Quarterly Essay 81: Getting to Zero; Australia's Energy Transition by Alan Finkel
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Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
The world is overheating, and despite god intentions and significant others, emissions increase nearly every year. The challenge is immense, but there are solutions. In this lucid, persuasive essay, Alan Finkel maps Australia's energy transition. He focuses strongly on clean technologies, including the ...Show more
Greetings from Trumpland by Daniel, Zoe/Whalan, Roscoe
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Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
Donald Trump, the mercurial US President, has had the world on a string since he declared he would run for office. He's presided over arguably the most volatile White House in history, with a revolving door for senior staff and advisors and haphazard decision making that's turned years of entrenched US ...Show more
What Is Life? Understand Biology in Five Steps by Sir Paul Nurse
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Category: Philosophy
Life is all around us, abundant and diverse. It is truly a marvel. But what does it actually mean to be alive, and how do we decide what is living and what is not? After a lifetime of studying life, Nobel Prize-winner Sir Paul Nurse, one of the world's leading scientists, has taken on the challenge of d ...Show more
In Control: Dangerous Relationships and How They End in Murder by Jane Monckton-Smith
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Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
In the UK, every week three women are killed by their partners. Over half the women killed by men are killed by a current or ex-partner. On average domestic abuse victims are assaulted 68 times before calling the police.There is a domestic violence epidemic happening right now, yet as a society we still ...Show more
How Good is Scott Morrison? by Peter van Onselen, Wayne Errington
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Category: Political / Economic
Without fear or favour, How Good is Scott Morrison? examines the trials and tribulations of our 30th prime minister. Investigating Morrison's unlikely rise to the liberal leadership and his miracle electoral win, van Onselen and Errington put his leadership under the spotlight. Covering Morrison's disas ...Show more
Red Zone: China's Challenge and Australia's Future by Peter Hartcher
$32.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
China is a key nation for Australia's future - for our security, economy and identity. But what are China's intentions when it comes to Australia? And what lies behind the recent chill in relations between the two countries? In this gripping book, Peter Hartcher shows how Australia woke up to China's c ...Show more
The World without Us by Alan Weisman
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Category: Sustainability/Environment
On the day after humans disappear, nature takes over and immediately begins cleaning house - or houses, that is. Cleans them right off the face of the earth. They all go. What if mankind disappeared right now, forever? ...What would happen to the Earth in a week, a year, a millennium? Could the planet's ...Show more
The Reckoning: America's trauma and finding a way to heal by Mary Trump
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Category: Political / Economic
From the #1 bestselling author of Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man. The Reckoning will examine America's national trauma, rooted in its history but dramatically exacerbated by the impact of current events and the Trump administration's corrupt and immoral ...Show more
Things Are Against Us by Lucy Ellmann
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Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
A scorching collection of essays from the Booker-shortlisted author of Ducks, NewburyportThe worst thing about men taking over the cooking of fancy food in restaurants is that every dish now arrives covered in ejaculant, all those drizzles and foam and schmeers...Things Are Against Us is the first colle ...Show more
Media Unmade: Australian Media's Most Disruptive Decade by Tim Burrowes
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Category: Essays
Media Unmade presents the definitive story of the decade in which big media in Australia was cut down to size - a decade that forever altered what had until then been perceived as the unbreachable foundations of the industry in this country. Drawing on insights from his ringside seat, independent journa ...Show more
Power Play: Breaking Through Bias, Barriers and Boys' Clubs by Julia Banks
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Category: Sociology
Power Play is an honest guide for women who aspire to leadership in the workplace and in the world, from the trailblazing Julia Banks.Julia Banks shocked Australia when in 2018 she announced she would stand as an independent MP, resigning from the Coalition Government's Liberal Party, having experienc ...Show more
The Queer Bible by Jack Guinness (Editor)
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Category: Essays
‘We stand on the shoulders of giants. Now we learn their names.' The Queer Bible is a collection of essays written by queer icons, about the queer trailblazers throughout history who inspired them. From Elton John on Divine to Graham Norton on Armistead Maupin; Russell Tovey on David Robilliard to Lady ...Show more