Who's Afraid of Gender? by Judith Butler
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Category: society culture gender
From a global icon, a bold, essential account of how a fear of gender is fuelling reactionary politics around the world Judith Butler, the ground-breaking philosopher whose work has redefined how we think about gender and sexuality, confronts the attacks on gender that have become central to right-wing ...Show more
On Violence by Hannah Arendt
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Arendt's influential essay examining the relationship between violence, power, war and politics now in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time. Written in 1970, with the Holocaust and Hiroshima still fresh in recent memory, the war in Vietnam raging and the streets of Europe and America seething wit ...Show more
Women Who Work Too Much Break Free from Toxic Productivity and Find Your Joy by Tamu Thomas
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Category: society culture gender
A manifesto for change for women who want to establish healthier boundaries, stop over-committing to work and find their true purpose. A step-by-step guide to breaking out of patterns of toxic productivity, building boundaries for better mental health, avoiding burnout and living joyfully. We have been ...Show more
The Glass Cliff: Why Women in Power Are Undermined - and How to Fight Back by Sophie Williams
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‘The Glass Cliff is a conversation about what happens when women break the rules, and break through The Glass Ceiling.’ Have you ever wondered why there are so few success stories of women in business leadership? Or maybe you’ve wondered what life is really like on the other side of The Glass Ceiling? ...Show more
Unwired: Gaining Control over Addictive Technologies by Gaia Bernstein
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Category: society culture gender
Our society has a technology problem. Many want to disconnect from screens but can't help themselves. These days we spend more time online than ever. Some turn to self-help-measures to limit their usage, yet repeatedly fail, while parents feel particularly powerless to help their children. Unwired: Gain ...Show more
The Greatest Evil is War by Chris Hedges
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Now with a new preface for the paperback edition by the author, an unflinching indictment of the horror and obscenity of war by one of our finest war correspondents. Drawn from experience and interviews by Pulitzer-prize-winner Chris Hedges, a devastating look the hidden costs of war, what it does to in ...Show more
Pitfall: The Race to Mine the World's Most Vulnerable Places by Christopher Pollon
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A fascinating investigation into a wild industry and the global race to exploit our world's dwindling natural resources. The stakes couldn't be higher- How can we mine the metals we need without replicating the environmental and human rights abuses of the past? A global race is on to exploit the last bo ...Show more
Infectious Generosity: The Ultimate Idea Worth Spreading by Chris Anderson
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From the bestselling author, technology pioneer, and curator of TED Chris Anderson, an inspiring, revelatory book about the urgent and world-changing potential of one of humankind's defining but forgotten impulses- generosity. Perhaps the simplest, most powerful moral question you can ask of your life i ...Show more
Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet by Hannah Ritchie
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Feeling anxious, powerless or confused about the future of our planet? This book will transform how you see our biggest environmental problems - and how we can solve them We are bombarded by doomsday headlines that tell us the soil won't be able to support crops, fish will vanish from our oceans, that ...Show more
Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein
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Category: society culture gender
A personal trip into the uncanny Mirror World of our polarised culture, from the international bestselling author of The Shock Doctrine. What if you woke up one morning and found you'd acquired a double? Someone almost like you, and yet not you at all? When Naomi Klein discovered that a woman who shared ...Show more
The Pleasures of Leisure by Robert Dessaix
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Category: society culture gender
'Almost everybody I know has done it at least once. Some of my friends indulge on a regular basis. Women seem especially susceptible to giving it a go. I?ve been at it since I was at least five. What on earth do we imagine we?re doing??Many of us lack a talent for leisure. We are working longer hours as ...Show more
Personality and Power: Builders and Destroyers of Modern Europe by Ian Kershaw
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The acclaimed historian explores how far individual leaders can alter the course of historyThe modern era saw the emergence of individuals who had command over a terrifying array of instruments of control, persuasion and death. Whole societies were re-shaped and wars fought, often with a merciless conte ...Show more