China Unbound: A New World Disorder by Joanna Chiu
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Category: Current Affairs
As the world’s second-largest economy, China is extending its influence across the globe with the complicity of democratic nations. Joanna Chiu has spent a decade tracking China’s propulsive rise, from the political aspects of its multi-billion-dollar 'New Silk Road' global investment project to its gro ...Show more
The Struggle for India's Soul: Nationalism and the Fate of Democracy by Shashi Tharoor
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Category: Current Affairs
Dissects how competing, increasingly strident visions of India will shape its destiny for decades to come. Over a billion Indians are alive today. But are some more Indian than others? To answer this question, central to the identity of all who belong to modern India, Shashi Tharoor explores hotly cont ...Show more
The Vaccine: Inside the Race to Conquer the COVID-19 Pandemic by Joe Miller
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Category: Current Affairs
How do you develop a life-saving drug when every second counts and one mistake could be catastrophic? When the world stopped, all hopes rested on finding a vaccine. One team answered the call and were ready to act. But how do you develop a life-saving drug when every second counts and one mistake could ...Show more
Ten Survival Skills For A World In Flux by Tom Fletcher
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Category: Current Affairs
‘A humanifesto for the global re-set’ Barack Obama ‘We needed a handbook for a better society. Tom Fletcher has given us one’ Malala Yousafzai ‘Education isn’t working for too many people. This helps us imagine a new way’ Sir Richard Branson A vital short handbook on how we respond to the crises of toda ...Show more
The Ledger: Accounting for Failure in Afghanistan by David Kilcullen, Greg Mills
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Category: Current Affairs
'These things happened. They were glorious and they changed the world,' said Charlie Wilson of America's role in supporting the mujahideen against the Soviet Union. 'And then we fucked up the endgame.' The scandal-prone US Congressman lamented the absence of support for Afghanistan after that war, a vac ...Show more
The Long Slide - Thirty Years in American Journalism by Tucker Carlson
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Category: Current Affairs
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the host of Tucker Carlson Tonight on Fox News and the New York Times bestselling author of Ship of Fools, a collection of nostalgic writings that underscore America's long slide from innocence to orthodoxy. Thirty years ago, Tucker Carlson got his first job out of ...Show more
A State of Fear: How the UK government weaponised fear during the Covid-19 Pandemic by Laura Dodsworth
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Category: Current Affairs
Starting a much needed conversation about the ethics and impacts of the behavioural psychology, manipulation and the strategy of fear that is so deeply embedded in government. This is a book about fear. Fear of a virus. Fear of death. Fear of losing our jobs, our democracy, our human connections, our he ...Show more
Made in China: Wuhan, Covid and the Quest for Biotech Supremacy by Jasper Becker
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Category: Current Affairs
What might COVID-19 mean for, and reveal about, China’s place in the world?The coronavirus pandemic started in Wuhan, home to the leading lab studying the SARS virus and bats. Was that pure coincidence? This book explores what we know, and still don’t know, about the origins of COVID-19, and how it was ...Show more
QAnon and On: A Short and Shocking History of Internet Conspiracy Cults by Van Badham
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Category: Current Affairs
In QAnon and On, Guardian columnist Van Badham delves headfirst into the QAnon conspiracy theory, unpicking the why, how and who behind this century’s most dangerous and far-fetched internet cult. From Gamergate to Pizzagate and beyond to QAnon, internet manipulation and disinformation campaigns have ...Show more
9/11 - The Conspiracy Theories by David Gardner
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Category: Current Affairs
David Gardner examines the facts and theories surrounding the infamous 9/11 attacks, seeking truth in hidden - or officially suppressed - information.
Sick Money: The Truth About the Global Pharmaceutical Industry by Billy Kenber
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Category: Current Affairs
The pharmaceutical industry is broken. From the American hedge fund manager who hiked the price of an AIDS pill from $17.50 to $750 overnight to the children's cancer drugs left intentionally to expire in a Spanish warehouse, the signs of this dysfunction are all around. A system that was designed to dr ...Show more
Red Flags: Why Xi's China Is in Jeopardy by George Magnus
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Category: Current Affairs
Will China rule the world or will its dream turn into a nightmare? George Magnus, the trusted economic commentator on China, provides a penetrating account of the threats to China's continued rise. Over the past four decades, China's remarkable transformation has garnered admiration but also sparked co ...Show more