The Case Against Free Speech - The First Amendment, Fascism, and the Future of Dissent by P. E. Moskowitz
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
A hard-hitting expose that shines a light on the powerful conservative forces that have waged a multi-decade battle to hijack the meaning of free speech -- and how we can reclaim it.There's a critical debate taking place over one of our most treasured rights: free speech. We argue about whether it's at ...Show more
Unexplained by Richard MacLean Smith
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
'A grisly treat' Financial Times on the podcast Based on the 'world's spookiest podcast' of the same name comes Unexplained: a book of ten real-life mysteries which might be best left unexplained. . . Season 4 of the podcast is currently out now. ******************************* What can a case of de ...Show more
The Future of Capitalism: Facing the New Anxieties by Paul Collier
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Bill Gates's Five Books for Summer Reading 2019 From world-renowned economist Paul Collier, a candid diagnosis of the failures of capitalism and a pragmatic and realistic vision for how we can repair it. Deep new rifts are tearing apart the fabric of the United States and other Western societies: thri ...Show more
How Fear Works by Frank Furedi
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
In 1997, Frank Furedi published a book calledCulture of Fear. It was widely acclaimed as perceptive and prophetic. Now Furedi returns to his original theme, as most of what he predicted has come true. InHow Fear Works, Furedi seeks to explain two interrelated themes: why has fear acquired such a morally ...Show more
How to be Normal: Advice for the Perplexed by Guy Browning
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
"Normal people are extremely unusual. Think of all the people you know and ask yourself how many are normal. None of them! In fact you're probably the most normal of the lot and, let's face it, even you're not that normal. All normal people believe they are a little bit different, a little bit unique an ...Show more
The Shallows : How the Internet is Changing the Way We Think, Read and Remember by Nicholas Carr
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
In this ground-breaking and compelling book, Nicholas Carr argues that not since Gutenberg invented printing has humanity been exposed to such a mind-altering technology. The Shallows draws on the latest research to show that the Net is literally re-wiring our brains inducing only superficial understand ...Show more
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
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
Happiness Industry - How the Government and Big Business Sold Us Well-Being by William Davies
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
In winter 2014, a Tibetan monk lectured the world leaders gathered at Davos on the importance of Happiness. In the recent DSM 5, the charter of all diagnosable mental illnesses for the first time included shyness and grief as treatable diseases. Happiness has become the biggest idea of ourage, a new rel ...Show more
End Game - Tipping Point for Planet Earth? by Anthony D Barnosky and Elizabeth A Hadly
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Reading Level: good
overconsumption / population growth / dwindling natural resources / climate change / disease / contamination / storms / thirst / war ...will the struggle to simply stay alive become humanity's future rather than its past? What happens if population pressures finally hit a threshold that tumbles the domi ...Show more
All Your Friends Like This: How Social Networks Took Over News by Hal Crawford
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
ALL YOUR FRIENDS LIKE THIS is a topical, punchy and provocative look at how social networks are taking over the news. How do you get your news? Chances are not from a newspaper or the TV - that's so old-school. If you're anything like the rest of us, you get it from Facebook or Twitter. The great powe ...Show more
Two Futures: Australia at a Critical Moment by Clare O'Neil & Tim Watts
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Beset by spin and the battle to win each news cycle, contemporary politics is mired in short-term thinking. Too little time is given to considering creative ways in which we could tackle key issues - a lagging education system, the destruction of our coastlines, Asia's economic ascendancy - in the decad ...Show more