The First Shots: The Epic Rivalries and Heroic Science Behind the Race to the Coronavirus Vaccine by Brendan Borrell
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society
An enthralling real-life thriller that tells the full inside story of the high-stakes race for a lifesaving vaccine to end the COVID-19 pandemicThe global race to find a coronavirus vaccine is the defining story of our times. In The First Shots, award-winning journalist Brendan Borrell brings this high- ...Show more
The Future of Geography: How power and politics in space will change our world by Tim Marshall
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society
Spy satellites orbiting the moon. Space metals worth more than most countries' GDP. People on Mars within the next ten years.This isn't science fiction. It's astropolitics.Humans are heading up and out, and we're taking our power struggles with us. Soon, what happens in space will shape human history as ...Show more
The Good, The Bad & the Unlikely by Mungo MacCallum
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society
From Barton to AlbaneseUpdated editionSince 1901, thirty-one different leaders have run the national show. Whether their term was eight days or eighteen years, each prime minister has a story worth sharing.Edmund Barton united the bickering states in a federation. The unlucky Jimmy Scullin took office d ...Show more
The New Megatrends: Seeing Clearly in the Age of Disruption by Marian Salzman
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society
A pioneering forecaster predicts the trends and technologies that will shape global culture and commerce in the next two decades-a must-read guide for business leaders, entrepreneurs, and anyone looking for an edge."In a world of half-baked hot takes, Marian Salzman is a true seer."-Andrew YangA little ...Show more
The Palestine Laboratory: how Israel exports the technology of occupation around the world by Antony Loewenstein
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Bestselling journalist Antony Loewenstein uncovers the widespread commercialisation and brutal deployment globally of Israel's occupation-enforcing technologies. For more than 50 years, the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza has given the Israeli state invaluable experience in controlling an 'enemy' p ...Show more
The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World by Tim Marshall
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society
Tim Marshall's global bestseller Prisoners of Geography showed how every nation's choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas and concrete. Since then, the geography hasn't changed. But the world has.In this revelatory new book, Marshall explores ten regions that are set to shape global politics in a ...Show more
Time for Socialism: Dispatches from a World on Fire, 2016 - 2021 by Thomas Piketty
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society
A chronicle of recent events that have shaken the world, from the author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century"What makes this manifesto noteworthy is that it comes from . . . an economist who gained his reputation as a researcher with vaguely left-of-center sensibilities but was far from a radical. Ye ...Show more
Transforming Education - Reimagining Learning, Pedagogy and Curriculum by Miranda Jefferson; Michael Anderson
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society
Working away from trends in government policy, this book takes a future-oriented re-imagining of schools with a focus on four innate human capacities: collaboration, critical reflection, communication and creativity. Miranda Jefferson and Michael Anderson draw together a diverse range of case studies fr ...Show more
Waco - David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and a Legacy of Rage by Jeff Guinn
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The definitive account of the disastrous siege at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, featuring never-before-seen documents, photographs, and interviews, from former investigative reporter and bestselling author Jeff Guinn. Waco breaks new ground that will change the perception of the dramatic ...Show more
Who's Afraid of Gender? by Judith Butler
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society
Judith Butler, the ground-breaking philosopher whose work has redefined how we think about gender and sexuality, confronts the attacks on gender that have become central to right-wing movements today. Global networks have formed 'anti-gender ideology movements' dedicated to circulating a fantasy that ge ...Show more
Why Women Are Blamed for Everything - Exposing the Culture of Victim-Blaming by Jessica Taylor
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'The kind of book that has you screaming "Yes! Yes! Yes! Now I get it!" on almost every page' Caitlin Moran'Dr Taylor sets out a compelling case . . . gives voice and agency to women who have experienced trauma and violence' Morning StarShe asked for it. She was flirting. She was drinking. She was weari ...Show more
Witness by Louise Milligan
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Category: Current Affairs, Culture and Society
A masterful and deeply troubling expose, Witness is the culmination of almost five years' work for award-winning investigative journalist Louise Milligan. Charting the experiences of those who have the courage to come forward and face their abusers in high-profile child abuse and sexual assault cases, M ...Show more