| Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman's Awakening by Manal Al-SharifThough author Manal Al-Sharif grew up as a devoutly fundamentalist Muslim in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, she later received a technical education that led to a job as a computer security engineer. In Daring to Drive, she relates how she publicized a protest movement, the Women2Drive campaign, with a video recording of herself driving a car. This eye-opening memoir vividly portrays the customary restrictions on girls and women in her country as well as the difficulties of pushing for social change. |
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The undoing project : a friendship that changed our minds
by Michael Lewis
Examines the history of behavioral economics, discussing the theory of Israeli psychologists who wrote the original studies undoing assumptions about the decision-making process and the influence it has had on evidence-based regulation
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When We Rise: My Life in the Movement
by Cleve Jones
In When We Rise, LGBTQ activist Cleve Jones recounts his closeted childhood in Arizona, his enthusiastic participation in San Francisco's gay community life, and his leadership in response to the AIDS epidemic (he co-founded the San Francisco AIDS Foundation and led the inspiring success of the Names Project AIDS Memorial Quilt). His account of the campaign for marriage equality crowns this inspiring autobiography. You might try David France's How to Survive a Plague for a history of LGBTQ activists' response to AIDS; a television miniseries with the same name is also based in part on Jones' book.
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Who I Am
by Charlotte Rampling
In a lyrical and intimate self-portrait told through reminiscences, the Oscar-nominated actress, model and singer, sharing photographs from her personal archive, recounts the memories and passions from her childhood and youth that would inspire her life and later work as a film star.
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Once We Were Sisters : A Memoir
by Sheila Kohler
A heartrending literary memoir of the tragic death of Kohler's older sister describes how in the aftermath of a fatal car accident, the author investigated their unusual shared childhood and her brother-in-law's violent history.
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Guy Burgess : The Spy Who Knew Everyone
by Stewart Purvis
The first, full biography of Guy Burgess reveals the extent of his espionage and culminates in new relevations about his last days in Moscow.
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This is the remarkable story of the Swiss born Nazi spy, Annette Wagner. Her two years in Australia were immersed in intrigue and shielded by a skilfully managed facade of deception. Tracked by Military Intelligence, her outstanding credentials in espionage ensured that exposing her ultimate role would never be easy. Less than 4 months after arriving in Australia in 1938, she acquired espionage's greatest communication asset - broadcasting her own programs on public radio to nationwide audiences - a secure channel for transmitting coded messages.
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Agent 110 : an American spymaster and the German resistance in WWII
by Scott Miller
A suspenseful account of how OSS spymaster Allen Dulles led a network of disenchanted Germans in a plot to assassinate Hitler and end World War II before the invasion of opportunistic Russian forces. By a former Wall Street Journal writer and the highly recommended author of The President and the Assassin.
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