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• Blockchain Chicken Farm

  and Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside

  Wang, Xiaowei, 1986-

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  Summary/Review: "From FSGO x Logic: stories about rural China, food, and tech that reveal new truths about the globalized world"--

• The Blue Wonder

  Why the Sea Glows, Fish Sing, and Other Astonishing Insights From the Ocean

  Bagusche, Frauke, 1978-

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  Summary/Review: "Amazing things happen under the Earth’s waters: the sea glows mysteriously at night, the smallest organisms (plankton) have the greatest power, and the fish, which seem so taciturn, communicate with each other loudly. In Blue…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Case for Basic Income

  Freedom, Security, Justice

  Swift, Jamie, 1951-

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  Summary/Review: "Inequality is up. Decent work is down. Free market fundamentalism has been exposed as a tragic failure. In a job market upended by COVID-19--with Canadians caught in the grip of precarious labour, stagnant wages, a climate crisis,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• China Unbound

  a New World Disorder

  Chiu, Joanna,

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  Summary/Review: "As the world's second-largest economy, China is extending its influence across the globe with the complicity of democratic nations. Joanna Chiu has spent a decade tracking China's propulsive rise, from the political aspects of the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Complex Exile

  Homelessness and Social Exclusion in Canada

  Dej, Erin, 1983-

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  Summary/Review: "A Complex Exile shows that the homelessness sector inadvertently reinforces the social exclusion of people who are homeless. Over 235,000 people couch surf, stay in emergency shelters, and live on the street in Canada every year.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Cultish

  the Language of Fanaticism

  Montell, Amanda,

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  Summary/Review: "What makes “cults” so intriguing and frightening? What makes them powerful? The reason why so many of us binge Manson documentaries by the dozen and fall down rabbit holes researching suburban moms gone QAnon is because we’re…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Extra Life

  a Short History of Living Longer

  Johnson, Steven, 1968-

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  Summary/Review: "As a species, humans have doubled their life expectancy in one hundred years. Medical breakthroughs, public health institutions, rising standards of living, and the other advances of modern life have given each person about 20,000…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Fulfillment

  Winning and Losing in One-click America

  MacGillis, Alec,

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  Summary/Review: "The story of regional inequality in America as revealed by the rise of Amazon and its distribution network"--

• The Future Is History

  How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia

  Gessen, M.

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  Summary WINNER OF THE 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN NONFICTION FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS WINNER OF THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY'S HELEN BERNSTEIN BOOK AWARD NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2017 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, LOS…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen

  Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World

  Colley, Linda,

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  Summary/Review: "A groundbreaking work that retells modern history through the rise and spread of written constitutions-some enlightened, many oppressive-to every corner of the globe. Filling a crucial void in our understanding of world history,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Hundred Years' War on Palestine

  a History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017

  Khalidi, Rashid,

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  Summary/Review: A history of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict told from the Palestinian perspective, arguing the period since the Balfour Declaration of 1917 has amounted to a hundred years of colonial war against the Palestinians.

• Hurts So Good

  the Science and Culture of Pain on Purpose

  Cowart, Leigh,

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  Summary/Review: "Masochism is sexy, human, reviled, worshipped, and delightfully bizarre. From ballerinas dancing on broken bones to ultramarathoners shitting their pants mid-race to competitive eaters scarfing down hot peppers, masochism is a part…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Indian in the Cabinet

  Speaking Truth to Power

  Wilson-Raybould, Jody, 1971-

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  Summary/Review: "A compelling political memoir of leadership and speaking truth to power by one of the most inspiring women of her generation Jody Wilson-Raybould was raised to be a leader. Inspired by the example of her grandmother, who persevered…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Into the Planet

  My Life as a Cave Diver

  Heinerth, Jill,

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  Summary/Review: "From one of the world's most renowned cave divers, a firsthand account of exploring the earth's final frontier: the hidden depths of our oceans and the sunken caves inside our planet. More people have died exploring underwater…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Let the Record Show

  a Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993

  Schulman, Sarah, 1958-

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  Summary/Review: "In just six years, ACT UP, New York, a broad and unlikely coalition of activists from all races, genders, sexualities, and backgrounds, changed the world. Armed with rancor, desperation, intelligence, and creativity, it took on the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Modi's India

  Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Ethnic Democracy

  Jaffrelot, Christophe,

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  Summary/Review: "Although ethnic and sectarian tensions have always been a feature of modern Indian history, the country was founded and governed in its first decades by a nationalist political movement - associated with the Indian National…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Next Supper

  the End of Restaurants as We Knew Them, and What Comes After

  Mintz, Corey, 1975-

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  Summary/Review: "In 2019, the restaurant business was booming. Americans spent more than half of their annual food budgets dining out. In a generation, chefs had gone from behind-the-scenes laborers to TV stars. The arrival of Seamless, DoorDash,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Not on My Watch

  How a Renegade Whale Biologist Took on Governments and Industry to Save Wild Salmon

  Morton, Alexandra, 1957-

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  Summary/Review: "Alexandra Morton has been called "the Jane Goodall of Canada." Here is her brilliant account of her thirty-year fight to save British Columbia's wild salmon, inspiring in its own right but also a roadmap of resistance. Alexandra…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• On Decline

  Potter, Andrew,

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  Summary/Review: "The death of David Bowie in January 2016 was a bad start to a year that got a lot worse: war in Syria, the Zika virus, terrorist attacks in Brussels and Nice, the Brexit vote—and the election of Donald Trump. The end-of-year wraps…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• On the Origin of the Deadliest Pandemic in 100 Years

  An Investigation

  Dewar, Elaine,

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  Summary/Review: "In On the Origin of the Worst Pandemic in 100 Years: An Investigation, prize-winning author and journalist Elaine Dewar spins a compulsive whodunnit. From the first television newscast describing a SARS-like flu affecting a distant…Read moreRead more of this annotation