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History and Current Events May 2024
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| Who's Afraid of Gender? by Judith ButlerGroundbreaking gender studies scholar Judith Butler explores how right-wing ideologues weaponize gender to spread fear-mongering misinformation in this thought-provoking study named a Most Anticipated Book of 2024 by ELLE, The New York Times, TIME, The Washington Post, and more. Further reading: He/She/They: How We Talk About Gender and Why It Matters by Schuyler Bailar. |
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Against the seas : saving civilizations from rising waters
by Mary Soderstrom
"Against the Seas tells how we have coped with rising sea levels since the end of the Ice Age--by moving, building defences, or magic. Flood stories in different cultures show just how traumatic those experiences were. But what happened in the past may help us in the future and gives hope that we will survive"
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Extremely hardcore : inside Elon Musk's Twitter
by Zoèe Schiffer
"When Elon Musk took over Twitter, two versions of reality emerged. In one, he was a free-speech crusader, a fearless visionary who could grab back power from Twitter's entitled workforce, motivate them to get "extremely hardcore," and multiply Twitter'sprofit and potential by orders of magnitude. In the other reality, there was the truth. Pulled from hundreds of hours of inside interviews with more than sixty employees, thousands of pages of internal documents, Slack messages, presentations, as well ascourt filings and congressional testimony, Extremely Hardcore is the true story of how Musk reshaped the world's online public square into his own personal megaphone. Despite having workers with a decade and a half of experience confronting Twitter's most difficult problems - from massive engineering infrastructure challenges to tricky policy decisions that could sway elections - Musk decided there was only one voice that mattered: his own. You'll hear from those employees who witnessed the destruction of their workplace firsthand. There's the machine-learning savant who went all-in on Twitter 2.0 before getting betrayed by his new CEO, the father whose need for healthcare swept him into Musk's inner circle, the trust and safety expert who became the subject of a harassment campaign his former boss incited, and the many other employees who tried to save the company from their new boss's worst instincts, and paid the price. This is the story of Twitter, but it's also a chronicle of the post-pandemic labormovement, a war between reckless executives and a workforce newly awakened to their rights and needs. Juicy, character-driven, and filled with unbelievable revelations, Extremely Hardcore is the definitive, fly-on-the-wall story of how Elon Musk lit $44 billion on fire and burned down Twitter. It's the next best thing to being there, and you won't have to sleep in the Twitter office to get the scoop"
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| The Blues Brothers: An Epic Friendship, the Rise of Improv, and the Making of an... by Daniel de ViséJournalist Daniel de Visé's engaging and nostalgic pop culture history offers a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the iconic 1980 film The Blues Brothers and the friendship between its two stars, Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi. Try this next: Wild and Crazy Guys: How the Comedy Mavericks of the '80s Changed Hollywood Forever by Nick de Semlyen. |
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| Takeover: Hitler's Final Rise to Power by Timothy W. RybackHistorian Timothy W. Ryback's richly detailed, you-are-there latest utilizes previously unseen archival materials to chronicle the six fateful months before Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in January 1933. For fans of: In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson. |
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