TED: Why We Work by Barry Schwartz
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Category: Non-Fiction | Series: TED
Part of the TED series: Why We Work Why do we work? The question seems so simple. But Professor Barry Schwartz proves that the answer is surprising, complex and urgent. We've long been taught that the reason we work is primarily for a paycheck. In fact, we've shaped much of the infrastructure of our soc ...Show more
The Weather Makers: The History and Future Impact of Climate Change by Tim Flannery
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Category: Non-Fiction
What does climate change mean? How will global warming affect our lives? Is it the cause of wilder storms and more frequent droughts? Are these events inevitable? Tim Flannery makes this urgent issue completely accessible. He tells the fascinating story of climate change over millions of years to help u ...Show more
An Explorer's Notebook: Essays on Life, History and Climate by Tim Flannery
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Category: Non-Fiction
An Explorer's Notebook is a fascinating and exhilarating selection of Tim Flannery's essays and articles written over two decades. In them we see his evolution from the young scientist conducting field work in remote locations to the influential commentator on climate change. His bestselling book The We ...Show more
Field Notes From A Catastrophe: A Frontline Report On Climate Change: A Frontline Report On Climate Change by Elizabeth Kolbert
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Category: Non-Fiction
Elizabeth Kolbert's environmental classic Field Notes from a Catastrophe first developed out of a groundbreaking, award-winning three-part series in The New Yorker. She expanded it into a still-concise yet richly researched and damning book about climate change: a primer on the greatest challenge facing ...Show more
Fangirl's Guide to the Galaxy: A Lexicon of Life Hacks for the Modern Lady Geek by Sam Maggs
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Category: Non-Fiction
This fun and feminist girl-power guide to the geek galaxy gives lady nerds the lowdown on everything from fanfic to cosplay to attending your first con. Fanfic, cosplay, cons, books, memes, podcasts, vlogs, OTPs and RPGs and MMOs and more-it's never been a better time to be a girl geek. The Fangirl's Gu ...Show more
No Place to Hide : Edward Snowden the NSA and the Surveillance State by Glenn Greenwald
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Category: Non-Fiction
This is the inside account of the events documented in Laura Poitras Citizenfour. Glenn Greenwald's No Place to Hide is the story of one of the greatest national security leaks in US history. In June 2013, reporter and political commentator Glenn Greenwald published a series of reports in the Guardian w ...Show more
The Communist Hypothesis by Alain Badiou
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Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Pocket Communism
We know that communism is the right hypothesis. All those who abandon this hypothesis immediately resign themselves to the market economy, to parliamentary democracy - the form of state suited to capitalism - and to the inevitable and 'natural' character of the most monstrous inequalities. Alain Badiou' ...Show more
No, Minister by Allan Behm
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Category: Non-Fiction
No, Minister is not about the record: it is about how the record is created and managed by largely unseen people in a volatile and almost always unpredictable environment. It delivers forensic analysis of what goes on back-stage as politicians prosecute their wars of mutual annihilation, the impact a Ch ...Show more
Simple Act of Reading by Debra Adelaide
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Category: Non-Fiction
For it is in the simple act of reading where the living and the dead, the real and the imagined, meet. It is in the simple act of reading where we exercise those two most sacred of human vocations: compassion and creativity. For as we know, without either of these primes there is no possibility for a hu ...Show more
On Palestine by Noam Chomsky Ilan Pappé
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Category: Non-Fiction
On Palestine is Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappe's indispensable update on a suffering region. Operation Protective Edge, Israel's most recent assault on Gaza, left thousands of Palestinians dead and cleared the way for another Israeli land grab. The need to stand in solidarity with Palestinians has never be ...Show more
This Changes Everything by Naomi Klein
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Category: Non-Fiction
The most important book yet from the author of the international bestseller The Shock Doctrine, a brilliant explanation of why the climate crisis challenges us to abandon the core "free market" ideology of our time, restructure the global economy, and remake our political systems. In short, either we em ...Show more