Quarterly Essay 76: Red Flag: Waking Up to China's Challenge by Peter Hartcher
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Category: Current Affairs | Series: QUARTERLY ESSAY 76
China has become a key nation for Australia's future - for our security, economy and identity. But what are China's intentions and strategy when it comes to Australia? In this gripping account, Peter Hartcher shows that we are entering an era of undeclared contestation, whether for hearts and minds, mi ...Show more
Targeted: My Inside Story of Cambridge Analytica and How Trump and Facebook Broke Democracy by Brittany Kaiser
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Category: Current Affairs
In this explosive memoir, a political consultant and technology whistleblower reveals the disturbing truth about the multi-billion-dollar data industry, revealing to the public how companies are getting richer using our personal information and exposing how Cambridge Analytica exploited weaknesses in pr ...Show more
Generation F: Why we Still Struggle with Sex and Power by Virginia Trioli
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Category: Current Affairs
‘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
Griffith Review 67: Matters of Trust by Ashley Hay
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Category: Current Affairs | Series: Griffith Review Ser.
From our first experiences to our last, institutions structure our world - through education and medicine to politics, justice, civics and religion. But in recent years even the most entrenched of institutions are seemingly on the edge of implosion. Either through deliberate political attacks or as an e ...Show more
Tickbox by David Boyle
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Category: Current Affairs
The word 'tickbox' emerged recently as a cynical angle on official or corporate incompetence. They had 'ticked the box' - people said - but failed to act. It is increasingly used to describe this gap between official spin and reality. Yet, says David Boyle in this powerful expose of tickbox culture, tha ...Show more
Gender: Your Guide - A Gender-Friendly Primer on What to Say, What to Know, and What to Do in the New Gender Culture by Lee Airton
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Category: Current Affairs
An authentic and accessible guide to understanding--and engaging in--today's gender conversation. The days of two genders--male, female; boy, girl; blue, pink--are over, if they ever existed at all. Gender is now a global conversation, and one that is constantly evolving. More people than ever before ar ...Show more
Bad News: Why We Fall for Fake News by Rob Brotherton
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Category: Current Affairs
From the bestselling author of Suspicious Minds There was a time when the news came once a day, in the morning newspaper. A time when the only way to see what was happening around the world was to catch the latest newsreel at the movies. Times have changed. Now we're inundated. The news is no longer con ...Show more
The Shallows - How the Internet Is Changing the Way We Think, Read and Remember by Nicholas Carr
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Category: Current Affairs
The 10th-anniversary edition of this landmark investigation into how the Internet is dramatically changing how we think, remember and interact, with a new afterword.
Cynical Theories How Universities Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity - And Why This Harms Everybody by Helen Pluckrose
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Category: Current Affairs
'Exposes the surprisingly shallow intellectual roots of the movements that appear to be engulfing our culture' Steven Pinker Have you heard that language is violence and that science is sexist? Or been told that being obese is healthy, that there is no such thing as biological sex, or that only white pe ...Show more
Mediocre - The Dangerous Legacy of White Male Power by Ijeoma Oluo
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Category: Current Affairs
From the author of the Sunday Times and number 1 New York Times bestseller So You Want to Talk About Race, a subversive history of white male American identity. 'Deftly combines history and sociological study with personal narrative, and the result is both uncomfortable and illuminating' Washington Post ...Show more
Feminisms: A Global History by Lucy Delap
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Category: Current Affairs | Series: Pelican Bks.
Feminism's origins have often been framed around a limited cast of mostly white and educated foremothers, but the truth is that feminism has been and continues to be a global movement. For centuries, women from all walks of life have been mobilizing for gender justice. As the last decade has reminded ev ...Show more
Rise and Resist - How to Change the World by Clare Press
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Category: Current Affairs
Rise & Resisttakes a wild trip through the new activism sweeping the world. The political march is back in a big way, as communities rally to build movements for environmental and social justice. But today?s context calls for increasingly creative strategies to make our voices heard. Crossing the gl ...Show more