The Zero Marginal Cost Society - The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism by Jeremy Rifkin; George Witte (Editor)
Category: Politics
In The Zero Marginal Cost Society, New York Times bestselling author Jeremy Rifkin describes how the emerging Internet of Things is speeding us to an era of nearly free goods and services, precipitating the meteoric rise of a global Collaborative Commons and the eclipse of capitalism. Rifkin uncovers a ...Show more
Donald Trump in 100 Facts by Monti Ruth Ann
Category: Politics | Series: In 100 Facts Ser.
Funny, frightening, or a typhoon blowing through the lordly corridors of Washington, depending on your interpretations, no one can fail to be interested in the Trump phenomenon. In 100 incontrovertible facts we get closer to the man and the brand. Even seasoned Trump watchers will find things they never ...Show more
Generation HK: Seeking Identity in China's Shadow: Penguin Specials by Benjamin Bland
Category: Politics | Series: Penguin Specials: the Hong Kong Ser.
Teenage activists turned politicians, multi-millionaire super tutors and artists fighting censorship - these are the stories of Generation HK. From radically different backgrounds yet with a common legacy, having grown up in post-handover Hong Kong, these young people have little attachment to the era o ...Show more
Syrian Dust: Reporting from the Heart of the War by Francesca Borri
Category: Politics
August 21, 2013: a chemical weapons attack on the suburbs of Damascus reminds the world of the existence of the Syrian war. Hundreds of journalists from every corner of the world rush to the frontier only to leave disappointed when Obama decides not to bomb. They leave behind 200,000 estimated victims, ...Show more
Requiem for the American Dream: The Principles of Concentrated Weath and Power by Noam Chomsky
Category: Politics
Requiem for the American Dream is a work of some 70,000 words based on four years of interviews with Noam Chomsky on the subject of income equality. Chomsky considers these to be his final, long-form documentary interviews. It is a book that makes Chomsky's breadth and depth accessible, and at the same ...Show more
The Way to the Spring: Life and Death in Palestine by Ben Ehrenreich
Category: Politics
This is a book about Palestine today. It is neither apologetic nor romanticized, but a powerful and brilliantly realized scream of a book, scorching and tender, from a journalist whose anger and empathy burn through every word. Over the past three years, Ben Ehrenreich has shared the laughter, fury and ...Show more
Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History by Kurt Andersen
Category: Politics
You're entitled to your own opinion but not your own facts If you want to understand Trump's America, how the lines between reality and illusion have become dangerously blurred, you have to go back to the very beginning and take a dizzying road trip across five centuries of crackpot delusion and make-b ...Show more
Facts and Fears Hard Truths from a Life in Intelligence by James R. Clapper; Trey Brown (As told to)
Category: Politics
New York Times bestseller The former Director of National Intelligence's candid and compelling account of the intelligence community's successes--and failures--in facing some of the greatest threats to America When he stepped down in January 2017 as the fourth United States director of national intell ...Show more
Unexceptional Politics: On Obstruction, Impasse, and the Impolitic by Emily Apter
Category: Politics
Unexceptional Politics develops a vocabulary of terms drawn from a wide range of media (political fiction, art, film, and TV serials), highlighting the scams, imbroglios, information trafficking, brinkmanship, and parliamentary procedures that obstruct and block progressive politics. The book proposes a ...Show more
Hoodwinked: How Pauline Hanson Fooled a Nation by Kerry-Anne Walsh
Category: Politics
Pauline Hanson claims to represent the average Australian but The Stalking of Julia Gillard's Kerry-Anne Walsh has discovered nothing could be further from the truth.
A Short History of Brexit by Kevin O'Rourke
Category: Politics | Series: Pelican Bks.
A succinct, expert guide to how we got to Brexit After all the debates, manoeuvrings, recriminations and exaltations, Brexit is upon us. But, as Kevin O'Rourke writes, Brexit did not emerge out of nowhere: it is the culmination of events that have been under way for decades and have historical roots str ...Show more
Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff
Category: Politics | Series: Trump
SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER NEW YORK TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER With extraordinary access to the Trump White House, Michael Wolff tells the inside story of the most controversial presidency of our time. The first nine months of Donald Trump's term were stormy, outrageous - and absolutely m ...Show more