The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
What would make a society drain its public swimming baths and fill them with concrete rather than opening them to everyone? Political researcher Heather McGhee sets out across America to learn why white voters so often act against their own interests. Why do they block changes that would help them, and ...Show more
The Enchanted Hour (TP) by Meghan Cox Gurdon
32.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
A conversation-changing look at the social, familial, neurological, and psychological benefits of reading aloud, especially for parents and children. A miraculous alchemy occurs when one person reads to another, transforming the simple stuff of a book, a voice, and a bit of time into complex and powerfu ...Show more
Fake Law - The Truth About Justice in an Age of Lies by The Secret Barrister
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Reading Level: very good
Could the courts really order the death of your innocent baby? Was there an illegal immigrant who couldn't be deported because he had a pet cat? Are unelected judges truly enemies of the people? Most of us think the law is only relevant to criminals, if we even think of it at all. But the law touches ev ...Show more
Net Privacy: How We Can Be Free in an Age of Surveillance by Sacha Molitorisz
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
In our digital world, we are confused by privacy - what is public, what is private? We are also challenged by it, the conditions of privacy so uncertain we become unsure about our rights to it. We may choose to share personal information, but often do so on the assumption that it won't be re-shared, sol ...Show more
Women, Men and the Whole Damn Thing by David Leser
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
One of the most talked-about and widely praised articles of our time becomes the water-cooler book of the #MeToo era.
Post-Growth Living - For an Alternative Hedonism by Kate Soper
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
An urgent and passionate plea for a new and ecologically sustainable vision of the good life. The reality of runaway climate change is inextricably linked with the mass consumerist, capitalist society in which we live. And the cult of endless growth, and endless consumption of cheap disposable commoditi ...Show more
What's Yours Is Mine: Against the Sharing Economy by Tom Slee
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
A razor-sharp examination of the 'sharing economy'.Uber. Airbnb. Taskrabbit. Lyft. In recent years, companies like these have flooded the global market, supposedly the vanguard of a rethinking of capitalism. They've styled themselves as disrupters of the 'old order', but this new wave of technology comp ...Show more
Zizek Responds! by Todd Dominik; McGowan Finkelde
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Responses to the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj i ek have been, like i ek himself, extreme. Critics have accused him of charlatanism on the one hand, while others have lauded his genius, especially as a public intellectual, on the other. This makes it difficult to find any kind of nuanced or interes ...Show more
Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Reading Level: very good
'Pink is my favourite colour. I used to say my favourite colour was black to be cool, but it is pink - all shades of pink. If I have an accessory, it is probably pink. I read Vogue, and I'm not doing it ironically, though it might seem that way. I once live-tweeted the September issue.' In these funny a ...Show more
Destroying the Joint - Why Women Have to Change the World by Jane Caro (Editor)
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
A fabulously provocative collection by women ready to destroy the joint. In 2012, Prime Minister Julia Gillard said a society needs the political participation of women to reach its full potential. Commentator Allan Jones reacted to his by saying- 'Women are destroying the joint . . . Honestly.' People ...Show more
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain (In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading and Life) by George Saunders
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
From the New York Times bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about ourselves - and our world today. For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a c ...Show more
How to Do Nothing - Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell
32.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Reading Level: near fine
A galvanising critique of the forces vying for our attention - and our personal information - that redefines what we think of as productivity and reveals what we've been too distracted to see about ourselves and our world. Nothing is harder to do these days than nothing. But in a world where our value i ...Show more