The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World by Antony Loewenstein
$35.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Bestselling journalist Antony Loewenstein uncovers the widespread commercialisation and brutal deployment globally of Israel's occupation-enforcing technologies. For more than 50 years, the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza has given the Israeli state invaluable experience in controlling an 'enemy' p ...Show more
The Influencer Industry The Quest for Authenticity on Social Media by Emily Hund
$37.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A critical history of the social media influencer’s rise to global prominenceBefore there were Instagram likes, Twitter hashtags, or TikTok trends, there were bloggers who seemed to have the passion and authenticity that traditional media lacked. The Influencer Industry tells the story of how early digi ...Show more
Pandemedia - How Covid Changed Journalism by Tracey Kirkland and Gavin Fang (eds)
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Category: Current Affairs
If journalism is the first draft of history, what will it say about Covid? The Covid-19 pandemic ripped through the world with no regard for borders, age, status or wealth. It was brutal in its impact and created a raft of new social norms. And without warning, the pandemic changed journalism, in some ...Show more
People vs. Donald Trump: An Inside Account by Mark Pomerantz
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Category: Current Affairs
A fascinating inside account of the attempt to prosecute former US president Donald Trump. Mark Pomerantz was a retired lawyer living a calm suburban life when he accepted an offer to join the staff of the district attorney of New York County in February 2021. His brief: to work on the investigation of ...Show more
Man-Made: How the bias of the past is being built into the future by Tracey Spicer
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Category: Current Affairs
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
The Future of Geography: How power and politics in space will change our world by Tim Marshall
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Category: Current Affairs
Spy satellites orbiting the moon. Space metals worth more than most countries' GDP. People on Mars within the next ten years.This isn't science fiction. It's astropolitics.Humans are heading up and out, and we're taking our power struggles with us. Soon, what happens in space will shape human history as ...Show more
The Uncertainty Effect: How to Survive and Thrive Through the Unexpected by Michelle Lazarus
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Category: Current Affairs
A smart, practical book that shows us how to navigate uncertain times.In an age of pandemic and economic precarity, how can we learn to embrace uncertainty in our workplaces, schools and businesses? And how can better understanding uncertainty help us to build resilience, foster social justice and deal ...Show more
Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma by Claire Dederer
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
'An incredible book, the best work of criticism I have read in a very long time' NICK HORNBY 'An exhilarating, shape-shifting exploration of the perilous boundaries between art and life' JENNY OFFILL A passionate, provocative and blisteringly smart interrogation of how we experience art in the age of #M ...Show more
Can War Be Justified? - A Debate by Jennifer Kling; Andrew Fiala
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Category: Current Affairs | Series: Little Debates about Big Questions Ser.
Can war be justified? Pacifists answer that it cannot; they oppose war and advocate for nonviolent alternatives to war. But defenders of just war theory argue that in some circumstances, when the effectiveness of nonviolence is limited, wars can be justified. In this book, two philosophers debate this q ...Show more
AI for Diversity by Roger Søraa
$19.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: AI for Everything Ser.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly impacting many aspects of people's lives across the globe, from relatively mundane technology to more advanced digital systems that can make their own decisions. While AI has great potential, it also holds great peril depending on how it is designed and used. ...Show more
How Sex Changed the Internet and the Internet Changed Sex: An Unexpected History by Samantha Cole
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Category: Current Affairs
From the moment there was an "online," there was sex online. The famous test image used by software engineers to develop formats like the jpeg was "Lena," taken from Playboy's November 1972 centerfold. Early bulletin boards and multi-user domains quickly came to serve their members sexual musings. Faceb ...Show more
Trust the Plan: The Rise of QAnon and the Conspiracy that Reshaped the World by Will Sommer
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Category: Current Affairs
On the 6th of January, 2021, thousands of Trump supporters stormed the United States Capitol. Their banners read, Trust the Plan, a reference to an alarming conspiracy theory that had gained unstoppable momentum over the last four years: these were followers of QAnon. Decoding online clues from a myste ...Show more