Senate Intelligence Committee Report on Torture: Committee Study of the Central Intelligence Agency's Detention and Interrogation Program by Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
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Category: Social Discourse
One of the most significant government reports in American history, this is the complete official summary report of the Senate Intelligence Committee's investigation of the Central Intelligence Agency's interrogation and detention programs launched in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. 'Releasing this report ...Show more
Selfie - How We Became So Self-Obsessed and What It's Doing To Us by Will Storr
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Category: Social Discourse
We are living in an age of heightened individualism. Success is a personal responsibility. Our culture tells us that to succeed is to be slim, rich, happy, extroverted, popular--flawless. We have become self-obsessed. And our expectation of perfection comes at a cost. Millions are suffering under the to ...Show more
Second Chance - Three Presidents and the Crisis of American Superpower by Zbigniew Brzezinski
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Category: Social Discourse
America's most distinguished commentator on foreign policy, former National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, offers a reasoned but unsparing assessment of the last three presidential administrations' foreign policy. Though spanning less than two decades, these administrations cover a vitally import ...Show more
Populism Now!: The Case For Progressive Populism by David McKnight
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Category: Social Discourse
Populism can be a dirty word. Brexit and the election of Donald Trump have certainly given it a bad name. But rather than associating it with demagoguery and exclusion, might we better see it as a backlash against free market globalisation? Might it be harnessed as a positive force able to thrive in dif ...Show more
Not Just Lucky by Jamila Rizvi
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Category: Social Discourse
'Feisty and inquisitive - a fresh take on modern feminist issues.' Julia GillardAustralian women are suffering from a crisis of confidence about work. Accustomed to being overlooked and undervalued, even when women do get to the top, they explain their success away as 'luck'. But it's not.Not Just Lucky ...Show more
No Ordinary Disruption: The Four Global Forces Breaking All the Trends by Richard Dobbs
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Category: Social Discourse
The world not only feels different. The data tell us it isdifferent. Based on years of research by the directors of the McKinsey Global Institute, No Ordinary Disruption: The Four Forces Breaking All the Trends is a timely and important analysis of how we need to reset our intuition as a result of four ...Show more
Mothers and Others by Natalie Kon-yu
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Category: Social Discourse
'When are you having children?' 'Why didn't you have another child?' 'Well, I guess that's your choice, but...' They are questions asked of women all the time. Beneath them is the assumption that all women want to have children, and the judgement that if they don't, they'll be somehow incomplete. And th ...Show more
Megachange: The World in 2050 by Economist
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Category: Social Discourse
Building on the hugely successful annual Economist "The World in..." publications, this essential guide to the twenty-first century captures the sweeping, fundamental trends that are changing the world faster than at any time in human history. In 2050 there will be 9.3 billion people alive - compared wi ...Show more
Masters of Mankind - Essays and Lectures, 1969-2013 by Noam Chomsky
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Category: Social Discourse
In this collection of essays from 1969 to 2013, many in book form for the first time, Noam Chomsky examines the nature of state power, from the ideologies driving the Cold War to the War on Terror, and reintroduces the moral and legal questions that all too often go unheeded. With unrelenting logic, he ...Show more
Love Wins by Jim Obergefell, Debbie Cenziper
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Category: Social Discourse
In June 2015, the Supreme Court made same-sex marriage the law in all fifty states in a decision as groundbreaking as Roe v Wade. At the heart of the Obergefell v Hodges case is a story of law and love and a promise made to a dying man who wanted to know how he would be remembered. Twenty years ago, Jim ...Show more
How to Win at Feminism: The Definitive Guide to Having it All-and Then Some! by Reductress
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Category: Social Discourse
Feminism is all about demanding equality and learning to love yourself. But not too much - men hate that! From the writers of Reductress, the subversive, satirical women's magazine read by over 2.5 million visitors a month, comes HOW TO WIN AT FEMINISM: The Definitive Guide to Having It All--And Then So ...Show more
Letters to a Young Muslim by Omar Saif Ghobash
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Category: Social Discourse
Letters To a Yong Muslim will explore how Arabs can provide themselves, their children, and their youth with a better chance of prosperity and peace in a globalized world, while attempting to explain the history and complications of the modern-day Arab landscape and how the younger generation can solve ...Show more