On Violence and on Violence Against Women by Jacqueline Rose
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Category: Current Affairs
Why has violence, and especially violence against women, become so much more prominent and visible across the world? To explore this question, Jacqueline Rose tracks the multiple forms of today's violence - historic and intimate, public and private - as they spread throughout our social fabric, offerin ...Show more
The Authority Gap: Why Women Are Still Taken Less Seriously Than Men, and What We Can Do about It by Mary Ann Sieghart
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Category: Current Affairs
Imagine living in a world in which you were routinely patronized by women.Imagine having your views ignored or your expertise frequently challenged by them.Imagine trying to speak up in a meeting, only to be talked over by female colleagues.Imagine subordinates resisting you as a boss, merely because of ...Show more
Unfree Speech: The Threat to Global Democracy and Why We Must Act, Now by Joshua Wong
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Category: Current Affairs
An urgent manifesto for global democracy from Joshua Wong, the 22-year-old phenomenon leading Hong Kong's protests - Nobel Peace Prize nominee and TIME, Forbes, and Fortune world leader - with an introduction by Ai Weiwei Aged 14, Joshua Wong made history. While the adults stayed silent, Joshua staged ...Show more
Black Wave - Saudi Arabia, Iran and the Forty Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion and Collective Memory in the Middle East by Kim Ghattas
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Category: Current Affairs
Novelistic and character-driven, Black Wave is an unprecedented and ambitious examination of how the modern Middle East unravelled and why it started with the pivotal year of 1979. Kim Ghattas seamlessly weaves together history, geopolitics, and culture to deliver a gripping read of the largely unexplor ...Show more
Solved: How Other Countries Have Cracked the World's Biggest Problems and We Can Too by Andrew Wear
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Category: Current Affairs
Sometimes the solutions are closer than we think. Denmark will reach 100 per cent renewable electricity by 2030. Iceland has topped gender equality rankings for a decade and counting. Singaporean students beat almost all others in maths and reading. South Koreans will soon live longer than an ...Show more
The Book of Gutsy Women by Hilary and Chelsea Clinton
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Category: Current Affairs
She couldn't have been more than seven or eight years old. "Go ahead, ask your question," her father urged, nudging her forward. She smiled shyly and said, "You're my hero. Who's yours?" Many people--especially girls--have asked us that same question over the years. It's one of our favorite topics. HIL ...Show more
The Future Is Faster Than You Think by Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler
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Category: Current Affairs | Series: Exponential Technology Series
During the next decade, we will experience more disruption and create more wealth than we have in the past hundred years. In this insightful and gripping blueprint for our near future, bestselling authors and futurists Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler investigate how wave after wave of exponentially ac ...Show more
The World in Conflict - Understanding the World's Troublespots by John Andrews
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
The Earth is riven by dangerous and shifting faultlines. Since the previous edition of The World in Conflict, we have witnessed the apparent collapse of Isis in Syria and the reawakening of the Troubles in Ireland. Donald Trump first goaded and then mollified North Korea, the world's most enigmatic nucl ...Show more
Afropean: Notes from Black Europe by Johny Pitts
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Category: Current Affairs
'Afropean. Here was a space where blackness was taking part in shaping European identity ... A continent of Algerian flea markets, Surinamese shamanism, German Reggae and Moorish castles. Yes, all this was part of Europe too, and these were people and places it needed to understand and embrace if it wan ...Show more
Losing Earth: The Decade We Could Have Stopped Climate Change by Nathaniel Rich
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Category: Current Affairs
By 1979, we knew all that we know now about the science of climate change - what was happening, why it was happening and how to stop it. Over the next ten years, we had the very real opportunity to stop it. Obviously, we failed. Nathaniel Rich's groundbreaking account of that failure - and how tantalis ...Show more
Sunnis and Shi'a: A Political History by Laurence Louër
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Category: Current Affairs | Series: Princeton ANZ Paperbacks Ser.
A compelling history of the ancient schism that continues to divide the Islamic world A compelling history of the ancient schism that continues to divide the Islamic world When Muhammad died in 632 without a male heir, Sunnis contended that the choice of a successor should fall to his closest companions ...Show more
Most Dangerous Man In The World: The Inside Story On Julian Assange And WikiLeaks by Andrew Fowler
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Category: Current Affairs
"The Most Dangerous Man in the World is the definitive account of WikiLeaks, threats against its existence and the man who is as secretive as the organisations he targets. Through interviews with Julian Assange, his inner circle and those who fell out with him, Andrew Fowler tells the story of how a man ...Show more