Consequences of Capitalism: Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance by Noam Chomsky; Marv Waterstone
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society
Is there an alternative to capitalism? In this landmark text Chomsky and Waterstone chart a critical map for a more just and sustainable society.'Covid-19 has revealed glaring failures and monstrous brutalities in the current capitalist system. It represents both a crisis and an opportunity. Everything ...Show more
Crimes Against Nature: Capitalism and Global Heating by Jeff Sparrow
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society
A polemic about global warming and the environmental crisis that argues that ordinary people have consistently opposed the destruction of nature and so provide an untapped constituency for climate action. Crimes Against Nature uses fresh material to offer a very different take on the most important issu ...Show more
Cruel Care A History of Children at Our Borders by Jordana Silverstein
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society
A ground-breaking history of Australia’s treatment of child refugees Cruel Care tells a story of government, politics and the emotions that drive decisions. It asks why Australia has treated child refugees with violence and why governments say that the cruel acts they perpetrate are a form of care. Ba ...Show more
Culture Is Not an Industry - Reclaiming Art and Culture for the Common Good by Justin O'Connor
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society | Series: Manchester Capitalism Ser.
Culture is at the heart to what it means to be human. But twenty-five years ago, the British government rebranded art and culture as 'creative industries', valued for their economic contribution, and set out to launch the UK as the creative workshop of a globalised world. Where does that leave art a ...Show more
Decolonizing Israel, Liberating Palestine by Jeff Halper
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society
'Extremely convincing' - Electronic Intifada For decades we have spoken of the 'Israel-Palestine conflict', but what if our understanding of the issue has been wrong all along? This book explores how the concept of settler colonialism provides a clearer understanding of the Zionist movement's project t ...Show more
Diplomatic: A Washington memoir by Joe Hockey
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society
In September 2015 Joe Hockey's political career was brought to a dramatic end when Malcolm Turnbull successfully challenged Prime Minister Tony Abbott for the Liberal Leadership. Hockey was told by Turnbull he would no longer be Treasurer - a deal had been done with Scott Morrison. Hockey, who was at on ...Show more
Do As I Say: How cults control, why we join them, and what they teach us about bullying, abuse and coercion by Sarah Steel
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society
At the heart of being human is the desire to belong. It can make us unspeakably vulnerable to the manipulations of others. Cult leaders prey on this desire, but so do many unscrupulous operators hiding in plain sight. Sarah Steel, the creator of the popular 'Let's Talk About Sects' podcast, has research ...Show more
Do The Work: A Guide to Understanding power and creating change by Megan Pillow, Roxane Gay
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society
Changing the world starts with you! Challenge your own biases with this super-sharp workbook. Written by educator and NYT best-selling Bad Feminist author Dr. Roxane Gay, and Megan Pillow. Confront your biases to change the world! Do The Work is a sharp workbook by educator Professor Roxane Gay and writ ...Show more
Econobabble: How to Decode Political Spin and Economic Nonsense by Richard Denniss
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society
'Economics is like a tyre lever- it can be used to solve a problem, or to beat someone over the head.'What is econobabble? We hear it every day, when politicians and commentators use incomprehensible economic jargon to dress up their self-interest as the national interest, to make the absurd seem inevit ...Show more
Ethics in the Real World: 87 Brief Essays by Peter Singer
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society
In this book of brief essays, Singer applies his controversial ways of thinking to issues like climate change, extreme poverty, animals, abortion, euthanasia, human genetic selection, sports doping, the sale of kidneys, the ethics of high-priced art, and ways of increasing happiness. Singer asks whether ...Show more
Freedom, Only Freedom: The Prison Writings of Behrouz Boochani by Omid; Mans Behrouz; Tofighian Boochani
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society
Over six years of imprisonment on Australia's offshore migrant detention centre, the Kurdish Iranian journalist and writer Behrouz Boochani bore personal witness to the suffering and degradation inflicted on him and his fellow refugees, culminating eventually in his prize-winning book - No Friend but th ...Show more
Here be Monsters: Is Technology Reducing Our Humanity? by Richard King
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society
Technology is developing fast — so fast that it threatens to overwhelm the very species whose genius lies in its technological cunning: us. From the metaverse to genetic engineering and mood-altering pharmaceuticals, to cybersex and cyberwar and the widespread automation of work, new technologies are re ...Show more