The Wayfinders

The Wayfinders

Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World. By Wade Davis.

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NI 431 - Bloody oil - shut down the tar sands! - April, 2010
The New Economics - a bigger picture

The New Economics - a bigger picture

Anyone who offers a diagnosis of the current economic malaise and prescribes a cure, but has not read this book, doesn’t know what they’re talking about.

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NI 431 - Bloody oil - shut down the tar sands! - April, 2010
The Ticking is the Bomb

The Ticking is the Bomb

Part memoir, part social commentary, part philosophical inquiry, US writer Nick Flynn’s book builds on his earlier autobiography, Another Bullshit Night in Suck City.

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NI 431 - Bloody oil - shut down the tar sands! - April, 2010
The Unit

The Unit

Ninni Holmqvist's début novel is a dystopia in the tradition of Margaret Atwood and Marge Piercy.

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NI 430 - Globalization on the rocks - March, 2010
Going Rouge - Sarah Palin - An American Nightmare

Going Rouge - Sarah Palin - An American Nightmare

This book provides some amusing and insightful analysis of the way in which knee-jerk fundamentalism mixes with the celebrity sell to provide a personal narrative on which the hopes of the Republican Right have come to reside.

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NI 430 - Globalization on the rocks - March, 2010
Beyond Reach?

Beyond Reach?

A fictionalized account of the 2005 Make Poverty History campaign.

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NI 429 - Too many of us? The population panic. - January, 2010
Transforming Pakistan: Ways out of instability

Transforming Pakistan: Ways out of instability

Hilary Synnott’s book is a useful introduction to Pakistan’s past, present and possible future.

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NI 428 - Welcome to Copenhagen! - December, 2009
Murder without Borders

Murder without Borders

Vancouver-based journalist Terry Gould tells the stories of six journalists who paid with their lives for refusing to surrender their conviction that journalism is meant to be about ‘telling the truth’.

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NI 427 - Terror takeover - November, 2009
A Suitable Enemy

A Suitable Enemy

Racism, Migration and Islamophobia in Europe

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NI 427 - Terror takeover - November, 2009
Natural Selection

Natural Selection

Szperling's short, punchy novel paints a vivid pen-portrait of the savage and amoral nature of this stratum of Argentinean society.

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NI 426 - Islam in power - October, 2009
Thursday Night Widows

Thursday Night Widows

Nominally a thriller, Thursday Night Widows is less concerned with the 'whodunnit' aspects of plotting than with a psychological dissection of a social class obsessed with bickering and petty jealousies as the pillars of their world dissolve.

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NI 426 - Islam in power - October, 2009
2666

2666

It takes a singular talent to make a book of 1,000 pages that is as hard to put down as it is to pick up. Despite its size, 2666 retains the agility of a thriller.

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NI 425 - Where have all the Bees gone? - September, 2009
Working

Working

A graphic adaptation of the book by Studs Terkel by Harvey Pekar and Paul Buhle.

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NI 425 - Where have all the Bees gone? - September, 2009
Murder In The Name Of Honour

Murder In The Name Of Honour

A grim but compelling reading – a fitting testament to all the women killed who had sex outside marriage.

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NI 424 - Surviving change in the Arctic - July, 2009
Cutting for Stone

Cutting for Stone

An excellent first novel, teeming with memorable characters and dealing with momentous events; the sort of old-fashioned yarn in which the patient reader can become immersed.

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NI 424 - Surviving change in the Arctic - July, 2009
Broken Glass

Broken Glass

A multi-layered tribute to the human spirit – beaten but not broken, and laughing drunkenly in the face of adversity.

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NI 423 - China in charge - June, 2009

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Article title From magazine Publication date
Bloody oil - shut down the tar sands! April, 2010
Bloody oil - shut down the tar sands! April, 2010
Bloody oil - shut down the tar sands! April, 2010
Globalization on the rocks March, 2010
Globalization on the rocks March, 2010
Too many of us? The population panic. January, 2010
Too many of us? The population panic. January, 2010
Welcome to Copenhagen! December, 2009
Welcome to Copenhagen! December, 2009
Welcome to Copenhagen! December, 2009
Terror takeover November, 2009
Terror takeover November, 2009
Terror takeover November, 2009
Islam in power October, 2009
Islam in power October, 2009
Where have all the Bees gone? September, 2009
Where have all the Bees gone? September, 2009
Surviving change in the Arctic July, 2009
Surviving change in the Arctic July, 2009
China in charge June, 2009
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