The Velvet Rope Economy - How Inequality Became Big Business by Nelson D. Schwartz
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture & Society
A new and gripping investigation into the rise of the virtual velvet rope economy.
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments by Saidiya Hartman
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture & Society
'Ambitious, original... a beautiful experiment in its own right' Maggie Nelson 'A startling, dazzling act of resurrection' Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow'Exhilarating....A rich resurrection of a forgotten history' The New York Times At the dawn of the twentieth century, black women in ...Show more
Outgrowing God: A Beginner's Guide by Richard Dawkins
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture & Society
Should we believe in God? In this new book, written for a new generation, the brilliant science writer and author of The God Delusion, explains why we shouldn't. Should we believe in God? Do we need God in order to explain the existence of the universe? Do we need God in order to be good? In twelve chap ...Show more
Making Sense: Conversations on Consciousness, Morality, and the Future of Humanity by Sam Harris
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture & Society
"Civilization rests on a series of successful conversations." Sam Harris, has been exploring some of the greatest questions concerning the human mind, society, and the events that shape our world. Harris' search for deeper understanding of how we think has led him to engage and exchange with some of ou ...Show more
The Maths of Life and Death by Kit Yates
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture & Society
Maths is the story of the world around us, and the wisdom it gives us can be the difference between success and disaster. We are all doing maths all the time, from the way we communicate with each other to the way we travel, from how we work to how we relax. Many of us are aware of this. But few of us r ...Show more
The Kennedy Curse: The shocking true story of America's most famous family by James Patterson
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture & Society
JAMES PATTERSON'S MASTERPIECE________________________________Kennedys were always taught to win at all costs. And they did - but the costs were unimaginable...Across decades and generations, the Kennedys have been a family of charismatic adventurers, raised to take risks and excel. Their name is synonym ...Show more
This Land Is Our Land - An Immigrant's Manifesto by Suketu Mehta
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture & Society
An impassioned defence of global immigration from the acclaimed author of Maximum City. Drawing on his family's own experience emigrating from India to Britain and America, and years of reporting around the world, Suketu Mehta subjects the worldwide anti-immigrant backlash to withering scrutiny. The We ...Show more
Figuring: Fortune Favours the Fast by Maria Popova
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Figuring explores the complexities of love and the human search for truth and meaning through the interconnected lives of several historical figures across four centuries - beginning with the astronomer Johannes Kepler, who discovered the laws of planetary motion, and ending with the marine biologist an ...Show more
Notes On A Nervous Planet by Matt Haig
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The instant #1 international bestseller from the beloved author of How to Stop Time and The HumansThe societies we are part of are increasingly making our minds ill. It very often feels that the way we live is almost engineered to make us unhappy. Whether it is our attitudes toward sleep, the marketing ...Show more
The Human Network: How We're Connected and Why It Matters by Matthew O. Jackson
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture & Society
It's not what you know, it's who you know. Or so the adage goes. Professor Matthew Jackson, world-leading researcher into social and economic networks, shows us why this is far truer than we'd like to believe. Based on his own ground-breaking research, The Human Network reveals how our relationships in ...Show more
Drag: The Complete Story by Simon Doonan
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture & Society
Drag is transformation, communication and, above all, exaggeration, where gender non-conformity is the plat du jour. This fearless book observes this increasingly complex world by exploring drag's journey - from the surprising, to the sophisticated, to the utterly bizarre - through the twentieth century ...Show more
The Good State - On the Principles of Democracy by A C Grayling
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture & Society
The foundations upon which our democracies stand are inherently flawed, vulnerable to corrosion from within. What is the remedy? A. C. Grayling makes the case for a clear, consistent, principled and written constitution, and sets out the reforms necessary - among them addressing the imbalance of power ...Show more