Social & Political Nonfiction - April 2022

Social & Political Nonfiction April 2022 LIST NO: 46349

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Social & Political Non Fiction - April 2022 Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction Troy Vettese

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Age of the Strongman: How the Cult of the Leader Threatens Democracy Around the World Gideon Rachman an e

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128576 EANTroy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass challenge the 9781839760310 Written with Drew Pendergrass. inertia of capitalism and the left alike and propose a radical plan: rather than allow the forces of the free market to destroy the planet, we must strive for a post-capitalist society able to guarantee the good life the entire planet. This plan is what they call Half-Earth Socialism. Accompanied by a climate-modelling website inviting readers to design their own 'half earth,' Vettese and Pendergrass offer us a visionary way forward - and our only hope for a future.

Apr-2022 verso books

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Fire and Flood: A People's History of Climate Change Eugene Linden EAN 9781984882240 From a writer and expert who129254 has been at the center of the fight for more than thirty years, this is a brilliant, big-picture reckoning with our shocking failure to address climate change. 'Fire and Flood' focuses on the malign power of key business interests, arguing that those same interests could flip the story very quickly - if they can get ahead of a looming economic catastrophe.

Apr-2022 penguin press

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138939 EAN have risen to power in capitals as diverse as 9781635422801 Since 2000, self-styled strongmen Moscow, Beijing, Delhi, Brasilia, Budapest, Ankara, Riyadh, and Washington.

These leaders are nationalists and social conservatives, with little tolerance for minorities, dissent, or the interests of foreigners. Gideon Rachman has been in the same room with most of these strongmen and reported from their countries over a long journalistic career. While others have tried to understand their rise individually, Rachman pays full attention to the widespread phenomenon and uncovers the complex and often surprising interaction among these leaders.

Apr-2022 other press

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How to Save the World for Just a Trillion Dollars: The Ten Biggest Problems We Can Actually Fix Rowan Hooper an e

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160941 EANdollars to bail out banks, imagine what else we 9781615198283 If we can come up with a trillion could do. Science journalist Rowan Hooper decided to find out, speaking with experts of all kinds about ten incredibly ambitious projects that - if realized - would secure profound, enduring benefits. Then, he dives into strategies and costs.

Apr-2022 the experiment

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Social & Political Non Fiction - April 2022 Wish We Knew What to Say: Talking with Children About Race Dr. Pragya Agarwal

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Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource by and for Transgender Communities/2nd ed.

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EAN 9780349702056 A timely and urgent book that161544 gives scenarios, questions, thought starters, resources, and advice in an accessible manner on how to tackle tricky conversations around race and racism with confidence and awareness. It brings in the science of how children perceive race and form racial identity, combining it with personal stories and experiences to create a handy guide that every parent can refer to again and again.

Apr-2022 dialogue

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105979 EAN 9780190092726 'Trans Bodies, Trans Selves' is widely accessible to the transgender population, providing authoritative information in an inclusive and respectful way and representing the collective knowledge base of dozens of influential experts. The content of the second edition of this award-winning resource will be thoroughly updated throughout and will include entirely new stories, artwork, and illustrations as well as dozens of new contributing authors and collaborators.

Apr-2022 oxford university press

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Price of Immortality Peter Ward

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158586 EANmythology and episodes of Star Trek, the effort to 9781612199528 Once the stuff of Mesopotamian make humans immortal is becoming increasingly credible as the pace of technological progress quickens. It has also empowered a wild-eyed fringe of pseudo-scientists, tech visionaries, scam artists, and religious fanatics who have given their lives over to the pursuit of immortality. Ward immerses himself into an eccentric world of startups, scam artists, scientific institutions, and tech billionaires to deliver this deeply reported, nuanced, and sometimes very funny exploration of the race for immortality - and the potentially devastating consequences should humanity realize its ultimate dream.

Apr-2022 melville house

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Conspiracy Theories: A Compendium of History's Greatest Mysteries and More Recent Cover-ups Jamie King an e

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128081 EAN 9781787835658 Dozens of eyebrow-raising accounts, presented in alphabetical order, covering incredible conspiracies from long ago to the present day. Prepare yourself for some startling revelations in this updated and expanded compendium of the world's scariest and strangest conspiracy theories.

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Social & Political Non Fiction - April 2022 Greek Myths that Shape the Way We Think Richard Buxton

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EAN 9780500518809 Richard Buxton explores the 104472 power that eight iconic Greek myths hold in the modern world. Buxton traces these stories and archetypes from their ancient forms through their transformations over time in literature, art, cinema, psychology, and politics.

Apr-2022 thames and hudson

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Why We Fight: The Roots of War and the Paths to Peace Christopher Blattman EAN 9781984881571 A seasoned peacebuilder and114823 acclaimed expert on violence explains the five reasons why conflict (rarely) blooms into war and how to interrupt that deadly process. It's easy to overlook the underlying strategic forces of war, to see it solely as a series of errors, accidents, and emotions gone awry. With a counterintuitive approach, Christopher Blattman reminds us that most rivals loathe one another in peace.

Realistic and optimistic, this is a book that lends new meaning to the adage 'Give peace a chance.'

Apr-2022 viking

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Geography of Memory: Reclaiming the Cultural, Natural and Spiritual.../2nd ed.

Eileen Delehant Pearkes 181513 A provocative, historical investigation into the displacement of the Snayackstx (Sinixt) First People of British Columbia's West Kootenays. Part travelogue, part cultural history, the book details the culture, place names, practices, and landscape features of this lost tribe of British Columbia, through a contemporary lens that presents all readers with an opportunity to participate in reconciliation.

Apr-2022 rmb | rocky mountain books

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Gender Euphoria Laura Kate Dale 170128nineteen trans, non-binary, agender, gender-fluid, In this groundbreaking anthology, and intersex writers share their experiences of gender euphoria. What they have in common are their feelings of elation, pride, confidence, freedom, and ecstasy as a direct result of coming out as non-cisgender, and how coming to terms with their gender has brought unimaginable joy into their lives.

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Social & Political Non Fiction - April 2022 I Will Live for Both of Us: A History of Colonialism, Uranium Mining,...

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Great Experiment: Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and How They Can Endure Yascha Mounk an

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162325 EAN 9780887552656 Written with Warren Bernauer, Jack Hicks. Born at a traditional Inuit camp in what is now Nunavut, Joan Scottie has spent decades protecting the Inuit hunting way of life, most famously with her long battle against the uranium mining industry.

Drawing on Scottie's rich and storied life, together with document research by Bernauer and Hicks, their book brings the perspective of a hunter, Elder, grandmother, and community organizer to bear on important political developments and conflicts in the Canadian Arctic since the Second World War.

Sep-2022 university of manitoba press

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EAN 9780593296813 'The Great Experiment' is that129254 rare book that offers both a profound understanding of an urgent problem and genuine hope for our human capacity to solve it. As Mounk contends, giving up on the prospects of building fair and thriving diverse democracies is simply not an option, and that is why we must strive to realize a more ambitious vision for the future of our societies.

Apr-2022 penguin press

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Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity Devon Price 111109 EAN experience with masking and blends history, 9780593235232 Dr. Devon Price shares his personal social science research, prescriptions, and personal profiles to tell a story of neurodivergence that has thus far been dominated by those on the outside looking in.

For Dr. Price and many others, autism is a deep source of uniqueness and beauty. Dr. Price lays the groundwork for unmasking and offers exercises that encourage self-expression.

Apr-2022 harmony books

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Sexual Revolution: Modern Fascism and the Feminist Fightback Laurie Penny EAN 9781526602206 In our era of crisis, collapse, 106016 and reactionary tyrants, we are also witnessing a productive transformation: profound and permanent changes in how we define gender, sex, consent, and whose bodies matter. 'Sexual Revolution' is the culmination of years of journalistic research, written for a broad audience, drawing on the work of Shulamith Firestone, Kimberle Crenshaw, Silvia Federici, Wilhelm Reich, and Michel Foucault. This is a hand grenade of a book, a manifesto of social change, and a story of how feminism can save the world.

Apr-2022 bloomsbury

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Social & Political Non Fiction - April 2022 Disarm, Defund, Dismantle: Police Abolition in Canada Shiri Pasternak

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103181 EANStadnyk. This edited collection brings together 9781771135924 Edited with Kevin Walby, Abby writing from a range of activists and scholars, whose words are rooted in experience and solidarity with those putting their lives on the line to fight for police abolition in Canada. Together, they imagine a different world - one in which police power is eroded and dissolved forever, one in which it is possible to respond to distress and harm with assistance and care.

Apr-2022 between the lines

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Trayvon Generation Elizabeth Alexander EAN 9781538737897 In the midst of civil unrest in156116 the summer of 2020 and following the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery, Elizabeth Alexander turned a mother's eye to her sons' and students' generation and wrote a celebrated and moving reflection on the challenges facing young Black America. 'The Trayvon Generation' expands the viral essay that spoke so resonantly to the persistence of race as an ongoing issue at the center of the American experience.

Apr-2022 grand central publishing

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Antiracism Handbook: Practical Tools to Shift Your Mindset and Uproot Racism...

Thema Bryant 107074 EANKevin L. Nadal. An antiracist society starts with 9781684039104 Written with Edith G. Arrington, you. Gain the psychological skills you need to adopt an antiracist mindset and make meaningful and equitable changes in your community and in the world.

Apr-2022 new harbinger publications

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Love That Story: Observations from a Gorgeously Queer Life Jonathan Van Ness 178968 EANthe serious and the signature humour that is 9780063082267 Balancing the dark and the light, Jonathan Van Ness, these essays will encourage readers to examine their individual assumptions and expand their horizons. Ultimately, it is about giving ourselves the permission to be the flawed and fabulous humans we are, and loving our stories.

Apr-2022 harperone

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Social & Political Non Fiction - April 2022 Adriatic: A Concert of Civilizations at the End of the Modern Age Robert D Kaplan

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117716 EAN eye to a region that for centuries has been a 9780399591044 Robert Kaplan turns his perceptive meeting point of cultures, trade, and ideas. He undertakes a journey around the Adriatic Sea, through Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Montenegro, Albania, and Greece, to reveal that far more is happening in the region than most news stories let on.

Apr-2022 random house

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200 Words to Help You Talk About Gender and Sexuality Kate Sloan 156861 EAN 9780857829504 Gender and Sexuality can seem like a big subject to decode. Let Kate Sloan guide you through it.

Apr-2022 laurence king publishing

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Nowhere Office: Reinventing Work and the Workplace of the Future Julia Hobsbawm 129960 EAN on the true future of work. Automation and the 9781541701939 A deeply researched examination Fourth Industrial Revolution have accelerated, and perhaps as much as one third of the world's permanent workforce will soon become remote. In 'The Nowhere Office,' Julia Hobsbawm offers a strategic and practical guide to navigating this pivotal moment in the history of work and provides lessons for how both employees and employers can adapt.

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Of Blood and Sweat: Black Lives and the Making of White Power and Wealth Clyde W Ford EAN 9780063038516 Clyde W. Ford uses the lives 120903 of individual Black men and women as a lens to explore the role they have played in creating American institutions of power and wealth - in agriculture, politics, jurisprudence, law enforcement, culture, medicine, financial services, and many other fields - while not being allowed to fully participate or share in the rewards. Painstakingly researched and documented, 'Of Blood and Sweat' is a compelling look at the past that holds broad implications for present-day calls for racial equity, racial justice, and the abolishment of systemic racism, and offers invaluable insight into our understanding of Black history and the story of America.

Apr-2022 amistad press

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Social & Political Non Fiction - April 2022 Pandemic, Inc.: Chasing the Capitalists and Thieves Who Got Rich While We Got Sick J. David McSwane an

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184930 EAN 9781982177744 The story of the fraudster who signed a multi-million-dollar contract with the government to provide lifesaving PPE, and yet never came up with a single mask.

Investigative reporter J. David McSwane takes us behind the scenes to reveal how traders, contractors, and healthcare companies used one of the darkest moments in American history to fill their pockets.

Apr-2022 atria/one signal publishers

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