Upstream - Selected Essays by Mary Oliver
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
One of O, The Oprah Magazine's Ten Best Books of the Year The New York Times bestselling collection of essays from beloved poet, Mary Oliver. "In the beginning I was so young and such a stranger to myself I hardly existed. I had to go out into the world and see it and hear it and react to it, be ...Show more
Serious Money: Walking Plutocratic London by Caroline Knowles
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
'A latter-day Canterbury Tales ... Serious Money has a serious mission' The Times'Eye-opening ... part guide, part indictment of a yawning wealth gap' Misha Glenny, Financial TimesLondon is a plutocrat's paradise, with more resident billionaires than New York, Hong Kong or Moscow. Far from trickling dow ...Show more
She Said: The New York Times Bestseller by Jodi Kantor, Megan Twohey
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
On 5 October 2017, the New York Times published an article by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey that helped change the world. Hollywood was talking as never before. Kantor and Twohey outmanoeuvred Harvey Weinstein, his team of defenders and private investigators, convincing some of the most famous women in t ...Show more
The World Until Yesterday - What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? by Jared Diamond
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Reading Level: near fine
The no. 1 bestselling author of Collapse and Guns, Germs and Steel explores the profound lessons that traditional societies offer us today. Over the past 500 years, the West achieved global dominance, but do Westerners necessarily have better ideas about how to raise children, care for the elderly, or s ...Show more
Nature, Culture, and Inequality by Thomas Piketty
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
An insightful exploration of the nature of inequality. In his new work, Thomas Piketty explores how social inequality manifests itself very differently depending on society and epoch in which it arises. History and culture play a central role, inequality being strongly linked to various socio-economic, ...Show more
Complicit: How Our Culture Enables Misbehaving Men by Reah Bravo
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
A thoroughly researched and deeply personal examination of how women unintentionally condone workplace abuse in a post-#MeToo world--and what we can do to change things for the better. When Reah Bravo began working at the Charlie Rose show, the open secret of Rose's conduct towards women didn't deter ...Show more
Think : A compelling introduction to philosophy by Simon Blackburn
23.95 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Reading Level: very good
This is an audiobook about the big questions in life: knowledge, consciousness, fate, God, truth, goodness, justice. It is for anyone who believes there are big questions out there, but does not know how to approach them. Think sets out to explain what they are and why they are important. Simon Blackbur ...Show more
This is the Canon: Decolonise Your Bookshelves in 50 Books by Kadija Sesay George, Deirdre Osborne, Joan Anim-Addo
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
These are the books you should read. This is the canon. Joan Anim-Addo, Deirdre Osborne and Kadija Sesay have curated a decolonised reading list that celebrates the wide and diverse experiences of people from around the world, of all backgrounds and all races. It disrupts the all-too-often white-dominat ...Show more
The Precipice: Neoliberalism, the Pandemic and the Urgent Need for Radical Change by Noam Chomsky
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
In this powerful collection of interviews, Noam Chomsky exposes the problems of our world today, as we stand in this period of monumental change, preparing for a more hopeful tomorrow. 'For the left, elections are a brief interlude in a life of real politics, a moment to ask whether it's worth taking ti ...Show more
Steps Towards a Small Theory of the Visible by John Berger
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
'We live within a spectacle of empty clothes and unworn masks' In this series of remarkable pieces from across his career, John Berger celebrates and dissects the close links between art and society and the individual. Few writers give a more vivid and moving sense of how we make art and how art makes u ...Show more
How Artifacts Afford - The Power and Politics of Everyday Things by Jenny L. Davis
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Design Thinking, Design Theory Ser.
A conceptual update of affordance theory that introduces the mechanisms and conditions framework, providing a vocabulary and critical perspective. Technological affordances mediate between the features of a technology and the outcomes of engagement with that technology. The concept of affordances, whic ...Show more
On Fire: the Case for a Green New Deal by Naomi Klein
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
The fight for a green world is the fight of our lives. And with On Fire, Naomi Klein gives us the ammunition to do it. In frank, personal terms, she shows us how the only way forward out of a polluted world of our own making is only through policy reform - a concrete set of actions to combat the mountin ...Show more