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Privateers by Charlie Newton
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThree fierce women. A ghost ship’s treasure. And a bone-chilling Caribbean warlord. WWI rages. U.S. Marines storm Haiti’s Banque Nationale, loot $26 million in gold, then vanish . A century later, clues surface during the demolition of a Chicago racetrack, pointing to the Corazón Santo—the malevolent triangle of Havana, Kingston, and Port-au-Prince... -
![Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing by Robert A. Caro]()
Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing by Robert A. Caro
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFrom the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Power Broker and The Years of Lyndon Johnson: an unprecedented gathering of vivid, candid, deeply revealing recollections about his experiences researching and writing his acclaimed booksFor the first time in his long career, Robert Caro gives us a glimpse into his own life and work in these evocatively written, personal pieces... -
![The Children by David Halberstam]()
The Children by David Halberstam
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe Children is Halberstam's moving evocation of the early days of the civil rights movement, as seen thru the story of the young people--the Children--who met in the 60s & went on to lead the revolution... -
![Sois jeune et tais-toi: Réponse à ceux qui critiquent la jeunesse by Salomé Saqué]()
Sois jeune et tais-toi: Réponse à ceux qui critiquent la jeunesse by Salomé Saqué
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsChanger de regard sur la jeunesse.Les jeunes seraient « paresseux », « incultes », voire « égoïstes et individualistes ». J'ai entendu mille fois ces accusations à l'égard de la jeunesse : dans des dîners de famille, à la volée chez un commerçant ou portées par des éditorialistes remontés à la télévision... -
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![Like Eating a Stone: Surviving the Past in Bosnia by Wojciech Tochman]()
Like Eating a Stone: Surviving the Past in Bosnia by Wojciech Tochman
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsDuring four years of war in Bosnia, over 100,000 people lost their lives. But it was months, even years, before the mass graves started to yield up their dead and the process of identification, burial, and mourning could begin... -
![Pity the Nation: Lebanon at War by Robert Fisk]()
Pity the Nation: Lebanon at War by Robert Fisk
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAccount of war in the late-20th century both as historical document and as an eyewitness testament to human savagery. Written by one of Britain's foremost journalists, this book combines political analysis and war reporting: it is an epic account of the Lebanon conflict by an author who has personally witnessed the carnage of Beirut for over a decade... -
![Inventing Reality: The Politics of the Mass Media by Michael Parenti]()
Inventing Reality: The Politics of the Mass Media by Michael Parenti
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis study looks at the role of the print and electronic media in defining "respectable" political discourse in the United States. From a critical perpective, Parenti looks at the economics and politics of "presenting" the news and argues that the media systematically distort the news. This manufactured reality deprives the public of necessary information for effective participation in government... -
![Dzisiaj narysujemy śmierć by Wojciech Tochman]()
Dzisiaj narysujemy śmierć by Wojciech Tochman
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsDzisiaj narysujemy śmierć to reporterska opowieść o tym, jakie konsekwencje niesie ludobójstwo nie tylko dla jego sprawców i ofiar, ale także dla nas – świadków. Tochman wikła czytelników w cierpienie swoich bohaterów, a każdy z nich jest ze swoją historią konkretny, pojedynczy, wyjątkowy... -
![The President's Keepers: Those Keeping Zuma in Power and Out of Prison by Jacques Pauw]()
The President's Keepers: Those Keeping Zuma in Power and Out of Prison by Jacques Pauw
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsInvestigative journalist Jacques Pauw exposes the darkest secret at the heart of Jacob Zuma’s compromised a cancerous cabal that eliminates the president’s enemies and purges the law-enforcement agencies of good men and women... -
![Dan Rather: Stories of a Lifetime by Dan Rather]()
Dan Rather: Stories of a Lifetime by Dan Rather
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsTales from the front lines of 60 years of television.Emmy Award winner and former CBS News anchor Dan Rather brings his unforgettable staged performance, Stories of a Lifetime, to the Minetta Lane Theatre, where it will be recorded live for Audible Theater... -
![Everybody loves a good drought by Palagummi Sainath]()
Everybody loves a good drought by Palagummi Sainath
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe human face of poverty The poor in India are, too often, reduced to statistics. In the dry language of development reports and economic projections, the true misery of the 312 million who live below the poverty line, or the 26 million displaced by various projects, or the 13 million who suffer from tuberculosis gets overlooked... -
![Righteous Indignation: Excuse Me While I Save the World! by Andrew Breitbart]()
Righteous Indignation: Excuse Me While I Save the World! by Andrew Breitbart
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratings"Brash, funny, fiery, and irreverent." -- Rush Limbaugh Known for his network of conservative websites that draws millions of readers everyday, Andrew Breitbart has one main goal: to make sure the "liberally biased" major news outlets in this country cover all aspects of a story fairly. Breitbart is convinced that too many national stories are slanted by the news media in an unfair way... -
![Death at Seaworld: Shamu and the Dark Side of Killer Whales in Captivity by David Kirby]()
Death at Seaworld: Shamu and the Dark Side of Killer Whales in Captivity by David Kirby
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Evidence of Harm and Animal Factory—a groundbreaking scientific thriller that exposes the dark side of SeaWorld, America’s most beloved marine mammal park.Death at SeaWorld centers on the battle with the multimillion-dollar marine park industry over the controversial and even lethal ramifications of keeping killer whales in captivity... -
![On the Front Line with the Women Who Fight Back by Stacey Dooley]()
On the Front Line with the Women Who Fight Back by Stacey Dooley
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsStacey Dooley is one of Britain's most loved documentary presenters and campaigners. In 2007, Stacey was a slightly vapid twenty-something working in fashion retail. She was selected to take part in the BBC series Blood, Sweat and T-Shirts which saw her live and work alongside Indian factory workers making clothes for the UK High Street... -
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![Algues vertes, l'histoire interdite by Inès Léraud, Pierre Van Hove]()
Algues vertes, l'histoire interdite by Inès Léraud, Pierre Van Hove
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsPas moins de 3 hommes et 40 animaux ont été retrouvés morts sur les plages bretonnes. L’identité du tueur est un secret de polichinelle : les algues vertes. Un demi-siècle de fabrique du silence raconté dans une enquête fleuve.Des échantillons qui disparaissent dans les laboratoires, des corps enterrés avant d’être autopsiés, des jeux d’influence, des pressions et un silence de plomb... -
![The Free Voice: On Democracy, Culture and the Nation by Ravish Kumar]()
The Free Voice: On Democracy, Culture and the Nation by Ravish Kumar
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratings‘The National Project for Instilling Fear in the people has reached completion. Before the promised highways and jobs, everybody has been unfailingly given one thing—fear. For every individual, fear is now the daily bread. We are all experiencing fear; it comes to us in many different forms—from the moment we step out of our homes, with so many warnings ringing in our ears.. -
![Bulldozed: Scott Morrison’s Fall and Anthony Albanese’s Rise by Niki Savva]()
Bulldozed: Scott Morrison’s Fall and Anthony Albanese’s Rise by Niki Savva
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratings‘I don’t hold a hose, mate.’ Scott Morrison, 20 December 2019, on the Black Summer bushfires‘It’s not a race.’ Scott Morrison, 10 March 2021, on the COVID-19 vaccine rolloutBetween 2013 and 2022, Tony Abbott begat Malcolm Turnbull, who begat Scott Morrison... -
![The Pine Barrens by John McPhee]()
The Pine Barrens by John McPhee
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsMost people think of New Jersey as a suburban-industrial corridor that runs between New York and Philadelphia. Yet in the low center of the state is a near wilderness, larger than most national parks, which has been known since the seventeenth century as the Pine Barrens... -
![Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber by Mike Isaac]()
Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber by Mike Isaac
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIn June 2017, Travis Kalanick, the hard-charging CEO of Uber, was ousted in a boardroom coup that capped a brutal year for the transportation giant. Uber had catapulted to the top of the tech world, yet for many came to symbolize everything wrong with Silicon Valley... -
![Flipped: How Georgia Turned Purple and Broke the Monopoly on Republican Power by Greg Bluestein]()
Flipped: How Georgia Turned Purple and Broke the Monopoly on Republican Power by Greg Bluestein
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe untold story of the unlikely heroes, the cutthroat politics, and the cultural forces that turned a Deep South state purple—by a top reporter at The Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionFlipped is the definitive account of how the election of Reverend Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff transformed Georgia from one of the staunchest Republican strongholds to the nation’s most watched battleground state—and... -
![Washington Journal: Reporting Watergate and Richard Nixon's Downfall by Elizabeth Drew]()
Washington Journal: Reporting Watergate and Richard Nixon's Downfall by Elizabeth Drew
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRe-issued forty years after the tumultuous events that led to Richard Nixon’s historic downfall, a new edition of the legendary Elizabeth Drew’s Washington Journal, featuring a brilliant new afterword. Originally published soon after Richard Nixon's resignation, Elizabeth Drew’s Washington Journal is a landmark work of political journalism... -
![The Myth of the Lazy Native: A Study of the Image of the Malays, Filipinos and Javanese from the 16th to the 20th Century and Its Function in the Ideology of Colonial Capitalism by Syed Hussein Alatas]()
The Myth of the Lazy Native: A Study of the Image of the Malays, Filipinos and Javanese from the 16th to the 20th Century and Its Function in the Ideology of Colonial Capitalism by Syed Hussein Alatas
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Myth of the Lazy Native is Syed Hussein Alatas widely acknowledged critique of the colonial construction of Malay, Filipino and Javanese natives from the 16th to the 20th century. Drawing on the work of Karl Mannheim and the sociology of knowledge, Alatas analyses the origins and functions of such myths in the creation and reinforcement of colonial ideology and capitalism... -
![The Hardest Place: The American Military Adrift in Afghanistan's Pech Valley by Wesley Morgan]()
The Hardest Place: The American Military Adrift in Afghanistan's Pech Valley by Wesley Morgan
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsOf the many battlefields on which U.S. troops and intelligence operatives fought in Afghanistan, one remote corner of the country stands as a microcosm of the American campaign: the Pech and its tributary valleys in Kunar and Nuristan... -
![Freedom Next Time: Resisting the Empire by John Pilger]()
Freedom Next Time: Resisting the Empire by John Pilger
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWorld–renowned journalist John Pilger looks at five nations (Palestine, Diego Garcia, Afghanistan, Iraq, and South Africa) that have undergone long and painful struggles for freedom, yet are still waiting for its realization... -
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![To Kill a Nation: The Attack on Yugoslavia by Michael Parenti]()
To Kill a Nation: The Attack on Yugoslavia by Michael Parenti
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDrawing on a wide range of unpublished material and observations gathered from his visit to Yugoslavia in 1999, Michael Parenti challenges mainstream media coverage of the war and uncovers hidden agendas behind the Western talk of genocide, ethnic cleansing, and democracy... -
![How Westminster Works . . . and Why It Doesn't by Ian Dunt]()
How Westminster Works . . . and Why It Doesn't by Ian Dunt
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsTHE NO.2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWhy do some prime ministers manage to get things done, while others miserably fail? What is a 'special adviser' and how did they take over British political life? And why is the House of Lords more functional than most people think?Most of us have a sense that our political system doesn't seem to work, but struggle to articulate exactly why... -
![If Only They Didn't Speak English: Notes From Trump's America by Jon Sopel]()
If Only They Didn't Speak English: Notes From Trump's America by Jon Sopel
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratings'You see, if only they didn’t speak English in America, then we’d treat it as a foreign country – and probably understand it a lot better’ ‘the sanest man in America’ – Bill Bryson ‘Jon Sopel nails it’ – Emily Maitlis **With a brand new chapter, charting Trump's first year in power** As the BBC’s North America Editor, Jon Sopel has had a pretty busy time of it lately... -
![Pelosi by Molly Ball]()
Pelosi by Molly Ball
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAn intimate, fresh perspective on the most powerful woman in American political history, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, by award-winning political journalist Molly Ball She’s the iconic leader who puts Donald Trump in his place, the woman with the toughness to take on a lawless president and defend American democracy... -
![Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire by Brad Stone]()
Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire by Brad Stone
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAlmost ten years ago, Bloomberg journalist Brad Stone captured the rise of Amazon in his bestseller The Everything Store. Since then, Amazon has expanded exponentially, inventing novel products like Alexa and disrupting countless industries, while its workforce has quintupled in size and its valuation has soared to well over a trillion dollars... -
![The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un by Anna Fifield]()
The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un by Anna Fifield
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe behind-the-scenes story of the rise and reign of the world's strangest and most elusive tyrant, Kim Jong Un, by the journalist with the best connections and insights into the bizarrely dangerous world of North Korea...
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