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The Power of Strangers - The Benefits of Connecting in a Suspicious World - Bok av Joe Keohane - Häftad

The Power of Strangers - The Benefits of Connecting in a Suspicious World - Bok av Joe Keohane - Häftad

When was the last time you spoke to a stranger?In our cities, we barely acknowledge one another on public transport, even as rates of loneliness skyrocket. Online, we carefully curate who we interact with. In our politics, we are increasingly consumed by a fear of people we've never met. But what if strangers, long believed to be the cause of many of our problems, were actually the solution?In The Power of Strangers, Joe Keohane discovers the surprising benefits that come from talking to strangers,..

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We Were Eight Years in Power - 'One of the foremost essayists on race in the West' Nikesh Shukla, author of The Good Immigrant - Bok av Ta-Nehisi Coat

We Were Eight Years in Power - 'One of the foremost essayists on race in the West' Nikesh Shukla, author of The Good Immigrant - Bok av Ta-Nehisi Coat

Ta-Nehisi Coates is a national correspondent for the Atlantic and the author of the Number One New York Times bestseller, Between the World and Me, winner of the National Book Award, and of the acclaimed essay collection We Were Eight Years in Power. A MacArthur 'Genius Grant' Fellow, Coates has received the National Magazine Award, the Hillman Prize for Opinion and Analysis Journalism, and the George Polk Award for his Atlantic cover story 'The Case for Reparations'. He lives in New York with his..

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The Way of the Strangers - Encounters with the Islamic State - Bok av Graeme Wood - Häftad

The Way of the Strangers - Encounters with the Islamic State - Bok av Graeme Wood - Häftad

Graeme Wood is a national correspondent for The Atlantic and lecturer in political science at Yale University. He has been a Turkey and Kurdistan analyst for Jane's, a contributing editor to The New Rlic, and books editor of Pacific Standard. His work has also appeared in The New Yorker, The American Scholar, The New Rlic, Bloomberg Businessweek, The Wall Street Journal, and the International Herald Tribune. He lives in Connecticut, USA.

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Capitalism and Slavery - Bok av Eric Williams - Häftad

Capitalism and Slavery - Bok av Eric Williams - Häftad

'It's often said that books are compulsory reading, but this book really is compulsory. You cannot understand slavery, or British Empire, without it' Sathnam Sanghera Arguing that the slave trade was at the heart of Britain's economic progress, Eric Williams's landmark 1944 study revealed the connections between capitalism and racism, and has influenced generations of historians ever since.Williams traces the rise and fall of the Atlantic slave trade through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries..

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Blood, Tears and Folly - An Objective Look at World War Two - Bok av Len Deighton - Häftad

Blood, Tears and Folly - An Objective Look at World War Two - Bok av Len Deighton - Häftad

'Every page of Deighton's work glows with the excitement of discovery ... wonderful' Geoff Dyer, GuardianThis unflinching history of the darkest days of the Second World War covers the entire world stage, from the Battle of the Atlantic to Pearl Harbor. Rooted in the personal accounts of the soldiers themselves, Blood, Tears and Folly is a sweeping, moving account of the political machinations, the strategy and tactics, the weapons and the men on both sides who created a world of devastation.'If..

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The Black Jacobins - Toussaint L'ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution - Bok av C. L. R. James - Häftad

The Black Jacobins - Toussaint L'ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution - Bok av C. L. R. James - Häftad

In 1791, inspired by the ideals of the French Revolution, the slaves of San Domingo rose in revolt. Despite invasion by a series of British, Spanish and Napoleonic armies, their twelve-year struggle led to the creation of Haiti, the first independent black rlic outside Africa. Only three years later, the British and Americans ended the Atlantic slave trade.In this outstanding example of vivid, committed and empathetic historical analysis, C. L. R. James illuminates these epoch-making events. He explores..

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The Good Shepherd - 'Unbelievably good. Amazing tension, drama and atmosphere' James Holland - Bok av C.S. Forester - Häftad

The Good Shepherd - 'Unbelievably good. Amazing tension, drama and atmosphere' James Holland - Bok av C.S. Forester - Häftad

THE GRIPPING NAVAL THRILLER, NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING TOM HANKS _______ 1942. America enters the war and an untested officer receives his first wartime command . . . Ploughing through icy, submarine-infested North Atlantic seas is a convoy of thirty-seven merchant ships, carrying vital Allied supplies. In charge is Commander Krause, a grizzled but unproven veteran of the U.S. Navy. Over the next forty-eight hours he will stay on watch aboard the bridge of his destroyer as the convoy is..

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Kings of the Yukon - An Alaskan River Journey - Bok av Adam Weymouth - Häftad

Kings of the Yukon - An Alaskan River Journey - Bok av Adam Weymouth - Häftad

Adam Weymouth's work has been published by a wide variety of outlets including the Guardian, the Atlantic and the New Internationalist. His interest in the relationship between humans and the world around them has led him to write on issues of climate change and environmentalism, and most recently, to the Yukon river and the stories of the communities living on its banks. He lives on a 100-year-old Dutch barge on the River Lea in London. This is his first book.

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The Malice of Waves - Bok av Mark Douglas-Home - Häftad

The Malice of Waves - Bok av Mark Douglas-Home - Häftad

One of the most unique crime series ever continues with a missing persons investigation.      Cal McGill is the sea detective: an oceanographer and one-of-a-kind investigator who uses his knowledge of the waves to find where objects came from, or track where they''ve gone. For five years Priest''s Island has guarded the mystery of Max Wheeler''s disappearance. In this isolated township on the edge of the Atlantic, there are no secrets -- except what really happened to fourteen-year-old..

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Horse Under Water - Bok av Len Deighton - Häftad

Horse Under Water - Bok av Len Deighton - Häftad

'The poet of the spy story' Sunday TimesA sunken U-Boat has lain undisturbed on the Atlantic ocean floor since the Second World War - until now. Inside its rusting hull, among the corpses of top-rank Nazis, lie secrets people will kill to obtain. The sequel to Len Deighton's game-changing debut The IPCRESS File, Horse Under Water sees its nameless, laconic narrator sent from fogbound London to the Algarve, where he must dive through layers of deceit in a place rotten with betrayals.

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Covid By Numbers - Making Sense of the Pandemic with Data - Bok av David Spiegelhalter - Inbunden

Covid By Numbers - Making Sense of the Pandemic with Data - Bok av David Spiegelhalter - Inbunden

'I couldn't imagine a better guid for making sense of a tragic and momentous time in our lives. Covid by Numbers is comprehensive yet concise, impeccably clear and always humane' Tim HarfordHow many people have died because of COVID-19? Which countries have been hit hardest by the virus? What are the benefits and harms of different vaccines? How does COVID-19 compare to the Spanish flu? How have the lockdown measures affected the economy, mental health and crime?This year we have been bombarded by..

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