Books to Challenge
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You can learn from history and experience |
It isn’t strictly true that “books” challenge, they are neutral and usually the means of transmission.
Ideas and content makes us think. Sometimes that means being receptive to new ideas and at other times the force of the story or facts gives us no options.
Sadly many people do their best to avoid the challenges of history and ideas.
If you are not one of them, and we hope that you are not, please explore this section.
Please also be aware that this is a reading zone – it isn’t a comfort zone. Some of the books on the Holocaust and Racism are hard to read, but necessary if we are to stop it happening again.
If there is a book that has dealt with a challenging subject in a manner that impressed you perhaps others could also benefit from that experience. Probably the simplest way to do this is to click on the link below to enter your views directly on-line.
How this book handled a challenge.
We have many more titles
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You can reserve any item in lending stock.
Please note:
The "Womens Library" has opened an online Archive and Museum Catalogue of their holdings - the most extensive collection of items on women's history in the UK, with over 60,000 books and pamphlets, 2,500 periodical titles, 400 archive collections and many museum objects. Topics include health, sexuality and popular culture, politics, history and human rights. If you want to glimpse their collection there is a wealth of material here.
Our library also has a wide range of books on the topic.