Vulture Capitalism: Corproate crimes, backdoor bailouts, and the death of freedom by Grace Blakeley
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Category: SOCIETY AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
All over the world, democracy is in crisis. Liberal political systems are straining under the pressure imposed by authoritarian strong men undermining institutions, the rule of law and the international system that governs relations between countries. Obvious examples include Donald Trump and Boris John ...Show more
Animal Liberation Now by Peter Singer
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Category: SOCIETY AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
Animal Liberation started a worldwide movement when it revealed the abuse of animals in factory farms and laboratories. It demonstrated that these and other practices were the cause of appalling and unnecessary suffering and therefore morally indefensible. In the fifty years since, science has further v ...Show more
Your Face Belongs to Us: The Secretive Startup Dismantling Your Privacy by Kashmir Hill
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Category: SOCIETY AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
‘The dystopian future portrayed in some science-fiction movies is already upon us. Kashmir Hill’s fascinating book brings home the scary implications of this new reality’ JOHN CARREYROU, author of Bad Blood When Kashmir Hill stumbled upon Clearview AI, a mysterious startup selling an app that claimed i ...Show more
Magicians of the Gods: Evidence for an Ancient Apocalypse by Graham Hancock
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Category: SOCIETY AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
Graham Hancock's multi-million bestseller Fingerprints of the Gods remains an astonishing, deeply controversial, wide-ranging investigation of the mysteries of our past and the evidence for Earth's lost civilization. Twenty years on, Hancock returned with the sequel to his seminal work filled with compl ...Show more
21 Lessons for the 21st Century: 'Truly mind-expanding... Ultra-topical' Guardian by Yuval Noah Harari
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Category: SOCIETY AND SOCIAL SCIENCES | Reading Level: very good
Sapiens showed us where we came from. Homo Deus looked to the future. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century explores the present. How can we protect ourselves from nuclear war, ecological cataclysms and technological disruptions? What can we do about the epidemic of fake news or the threat of terrorism? What ...Show more
Whiteshift - Populism, Immigration and the Future of White Majorities by Eric Kaufmann
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Category: SOCIETY AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
Across the West, anti-immigration populists are tearing a path through the usual politics of left and right. Immigration is remaking Europe and North America- over half of American babies are non-white, and by the end of the century, minorities and those of mixed race are projected to form the majority ...Show more
The Kabul Peace House: How a Group of Young People Are Daring to Dream in a Land of War by Mark Isaacs
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Category: SOCIETY AND SOCIAL SCIENCES | Series: Young Afghans Peace Community
A story of peace in a land of unending war. This is a story of hope and resilience in Afghanistan, a country constantly under siege from within and without. Refugee advocate, activist and acclaimed author Mark Isaacs takes us inside a remarkable and unlikely peace project established in one of the mo ...Show more
Food of the Gods by Terence McKenna
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Category: SOCIETY AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
"A journey is some of the Earth's most endangered people in the remote Upper Amazon. . . . a look at the rituals of the Bwiti cults of Gabon and Zaire. . . . . a field watch on the easting habits of 'stoned' apes and chimpanzees - these adventures are all a part of ethnobotanis t Terence McKenna's extra ...Show more
How to Clone a Mammoth - The Science of De-Extinction by Beth Shapiro
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Category: SOCIETY AND SOCIAL SCIENCES | Series: Princeton Science Library
An insider's view on bringing extinct species back to life Could extinct species, like mammoths and passenger pigeons, be brought back to life? The science says yes. In How to Clone a Mammoth, Beth Shapiro, evolutionary biologist and pioneer in ancient DNA research, walks readers through the astonis ...Show more
Motor Neuron Disease in Adults by Mark Bromberg (Editor)
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Category: SOCIETY AND SOCIAL SCIENCES | Series: Contemporary Neurology Ser.
Motor Neuron Disease in Adults reviews new information as it applies to all aspects of motor neuron disease (ALS, PLS, PMA). The choice of articles is for those that use evidence-based methods to ensure that the new information is solid and advances the topic or issue. The book can be usedby anyone who ...Show more
A Billion Years by Mike Rinder
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Category: SOCIETY AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
One of the highest-ranking defectors from Scientology exposes the secret inner workings of the powerful organization in this remarkable memoir. 'A flamethrower of a read' JOHN SWEENEY 'Candid and deeply felt' LAWRENCE WRIGHT 'Gripping and harrowing' LEAH REMINI 'Extraordinarily powerful' ALEX GIBN ...Show more
Poisoned: The True Story of the Deadly E. Coli Outbreak That Changed the Way Americans Eat by Jeff Benedict
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Category: SOCIETY AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
NOW A NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY From Jeff Benedict, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Tiger Woods and The Dynasty, Poisoned chronicles the events surrounding the worst food-poisoning epidemic in US history: the deadly Jack in the Box E. coli infections in 1993. On December 24, 1992, six-year-old Lau ...Show more