White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism by Robin DiAngelo
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Category: Words & Ideas
Anger. Fear. Guilt. Denial. Silence. These are the ways in which ordinary white people react when it is pointed out to them that they have done or said something that has - unintentionally - caused racial offence or hurt. After, all, a racist is the worst thing a person can be, right? But these reaction ...Show more
How Do We Know We're Doing It Right? Essays on Modern Life by Pandora Sykes
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Category: Essays
'Pandora is my personal guru on all things relating to the zeitgeist. How lucky you are that she can now be yours too.' - Dolly Alderton Modern life is full of choices. We're told that happiness lies within and we can be whoever we want to be. But with endless possibility comes a feeling of restlessnes ...Show more
Women and Leadership: Real Lives, Real Lessons by Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
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Category: Contemporary Thought
An inspirational and practical book written by two high-achieving women, sharing the experience and advice of some of our most extraordinary women leaders, in their own words. From their broad experience on the world stage in politics, economics and global not-for-profits, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and Julia ...Show more
We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast by Jonathan Safran Foer
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Category: Climate
In We Are the Weather, New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Safran Foer explores the central global dilemma of our time in a surprising, deeply personal, and urgent new way. Some people reject the fact, overwhelmingly supported by scientists, that our planet is warming because of human activity. B ...Show more
Spy vs Spy: The New Age of Espionage: Australian Foreign Affairs 9 by Jonathan Pearlman
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Category: Essays | Series: AUSTRALIAN FOREIGN AFFAIRS
The ninth issue of Australian Foreign Affairs explores the rapidly evolving espionage threat facing Australia as changes in technology enable malign actors to target individuals, officials, businesses and infrastructure.Spy vs Spy examines how Australian agencies can defend against this attempt to not o ...Show more
The Oak Papers by James Canton
$25.00 AUD
Category: Science
Oaks are born and die on the same patch of earth. It is that sure-footedness that is so appealing. Ancient oaks hold a powerful sense of the longevity of life. The sense of security, of attachment to place, enchants us. You can stand beneath a grand oak and know that your more distant ancestors did so t ...Show more
Why Women Are Poorer Than Men and What We Can Do About It by WILLIAMS ANNABELLE
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Category: Contemporary Thought
Money gives us freedom.It gives us choices . . .But why is it women are nearly always poorer than men?The modern world is rigged unfairly in men's favour. From pensions to the tampon tax, bearing children to boardroom bullying, Why Women Are Poorer Than Men shows how society conspires to limit women's w ...Show more
Thank You For Arguing: What Cicero, Shakespeare and the Simpsons Can Teach Us About the Art of Persuasion by Jay Heinrichs
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Category: Contemporary Thought
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Your ultimate guide to the art of winning arguments Everyone is always trying to persuade us of something: politicians, advertising, the media, and most definitely our families. Thank You for Arguing is your master class in the art of persuasion, taught by professors rangin ...Show more
Power of Strangers: The Benefits of Connecting in a Suspicious World by Joe Keohane
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Category: Science
Why don't we talk to strangers?Has it always been this way?And what benefits come when we do talk to strangers? For the Greeks, proper treatment of strangers was a primary virtue, "xenos"; and throughout the history of civilisation, the treatment of strangers has impacted the fate of whole cultures. Bu ...Show more
Novacene - The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence by James Lovelock
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Category: Climate
At 100-years-old, the originator of the Gaia theory welcomes the takeover of artificial intelligence, and offers a mischievous, wit-filled, and scientifically backed vision of a future epoch in which humans and AI together will help the Earth survive--no extraterrestrial influence necessary. Far from vi ...Show more
Lab to Table - Stop Being a Lab Rat. Start Making Better Choices for Your Table by Cyndi O'Meara
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Category: Words & Ideas
Food used to be grown on a farm. Now it's made in a lab. Gone are the days of being able to blindly trust that what we eat is actually good for us. Savvy marketers have fed us a "diet of misinformation" that has manipulated us into thinking we are eating more healthfully than we truly are. The result? A ...Show more
Aspects of the New Right-Wing Extremism by Theodor W. Adorno; Wieland Hoban (Translator)
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Category: Essays
On 6 April 1967, at the invitation of the Socialist Students of Austria at the University of Vienna, Theodor W. Adorno gave a lecture which is not merely of historical interest. Against the background of the rise of the National Democratic Party of Germany, which had enjoyed remarkable electoral success ...Show more