Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
It will soon be impossible to tell what is real and what is fake. Recent advances in AI mean that by scanning images of a person (for example using Facebook), a powerful machine learning system can create new video images and place them in scenarios and situations which never actually happened. When com ...Show more
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Indigenous Americas Ser.
In this sweeping work of memoir and commentary, leading cultural critic Paul Chaat Smith illustrates with dry wit and brutal honesty the contradictions of life in "the Indian business." Raised in suburban Maryland and Oklahoma, Smith dove head first into the political radicalism of the 1970s, working wi ...Show more
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson locates Indigenous political resurgence as a practice rooted in uniquely Indigenous theorizing, writing, organizing, and thinking. She makes clear that the goal of Indigenous resistance can no longer be cultural resurgence as a mechanism for inclusion in a multicultural mosai ...Show more
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
A toolkit for understanding our emotional responses to climate change and how we can have meaningful conversations across dividing lines. 'The antidote to climate anxiety is action. Make your first action reading this book.' OSHER GUNSBERG'Rebecca Huntley has given us a great gift: an essential guide t ...Show more
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Can one man take down an empire? THE PROTOCOL is a breathtaking real-life political thriller. As a leading chemical scientist and Director of the Moscow Anti-Doping Laboratory, Dr Grigory Rodchenkov was at the forefront of global efforts to detect drugs cheats in sport. Yet he was simultaneously running ...Show more
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Tourists, terrorists, secularists, hackers, fundamentalists, transhumanists, algorithmicians: in this book Roberto Calasso considers the tribes that inhabit and inform the world today. A world that feels more elusive than ever before. This book, the ninth part of a work in progress, is a meditation on t ...Show more
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
The author focuses on the experience of Henrietta Wood, a freed slave who wassold back into slavery, eventually freed again, and who then sued the man whohad sold her back into bondage--and won. won.
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
'Simply, utterly brilliant. Bursting with humility and humanity' THE SECRET BARRISTER 'A survival guide for the Trump era' GUARDIAN Banned by Putin, fired by Trump. And now he's free to talk. Multi-million-dollar fraud. Terrorism. Mafia criminality. Russian espionage. For eight years Preet Bharara, Uni ...Show more
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
An innovative and insightful exploration of the passionate early life of Socrates and the influences that led him to become the first and greatest of philosophers Socrates- the philosopher whose questioning gave birth to the ideas of Western thought, and whose execution marked the end of the Athenian Go ...Show more
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
This volume of over thirty essays is organised around five primary dimensions of Hillary Clinton's influence- policy, activism, campaigns, women's ambition and impact on parents and their children. Combining personal narrative with scholarly expertise in political science, this volume looks at American ...Show more
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Inspirations for Wes Anderson's The French Dispatch- fascinating essays on the expatriate experience in Paris by some of the twentieth century's finest writers. A glimpse of post-war France through the eyes and words of 14 (mostly) expatriate journalists including Mavis Gallant, James Baldwin, A.J. Lie ...Show more
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
A timely, provocative and personal examination of the refugee experience.
