Time to Reboot : Feminism in the Algorithm Age by Carla Wilshire
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
Technology is radically transforming society. From social media to artificial intelligence, our world is now governed by algorithms, powerful tools that not only predict human behaviour but affect how we look at each other, and ourselves. At the same time, we are seeing hard-fought-for women’s rights be ...Show more
What Does Israel Fear from Palestine? by Raja Shehadeh
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society
A poignant, incisive meditation on Israel's longstanding rejection of peace, and what the war on Gaza means for Zionism. When apartheid in South Africa ended, dismantled by internal activism and global pressure, why did Israel continue to pursue its own apartheid policies against Palestinians? In keepin ...Show more
What Is at Stake Now: My Appeal for Peace and Freedom by Mikhail Gorbachev; Jessica Spengler (Translator)
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society
Thirty years after the end of the Cold War, world peace is at risk again. The President of the United States has withdrawn from the disarmament treaty with Russia, Europe is disintegrating, China is surging forward and a wave of nationalism and populism is destabilizing established political institution ...Show more
2023: A Year of Consequence by The Conversation; Justin Bergman (Editor)
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society
"This was a year of consequential decisions - not just for Australia, but the world. In Australia, the year was dominated by a historic referendum on the Voice to Parliament, transforming its military to respond to the shifting security challenges in the region and how the government help everyday Austr ...Show more
Australia on the Brink: Avoiding Environmental Ruin by Ian Lowe
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
In 1996, the first independent national report on the state of Australia’s environment found that we faced serious problems. With increasing urgency, five subsequent reports declared those problems were all getting worse, each calling for immediate action to protect our future. The 2021 report determine ...Show more
Autocracy, Inc: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World by Anne Applebaum
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society
All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man at the top. But in the 21st century, that cartoon bears little resemblance to reality. Nowadays, autocracies are run not by one bad guy, but by sophisticated networks composed of kleptocratic financial st ...Show more
Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition and Compromise in Putin's Russia by Joshua Yaffa
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society
How everyday Russians survive and thrive under Putin's rule, from The New Yorker's correspondent in Moscow.
Binge Times: Inside Hollywood's Furious Billion-Dollar Battle to Take Down Netflix by Dade Hayes, Dawn Chmielewski
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society
The first comprehensive account of the biggest wake-up call in the history of the entertainment business: the pivot to streaming. Go inside a disparate group of media and tech companies -- Disney, Apple, AT&T/WarnerMedia, Comcast/NBCUniversal and well-funded startup Quibi - as they scramble to mount ...Show more
But What Can I Do? - Why Politics Has Gone So Wrong, and How You Can Help Fix It by Alastair Campbell
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society
'Your country needs you. Your world needs you. Your time is now.'Our politics is a mess. Leaders who can't or shouldn't be allowed to lead. Governments that lie, and seek to undermine our democratic values. It's no surprise that so many of us feel frustrated, let down and drawn to ask, 'But what can I d ...Show more
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society
Chip War reveals how we can’t make sense of politics, economics or technology today without first understanding the central role played by computer chips in shaping the modern world. But the West's lead in this area is under threat. At stake is America's military superiority and the economic prosperity ...Show more
Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labour Markets and How We’ll Win Them Back by Rebecca Giblin & Cory Doctorow
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society
'Chokepoint Capitalism tells us how the vampires crashed the party, and provides protective garlic.'-Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid's Tale A call to action for the creative class and labour movement to rally against the power of Big Tech and Big Media. Corporate concentration has breached the ...Show more
Chronicles of Dissent by Noam Chomsky
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society
An accessible, powerful overview of Noam Chomsky's political thought. In sixteen extended talks with Alternative Radio's David Barsamian, Noam Chomsky explains why the 'war on drugs' is really a war on poor people; how attacks on political correctness are attacks on independent thought; how historical r ...Show more