Quarterly Essay 57: Dear Life: On Caring for the Elderly by Karen Hitchcock
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Category: Current Affairs | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
In this moving and controversial Quarterly Essay, doctor and writer Karen Hitchcock investigates the treatment of the elderly and dying through some unforgettable cases. With honesty and deep experience, she looks at end-of-life decisions, frailty and dementia, over-treatment and escalating costs. Ours ...Show more
A Brief History of Equality by Thomas Piketty
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Category: Current Affairs
A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA Public Books Best Book of the Year "A profound and optimistic call to action and reflection. For Piketty, the arc of history is long, but it does bend toward equality. There is nothing automatic about it, however: as citizens, we must be ready to fight f ...Show more
Israelophobia: The Newest Version of the Oldest Hatred and What To Do About It by Jake Wallis Simons
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Category: Current Affairs
'This is an important and necessary book by a superb and subtle writer. There's no one more qualified to write it than Jake Wallis Simons, both as ground-breaking Middle East security correspondent and Editor of the Jewish Chronicle. It analyses the often prejudiced coverage and intense scrutiny of Isra ...Show more
The Suffragettes : Little Black Classic by Various
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Category: Current Affairs | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
'Once they are aroused, once they are determined, nothing on earth and nothing in heaven will make women give way; it is impossible.' A potted history of the women who pioneered feminism and changed the world. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ...Show more
Deep State Target: How I Got Caught in the Crosshairs of the Plot to Bring Down President Trump by George Papadopoulos
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Category: Current Affairs
"George Papadopoulos was the whole reason for the Trump Russia investigation."--Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C.Deep State Target is the only firsthand account that proves the attempted sabotage of Donald Trump's presidential campaign by American and international intelligence services, from former Trump advis ...Show more
Adrift - How the World Lost Its Way by Amin Maalouf; Frank Wynne (Translator)
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Category: Current Affairs
The bestselling author of The Crusades Through Arab Eyes traces how civilizations have drifted apart throughout the 20th century and now lack the solidarity to address global threats to humankind. "Maalouf is a thoughtful, humane and passionate interlocutor." -- The New York Times Book Review The United ...Show more
Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out by Bill McKibben
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Category: Current Affairs | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
Thirty years ago Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about climate change. Now he broadens the warning: the entire human game, he suggests, has begun to play itself out. Bill McKibben's groundbreaking book The End of Nature - issued in dozens of languages and long regarded as a classic - ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 50: Unfinished Business: Sex, Freedom and Misogyny by Anna Goldsworthy
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Category: Current Affairs | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
On the surface, it seems the best time ever to be a woman in Australia. The prime minister, governor-general and the richest person are all female; women are at the forefront of almost every area of public life. Yet when Julia Gillard's misogyny speech ricocheted around the world, it clearly touched a n ...Show more
The Showman: The Inside Story of the Invasion That Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky by Simon Shuster
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Category: Current Affairs | Reading Level: near fine
Time correspondent Simon Shuster delivers the unmissable account of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, written and reported from inside the presidential compound in Kyiv, based on Shuster's unparalleled access to President Zelensky and his top aides. Based on four years of reporting; extensive travels wit ...Show more
The Cyber Effect: A Pioneering Cyber-Psychologist Explains How Human Behaviour Changes Online by Mary Aiken
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Category: Current Affairs
From the world's leading expert in forensic cyberpsychology - a discipline that combines psychology, forensics and technology - comes a groundbreaking exploration of the impact of technology on human behaviour. The average person now checks their phone over 200 times a day. That's a serious addiction - ...Show more
Evidence by Brook Andrew
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Category: Current Affairs
Evidence: Brook Andrew is an immersive installation and publication that draws on the rich and varied Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences collection to explore the theme of evidence. Brook Andrew is internationally recognised for his interdisciplinary practice that often interrogates knowledge systems, ...Show more
The Conscience of a Conservative by Barry Goldwater
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Category: Current Affairs
Here is the path–breaking book that rocketed a political philosophy into the forefront of the nation's consciousness, written in words whose vigor and relevance have not tarnished with age.