By looking at how emotion becomes detached from its object to become a thing in itself (Charlie Hebdo, Princess Diana), Booker considers the psychology of crowds.
A remarkable new history that transforms our understanding of West Africa by showing the complex system of trade that existed there before the international slave trade, using cowrie shells as currency.
In 1996 the author of ‘Denying The Holocaust’ was sued for libel by David Irving and acquitted. Her new book is a sober and lucid manual for the perplexed and willfully blind.
How Orcadian technological innovations over the last decades – a smart grid, micro-turbines, hydrogen fuel, marine power etc – are leading the way for low-carbon expertise while generating surplus energy.
Edward Burtynsky, Jennifer Baichwal & Nick de Pencier
Burtinsky is famous for his huge and sumptuously detailed photographs of industrialisation. Here he turns his eye to the human destruction of the earth on a geological scale. Engrossing and unnerving.
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