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
Fat City Short Black 2 by Karen Hitchcock
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Short Blacks
'I ask a young 200-kilo patient what he snacks on. 'Nothing,' he says. I look him in the eye. Nothing? He nods. I ask him about his chronic skin infections, his diabetes. He tears up: 'I eat hot chips and fried dim sims and drink three bottles of Coke every afternoon. The truth is I'm addicted to eating ...Show more
Regions of Thick-Ribbed Ice Short Black 4 by Helen Garner
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Short Blacks
'They say that tourist ships to Antarctica, even more than ordinary human conveyances, are loaded down with aching hearts. Deceived wives and widowers, men who've never been loved and don't know why, Russian crew forced to leave their children behind for years at a time ...And then there are the married ...Show more
Making Trouble: Essays Against the New Australian Complacency by Robert Manne
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
As this eloquent and important book shows, no one in Australia makes a better argument than Robert Manne. This is a book that will enlighten and provoke. It covers much ground from Howard to Gillard by way of Rudd, from Victoria's bushfires to the Apology, from Wilfred Burchett to Primo Levi.
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity by Katherine Boo
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
WINNER OF THE 2012 LA TIMES BOOK PRIZE WINNER OF THE 2012 US NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2013 PULITZER PRIZE From Pulitzer Prize-winner Katherine Boo comes a landmark work of narrative nonfiction that tells the dramatic and sometimes heartbreaking story of families striving to ...Show more
Gaysia: Adventures in the Queer East by Benjamin Law
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Benjamin Law considers himself pretty lucky to live in Australia: he can hold his boyfriend's hand in public and lobby his politicians to recognise same-sex marriage. But as the child of migrants, he's also curious about how different life might have been had he grown up in Asia. So he sets off to meet ...Show more