6 Top nonfiction books like The Embarrassed Colonialist: A Lowy Institute Paper: Penguin Special (Penguin Specials) by Sean Dorney

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The Embarrassed Colonialist: A Lowy Institute Paper: Penguin Special (Penguin Specials)

By: Sean Dorney

3.87

Format: 96 pages, Kindle Edition

Forty years after independence, Papua New Guinea is the largest single recipient of aid from Austra…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Embarrassed Colonialist: A Lowy Institute Paper: Penguin Special (Penguin Specials) by Sean Dorney , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor

By: Adam Kay

4.40

Format: 285 pages, Kindle Edition

Welcome to the life of a junior doctor: 97-hour weeks, life and death decisions, a constant tsunami… read more

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  • nonfiction
"From the most insignificant of actions can come the most serious of consequences."

-Adam Kay, This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor

"Even if I wanted to have an affair, I honestly think I'd be too tired to unzip my trousers"

-Adam Kay, This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor

"I’m all for explaining terminology as we go along, but if you don’t know what a stethoscope is, this is probably a book to regift. "

-Adam Kay, This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor

"You work yourself to exhaustion, pushing yourself beyond what could be reasonably expected of you, and end up constantly feeling like you don’t know"

-Adam Kay, This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor

2. Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity

By: Katherine Boo

3.96

Format: None pages,

From Pulitzer Prize-winner Katherine Boo, a landmark work of narrative nonfiction that tells the dr… read more

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3. Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

By: Claire Dederer

3.79

Format: 257 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the New York Times best seller Poser and the acclaimed memoir Love and Trouble, … read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
"Biography used to be something you sought out, yearned for, actively pursued. Now it falls on your head all day long."

-Claire Dederer, Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

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4. Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West

By: Calder Walton

4.30

Format: 688 pages, Hardcover

The riveting, untold story of the hundred-year intelligence war between Russia and the West with le… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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5. Lifespan: Why We Age―and Why We Don't Have To

By: David A. Sinclair

4.15

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

It’s a seemingly undeniable truth that aging is inevitable. But what if everything we’ve been taugh… read more

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  • nonfiction
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6. Migrations

By: Charlotte McConaghy

4.14

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Franny Stone has always been the kind of woman who is able to love but unable to stay. Leaving behi… read more

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"What makes a young thing like you so tired of life?"

-Charlotte McConaghy, Migrations

"All these humans have left no space for anything else."

-Charlotte McConaghy, Migrations

"There is nothing so disturbing as a creature born to flight being bound to dull lifelessness."

-Charlotte McConaghy, Migrations

"I think there is meaning, and it lives in nurturing, in making life sweeter for ourselves, and for those around us."

-Charlotte McConaghy, Migrations

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7. Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945–1955

By: Harald Jähner

4.09

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Germany, 1945: a country in ruins. Cities have been reduced to rubble and more than half of the pop… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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8. The Embarrassed Colonialist: A Lowy Institute Paper: Penguin Special (Penguin Specials)

By: Sean Dorney

3.87

Format: 96 pages, Kindle Edition

Forty years after independence, Papua New Guinea is the largest single recipient of aid from Austra… read more

Similar categories in Sean Dorney's The Embarrassed Colonialist: A Lowy Institute Paper: Penguin Special (Penguin Specials) book and Sean Dorney's The Embarrassed Colonialist: A Lowy Institute Paper: Penguin Special (Penguin Specials)

  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • australia

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