The Life You Can Save by Peter Singer
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Category: SCIENCE/CURRENT AFFAIRS
In this Tenth Anniversary Edition of The Life You Can Save, Peter Singer brings his landmark book up to date. In addition to restating his compelling arguments about how we should respond to extreme poverty, he examines the progress we are making and recounts how the first edition transformed the lives ...Show more
Sapiens - A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
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Category: SCIENCE/CURRENT AFFAIRS | Reading Level: near fine
From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity's creation and evolution--a #1 international bestseller--that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be "human." One hundred thousand years ago, at least six ...Show more
Brief Answers to the Big Questions: the final book from Stephen Hawking by Stephen Hawking
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Category: SCIENCE/CURRENT AFFAIRS | Reading Level: very good
THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. 'A beautiful little book by a brilliant mind'- DAILY TELEGRAPH. 'Effortlessly instructive, absorbing, up to the minute and - where it matters - witty'- GUARDIAN. The world-famous cosmologist and #1 bestselling author of A Brief History of Time leaves us with his final t ...Show more
Storytellers: Questions, Answers and the Craft of Journalism by Leigh Sales
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Leigh Sales is one of Australia's most accomplished journalists, having anchored the ABC's flagship 7.30 program for twelve years. She has been a foreign correspondent, hosted Lateline and anchored numerous elections for the ABC. In this book, she turns her interviewing skills onto her own profession, ...Show more
The Life of Birds by David Attenborough
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A fully updated new edition of David Attenborough's bestselling classic. BIRDS. Over 9,000 species, the most widespread of all animals: on icebergs, in the Sahara or under the sea, at home in our gardens or flying for over a year at a time. Earthbound, we can only look and listen, enjoying their lightn ...Show more
Magic Pill: The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks of the New Weight Loss Drugs by Johann Hari
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The bestselling author of Lost Connections and Stolen Focus takes a revelatory look at the new drugs transforming weight loss as we know it sharing his personal experience on Ozempic and examining our ability to heal society's dysfunctional relationship with food, weight and our bodies. In January 2023, ...Show more
The Coming Wave: A.I., Power, and the 21st Century's Greatest Dilemma by Mustafa Suleyman
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Cofounder of the pioneering AI company DeepMind sounds the alarm on the unprecedented risks to global order posed by a wave of fast-developing technologies like artificial intelligence and genetic engineeringA stark and urgent warning on the unprecedented risks that a wave of fast-developing technologie ...Show more
Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History by Philippa Gregory
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One of our foremost historical novelists, Philippa Gregory, makes history. We have fallen into the belief that women were absent from great events, and ineffectual in normal times. Through a radical reframing of the conventional eras of our history, Normal Women tells the story of our nation - not w ...Show more
The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World by Antony Loewenstein
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Category: SCIENCE/CURRENT AFFAIRS | Reading Level: very good
Bestselling journalist Antony Loewenstein uncovers the widespread commercialisation and brutal deployment globally of Israel's occupation-enforcing technologies. For more than 50 years, the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza has given the Israeli state invaluable experience in controlling an 'enemy' p ...Show more
What We Owe The Future: A Million-Year View by William MacAskill
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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Unapologetically optimistic and bracingly realistic, this is the most inspiring book on 'ethical living' I've ever read.' Oliver Burkeman, Guardian 'A monumental event.' Rutger Bregman, author of Humankind 'A book of great daring, clarity, insight and imagination. To be simu ...Show more
Who Owns the Moon? : In Defence of Humanity's Common Interests in Space by A. C. Grayling
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Silicon for microchips; manganese for batteries; titanium for missiles. The moon contains a wealth of natural resources. So, as the Earth's supplies have begun to dwindle, it is no surprise that the world's superpowers and wealthiest corporations have turned their eyes to the stars. As this new Space Ra ...Show more
The Trial of Vladimir Putin by Geoffrey Robertson QC
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There have been dozens of books about the Russian President since he launched his illegal invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Some have examined the historical aspects of the conflict, others have analysed its military and geopolitical importance. However, none so far have looked purely at the legal c ...Show more