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Palaces for the People by Eric Klinenberg
5 stars
How can we bring people together?
Sociologist and best-selling author Eric Klinenberg introduces a transformative and powerfully uplifting new idea …
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The Future is Degrowth by Matthias Schmelzer, Andrea Vetter, Aaron Vansintjan
4 stars
Economic growth isn’t working, and it cannot be made to work. Offering a counter-history of how economic growth emerged in …
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How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
5 stars
Ibram X. Kendi's concept of antiracism reenergizes and reshapes the conversation about racial justice in America--but even more fundamentally, points …
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Technocapitalism by Loretta Napoleoni
At the dawn of the digital revolution, the internet was going to be the great equalizer, a global democratic force. …
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The Unaccountability Machine by Dan Davies
4 stars
Part-biography, part-political thriller, The Unaccountability Machine is a rousing exposé of how management failures lead organisations to make catastrophic errors. …
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Half-Earth Socialism by Troy Vettese, Drew Pendergrass
Over the next generation, humanity will confront a dystopian future of climate disaster and mass extinction. Yet the only ‘solutions’ …
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Democratizing the Corporation by Isabelle Ferreras, Tom Malleson, Joel Rogers
Although contemporary Western societies refer to themselves as "democratic," the bulk of the population spend much of their lives in …
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Dispatches from the Diaspora by Gary Younge
For the last three decades, Gary Younge has sat ringside with the most significant personalities to impact the black diaspora …
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4 stars
SUNDAY TIMES BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR
an ECONOMIST Politics and Current Affairs book of the year
and a DAILY …
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Poverty Safari by Darren McGarvey
5 stars
People from deprived communities all around Britain feel misunderstood and unheard. Darren McGarvey aka Loki gives voice to their feelings …
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Broke: Fixing Britain's Poverty Crisis by Tom Clark
A dozen years into austerity, statistical warning lights are flashing to suggest a return to types of deprivation we once …
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How did we get into this mess? by George Monbiot
"Leading political and environmental commentator on where we have gone wrong, and what to do about it. "Here are some …
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Out of the Wreckage: A New Politics for an Age of Crisis by George Monbiot
What does the good life—and the good society—look like in the 21st century?
A toxic ideology of extreme competition and …
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Regenesis by George Monbiot, George Monbiot
5 stars
Farming is the world's greatest cause of environmental destruction - and the one we are least prepared to talk about. …
