A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
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Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Before the concept of equality between the sexes was even conceived, Wollstonecraft wrote this book, a treatise of proto-feminism that was as powerful and original then as it is now. In it she argues with clarity and originality for the rational education of women and for an increased female contributio ...Show more
A First Place by David Malouf
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Category: Non-Fiction
A collection of personal essays and writing from David Malouf to celebrate his 80th birthday. Topography, geography, history. Multiculturalism, referendums, the constitution and national occasions. Parental and grandparental romances, the sensual and bountiful beauty of Brisbane, the mysterious offering ...Show more
Have I Got More Views for You by Boris Johnson
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Category: Non-Fiction
Boris's last book of selected writings was published before he became Mayor of London. Now, seven years and one London Olympics later, the best-selling author of 'The Churchill Factor' has even more to say about sport, politics, culture and Britain in this superb new collection. In 'Have I Got More View ...Show more
Putin's Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia? by Karen Dawisha (University of Maryland, College Park)
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Category: Non-Fiction
The raging question in the world today is who is the real Vladimir Putin and what are his intentions. Karen Dawisha's brilliant "Putin's Kleptocracy" provides an answer, describing how Putin got to power, the cabal he brought with him, the billions they have looted, and his plan to restore the Greater R ...Show more
Blueprint for Revolution - How to Use Rice Pudding, Lego Men, and Other Non-violent Techniques to Galvanise Communities, Overthrow Dictators, Or Simply Change the World by Srdja Popovic
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Category: Non-Fiction
How Do Ordinary People Become Revolutionaries? In 2000, too-cool-to-care Belgrade rock kid Srdja Popovic found himself at the centre of a movement which was about to change the world. Popovic was one of the unexpected leaders of the student movement Otpor! That overthrew dictator Slobodan Milosevic and ...Show more
Fire and Ashes: Success and Failure in Politics by Michael Ignatieff
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Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Emersion: Emergent Village Resources for Communities of Faith Ser.
In 2005 Michael Ignatieff left his life as a writer and professor at Harvard University to enter the combative world of politics back home in Canada. By 2008, he was leader of the country's Liberal Party and poised--should the governing Conservatives falter--to become Canada's next Prime Minister. It ne ...Show more
The Map and the Territory 2.0: Risk, Human Nature, and the Future of Forecasting by Alan Greenspan
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Category: Non-Fiction
Like all of us, though few so visibly, Alan Greenspan was forced by the financial crisis of 2008 to question some fundamental assumptions about risk management and economic forecasting. How had our models so utterly failed us? Virtually every day, we make wagers on the future - but, even when we're not ...Show more
Enough: Our Fight to Keep America Safe from Gun Violence by Gabrielle Giffords
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Category: Non-Fiction
After the 2011 Tucson shooting that nearly took her life, basic questions consumed Gabby Giffords and her family: Would Gabby survive the bullet through her brain? Would she walk again? Speak? Her hard-won recovery, though far from complete, has now allowed her and Mark to ask larger questions that conf ...Show more
Crash of 2016: the Plot to Destroy America--And What We Can Do to Stop it by Thom Hartmann
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Category: Non-Fiction
The United States is more vulnerable today than ever before - including during the Great Depression and the Civil War - because the pillars of democracy that once supported a booming middle class have been corrupted, and without them, America teeters on the verge of the next Great Crash. The United Sta ...Show more
The Hot Zone by Richard Preston
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Category: Non-Fiction
Imagine a killer with the infectiousness of the common cold and the power of the Black Death, a killer so deadly it destroys 90 per cent of those it touches. Except you don't need to imagine. Such a killer exists. It is a virus and its name is Ebola. Impossible to ignore, The Hot Zone is the terrifying, ...Show more
Dead MountainThe Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident by Donnie Eichar
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Category: Non-Fiction
New York Times bestseller -- What happened that night on Dead Mountain? The mystery of Dead Mountain: In February 1959, a group of nine experienced hikers in the Russian Ural Mountains died mysteriously on an elevation known as Dead Mountain. Eerie aspects of the incident--unexplained violent injuries, ...Show more
The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices by Xinran
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Category: Non-Fiction
For eight groundbreaking years, Xinran presented a radio programme in China during which she invited women to call in and talk about themselves. This book presents the story of how Xinran negotiated the minefield of restrictions imposed on Chinese journalists to reach out to women across the country. ...Show more