Nonviolence - The History of a Dangerous Idea by Mark Kurlansky
Category: Social Sciences
The conventional history of nations, even continents, is a history of warfare. According to this view, all the important ideas and significant changes of humankind occurred as part of an effort to win one violent, bloody conflict or another. This approach to history is only one of many examples of how s ...Show more
What Would Beyonce Do?! by Luisa Omielan
Category: Social Sciences
You know when you find yourself approaching thirty and your dreams are broken? You've got a temping career going nowhere, a student debt that's mounting and you've just had to move back into your mum's house. Then to top it all off, you get absolutely annihilated with heartbreak because of an ex, who is ...Show more
Technological Society by Ellul Jacques
Category: Social Sciences | Series: A\Vintage Book Ser.
As insightful and wise today as it was when originally published in France in 1954, Jacques Ellul's The Technological Society has become a classic in its field, laying the groundwork for all other studies of technology and society that have followed.Ellul offers a penetrating analysis of our technologic ...Show more
The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis by Amitav Ghosh
Category: Social Sciences
'Do not miss this book' NAOMI KLEIN, author of This Changes EverythingThe history of the nutmeg is one of conquest and exploitation - of both human life and the natural environment - and the origin of our contemporary climate crisis.Tracing the threats to our future to the discovery of the New World and ...Show more
Beirut 2020 - The Collapse of a Civilization, a Journal by Charif Majdalani; Ruth Diver (Translator)
Category: Social Sciences
'The author's home town is falling apart. Lebanon's capital [...] has morphed into a symbol of devastation and hatred and madness. Majdalani is a survivor who still finds in himself the elegance to smile and hope' Amin Maalouf, Prix Goncourt winner 'It is rare to capture the moment when it first occurs, ...Show more
Don't Be Evil - How Big Tech Betrayed Its Founding Principles--And All of US by Rana Foroohar
Category: Social Sciences
A TIMES BEST CURRENT AFFAIRS BOOK OF 2019 An award-winning Financial Times columnist exposes the threat that Big Tech poses to our democracies, our economies and ourselves Today Google and Facebook receive 90% of the world's news ad-spending. Amazon takes half of all ecommerce in the US. Google and App ...Show more
The Hidden Habits of Genius - Beyond Talent, IQ, and Grit--Unlocking the Secrets of Greatness by Craig Wright
Category: Social Sciences
"An unusually engaging book on the forces that fuel originality across fields." --Adam Grant Looking at the 14 key traits of genius, from curiosity to creative maladjustment to obsession, Professor Craig Wright, creator of Yale University's popular "Genius Course," explores what we can learn from brill ...Show more
Bloody Woman - Essays by Lana Lopesi
Category: Social Sciences
This wayfinding set of essays, by acclaimed writer and critic Lana Lopesi, explores the overlap of being a woman and Sāmoan. Writing on ancestral ideas of womanhood appears alongside contemporary reflections on women's experiences and the Pacific. These essays lead into the messy and the sticky, the whi ...Show more
INVISIBLE CORSET, THE: BREAK FREE FROM BEAUTY CULTURE AND EMBRACE by Geertsen, Lauren
Category: Social Sciences
Nine years old. That's the average age when a girl puts on her "invisible corset," knowing that going forward, her value is inextricably tied to her appearance. According to author Lauren Geertsen, the invisible corset is a set of culturally inherited beliefs that make women feel insecure and anxious in ...Show more
Mother Tongue - The Surprising History of Women's Words by Jenni Nuttall
Category: Social Sciences
A rich, provocative and entertaining history of women's words - of the language we have, and haven't, had to share our lives.'Fascinating, intriguing, witty, a gem of a book' KATE MOSSE'Wonderful' DAILY TELEGRAPH'This superb book teems with historical marvels and their 21st century resonances.' REBECCA ...Show more