Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal by Noam Chomsky; Robert Pollin; C. J. Polychroniou (Contribution by)
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Category: Politics
Climate change: watershed or endgame? In this compelling new book, Noam Chomsky, the world's leading public intellectual, and Robert Pollin, a renowned progressive economist, map out the catastrophic consequences of unchecked climate change--and present a realistic blueprint for change: the Green New De ...Show more
Comrade - An Essay on Political Belonging by Jodi Dean
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Category: Politics
When people say "comrade," they change the worldIn the twentieth century, millions of people across the globe addressed each other as "comrade." Now, among the left, it's more common to hear talk of "allies." In Comrade, Jodi Dean insists that this shift exemplifies the key problem with the contemporary ...Show more
How to Make a Difference by Kate Robertson; Ella Robertson
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Category: Politics
How to Make a Difference is a practical roadmap to modern day activism created by the powerful and imaginative minds behind the world's biggest campaigns including Colin Kaepernick, Emma Watson, Sir Bob Geldof, Fatima Bhutto, Black Lives Matter, Cher, Matt Damon, Rakesh Kapoor and Gina Miller; collectiv ...Show more
The Socialist Manifesto - The Case for Radical Politics in an era of Extreme Inequality by Bhaskar Sunkara
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Category: Politics
The success of Jeremy Corbyn's left-led Labour Party and Bernie Sanders's 2016 presidential campaign revived a political idea many had thought dead. But what, exactly, is socialism? And what would a socialist system look like today? In The Socialist Manifesto, Bhaskar Sunkara, editor of Jacobin magazine ...Show more
Neither Devil Nor Child: How Western Attitudes Are Harming Africa by Tom Young
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Category: Politics
If you boil a kettle twice today, you will have used five times more electricity than a person in Mali uses in a whole year. How can that be possible? Decades after the colonial powers withdrew Africa is still struggling to catch up with the rest of the world. When the same colonists withdrew from Asia ...Show more
The French Exception: Emmanuel Macron - The Extraordinary Rise and Risk by Adam Plowright
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Category: Politics
'Adam Plowright's excellent book captures the strangeness of Macron's life' Evening StandardTHE FIRST BIOGRAPHY OF EMMANUEL MACRON IN ENGLISHFrom total unknown to one of Europe's most powerful men in just a few years, at 39, France's youngest leader since Napoleon is intent on conquering the world stage ...Show more
Money: Vintage Minis by Yuval Noah Harari
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Category: Politics | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
Selected from the books Sapiens and Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari How did money come to be invented? Why does it now have such significance in our lives? Does it make us happier or unhappier? And what does the future hold for it? With brilliant clarity and insight, Yuval Noah Harari takes the reader o ...Show more
Politics in Minutes by Marcus Weeks
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Category: Politics | Series: In Minutes
Quick, accessible, compact guide to understanding key political concepts. Contents include: Liberty, Justice, Equality, Human rights, Social contract, Democracy, Monarchy, Anarchism, Capitalism, Socialism, Nationalism and Globalisation.
Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment by Francis Fukuyama
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Category: Politics
Increasingly, the demands of identity direct the world's politics. Nation, religion, sect, race, ethnicity, gender: these categories have overtaken broader, inclusive ideas of who we are. We have built walls rather than bridges. The result: increasing in anti-immigrant sentiment, rioting on college camp ...Show more
Surviving Autocracy by Masha Gessen
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Category: Politics | Reading Level: very good
"An indispensable voice of and for this moment." -Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny A bestselling, National Book Award-winning journalist's bracing elucidation of our tumultuous times. In the run-up to the 2016 election, Masha Gessen stood out from other journalists for the ability to convey the om ...Show more
Economics in Minutes by Niall Kishtainy
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Category: Politics | Series: in Minutes
Economics in Minutes condenses key economics concepts into 200 short and easily digested essays. Featuring not only fundamental ideas, such as the role of money and how the stock market works, but also subjects that are increasingly important to us today - unemployment, government debt and corporate tax ...Show more
Blood Gun Money by Ioan Grillo
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Category: Politics
From the author of El Narco, a searing investigation into the enormous black market for firearms, essential to cartels and gangs in the drug trade and contributing to the epidemic of mass shootings.The gun control debate is revived with every mass shooting. But far more people die from gun deaths on the ...Show more