Zucked: The Education of an Unlikely Activist by McNamee, Roger
10.41 USD
23.80 (56% off)
Category: Social Sciences
This is the dramatic story of how a noted tech venture capitalist, an early mentor to Mark Zuckerberg and investor in his company, woke up to the serious damage Facebook was doing to our society and set out to try to stop it.If you had told Roger McNamee three years ago that he would soon be devoting hi ...Show more
The Frontlines of Peace An Insider's Guide to Changing the World by Severine Autesserre
16.64 USD
26.60 (37% off)
Category: Social Sciences
At turns surprising, funny, and gut-wrenching, this is the hopeful story of the ordinary yet extraordinary people who have figured out how to build lasting peace in their communities The word peacebuilding evokes a story we've all heard over and over: violence breaks out, foreign nations are scandal ...Show more
Utopia for Realists by Rutger Bregman
6.13 USD
13.99 (56% off)
Category: Social Sciences
We live in a time of unprecedented upheaval, when technology and so-called progress have made us richer but more uncertain than ever before. We have questions about the future, society, work, happiness, family and money, and yet no political party is providing us with the answers. We need a new movemen ...Show more
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
6.13 USD
13.99 (56% off)
Category: Social Sciences | Reading Level: very good
Award-winning journalist Reni Eddo-Lodge was frustrated with the way that discussions of race and racism are so often led by those blind to it, by those willfully ignorant of its legacy. Her response, Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race, has transformed the conversation both in Britain ...Show more
The Science of Storytelling by Will Storr
6.13 USD
13.99 (56% off)
Category: Social Sciences
SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'If you want to write a novel or a script, read this book' Sunday Times 'The best book on the craft of storytelling I've ever read' Matt Haig 'Rarely has a book engrossed me more, and forced me to question everything I've ever read, seen or written. A masterpiece' Adam Rutherford ...Show more
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism by Robin DiAngelo
6.13 USD
13.99 (56% off)
Category: Social Sciences
Anger. Fear. Guilt. Denial. Silence. These are the ways in which ordinary white people react when it is pointed out to them that they have done or said something that has - unintentionally - caused racial offence or hurt. After, all, a racist is the worst thing a person can be, right? But these reaction ...Show more
The Next Great Migration - The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move by Sonia Shah
8.93 USD
20.99 (57% off)
Category: Social Sciences
'Rich with eclectic research and on-the-ground reporting, Shah's book presents us with a dazzlingly original picture of our relentlessly mobile species' NAOMI KLEIN'Fascinating . . . Likely to prove prophetic in the coming months and years' OBSERVER'A dazzling tour through 300 years of scientific histor ...Show more
Airhead - The Imperfect Art of Making News by Emily Maitlis
6.13 USD
13.99 (56% off)
Category: Social Sciences | Reading Level: very good
'[Emily] is so absolutely of the moment. Airhead is a compilation of her greatest hits . . . hilarious' Evening Standard News Presenter of the Year Emily Maitlis gives you a behind-the-scenes look at some of the biggest news stories and interviews of recent years. INCLUDING A NEW CHAPTER ON HER NEWSNIGH ...Show more
Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans by Melanie Mitchell
6.74 USD
15.39 (56% off)
Category: Social Sciences | Series: Pelican Bks.
Melanie Mitchell separates science fact from science fiction in this sweeping examination of the current state of AI and how it is remaking our world No recent scientific enterprise has proved as alluring, terrifying, and filled with extravagant promise and frustrating setbacks as artificial intellige ...Show more
Count Down - How Our Modern World Is Threatening Sperm Counts, Altering Male and Female Reproductive Development, and Imperiling the Future of the Human Race by Shanna H. Swan; Stacey Colino
22.76 USD
28.01 (18% off)
Category: Social Sciences
In the tradition of Silent Spring and The Sixth Extinction, an urgent, meticulously researched, and groundbreaking book about the ways in which chemicals in the modern environment are changing--and endangering--human sexuality and fertility on the grandest scale, from renowned epidemiologist Shanna Swan ...Show more
My Skin, Your Skin: Let's talk about Race, Racism and Empowerment by Laura Henry-Allain
4.38 USD
13.99 (68% off)
Category: Social Sciences
My Skin Your Skin is a powerful book to help children and adults have meaningful discussions about race and anti-racism. Most importantly, the book empowers children to be the best versions of themselves; to have self-love, self-esteem and self-worth, irrespective of their skin colour.This book was spec ...Show more
Me and White Supremacy - Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla F. Saad
10.50 USD
20.99 (49% off)
Category: Social Sciences
'An indispensable resource for white people who want to challenge white supremacy but don't know where to begin' Robin DiAngelo, author of New York Times bestseller WHITE FRAGILITY 'It should be mandatory reading ... Buy the book, do the work and then push more copies into the hands of everyone you kno ...Show more