Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari
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Category: Current Affairs & Politics
From renowned historian and #1 Sunday Times bestselling author Yuval Noah Harari comes the story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world. For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discoveries, inventions and conquests, we now find ...Show more
How Many More Women? How the Law Silences Women: Uncensored. Unredacted. Updated. by Jennifer Robinson, Keina Yoshida
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In a new, uncensored edition, two human rights lawyers break open the ways that our legal system continues to silence and disadvantage women. Uncensored. Unredacted. Updated. HOW MANY MORE WOMENhave to be raped or abused before we act? need to accuse him before we believe her? will be failed by the crim ...Show more
How to Be a Citizen: Learning to Rely Less on Rules and More on Each Other by C.L. Skach
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Category: Current Affairs & Politics
How to Be a Citizen: Learning to Rely Less on Rules and More on Each Other. We believe that rules and laws are in place to protect us. They are what keep our societies from descending into chaos. Without them, how would we know our right from wrong, live comfortably in our communities and be good neighb ...Show more
Black Witness: The Power of Indigenous Media by Amy McQuire
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Category: Current Affairs & Politics
From one of this country's leading Indigenous journalists comes a collection of fierce and powerful essays proving why the media need to believe Black witnesses and showcasing ways that journalism can be used to hold the powerful to account and make the world a more equitable place.Amy McQuire has been ...Show more
Techno: Humans and Technology by Marcus Smith
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Category: Current Affairs & Politics
Technology is changing the world. How will the opportunities and risks affect you? In the midst of a technology revolution and the rise of artificial intelligence (AI), we all need to understand the relationship between humans and technology. Social media, data surveillance, biometrics, genomics and cr ...Show more
When Cops Are Criminals by Veronica Gorrie
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Category: Current Affairs & Politics
A powerful indictment of the criminal behaviour of police officers, and a call for institutional reform, edited by the multi-award-winning author of Black and Blue. When Cops Are Criminals examines the widespread problem of police brutality and corruption from the perspectives of those who understand i ...Show more
Birds Aren't Real: The true story of mass avian murder and the largest surveillance campaign in U.S. history by Peter McIndoe, Connor Gaydos
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Category: Current Affairs & Politics
The true story of the greatest conspiracy in US history - and how to fight back.Have you ever seen a baby pigeon? You haven't, have you? No one has, not in many, many years. They used to be everywhere. That's because they come out of the factory as adults.In the 1970s, the United States government kille ...Show more
The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World by Tim Marshall
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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
The Kindness Revolution: How we can restore hope, rebuild trust and inspire optimism by Hugh Mackay
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Category: Current Affairs & Politics
Generous, erudite, optimistic and candid...Hugh Mackay encourages us to find the best in ourselves and in our society in both good and troubled times. Revolutions never start at the top. If we dare to dream of a more loving country - kinder, more compassionate, more cooperative, more respectful, more i ...Show more
Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention by Johann Hari
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Category: Current Affairs & Politics
* THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * 'If you read just one book about how the modern world is driving us crazy, read this one'TELEGRAPH'This book is exactly what the world needs right now . . . Worth your time and certainly worth your focus'OPRAH WINFREY'A beautifully researched and argued ...Show more
Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter by Kate Conger, Ryan Mac
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Rising star New York Times technology reporters, Kate Conger and Ryan Mac, tell for the first time the full and shocking inside story of Elon Musk's unprecedented takeover of Twitter and the forty-four-billion-dollar deal's seismic political, social and financial fallout. The billionaire entrepreneur a ...Show more
Repeat: A Warning from History by Dennis Glover
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Are we about to see history repeat? 'Do you ever stop and ask, 'Is it all going to happen again?' --Siegfried Sassoon We live in an age that seems eerily familiar. A time of dictators, populists, organised lying, European wars, grabs for territory, ideological extremism, and even antisemitism, when th ...Show more