Exit Strategy: Politics After the Pandemic: Quarterly Essay 82 by George Megalogenis
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Category: Non Fiction
In the wake of the pandemic, will we see a new politics of social security and concern for the future? Australia faces recession. In the wake of the pandemic, will we see a new politics of care and fear, of social security and concern for the future? In this original essay, George Megalogenis explains ...Show more
Media Unmade: Australian Media's Most Disruptive Decade by Tim Burrowes
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Category: Non Fiction
Media Unmade presents the definitive story of the decade in which big media in Australia was cut down to size - a decade that forever altered what had until then been perceived as the unbreachable foundations of the industry in this country. Drawing on insights from his ringside seat, independent journa ...Show more
Woke Inc - Inside the Social Justice Scam by Vivek Ramaswamy
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Category: Non Fiction
A young entrepreneur makes the case that politics has no place in business, and sets out a new vision for the future of capitalism. The modern woke-industrial complex divides us as a people. By mixing morality with consumerism, corporate elites prey on our innermost insecurities about who we really are. ...Show more
The Digital Silk Road: China's Quest to Wire the World and Win the Future by Jonathan E. Hillman
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Category: Non Fiction
An expert on China's growing digital empire provides an urgent look at the battle to connect and control tomorrow's networks. Its vast infrastructure projects now extend from the ocean floor to outer space, and from Africa's megacities into rural America. China is wiring the world, and, in doing so, re ...Show more
The Gate to China: A New History of the People's Republic & Hong Kong by Michael Sheridan
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Category: Non Fiction
'A delightful piece of writing and research which describes the remarkable history behind the handover of this unique and exciting city' Jasper Becker 'Deeply researched and beautifully written' Mike Chinoy A superb new history of the rise of China and the fall of Hong Kong to authoritarian rule. The ...Show more
Mountains Of The Mind: A History Of A Fascination by Robert Macfarlane
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Category: Non Fiction
Mountains of the Mind is a beautifully written synthesis of climbing memoir and cultural history. Once we thought monsters lived there. In the Enlightenment we scaled them to commune with the sublime. Soon, we were racing to conquer their summits in the name of national pride.In this ground-breaking, cl ...Show more
The Ruby Princess by Duncan McNab
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Category: Non Fiction
In the early hours of Thursday 19 March 2020, the luxury cruise liner Ruby Princess docked at Sydney's Circular Quay, the gateway to Australia. Hours later, 2700 passengers disembarked. Yet in the middle of a pandemic sweeping the planet, there were no health checks. Over the next few days, the passenge ...Show more
Lead The Way: How To Change The World From A Teen Activist And School Striker by Jean Hinchliffe
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Category: Non Fiction
Want to take action and fight for what's right, but don't know where to start? Lead the Way is your ultimate guide to activism and making systematic change, your way. Jean Hinchliffe is one of the key organisers of School Strikes 4 Climate, and in this book she shares her tools, stories and learnings f ...Show more
Sex, Lies and Question Time: Why the successes and struggles of women in Australia’s parliament matter to us all by Kate Ellis
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Category: Non Fiction
In 2017, a survey showed zero per cent of young Australian women would consider entering politics. Zero. In a time when we critically need women in our parliament, and in a country that was an early leader in women's political participation, there is a perception that women and politics don’t mix. Shoc ...Show more
Uncommon Type: Some Stories by Tom Hanks
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Category: Non Fiction
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION FROM THE AUTHOR'Impressive' The Times'Funny and pitch perfect' Sunday Express'I blink, bubble and boggle in amazed admiration' Stephen Fry'These stories are a hit' Financial Times A small-town newspaper columnist with old-fashioned views of the modern world. A World War II vetera ...Show more
The Story of the World in 100 Moments by Neil Oliver
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Category: Non Fiction
The author of the major bestseller, The Story of the British Isles in 100 Places, presents a journey through time, curating one hundred moments that shaped our world, from 5000 BC to the present.From much-loved historian Neil Oliver comes a whole new insight on our past, told through 100 remarkable, unf ...Show more
Psychedelic Apes - From Parallel Universes to Atomic Dinosaurs - the Weirdest Theories of Science and History by Alex Boese
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Category: Non Fiction
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Elephant's on Acid comes a collection of the wackiest theories from science and history.What if we're living inside a black hole? What if we've already found extraterrestrial life? What if the dinosaurs died in a nuclear war? What if Jesus Christ was actually ...Show more