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We Did Nothing:
Why the truth doesn't always come out when the UN goes in
2004 || Paperback || Linda Polman || Penguin Books Ltd
Linda Polman's We Did Nothing: Why the truth doesn't always come out with the UN goes in is an eye-opening account of peace-keeping operations across the globe. In recent years our newspapers and televisions have brought us stories of the failure of the UN to keep the peace in the modern world. How often have our journalists, our politicians and charity workers turned around and accused the UN of weakness in the face of violence? During the 1990s Polman visited UN peacekeeping missions in Som...
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The Machine Age
An Idea, a History, a Warning
2024 || Paperback || Robert Skidelsky || Penguin Books Ltd
Has the West Lost It?
A Provocation
2019 || Paperback || Kishore Mahbubani || Penguin Books Ltd
'A compelling warning ... It is hard to disagree with this advice from such a well-informed friend of the west' Martin Wolf, Financial TimesThe West's two-century epoch as global powerhouse is at an end. A new world order, with China and India as the strongest economies, dawns.
How will the West react to its new status of superpower in decline? In Kishore Mahbubani's timely polemic, he argues passionately that the West can no longer presume to impose its ideology on the world, and crucially, ...
The Light of Asia
A History of Western Fascination with the East
2025 || Paperback || Christopher Harding || Penguin Books Ltd
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Autocracy, Inc
The Dictators Who Want to Run the World
2024 || Hardcover || Anne Applebaum || Penguin Books Ltd
Lolita
2011 || Paperback || Vladimir Nabokov || Penguin Books Ltd
Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, frustrated college professor. In love with his landlady's twelve-year-old daughter Lolita, he'll do anything to possess her. Unable and unwilling to stop himself, he is prepared to commit any crime to get what he wants. Is he in love or insane? This is a silver-tongued poet or a pervert?
The Eastern Front
A History of the First World War
2025 || Paperback || Nick Lloyd || Penguin Books Ltd
Tyranny of the Minority
How to Reverse an Authoritarian Turn, and Forge a Democracy for All
2024 || Paperback || Steven Levitsky e.a. || Penguin Books Ltd
THE MUCH-ANTICIPATED FOLLOW-UP TO INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER HOW DEMOCRACIES DIE – essential reading ahead of the 2024 US election‘Tyranny of the Minority is an exceptional book, one of the best guides out there to the crisis of American democracy’ Zack Beauchamp, Vox–-------------------------------------How has democracy become so threatened – and what can we do to save it?With the clarity and brilliance that made their first book, How Democracies Die, a global bestseller, leading Ha...
The Art of Statistics
Learning from Data
2020 || Paperback || David Spiegelhalter || Penguin Books Ltd
A statistical national treasure' Jeremy Vine, BBC Radio 2'Required reading for all politicians, journalists, medics and anyone who tries to influence people (or is influenced) by statistics. A tour de force' Popular ScienceDo busier hospitals have higher survival rates? How many trees are there on the planet? Why do old men have big ears? David Spiegelhalter reveals the answers to these and many other questions - questions that can only be addressed using statistical science. Statistics has p...
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All His Spies
The Secret World of Robert Cecil
2024 || Hardcover || Stephen Alford || Penguin Books Ltd