Quarterly Essay 62: Firing Line: Australia and the Path to War by James Brown
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Category: Essays | Series: Quarterly Essay
"Going to war may be the gravest decision a nation and its leaders make. At the moment, Australia is at war with the Islamic State. We also live in a region that has become much more volatile, as China asserts itself and America seeks to hold the line. What is it like to go to war? How do we decide to g ...Show more
Fat Is A Feminist Issue by Susie Orbach
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Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
This is the original anti-diet book is back - in one volume together with its best-selling sequel. When it was first published, Fat Is A Feminist Issue became an instant classic and it is as relevant today as it was then. Updated throughout, it includes a frank new introduction by Susie Orbach that brin ...Show more
Planet Jackson - Power, greed & unions by Brad Norington
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Category: Political / Economic
Kathy Jackson was hailed as a heroine for blowing the whistle on the million-dollar fraud of Michael Williamson, the corrupt boss of the Health Services Union. While remaining steadfast in this very public ordeal, she endured bitter personal attacks from enemies in the Labor Party and the union movement ...Show more
Aboriginal Children History and Health Beyond Social Determinants by John Boulton
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Category: Sociology
This volume traces the complex reasons behind the disturbing discrepancy between the health and well-being of children in mainstream Australia and those in remote indigenous communities. Invaluably informed by Boulton's close working knowledge of Aboriginal communities, the book addresses growth falteri ...Show more
Freeman's Family by John Freeman
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Category: Essays
"Freeman's: Family is the second literary anthology in the series reviewers are calling 'bold' (Minneapolis Star-Tribune) and 'refreshing' (Chicago Literati). Following a debut issue on the theme of 'Arrival', Freeman circles a new topic whose definition is constantly challenged by the best of our write ...Show more
From Despair to Hope by James Arvanitakis
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Category: Political / Economic | Series: Penguin Specials
A few days before the terrorist attacks in Paris, a car bomb exploded in Beirut killing dozens. Though this may happen on the other side of the world, deep divisions emerge that are exploited for political expediency. Strangers are no longer people reading quietly on the bus, but potential threats. How ...Show more
Literary Wonderlands by Laura Miller
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Category: Essays
From the advent of the first works of literature many millennia ago, writers have used imaginary worlds both to entertain their readers and to examine concepts, highlight key issues and consider their personal beliefs about the society, natural surroundings and experience of being of which they are a pa ...Show more
Do Humankind's Best Days Lie Ahead? by Steven Pinker Malcolm Gladwell Alain De Botton Matt Ridley
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Category: Essays
From the Enlightenment onwards, the West has had an enduring belief that through the evolution of institutions, innovations, and ideas, the human condition is improving. This process is supposedly accelerating as new technologies, individual freedoms, and the spread of global norms empower individuals a ...Show more
Wrap It in a Bit of Cheese Like You're Tricking the Dog: The Fifth Collection of Essays and Emails by New York Times Best Selling Author, David Thorne. by David Thorne (The University of Manchester UK)
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Category: Essays
From the New York Times Best Selling author of The Internet is a Playground and the creator of the website 27b/6, comes a brand new collection of never before published essays and emails. "Thorne's best book yet. Clever, awkward, and laugh-out-loud funny." The Huffington Post
Undesirables: Inside Nauru by Mark Isaacs
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Category: Political / Economic
When it comes to asylum-seekers on Nauru, we learn only what the government wants us to know. In the wake of The Nauru Files, see first-hand is happening inside the Nauru detention centre through Mark Isaacs' eyewitness account. Mark Isaacs worked for the Salvation Army inside the Nauru Detention Centre ...Show more
The Killing Season Uncut by Sarah Ferguson, Patricia Drum
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Category: Political / Economic
Australians came to the ABC's The Killing Season in droves, their fascination with the brutal RudduGillard struggle as enduring as the saga itself. This is the book that brings you the uncut version of The Killing Season, taking you behind the cameras to reveal the untold stories and candid moments that ...Show more
How to Have A Good Day: A Revolutionary Handbook for Work and Life by Caroline Webb
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Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
In How to Have a Good Day, economist and former McKinsey partner Caroline Webb shows readers how to use recent findings from behavioral economics, psychology, and neuroscience to transform our approach to everyday working life. Advances in these behavioral sciences are giving us ever better understan ...Show more