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21 Lessons for the 21st Century
In a world swirling with fake news, fractured identities, and artificial intelligence, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century is a lucid meditation on how to remain human in an age of dizzying change. With calm urgency and philosophical depth, it challenges readers to confront the crises of our time — from the collapse of truth to the erosion of freedom — not with panic, but with clarity. Can we still find meaning when ancient myths no longer hold and the future is written in code? These twenty-one lessons are not answers, but flares — illuminating the darkness so we might choose our path with eyes wide open.
- Originally Published: 2018
- Publisher: Penguin Random House, 2018
- Genre: Non-fiction
- Pages: 352
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 978-1787330672
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A Brief History of Mathematical Thought: Key concepts and where they come from
From the ancient geometries etched in sand to the abstract symmetries of modern logic, A Brief History of Mathematical Thought is a luminous journey through the minds that dared to measure the universe. This is not merely a chronicle of numbers, but a meditation on how we shape the world—and ourselves—through patterns, proofs, and paradoxes. As it weaves through the philosophical, the aesthetic, and the profoundly human aspects of mathematics, the book asks: what does it mean to understand reality through symbols we cannot touch? At once intellectual and intimate, it invites the reader to see mathematics not as a cold discipline, but as a creative force pulsing through the story of civilization.
- Originally Published: 2015
- Publisher: Constable & Robinson, 2015
- Genre: Non-fiction
- Pages: 321
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 978-1472117113
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Animal Farm
On a quiet farm, where the animals rise in revolt against their human masters, an ideal of freedom is born—only to curdle into tyranny beneath the hoofprints of power. Animal Farm is a fable sharpened into a political blade, where noble dreams decay into slogans, and those who promise equality learn to walk upright over the backs of others. How does liberation become a new form of control, and why do the oppressed so often trade one master for another? With deceptively simple prose and chilling clarity, this tale reveals that the most dangerous lies are the ones we tell ourselves. A story for every age, it asks: who truly governs when all are supposed to be free?
- Originally Published: August 1945
- Genre: Novella, Political Satire
- Pages: 101
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 9780451526342
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Bad Samaritans: The Guilty Secrets of Rich Nations and the Threat to Global Prosperity
What if those who claim to rescue the global poor are the very ones tightening their chains? Bad Samaritans rips away the moral façade of free-market evangelism, revealing a world where rich nations preach openness while guarding their own prosperity behind walls of hypocrisy. With sharp wit and unforgiving logic, it exposes the quiet sabotage embedded in economic advice—how development is stifled not by corruption or incompetence alone, but by the deliberate policies of those who “help.” Is the path to progress paved by imitation, or rebellion? This book dares readers to question the fairness of the global order—and to see who truly benefits when the powerful cry reform.
- Originally Published: 2007
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2008
- Genre: Non-fiction
- Pages: 288
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 9781905211371
- Access: Members
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Dead Aid: Why aid is not working and how there is another way for Africa
Dead Aid delivers a fierce and fearless indictment of the foreign aid system, arguing that what was meant to heal Africa may, in fact, be helping to hold it down. With unflinching logic and moral urgency, it dismantles the comfortable myth that money alone can fix poverty, revealing instead a cycle of dependency, corruption, and arrested growth. This is not a rejection of compassion—it is a challenge to rethink what true empowerment looks like. What if generosity, poorly aimed, becomes a weapon disguised as a gift? In the ruins of well-meant intentions, Dead Aid dares to ask what Africa truly needs to rise.
- Originally Published: 2009
- Publisher: Penguin, 2010
- Genre: Politics, Economics
- Pages: 188
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 978-0141031187
- Access: Members
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Following the Leader: Ruling China, from Deng Xiaoping to Xi Jinping
What does it take to steer the world’s most populous nation through the crosscurrents of ambition, fear, and reform? Following the Leader opens a rare window into the minds of China’s political elite, revealing a system where power is personal, loyalty is currency, and the future hinges on a delicate dance between control and change. As rising leaders navigate an unforgiving terrain of ideology, bureaucracy, and global scrutiny, the question looms: who truly leads in a country where obedience and initiative must coexist? Both revealing and restrained, this is a story not just of politics, but of the human instincts that shape empires.
- Originally published: February 3, 2014
- Publisher: University of California Press, 2019
- Genre: Non-fiction
- Pages: 320
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 9780520303478
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Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism
The Globalists pulls back the curtain on a powerful, often invisible movement—one that sought not to dismantle the nation-state, but to encase it in a legal and economic armor that would protect markets from the turbulence of democracy. Through the rise of neoliberal thought in the 20th century, it tells the provocative story of economists and visionaries who believed freedom was best safeguarded not by parliaments, but by institutions beyond the reach of the people. Can true democracy survive when sovereignty is traded for stability, and when markets are placed beyond the will of the majority? With piercing clarity and unsettling relevance, this book traces the quiet construction of a global order designed not for chaos—but for control. It is the intellectual history of a world remade behind closed doors.
- Originally Published: March 2018
- Publisher: Harvard University Press
- Published: March 16, 2018
- Genre: Neoliberalism
- Pages: 400
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 978-0674979529
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Guns, Germs and Steel: A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years
Why did history unfold so differently across continents, and what silent forces shaped the fate of entire civilizations? Guns, Germs and Steel is a sweeping, sobering detective story of humanity’s uneven march through time—where geography, biology, and chance played far greater roles than genius or will. In tracing the roots of global inequality not to culture or intellect but to crops, microbes, and metal, it overturns long-held myths with unflinching clarity. This is not just a chronicle of conquests, but a meditation on the fragile accidents that shaped the modern world. What if the seeds of dominance were sown in the soil itself?
- Originally Published: 1997
- Publisher : Vintage, 2017
- Pages: 580
- Genre: Non-Fiction
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN-13: 978-0099302780
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Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
What happens when humanity, having conquered war, famine, and plague, turns its gaze not toward survival—but toward godhood? Homo Deus is a hauntingly lucid exploration of our next great ambition: to engineer happiness, eternal life, and perhaps even divinity itself. As algorithms begin to understand us better than we understand ourselves, the book poses an unsettling question: will Homo sapiens remain masters of their destiny, or become relics of their own creation? With the cold fire of prophecy and the precision of science, this narrative beckons the reader to walk the fault line between intelligence and consciousness, freedom and programming, mortal limits and divine dreams.
- Originally Published: 2017
- Publisher: Vintage, 2015
- Genre: Non-fiction
- Pages: 526
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 978-1784703936
- Access: Members
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How the World Works
Pulling back the curtain on empire, propaganda, and profit, How the World Works is a bracing excavation of the hidden engines driving global power. With scalpel-sharp clarity, it exposes the elegant lies and quiet violence beneath foreign policy, media narratives, and the illusion of democratic choice. This is a world where the loudest ideals mask the deepest betrayals—and where truth itself is a casualty of convenience. Can justice survive in a system built to obscure it?
- Originally Published: 2010
- Publisher: Hamish Hamilton, 2022
- Genre: Non-fiction
- Pages: 336
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 9780241145388
- Access: Members
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How to Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century
How to Be a Dictator is a chilling descent into the architecture of absolute power—where fear is sculpted into law, truth is strangled by spectacle, and the cult of personality drowns all dissent. Through eight harrowing portraits, it reveals how tyrants rise not solely by force, but by mastering the dark alchemy of propaganda, surveillance, and manufactured devotion. What kind of world emerges when one man becomes the nation, the voice of the people silenced beneath a single echo? At once gripping and unsettling, this book asks readers to confront the fragile boundary between order and oppression, and to see in history’s monsters the reflection of our collective vulnerability. It is not merely a study of despots—it is a warning whispered through time.
- Originally Published: 2019
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019
- Genre: Politics, History
- Pages: 304
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 978-1408891612
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Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain’s Gulag in Kenya
Beneath the polished veneer of empire lies a shadowed world of brutality and silenced suffering — Imperial Reckoning exposes the harrowing truth of colonial violence that shattered lives and reshaped a nation. Through a relentless pursuit of hidden testimonies and forgotten archives, this searing account reveals the moral abyss of power wielded without conscience. How does a society reconcile with horrors buried beneath the weight of history, and what justice can emerge from the ruins of imperial ambition? With a tone both unflinching and compassionate, the book invites readers to confront the costs of domination and the enduring quest for truth.
- Originally Published: 2005
- Publisher: Holt Paperbacks, 2005
- Genre: Non-fiction
- Pages: 496
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 9780805080018
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Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism
In Neo-colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism, the flags may have changed, but the power still flows from the same hands. With surgical precision and revolutionary fire, this book unveils how economic control, foreign aid, and multinational influence have replaced the old chains of empire with new, invisible shackles. If independence is declared but decisions are made abroad, can freedom truly be said to exist? It is a searing exposé of betrayal cloaked in diplomacy, where the promise of sovereignty is bartered for dependency. Through every page, the reader is challenged to ask: who profits when the colonizer never leaves—but merely changes form?
- Originally Published: 1965
- Publisher: Panaf, 2009
- Genre: Non-fiction
- Pages: 316
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 978-0901787231
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Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
In a world increasingly shaped by algorithms, artificial intelligence, and global entanglements, Nexus dares to ask: what does it mean to be human when every frontier—biological, technological, and ideological—collides? With lucid urgency, the book maps the shifting currents that bind data to power, consciousness to code, and ancient instincts to modern dilemmas. It is not a tale of answers, but of unsettling clarity, where the questions themselves become a mirror to our time: Can we master the tools we’ve built—or are we simply becoming extensions of them? At once sweeping and intimate, Nexus is a meditation on connection in the age of disconnection—a call to navigate the future with both reason and responsibility.
- Originally Published: 2024
- Publisher : Random House, 2024
- Pages: 492
- Genre: History
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN-13: 978-0593736814
- Access: Prime Membership
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Propaganda
In Propaganda, the unseen gears of modern society are laid bare—revealing how public opinion is not discovered, but designed. With chilling precision, it explores how invisible hands shape beliefs, habits, and even desires, turning democracy into a theater of managed consent. Is freedom still freedom if our thoughts are orchestrated by unseen forces? At once clinical and provocative, this book whispers a dangerous truth: those who understand persuasion rule the minds of the many. A mirror and a warning, it beckons the reader to question not only what they think—but why they think it.
- Originally Published: 1928
- Publisher: iG Publishing, 2004
- Genre: Non-fiction
- Pages: 175
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 978-0970312594
- Access: Members
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Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations
In the shadows of global diplomacy and beneath the silence of plausible deniability lies Rise and Kill First—a harrowing chronicle of Israel’s most closely guarded weapon: its secret assassination program. With unnerving clarity and cinematic intensity, the book unveils a world where morality bends beneath the weight of survival, and decisions made in dimly lit rooms shape the fate of nations. How far should a state go to protect its people—and what does it sacrifice in the process? Each page pulses with the tension of life-or-death choices, offering a sobering meditation on justice, vengeance, and the hidden costs of preemptive power. This is the realm where silence kills, and history is written in whispers and blood.
- Originally Published: 2018
- Publisher: Random House, 2018
- Genre: History
- Pages: 784
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 9781400069712
- Access: Members
