Things They Don't Want You to Know - Eleven Lessons for Raising a 21st-Century Teenager by Ben Brooks
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Category: Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
A GUIDE TO TEENAGERS FROM THIS CENTURY - FOR PARENTS FROM THE LAST CENTURY Written from a teenager's perspective, this is a unique field guide for parents about the secret lives of 21st century adolescents - from mental health to self-harm, from drugs to sexting - and how you can help them and yourself ...Show more
Upturn: A Better Normal after COVID-19 by Tanya Plibersek (Editor)
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Category: Current Affairs
If you had asked most people a year ago, they would have told you there was no way that school children could shift overnight to online learning; that it was impossible for banks to offer mortgage holidays; impossible to double unemployment benefits; impossible to house rough sleepers or put a hold on e ...Show more
War and Punishment by Mikhail Zygar
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Category: Current Affairs
As soon as the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine began, prominent independent Russian journalist Mikhail Zygar took action. He circulated a petition that was signed first by hundreds of his cultural and journalistic contacts and then by thousands of others. That brave act led to a new law in Russia crimi ...Show more
Your Face Belongs to Us: The Secretive Startup Dismantling Your Privacy by Kashmir Hill
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Category: Current Affairs
‘The dystopian future portrayed in some science-fiction movies is already upon us. Kashmir Hill’s fascinating book brings home the scary implications of this new reality’ JOHN CARREYROU, author of Bad Blood When Kashmir Hill stumbled upon Clearview AI, a mysterious startup selling an app that claimed i ...Show more
2030 How Today's Biggest Trends Will Collide and Reshape the Future of Everything by Mauro F. Guillén; Leon Nixon (Read by)
$39.95 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR The world is changing drastically before our eyes - will you be prepared for what comes next? 2030is a groundbreaking analysis by one of the world's foremost experts on global trends - from the shifting nature of retirement to the emergence of a new middle class, the ...Show more
21st-Century Virtues: How They Are Failing Our Democracy by Lucinda Holdforth
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Category: Current Affairs | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
Authenticity. Vulnerability. Humility. Transparency. These are some of the 21st-century virtues proselytised by mindset gurus, paraded (if not practised) by big corporations, and lauded by professionals on LinkedIn. The quest for authenticity, for example, is central to progressive campaigns for greater ...Show more
30-Second Feminism by Jess McCabe
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Category: Current Affairs | Series: 30 Second
Feminism is a global movement, developing with each cut and thrust of history to form a parallel "herstory." But what are the most important feminist ideas? What do terms like "patriarchy," "rape culture," and "intersectionality" mean? How have these terms emerged from historical conditions facing women ...Show more
50 Capitalism Ideas You Really Need to Know by Jonathan Portes
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Category: Current Affairs | Series: 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know Ser.
In a series of 50 accessible essays, Jonathan Portes demystifies the fundamental concepts of capitalism - from its history, core theories and key institutions to its current-day political power and social impact. From stock markets to banks, globalization to Marxism, 50 Capitalism Ideas is a complet ...Show more
A Banquet of Consequences, Reloaded: How we got into the mess we're in, and why we need to act now by Satyajit Das
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Category: Current Affairs
Essential reading for anyone concerned about the dire future of the global economy, the deepening environmental crisis the alarming deterioration of our social fabric, A Banquet of Consequences incisively explains the problems confronting us, how we're making those problems worse, and what the real solu ...Show more
A Decade of Drift (In the National Interest) by Martin Parkinson
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Category: Current Affairs | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
The erosion of public trust in government has been a characteristic of liberal democracies in recent years. How much have the twists and turns in climate change policy over the past decade contributed to this in Australia? As a senior public servant during six prime ministerships, Martin Parkinson had a ...Show more
A Secret Australia: Revealed by the WikiLeaks Exposés by Felicity Ruby + Peter Cronau Eds.
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Category: Current Affairs
In A Secret Australia, nineteen prominent Australians discuss what Australia has learnt about itself from the WikiLeaks revelations - revelations about a secret Australia of hidden rules and loyalty to hidden agendas. However Australians may perceive their nation's place in the world - as battling sport ...Show more
A State of Fear: How the UK government weaponised fear during the Covid-19 Pandemic by Laura Dodsworth
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Category: Current Affairs
Starting a much needed conversation about the ethics and impacts of the behavioural psychology, manipulation and the strategy of fear that is so deeply embedded in government. This is a book about fear. Fear of a virus. Fear of death. Fear of losing our jobs, our democracy, our human connections, our he ...Show more