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Waltzing at the Doomsday Ball: The Best of Joe Bageant
Ken Smith
Literary essays; Society & Social Sciences; Social issues & processes; Social classes; Politics & government
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'I'm so damn average that what I write resonates with people', Joe Bageant said in explaining how he gained a global following... [more]
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Speak Now: Australian Perspectives on Same-Sex Marriage
Victor Marsh
History; Social issues & processes; Ethical issues & debates; Gay & Lesbian studies; Sexual behaviour
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A collection of essays, reflections and personal stories that show the passion and depth around the issue of same-sex marriage.... [more]
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After Words: The Post-Prime Ministerial Speeches
Paul Keating
Biography; Prose: non-fiction; Literary essays; Anthologies (non-poetry); Social issues & processes; Politics & government
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A unique volume of speeches and occasional pieces written entirely by former Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating. [more]
The Year It All Fell Down
Bob Ellis
History; 21st century history: from c 2000 -; Social issues & processes; Politics & government
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Some events require many years before their impact is apparent. Some arrive as instant history. One of our most incisive and... [more]
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Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction...
Annalee Newitz
Social impact of disasters; Social forecasting, future studies; Mathematics & Sciences; Popular science; Endangered species & extinction of species
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Climate change. Pandemics. Catastrophic volcanoes. Should we just give up and accept our doom? Absolutely not. Homo sapiens... [more]
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The Misogyny Factor
Anne Summers
History; Feminism & feminist theory; Gender studies: women; Sociology
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In 2012, Anne Summers gave two landmark speeches about women in Australia, attracting more than 120,000 visits to her website.... [more]
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Earth Masters: Playing God with the Climate
Clive Hamilton
Social issues & processes; Mathematics & Sciences; Popular science; The environment; Global warming
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What if there were a magic bullet to fix our ailing planet? What if it meant seizing control of Earth's climate? Clive Hamilton... [more]
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Murdoch's Pirates: Before the Phone Hacking, There Was Rupert's Pay-TV Skullduggery...
Neil Chenoweth
Society & Social Sciences; Social issues & processes; Media, information & communication industries
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The inside story of the skullduggery at the heart of one the Murdoch empire's subsidiaries, NDS. [more]
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Destroying the Joint: Why Women Have to Change the World
Jane Caro
History; Social discrimination; Gender studies: women; Politics & government
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A fabulously provocative collection by women ready to destroy the joint [more]
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Night Games: Sex, Power and Sport
Anna Krien
History; Social issues & processes; Crime & criminology; Sports & outdoor recreation; Australian Rules football
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'The Pies beat the Saints and the city of Melbourne was still cloaked in black and white crepe paper when the rumour of a... [more]
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The End of Big: How the Internet Makes David the New Goliath
Nicco Mele
Society & Social Sciences; Social issues & processes; Sociology; Ethical & social aspects of computing
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Will the end of 'big' result in greater freedom, or social chaos? This is a vital forecast on the fundamental shift in power... [more]
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The Good Life: What Makes a Life Worth Living?
Hugh Mackay
Society & Social Sciences; Cultural studies; Social issues & processes
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Social researcher and psychologist Hugh Mackay has spent 40 years asking Australians about their lives, loves, hopes, ambitions,... [more]
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Free the Bears: How an Ordinary Perth Grandmother Became an Extraordinary...
Mary Hutton
Biography; Biography: general; True stories; Animals & society
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In 1993, Perth grandmother Mary Hutton started a petition at her local shopping mall after seeing a news story about the extraction... [more]
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Who Owns the Future?
Jaron Lanier
Society & Social Sciences; Social forecasting, future studies; E-commerce: business aspects; Impact of science & technology on society; Technology: general issues
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Instead of experiencing excellent financial health because of the efficiencies of digital technologies, those efficiencies... [more]
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Holy Hell
Patricia Feenan
Biography; True crime; Child abuse
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When Senior NSW Police Detective Chief Inspector Peter Fox told the ABC's Lateline programme on November 8, 2012, that the... [more]
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The People Smuggler: The True Story of Ali Al Jenabi, the 'Oskar Schindler...
Robin de Crespigny
Biography; Biography: general; True stories of heroism, endurance & survival; Refugees & political asylum
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After his father, brother and he were incarcerated and tortured in Saddam's Abu Ghraib, Ali al Jenabi escaped from Iraq first... [more]
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Hungry City: How Food Shapes Our Lives
Carolyn Steel
Architecture; City & town planning - architectural aspects; Social & cultural history; Society & Social Sciences; Food & society; Social issues & processes; Urban communities; The environment; Urban & municipal planning; Cookery, food & drink
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Examines the way in which modern food production has damaged the balance of human existence, and reveals that we have yet... [more]
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Together: The Rituals, Pleasures and Politics of Co-operation
Richard Sennett
Society & Social Sciences; Social interaction; Social theory
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Living with people who differ - racially, ethnically, religiously or economically - is one of the most urgent challenges facing... [more]
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Not Quite Nigella
Lorraine Elliott
Biography; Biography: general; Memoirs; Social interaction; Cookery, food & drink
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Lorraine is writing what in many ways could be the memoir for Generation X. She had a high-flying advertising job with a fab... [more]
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The Price of Politics
Bob Woodward
History; Social issues & processes; Politics & government; Financial crises & disasters
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Bestselling and Pulitzer-winning Bob Woodward's new book takes us into the rooms where the United States' business is negotiated... [more]
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Women and Power
Julianne Schultz
Literary essays; Anthologies (non-poetry); History; Cultural studies; Social issues & processes; Gender studies: women
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In one generation, women have taken control of their economic fate, risen to the most powerful political positions in the... [more]
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Black Saturday at Steels Creek
Peter Stanley
History; 21st century history: from c 2000 -; Social impact of disasters; Natural disasters
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A riveting account of a day that stopped a nation -- and a community. The Black Saturday bushfires killed 173 people -- wreaking... [more]
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The 32 Stops: The Central Line
Danny Dorling
Literary essays; Social discrimination; Geography; Human geography; Economic geography; Travel & holiday
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Part of a series of twelve books tied to the twelve lines of the London Underground, this title tells the darkly humorous... [more]
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The Boy Who Wouldn't Die
David Nyuol Vincent
Biography; Memoirs; Prose: non-fiction; Refugees & political asylum; Terrorism, armed struggle
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The inspiring true story of David Nyuol Vincent, a Sudanese refugee who survived famine, wars and 17 years in refugee camps... [more]
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Ravaged Innocents: Children of War
John Wright
History; Child abuse; Human rights
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In Uganda and neighboring Darfur there is no end of conflict in sight. Every night, hospitals and school halls are crowded... [more]
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