Man-Made: How the bias of the past is being built into the future by Tracey Spicer
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Category: Current Affairs & Politics
Walkley Award-winning journalist Tracey Spicer exposes the next frontier of feminism. Man Made aims to open readers’ eyes to a transformative technological shift in society and give them the tools to make positive change. `Mum, I want a robot slave.’ Broadcaster Tracey Spicer had an epiphany when her ...Show more
How Everything Can Collapse - A Manual for Our Times by Pablo Servigne; Andrew Brown (Translator); Rapha¿l Stevens
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Category: Current Affairs & Politics
What if our civilization were to collapse? Not many centuries into the future, but in our own lifetimes? Most people recognize that we face huge challenges today, from climate change and its potentially catastrophic consequences to a plethora of socio-political problems, but we find it hard to face up t ...Show more
Courage Calls to Courage Everywhere by Jeanette Winterson
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Category: Current Affairs & Politics
Courage Calls to Courage Everywhere is a timely and inspiring call to arms by one of Britain's most acclaimed and important writers. Whilst recognising how far women have come in the hundred years since getting the vote, Jeanette Winterson also insists that we must all do much more if we are to achieve ...Show more
The Big Disconnect: The Story of Technology and Loneliness by Giles Slade
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Category: Current Affairs & Politics
This is a revealing expose of how our love affair with ever - new technologies has undermined interpersonal relationships. Tablets, smart phones, and social networks all promise better opportunities to connect and stay connected. Yet what they really do is replace face-to-face interactions and disguise ...Show more
Black Edge - Inside Information, Dirty Money, and the Quest to Bring Down the Most Wanted Man on Wall Street by Sheelah Kolhatkar
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Category: Current Affairs & Politics
Nominated for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Nominated for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction Amazon Top 5 Business Books of 2017 'A prodigious feat of reporting' - Malcolm Gladwell 'Black Edge has the grip of a thriller a Everyone should read this book' - David Grann, New York T ...Show more
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, 3rd Edition by John Perkins
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Category: Current Affairs & Politics
How do we stop the unrelenting evolution of the economic hit man strategy and China's takeover? The riveting third edition of this New York Times bestseller blows the whistle on China's economic hit man (EHM) strategy, exposes corruption on an international scale, and offers much-needed solutions fo ...Show more
Here be Monsters: Is Technology Reducing Our Humanity? by Richard King
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Category: Current Affairs & Politics
Technology is developing fast — so fast that it threatens to overwhelm the very species whose genius lies in its technological cunning: us. From the metaverse to genetic engineering and mood-altering pharmaceuticals, to cybersex and cyberwar and the widespread automation of work, new technologies are re ...Show more