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Muslim Europe: A Journey in Search of a Fourteen Hundred Year History, Tharik Hussain
In a revelatory journey throughout the continent, we tread within the footsteps of the primary Muslims who arrived on European soil in 647 AD. We journey by Cyprus, Sicily, Malta, Portugal and Spain, studying in regards to the continent’s nice Caliphate tradition and Muslim commonwealth, encountering red-haired European Sultans and Arabic-speaking Christian Kings, the Sufi lodges of Cyprus and the palaces of Sicily.
Forgotten Muslim pioneers like Abbas Ibn Firnas gave us flight, Ibn Rushd gifted us fashionable philosophy and the cross-fertilisation of faiths and cultures birthed Europe’s Christian Renaissance. For twelve centuries, Muslim Europe was a sanctuary for the continent’s Jews. Recalling the poignant voices of Hasdai Ibn Shaprut and Abraham Ibn Daoud, Jews flourished below Muslim safety, triggering the Jewish Golden Age.
For the primary time, Muslim Europe lays naked the reason for our collective Islamic amnesia by mapping Europe’s “anti-Muslim DNA” by medieval Crusade narratives and nation-building myths. But Islam was by no means a sideshow to Western tradition; it was integral to its improvement for over 1,400 years.
A Danger to the Minds of Young Girls: Margaret C Anderson, Book Bans, and the Fight to Modernize Literature, Adam Morgan
Already below fireplace for publishing the literary avant-garde right into a world not prepared for it, Margaret C Anderson’s cutting-edge journal The Little Review was a bastion of progressive politics and boundary-pushing writing from then-unknowns like TS Eliot, Ezra Pound, William Butler Yeats, and Djuna Barnes. And as its writer, Anderson was a goal. From Chicago to New York and Paris, this fearless agitator helmed a woman-led publication that pushed American tradition ahead and challenged the sensibilities of early Twentieth-century Americans dismayed by its salacious writing and advocacy for supposed extremism like girls’s suffrage, entry to contraception, and LGBTQ rights.
But then it went too far. In 1921, Anderson discovered herself on trial and labelled “a hazard to the minds of younger women” by a authorities in search of to close her down. Guilty of getting serialised James Joyce’s masterpiece Ulysses in her journal, Anderson was not only a writer but in addition a scapegoat for regressives in search of to impose their will on a world getting ready to modernisation.
Journalist and literary critic Adam Morgan brings Anderson and her journal to life anew in A Danger to the Minds of Young Girls, capturing a second of cultural acceleration and backlash all too acquainted at this time whereas shining gentle on an unsung heroine of American arts and letters. Bringing a recent eye to a lady and a motion misunderstood of their time, this biography highlights a feminist counterculture that audaciously pushed for extra throughout a time of maximum social conservatism and altered the face of American literature and tradition without end.
Battle of the Arctic: The Maritime Epic of World War Two, Hugh Sebag-Montefiore
A deep dive into the Second World War’s maritime epic within the Arctic. In a reconfiguration of latest occasions in Ukraine, it’s 1941, and Russia has been invaded. The phrases of the brand new alliance had been that Western nations would ship urgently wanted struggle supplies to Russia through the shortest however most harmful route: crusing north of the Arctic Circle whereas being hunted by U-boats, the Luftwaffe, and a floor fleet spearheaded by Tirpitz and Scharnhorst. This endeavour was known as the Arctic convoys.
Battle of the Arctic is in regards to the battle and naval battles that unfolded whereas Allied naval and service provider seamen, airmen, submariners, troopers and intelligence officers delivered on this wartime dedication to Russia from 1941-45, passing by terrific storms, snow, ice and Arctic mirages. When ships went down in seas so chilly {that a} man may die after simply 5 minutes of immersion, it triggered occasions harking back to the do-or-die moments in the course of the sinking of the Titanic.
Men perished one after the other in lifeboats, and as castaways on abandoned Arctic islands the place they had been stalked by polar bears. Frostbitten and wounded survivors ended up in Russian hospitals so primitive that amputations had been carried out with out anaesthetics. Other survivors, whereas stranded for months within the communist state they had been aiding, skilled the murky worlds of the NKVD and the gulags in addition to famine and prostitution.
Although throughout World War Two, the connection with Russia was removed from clean crusing, this wartime sacrifice for Stalin’s Soviet Union is at this time utilized by each events because the historic precedent for future cooperation between Russia and the West.
The Curious Case of Mike Lynch: The Improbable Life and Death of a Tech Billionaire, Katie Prescott
On the morning of August 19, 2024, the Bayesian yacht tragically sank off the coast of Sicily, taking with it the lives of Mike Lynch, his daughter and 5 others. Hours earlier, Lynch’s affiliate and co-defendant in one of many greatest fraud circumstances in Silicon Valley historical past, Stephen Chamberlain, was hit by a automotive in Cambridge and killed.
The odds of those two deaths occurring collectively had been estimated at 4 in a single billion.
Drawing on in depth analysis and unique entry to key sources, journalist Katie Prescott forensically explores the life and loss of life of this elusive maverick. Prescott guides us from Lynch’s humble beginnings, by his meteoric rise to CEO of Autonomy, and past to a vicious authorized battle lasting greater than a decade following the 2011 sale of Autonomy to Hewlett-Packard for greater than £11 bn. A really good feat of investigative reporting, it is a story the place nothing is sort of because it seems.
Hate: The Uses of a Powerful Emotion, Şyeda Kurt, translated from the German by Jackie de Pont
Who is allowed to hate? Hatred, this grating, corrosive feeling, is omnipresent, roaring from the streets or whispered in bourgeois houses. It thrives in parliamentary speeches, conspiracy theorists’ fantasies and youngsters’s bedrooms – and definitely not in secret, even when many wish to see it restricted there.
Kurt frees hatred from its banishment and units out on the path of its potential for resistance. She is especially excited by folks as topics of hatred in a capitalist, racist and patriarchal world. Who are these haters and what energy relations do they base themselves on? Who is allowed to hate? Which emotions paralyse, and which of them information us to a fairer, extra caring society?
Quantum 2.0: The Past, Present, and Future of Quantum Physics, Paul Davies
Scientist Paul Davies tells the gripping story of how, starting with an iconic mathematical equation within the Twenties, a radical new concept of nature – quantum mechanics – burst upon the trendy world, and the way at this time we’re on the cusp of the second nice quantum know-how revolution.
Quantum 2.0 reveals how unique states of matter that don’t have any counterpart within the on a regular basis world are being harnessed to allow types of teleportation and “spooky” telepathic hyperlinks between distant locations. Powerful new instruments equivalent to quantum computer systems, quantum cryptography and the quantum web have attracted billions of {dollars} of investments, triggering a frantic quantum arms race. And showing on the horizon is essentially the most superior and game-changing prospect of all – quantum AI.
Yet underpinning this dazzling promise lies a paradox. Although quantum mechanics is essentially the most profitable scientific concept ever, quantum methods possess properties that defy instinct and shred on a regular basis notions of actuality. Albert Einstein may by no means fairly imagine it. And a long time after Erwin Schrödinger launched his well-known cat paradox, scientists are nonetheless divided over how one can make sense of the bizarre quantum realm, one the place ghostly quantum particles produce tiny forces in nanotechnology, trigger black holes to evaporate – and will even be making the universe increase quicker and quicker. Indeed, cosmologists imagine, the imprint of a quantum course of stays etched into the afterglow of the Big Bang.
Quantum 2.0 takes the reader gently from the fundamental ideas to the leading edge, inviting us all to peek into the brand new wonderland of quantum physics and glimpse its gorgeous implications.
