The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realities by John J. Mearsheimer
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In the West, it is a given that liberal America should spread democracy across the globe as a way to product human rights and promote peace. John Mearsheimer debunks this ideas, arguing instead for a strategy of restraint based on balance-of-power politics. This bold work offers a major theoretical stat ...Show more
Stasiland by Anna Funder
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Winner of the BBC Four Samuel Johnson PrizeTruth can be stranger - and more heartbreaking and hilarious - than fiction.In this now classic work, Funder tells extraordinary stories from the most perfected surveillance state of all time, the former East Germany. She meets Miriam, condemned as an enemy of ...Show more
The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women in Space by Loren Grush
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The Six was an extraordinary cohort of women recruited by NASA in the seventies. Ride was just one member of the Six. Greeted in Houston by make-up bags designed for use in space, no designated locker rooms and flight suits that didn't fit, they went on to break barriers on earth and in space. In 1983 S ...Show more
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: A Palestine Story by Nathan Thrall
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A gripping, intimate story of one heartbreaking day in Palestine that reveals lives, loves, enmities, and histories in violent collision. Milad is five years old and excited for his school trip to a theme park on the outskirts of Jerusalem, but tragedy awaits- his bus is involved in a horrific accident. ...Show more