Libraries will close from Tuesday 24 December to Wednesday 1 January inclusive. Be sure to stock up on your Christmas reading material by Monday, 23 December. Branch Libraries reopen on Thursday, 2 January 2025.
End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites and the Path of Political Disintegration by Peter Turchin
By some estimates, 49% of the world’s adult population is due to vote in elections in 2024 and what better way to begin the year than with Turchin’s brilliant book about how much trouble some of these same societies are in.
