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• The Afghans

  Three Lives Through War, Love and Revolt

  Seierstad, Åsne, 1970-

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  The stories of three Afghans. Through them, we experience and come to understand the lead-up to the Taliban retaking power in 2021, how the first year of Taliban rule unfolded, and where this leaves Afghans today, and tomorrow.

• How to Be a Citizen

  Skach, C. L., 1967-

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  Drawing on her experience working in some of the most conflict-ravaged parts of the world, a bold new thinker and social scientist argues that a good society is not given to us by rules and the state, but is rather something we must create together.

• War

  Woodward, Bob, 1943-

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  A Pulitzer Prize-winner tells the revelatory, behind-the-scenes story of three wars - Ukraine, the Middle East and the struggle for the American presidency.

• The Gates of Gaza

  a Story of Betrayal, Survival, and Hope in Israel's Bordertowns

  Tibon, Amir, 1989-

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  The gripping story of how an Israeli journalist, along with his wife and their two young children, were rescued on 7 October 2023 by Tibon's father - an incredible tale of survival that also reveals the tensions and failures that led to Hamas's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• How to Fit All of Ancient Greece in An Elevator

  Papakostas, Theodore

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  A whistle-stop tour through three hundred years of Greek history, this is an unforgettable love letter to the treasures we've inherited from the ancient world, as well as to those who have helped us unearth them.

• Vertigo

  the Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany 1918-1933

  Jähner, Harald, 1953-

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  Germany, 1918: a country in flux. A triumphant procession of liberated lifestyles emerges. But amidst the frenzy of change, there is backlash from those who did not see themselves reflected in this new culture. Deep divisions in society began to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Back Roads and Better Angels

  a Journey Into the Heart of American Democracy

  Barry, Francis S., 1975-

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  Bringing together two of America’s unifying loves — road trips and Abraham Lincoln — Frank Barry takes readers on a thought-provoking journey into the heart of US democracy and the soul of the country.

• The Poison Squad

  One Chemist's Single-minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

  Blum, Deborah, 1954-

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  Relates the story of Dr. Wiley and his thirty-year campaign for food safety and consumer protection, describing the battle with American corporations to enact government regulations against harmful food additives.

• The Strangers

  Five Extraordinary Black Men and the Worlds That Made Them

  Eshun, Ekow

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  Richly imaginative and powerfully empathetic, an intimate portrait of five remarkable Black men, and a meditation on race, estrangement and the search for home.

• Myths of Geography

  Eight Ways We Get the World Wrong

  Richardson, Paul, 1979-

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  Our maps may no longer be stalked by dragons and monsters, but our perceptions of the world are still shaped by geographic myths. Myths like Europe being the centre of the world. Or that border walls are the solution to migration. Or that Russia is…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• This Land of Promise

  a History of Refugees and Exiles in Britain

  Lockwood, Matthew H.

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  A look at how have those who arrived on Britain's shores shaped its history. Britain has not been an island refuge from the world, but an island refuge for the world. Not a country burdened by refugees, but instead transformed and strengthened by…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Mindless

  the Human Condition in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

  Skidelsky, Robert, 1939-

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  This sweeping history of humanity’s relationship with machines illuminates how we got here and what happens next, with AI, climate change, and beyond.

• Disabled Ecologies

  Lessons From a Wounded Desert

  Taylor, Sunaura, 1982-

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  A powerful analysis and call to action that reveals disability as one of the defining features of environmental devastation and resistance.

• Trailblazer

  Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon the First Feminist to Change Our World

  Robinson, Jane, 1959-

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  This is a celebration of the life of the founder of Britain's suffrage movement- campaigner for equal opportunity in the workplace, the law, at home and beyond. Co-founder of Girton, the first university college for women, a committed activist for…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Holding the Line

  Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike

  Kingsolver, Barbara

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  Best selling author, Barbara Kingsolver, tells the true story of female-led resilience during the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983.

• The Atomic Human

  Understanding Ourselves in the Age of AI

  Lawrence, Neil (Neil D.)

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  The greatest fear of AI is not that it rules out digital lives but that it displaces human intelligence entirely. If artificial intelligence takes over decision-making what, then, is unique and irreplaceable about human intelligence? Neil Lawrence…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Lie of the Land

  Who Really Cares for the Countryside?

  Shrubsole, Guy

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  Britain's landowning elite are paid billions of taxpayer pounds to be good stewards. But these same landowners have carelessly trampled over the landscape, leaving the rivers polluted, fenlands drained, and moorlands burned. Guy Shrubsole has…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Heat and the Fury

  on the Frontlines of Climate Violence

  Schwartzstein, Peter

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  Climate change is often the spark that ignites long smoldering fires, it pushes individuals, communities, and even nations over the line between frustration and lethal fury...There are no easy answers on a planet that is fast becoming a powder keg.

• Literature for the People

  How the Pioneering Macmillan Brothers Built a Publishing Powerhouse

  Harkness, Sarah (Sarah Helen)

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  A fascinating, evocative history of Daniel and Alexander Macmillan, two poor but idealistic young men who created a Victorian publishing empire.

• The Strategists

  Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt, Mussolini and Hitler : How War Made Them, and How They Made War

  O'Brien, Phillips Payson, 1963-

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  Profiling the five most impactful leaders of World War II, the author shows how the views and approach to warfare of Churchill, Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini and Roosevelt remain with us to this day, in this history in which leaders, and their choices,…Read moreRead more of this annotation