Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility by Rebecca Solnit (Editor); Thelma Young Lutunatabua (Editor)
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
An energizing case for hope about the climate comes from Rebecca Solnit, called "the voice of the resistance" by the New York Times, and climate activist Thelma Young Lutunatabua, along with a chorus of voices calling on us to rise to the moment. Not Too Late is the book for anyone who is despondent, de ...Show more
Close to the Subject : Selected Works by Daniel Browning
34.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
This book is a collected works of one of Australia’s most accomplished media personalities. Chronicling his career since 2007, Close to the Subject presents a selection of pieces from Daniel Browning’s stellar career as a journalist, radio broadcaster, critic and interviewer. Alongside conversations wit ...Show more
How to Think Like an Activist by Wendy Syfret
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Survive the Modern World Ser.
How to Think Like an Activistoffers a space for budding activists to learn from the past and look to the future. A lot of talk around changing the world gets stuck in theory, but this is about action. From small daily commitments to larger ongoing projects, this book offers tangible ways to start buildi ...Show more
Women in the Picture: Women, Art and the Power of Looking by Catherine McCormack
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
A bold reconsideration of women in art - from the 'Old Masters' to the posts of Instagram influencers. A perfect pin-up, a damsel in distress, a saintly mother, a femme fatale... Women's identity has long been stifled by a limited set of archetypes, found everywhere in pictures from art history's classi ...Show more
Cynical Theories by Helen Pluckrose, James Lindsay
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Reading Level: very good
How activist scholarship made everything about race, gender, and identity, and why this harms everybody.BOOK OF THE YEAR in The Times, the Sunday Times and the Financial Times
The Urge: Our History of Addiction by Carl Erik Fisher
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: The\Addicted Brain Ser.
An authoritative, illuminating, and deeply humane history of addiction - a phenomenon that remains baffling and deeply misunderstood despite having touched countless lives - by an addiction psychiatrist striving to understand his own family and himself. Even after a decades-long opioid overdose crisis, ...Show more
At the Same Time by Susan Sontag
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Reading Level: very good
The sixteen essays gathered here represent the last pieces written by Susan Sontag in the years before her death in 2004. Reflecting on literature, photography and art, post-9/11 America and political activism, these essays encompass the themes that dominated Sontag's life and work, revealing why she re ...Show more
There's a War Going On But No One Can See It by Huib Modderkolk
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
'In the old days, anyone wanting to understand the world read the Bible. Anyone wanting to understand the world today should read this book.' Arjan Lubach' This is even better than John le Carre, because it's true.' Matthijs van Nieuwkerk Summer 2017- computer screens go blank in 150 countries. The NH ...Show more
Trust the Plan: The Rise of QAnon and the Conspiracy that Reshaped the World by Will Sommer
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
On the 6th of January, 2021, thousands of Trump supporters stormed the United States Capitol. Their banners read, Trust the Plan, a reference to an alarming conspiracy theory that had gained unstoppable momentum over the last four years: these were followers of QAnon. Decoding online clues from a myste ...Show more
How Politics Works: The Concepts Visually Explained by .
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
A jargon-free, highly visual guide to every aspect of politics, from political philosophy to 21st-century activismDiscover everything you need to know about political history and thought, and the inner workings of governments around the world with this unique graphic guide. Combining clear, jargon-free ...Show more
The Sovereignty of Good by Iris Murdoch
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Routledge Classics
Throughout her distinguished and prolific writing career, she explored questions of good and bad, myth and morality. The framework for Murdoch's questions - and her own conclusions - can be found in the Sovereignty of Good.
Why Governments Get It Wrong: and how they can get it right by Dennis C. Grube
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Sometimes governments seem clueless. At other times, they are able to project a sense of calm competence. Some decisions leave people confused, whilst others make sense even to those who oppose them. Why? Why Governments Get it Wrong argues that governments are at their most effective when they get the ...Show more