How to Argue With a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference
By: Adam Rutherford
3.90
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Race is not a biological reality. Racism thrives on our not knowing this. Racist pseudoscience …
Want to Read $ 10.99"When you have only ever experienced privilege, equality feels like oppression."-Adam Rutherford, How to Argue With a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference
"When you have only ever experienced privilege, equality feels like oppression."-Adam Rutherford, How to Argue With a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference
"Race is a social construct. This does not mean that it is invalid or unimportant."-Adam Rutherford, How to Argue With a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference
"Race is a social construct. This does not mean that it is invalid or unimportant."-Adam Rutherford, How to Argue With a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference
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1. You Say Potato: A Book About Accents
By: David Crystal , Ben Crystal
4.32
Format: 632 pages, Hardcover
Some people say scohn, while others say schown. He says bath, while she says bahth. You say potayto… read more
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2. The Sisters Are Alright: Changing the Broken Narrative of Black Women in America
By: Tamara Winfrey Harris
4.35
Format: 26 pages, Paperback
What's wrong with black women? Not a damned thing! The Sisters Are Alrightexposes anti-black-woman … read more
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3. Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story
By: Angela Saini
4.06
Format: 285 pages,
From intelligence to emotion, for centuries science has told us that men and women are fundamentall… read more
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4. Spy Who Couldn't Spell, The : A Dyslexic Traitor, an Unbreakable Code, and the FBI's Hunt for America's Stolen Secrets
By: Yudhijit Bhattacharjee
3.91
Format: 434 pages,
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5. Jews Don't Count
By: David Baddiel
4.21
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
Jews Don’t Count is a book for people on the right side of history. People fighting the good fight … read more
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6. Men Who Hate Women
By: Laura Bates
4.34
Format: 366 pages, Kindle Edition
The first comprehensive undercover look at the terrorist movement no one is talking about. Men W… read more
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"Incels use the metaphor of the red pill to describe the moment a man's blinkers fall away and he suddenly realizes that he has been lied to his whole life. The world that he has been forced to believ…"-Laura Bates, Men Who Hate Women
"When incels do occasionally crop up in news reports or conversations, they're so easily dismissed as a tiny fringe group of online weirdos. What you hear about them sounds so strange, so extreme, so …"-Laura Bates, Men Who Hate Women
7. How They Broke Britain
By: James O'Brien
4.29
Format: 404 pages, Kindle Edition
The revealing, defining account of the dark network that broke out country. Something has gone r… read more
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8. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
By: David Mitchell
4.16
Format: 433 pages, ebook
A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive behe… read more
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"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
9. Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain
By: Sathnam Sanghera
4.10
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
In his brilliantly illuminating new book Sathnam Sanghera demonstrates how so much of what we consi… read more
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"It is puerile to reduce imperial history to a matter of 'good' and 'bad'; trying to weigh up the positive and negative in this way is like defending the morality of kicking a random old man in the sh…"-Sathnam Sanghera, Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain
"After the First World War, the man in charge of recruitment at the Colonial Office was Major Ralph Dolignon Furse, a decorated war hero, a keen rugby and cricket player and, crucially, holder of a po…"-Sathnam Sanghera, Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain
10. Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms
By: Hannah Fry
4.12
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Shortlisted for the 2018 Baillie Gifford Prize and the 2018 Royal Society Investment Science Book P… read more
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"you're not using the product; you are the product"-Hannah Fry, Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms
"And how biased is too biased? At what point do you prioritize the victims of preventable crimes over the victims of the algorithm?"-Hannah Fry, Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms
"He realized that – when whetted in the right way – people’s voracious appetite for an expert’s assessment of themselves could over-ride their desire for privacy. What’s more, they were often willing …"-Hannah Fry, Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms
"Gary Marx, professor of sociology at MIT, put the dilemma well in an interview he gave to the Guardian: ‘The Soviet Union had remarkably little street crime when they were at their worst of their tot…"-Hannah Fry, Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms
11. Empireworld: How British Imperialism Has Shaped the Globe
By: Sathnam Sanghera
4.04
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
In his ground-breaking new book, Sathnam Sanghera traces the legacies of British empire around the … read more
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12. Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food
By: Chris van Tulleken
4.43
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A manifesto to change how you eat and how you think about the human body. It’s not you, it’s the… read more
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13. Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
By: Akala
4.54
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From the first time he was stopped and searched as a child, to the day he realised his mum was whit… read more
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"The officer's question already let me know that in his eyes I was dirt; that is, matter out of place."-Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
"As long as whiteness is a metaphor for power, blackness must of course function as a metaphor for powerlessness, and as long as money whitens, poverty must blacken."-Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
"Are we really trying to encourage and normalise black academic excellence in the UK? Or would we prefer the extra cost of imprisonment and crime that comes further down the line after neglect, just s…"-Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
"Real-life racism makes you paranoid, even in children it creates the dilemma of not knowing if someone is just being horrible in the ‘normal’ way, as people so often are, or if you are being ‘blacked…"-Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
14. Dead Famous: An Unexpected History of Celebrity from Bronze Age to Silver Screen
By: Greg Jenner
3.80
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Celebrity, with its neon glow and selfie pout, strikes us as hypermodern. But the famous and infamo… read more
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15. Another England: How to Reclaim Our National Story
By: Caroline Lucas
4.04
Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition
Who are the English? Today, the dominant story told about our national history solely serves the i… read more
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"Many resented how some expressions of Englishness were allowed, while others were not. It was acceptable to love the English countryside, English humour, English music and English Literature, and to …"-Caroline Lucas, Another England: How to Reclaim Our National Story
"With the 1980s came a new harshness in British politics, which included prioritising profit over public service. The Conservatives - the very party who might have been expected to support the traditi…"-Caroline Lucas, Another England: How to Reclaim Our National Story
"The economist J.K. Galbraith wrote in The Affluent Society (1958) about 'private affluence and public squalor', demonstrating the pernicious effects on the economy and society of excessive wealth ine…"-Caroline Lucas, Another England: How to Reclaim Our National Story
"Ultimately, the most powerful way to rebalance the interests of private owners and the common good is by shifting the focus towards taxes on wealth - that is, asking those who have accummulated subst…"-Caroline Lucas, Another England: How to Reclaim Our National Story
16. All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopedia
By: Simon Garfield
3.65
Format: 390 pages, Hardcover
The encyclopaedia once shaped our understanding of the world. Created by thousands of scholars a… read more
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17. Museum for mordere og redningsmenn
By: Simon Stranger
4.33
Format: 366 pages, Hardcover
Dette er fortellingen om det jødiske ekteparet Rakel og Jacob Feldmann som blir drept av grenselose… read more
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18. The Invention of Essex: The Making of an English County
By: Tim Burrows
3.97
Format: 326 pages, Hardcover
Essex. A county both famous and infamous: the stuff of tabloid headlines and reality television, co… read more
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19. Four Chancellors and a Funeral: How to Lose a Country in Ten Days
By: Russell Jones
4.61
Format: 655 pages, Kindle Edition
The sequel nobody wants. After a decade of the Tories, could it get any worse? Spoiler – it does. … read more
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20. How to Argue With a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference
By: Adam Rutherford
3.90
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Race is not a biological reality. Racism thrives on our not knowing this. Racist pseudoscience … read more
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"When you have only ever experienced privilege, equality feels like oppression."-Adam Rutherford, How to Argue With a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference
"Race is a social construct. This does not mean that it is invalid or unimportant."-Adam Rutherford, How to Argue With a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference
"For humans, there are no purebloods, only mongrels enriched by the blood of multitudes."-Adam Rutherford, How to Argue With a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference
"Scientific racism’ or ‘race science’ are both misnomers. These are pseudoscientific domains."-Adam Rutherford, How to Argue With a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference
21. Superior: The Return of Race Science
By: Angela Saini
4.24
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Superior tells the disturbing story of the persistent thread of belief in biological racial differe… read more
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"Nobody has ever found any genes linking ethnicity or race to school results. Like Henry Garrett half a century earlier, [Gerhard] Meisenberg chooses to skip over the social, historical, and economic …"-Angela Saini, Superior: The Return of Race Science
22. A Pocket History of Human Evolution: How We Became Sapiens
By: Silvana Condemi
3.96
Format: 162 pages, Kindle Edition
Why aren’t we more like other apes? How did we win the evolutionary race? Find out how “wise” Homo … read more
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23. Somebody Told Me: One Man’s Unexpected Journey Down the Rabbit Hole of Lies, Trolls and Conspiracies
By: Danny Wallace
4.22
Format: 330 pages, Kindle Edition
Have you been keeping your eye on your grandma lately? Have you been calling her enough? You sure s… read more
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24. The Conspiracy Tourist: Travels Through a Strange World
By: Dom Joly
3.69
Format: 326 pages, Kindle Edition
Dom Joly sets off on his travels again, immersing himself in the strange world of conspiracies. On … read more
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25. Inside Wakefield Prison: Life Behind Bars in the Monster Mansion
By: Jonathan Levi and Emma French
3.59
Format: 270 pages, Kindle Edition
HMP Wakefield. 'Monster Mansion'. Hell to be inside. Almost impossible to escape. This prison has s… read more
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26. Nimic din ce face nu e vina ei
By: Emily Berry
3.95
Format: 92 pages, Paperback
Nimic din ce face nu e vina ei e o antologie de autor a uneia dintre cele mai importante poete brit… read more
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27. Business for Bohemians: Live Well, Make Money
By: Tom Hodgkinson
3.71
Format: 253 pages, Kindle Edition
Everyone should work for themselves. But don't cashflow forecasts, tax returns and P&Ls all sound a… read more
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"Making stuff is easy. Selling it is not."-Tom Hodgkinson, Business for Bohemians: Live Well, Make Money
28. What's Your Pronoun?: Beyond He and She
By: Dennis Baron
3.60
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Addressing one of the most pressing cultural questions of our generation, Dennis Baron reveals the … read more
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29. Suomalainen metsäkylpy
By: Marko Leppänen
3.89
Format: 246 pages, Hardcover
Tiedämme jo, että metsä parantaa. Tässä kirjassa Adela Pajunen ja Marko Leppänen kertovat, miksi ja… read more
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30. Why Can't I Just Enjoy Things?
By: Pierre Novellie
4.56
Format: 325 pages, Hardcover
Why were the other kids at school obsessed with Britney Spears instead of The Goon Show? Why don't … read more
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"Often when people react to new information about autism they end up accidentally correctly pointing out evidence of autism as opposed to evidence of its absence. They end up like someone throwing up …"-Pierre Novellie, Why Can't I Just Enjoy Things?
