-Magied explores resistance, transformation, and revolution. Yassmin Abdel-Magied started out a dynamic, optimistic, naive, youthful grass-roots organiser and oil rig worker ...Show more
There Is No Society? Individuals and Community in Pandemic Times by Ekaterina Degot (Editor); David Riff (Editor)
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Leading theorists from Silvia Federici to Eva Illouz address the pandemic's intensification of neoliberal alienation The success of "social distancing" as a strategy against the COVID-19 pandemic resonates acutely with neoliberalism's destruction of the very notion of society itself. This was most famo ...Show more
Being Wrong : Adventures in the Margin of Error by Kathryn Schulz
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Being wrong is an inescapable part of being alive. And yet, we go through life tacitly assuming (or loudly insisting) that we are right about nearly everything - from our political beliefs to our private memories, from our grasp of scientific fact to the merits of our favourite team. Being Wrong looks a ...Show more
Intact: A Defence of the Unmodified Body by Clare Chambers
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
'A must-read for psychotherapists, doctors and everyone else who enjoys connecting ideas' Philippa Perry 'Compassionate and challenging, warmly human and coolly rigorous. . . I am now thinking afresh about how I live in my own body, in a world where, as Clare Chambers argues, nobody's body is ever allow ...Show more
Rock Me on the Water - 1974 The Year Los Angeles Transformed Movies, Music, Television and Politics by Ronald Brownstein
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
"An electric story filled with gripping personalities, compelling backstage histories, and a clear message for the divided America of today: the forces that fear change can win for a time, but in America the future always gets the last word. A lyrical recreation of a magical moment."- Jake Tapper Now i ...Show more
How Rights Went Wrong - Why Our Obsession with Rights Is Tearing America Apart by Jamal Greene; Jill Lepore (Foreword by)
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PUBLISHERS PROSE AWARD FINALIST | "Essential and fresh and vital . . . It is the argument of this important book that until Americans can reimagine rights, there is no path forward, and there is, especially, no way to get race right. No peace, no justice."--from the foreword by J ...Show more
The Storm Is Upon Us: How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult, and Conspiracy Theory of Everything by Mike Rothschild
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
*****ONE OF THE TELEGRAPH'S BOOKS OF THE YEAR'A chilling overview of a movement that should arguably have no place in any healthy, well-educated society.' - The Telegraph'A compelling book.' - The Guardian'The Storm Is Upon Us is an impressive piece of research and a gripping read. Rothschild's book rea ...Show more