Why the West Rules - for Now: The Patterns of History and what they reveal about the future by Ian Morris
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There are two broad schools of thought on why the West rules. Proponents of 'Long-Term Lock-In' theories such as Jared Diamond suggest that from time immemorial, some critical factor - geography, climate, or culture perhaps - made East and West unalterably different, and determined that the industrial r ...Show more
THE PATH TO POWER : THE RISE OF THE PREMIERSHIP FROM ROSEBERY TO WILSON by LEWIS BROAD
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THE PEOPLE INTO PARLIAMENT : AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE LABOUR PARTY by W T RODGERS AND BERNARD DONOUGHUE
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The Divided House - Women at Westminster by Melanie Phillips
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Data Grab: The new Colonialism of Big Tech and how to fight back by Ulises A. Mejias, Nick Couldry
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Category: POLITICS
If you're not paying for the product, then you are the product. In the past, colonialism was a landgrab of natural resources, exploitative labour and private property from developing countries. It made shiny promises to modernise and civilise, but actually sought to control. It made native populations s ...Show more
The Russo-Ukrainian War - The Return of History by Serhii Plokhy
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Category: POLITICS
BEST BOOKS 2023: FINANCIAL TIMES * THE TIMES * SUNDAY TIMES CULTURE * TLSDo you know what is at stake in Ukraine? Urgent, compelling reading from the author of Chernobyl on the defining conflict of our timesOn 24 February 2022, Russia stunned the world by launching an invasion of Ukraine. In the midst o ...Show more
Diary of an Invasion by Andrey Kurkov
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Category: POLITICS
This journal of Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine is a collection of Andrey Kurkov's writings and broadcasts from Kyiv.
Russia : Experiment with a People by Robert Service
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The first history of modern Russia from 1991 to the present day by one of the leading historians of 20th century USSR and Russia. In 1991, in a huge experiment with a people and in a state of euphoria, Boris Yeltsin abolished the USSR and recreated the Russian nation. At the point of its declaration it ...Show more
Standard Operating Procedure : Inside Abu Ghraib by Philip Gourevitch & Errol Morris
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"Standard Operating Procedure" is an utterly original collaboration by the writer Philip Gourevitch ("We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families") and the film-maker Errol Morris ("The Thin Blue Line" and "The Fog of War"). They have produced the first full reckoning of what ...Show more
No Logo by Naomi Klein
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: good
The book that offers a cure for affluenza, 'No Logo' is one of those rare books that defines a generation, the most significant one since Douglas Coupland's 'Generation X'.
In Search of Berlin: The Story of a Reinvented City by John Kampfner
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Category: POLITICS
No other city has had so many lives, survived so many disasters and has reinvented itself so many times. No other city is like Berlin. Ever since John Kampfner was a young journalist in Communist East Berlin, he hasn't been able to get the city out of his mind. It is a place tortured by its past, obses ...Show more