Griffith Review 40 Women & Power by Julianne Schultz
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Category: Current Affairs | Series: Griffith Review Ser.
A timely and groundbreaking edition of Griffith REVIEW exploring the changing relationship between women and power in public and private spheres, in Australia and the world. In one generation, women have taken control of their economic fate, risen to the most powerful political positions in the land an ...Show more
Everybody Lies - What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really are by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
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Category: Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
'This book is about a whole new way of studying the mind ... endlessly fascinating' Steven Pinker Everybody lies, to friends, lovers, doctors, pollsters and to themselves. In Internet searches, however, people confess their secrets about sexless marriages, mental health problems, even racist views. Seth ...Show more
A Climate for Denial: Why Some People Still Reject Climate Change Science by Arek Sinanian
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Category: Current Affairs
Why is it that despite overwhelming evidence and fundamental science, some people still don't accept that climate change is real and that human activity is contributing to it? Is it because the science is not being understood? Is it because it is difficult to accept that humans are capable of changing t ...Show more
Sydney Observed by Gavin Souter
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Category: Current Affairs
When Sydney Observed was first published in 1965 (under the title Sydney ), it won instant and rapturous praise from reviewers across Australia and beyond. Within the space of a few years it came to be regarded as the best single piece ever written about the city. In prose that is measured, astute, wry ...Show more
ISIS ExposedBeheadings, Slavery, and the Hellish Reality of Radical Islam by Erick Stakelbeck
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Category: Current Affairs
The terror masters of ISIS are determined to get America's attention. They’ve humiliated the Iraqi Army we trained and seized territory in Iraq that we had secured at the cost of so many American lives. They’ve beheaded American journalists on camera in a direct challenge to the power and resolve of the ...Show more
What a Time to be Alive: That and Other Lies in the 2016 Campaign by Mark Di Stefano
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Category: Current Affairs
What a Time to be Alive: That and other lies in the 2016 campaign is the ugly and un-sanitised diary behind the curtain of the double dissolution election campaign. A poll fought between two wildly ambitious men who want to win their first election, whatever it takes. Mark Di Stefano finds out what is h ...Show more
The Curious Story of Malcolm Turnbull, the Incredible Shrinking Man in the Top Hat by Andrew P. Street
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Category: Current Affairs
The even more elaborately-titled sequel to The Short and Excruciatingly Embarrassing Reign of Captain Abbott, this is a tale of a muddling and middling prime minister and his attempts to steer his inertia-heavy government away from electoral disaster...Fairfax columnist Andrew P Street details the litan ...Show more
War on Women in Israel by Elana Maryles Sztokman
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Category: Current Affairs
Across Israel, women are being harassed as a rising Orthodox Jewish faction seeks to suppress them. In this gripping expose, leading women's activist Elana Sztokman investigates the struggles of Israeli women against increasing religious and political intrusion, from segregation on public buses to being ...Show more
Sideshow by Lindsay Tanner
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Category: Current Affairs
The two key rules that now govern the practice of Australian politics are: (1) Look like you're doing something; and (2) Don't offend anyone who matters. These imperatives are a direct consequence of the interaction between media coverage and political activity.
The Wisest One in the Room: Think Clearly. Make Better Decisions. Influence People by Thomas Gilovich
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Category: Current Affairs
A brilliant compendium of psychological discoveries that will truly make you wiser, The Wisest One in the Room is an accessible and pragmatic summary of how we perceive and misperceive the world around us, especially the world of other people. As a users' guide to living on earth, it is concise yet comp ...Show more
That Used to be Us: What Went Wrong with America? And How it Can Come Back? by Thomas L. Friedman & Michael Mandelbaum
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Category: Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
America has a huge problem. It faces four major challenges, on which its future depends, and it is failing to meet them. In What's Wrong with America?, Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum analyze those challenges - globalization, the revolution in information technology, the nation's chronic defic ...Show more