Breaking News: The Remaking of Journalism and Why It Matters Now by Alan Rusbridger
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Category: Current Affairs
How do we know any more what is true and what isn't? We are living through the greatest communication revolution since Gutenberg in which falsehood regularly seems to overwhelm truth. In Breaking News Alan Rusbridger offers an urgent and agenda-setting examination of the past, present and future of the ...Show more
America vs the West: Can the Liberal World Order Be Preserved? by Kori Schake
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Category: Current Affairs | Series: Penguin Specials Ser.
"The rules-based international order is being challenged... not by the usual suspects, but by its main architect and guarantor, the US." --European Council President Donald Tusk, 8 June 2018 Under President Donald Trump, the United States has burned like a wildfire through the goodwill it accrued in 70 ...Show more
Political Correctness Gone Mad? by Stephen Fry; Jordan B. Peterson; Michael Eric Dyson; Michelle Goldberg
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Category: Current Affairs
"Without free speech there is no true thought." Jordan Peterson Is political correctness an enemy of free speech, open debate and the free exchange of ideas? Or is it a progressive force, eroding the dominant power relationships and social norms that exclude marginalised groups from society?
Lab Rats: Why Modern Work ... Miserable by Dan Lyons
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Category: Current Affairs
An hilarious and terrifying expose of the brave new world of work, explaining why it has all gone wrong and how we can regain our dignity.
Political Tribes - Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations by Amy Chua
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Category: Current Affairs
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The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World by Melinda Gates
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Category: Current Affairs
For the last twenty years, Melinda Gates has been on a mission. Her goal, as co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, has been to find solutions for people with the most urgent needs, wherever they live. Throughout this journey, one thing has become increasingly clear to her: If you want to ...Show more
Breaking News - The Remaking of Journalism and Why It Matters Now by Alan Rusbridger
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
We are living in a modern world where falsehood regularly seems to overwhelm truth. The ability of billions of people to publish has created a vast amount of unreliable and false news which now competes with and sometimes drowns more established forms of journalism. So where can we look for reliable, ve ...Show more
Price of Inequality by Joseph Stiglitz
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Category: Current Affairs
The social impact of inequality is now increasingly understood - higher crime, health problems and mental illness, lower educational achievements and life expectancy. But what are the causes of inequality, why is it growing so rapidly and what are its economic and political impacts? In this exceptional ...Show more
Identity: Contemporary Identity Politics and the Struggle for Recognition by Francis Fukuyama
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Category: Current Affairs
Currently in Bill Gates's bookbag and FT Books of 2018Increasingly, the demands of identity direct the world's politics. Nation, religion, sect, race, ethnicity, gender: these categories have overtaken broader, inclusive ideas of who we are. We have built walls rather than bridges. The result: increasin ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 75: Men at Work: Australia's Parenthood Trap by Annabel Crabb
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Category: Current Affairs | Series: Quarterly Essay # 7
When New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced her pregnancy, the headlines raced around the world. But when Scott Morrison and Josh Frydenberg became the first Prime Minister and Treasurer duo since the 1970s to take on those roles while bringing up primary-school-aged children, this detail p ...Show more
So You Wanna Be an Ally - Going Beyond the Safety Pin by Marissa Johnson; Leslie Mac
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Category: Current Affairs
How to Be Alone - Essays on Modern Romance, If That's Even a Thing Anymore by Lane Moore
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Category: Current Affairs
The former Sex & Relationships Editor for Cosmopolitan and host of the wildly popular comedy show Tinder Live with Lane Moore presents her poignant, funny, and deeply moving first book.Lane Moore is a rare performer who is as impressive onstage--whether hosting her iconic show Tinder Live or being t ...Show more