Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia by Anita Heiss
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Category: SOCIETY AND CULTURE | Series: Growing Up
Childhood stories of family, country and belonging What is it like to grow up Aboriginal in Australia? This anthology, compiled by award-winning author Anita Heiss, showcases many diverse voices, experiences and stories in order to answer that question. Accounts from well-known authors and high-profile ...Show more
The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer
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Category: SOCIETY AND CULTURE | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics Ser.
Available in audio for the first time since its publication in 1970, and narrated by the author, Germaine Greer. A worldwide best seller, The Female Eunuch is a landmark book in the history of the women's movement and a ground-breaking feminist tract. Drawing from history, literature, and popular cultu ...Show more
Depends What You Mean by Extremist - Going Rogue with Australian Deplorables by John Safran
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Category: SOCIETY AND CULTURE
No one turns up where they're not wanted quite like John Safran. In this hilarious and disorienting adventure he gets among our diverse community of white nationalists, ISIS supporters, anarchists and more, digging away at the contradictions that many would prefer be left unexamined. Who is this black p ...Show more
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
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Category: SOCIETY AND CULTURE | Reading Level: very good
Award-winning journalist Reni Eddo-Lodge was frustrated with the way that discussions of race and racism are so often led by those blind to it, by those willfully ignorant of its legacy. Her response, Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race, has transformed the conversation both in Britain ...Show more
The Decadent Society - How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success by Ross Douthat
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Category: SOCIETY AND CULTURE | Reading Level: good-very good
From the New York Times columnist and bestselling author of Bad Religion, a "clever and stimulating" (The New York Times Book Review) portrait of how our turbulent age is defined by dark forces seemingly beyond our control. Today the Western world seems to be in crisis. But beneath our social media fren ...Show more
Mediocre - The Dangerous Legacy of White Male Power by Ijeoma Oluo
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Category: SOCIETY AND CULTURE | Reading Level: near fine
From the author of the Sunday Times and number 1 New York Times bestseller So You Want to Talk About Race, a subversive history of white male American identity. 'Deftly combines history and sociological study with personal narrative, and the result is both uncomfortable and illuminating' Washington Post ...Show more
The Death of the Gods: The New Global Power Grab by Carl Miller
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Category: SOCIETY AND CULTURE
**Winner of the Transmission Prize 2019** THE OLD GODS ARE DYING. Giant corporations collapse overnight. Newspapers are being swallowed. Stock prices plummet with a tweet. NEW IDOLS ARE RISING IN THEIR PLACE. More crime now happens online than offline. Facebook has grown bigger than any state, bots batt ...Show more
Close to Home: Selected Writings by Alice Pung
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Category: SOCIETY AND CULTURE
A BRILLIANT COLLECTION FROM ONE OF AUSTRALIA'S LEADING WRITERS Close to Home brings together Alice Pung's most loved writing, on topics such as migration, family, art, belonging and identity. Warm, funny, moving and unfailingly honest, this is Alice at her best - an irresistible pleasure for fans and n ...Show more
Randomistas: How Radical Researchers Changed Our World by Andrew Leigh
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Category: SOCIETY AND CULTURE
Experiments have consistently been used in the hard sciences, but in recent decades social scientists have adopted the practice. Randomized trials have been used to design policies to increase educational attainment, lower crime rates, elevate employment rates, and improve living standards among the poo ...Show more
What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape by Sohaila Abdulali
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Category: SOCIETY AND CULTURE
Except for the foundational belief that rape is a crime, with a criminal and a victim, I will not take anything else for granted.Sohaila Abdulali was gang-raped as a teenager in Mumbai. Indignant at the silence on the issue in India, she wrote an article for a woman?s magazine challenging the way in whi ...Show more
Pentridge: Voices From the Other Side by Rupert Mann
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Category: SOCIETY AND CULTURE
Members of the last generation of inmates and staff return to the now-forgotten prison to tell the true and brutal story of Pentridge before developers bury it forever.Rupert Mann has worked with the past all his life, and is interested in how we use, forget, and celebrate it today. This priceless work, ...Show more
Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment by Francis Fukuyama
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Category: SOCIETY AND CULTURE
Increasingly, 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: increasing in anti-immigrant sentiment, rioting on college camp ...Show more