Lost at Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries by Jon Ronson
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Category: Essays | Reading Level: good
Jon Ronson is fascinated by madness, extraordinary behaviour and the human mind. He has spent his life investigating crazy events, following fascinating people and unearthing unusual stories. Collected here from various sources (including the "Guardian" and "GQ America") are the best of his adventures. ...Show more
As I Was Saying - A Collection of Musings by Robert Dessaix
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Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
AS I WAS SAYING is a swirling conversation with the reader on everything from travel to dogs and cats, from sport and swearing to the pleasures of idleness. Punctuated at regular intervals by talks Dessaix has given on a wide range of subjects, as well as by some of his most incisive journalism, the con ...Show more
Paper - An Elegy. A Celebration of the Age of Paper by Ian Sansom
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Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues | Reading Level: very good
What do reading a book, smoking a cigarette, throwing confetti and voting in an election have in common? The answer, of course, is paper. Paper serves nearly every function of our lives. It is the technology with which we have made sense of the world. Yet the age of paper is ending. Ebooks now outsell t ...Show more
Beyond Religion by Dalai Lama XIV
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Category: Philosophy
In 1999 His Holiness The Dalai Lama published the bestselling "Ancient Wisdom: Modern World", which addressed the question of ethics for the new millennium. A decade later, His Holiness enters the contemporary debate about religion vs atheism, and returns to the theme of ethics with a major new work: "B ...Show more
Speechless: A Year in My Father's Business by James Button
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Category: Political / Economic
James Button spent a year writing speeches for Kevin Rudd. Before that, he reported on politics as a highly regarded journalist for Fairfax. But James also has politics in his blood: his father was the larger-than-life, street-fighting Senator John Button, who was a minister in the Hawke government. Gro ...Show more
Immortality: The Quest To Live Forever and How It Drives Civilisation by Stephen Cave
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Category: Sociology
Immortality shows how the quest to live forever has driven the development of human civilisation, and how that quest is now coming to a climax through modern science. It argues that humans are hardwired to pursue eternal life - and that the way they have done so has stayed remarkably consistent through ...Show more
Bulletproof Privacy: How to Live Hidden, Happy, and Free by COLEMAN, JOHN
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Category: Philosophy
The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World by Jeremy Rifkin
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Category: Sociology
The industrial revolution, powered by oil and other fossil fuels, is spiraling into a dangerous endgame: the prices of energy and food are climbing, unemployment remains high, the housing market has tanked, consumer and government debt are soaring, and the recovery is slowing. Facing the prospect of a s ...Show more
New History of Western Philosophy by Anthony Kenny
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Category: Philosophy | Series: A\New History of Western Philosophy Ser.
This book is no less than a guide to the whole of Western philosophy--the ideas that have undergirded our civilization for two-and-a-half thousand years. Anthony Kenny tells the story of philosophy from ancient Greece through the Middle Ages and the Enlightenment into the modern world. He introduces us ...Show more
The God Argument - The Case Against Religion and for Humanism by A C Grayling
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Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: good
There has been a bad-tempered quarrel between defenders and critics of religion in recent years. Both sides have expressed themselves acerbically because there is a very great deal at stake in the debate. This book thoroughly and calmly examines all the arguments and associated considerations offered in ...Show more
Good Book: A Secular Bible by A. C. Grayling
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Category: Philosophy
A. C. Grayling, Britain's most popular and widely read philosopher, has created a secular bible that draws on the wisdom of 2,500 years of contemplative non-religious writing about all that it means to be human - from the origins of the universe to small matters of courtesy and kindness in everyday life ...Show more