The School of Life: A Job to Love: How to Find a Fulfilling Career by The School of Life
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Category: Culture and Ideas
"The idea that work might be fulfilling rather than just necessary is a recent invention. These days, in prosperous areas of the world, we don't only expect to get paid, we also expect to find meaning and satisfaction. It's a big ask and explains why so many people have an identity crisis in their work ...Show more
School of Life: How to Get Married by The School of Life
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Category: Culture and Ideas
"Many of us are attracted to the idea of marriage and yet feel a bit uncomfortable with some of the rituals that are traditionally associated with the big day. Perhaps the old ceremonies place too much emphasis on religion or else seem out of step with some of the complex realities of contemporary relat ...Show more
Man-Made: How the bias of the past is being built into the future by Tracey Spicer
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Category: Culture and Ideas
Walkley Award-winning journalist Tracey Spicer exposes the next frontier of feminism. Man Made aims to open readers’ eyes to a transformative technological shift in society and give them the tools to make positive change. `Mum, I want a robot slave.’ Broadcaster Tracey Spicer had an epiphany when her ...Show more
Personal Score: Sport, Culture, Identity by Ellen van Neerven
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Category: Culture and Ideas
Award-winning writer Ellen van Neerven plays football from a young age, learning early on that sport can be a painful and exclusive world. The more they play, the more they realise about sport’s troubled relationship with race, gender and sexuality – and question what it means to play sport on stolen, s ...Show more
Ethics in the Real World: 90 Essays on Things that Matter (A Fully Updated and Expanded Edition) by Peter Singer
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Category: Culture and Ideas
A revised edition of Peter Singer's powerful collection, featuring 37 new essays.A fully updated and expanded edition of Peter Singer's powerful collection, including 37 new essays.Free speech and fake news, stopping Putin, pandemic ethics, climate change, extreme poverty, abortion, euthanasia, sports d ...Show more
Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic by Simon Winchester
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Category: Culture and Ideas
From the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kindergarten classes—here is award-winning writer Simon Winchester’s brilliant and all-encompassing look at how humans acquire, retain, and pass on information and data, and how technology continues to change our li ...Show more
The Queen Is Dead: The passionate and powerful bestselling book by critically acclaimed journalist and author of Tears of Strangers and Talking to My Country by Stan Grant
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Category: Culture and Ideas
From Stan Grant, leading journalist and author of the critically acclaimed bestsellers Talking to My Country and Australia Day, comes an extraordinary and powerful call to action. 'History is not weighted on the scales, it is felt in our bones. It is worn on our skin. It is scarred in memory.' The Que ...Show more
She and Her Pretty Friend: The hidden history of Australian women who love women by Danielle Scrimshaw
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Category: Culture and Ideas
A joyous look at the history of lesbian and bisexual women in Australia - from colonisation to convict times, through suffrage and liberation to today.Throughout history, women's relationships have been downgraded and diminished. Instead of lovers, they are documented as particularly close friends; the ...Show more
The Dangers of Female Provocation by Zoe Coyle
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Category: Culture and Ideas
Vengeance is coming. Odessa Odin has it all – a successful career, an adoring husband and a close circle of friends to whom she is fiercely loyal. On the surface they’re living a glittering London life of wealth and cosseted privilege, but underneath this veneer lies painful truths of betrayal, neglec ...Show more
How to Age Against the Machine: An Empowering Guide for Women Ageing on Their Own Terms by Melissa Doyle, Naima Brown
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Category: Culture and Ideas
How to Age Against the Machine is a joyous, information-packed ride through ageing as a woman, in all its complexity and diversity. Melissa Doyle and Naima Brown, co-hosts of the popular Age Against the Machine podcast, ask all the right questions on thorny topics such as menopause, relationships, work, ...Show more
Law: The Way of the Ancestors (First Knowledges) by Marcia Langton, Aaron Corn
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Category: Culture and Ideas | Series: First Knowledges Ser.
Law is culture, and culture is law. Given by the ancestors and cultivated over millennia, Indigenous law defines what it is to be human. Complex and evolving, law holds the keys to resilient, caring communities and a life in balance with nature. Marcia Langton and Aaron Corn show how Indigenous law has ...Show more
Gen F'd?: How Young Australians Can Reclaim Their Uncertain Futures by Alison Pennington
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Category: Culture and Ideas | Series: The\Crikey Read Ser.
In Gen F-d?, economist Alison Pennington shows how the most educated generation in Australia's history stands to be the first generation worse off than their parents, and gives young people the tools to create the change we need. This is the fifth book in The Crikey Read series from Crikey and Hardie G ...Show more