Essays: The Philosophy Classic by De Montaigne, Michel
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Category: Current Affairs | Series: Capstone Classics Ser.
Essais (Essays), the large collection of short essays by Michel de Montaigne was published in 1580. The essays are a reflection of Montaigne's philosophy, his interests and learning. They describe humans, particularly Montaigne himself, and he expressed his thoughts freely through his essays.His essays ...Show more
Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces 2004-2021 by Margaret Atwood
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Category: Current Affairs
From cultural icon Margaret Atwood comes a brilliant collection of essays - funny, erudite, endlessly curious, uncannily prescient - which seek answers to Burning Questions such as; Why do people everywhere, in all cultures, tell stories? How much of yourself can you give away without evaporating? How c ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 85: Not Waving, Drowning: Mental Illness and Vulnerability in Australia by Sarah Krasnostein
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Category: Current Affairs
How can we mend Australia's broken mental health system? Around one-fifth of Australians will suffer from mental illness in any given year. And the pandemic is making things worse, especially in schools. Our mental health system is under stress and not fit for purpose. What is to be done? In this brilli ...Show more
Facts and Other Lies: Welcome to the Disinformation Age by Ed Coper
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Category: Current Affairs
From fringe conspiracy theories to 'alternative facts', a timely look at how we arrived in the 'fake news' era. Would your younger self, even from a few years ago, believe the news of today? An entire block of a major city blown up by a suicide bomber on Christmas Day because he believed phone towers s ...Show more
On Reckoning by Amy Remeikis
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Category: Current Affairs | Series: On Ser.
What happens when the usual political tactics of deflect and dodge are no longer enough? A reckoning. The Guardian's political reporter Amy Remeikis has spoken before about being a survivor of sexual assault, but Brittany Higgins going public with her story ripped the curtain back not just on political ...Show more
Seeking Asylum: Our Stories by Asylum Seeker Resource Centre
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Category: Current Affairs
The voices Australia should hear This beautifully illustrated hardback captures the stories of those who have lived the experience of seeking asylum. In their own voices, contributors share how they came to be in Australia, and explore diverse aspects of their lives- growing up in a refugee camp, study ...Show more
Trust the Plan: The Rise of QAnon and the Conspiracy that Reshaped the World by Will Sommer
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Category: Current Affairs
On the 6th of January, 2021, thousands of Trump supporters stormed the United States Capitol. Their banners read, Trust the Plan, a reference to an alarming conspiracy theory that had gained unstoppable momentum over the last four years: these were followers of QAnon. Decoding online clues from a myste ...Show more
Hippocrasy: How doctors are betraying their oath by Rachelle Buchbinder, Ian Harris
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Category: Current Affairs
In Hippocrasy, two world-leading doctors — rheumatologist and epidemiologist Rachelle Buchbinder and orthopaedic surgeon Ian Harris — reveal the true state of modern medicine and how doctors are letting their patients down. They argue that the benefits of treatments are often wildly overstated and the h ...Show more
Mortals: How the fear of death shaped human society by Rachel Menzies, Ross Menzies
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Category: Current Affairs
Human society is shaped by many things, but underlying them all is one fundamental force - our fear of death. This is the ground-breaking theory explored in Mortals.Mortals is a ground-breaking book uncovering the fear of death as the hidden driver of most of our species' endeavours over millennia. The ...Show more
Women Don't Owe You Pretty - The Small Edition by Florence Given
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Category: Current Affairs
'THE BEAUTY MYTH' FOR THE INSTAGRAM GENERATION Women Don't Owe You Pretty is the ultimate book for anyone who wants to challenge the out-dated narratives supplied to us by the patriarchy.Through Florence's story you will learn how to protect your energy, discover that you are the love of your own life, ...Show more
Power Play: Elon Musk, Tesla, and the Bet of the Century by Tim Higgins
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Category: Current Affairs
The fast-paced business story of Tesla- Egos, Engines and Elon's battle to build the mass-market electric car to change the world Join the race to drive the future Can a startup conquer the biggest and most entrenched industry in the global economy? The petrol car transformed our lives, both as a life ...Show more
Toxic: The Rotting Underbelly of the Tasmanian Salmon Industry by Richard Flanagan
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Category: Current Affairs
Is Tasmanian salmon one big lie? In a triumph of marketing, the Tasmanian salmon industry has for decades succeeded in presenting itself as world’s best practice and its product as healthy and clean, grown in environmentally pristine conditions. What could be more appealing than the idea of Atlantic sal ...Show more