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Between Truth and Time: A History of Soviet Central Television
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The first full-length, archive-based history of Soviet Central Television's production and...
When to Rob a Bank: A Rogue Economist's Guide to the World
Stephen J. Dubner and Steven D. Levitt
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This is the ultimate guide to the world of the Freak. Renegade thinkers and bestselling sensations...
Karma City
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A microscopic parasite has crippled humanity with night terrors and paralyzing anxiety. In this...
science fiction post-apocalyptic Karma City Gardner Browning
A Life's Work: On Becoming a Mother
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When it was first published, Cusk's memoir of new motherhood shocked readers and critics alike: it...
Suswatibasu (1703 KP) rated On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From The Twentieth Century in Books
Jan 3, 2018
Along with Burleigh and Kershaw he has exposed the monstrosities of the evil regimes ruled by Hitler, Mussolini, Lenin, Stalin, Pol Pot and other tyrants who have murdered at home and abroad. Having extensively studied both right-wing and left-wing tyrannical regimes, Snyder goes onto look at the 2016 presidential campaign and Donald Trump. "Post-truth is pre-fascism," he writes, in one of many passages that seem to cast the US as a society in a pre-fascist stage.
Snyder succinctly suggests that 20 lessons from history are invaluable if we are to avoid democracy collapsing as it did after 1918. History he agrees does not repeat but it does instruct.
In a world where truth, reality and fantasy are thrown into a huge melting pot - having a book that researched facts, presents political history and encourages the reader to make their own decisions is a liberating read.
Here We Lie
9.5
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"A complex look at the long-standing consequences of privilege and toxic masculinity.......
suspense
David McK (3770 KP) rated The Last of Us Remastered in Video Games
Feb 13, 2020
However, I knew it was by the team behind the Uncharted games, and so picked it up when it was part of the PSN free games package, and thought I would give it a whirl. Now I've finished it, I have to say: I still prefer the Uncharted games.
Detailing the trials and travails of pottie-mouthed Ellie and Joel in a post-apocalyptic (pandemic?) world, there's no denying the skill and attention to detail put into the plot"; it's just a pity I found the game to be very 'samey' after a while.
Hitler's Forgotten Children: The Shocking True Story of the Nazi Kidnapping Conspiracy
Tim Tate and Ingrid von Oelhafen
8.0
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'More than 70 years ago I was a "gift" for Adolf Hitler. I was stolen as a baby to be part of one of...