The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt
$36.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Jonathan Haidt has spent his career speaking truth and wisdom in some of the most difficult spaces – communities polarized by politics and religion, campuses battling culture wars, and now the mental health emergency hitting teenagers today in many countries around the world. In The Anxious Generation, ...Show more
The Three Dimensions of Freedom by Billy Bragg
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Category: Current Affairs | Series: Faber Social Ser. | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
Musician and activist Billy Bragg diagnoses the crisis of accountability in Western democracies in this new series of political pamphlets from Faber. We live in a world where strongman politics are rising; neo-liberalism has hollowed out political parties; and corporations have undermined democracy. Ord ...Show more
Buraadja: The liberal case for national reconciliation -- by Andrew BRAGG
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Category: Current Affairs
Magic Pill: The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks of the New Weight Loss Drugs by Johann Hari
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Category: Current Affairs
The bestselling author of Lost Connections and Stolen Focus takes a revelatory look at the new drugs transforming weight loss as we know it sharing his personal experience on Ozempic and examining our ability to heal society's dysfunctional relationship with food, weight and our bodies. In January 2023, ...Show more
Misbelief: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things by Dan Ariely
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Category: Current Affairs
Misinformation affects us daily, from social media to politics and even personal relationships. Policing social media alone cannot solve the complex problem shaped by partisan politics and subjective interpretations of truth. In Misbelief social scientist Dan Ariely explores the behaviour of 'misbelief ...Show more
Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis
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Category: Current Affairs
The world-famous #1 bestselling economist explains how capitalism has been usurped by a technologically enhanced form of feudalism. No one noticed when capitalism died. Perhaps we were too distracted by the implosion of global finance, or the rise of populism, or the demise of the planet - or all of th ...Show more
The Great Housing Hijack: The Hoaxes and Myths Keeping Prices High for Renters and Buyers in Australia by Cameron K. Murray
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Category: Current Affairs
The Great Housing Hijack reveals how vested interests pull the strings on the property market in Australia, and offers a solution for genuinely affordable housing for those who need it. Everyone claims to want affordable housing, but no one wants cheap housing. While Australians on regular incomes dre ...Show more
Unveiled: How Western Liberals Empower Radical Islam by Yasmine Mohammed
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Category: Current Affairs
Ayaan Hirsi Ali's Infidel meets The Handmaid's Tale Since September 11th, 2001, the Western world has been preoccupied with Islam and its role in terrorism. Yet public debate about the faith is polarized--one camp praises "the religion of peace" while the other claims all Muslims are terrorists. Canadi ...Show more
Algorithms of Oppression - How Search Engines Enforce Racism by Safiya Umoja Noble (Contribution by)
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Category: Current Affairs
As seen in Wired and Time A revealing look at how negative biases against women of color are embedded in search engine results and algorithms Run a Google search for "black girls"--what will you find? "Big Booty" and other sexually explicit terms are likely to come up as top search terms. But, if you t ...Show more
Artificial Intelligence For Dummies by John Paul Mueller, Luca Massaron
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Category: Current Affairs
Forget far-away dreams of the future. Artificial intelligence is here now! Every time you use a smart device or some sort of slick technology--be it a smartwatch, smart speaker, security alarm, or even customer service chat box--you're engaging with artificial intelligence (AI). If you're curious about ...Show more