The Unravelling

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2016SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2015Emma Sky was working for the British Council during the invasion of Iraq, when the ad went around calling for voluntee …

The Spy Catchers

For the first time, ASIO has opened its archives to an independent historian. With unfettered access to the records, David Horner tells the real story of Australia’s domestic intelligence organisation …

The Interior Circuit

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The Interior Circuit is Goldman’s story of his emergence from grief five years after his wife’s death, symbolized by his attempt to overcome his fear of driving in the city. Embracing the DF (Mexico C …

Where the Truth Lies

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The relationship between the serious news media and the truth is under scrutiny as never before. In recent years the BBC and the New York Times have been knocked sideways by scandals alleging exaggera …

The Internet is Not the Answer

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In this sharp and witty book, long-time Silicon Valley observer and author Andrew Keen argues that, on balance, the Internet has had a disastrous impact on all our lives. By tracing the history of the …

Bring on the Apocalypse

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‘A dazzling command of science and a relentless faith in people… I never miss reading him.’ — Naomi KleinIn these incendiary essays, George Monbiot tears apart the fictions of religious conservativ …

Prepared for the Worst

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‘I suppose that, if this collection has a point, it is the desire of one individual to see the idea of confrontation kept alive’ — Christopher HitchensChristopher Hitchens is widely recognized as hav …

The Social Entrepreneur

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When Andrew Mawson arrived in Bromley-by-Bow in the east end of London, in the 1980s, it was in a state of social, economic and material disrepair. Living there, getting to know the residents and inst …

Tsunami and the Single Girl

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As a free-spirited traveller, Krissy–now almost thirty–needs her life to start taking shape. So how does a wild night on a dance floor in Vietnam land her a sought-after role in Oxfam working in eme …

God and Gold

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Economist Books of the Year, 2007 Financial Times Books of the Year, 2007God and Gold is a brilliantly stimulating and provocative look at why, for over 300 years, the Anglo-Saxon powers have dominate …

A Strange Business

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Shortlisted for the Apollo Awards 2014Longlisted for the Art Book Prize 2014 Britain in the nineteenth century saw a series of technological and social changes which continue to influence and direct u …

Journals 1952 – 2000

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Frank, revelatory, suffused with wit and humanity, Arthur Schlesinger Jr’s journals offer an intimate history of post-war America, from his days on Adlai Stevenson’s campaign team to his years in JFK …

Zero-Sum World

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The economic crisis that struck the world in 2008 has drastically altered the logic of international relations. Globalisation no longer benefits all the world’s superpowers and they face an array of g …

Console Wars

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In 1990 Nintendo had a virtual monopoly on the video game industry. Sega, on the other hand, was a faltering arcade company with big aspirations and even bigger personalities. But that would all chang …

Genesis Machines

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Silicon chips are out. Today’s scientists are using real, wet, squishy, living biology to build the next generation of computers. Cells, gels and DNA strands are the ‘wetware’ of the twenty-first cent …

The Joy of X

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Award-winning Steven Strogatz, one of the foremost popularisers of maths, has written a witty and fascinating account of maths’ most compelling ideas and how, so often, they are an integral part of ev …