AI for Diversity by Roger Søraa
Category: Current Affairs | Series: AI for Everything Ser.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly impacting many aspects of people's lives across the globe, from relatively mundane technology to more advanced digital systems that can make their own decisions. While AI has great potential, it also holds great peril depending on how it is designed and used. ...Show more
Freedom Next Time by Pilger, John
Category: Current Affairs
Worldrenowned 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.
An Eye on Ireland - A Journey Through Social Change - New and Selected Journalism by Justine McCarthy
Category: Current Affairs
'For those of us around from the beginning, this collection jolts like jump-leads to the complacent heart. For the many who were not, dive into these columns from an Ireland of not so long ago. It's an eye-opener.'MIRIAM LORDFOR FOUR DECADES, Justine McCarthy's fearless journalism and commentary has cha ...Show more
A Renaissance of Our Own: A Memoir and Manifesto on Reimagining by Rachel Cargle
Category: Current Affairs
How we can use knowledge, empathy and action to reimagine the world around usOver the past year, we have seen a profound awakening. Institutions and communities have taken down statues and flags, the names of white supremacists in universities and on buildings have been replaced and as we continue to se ...Show more
Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence by Amy B. Zegart
Category: Current Affairs
A riveting account of espionage for the digital age, from one of America’s leading intelligence experts Spying has never been more ubiquitous-or less understood. The world is drowning in spy movies, TV shows, and novels, but universities offer more courses on rock and roll than on the CIA and there are ...Show more
Movement: How To Take Back Our Streets and Transform Our Lives by Thalia Verkade, Marco te Brömmelstroet
Category: Current Affairs
Our dependence on cars is damaging our health - and the planet's. Movement asks radical questions about how we approach the biggest urban problem, reflecting on the apparent successes of Dutch cities. Making our communities safer, cleaner, and greener starts with asking the fundamental question- who do ...Show more
Beyond the Hype: The Inside Story of Science's Biggest Media Controversies from Climategate to Covid by Fiona Fox
Category: Current Affairs
Do you remember the 'Climategate' email leak? Or the 'Frankenfoods'- style headlines about the perils of GM foods? What about the time the government sacked its own science advisor for challenging drug laws? We rely on the media to help us make sense of complicated scientific developments that could tr ...Show more
Billy No-Mates: How I Realised Men Have a Friendship Problem by Max Dickins
Category: Current Affairs
An honest, personal and funny look at male friendships, emotional connection and mental health. When Max Dickins started to think about proposing to his girlfriend, he realised there was no one he could call on to be his best man. This realisation sent him down a rabbit hole, examining the friendships h ...Show more
The Matter Of Black Lives: Writings From The New Yorker by David Remnick, Jelani Cobb
Category: Current Affairs
A collection of the New Yorker‘s groundbreaking writing on race in America, including work by James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Hilton Als, Zadie Smith, and more From the pages of the New Yorker comes a bold and telling portrait of Black life in America, with astonishing early work from Re ...Show more
Janet Malcolm: The Last Interview
Category: Current Affairs
A provocative collection of interviews with the sublimely talented writer, author of the shattering Journalist and the MurdererThe legendary journalist, Janet Malcolm, opened her most famous work The Journalist and the Murderer with the line- "Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himse ...Show more
The New Heretics - Understanding the Conspiracy Theories Polarizing the World by Andy Thomas
Category: Current Affairs
Through their part in some huge controversies, conspiracy theorists are being branded the Number One Enemies of our times - the new heretics. They are seen to threaten the very fabric of modern society, spreading doubts and fears that result in Washington Capitol invasions, transmission mast burnings or ...Show more