Books (Featured)
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How to unlock music as key to the art of remembering
During that time, people have regularly approached with me a similar set of befuddling stories and questions. Lisa Genove The…
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Israel’s Failed Response to the Armenian Genocide: Denial, State Deception, Truth versus Politicization of History
This book follows the author’s gutsy campaign against his government and his quest to successfully hold the conference in the…
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Christianity has touched Australian law more deeply than we admit
How far does a person’s faith shape their professional life? Michael Pelly Financial Review And when it comes to politics…
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Omissa Spe*
Academics used to have privileges not enjoyed by the majority of the workforce: job security, flexible hours, access to great…
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Nobel winner Kazuo Ishiguro reaches for the sun
Our narrator, Klara, is a robot, an “Artificial Friend”, or AF, designed as a subservient companion for children. Liam Pieper…
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How The U.S. Is Killing Off The Death Penalty
The Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty,” examines America’s uneasy history of capital punishment. Melissa Jeltsen HuffPost One of…
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Isabel Allende: ‘Everyone called me crazy for divorcing in my 70s. I’ve never been scared of being alone’
The Chilean American author Isabel Allende was a feminist long before she knew what the word meant. Fiona Sturges The Guardian At…
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Understanding John F. Kennedy: A conversation with acclaimed historian and JFK biographer professor Fredrik Logevall
There are memories of a lionized hero and the glamor and triumph of a public life cut short by a…
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Empathy starts early: 5 Australian picture books that celebrate diversity
It is also crucial in cultivating compassion towards others. Authors The Conversation Children from minority backgrounds rarely see themselves ……
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Poirot at 100: the refugee detective who stole Britain’s heart
That man, of course, was Hercule Poirot, who made his debut in Christie’s first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles,…
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Who Voted for Hitler?
Back in May of 2017, over drinks, The Nation’s Don Guttenplan recommended to me an out-of-print book from the early 1980s…
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Racists tried to ban this book. How ironic that Ireland might now shun it
To Kill a Mockingbird is part of many Irish childhoods. Should it supply moral instruction? Niamh Mulvey The Irish Times…
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The irresistible rise of John F. Kennedy, the great campaigner
Its sluggish currents hide the rusted hulks of 50 Japanese and American warships sunk during night battles while savage fighting…
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‘No migrants here!’: the Galway families transplanted to Meath’s Gaeltacht colony
Twenty-four families boarded two buses in Clonbur, Co Galway on March 29th, 1940, to make new homes as part of…
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The most anticipated books of 2021
There was a hunger for new voices, new stories and new perspectives that the fiction and non-fiction in 2021 continues…
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EU humiliated as Barack Obama pinpoints ‘unresolved contradictions’ at heart of bloc
The EU is going through arguably its greatest crisis of confidence. Tom Evans Express Regardless of the current state of…
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