High Noon: Trump, Harris and America on the Brink: Quarterly Essay 95 by Don Watson
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society
Is the United States disintegrating? Don Watson offers a report from America that catches the madness and the politics of an election like no other. This is a deeply historically informed, characteristically mordant account of Donald Trump, Joe Biden and a divided country. Watson considers how things ...Show more
Rock and Tempest: Surviving Cyclone Tracy and its Aftermath by Patricia Collins
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society
When Cyclone Tracy flattened Darwin on Christmas Day 1974, it was the worst natural disaster Australians had ever experienced. Stationed in the city with the Women's Royal Australian Naval Service, Patricia Collins not only lived through Tracy but was part of the massive clean-up effort. This is her ext ...Show more
How to Be a Citizen: Learning to Rely Less on Rules and More on Each Other by C.L. Skach
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society
How to Be a Citizen: Learning to Rely Less on Rules and More on Each Other. We believe that rules and laws are in place to protect us. They are what keep our societies from descending into chaos. Without them, how would we know our right from wrong, live comfortably in our communities and be good neighb ...Show more
Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter by Kate Conger, Ryan Mac
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society
Rising star New York Times technology reporters, Kate Conger and Ryan Mac, tell for the first time the full and shocking inside story of Elon Musk's unprecedented takeover of Twitter and the forty-four-billion-dollar deal's seismic political, social and financial fallout. The billionaire entrepreneur a ...Show more
Kids - Technology and the Future by Patricia Edgar
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society
Patricia Edgar is the original disruptor - a passionate advocate for digital media with a life-long quest to ensure young people get the best from, and make the most of, the myriad of media choices available to them. This wideranging essay pulls together decades of research and practical and commercial ...Show more
Make It Make Sense: From Shit You Should Care About's Lucy Blakiston and Bel Hawkins by Bel Hawkins, Lucy Blakiston
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society
The debut book from the authors behind the global media sensation Shit You Should Care About.Shit You Should Care about was launched as a WordPress blog by three best friends in the back of a political science lecture. Today it's a global ecosystem of content - two podcasts, 3.5 million Instagram follow ...Show more
Nature, Culture, and Inequality by Thomas Piketty
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society
An insightful exploration of the nature of inequality. In his new work, Thomas Piketty explores how social inequality manifests itself very differently depending on society and epoch in which it arises. History and culture play a central role, inequality being strongly linked to various socio-economic ...Show more
Best Wishes by Richard Glover
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society
Making the world a better, less annoying place one wish at a time.Do you hate noisy restaurants, pre-ripped jeans and pedestrians who walk five abreast? Do you also have a problem with plastic-wrapped fruit, climate-change deniers and take-away sandwiches priced at $14.95? And, most of all, do you thin ...Show more
Human? A Lie That's Been Killing Us Since 1788 by Ziggy Ramo
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society
So-called Australia is built upon a lie- that 97% of the population are human, and the others simply 'Indigenous', devoid of the same basic rights. Human? is the story of Ziggy Ramo's experience growing up under the weight of this lie. We've had 235 years of continued destruction in the name of 'civilis ...Show more
Is My Phone Reading My Mind? The Real Facts About Artificial Intelligence by Matt Agnew
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society
Let Dr Matt explain everything you and your kids need to know about Artificial Intelligence and why you don't need to be afraid! When you think of AI, you might imagine a walking, talking robot or you might think of a giant computer that wants to take over the world, but the reality is that AI is a bril ...Show more
Living Hot: Surviving and Thriving on a Heating Planet by Clive Hamilton, George Wilkenfeld
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society
Living Hot tells the blunt truth about our current climate change predicament: it’s time to get cracking on making Australia resilient to intensifying climate extremes. If we prepare well, we can give ourselves a fighting chance to preserve some of the best of what we have, build stronger and fairer com ...Show more
Private Revolutions: Coming of Age in a New China by Yuan Yang
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society
A Sunday Times, Observer and Waterstones Best Book of 2024 This is a book about the coming of age of four women born in China in the 1980s and 1990s, dreaming of better futures. It is about Leiya, who wants to escape the fate of the women in her village. Still underage, she bluffs her way on to the fact ...Show more