Vulture Capitalism: Corproate crimes, backdoor bailouts, and the death of freedom by Grace Blakeley
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Category: Non-Fiction
All over the world, democracy is in crisis. Liberal political systems are straining under the pressure imposed by authoritarian strong men undermining institutions, the rule of law and the international system that governs relations between countries. Obvious examples include Donald Trump and Boris John ...Show more
Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen
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Category: Non-Fiction
We could have an uninhabitable earth in a century. It could take 26 minutes and 40 seconds. An edge-of-your-seat non-fiction thriller that has to be read to be believed. Up to now, no one outside of official circles has known exactly what would happen if a rogue state launched a nuclear missile at the ...Show more
An American Dreamer: Life in a Divided Country by David Finkel
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Category: Non-Fiction
An immersive account of a man navigating the startling changes underway in contemporary America, from the Pulitzer Prize and MacArthur Award-winning author of The Good Soldiers and Thank You for Your Service. Brent Cummings, an Iraq war veteran, has come home feeling he survived one war only to find him ...Show more
Dead Weight - On Hunger, Harm and Disordered Eating by Emmeline Clein
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Category: Non-Fiction
Emmeline Clein's own history of disordered eating began when she was just twelve. In Dead Weight, alongside her own experience and through the stories of other women - famous figures from across time and popular culture, and girls she's known and loved - she traces the medical and cultural history of an ...Show more
Look Again: The Power of Noticing What was Always There by Tali Sharot, Cass R. Sunstein
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Category: Non-Fiction
For fans of Thinking, Fast and Slow and The Power of Habit, a groundbreaking new study of how disrupting our well-worn routines, both good and bad, can rejuvenate our days and reset our brains to allow us to live happier and more fulfilling lives.Have you ever noticed that what is thrilling on Monday te ...Show more
The Secret Life of Hidden Places - Concealed Rooms, Clandestine Passageways, and the Curious Minds That Made Them by Stefan Bachmann, April Genevieve Tucholke
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Category: Non-Fiction
A beautifully written and photographed romp through some of the world's most secretive, seductive, and incredible places. In The Secret Life of Hidden Places, we're led on a global tour of the world's most amazing spaces and places--some hidden, others well known but secreted nonetheless--including ...Show more
Data Grab: The new Colonialism of Big Tech and how to fight back by Ulises A. Mejias, Nick Couldry
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Category: Non-Fiction
If you're not paying for the product, then you are the product. In the past, colonialism was a landgrab of natural resources, exploitative labour and private property from developing countries. It made shiny promises to modernise and civilise, but actually sought to control. It made native populations s ...Show more
The New World Disorder: How the West Is Destroying Itself by Peter R. Neumann
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Category: Non-Fiction
A coruscating analysis of current international relations, setting out the dangers the world will face if the West does not succeed in reinventing itself. The West is facing an unprecedented crisis. Russia has launched a war of aggression against Ukraine - just months after the USA suffered a foreign po ...Show more
Misbelief: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things by Dan Ariely
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Category: Non-Fiction
Misinformation affects us daily, from social media to politics and even personal relationships. Policing social media alone cannot solve the complex problem shaped by partisan politics and subjective interpretations of truth. In Misbelief social scientist Dan Ariely explores the behaviour of 'misbelief ...Show more
Permacrisis: A Plan to Fix a Fractured World by Gordon Brown, Mohamed El-Erian, Michael Spence
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Category: Non-Fiction
'An insightful playbook for getting out of the permacrisis we seem mired in’ - Walter Isaacson ‘A sensible plan for reform that can help us create a fairer and more equitable world’ - Sheryl Sandberg Do you feel like we’re in a permacrisis? Chances are you feel some anxiety about the state of the world. ...Show more
I Don't by Clementine Ford
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Category: Non-Fiction
Incendiary feminist and bestselling author Clementine Ford presents the inarguable case against marriage for the modern woman. Provocative, controversial and above all, compellingly and persuasively argued. I want this book to end marriages. But more importantly, I want it to prevent marriages. Women ...Show more
The Rescue: The True Story of the SAS Mission to Save Hostages from the Taliban by Andy McNab
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Category: Non-Fiction
The story of the SAS and Navy SEALs' attempts to save a group of NGO workers held hostage by the Taliban in 2012 in Northern Afghanistan. Andy McNab draws on classified sources and his own personal insight into the inner-workings of the special forces to tell the story of the rescue mission. The thrilli ...Show more