Identity: Contemporary Identity Politics and the Struggle for Recognition by Francis Fukuyama
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture & Society
Currently in Bill Gates's bookbag and FT Books of 2018Increasingly, the demands of identity direct the world's politics. Nation, religion, sect, race, ethnicity, gender: these categories have overtaken broader, inclusive ideas of who we are. We have built walls rather than bridges. The result: increasin ...Show more
The Address Book: What Our Street Addresses Reveal about Identity, Power, Race and Wealth by Deirdre Mask
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture & Society
An exuberant work of popular history: why something as seemingly mundane as an address can save lives or serve the powerful. Starting with a simple question, 'what do street addresses do?', Deirdre Mask travels the world and back in time to work out how we describe where we live and what that says abou ...Show more
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture & Society
THE TOP 10 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. Everyone needs to read this book as an act of digital self-defense.' - Naomi Klein, Author of No Logo, The Shock Doctrine, This Changes Everything and No is Not Enough. The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unpre ...Show more
Medieval Bodies: Life, Death and Art in the Middle Ages by Jack Hartnell
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture & Society | Series: Wellcome Collection
A SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEARJust like us, medieval men and women worried about growing old, got blisters and indigestion, fell in love and had children. And yet their lives were full of miraculous and richly metaphorical experiences radically different to our own, unfolding in a world where d ...Show more
Read This if You Want to Be Instagram Famous: 50 Secrets by 50 of the Best by Henry Carroll (Editor)
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture & Society | Series: Read This Ser.
So you've got an Instagram account, you're posting pictures, but your follower count has flatlined. Read This If You Want to Be Instagram Famous holds the answers to fixing up your feed and finding thousands of new followers. Packed with the essential secrets of the hottest Instagrammers around, the ...Show more
My Story by Julia Gillard
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture & Society
Featuring new material. 'I was prime minister for three years and three days.Three years and three days of resilience.Three years and three days of changing the nation.Three years and three days for you to judge.'On Wednesday 23 June 2010, with the government in turmoil, Julia Gillard asked Prime Minist ...Show more
Party Animals: The Secret History of a Labor Fiasco by Samantha Maiden
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture & Society
The Labor Party was the unbeatable favourite to win the 2019 election right up until the polls closed and voters delivered the shock verdict. If the results surprised pundits, they also shocked Bill Shorten and his frontbench who had spent the final weeks of the campaign carefully planning for their fir ...Show more
Pedantic: A Hilarious and Useful Guide to the 100 Terms Smart People Should Know by Ross Petras; Kathryn Petras
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture & Society
A compendium of 100 words and phrases smart people use-even if they only kinda sorta (secretly don't) know what they mean-with pithy definitions and fascinating etymologies to solidify their meanings.
The Last Navigator: From the Queensland Bush to Bomber Command and Pathfinders... a True Story of Courage and Survival Against the Odds by Paul Goodwin
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture & Society
An extraordinary first-person story of a boy from the Queensland bush who survived the dangers of Bomber Command to become Qantas' last navigator.
The Carbon Club: How a network of influential climate sceptics, politicians and business leaders fought to control Australia's climate policy by Marian Wilkinson
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture & Society
The inside story of how a network of influential climate sceptics, politicians and business leaders fought to control Australia's response to the climate crisis. As the climate crisis threatens more extreme bushfire seasons, droughts and floods, many Australians are demanding their leaders answer the qu ...Show more
Australia's Original Languages: An introduction by R. M. W. Dixon
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture & Society | Series: An Introduction
An introduction to the languages of Aboriginal Australia that explains their distinctive features accessibly for readers who have no previous experience with learning another language, and shows how language reflects traditional culture. 'A must read for all who would like to understand the languages a ...Show more
Generation F: Why we Still Struggle with Sex and Power by Virginia Trioli
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture & Society
‘For me these Ormond College women were, and are, the first voices of the revolution that is #MeToo in Australia.’ Twenty-five years ago, Australia was in the grip of another debate about sex and power. The Master of Ormond College at the University of Melbourne had been acquitted of indecent assault ...Show more