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Society & Culture: General
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The Bill Gates Problem : Reckoning with the Myth of the Good Billionaire€20.99
You know him as the founder of Microsoft; the philanthropic, kind-hearted billionaire who has donated endless funds to good causes around the world. But there's another side to Bill Gates.
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William Sharman Crawford and Ulster Radicalism€45.99
William Sharman Crawford (1780-1861) was the leading agrarian and democratic radical active in Ulster politics between the early 1830s and the 1850s. William Sharman Crawford and Ulster Radicalism is the first full biography of his life.
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Irresistible : How Cuteness Wired our Brains and Conquered the World€17.99
Why are some things cute, and others not? What happens to our brains when we see something cute? And how did cuteness go global, from Hello Kitty to Disney characters? Cuteness is an area where culture and biology get tangled up.
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The Big Fail : How Our Supply Chains Collapsed When We Needed Them Most€20.99
From the author of the modern business classic The Smartest Guys in the Room comes a damning indictment of late-stage capitalism-and the leaders that were brutally unprepared for a global pandemic.
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Technofeudalism : What Killed Capitalism€26.99
In his boldest and most far-reaching book yet, world-famous economist Yanis Varoufakis argues that capitalism is dead and a new economic era has begun.
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The Identity Trap : A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time€29.99
The origins, consequences and limitations of an ideology that has quickly become highly influential around the world. For much of their history, societies have violently oppressed ethnic, religious and sexual minorities.
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Doppelganger : A Trip Into the Mirror World€20.99
When Naomi Klein discovered that a woman who shared her first name, but had radically different, harmful views, was getting chronically mistaken for her, it seemed too ridiculous to take seriously. Then suddenly it wasn't.
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Cobalt Red : How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives€29.99
Cobalt Red is the searing, first-ever expose of the immense toll taken on the people and environment of the Democratic Republic of the Congo by cobalt mining, as told through the testimonies of the Congolese people themselves. Activist and researcher Siddharth Kara has traveled deep into cobalt territory to document the testimonies of the people living, working, and dying for cobalt.
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The War on the West€14.99
Author Douglas Murray asks: if the history of humankind is one of slavery, conquest, prejudice, genocide and exploitation, why are only Western nations taking the blame for it?