The Wife Drought by Annabel Crabb
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Category: Current Affairs
For decades, feminism has argued the case for getting women into the workplace. Affirmative action, support schemes, paid maternity leave... all valuable devices, and yet still we agonize over why women aren't better represented in the boardrooms and ministries of this country. But the answer is so shri ...Show more
Eve's Hollywood by Eve Babitz
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Category: Cultural Studies
Journalist, party girl, bookworm, muse, artist: by the time she'd hit thirty, Eve Babitz had been all of these things. Immortalized as the nude beauty facing Duchamp over a chessboard and as one of Ed Ruscha's Five 1965 Girlfriends, it turns out that Babitz was a writer with stories of her own. In Eve's ...Show more
Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas by Hunter S Thompson
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Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
This cult classic of gonzo journalism is the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good times ever committed to the printed page. It is also the tale of a long weekend road trip that has gone down in the annals of American pop culture as one of the strangest journeys ever undertaken. ...Show more
Off the Edge Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything by Kelly Weill
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Category: Current Affairs
"A deep dive into the world of Flat Earth conspiracy theorists . . . that brilliantly reveals how people fall into illogical beliefs, reject reason, destroy relationships, and connect with a broad range of conspiracy theories in the social media age. Beautiful, probing, and often empathetic . . . An ins ...Show more
Ladies Who Punch - The Explosive Inside Story of the View by Ramin Setoodeh
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Category: Current Affairs
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards Finalist, Best Non-Fiction Book The gossipy real-life soap opera behind a serious show. When Barbara Walters launched The View, network executives told her that hosting it would tarnish ...Show more
Intimations - Six Essays by Zadie Smith
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Category: Cultural Studies
Deeply personal and powerfully moving, a short and timely series of essays on the experience of lockdown, by one of the most clear-sighted and essential writers of our time From the critically acclaimed author of Feel Free, Swing Time, White Teeth and many more 'There will be many books written about th ...Show more
Radical Help: How We Can Remake the Relationships Between Us and Revolutionise the Welfare State by Hilary Cottam
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Category: Current Affairs
How should we live: how should we care for one another; grow our capabilities to work, to learn, to love and fully realise our potential? This exciting and ambitious book shows how we can re-design the welfare state for this century. The welfare state was revolutionary: it lifted thousands out of pover ...Show more
Democracy in Chains by Nancy MacLean
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Category: Current Affairs
Winner of the Lillian Smith Book AwardWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book PrizeFinalist for the National Book AwardThe Nation's "Most Valuable Book" " A] vibrant intellectual history of the radical right."--The Atlantic"This sixty-year campaign to make libertarianism mainstream and eventually take ...Show more
How To Raise an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
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Category: Current Affairs
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER How do we talk to our children about racism? How do we teach children to be antiracist? How are kids at different ages experiencing race? How are racist structures impacting children? How can we inspire our children to avoid our mistakes, to be better, to make the world better? ...Show more
The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World by Antony Loewenstein
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Category: Current Affairs
Bestselling journalist Antony Loewenstein uncovers the widespread commercialisation and brutal deployment globally of Israel's occupation-enforcing technologies. For more than 50 years, the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza has given the Israeli state invaluable experience in controlling an 'enemy' p ...Show more
The World According To Joan Didion by Evelyn McDonnell
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Category: Cultural Studies
An intimate exploration of the life, craft, and legacy of one of the most revered and influential writers, an artist who continues to inspire fans and creatives to cultivate practices of deep attention, rigourous interrogation and beautiful style. Joan Didion was a writer's writer; not only a groundbre ...Show more
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou
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Category: Current Affairs
Now with a new afterword covering the months-long landmark trials of Elizabeth Holmes and Sunny Balwani.'I couldn't put down this thriller . . . the perfect book to read by the fire this winter.' Bill GatesWinner of the Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2018The riveting true story ...Show more