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A Book Review - How To Be a Kenyan by Wahome Mutahi aks Whispers

18 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Peter Enahoro wrote a famously funny book, The Complete Nigerian, and the follow-up How to be a Nigerian. In similar mode, a Kenyan writer has produce...

A Book Review - I Accuse The Press: An Insider's View Of The Media And Politics In Africa by Philip Ochieng

17 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Philip Ochieng is a Kenyan journalist and editor who has really put an imprint on the media profession in the region. This book comes straight from hi...

A Book Review - The Ministry of Truth Book by Dorian Lynskey

16 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The author has written a study that places George Orwell's 1984 in a variety of contexts: the author's life and times, the book's precursors in the sc...

A Book Review - The Regency Years: During Which Jane Austen Writes, Napoleon Fights, Byron Makes Love, and Britain Becomes Modern

15 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Victorians are often credited with ushering in our current era, yet the seeds of change were planted in the years before. The Regency (1811–1820...

A Book Review - Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media Book by Sarah T. Roberts

14 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Social media on the internet can be a nightmarish place. A primary shield against hateful language, violent videos, and online cruelty uploaded by use...

A Book Review - 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World Novel by Elif Shafak

13 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

'In the first minute following her death, Tequila Leila's consciousness began to ebb, slowly and steadily, like a tide receding from the shore. Her br...

A Book Review - MWAKENYA: THE UNFINISHED REVOLUTION Selected Documents of the Mwakenya - December Twelve Movement (1974-2002) edited by Maina Kĩnyattĩ

12 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This volume represents the development of the WPK/DTM-Mwakenya’s anti-imperialist line in Kenya from1974 to 2002. The Mwakenya Movement (Muungano wa...

A Book Review - Constitution-Making from the Middle: Civil Society and Transition Politics in Kenya, 1992-1997 by Willy Mutunga

11 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Constitution-Making from the Middle: Civil Society and Transition Politics in Kenya, 1992-1997 by Willy Mutunga

A Book Review - Peeling Back the Mask: A Quest for Justice in Kenya by Miguna Miguna

10 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Peeling Back the Mask is an insider's account from one of the Kenyan Prime Minister's former advisers detailing instances of corruption and fraud at t...

A Book Review - The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone

09 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Amazon.com started off delivering books through the mail. But its visionary founder, Jeff Bezos, wasn't content with being a bookseller. He wanted Ama...

A Book Review - The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire Book by Chloe Hooper

08 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

On the scorching February day in 2009 that became known as Black Saturday, a man lit two fires in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley, then sat on the roof of...

A Book Review - Passionate Spirit: The Life of Alma Mahler Book by Cate Haste

07 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

History has long vilified Alma Mahler. Critics accused her of distracting Gustav Mahler from his work, and her passionate love affairs shocked her pee...

A Book Review - Rockonomics: What the Music Industry Can Teach Us About ... Book by Alan Krueger

06 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The music industry is a leading indicator of today's economy; it is among the first to be disrupted by the latest wave of technology, and examining th...

A Book Review - Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance

05 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Elon Musk, the entrepreneur and innovator behind SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity, sold one of his internet companies, PayPal, for $1.5 billion. Ashlee Va...

A Book Review - The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance Book by Ron Chernow

04 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The winner of the National Book Award and now considered a classic, The House of Morgan is the most ambitious history ever written about an American b...

A Book Review - Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow

03 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

John D. Rockefeller, Sr.--history's first billionaire and the patriarch of America's most famous dynasty--is an icon whose true nature has eluded thre...

A Book Review - Three Women by Lisa Taddeo

02 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A riveting true story about the sex lives of three real American women, based on nearly a decade of reporting. Hailed as “a dazzling achievement”...

A Book Review - The Volunteer: The True Story of the Resistance Hero who Infiltrated Auschwitz by Jack Fairweather

01 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

How do you keep fighting in the face of unimaginable horror? This is untold story of one of the greatest heroes of the Second World War. In the Summ...

A Book Review - When Islam Is Not a Religion: Inside America's Fight for Religious Freedom Book by Asma T. Uddin

30 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Religious liberty lawyer Asma Uddin has long considered her work defending people of all faiths to be a calling more than a job. Yet even as...

A Book Review - If: The Untold Story of Kipling's American Years Book by Christopher Benfey

29 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A unique exploration of the life and work of Rudyard Kipling in Gilded Age America, from a celebrated scholar of American literature At the turn of t...

A Book Review - The House of Rothschild: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848 Book by Niall Ferguson

28 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In his rich and nuanced portrait of the remarkable, elusive Rothschild family, Oxford scholar and bestselling author Niall Ferguson uncovers the secre...

A Book Review - The Satanic Verses Novel by Salman Rushdie

27 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Just before dawn one winter's morning, a hijacked jetliner explodes above the English Channel. Through the falling debris, two figures, Gibreel Farish...

A Book Review - July's People Novel by Nadine Gordimer

26 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

For years, it had been what is called a “deteriorating situation.” Now all over South Africa the cities are battlegrounds. The members of the Smal...

A Book Review - The Man Died: Prison Notes of Wole Soyinka Book by Wole Soyinka

25 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Nobel Prize-winning African writer, Wole Soyinka, was imprisoned without trial by the federal authorities at the start of the Nigerian Civil War. ...

A Book Review - Novacene Book by Bryan Appleyard and James Lovelock

24 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

James Lovelock, creator of the Gaia hypothesis and the greatest environmental thinker of our time, has produced an astounding new theory about future ...

A Book Review - Bagehot: The Life and Times of the Greatest Victorian Book by James Grant

23 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

“Excellent… and written in a gripping style.” —The Economist During the upheavals of 2007–09, the chairman of the Federal Reserve had the na...

A Book Review - The Need Book by Helen Phillips

22 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

When Molly, home alone with her two young children, hears footsteps in the living room, she tries to convince herself it's the sleep deprivation. She'...

A Book Review - The Reds and the Blacks, a Personal Adventure by William Attwood

21 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

First edition of The Reds And The Blacks by William Attwood, inscribed to Mrs. Lauren Bacall. Octavo, ix, 341pp. Red cloth spine, black cloth covers, ...

A Book Review - Petals of Blood Novel by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

20 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The puzzling murder of three African directors of a foreign-owned brewery sets the scene for this fervent, hard-hitting novel about disillusionment in...

A Book Review - Mescaline: A Global History of the First Psychedelic Book by Mike Jay

19 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Mescaline became a popular sensation in the mid-twentieth century through Aldous Huxley’s The Doors of Perception, after which the word “psychedel...

A Book Review - The Defence of the Realm Book by Christopher Andrew

18 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

An unprecedented publishing event: to mark the centenary of its foundation, the British Security Service, MI5, has for the first time opened its archi...

A Book Review - The Yellow House Book by Sarah M. Broom

17 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In 1961, Sarah M. Broom's mother Ivory Mae bought a shotgun house in the then-promising neighborhood of New Orleans East and built her world inside of...

A Book Review - The Economists' Hour Book by Binyamin Appelbaum

16 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Economists' Hour is the biography of a revolution: The story of how economists who believed in the power and the glory of free markets transformed...

A Book Review - Legacy: One Family, a Cup of Tea and the Company that Took On the World Book by Thomas Harding

15 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In the early 1800s Lehmann Gluckstein and his family escaped the pogroms of Eastern Europe and made their way to Whitechapel in the East End of London...

A Book Review - To Calais, in Ordinary Time by James Meek

14 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Three journeys. One road. England, 1348. A gentlewoman is fleeing an odious arranged marriage, a Scottish proctor is returning home to Avignon and a ...

A Book Review - A Woman Like Her: The Story Behind the Honor Killing of a Social Media Star Book by Sanam Maher

13 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In 2016, Pakistan’s first social media celebrity, Qandeel Baloch, was murdered in a suspected honor killing. Her death quickly became a media sensat...

A Book Review - A Grain of Wheat Novel by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

12 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Set in the wake of the Mau Mau rebellion and on the cusp of Kenya's independence from Britain, A Grain of Wheat follows a group of villagers whose liv...

A Book Review - Kenya's Freedom Struggle Book by Dedan Kimathi and Maina wa Kinyatti

11 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The British captured extensive archives belonging to the Mau Mau, which to this day have not been made public. Here for the first time, as a result of...

A Book Review - The Weather Machine: A Journey Inside the Forecast Book by Andrew Blum

10 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The weather is the foundation of our daily lives. It’s a staple of small talk, the app on our smartphones, and often the first thing we check each m...

A Book Review - Death of a Dissident: The Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko and the Return of the KGB by Alex Goldfarb, Marina Litvinenko

09 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The first reports seemed absurd. A Russian dissident, formerly an employee of the KGB and its successor, the FSB, had seemingly been poisoned in a Lon...

A Book Review - Quichotte Novel by Salman Rushdie

08 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In a tour-de-force that is both an homage to an immortal work of literature and a modern masterpiece about the quest for love and family, Booker Prize...

A Book Review - Histories of the hanged Book by David Anderson

07 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In "a gripping narrative that is all but impossible to put down" (Joseph C. Miller), Histories of the Hanged exposes the long-hidden colonial crimes o...

A Book Review - Britain's Gulag: The Brutal End of Empire in Kenya Book by Caroline Elkins

06 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

From the rear cover of this 475 page book: "Britain fought in the Second World War to save the world from fascism. But just a few years after the defe...

A Book Review - Big Sky Novel by Kate Atkinson

05 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Jackson Brodie, ex-military police, ex-Cambridge Constabulary, currently working as a private investigator, makes a highly anticipated return, nine ye...

A Book Review - First to Fight: The Polish War 1939 Book by Roger Moorhouse

04 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

For Americans, World War II began in December of 1941, with the bombing of Pearl Harbor; but for Poland, the war began on September 1, 1939, when Hitl...

A Book Review - The Testaments Novel by Margaret Atwood

03 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

When the van door slammed on Offred's future at the end of The Handmaid's Tale, readers had no way of telling what lay ahead for her--freedom, prison...

A Book Review - Transaction Man Book by Nicholas Lemann

02 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Over the last generation, the United States has undergone seismic changes. Stable institutions have given way to frictionless transactions, which are ...

A Book Review - Brooklyn: The Once and Future City Book by Thomas J. Campanella

01 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

America's most storied urban underdog, Brooklyn has become an internationally recognized brand in recent decades--celebrated and scorned as one of the...

A Book Review - The Way to the Sea: The Forgotten Histories of the Thames Estuary Book by Caroline Crampton

31 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Caroline Crampton was born on the Thames Estuary to parents who had sailed there from South Africa in the early 1980s. Having grown up with seafaring ...

A Book Review - A Savage Dreamland: Journeys in Burma Book by David Eimer

30 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

For almost fifty years Burma was ruled by a paranoid military dictatorship and isolated from the outside world. At this time, Burma became Myanmar wit...

A Book Review - A Girl Returned Book by Donatella Di Pietrantonio

29 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A pitch-perfect rendering in English by Ann Goldstein, Elena Ferrante’s translator. “I was the Arminuta, the girl returned. I spoke another langua...

A Book Review - The Borgias: Power and Fortune Book by Paul Strathern

28 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Borgia family have become a byword for evil. Corruption, incest, ruthless megalomania, avarice and vicious cruelty—all have been associated with...

A Book Review - We Fight Fascists: The 43 Group and Their Forgotten Battle for Post-war Britain by Daniel Sonabend

27 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In 1946 many Jewish soldiers returned to their homes in England imagining that they had fought and defeated the forces of fascism in Europe. Yet in Lo...

A Book Review - Agent Running in the Field Novel by John le Carré

26 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Nat, a 47 year-old veteran of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, believes his years as an agent runner are over. He is back in London with his w...

A Book Review - Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World Book by Adam Grant

25 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In Originals the author addresses the challenge of improving the world from the perspective of becoming original: choosing to champion novel ideas and...

A Book Review - The Russian Job: The Forgotten Story of How America Saved the Soviet Union from Ruin Book by Douglas Smith

25 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

After decades of the Cold War and renewed tensions, in the wake of Russian meddling in the 2016 election, cooperation between the United States and Ru...

A Book Review - Start-up Nation Book by Dan Senor and Saul Singer

23 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Start-Up Nation addresses the trillion dollar question: How is it that Israel -- a country of 7.1 million, only 60 years old, surrounded by enemies, i...

A Book Review - The Hard Thing About Hard Things Book by Ben Horowitz

22 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A lot of people talk about how great it is to start a business, but only Ben Horowitz is brutally honest about how hard it is to run one. In The Hard...

A Book Review - Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World Book by Tom Holland

21 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A "marvelous" (Economist) account of how the Christian Revolution forged the Western imagination. Crucifixion, the Romans believed, was the worst...

A Book Review - Palm Beach, Mar-a-Lago, and the Rise of America's Xanadu Book by Les Standiford

21 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Looking at the island of Palm Beach today, with its unmatched mansions, tony shops, and pristine beaches, one is hard pressed to visualize the dense t...

A Book Review - 97,196 Words: Essays Book by Emmanuel Carrère

19 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

'The most exciting living writer' Karl Ove Knausgaard Over the course of his career, Emmanuel Carrère has reinvented non-fiction writing. In a search...

A Book Review - In Love with George Eliot Novel by Kathy O'Shaughnessy

18 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Marian Evans is a scandalous figure, living in sin with a married man, George Henry Lewes. She has shocked polite society, and women rarely deign to v...

A Book Review - Walter Ralegh: Architect of Empire Book by Alan Gallay

17 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Sir Walter Ralegh was a favorite of Queen Elizabeth. She showered him with estates and political appointments. He envisioned her becoming empress of a...

A Book Review - The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World is a 2017 book by journalist Brad Stone.

16 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Ten years ago, the idea of getting into a stranger’s car, or walking into a stranger’s home, would have seemed bizarre and dangerous, but today it...

A Book Review - The Dictator's Learning Curve: Inside the Global Battle for Democracy by William J. Dobson

15 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

We are witnessing an incredible moment in the war between dictators and democracy—waves of protests are sweeping Syria and Yemen, and despots have f...

A Book Review - Saddam Hussein: A Political Biography Book by Efraim Karsh and Inari Rautsi

14 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Over ten years after his armies were routed in Desert Storm, the world continues to deal with, and be persistently thwarted, by the menace of Saddam H...

A Book Review - The Socialist Manifesto: Book by Bhaskar Sunkara

13 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A "razor-sharp" introduction to this political and economic ideology makes a galvanizing argument for modern socialism (Naomi Klein) -- and explains h...

A Book Review - The Innocents by Michael Crummey

12 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A brother and sister are orphaned in an isolated cove on Newfoundland's northern coastline. Their home is a stretch of rocky shore governed by the fer...

A Book(s) Review - Uncanny Valley Book by Anna Wiener and Lurking: How a Person Became a User Book by Joanne McNeil

11 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

At first, I didn’t understand why I was asked to review “Uncanny Valley,” Anna Wiener’s memoir about working for Bay Area start-ups in the 201...

A Book Review - M. Il figlio del secolo Book by Antonio Scurati

10 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Lui è come una bestia: sente il tempo che viene. Lo fiuta. E quel che fiuta è un'Italia sfinita, stanca della "casta" politica, dei moderati, del bu...

A Book Review - The Dictator's Shadow: Life Under Augusto Pinochet Book by Heraldo Muñoz

09 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Augusto Pinochet was the most important Third World dictator of the Cold War, and perhaps the most ruthless. In The Dictator's Shadow, United Nations ...

A Book Review? - JOURNAL ARTICLE Mao Zedong a Hundred Years On: The Legacy of a Ruler Stuart R. Schram

08 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Mao Zedong a Hundred Years On: The Legacy of a Ruler Stuart R. Schram The China Quarterly The China Quarterly No. 137 (Mar., 1994), pp. 125-143 (19 pa...

A Book Review - The World Beneath Their Feet: Mountaineering, Madness, and the Deadly Race to Summit the Himalayas by Scott Ellsworth

07 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

As tension steadily rose between European powers in the 1930s, a different kind of battle was already raging across the Himalayas. Teams of mountainee...

A Book Review - Between Two Fires Book by Joshua Yaffa

06 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

in this penetrating exploration of contemporary Russia, Joshua Yaffa meets a variety of Russians - from politicians and entrepreneurs to artists and h...

A Book Review - Hunger: The Oldest Problem Book by Martín Caparrós

05 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

There are now over 800 million starving people in the world. An average of 25,000 men and women, and in particular children, perish from hunger every ...

A Book Review - Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils Book by David Farrier

04 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What will the world look like in ten thousand years—or ten million? What kinds of stories will be told about us? In Footprints: In Search of Future...

A Book Review - Propaganda Book by Edward Bernays

03 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Bernays’ honest and practical manual provides much insight into some of the most powerful and influential institutions of contemporary industrial st...

A Book Review - Marketing the Third Reich: Persuasion, Packaging and Propaganda Book by John O'Shaughnessy

02 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this fascinating volume, Nicholas O’Shaughnessy elucidates the phenomenon of the Nazi propaganda machine via the perspective of consumer marketin...

A Book Review - Media Madness Book by Howard Kurtz

01 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

"The mainstream media’s obsessive hatred for President Trump outruns his anti-media fixation by a country mile, argues this evenhanded and incisive ...

A Book Review - Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia Book by Peter Pomerantsev

28 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In the new Russia, even dictatorship is a reality show. Professional killers with the souls of artists, would-be theater directors turned Kremlin pup...

A Book Review - MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed Bin Salman Book by Ben Hubbard

27 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

MBS is the untold story of how a mysterious young prince emerged from Saudi Arabia’s sprawling royal family to overhaul the economy and society...

A Book Review - My Dark Vanessa: A Novel Book by Kate Elizabeth Russell

26 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

“Russell manages a brutal originality. . . . [an] exceedingly complex, inventive, resourceful examination of harm and power.” —The New York Time...

A Book Review - The Beauty and the Terror: An Alternative History of the Italian Renaissance Book by Catherine Fletcher

25 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A new account of the birth of the West through its birthplace--Renaissance Italy The period between 1492--resonant for a number of reasons--and 1571,...

A Book Review - Media Control Book by Noam Chomsky

24 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Noam Chomsky’s backpocket classic on wartime propaganda and opinion control begins by asserting two models of democracy—one in which the public ac...

A Book Review - Poor Economics Book by Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo

23 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Why would a man in Morocco who doesn’t have enough to eat buy a television? Why is it so hard for children in poor areas to learn even when they att...

A Book Review - Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism by Ha-Joon Chang

22 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A rising young star in the field of economics attacks the free-trade orthodoxy of The World Is Flat head-on—a crisp, contrarian history of global ca...

A Book Review - Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike Book by Phil Knight

21 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this candid and riveting memoir, for the first time ever, Nike founder and CEO Phil Knight shares the inside story of the company’s early days as...

A Book Review - The Making of an Economic Superpower: Unlocking China's Secret of Rapid Industrialization Book by Yi Wen

21 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The rise of China is no doubt one of the most important events in world economic history since the Industrial Revolution. Mainstream economics, especi...

A Book Review - The Fatal Eggs Novel by Mikhail Bulgakov

20 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

As the turbulent years following the Russian revolution of 1917 settle down into a new Soviet reality, the brilliant and eccentric zoologist Persikov ...

A Book Review - The Glass Hotel Novel by Emily St. John Mandel

19 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Not quite halfway through “The Glass Hotel,” a new novel by Emily St. John Mandel, a woman named Vincent takes stock of her existence. “She felt...

A Book Review - Love After Love: A Novel Book by Ingrid Persaud

18 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Publisher : Random House Publishing Group, 2020 After Betty Ramdin’s husband dies, she invites a colleague, Mr. Chetan, to move in with her and her ...

A Book(s) Review - Do Morals Matter? Book by Joseph Nye, The Abandonment of the West: Book by Michael Kimmage, The Age of Illusions: Book by Andrew Bacevich

17 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2019 Americans constantly make moral statements about presidents and foreign policy. Unfortunately, many of these ...

A Book Review - Edge of Chaos: Why Democracy Is Failing to Deliver Economic Growth and How to Fix It by Dambisa Moyo

16 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Around the world, people who are angry at stagnant wages and growing inequality have rebelled against established governments and turned to political ...

A Book Review - The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein

15 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In her ground-breaking reporting from Iraq, Naomi Klein exposed how the trauma of invasion was being exploited to remake the country in the interest o...

A Book Review - (part last) Revolution, Rebellion, Resistance: The Power of Story Book by Eric Selbin

14 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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A Book Review - Jellyfish Book by Peter Williams

13 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Publisher: Reaktion Books, 2020 Jellyfish are, like the mythical Medusa, both beautiful and potentially dangerous. Found from pole to tropic, these me...

A Book(s) Review - 5 books in: Pale Rider: Book by Laura Spinney

12 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Publisher; PublicAffairs, 2017 In 1918, the Italian-Americans of New York, the Yupik of Alaska, and the Persians of Mashed had almost nothing in commo...

A Book Review - Notes from an Apocalypse Book by Mark O'Connell

11 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

We’re alive in a time of worst-case scenarios: The weather has gone uncanny. Old postwar alliances are crumbling. A pandemic draws our global commun...

A Book Review – part 3 Revolution, Rebellion, Resistance: The Power of Story Book by Eric Selbin

10 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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A Book Review - PART 2 OF Revolution, Rebellion, Resistance: The Power of Story Book by Eric Selbin

09 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Why do revolutions happen?  Decades of social science research have brought us little closer to understanding where, when and among whom they occ...