Unwoke - How to Defeat Cultural Marxism in America by Ted Cruz
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Category: SOCIETY AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
Our institutions have gone "woke." Everybody knows that. But nobody has come up with a way to stop it. Until now. In this hard-hitting new book, Senator Ted Cruz delivers a realistic battle plan for defeating the woke assault on America. The Democratic Party is now controlled by Cultural Marxists. So ...Show more
Uncommon Grounds - The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World by Mark Pendergrast
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Category: SOCIETY AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
The definitive history of the world's most popular drugUncommon Grounds tells the story of coffee from its discovery on a hill in ancient Abyssinia to the advent of Starbucks. Mark Pendergrast reviews the dramatic changes in coffee culture over the past decade, from the disastrous "Coffee Crisis" that c ...Show more
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes by Adam Rutherford
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Category: SOCIETY AND SOCIAL SCIENCES | Reading Level: very good
'A brilliant, authoritative, surprising, captivating introduction to human genetics. You'll be spellbound' Brian Cox This is a story about you. It is the history of who you are and how you came to be. It is unique to you, as it is to each of the 100 billion modern humans who have ever drawn breath. But ...Show more
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
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Category: SOCIETY AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
The God Delusioncaused a sensation when it was published in 2006. Within weeks it became the most hotly debated topic, with Dawkins himself branded as either saint or sinner for presenting his hard-hitting, impassioned rebuttal of religion of all types. His argument could hardly be more topical. While E ...Show more
The Rising Tide: Among the Islands and Atolls of the Pacific Ocean by Tom Bamforth
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Category: SOCIETY AND SOCIAL SCIENCES | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
Vanuatu. The Cook Islands. Fiji. The names evoke white-sand beaches, swaying palms and lazy holidays. But in reality, these idyllic places are tropical maelstroms of global realpolitik, caught between the world's superpowers and former colonial masters. Collectively the Pacific nations, which form one t ...Show more
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell
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Category: SOCIETY AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
The author of the widely praised Wordslut analyzes the social science of cult influence: how cultish groups from Jonestown and Scientology to SoulCycle and social media gurus use language as the ultimate form of power. What makes “cults” so intriguing and frightening What makes them powerful The reason ...Show more
Hags: The Demonisation of Middle-Aged Women by Victoria Smith
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Category: SOCIETY AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
What is about about women in their forties and beyond that seems to enrage - almost everyone?In the last few years, as identity politics has taken hold, middle-aged women have found themselves talked and written about as morally inferior beings, the face of bigotry, entitlement and selfishness, to be ig ...Show more
Spring: 'A dazzling hymn to hope' Observer by Ali Smith
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Category: SOCIETY AND SOCIAL SCIENCES | Series: Seasonal Quartet Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
What unites Katherine Mansfield, Charlie Chaplin, Shakespeare, Beethoven, Brexit, the present, the past, the north, the south, the east, the west, a man mourning lost times, a woman trapped in modern times? Spring. The great connective. With an eye to the migrancy of story over time, and riffing on Peri ...Show more
Talking to My Daughter: A Brief History of Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis
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Category: SOCIETY AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
'Why is there so much inequality?' Xenia asks her father, the world famous economist Yanis Varoufakis. Drawing on memories of childhood and a variety of well-known tales - from Oedipus and Faust to Frankenstein and The Matrix - Varoufakis explains everything you need to know in order to understand why ...Show more
It's OK To Be Angry About Capitalism by Bernie Sanders
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Category: SOCIETY AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
A takedown of the status quo that has enriched a few billionaires at the expense of the rest of us - and a blueprint for real change. It's OK to be angry about capitalism. It's OK to want something better. Bernie Sanders takes on the 1% and speaks blunt truths about a system that is fuelled by uncontro ...Show more