New For You - History & Current Events - December 2025
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.
In Somebody Should Do Something, Michael Brownstein, Alex Madva, and Daniel Kelly show us how we can connect our personal choices to structural change and why individual choices matter. Neither a how-to manual nor an activist's guide, this book…
When Onyebuchi realized that his acclaimed writing career had been centrally preoccupied with race, it prompted him to consider his responsibilities as a Black writer in the Internet age. This book is a compelling investigation of race through the…
Masterfully combining candid testimony, history, and reportage, 'Perfect Victims' presents a powerfully simple demand: dignity for the Palestinian. El-Kurd has become a critical voice in colonial discourse, refusing to exist in binary, challenging…
Over the past decades, under the cover of 'innovation', technology companies have successfully resisted regulation and have even begun to seize power from governments themselves. Drawing on her experiences in the halls of the European Parliament and…
This timely guide offers evidence-based tools to transform your fears about this environmental crisis into meaning, purpose, and action. Written for people struggling with climate anxiety, depression, and eco grief, this groundbreaking guide offers…
'On Fire for God' explores the ways evangelical Christianity has preyed upon its followers while galvanizing them into the political force known today as the Christian right. Journalist Josiah Hesse exposes how conservative Christians have trapped…
In 'Up the Youth Club', Emma Warren maps the shifting story of youth clubs in the UK and Northern Ireland, from factory workers in Victorian Boys' and Girls' clubs to renegade self-emancipatory spaces in the 1970s and the music-generating youth…
Summer of Our Discontent is the story of the dramatic and not inevitable turn in consciousness, encapsulated in the generation-defining twin calamities of the death of George Floyd and Covid-19. These events reshaped not just American life, but also…
The Third Reich subjected some one hundred thousand individuals to a pernicious anti-homosexual campaign that included censorship, surveillance, medical experimentation, and death. 'The Pink Scar' explores how activists in the United States made…
This book reveals patriarchy's many faces in the age of globalisation, exploring the political systems and cultures of eight very different societies. It takes readers to different parts of the globe with stories of sisterhood and resistance,…
For centuries, the developed Western world has exploited the "less-developed" parts of the globe in the name of progress, conquering the Americas, driving the Atlantic slave trade, and colonizing Africa and Asia. But they overlooked the demand for…
In this bold book, Palestinian activist Nada Elia unpacks Zionism, from its militarism to its prisons, its environmental devastation and gendered violence. She also looks deeper into the interconnectedness of Palestine with Black, migrant, and queer…
A joyfully lucid unravelling of AI, mind-bending analogies, and charming doodles-that demystifies how these thinking machines actually learn and are already reshaping our world. Sairam Sundaresan reveals AI's true nature: clever tricks, surprising…
Lifelong activist and educator Dean Spade dares us to decide that our interpersonal actions are not separate from our politics of liberation and resistance. Love in a F*cked-Up World is a resounding call to action and a practical manifesto for how…
After the sun goes down, insomnia and sleep paralysis do threaten. But some have always walked the nocturnal landscapes. Others have worked, night shifts and hidden night work: nurses, security guards, sex workers. And some have found solace in the…
Gaza: The Story of a Genocide' is an urgent and powerful collection of personal testimony, poetry, photography, art, and frontline reportage. With contributions from recipients of the Palestine Book Award, Arab American Book Award, Pulitzer Prize,…
In 'Station Blackout' Chuck Casto shares his first-hand account of how he led the collaborative team of Japanese and American experts that faced the challenges of Fukushima. A lifetime of working in the nuclear industry prepared him to manage an…
In 'Life on a Little-Known Planet', we join Kolbert on the road as she travels across the globe to the places most dramatically affected by global warming, such as Greenland's rapidly melting ice sheets and Utah's shrinking lakes. We learn how to…
Sir Tim Berners-Lee is a different kind of visionary. He famously distributed his invention, the World Wide Web, for no commercial reward. Its widespread adoption changed everything - transforming humanity into the first digital species. Peppered…
Space to Live deals with the important contemporary issues of the accelerating search for the existence of life forms beyond Earth, the threats to human life on Earth in the near or distant future due to one or more global catastrophes, and the…
