Korea : Where the American Century Began by Michael Pembroke
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Category: Current Affairs & Politics
This lucid book should be compulsory reading for anyone who wonders how the situation on the Korean peninsula has deteriorated to the point it is today. It demonstrates the truth of the axiom that unless you know the history, you cannot see the future. The failed invasion of North Korea by US-led forces ...Show more
The Trump Leaks : The Onion Exposes the Top Secret Memos, Emails, and Doodles That Could Take Down a President by Onion (COR)
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Category: Current Affairs & Politics
Addicted - How Addiction Affects Every by Matthew Noffs; Kieran Palmer (As told to)
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Category: Current Affairs & Politics | Series: Addiction Affects Everyone & What to Do About It
This book is about addictions of all kinds. Addictions to smartphones, sex, games, social media, gambling, money, but most of all to alcohol and drugs. The words 'addict' and 'addiction' are loaded with baggage. Not just in Australia, but the world over, addicts are considered to be sub-human, if not al ...Show more
The Colonial Fantasy: Why white Australia can't solve black problems by Sarah Maddison
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Category: Current Affairs & Politics
Australia is wreaking devastation on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. The evidence is incontrovertible. Whatever the policy - from protection to assimilation, self-determination to intervention, reconciliation to recognition - government policies and programs have made little positive diffe ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 73: Australia Fair: Listening to the Nation by Rebecca Huntley
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Category: Current Affairs & Politics | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
For some time, a majority of Australians have been saying they want change - on climate and energy, on housing and inequality, on corporate donations and their corrupting effect on democracy, to name just a few.Recent attention has focused on the angry, reactionary minority. But is there a progressive c ...Show more
How to Make a Difference by Kate Robertson; Ella Robertson
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Category: Current Affairs & Politics
How to Make a Difference is a practical roadmap to modern day activism created by the powerful and imaginative minds behind the world's biggest campaigns including Colin Kaepernick, Emma Watson, Sir Bob Geldof, Fatima Bhutto, Black Lives Matter, Cher, Matt Damon, Rakesh Kapoor and Gina Miller; collectiv ...Show more
Official Secrets: The Spy Who Tried to Stop a War (FTI) by Marcia Mitchell; Thomas Mitchell
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Category: Current Affairs & Politics | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING KEIRA KNIGHTLEY, MATT SMITH, RALPH FIENNES AND MATTHEW GOODE FEATURING A NEW INTRODUCTION FROM THE AUTHOR In January 2003, 28-year-old GCHQ translator Katharine Gun received an email from the US National Security Agency that would turn her world upside down. Th ...Show more
Chasing the Scream by Johann Hari
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Category: Current Affairs & Politics
What if everything we've been told about addiction is wrong? One of Johann Hari's earliest memories is of trying to wake up one of his relatives and not being able to. As he grew older, he realised there was addiction in his family. Confused, he set out on a three-year, thirty-thousand mile journey to ...Show more
On Eating Meat - The truth about its production and the ethics of eating it by Matthew Evans
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Category: Current Affairs & Politics | Series: Truth About Production and Should We Eat It? | Reading Level: very good
A scorching manifesto on the ethics of eating meat by the best placed person to write about it - farmer and chef Matthew Evans, aka The Gourmet Farmer. 'Compelling, illuminating and often confronting, On Eating Meat is a brilliant blend of a gastronome's passion with forensic research into the sources o ...Show more
Identity: Contemporary Identity Politics and the Struggle for Recognition by Francis Fukuyama
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Category: Current Affairs & Politics
Currently in Bill Gates's bookbag and FT Books of 2018Increasingly, the demands of identity direct the world's politics. Nation, religion, sect, race, ethnicity, gender: these categories have overtaken broader, inclusive ideas of who we are. We have built walls rather than bridges. The result: increasin ...Show more
Breaking News - The Remaking of Journalism and Why It Matters Now by Alan Rusbridger
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Category: Current Affairs & Politics
We are living in a modern world where falsehood regularly seems to overwhelm truth. The ability of billions of people to publish has created a vast amount of unreliable and false news which now competes with and sometimes drowns more established forms of journalism. So where can we look for reliable, ve ...Show more