A Consequential President: The Legacy of Barack Obama by Professor Michael D'Antonio
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Category: Current Affairs
Once a most unlikely candidate, Barack Obama s successful campaign for the White House made him a worldwide sensation and a transformative figure even before he was inaugurated. Elected as the Iraq War and Great Recession discouraged millions of Americans, Obama s promise of hope revived the national sp ...Show more
The Exile by Cathy Scott-Clark & Adrian Levy
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Category: Current Affairs
The extraordinary inside story of Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda in the years after 9/11.Following the attacks on the Twin Towers, Osama bin Laden, the most wanted man in the world, eluded intelligence services and Special Forces units for almost a decade. Using remarkable, first-person testimony from bin ...Show more
Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again by Donald J. Trump
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Category: Current Affairs
Look at the state of the world right now. It's a terrible mess, and that's putting it mildly. There has never been a more dangerous time. The politicians and special interests in Washington, DC, are directly responsible for the mess we are in. So why should we continue listening to them? It's time t ...Show more
Shattered : Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign by Amie Jonathan; Parnes Allen
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Category: Current Affairs
It was never supposed to be this close. And of course she was supposed to win. How Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election to Donald Trump is the tragic story of a sure thing gone off the rails. For every Comey revelation or hindsight acknowledgment about the electorate, no explanation of defeat can begi ...Show more
How to Give Up Plastic by Will McCallum
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Category: Current Affairs
As read by James Corden, Fearne Cotton, Jim Chapman and Dougie Poytner. 'We have a responsibility, every one of us' David Attenborough Around 12.7 million tonnes of plastic are entering the ocean every year, killing over 1 million seabirds and 100,000 marine mammals. By 2050 there could be more plastic ...Show more
Asian Waters: the Struggle over the Asia Pacific and the Strategy of Chinese Expansion by Humphrey Hawksley
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Category: Current Affairs
Few territories are as hotly contested as the western Pacific Ocean. Across the 1.5 million square mile expanse of the East and South China Sea, six countries lay overlapping claims that date back centuries. China, Vietnam, Korea and Indonesia assert their right to trade routes, deploying military garri ...Show more
Trumpedia by Dominic Knight
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Category: Current Affairs
A bitingly funny satire on the world of Donald Trump, from the author of the Christmas bestseller Strayapedia.
Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World by Bruce Schneier
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Category: Current Affairs
Data is everywhere. We create it every time we go online, turn our phone on (or off) or pay with a credit card. This data is stored, studied, bought and sold by companies and governments for surveillance and for control. "Foremost security expert" (Wired) Bruce Schneier shows how this data has led to a ...Show more
What Would the Spice Girls Do? - How the Girl Power Generation Grew Up by Lauren Bravo
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Category: Current Affairs
'The Spice Girls' arrival on the pop scene marked the gateway to a modern form of feminism, all dressed up as a riotously good time.' Stylist What Would The Spice Girls Do? is a nostalgia-filled celebration of the most famous girl band in history as well as a smart and funny look at the ways in which t ...Show more
The End of the End of the Earth by Jonathan Franzen
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Category: Current Affairs
A sharp and provocative new essay collection from the award-winning author of Freedom and The Corrections In The End of the End of the Earth, which gathers essays and speeches written mostly in the past five years, Jonathan Franzen returns with renewed vigour to the themes – both human and literary – th ...Show more
Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood and the World by Tom Wright & Bradley Hope
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Category: Current Affairs
The "extraordinary" (Financial Times) instant New York Times bestseller exposing how a "modern Gatsby" swindled over $5 billion with the aid of Goldman Sachs and others--a "must read" (Booklist) tale of finance run amok and "the heist of the century" (Axios). In 2009, with the dust yet to settle on the ...Show more
Seize the Fire: Three Speeches by Richard Flanagan
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Category: Current Affairs
Australia is not a fixed entity, a collection of outdated bigotries and reactionary credos, but rather an invitation to dream, and this country-our country-belongs to its dreamers . . . if we are finally to once more go forward as a people it's time our dreamers were brought in from the cold. Richard F ...Show more