Everything Trump Touches Dies: A Republican Strategist Gets Real about the Worst President Ever by Rick Wilson
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Category: Current Affairs
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A respected, long-time Republican strategist, ad-maker, and contributor for The Daily Beast, skewers the disease that is destroying the conservative movement and burning down the GOP: Trumpism. In Everything Trump Touches Dies, political campaign strategist and commentator ...Show more
What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape by Sohaila Abdulali
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Category: Current Affairs
Except for the foundational belief that rape is a crime, with a criminal and a victim, I will not take anything else for granted.Sohaila Abdulali was gang-raped as a teenager in Mumbai. Indignant at the silence on the issue in India, she wrote an article for a woman?s magazine challenging the way in whi ...Show more
Social Leap, The: How and Why Humans Connect by William von Hippel
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Category: Current Affairs
Leading researcher into social intelligence and evolutionary psychology William von Hippel argues that the main advantage early primates had against other animals was their ability to live, and thrive, in social groups. Furthermore, this ability was such a revolutionary advantage that it was the chief e ...Show more
This Is Cuba - An American Journalist under Castro's Shadow by David Ariosto
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Category: Current Affairs
An exploration of Cuba's Cold War mindset and a people in the throes of transition, with tales of run-ins with spies, secret backrooms, and empty grocery shelves Fidel Castro is dead. Donald Trump is in the White House. And to most outsiders, the fate of Cuba has never been more uncertain. But those wh ...Show more
Advanced Australia the Politics of Ageing by Mark Butler
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Category: Current Affairs
Advanced Australia explores the politics of ageing in Australia. The addition of 25 years to average life expectancy in Australia over the past century is a monumental achievement, but many commentators are greeting the prospect of Australians living longer with horror. The ageing of Australia's baby bo ...Show more
The Gatekeepers - How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency by Chris Whipple
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Category: Current Affairs
Now with a new chapter on the chaos in the Trump administration, the first in-depth, behind-the-scenes look at the White House Chiefs of Staff, whose actions--and inactions--have defined the course of our country. What do Dick Cheney and Rahm Emanuel have in common? Aside from polarizing personalities, ...Show more
Click Here to Kill Everybody: Security and Survival in a Hyper-Connected World by Bruce Schneier
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Category: Current Affairs
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Should We Control World Population? by Diana Coole
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Category: Current Affairs | Series: Political Theory Today Ser.
By 2100, the human population may exceed 11 billion. Having recently surpassed 7.5 billion, it has trebled since 1950. Are such numbers sustainable, given a deepening environmental crisis? Can so many live well? Or should world population be controlled? The population question, one of the twentieth cent ...Show more
Antisemitism: Here and Now by Deborah Lipstadt
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Category: Current Affairs
Anti-Jewish violence and vandalism have been on the rise in Europe in the last five years. Deborah Lipstadt asks, 'Does this mean we are returning to the brutality of the 1930s?' 'No', is her initial answer, quickly followed by- 'It's complicated.' Connecting different currents in contemporary culture, ...Show more
En Garde by Sarah Hanson-Young
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Category: Current Affairs
When Sarah Hanson-Young called out the abuse she received from male parliamentarians as slut-shaming, she sparked a national conversation about the rampant sexism in politics. Placing the responsibility on women to defend themselves is the same cheap trick as asking, why didn’t she just fight back? Afte ...Show more
Political Troglodytes and Economic Lunatics: The Hard Right in Australia by Dominic Kelly
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Category: Current Affairs
Political history at its best. This is the story of the hard right in Australia - of how Ray Evans and his boss at Western Mining Corporation, Hugh Morgan, became the pioneers of a new form of right-wing politics whose forceful reshaping of public debates transformed Australian politics. With a calm ga ...Show more
Talking Sideways by Malcolm Reg; McKinnon Dodd
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Category: Current Affairs
'That's the way it is with us mob. We were brought up to talk kind of sideways. That's the respectful, true Aboriginal way.' Reg Dodd grew up at Finniss Springs, on striking desert country bordering South Australia's Lake Eyre. For the Arabunna and for many other Aboriginal people, Finniss Springs has ...Show more