Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir Of A Family And Culture In Crisis by J. D. Vance
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Category: Current Affairs
From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, a powerful account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America's white working class Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis--that of white working-class Am ...Show more
What Would Beauvoir Do? - How the Greatest Feminists Would Solve Your Everyday Problems by Tabi Jackson Gee; Freya Rose
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Category: Current Affairs | Series: What Would Ser.
Get life advice and a crash course on women's rights from the great feminists of every generation. Have you ever wondered if Gloria Steinem would support your decision to get a nose job? Or if Betty Friedan would watch Star Wars with you? Half an introduction to feminism, half a guide to life, this bo ...Show more
30-Second Climate by Joanna D. Haigh
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Category: Current Affairs | Series: 30 Second
Weather and climate are not the same. Weather is what occurs outdoors on a daily basis and is unpredictable from one week to the next, whereas climate follows a stable pattern that is developed over centuries. The planet is divided into climate zones--tropical, temperate and polar--based on temperature ...Show more
More Than a Muse - Creative Partnerships That Sold Talented Women Short by Katie McCabe
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Category: Current Affairs
How many times have you seen a woman artist solely referred to as the wife, girlfriend, or worse, 'mistress' of a man in the public eye? Throughout history, the talent of creative women - from artists to writers to filmmakers - has been undervalued, with the title of 'genius' reserved mainly for men. Mo ...Show more
Who Are Refugees and Migrants? What Makes People Leave Their Homes? and Other Big Questions by Michael Rosen; Annemarie Young
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Category: Current Affairs | Series: And Other Big Questions
What does it mean for people to have to leave their homes, and what happens when they seek entry to another country? This book explores the history of refugees and migration around the world and the effects on people of never-ending war and conflict. It compares the effects on society of diversity and ...Show more
Surveillance Valley - The Secret Military History of the Internet by Yasha Levine
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Category: Current Affairs
As the Cambridge Analytica scandal has shown, private corporations consider it their right to use our data (and by extension, us) which ever way they see fit. Looking at the hidden origins of many internet corporations and platforms, Levine shows that this is a function, not a bug of the online experien ...Show more
The Little Book of Pride - The History, the People, the Parades by Lewis Laney
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Category: Current Affairs
Celebrate the LGTBQ community with this small but perfectly formed guide to Pride. What began as a protest for gay rights following the Stonewall riots of 1969 in New York has grown to become a global celebration of LGBTQ culture. In the 50-odd years since the original protest, and what is now widely a ...Show more
We Are the Weather - Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast by Jonathan Safran Foer
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Category: Current Affairs
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY FINANCIAL TIMES and THE GUARDIAN In We Are the Weather, Jonathan Safran Foer explores the central global dilemma of our time in a surprising, deeply personal, and urgent new way. Some people reject the fact, overwhelmingly supported by scientists, that our planet is wa ...Show more
Feminism for Women: The Real Route to Liberation by Julie Bindel
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Category: Current Affairs
'[This book is] guaranteed to remind us what we have still to fight for. I can't think of a single person who wouldn't benefit from reading it' Observer 'Bindel is a rock star of second-wave feminism . . . an important, courageous book' The Times 'Bindel delivers a robust call to arms in every chapter ...Show more
Our Final Warning - Six Degrees of Climate Emergency by Mark Lynas
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Category: Current Affairs
This book must not be ignored. It really is our final warning. Mark Lynas delivers a vital account of the future of our earth, and our civilisation, if current rates of global warming persist. And it's only looking worse. We are living in a climate emergency. But how much worse could it get? Will civili ...Show more
How Are We Going to Explain This? by Jelmer Mommers
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Category: Current Affairs
An international bestseller, the first climate book that doesn't leave the reader depressed: realistic and hopeful, witty and clarifying.