The Assault on Reason by Al Gore
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Category: Politics & Current Affairs
At the time George W. Bush ordered forces to invade Iraq, 70 per cent of Americans believed Saddam Hussein was linked to 9/11. When asked to list what stuck in their minds about the campaign, voters most frequently named two Bush TV ads that played to fears of terrorism. How did the US get here? And how ...Show more
Politics and the Occult - The Left, the Right, and the Radically Unseen by Gary Lachman
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Category: Politics & Current Affairs
The gritty business of politics is not something we usually associate with the occult. But esoteric beliefs have influenced the destiny of nations since the time of ancient Egypt and China, when decisions of state were based on portents and astrology, to today, when presidents and prime ministers privat ...Show more
More to the Story: Conversations with Refugees by Rosemary Sayer
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Category: Politics & Current Affairs
More to the Story looks beyond negative media reports, political speeches and fear-mongering statistics to tell human stories of refugees and asylum seekers in Australia. Julian Burnside, AO, QC writes in the Foreword to the book, 'The great importance of this book is that it gives a real human face to ...Show more
Fire and Fury - Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff
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Category: Politics & Current Affairs
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 mesme ...Show more
The New Tsar : The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin by Steven Lee Myers
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An epic tale of Vladimir Putin's path to power, as he emerged from obscurity to become one of the world's most conflicted and important leaders. Former New York TimesMoscow Bureau Chief Steven Lee Myers has followed Putin since well before the recent events in the Ukraine, and gives us the fullest and m ...Show more
After Saturday Comes Sunday by Elizabeth Kendal
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Category: Politics & Current Affairs
The post-Christian West is in decline, revived Islam is on the rise, and Mesopotamia (Syria-Iraq), the cradle of civilization, has become ground zero in a battle for civilization. Despised as infidels (unbelievers) and kafir (unclean), Mesopotamia's indigenous Christian peoples are targeted by fundament ...Show more
How the Hell Did This Happen?: The US Election of 2016 by P. J. O'Rourke
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Category: Politics & Current Affairs
No comedian could have written the joke this election cycle has been. The punch line is too ridiculous (whoever the punch line is going to be). Celebrated political satirist, journalist, and diehard Republican P.J. O'Rourke brings his critical eye and inimitable voice to some serious risky business. How ...Show more
Defeating Jihad by Sebastian Gorka
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Category: Politics & Current Affairs
America's fight against radical Islam could soon be over, and a top secret plan from the Cold War is the key to our victory. Sebastian Gorka, counterinsurgency expert and professor at the Department of Defense's National Defense University, explains how America can win the war on terror quickly and deci ...Show more
A Short History of Stupid: The Decline of Reason and Why Public Debate Makes Us Want to Scream by Helen Razer
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Category: Politics & Current Affairs
How did everything get so dumb?..How did we become hostages to idiocy?..What must we do to be freed from a captor whose ransom note simply reads, 'D'oh'?..The deteriorating quality of our public debate and the dwindling of common sense in media, politics and culture can drive you to despair and rage. It ...Show more
And Yet... Essays by Christopher Hitchens
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Category: Politics & Current Affairs
Christopher Hitchens was an unparalleled, prolific writer, who raised the polemical essay to a new art form, over a lifetime of thinking and debating the defining issues of our times. As an essayist he contributed to the New Statesman, Atlantic Monthly, London Review of Books, TLS and Vanity Fair. Any p ...Show more
Alt America: The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump by David Neiwert
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Category: Politics & Current Affairs
Just as Donald Trump's victorious campaign for the US presidency shocked the world, the seemingly sudden national prominence of white supremacists, xenophobes, militia leaders, and mysterious "alt-right" figures mystifies many. But the American extreme right has been growing steadily in number and influ ...Show more
The Man Without A Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin by Masha Gessen
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Category: Politics & Current Affairs
The Man without a Face is the chilling account of how a low-level, small-minded KGB operative ascended to the Russian presidency and, in an astonishingly short time, destroyed years of progress, making his country once more a threat to her own people and to the world. Handpicked as a successor by the " ...Show more