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Men Explain Things to Me - And Other Essays by Rebecca Solnit
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Category: society culture gender
In her comic, scathing essay "Men Explain Things to Me," Rebecca Solnit takes on what often goes wrong in conversations between men and women. She writes about men who wrongly assume they know things and wrongly assume women don't, about why this arises, and how this aspect of the gender wars works, air ...Show more
Boys Will Be Boys: Power, Patriarchy and the Toxic Bonds of Mateship by Clementine Ford
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Category: society culture gender
Clementine Ford reports that one of the questions she is most asked in person and online is 'how do I raise my son to be a feminist? How do I make sure he's a supporter rather than a perpetrator?' That is a question that many parents with sons are haunted by. Now that Clem is mother to a baby boy of he ...Show more
Beyond Order - 12 More Rules for Life by JORDAN B. PETERSON
$35.00 AUD
Category: society culture gender
In 12 Rules for Life, acclaimed public thinker and clinical psychologist Jordan B. Peterson offered an antidote to the chaos in our lives- eternal truths applied to modern anxieties. His insights have helped millions of readers and resonated powerfully around the world. Now in this long-awaited sequel, ...Show more
Soul of a Woman by Isabel Allende
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Category: society culture gender
The wise, warm, defiant new book from literary legend Isabel Allende a meditation on power, feminism and what it means to be a woman. 'When I say that I was a feminist in kindergarten, I am not exaggerating.' As a child, Isabel Allende watched her mother, abandoned by her husband, provide for her three ...Show more
On Life's Lottery by Glyn Davis
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Category: society culture gender | Series: On Ser.
Birth is a throw of the dice. The consequences last a lifetime.We like to think of Australia as the land of the 'fair go', a land of choice and equal opportunity. But behind the facade of meritocracy lies an uncomfortable truth: much of your life is already decided by the lottery of where you are born a ...Show more
Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man by Emmanuel Acho
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Category: society culture gender
An urgent primer on race and racism, from the host of the viral hit video series Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man" "You cannot fix a problem you do not know you have." So begins Emmanuel Acho in his essential guide to the truths Americans need to know to address the systemic racism that has ...Show more
A Human's Guide to the Future by Jordan Nguyen
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Category: society culture gender
TECHNOLOGY IS EVOLVING AT THE FASTEST RATE WE'VE EVER SEEN, BUT IT MAY BE THE SLOWEST RATE WE'LL EVER SEE AGAIN! What does this mean for the future of the human race? Do we resist these changes or embrace them?Australian biomedical engineer, inventor and visionary Dr Jordan Nguyen has lived a life of cu ...Show more
Renewal: Five Paths to a Fairer Australia by Sophie Cousins
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Category: society culture gender
The COVID-19 pandemic has with great speed fundamentally altered the world in which we live. The changes it has wrought are of a type and on a scale unseen by most people alive. We are realising the truths we understood as immutable, the basis of our social order, are not rigid and inevitable, but const ...Show more
Wagnerism - Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music by Alex Ross
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Category: society culture gender
'An absolutely masterly work' - Stephen Fry Alex Ross, renowned author of the international bestseller The Rest Is Noise, reveals how Richard Wagner became the proving ground for modern art and politics - an aesthetic war zone where the Western world wrestled with its capacity for beauty and violence. ...Show more
Sweet Dreams - The Story of the New Romantics by Dylan Jones
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Category: society culture gender
Sweet Dreams charts the rise of the New Romantics, a scene that grew out of the remnants of post-punk and developed quickly alongside club culture, ska, electronica, and goth. One of the most creative entrepreneurial periods since the Sixties, the era had a huge influence on the growth of print and bro ...Show more
Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman
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Category: society culture gender
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERA Guardian, Daily Telegraph, New Statesman and Daily Express Book of the Year'Hugely, highly and happily recommended' Stephen Fry'You should read Humankind. You'll learn a lot (I did) and you'll have good reason to feel better about the human race' Tim Harford'Made me see hum ...Show more
Digital Journalism, Drones, and Automation - The Language and Abstractions Behind the News by Cate Dowd
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Category: society culture gender
The lure of big data and analytics has produced new partnerships between news media and social media and consequently a fragmentation of digital journalism. The era is coupled with the rise in fake news and controversial data sharing. However, creative mobile reporting and civilian drones set new standa ...Show more