Jane Green - Saving Grace
Book depots are great!
Friday, July 31, 2020
Wednesday, July 29, 2020
Assorted
David Suzuki - Time To Change
John Gray - Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus
Dave Eggars - What Is The What
David Suzuki And Holly Dressel- Naked Ape To Superspecies
All interesting books sourced from West Hobart book depots.
Friday, July 24, 2020
Wednesday, July 8, 2020
Jonathan Holslag - A Political History Of The World
Problems stemming from colonisation was thrusting the liberal ideals onto the colonised. Many people in the enlightenment periods in Europe thought that they had unearthed the world's secret and spread liberalism throughout the world. This concept of shared values, or to put it bluntly, nationalism, believes people have shared values. So it was pitting white Europeans against the significant ''other''. It was brutal systemic colonisation of Africa, America and the rest of the world, and what the colonisers left behind was boundaries, many that don't match up with the colonised. They may not be a nation, but merely a collection of a tribal, linguistic or ethnic group. They weren't obedient nations. Liberalism manifests itself into freedom, and the ultimate freedom is to discriminate against others. To pit yourself higher than others. Racism.
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