Triple Cross: How Bin Laden's Chief Security Adviser Penetrated the CIA, the FBI and the Green Berets and Paved the Way for 9/11 by Peter Lance
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Category: Politics | Reading Level: very good
In the years leading to the 9/11 attacks, no single agent of al Qaeda was more successful in compromising the U.S. intelligence community than Ali Mohamed. A former Egyptian army captain, Mohamed succeeded in infiltrating the CIA in Europe, the Green Berets at Fort Bragg, and the FBI in California-even ...Show more
History on Trial: My Day in Court with David Irving by Deborah E. Lipstadt
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Category: Politics | Series: P.S.
This is the only book from the perspective of the defendant who emerged victorious. It features reviews on book pages of national newspapers, and in history magazines. Deborah Lipstadt chronicles her five-year legal battle with David Irving that culminated in a sensational trial in 2000. In her acclaime ...Show more
The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response by BALAKIAN PETER
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Category: Politics
A History of International Human Rights and Forgotten HeroesIn this national bestseller, the critically acclaimed author Peter Balakian brings us a riveting narrative of the massacres of the Armenians in the 1890s and of the Armenian Genocide in 1915 at the hands of the Ottoman Turks. Using rarely seen ...Show more
Trigger Warning: Is the Fear of Being Offensive Killing Free Speech? by Mick Hume
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Category: Politics
In this blistering polemic, veteran journalist Mick Hume presents an uncompromising defence of freedom of expression, which he argues is threatened in the West, not by jackbooted censorship but by a creeping culture of conformism and You-Can't-Say-That. The cold-blooded murder of the Charlie Hebdo carto ...Show more
I Was Nearly a Jihadi Bride: Inside Islamic State's Recruitment Networks by Anna Erelle
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Category: Politics
Twenty year-old Mélodie, a recent convert to Islam, meets the leader of an ISIS brigade on Facebook. In 48 hours he has 'fallen in love' with her, calls her every hour, urges her to marry him, join him in Syria in a life of paradise - and join his jihad. She discovers how ISIS entraps ordinary people, l ...Show more
Smarter Than You Think: How Technology is Changing Our Minds for the Better by Clive Thompson
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Category: Politics
From the 'Wired' and 'New York Times Magazine' contributor, a brilliant examination into how the internet is profoundly changing the way we think. In this groundbreaking book, Clive Thompson argues that the internet is boosting our brainpower, encouraging new ways of thinking, and making us more - not l ...Show more
Bad Pharma - How Medicine is Broken and How We Can Fix It by Ben Goldacre
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Category: Politics
'Bad Science' hilariously exposed the tricks that quacks and journalists use to distort science, becoming a 400,000 copy bestseller. Now Ben Goldacre puts the $600bn global pharmaceutical industry under the microscope. What he reveals is a fascinating, terrifying mess. Doctors and patients need good sci ...Show more
Farther Away by Jonathan Franzen
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Category: Politics
The new book of articles and opinion from Jonathan Franzen, author of 'Freedom' and 'The Corrections'. Jonathan Franzen's 'Freedom' was the runaway most-discussed novel of 2010, an ambitious and searching engagement with life in America in the 21st century. Now, a new collection of Franzen's non-fiction ...Show more
What on Earth is Going On?: A Crash Course in Current Affairs by Tom Baird
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Category: Politics
"Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense." Gertrude Stein The world's a complex and bewildering place. Every day we are bombarded with far information than we can possibly hope to absorb. We don't have the time, energy or patience to process it all and select w ...Show more
No Logo by Naomi Klein
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Category: Politics
NO LOGO was an international bestseller and "a movement bible" (The New York Times). Naomi Klein's second book, The Shock Doctrine, was hailed as a "master narrative of our time," and has over a million copies in print worldwide. In the last decade, No Logo has become an international phenomenon and a ...Show more
Strange Days Indeed: The Golden age of paranoia by Francis Wheen
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Category: Politics
'Strange Days Indeed' tells the story of how the paranoia exemplified by Nixon and Wilson became the defining characteristic of Western politics and culture in the 1970s.
To Die For: Is Fashion Wearing Out the World? by Lucy Siegle
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Category: Politics
An expose on the fashion industry written by the Observer's 'Ethical Living' columnist, examining the inhumane and environmentally devastating story behind the clothes we so casually buy and wear. Coming at a time when the global financial crisis and contracting of consumer spending is ushering in a new ...Show more