Empire of Pain - The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe
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Category: SCIENCE/CURRENT AFFAIRS | Reading Level: very good
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER A grand, devastating portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, famed for their philanthropy, whose fortune was built by Valium and whose reputation was destroyed by OxyContin. From the prize-winning and bestselling author ...Show more
Philosophy and Life: Exploring the Great Questions of How to Live by A. C. Grayling
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From the eminent philosopher, an answer to the big question- how should I live my life? How should I live my life? What values shall I live by? What sort of person should I be? What shall I aim for? In this summation of a lifetime thinking and writing about these great questions, A. C. Grayling explores ...Show more
Requiem For The American Dream: The 10 Principles of Concentration of Wealth & Power by Noam Chomsky
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Requiem for the American Dream is a work of some 70,000 words based on four years of interviews with Noam Chomsky on the subject of income equality. Chomsky considers these to be his final, long-form documentary interviews. It is a book that makes Chomsky's breadth and depth accessible, and at the same ...Show more
Vaxxers: A Pioneering Moment in Scientific History by Sarah Gilbert, Catherine Green
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Chosen as a Book of the Year 2021 by the Financial Times, Sunday Times, Daily Mail, Prospect, Guardian and The Times.'Vaxxers is so good that the book will be read for long after the pandemic is over'Financial Times'One of the most epic and pioneering moments in human history'Sir Jeremy Farrar__________ ...Show more
Mosquito: The RAF's Legendary Wooden Wonder and its Most Extraordinary Mission by Rowland White
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The incredible story of one of WW2's most iconic aircraft told through one impossible mission by the master of the aviation thriller Built of lightweight wood, powered by two growling Rolls Royce engines, impossibly aerodynamic, headspinningly fast, armed to the teeth, the DeHavilland Mosquito was the ...Show more
JFK - The Conspiracy and Truth Behind the Assassination by John Hughes-Wilson
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The truth behind the assassination of JFK - reissued and updated for the sixtieth anniversary Ever since President John F. Kennedy was gunned down in Dallas fifty years ago, various theories have swirled around what was a key event in American - and world - history. Whatever the conclusions of the US of ...Show more
How AI Thinks: How we built it, how it can help us, and how we can control it by Nigel Toon
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Those who understand how AI thinks are about to win big.We are used to thinking of computers as being a step up from calculators - very good at storing information, and maybe even at playing a logical game like chess. But up to now they haven't been able to think in ways that are intuitive, or respond t ...Show more
Slow Down: How Degrowth Communism Can Save the Earth by Kohei Saito
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Can green capitalism save the planet? Is it even trying? Not when the very logic of the capitalist system pits it against Earth's life support systems, as the Japanese philosopher Kohei Saito demonstrates in one of the most astonishing bestsellers of recent times. Drawing on cutting-edge research acro ...Show more
Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein
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A wild ride into the uncanny mirror world of our polarised culture, from the international bestselling author of The Shock Doctrine What if you woke up one morning and found you'd acquired a double? Someone almost like you, and yet not you at all? When Naomi Klein discovered that a woman who shared her ...Show more
NightWatch: A Practical Guide to Viewing the Universe by TERENCE DICKINSON
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As NightWatch, Terence Dickinson's classic stargazing guide, neared its 40th anniversary, Dickinson worked with a small group of trusted colleagues to give this groundbreaking reference an overhaul that will take it deep into the 21st century. Longtime astronomy writer and sky observer Ken Hewitt-White ...Show more
White Holes by Carlo Rovelli
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A mesmerizing trip to the strange new world of white holes from the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics Let us journey, with beloved physicist Carlo Rovelli, into the heart of a black hole. Let us slip beyond its boundary, the horizon, and tumble - on and on - down this crack in the uni ...Show more
Milk: The truth, the lies and the unbelievable story of the original superfood by Matthew Evans
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Category: SCIENCE/CURRENT AFFAIRS
A powerful, entertaining and, at times, eviscerating commentary on the most controversial of original superfoods. Milk. It's in our coffee, on our cereal. We see it in processed form - yoghurt, butter, cheese, skimmed and lactose free. It's there in almond form, or made from oats or soy, and is as laud ...Show more