New For You - History & Current Events - October 2024Like this list

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• Jack and Eve

  Two Women in Love and at War

  Moore, Wendy, 1952-

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  A compelling account of two suffragettes who lived wild and brave lives together during World War One and beyond.

• The Department

  How a Violent Government Bureaucracy Killed Hundreds and Hid the Evidence

  Pring, John

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  For the last decade, disabled journalist John Pring has meticulously pieced together how the Department of Work and Pensions ignored pleas to correct fatal flaws in the social security system and covered up its role in the deaths of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• All in Her Head

  the Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today

  Comen, Elizabeth

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  A surprising, groundbreaking, and fiercely entertaining medical history that is both a collective narrative of women's bodies and a call to action for a new conversation around women's health.

• The New India

  the Unmaking of the World's Largest Democracy

  Bhatia, Rahul

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  The New India is the unforgettable account of the struggle between modern forces and ancient ideas to shape the young country's destiny. It reveals a picture of a nation on the precipice of dramatic change.

• Exam Nation

  Why Our Obsession With Grades Fails Everyone - and a Better Way to Think About School

  Wright, Sammy

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  Exams, grades, league tables, Ofsted reports. All of them miss the point of school and together they are undermining our whole approach to education.

• We Are Not Able to Live in the Sky

  the Seductive Promise of Microfinance

  Kardas-Nelson, Mara

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  A deeply reported work of journalism that explores the promise and peril of global microfinance, told through the eyes of those who work in microfinance and women borrowers in Sierra Leone.

• Voyagers

  Our Journey Into the Anthropocene

  Fuge, L. M. (Lauren M.)

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  Lauren Fuge journeys from the fjords of the Pacific Northwest to the geology of outback Australia, and asks- what drives our urge to explore? Can we find in our voyaging history the tools to reimagine our future? Voyagers is an…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Newsmongers

  a History of Tabloid Journalism

  Kirby, Terry

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  The Newsmongers unfolds the seedy history of tabloid journalism, from the first printed 'Strange Newes' sheets of the sixteenth century to the sensationalism of today's digital age.

• Westlessness

  the Great Global Rebalancing

  Puri, Samir, 1981-

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  What if the sun truly is setting on the Western world's outsized influence over the rest of the planet? In Westlessness, Samir Puri vividly demonstrates how in demographic, economic, military and cultural terms, we are hurtling into a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Intertwined

  Women, Nature, and Climate Justice

  Kormos, Rebecca

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  A powerful argument that greater inclusion of women in conservation and climate science is key to the future of the planet.

• The Age of Grievance

  Bruni, Frank, 1964-

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  A New York Times columnist examines the ways in which grievance has come to define our current culture and politics, on both the right and left.

• All the Houses I've Ever Lived in

  Yates, Kieran

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  Yates charts the heartbreaks and joys of a life spent navigating the chaos of the housing system. Drawing on interviews with marginalised tenants across the country, she explores the unexpected ways we can fight back - finding beauty,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sorry for the Inconvenience but This Is An Emergency

  the Nonviolent Struggle for Our Planet's Future

  Jones, Lynne

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  As floods and fires rage across the planet, ever more people are embracing nonviolent action to achieve political change. Can it work?

• Robots and the People Who Love Them

  Holding on to Our Humanity in An Age of Social Robots

  Herold, Eve

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  Based on research and interviews with the world's foremost experts, this thought-provoking and timely book explores what it will be like to live with social robots and still hold onto our humanity.

• Brave New Words

  How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That's Good Thing)

  Khan, Salman, 1976-

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  An insightful look at the AI revolution in education, its implications for parenting & teaching, and how we can best harness its power for good.

• Fevered Planet

  How Diseases Emerge When We Harm Nature

  Vidal, John

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  A timely and urgent investigation from John Vidal, Environment Editor of the Guardian for nearly thirty years, into how the destruction of nature is releasing catastrophic diseases into our societies.