Cruel Care A History of Children at Our Borders by Jordana Silverstein
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society
A ground-breaking history of Australia’s treatment of child refugees Cruel Care tells a story of government, politics and the emotions that drive decisions. It asks why Australia has treated child refugees with violence and why governments say that the cruel acts they perpetrate are a form of care. Ba ...Show more
Culture Is Not an Industry - Reclaiming Art and Culture for the Common Good by Justin O'Connor
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society | Series: Manchester Capitalism Ser.
Culture is at the heart to what it means to be human. But twenty-five years ago, the British government rebranded art and culture as 'creative industries', valued for their economic contribution, and set out to launch the UK as the creative workshop of a globalised world. Where does that leave art and c ...Show more
Decolonizing Israel, Liberating Palestine by Jeff Halper
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society
'Extremely convincing' - Electronic Intifada For decades we have spoken of the 'Israel-Palestine conflict', but what if our understanding of the issue has been wrong all along? This book explores how the concept of settler colonialism provides a clearer understanding of the Zionist movement's project t ...Show more
Diplomatic: A Washington memoir by Joe Hockey
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society
In September 2015 Joe Hockey's political career was brought to a dramatic end when Malcolm Turnbull successfully challenged Prime Minister Tony Abbott for the Liberal Leadership. Hockey was told by Turnbull he would no longer be Treasurer - a deal had been done with Scott Morrison. Hockey, who was at on ...Show more
Do As I Say: How cults control, why we join them, and what they teach us about bullying, abuse and coercion by Sarah Steel
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society
At the heart of being human is the desire to belong. It can make us unspeakably vulnerable to the manipulations of others. Cult leaders prey on this desire, but so do many unscrupulous operators hiding in plain sight. Sarah Steel, the creator of the popular 'Let's Talk About Sects' podcast, has research ...Show more
Econobabble: How to Decode Political Spin and Economic Nonsense by Richard Denniss
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society
'Economics is like a tyre lever- it can be used to solve a problem, or to beat someone over the head.'What is econobabble? We hear it every day, when politicians and commentators use incomprehensible economic jargon to dress up their self-interest as the national interest, to make the absurd seem inevit ...Show more
Ethics in the Real World: 87 Brief Essays by Peter Singer
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society
In this book of brief essays, Singer applies his controversial ways of thinking to issues like climate change, extreme poverty, animals, abortion, euthanasia, human genetic selection, sports doping, the sale of kidneys, the ethics of high-priced art, and ways of increasing happiness. Singer asks whether ...Show more
Exponential: How Accelerating Technology Is Leaving Us Behind and What to Do About It by Azeem Azhar
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society
We are entering the exponential age. New inventions are created at a dazzling speed; our homes and workplaces are remade by technological forces we barely understand; centuries-old tenets of politics and economics are upturned by new technologies. It all points to a world that is getting faster at a diz ...Show more
Facts and Other Lies: Welcome to the Disinformation Age by Ed Coper
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society
From fringe conspiracy theories to 'alternative facts', a timely look at how we arrived in the 'fake news' era. Would your younger self, even from a few years ago, believe the news of today? An entire block of a major city blown up by a suicide bomber on Christmas Day because he believed phone towers s ...Show more
Freedom, Only Freedom: The Prison Writings of Behrouz Boochani by Omid; Mans Behrouz; Tofighian Boochani
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society
Over six years of imprisonment on Australia's offshore migrant detention centre, the Kurdish Iranian journalist and writer Behrouz Boochani bore personal witness to the suffering and degradation inflicted on him and his fellow refugees, culminating eventually in his prize-winning book - No Friend but th ...Show more
Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon by Michael Lewis
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society
From the #1 bestselling author of The Big Short and Flash Boys, the high-octane story of the enigmatic figure at the heart of one of the 21st century's most spectacular financial collapses 'I asked him how much it would take for him to sell FTX and go do something other than make money. He thought the ...Show more
His Name Is George Floyd by Robert Samuels, Toluse Olorunnipa
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society
Written with unprecedented access, this is the only and definitive biography of George Floyd. The murder of George Floyd sparked a fiery summer of activism and unrest all over the world in 2020. People marched under the Black Lives Matter banner, demanding an end to racial injustice. The movement has l ...Show more