Stop Reading the News - A Manifesto for a Happier, Calmer and Wiser Life by Rolf Dobelli
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Reading Level: near fine
News is to the mind as sugar is to the body. In 2013 Rolf Dobelli stood in front of a room full of journalists and proclaimed that he did not read the news. It caused a riot. Now he finally sets down his philosophy in detail. And he practices what he preaches: he hasn't read the news for a decade. Stop ...Show more
Hotel (Object Lessons) by Joanna Walsh
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Object Lessons
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. During the breakdown of an unhappy marriage, writer Joanna Walsh got a job as a hotel reviewer, and began to gravitate towards places designed as alternatives to home. Luxury, sex, power, anonymit ...Show more
Gender: A Graphic Guide by Meg-John Barker
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Introducing...
Join the creators of Queer: A Graphic History ('Could totally change the way you think about sex and gender' VICE) on an illustrated journey of gender exploration. Is masculinity 'toxic'? Why are public toilets such a political issue? How has feminism changed the available gender roles - and for whom? ...Show more
Generation F: Why we Still Struggle with Sex and Power by Virginia Trioli
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
‘For me these Ormond College women were, and are, the first voices of the revolution that is #MeToo in Australia.’ Twenty-five years ago, Australia was in the grip of another debate about sex and power. The Master of Ormond College at the University of Melbourne had been acquitted of indecent assault ...Show more
The Medicine - A Doctor's Notes by Karen Hitchcock
29.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Reading Level: near fine
What happens when a doctor kills a patient? Are GPs overprescribing antidepressants? Does 'female Viagra' work? What role can psychedelics and cannabis play in treating pain? What is sickness, and how much of it is in our heads? In The Medicine, Dr Karen Hitchcock takes us to the frontlines of everyday ...Show more
The Human Network: How to Get Connected and Why it Matters by Matthew O. Jackson
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Discover the landmark new big idea that is revolutionising our understanding of human interaction.
Democracy May Not Exist But We'll Miss it When It's Gone by Astra Taylor
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Democracy is in crisis. In every major company it has been stole by elites or in the hands of strong men. In democracy's name we see a raft of policies that spread inequality and xenophobia worldwide. It is clear that democracy - the principle of government by and for the people - is not living up to it ...Show more
Without Apology - The Abortion Struggle Now by Jenny Brown
22.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Jacobin Ser.
An indispensable guide to building a fighting feminist movement for reproductive freedom With an antiabortion majority on the Supreme Court and several states attempting to outlaw abortion altogether, many activists are on the defensive, hoping to hold on to reproductive rights in a few places and c ...Show more
'Art and Fear' and 'Art As Far As the Eye Can See' by Paul Virilio; Julie Rose (Translator)
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations Ser.
Paul Virilio is one of contemporary continental thought's most original and provocative critical voices. His vision of the impact of modern technology on the contemporary global condition is powerful and disturbing, ranging over art, architecture, science, politics, visual culture and warfare. In Art a ...Show more
The World Only Spins Forward - The Ascent of Angels in America by Isaac Butler; Dan Kois
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
The oral history of Angels in America, as told by the artists who created it and the audiences forever changed by it--a moving account of the AIDS era, essential queer history, and pure "theater magic" (NPR).A STONEWALL BOOK AWARDS HONOR BOOKWhen Tony Kushner's Angels in America hit Broadway in 1993, it ...Show more
Civilized to Death: The Price of Progress by Christopher Ryan
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
The New York Times bestselling coauthor of Sex at Dawn explores the ways in which "progress" has perverted the way we live: how we eat, learn, feel, mate, parent, communicate, work, and die.Most of us have instinctive evidence the world is ending--balmy December days, face-to-face conversation replaced ...Show more
Difficult Women - A History of Feminism in 11 Fights by Helen Lewis
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Well-behaved women don't make history: difficult women do. Helen Lewis argues that feminism's success is down to complicated, contradictory, imperfect women, who fought each other as well as fighting for equal rights. Too many of these pioneers have been whitewashed or forgotten in our modern search f ...Show more