Webtopia - The Worldwide Wreck of Tech and How to Make the Net Work by Peter Lewis
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Category: Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
Sydney in the 1970s and 1980s was a world of limited choice, one where we all watched the same television programs and the household phone was at the heart of allnetworks people belonged to: family, school, church and the neighbourhood. The arrival of the internet promised a utopian, creative and democr ...Show more
We're All Climate Hypocrites Now - How Embracing Our Limitations Can Unlock the Power of a Movement by Sami Grover
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Changing your behavior matters. Transforming the system matters more. Our culture tells us that personal responsibility is central to tackling the climate emergency, yet the choices we make are often governed by the systems in which we live. Whether it's activists facing criticism for eating meat or c ...Show more
Westlessness by Samir Puri
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Category: Current Affairs
- What if the sun truly is setting on the Western world's outsized influence over the rest of the planet? - The receding of Western power is speeding up, shaking the ground under our feet - In Westlessness, Dr Puri vividly demonstrates how in demographic, economic, military and cultural terms, we are hu ...Show more
What Can I Do? The Truth About Climate Change and How to Fix It by Jane Fonda
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Category: Current Affairs
This is the last possible moment in history when changing course can mean saving lives and species on an unimaginable scale. It's too late for moderation. In the fall of 2019, frustrated with the obvious inaction of politicians and inspired by Greta Thunberg, Naomi Klein, and student climate strikers, J ...Show more
What Happens Next?: Reconstructing Australia after COVID-19 by Emma Dawson; Janet McCalman
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Category: Current Affairs
Long before the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the global economy, a reset to serve the wellbeing of people and the planet was plainly needed. As Australia rebuilds, after the immediate health crisis has passed, it must be with the explicit purpose of constructing an economically and ecologically sustainab ...Show more
What I Stand for Is What I Stand On (Penguin Green Ideas series) by Wendell Berry
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Category: Current Affairs | Series: Penguin Green Ideas
From the ravages of the global economy to the great pleasures of growing a garden, these powerful essays represent a heartfelt call for humankind to mend our broken relationship with the earth, and with each other.
What If We Stopped Pretending? by Jonathan Franzen
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Category: Current Affairs
The climate crisis is here. Our chance to stop it has come and gone, but this doesn't have to mean the world is ending. 'Today, the scientific evidence verges on irrefutable. If you're younger than sixty, you have a good chance of witnessing the radical destabilization of life on earth--massive crop fa ...Show more
What If We Stopped Pretending? by Jonathan Franzen
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Category: Current Affairs
The climate change is coming. To prepare for it, we need to admit that we can't prevent it. 'Today, the scientific evidence verges on irrefutable. If you're younger than sixty, you have a good chance of witnessing the radical destabilization of life on earth--massive crop failures, apocalyptic fires, im ...Show more
What Is to Be Done: political engagement and saving the planet by Barry Jones
$35.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A sequel to the prescient bestseller, first published in 1982, that alerted the public to the likely impacts of information technologies and the emergence of a post-industrial society. When Sleepers, Wake!was first released in Australia, it immediately became influential around the world: it was read by ...Show more
What Kind of Creatures are We? by Noam Chomsky
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Category: Current Affairs | Series: Columbia Themes in Philosophy Ser.
Noam Chomsky is widely known and deeply admired for being the founder of modern linguistics, one of the founders of the field of cognitive science, and perhaps the most avidly read political theorist and commentator of our time. In these lectures, he presents a lifetime of philosophical reflection on al ...Show more
What Really Happened In Wuhan: A Virus Like No Other, Countless Infections, Millions of Deaths by Sharri Markson
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Category: Current Affairs
Walkley Award-winning journalist, Sharri Markson is the Investigations Editor at The Australian and host of prime-time show Sharri on Sky News Australia. MORE THAN 109 MILLION INFECTIONS MORE THAN 2.7 MILLION DEATHS HOW DID IT HAPPEN? The origins of COVID-19 are shrouded in mystery and conspiracy theori ...Show more
What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition by Emma Dabiri
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Category: Current Affairs
Stop the denial Abandon guiltInterrogate capitalismWhen it comes to racial justice, how do we transform demonstrations of support into real and meaningful change? Shortly after the death of George Floyd, Emma Dabiri shared a resource on Instagram called 'What White People Can Do Next'. Within days, she ...Show more