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Books by Lyndsey Stonebridge
Lyndsey Stonebridge is Interdisciplinary Professor of Humanities and Human Rights at the University of Birmingham. Her work focuses on 20th-century and contemporary literature, political theory and history, human rights and refugee studies, drawing on the interdisciplinary connections between literature, history, politics, law, and social policy.
We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt’s Lessons in Love and Disobedience
by Lyndsey Stonebridge
We Are Free to Change the World by Lyndsey Stonebridge is an excellent, well-written book that shows why Hannah Arendt is still an important and sometimes controversial thinker today.
Interviews with Lyndsey Stonebridge
The best books on Human Rights and Literature, recommended by Lyndsey Stonebridge
The connections between human rights and literature are profound and we ignore the humanities and reading at our peril, says Lyndsey Stonebridge, Interdisciplinary Professor of Humanities at the University of Birmingham. She recommends books that best show the complex relationship between literature and human rights, from Auschwitz to Manus Island.
Interviews where books by Lyndsey Stonebridge were recommended
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The Cipher
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Prophet Song
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The Shortest History of China: From the Ancient Dynasties to a Modern Superpower
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A Seed Is Sleepy
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Third Millennium Thinking: Creating Sense in a World of Nonsense
Saul Perlmutter, Robert MacCoun and John Campbell -
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
by Daniel Kahneman
Popular Books of the Last Month
Popular Books of the Last Month
After reading interviews on Five Books, which books did our readers buy? Below you’ll find some of our popular books from last month, September 2024.
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A Day in the Life of Abed Salama
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Eve: How The Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
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Our Enemies Will Vanish: The Russian Invasion and Ukraine's War of Independence
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The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq
by Steve Coll -
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The Picnic: A Dream of Freedom and the Collapse of the Iron Curtain
by Matthew Longo
The Best Politics Books of 2024: The Orwell Prize for Political Writing
The Best Politics Books of 2024: The Orwell Prize for Political Writing
The Orwell Prizes are the UK’s most prestigious prizes for writing about politics, awarded annually to books and articles that best meet George Orwell’s own ambition “to make political writing into an art.” The nonfiction books that made the 2024 shortlist ranged from evolution to political philosophy, from memoir to the Middle East.
