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Empty planet: The shock of global population decline
by Darrell Jay Bricker
Explores both the benefits and disruptions that could occur with a decline in the global population, including higher wages and a lower risk of famine, but also worker shortages that can weaken economies and cripple healthcare and social security.
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Amarna sunrise: Egypt from Golden Age to Age of Heresy by Aidan DodsonThis book traces the history of Egypt from the death of the great warrior-king Thutmose III to the high point of Akhenaten's reign, when the known world brought gifts to the newly-built capital city of Aarmarna, in particular looking at the way in which the cult of the sun became increasingly important to even "orthodox" kings, culminating in the transformation of Akhenaten's father Amenhotep IIi, into a solar deity in his own right.
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Scarfie flats of Dunedin by Sarah GallagherThe history of named student flats in North Dunedin reaches back to the 1930s. The authors share some of the stories of these flats, how they got their names, who lived in them and what life was like there. The book also features essays by Otagoites about the place of these flats in popular culture, music and street art.
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Japan Story is a fascinating, surprising account of Japan's culture, from the 'opening up' of the country in the mid 19th century to the present, through the eyes of people who always had their doubts about modernity who greeted it not with the confidence and grasping ambition of Japan's familiar modernizers and nationalists, but with resistance, conflict, distress.
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The Oxford illustrated history of the Holy Land
by Robert G. Hoyland
Covering the 3,000 years which saw the rise of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, this illustrated history begins with the origins of the people who became the "Israel" of the Bible to the time when the Ottoman Empire succumbed to British and French rule at the end of the First World War.
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The future is Asian: Global order in the 21st century by Parag KhannaLeading global strategist Parag Khanna predicts a 21st-century shift to an Asian world system based on traditional patterns of negotiation, trade and cultural exchange that predated European colonialism and American prominence.
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Dark shadows: Inside the secret world of Kazakhstan by Joanna LillisA compelling portrait of Kazakhstan, a country that is little known in the West. Journalist Joanna Lillis paints a vibrant picture of this emerging nation through vivid reportage based on 13 years of on-the-ground coverage. Featuring tales of murder and abduction, intrigue and betrayal, extortion and corruption, this book explores how a president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, transformed himself into a potentate and the economically-struggling state he inherited at the fall of the USSR into a swaggering 21st-century monocracy.
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Defying Vichy: Blood, fear and French resistance by Robert PikeA timely reappraisal of the actions and motivations of the French Resistance in Vichy France, 75 years after its undoing. While most were convinced by the Vichy regime, a small number, from railway workers and couriers to guerrilla fighters and foreign agents sought to make a stand in whatever way they could, despite fear and mortal danger.
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| The trial of Lizzie Borden: A true story by Cara RobertsonA fast-paced account of the notorious 1893 Lizzie Borden murder trial that utilizes court transcripts, newspaper accounts, and recently discovered letters written by Borden herself to argue that the jury who acquitted her got it wrong. |
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Why Nationalism by Yael TamirThe author makes a passionate argument for a nationalism that revives its participatory, creative, and egalitarian virtues, answers many of the problems caused by neoliberalism and hyperglobalism, and is essential to democracy at its best.
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The uninhabitable earth: Life after warming
by David Wallace-Wells
Examines the profound ways global warming will impact the Earth's ability to sustain human life and civilization, from food shortages to millions of environmental refugees, and elicits a plea for action to stop climate change.
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| Bill Bryson transports readers on a journey back to one amazing season in American life. Much transpired in that epochal summer of 1927, and Bill Bryson captures its outsized personalities, exciting events, and occasional just plain weirdness with his trademark vividness, eye for telling detail, and delicious humour. In that year America stepped out onto the world stage as the main event, and "One summer" transforms it all into narrative nonfiction of the highest order.
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| An evocative social history that explores how "the crime of the decade," an unsolved 1922 double homicide, may have inspired F. Scott Fitzgerald to write The Great Gatsby. Thrilling, rich in detail, and sprinkled with a hint of gossip, Careless People blends aspects of biography, history, and true crime to vividly recreate the glamorous milieu of the Roaring Twenties. |
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| The second coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American political traditionThis book is about the new Ku Klux Klan which arose in the early 1920s, a less violent but equally virulent descendant of the relatively small, terrorist Klan of the 1870s. This "second Klan" attracted millions of middle-class northern and midwestern Americans throughout the 1920s, its ideology of intolerance shaping the course of mainstream national politics throughout the twentieth century. |
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