Fire and Ashes: Success and Failure in Politics by Michael Ignatieff
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Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Emersion: Emergent Village Resources for Communities of Faith Ser.
In 2005 Michael Ignatieff left his life as a writer and professor at Harvard University to enter the combative world of politics back home in Canada. By 2008, he was leader of the country's Liberal Party and poised--should the governing Conservatives falter--to become Canada's next Prime Minister. It ne ...Show more
The Map and the Territory 2.0: Risk, Human Nature, and the Future of Forecasting by Alan Greenspan
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Category: Non-Fiction
Like all of us, though few so visibly, Alan Greenspan was forced by the financial crisis of 2008 to question some fundamental assumptions about risk management and economic forecasting. How had our models so utterly failed us? Virtually every day, we make wagers on the future - but, even when we're not ...Show more
Enough: Our Fight to Keep America Safe from Gun Violence by Gabrielle Giffords
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Category: Non-Fiction
After the 2011 Tucson shooting that nearly took her life, basic questions consumed Gabby Giffords and her family: Would Gabby survive the bullet through her brain? Would she walk again? Speak? Her hard-won recovery, though far from complete, has now allowed her and Mark to ask larger questions that conf ...Show more
Crash of 2016: the Plot to Destroy America--And What We Can Do to Stop it by Thom Hartmann
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Category: Non-Fiction
The United States is more vulnerable today than ever before - including during the Great Depression and the Civil War - because the pillars of democracy that once supported a booming middle class have been corrupted, and without them, America teeters on the verge of the next Great Crash. The United Sta ...Show more
The Hot Zone by Richard Preston
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Category: Non-Fiction
Imagine a killer with the infectiousness of the common cold and the power of the Black Death, a killer so deadly it destroys 90 per cent of those it touches. Except you don't need to imagine. Such a killer exists. It is a virus and its name is Ebola. Impossible to ignore, The Hot Zone is the terrifying, ...Show more
Dead MountainThe Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident by Donnie Eichar
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Category: Non-Fiction
New York Times bestseller -- What happened that night on Dead Mountain? The mystery of Dead Mountain: In February 1959, a group of nine experienced hikers in the Russian Ural Mountains died mysteriously on an elevation known as Dead Mountain. Eerie aspects of the incident--unexplained violent injuries, ...Show more
The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices by Xinran
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Category: Non-Fiction
For eight groundbreaking years, Xinran presented a radio programme in China during which she invited women to call in and talk about themselves. This book presents the story of how Xinran negotiated the minefield of restrictions imposed on Chinese journalists to reach out to women across the country. ...Show more
The Undercover Economist Strikes Back: How to Run or Ruin an Economy by Tim Harford
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Category: Non-Fiction
A million readers bought The Undercover Economist to get the lowdown on how economics works on a small scale, in our everyday lives. Since then, economics has become big news. Crises, austerity, riots, bonuses - all are in the headlines all the time. But how does this large-scale economic world really w ...Show more
Command and Control by Eric Schlosser
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Category: Non-Fiction
Command and Controlinterweaves the minute-by-minute story of an accident at a missile silo in rural Arkansas, where a single crew struggled to prevent the explosion of the most powerful nuclear warhead ever built by the United States, with a historical narrative that spans more than fifty years. It depi ...Show more
True Stories: Selected Non-Fiction by Helen Garner
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Category: Non-Fiction
New format of this collection of personal essays by Helen Garner, which spans 25 years of work, by one of Australia's greatest writers. Readers will be fascinated by some of the events that shaped her life as a writer and as a person.
The Art of Travel by Alain de Botton
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Category: Non-Fiction
Any Baedeker will tell us where we ought to travel, but only Alain de Botton will tell us how and why. With the same intelligence and insouciant charm he brought to How Proust Can Save Your Life, de Botton considers the pleasures of anticipation; the allure of the exotic, and the value of noticing every ...Show more
Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty; Arthur Goldhammer (translator)
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Category: Non-Fiction
What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality, the concentration of wealth, and the prospects for economic growth lie at the heart of political economy. But satisfactory answers have been hard to find for lack o ...Show more