How We are: How to Live book 1 by Vincent Deary
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
We live in small worlds. Conscious change requires deliberate effort, and so, for the most part, we avoid it. But what happens when something occurs, from within or without, that changes all that? The first book in the mesmerizing How To Live trilogy, How We Are examines how we negotiate change in our e ...Show more
Baby Boom: How it Got That Way...and it Wasn't My Fault...and I'll Never Do it Again by P. J. O'Rourke
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
"The Baby Boom - over-sized, overwrought, overbearing, and all over the place, from Donovan to Obama. The generation that said with a straight face, 'We are the world.' What's so funny about peace, love and understanding? Ask the generation responsible for the fall of the Berlin Wall and their knickers. ...Show more
Do it Like a Woman - And Change the World by Caroline Criado-Perez
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Every day, all around the world, women are reinventing what it means to be female in cultures where power, privilege or basic freedoms are all too often equated with being male. Here, Caroline Criado-Perez, one of the most vocal and tenacious campaigners of her generation, introduces us to some of these ...Show more
How UFOs Conquered the World - The History of a Modern Myth by David Clarke
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
A history of the various manifestations and shifting meaning of the Twentieth Century's single great contribution to mythology: the UFO. Neither a credulous work of conspiracy theory nor a sceptical debunking of belief in 'flying saucers', How UFOs Changed the World explores the origins of UFOs in the b ...Show more
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief by Lawrence Wright
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
A clear-sighted revelation, a deep penetration into the world of Scientology by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Looming Tower, " the now-classic study of al-Qaeda's 9/11 attack. Based on more than two hundred personal interviews with current and former Scientologists--both famous and less well ...Show more
A Climate of Crisis: America in the Age of Environmentalism by Patrick Allitt
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Few topics incite more passion and controversy than the idea of climate change. Historian Patrick Allitt argues that a mood of anxiety has long surrounded environmental issues, often eclipsing important realities. In A Climate of Crisis, he offers a provocative history of American environmentalism: from ...Show more
Time for Peace: the Essential Role of Time in Conflict and Peace Processes by Luc Reychler
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Peace & Conflict
There is still too much violence in the world. As well as the armed conflicts around the globe, violence exists in our social and economic structures, not to mention in our destruction of the environment. How can we build a more sustainable peace? In this innovative, ambitious book, Dr Luc Reychler argu ...Show more
The Words of Extraordinary Women by Carolyn Warner
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Words of Series
Selected by Carolyn Warner, a leader in the fields of education and politics and a frequent public speaker, this uplifting and thought-provoking compendium features quotes from notable women ranging from Charlotte Bronte and Helen Keller, to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Rachel Carson, Oprah Winfrey, and ...Show more
Pulphead - Essays by John Jeremiah Sullivan
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Reading Level: good
A sharp-eyed, uniquely humane tour of America's cultural landscape--from high to low to lower than low--by the award-winning young star of the literary nonfiction world In "Pulphead, "John Jeremiah Sullivan takes us on an exhilarating tour of our popular, unpopular, and at times completely forgotten cul ...Show more
A Rough Ride to the Future by James Lovelock
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Reading Level: very good
In A Rough Ride to the Future, James Lovelock - the great scientific visionary of our age - presents a radical vision of humanity's future as the thinking brain of our Earth-system. James Lovelock, who has been hailed as 'the man who conceived the first wholly new way of looking at life on earth since C ...Show more
The Social Studio - Fashion, Food, Art & Community by Grace McQuilten
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
The Social Studio: Fashion, Food, Art & Community celebrates Melbourne's multicultural community of artists, foodies and fashionistas through the lens of The Social Studio, a vibrant community enterprise in Collingwood. The Studio is a fashion label, digital printing studio, shop and cafe that creat ...Show more
Vagenda: A Zero Tolerance Guide to the Media by Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
HAVE YOU EVER...Obsessed over your body's 'problem areas'? Killed an hour on the Sidebar of Shame? Wondered whether to try '50 Sex Tips to Please Your Man'? Felt worse after doing any of the above? Holly and Rhiannon grew up reading glossy mags and, like most women, thought of them as just a bit of fun. ...Show more