Apocalypse Never Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All by Michael Shellenberger
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Category: Current Affairs
Climate change is real but it's not the end of the world. It is not even our most serious environmental problem. Michael Shellenberger has been fighting for a greener planet for decades. He helped save the world's last unprotected redwoods. He co-created the predecessor to today's Green New Deal. And h ...Show more
Trust - America's Best Chance by Pete Buttigieg
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Category: Current Affairs
'His campaign was historic for all America' GuardianTrust will be our essential tool as we face unique challenges of the decades ahead.In a century warped by terrorism, Trumpism, financial collapse, populism, systemic racism, Russian interference and a global pandemic, trust within and among nations has ...Show more
The Fragile Earth: Writing from the New Yorker on Climate Change by David Remnick (Editor); Henry Finder (Editor)
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Category: Current Affairs
A classic collection of the New Yorker's most urgent and groundbreaking reporting from the front lines of the climate emergency In 1989, just one year after climatologist James Hansen first came before a Senate committee and testified that the earth was now warmer than it had ever been in recorded histo ...Show more
The Phantom God - What Neuroscience Reveals about the Compulsion to Believe by John C. Wathey
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Category: Cultural Studies | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Does neuroscience have anything to say about religious belief or the existence of God? Some have tried to answer this question, but, in doing so, most have strayed from the scientific method. In The Phantom God, computational biologist and neuroscientist John C. Wathey, Ph.D., tackles this problem he ...Show more
How to Protect Bookstores and Why: The Present and Future of Bookselling by Danny Caine
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Category: Current Affairs
Why bookstores matter and how we can helpCan bookstores save the world? As bastions of culture, anchors of local retail districts, community gathering places, and the source of new ideas, inspiration, and delight, maybe they can. But only if we protect them and the critical roles they fill in our commun ...Show more
Looking for the Hidden Folk - How Iceland's Elves Can Save the Earth by Nancy Marie Brown
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Category: Cultural Studies
In exploring how Icelanders interact with nature--and their idea that elves live among us--Nancy Marie Brown shows us how altering our perceptions of the environment can be a crucial first step toward saving it. Icelanders believe in elves. Why does that make you laugh?, asks Nancy Marie Brown in this ...Show more
Something Out of Place: Women & Disgust by Eimear McBride
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Category: Cultural Studies
A blistering, galvanising essay from Eimear McBride, award-winning author of A Girl is a Half-formed Thing.
Why We March: Signs of Protest and Hope-Voices from the Women's March by Artisan Publishing
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Category: Current Affairs
On January 21, 2017, over 5 million people in 673 cities around the globe gathered in solidarity for the Women's March, carrying signs that shone with unwavering hope and determination and demanded the protection of women's rights, opposed the newly inaugurated U.S. president, and championed equality an ...Show more
Conspiracy: A History of Boll*cks Theories, and How Not to Fall for Them by Tom Phillips, Jonn Elledge
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Category: Current Affairs
From the Satanic Panic to the anti-vaxx movement, the moon landing to Pizzagate, it's always been human nature to believe we're being lied to by the powers that be (and sometimes, to be fair, we absolutely are).But while it can be fun to indulge in a bit of Deep State banter on the group chat, recent ti ...Show more
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone by Olivia Laing
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Category: Cultural Studies
When Olivia Laing moved to New York City in her mid-thirties, she found herself inhabiting loneliness on a daily basis. Increasingly fascinated by this most shameful of experiences, she began to explore the lonely city by way of art. Moving fluidly between the works and lives of some of the city's most ...Show more
On Violence and On Violence Against Women by Jacqueline Rose
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Category: Cultural Studies
A blazingly insightful, provocative study of violence against women from the peerless feminist critic. 'To read Rose is to understand that there is no border between us and the world; it is an invitation to a radical kind of responsibility.' NEW YORK TIMES 'It's really hard for me to overestimate how im ...Show more
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou
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Category: Current Affairs
A New York Times bestseller to be adapted into a film with Jennifer Lawrence to star. In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the female Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout whose startup 'unicorn' promised to revolutionize the medical industry with a machine that would ...Show more