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New For You - History & Current Events - April 2024 - Christchurch City Libraries

What's new? Our selectors look at some of the newest additions to the Christchurch City Libraries collection that explore history and global issues including politics, media, climate change, racism and more.

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18 items

  • Pitfall

    the Race to Mine the World's Most Vulnerable Places

    Pollon, Christopher
    An independent journalist reporting on the politics of natural resources presents this compelling history of the exploitation of metals essential to our civilization, which will condemn us to mine deeper and darker places, ends with a…
    BookSt Lucia, Queensland : University of Queensland Press, 2023. — 333.85 POL
  • Fool Me Once

    Scams, Stories, and Secrets From the Trillion-dollar Fraud Industry

    Pope, Kelly Richmond, 1974-
    Filled with fascinating stories and insightful analysis, Fool Me Once will open your eyes and challenge your thinking. It will inspire you to question your own preconceived notions about fraud. It will challenge your beliefs about yourself…
    BookBoston, Massachusetts : Harvard Business Review Press, [2023] — 364.163 POP
  • All That She Carried

    the Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake

    Miles, Tiya, 1970-
    In 1850s South Carolina, just before enslaved nine-year-old Ashley was sold, her mother, Rose, gave her a sack filled with just a few things as a token of her love. Decades later, Ashley's granddaughter, Ruth, embroidered this history on…
    BookLondon : Profile Books, 2024. — 306.362 MIL
  • The true life adventures of Shoji Morimoto, who launched a business in which he rents himself out to do nothing in Japan. The author shares his unique perspective on how we look at work, relationships and life, and how we often have…
    BookLondon : Picador, 2023 — 306.0952 MOR
  • As Gods Among Men

    a History of the Rich in the West

    Alfani, Guido, 1976-
    The rich have always fascinated, sometimes in problematic ways. Medieval thinkers feared that the super-rich would act 'as gods among men’; much more recently Thomas Piketty made wealth central to discussions of inequality. In this book,…
    BookPrinceton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2023] — 305.523 ALF
  • Stuffed

    a History of Good Food and Hard Times in Britain

    Vogler, Pen
    Stuffed tells the stories of the food and drink at the centre of social upheavals from prehistory to the present: the medieval inns boosted by the plague to the the post-war supermarkets luring customers with strawberries. Drawing on…
    BookLondon : Atlantic Books, 2023. — 394.12 VOG
  • Mom Rage

    the Everyday Crisis of Modern Motherhood

    Dubin, Minna
    Mothers aren't supposed to be angry. Still, Minna Dubin was an angry mom: exhausted by hard, thankless full-time parenting work and feeling her career slip away from her, she would find herself screaming at her child or exploding in anger…
    BookNew York : Seal Press, 2023. — 306.8743 DUB
  • Human Being

    Reclaim 12 Vital Skills We're Losing to Technology

    Lee, Graham
    Journey through human history to identify twelve innate, important skills that we're losing to technology - and discover how you can reclaim them.
    BookLondon : Michael O'Mara Books Limited, 2023. — 303.483 LEE
  • Politics

    a Survivor's Guide

    Behr, Rafael
    We live in an age of fury and confusion. A new crisis erupts before the last one has finished: financial crisis, Brexit, pandemic, war in Ukraine, inflation, strikes. Prime Ministers come and go but politics stays divided and toxic. It is…
    BookLondon : Atlantic Books, 2023. — 323.04 BEH
  • No Free Parking

    the Curious History of London's Monopoly Streets

    Smith, Nicholas Boys
    Explore the rich tapestry of London's history, from medieval times to the bustling present, as its ever-changing streets tell vibrant stories of triumphs, struggles, and the diverse lives of those who have called the city home, in a…
    BookLondon : Blink Publishing, 2022. — 942.1 SMI
  • The Great Displacement

    Climate Change and the Next American Migration

    Bittle, Jake
    A human-centered narrative with national scope, this first book to report on climate migration in the U.S. tells the stories of those already experiencing life on the move, while detailing just how radically climate change with transform…
    BookNew York : Simon & Schuster, 2024. — 362.87 BIT
  • Countdown

    the Blinding Future of Nuclear Weapons

    Scoles, Sarah
    Following the popularity of Oppenheimer, a science journalist investigates the true nature of nuclear weapons and their caretakers in the 21st century, challenging the notion of nuclear deterrence and revealing the dangerous realities of…
    BookNew York : Bold Type Books, 2024. — 355.82 SCO
  • The first one-volume, complete history of Europe, as told by Europeans themselves, from Homo Erectus to the Celts, to Greek wisdom and Roman grandeur, all of the way to the European phenomenon - the Industrial Revolution.
    Book[London] : Michael Joseph, 2023. — 940 DUR
  • Citibank's one-time most profitable trader takes us on an outrageous, white-knuckle journey through the drama and hubris of the trading floor, revealing why, when the easiest way to make money was to be on millions becoming poorer--like…
    Book[London] : Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2024. — 332.642 STE
  • The Great Housing Hijack

    the Hoaxes and Myths Keeping Prices High for Renters and Buyers in Australia

    Murray, Cameron K.
    Drawing on the best housing policies around the world, Murray shows how Australia could create a genuinely affordable housing program without compromising the interests of existing property owners.
    BookCrows Nest, New South Wales : Allen & Unwin, 2024. — 363.5 MUR
  • How Infrastructure Works

    Inside the Systems That Shape Our World

    Chachra, Deb
    Every day, we are granted the power to travel at high speeds, fly, see in the dark, summon water from distant mountains and electricity from the sun. Infrastructure enables lives of astounding ease and freedom that would have been…
    BookNew York : Riverhead Books, 2023. — 363 CHA
  • American Gun

    the True Story of the AR-15

    McWhirter, Cameron
    In the 1950s, an obsessive firearms designer named Eugene Stoner invented the AR-15 rifle in a California garage. High-minded and patriotic, Stoner sought to devise a lightweight, easy-to-use weapon that could replace the M1s touted by…
    BookNew York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023. — 683.42 MCW
  • Into the Night

    a Year With the Police

    Lloyd-Rose, Matt
    Into the Night is an exploration of what it would mean to reframe policing as a caring, rather than enforcement, role. It is also a luminous portrait of South London, the epicentre of Britain's struggle against racist policing, surfacing…
    BookLondon : Picador, 2024. — 363.20942 LLO