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Autocracy Inc. by Anne Applebaum

We think we know what an autocratic state looks like: There is an all-powerful leader at the top. He controls …

The Nutmeg's Curse by Amitav Ghosh

The history of the nutmeg is one of conquest and exploitation – of both human life and the natural environment …

Wilding by Eric Schlosser, Isabella Tree

This a blow by blow and month by month account of how a well-managed, but totally unprofitable estate farm in …

The Poorer Nations A Possible History Of The Global South by Vijay Prashad

The darker nations by Vijay Prashad

Struggle Makes Us Human by Vijay Prashad

An incisive and inspiring call to look beyond capitalism to chart a road map for a planet ravaged by pandemics, …

Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We're in without Going Crazy by Joanna Macy, Chris Johnstone

Stay Woke by Tehama Lopez Bunyasi, Candis Watts Smith

A Paradise Built in Hell by Rebecca Solnit

The most startling thing about disasters, according to award-winning author Rebecca Solnit, is not merely that so many people rise …

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff

"Shoshana Zuboff, named "the true prophet of the information age" by the Financial Times, has always been ahead of her …

The racket by Matt Kennard

There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak

From the Booker Prize finalist, author of The Island of Missing Trees, an enchanting new tale about three characters living …

Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit

"In her comic, scathing essay "Men Explain Things to Me," Rebecca Solnit took on what often goes wrong in conversations …

George Orwell's 1984 by George Orwell

Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, often referred to as 1984, is a dystopian social science fiction novel by the English novelist …