Reliable Essays - The Best of Clive James by Clive James
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Category: Social & Cultural Notes
Including Clive James's most memorable pieces - his 'Postcard from Rome', his observations on Margaret Thatcher, his insights into Heaney, Larkin and Orwell - this book also contains brilliantly funny examinations of characters like Barry Humphries, as well as showcasing James's more thoughtful, analyti ...Show more
Beyond the Veil: Male-Female Dynamics in Modern Muslim Society by Fatima Mernissi
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Category: Social & Cultural Notes
An expanded and updated edition of this classic study includes a new introduction on Muslim women and fundamentalism, in which Fatima Mernissi argues that the present conservative wave against women in the Muslim world is a defence against recent profound changes in sex roles and in perceptions of sexua ...Show more
Nature and the Human Soul by Bill Plotkin
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Category: Social & Cultural Notes
Today there is a growing awareness that our planet has entered a time of crisis. Bill Plotkin profiles eight maturation stages in the human life cycle from child to elder and depicts the qualities and challenges of each. He offers a practical integration ofpersonal and spiritual understandings (from nat ...Show more
Satiristas - Comedians, Contrarians, Raconteurs and Vulgarians by Paul Provenza; Dan Dion; Tanner Colby
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Category: Social & Cultural Notes
Featuring our greatest comedic minds on the nature of humor, its relevance in society--and why sometimes you just need a good dirty joke to cleanse the palate--Satiristas is a hilarious multi-voiced manifesto on satire and comedy presented by Paul Provenza, co-creator of The Aristocrats.
Stranger to History: A Son's Journey Through Islamic Lands by Aatish Taseer
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Category: Social & Cultural Notes
What does it mean to be a young Muslim in the twenty-first century?When Aatish Taseer receives a challenging letter from his estranged father in Pakistan, he decides to set off on an expedition across the Islamic world in search of his own Islamic heritage, as well as to discover how other young people ...Show more
Don't Let It Get You Down: Essays on Race, Gender and the Body by Savala Nolan
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Category: Social & Cultural Notes
A powerful and provocative collection of essays that offers poignant reflections on living between society's most charged, politicized, and intractably polar spaces — between black and white, rich and poor, thin and fat.Savala Nolan knows what it means to live in the in-between. Descended from a Black a ...Show more
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About The World - And Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling, Anna Rosling Ronnlund
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Category: Social & Cultural Notes | Reading Level: very good
'A hopeful book about the potential for human progress when we work off facts rather than our inherent biases.' BARACK OBAMA 'One of the most important books I've ever read - an indispensable guide to thinking clearly about the world.' BILL GATES 'Hans Rosling tells the story of "the secret silent mirac ...Show more
Pegasus: How a Spy in Our Pocket Threatens the End of Privacy, Dignity and Democracy by Laurent Richard, Sandrine Rigaud
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Category: Social & Cultural Notes
Pegasus is almost certainly the most powerful piece of spyware ever developed. Installed by as little as a missed WhatsApp call, once on your phone it can record your calls, copy your messages, steal your photos and secretly film you. Those that control it can find out your daily movements: exactly wher ...Show more
The Pedant in the Kitchen by Julian Barnes
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Category: Social & Cultural Notes
The Pedant's ambition is simple. He wants to cook tasty, nutritious food; he wants not to poison his friends; and he wants to expand, slowly and with pleasure, his culinary repertoire. A stern critic of himself and others, he knows he is never going to invent his own recipes (although he might, in a bur ...Show more
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber, David Wengrow
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Category: Social & Cultural Notes | Reading Level: near fine
A breathtakingly ambitious retelling of the earliest human societies offers a new understanding of world history. For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike - either free and equal, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could be achieved only by sacrifi ...Show more
What Makes an Apple?: Six Conversations about Writing, Love, Guilt, and Other Pleasures by Amos Oz
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Category: Social & Cultural Notes
In the last years of his life, the writer Amos Oz talked regularly with Shira Hadad, who worked closely with him as the editor of his final novel, Judas. These candid, uninhibited dialogues show a side of Oz that few ever saw. What Makes an Apple? presents the most revealing of these conversations in En ...Show more
The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
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Category: Social & Cultural Notes | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Influenced by Don Juanand the novels of Kafka, The Myth of Sisyphuspresents a meditation on suicide; the question of living or not living in a universe devoid of order or meaning. With lyrical eloquence, Albert Camus, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, brilliantly posits a way out of despair, reaf ...Show more