Culture Warlords - My Journey into the Dark Web of White Supremacy by Talia Lavin
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Category: Current Affairs
"Lavin writes like her hands are on fire, forcing us to take a hard look at our ugliest truths." - Pamela Collof, The New York Times Magazine & Pro Publica Talia Lavin is every fascist's worst nightmare: a loud and unapologetic young Jewish woman, with the online investigative know-how to expose the ...Show more
Saving Justice: Truth, Transparency, and Trust by James Comey
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Category: Current Affairs
This will not come as a surprise to anyone, including even to the President's most ardent defenders: Donald Trump lied to me from the start Saving Justice is James Comey's searing memoir and guide to reclaiming truth in the institutions of justice, which have been so badly damaged under Trump. Whether o ...Show more
Uncanny Valley: Seduction and Disillusionment in San Francisco's StartupScene by Anna Wiener
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Category: Current Affairs
‘Joan Didion at a startup' Rebecca Solnit‘Impossibly pleasurable' Jia Tolentino‘This is essential reading' Stylist At twenty-five years old, Anna Wiener was beginning to tire of her assistant job in New York publishing. There was no room to grow, and the voyeuristic thrill of answering someone else's ph ...Show more
Unfreedom of the Press by Levin, Mark R.
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Category: Current Affairs
Six-time New York Times bestselling author, FOX News star, and radio host Mark R. Levin "trounces the news media" (The Washington Times) in this timely and groundbreaking book demonstrating how the great tradition of American free press has degenerated into a standardless profession that has squandered ...Show more
Money and Power: The World Leaders Who Changed Economics by Vincent Cable
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Category: Current Affairs
Through economics our politicians have the power to transform people's lives for better or worse. Think Deng Xiaoping who lifted millions out of poverty by opening up China; Franklin D Roosevelt whose 'New Deal' helped the USA break free of the Great Depression. Or Peron and his successors in Arg ...Show more
On Charlatans by Chris Bowen
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Category: Current Affairs | Series: On Ser.
Chris Bowen, who was to be the next Treasurer has had plenty of time to think about what went wrong and why charlatans are winning in the game of politics. Why do we continue to vote for politicians who say, 'I don't hold a hose, mate,' or advocate we drink bleach to fight COVID? Or shut down pubs at 10 ...Show more
Hooked: How Processed Food Became Addictive by Michael Moss
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Category: Current Affairs
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Salt Sugar Fat comes a powerful exposé of how the processed food industry exploits our evolutionary instincts, the emotions we associate with food, and legal loopholes in their pursuit of profit over public health. Everyone knows how hard it can be to ...Show more
Slowdown - The End of the Great Acceleration--And Why It's Good for the Planet, the Economy, and Our Lives by Danny Dorling
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Category: Current Affairs
A powerful and counterintuitive argument that we should welcome the current slowdown--of population growth, economies, and technological innovation Drawing from an incredibly rich trove of global data, this groundbreaking book reveals that human progress has been slowing down since the early 1970s. Dann ...Show more
Russians Among Us: Sleeper Cells & the Hunt for Putin's Agents by Gordon Corera
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Category: Current Affairs
The urgent, explosive story of Russia's espionage efforts against the West from the Cold War to the present - including their interference in the 2016 presidential election. Like a scene from a le Carre novel or the TV drama The Americans, in the summer of 2010 a group of Russian deep cover sleeper age ...Show more
Blowout - Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth by Rachel Maddow
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Category: Current Affairs
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Oil. Corrupt? Yes. Unimaginably lucrative? Of course. But, the enemy of democracy? Blowout is the oil and gas industry as we've never seen it before, as told by America's most incisive political journalist, Rachel Maddow. A blackly comic journey from Washington to Siberia ...Show more
Under and Alone: Infiltrating the World's Most Violent Motorcycle Gang by William Queen
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Category: Current Affairs
When veteran law-enforcement officer and lifelong motorcycle lover William Queen penetrated the San Fernando chapter of the notorious Mongols, he was at the mercy of psychopaths who sought to have him prove his fealty by any means necessary, from selling and doing drugs to arms trafficking, driving geta ...Show more
Bad People - and How to Be Rid of Them: A Plan B for Human Rights by Geoffrey Robertson
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Category: Current Affairs
Twenty years ago Geoffrey Robertson inspired the global justice movement with his ground-breaking book, Crimes Against Humanity. Since then, the movement has stalled, as nationalism takes hold and populist governments retreat from international courts and refuse to comply with their rulings.But there is ...Show more