2023: A Year of Consequence by The Conversation; Justin Bergman (Editor)
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Category: Politics
"This was a year of consequential decisions - not just for Australia, but the world. In Australia, the year was dominated by a historic referendum on the Voice to Parliament, transforming its military to respond to the shifting security challenges in the region and how the government help everyday Austr ...Show more
The Fall: The End of the Murdoch Empire by Michael Wolff
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Category: Current Affairs
Meet the Murdochs and the disastrously dysfunctional family of Fox News. Until recently, they formed the most powerful media and political force in America. Now their empire is cracking up and crashing down. In his irresistible trilogy on the chaotic Trump presidency - Fire and Fury, Siege, and Landslid ...Show more
Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein
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Category: Politics
A personal trip into the uncanny Mirror World of our polarised culture, from the international bestselling author of The Shock Doctrine. What if you woke up one morning and found you'd acquired a double? Someone almost like you, and yet not you at all? When Naomi Klein discovered that a woman who share ...Show more
Eating the Earth: Why We Need to Change the Way we do Business with Nature by Justyn Walsh
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Category: Current Affairs
Money talks, but it doesn't always tell the truth ...Although it has generated riches for billions, industrial capitalism is underwritten by a planetary pyramid scheme. In the global equivalent of selling the furniture to pay the rent, we are destroying natural assets and calling the result 'income' whi ...Show more
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller
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Category: Current Affairs
The Financial Times Business Book of the Year, this epic account of the decades-long battle to control one of the world's most critical resources--microchip technology--with the United States and China increasingly in fierce competition is "pulse quickening...a nonfiction thriller" (The New York Times). ...Show more
The Matter of Everything: Twelve Experiments that Changed Our World by Suzie Sheehy
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Category: Popular Science
The astonishing story of twentieth-century physics, told through the twelve experiments that changed our world*SELECTED AS ONE OF WATERSTONES' BEST POPULAR SCIENCE BOOKS OF 2022*'A splendid idea, vividly carried out- I enjoyed this book enormously' PHILIP PULLMAN'A rich history of beautiful discoveries' ...Show more
Here be Monsters: Is Technology Reducing Our Humanity? by Richard King
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Category: Popular Science
Technology is developing fast — so fast that it threatens to overwhelm the very species whose genius lies in its technological cunning: us. From the metaverse to genetic engineering and mood-altering pharmaceuticals, to cybersex and cyberwar and the widespread automation of work, new technologies are re ...Show more
Trump's Australia: How Trumpism changed Australia and the shocking consequences for us of a second term by Bruce Wolpe
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Category: Politics
Trump (or a Trumpist) could well win the 2024 US presidential election, and if he does, American democracy as we have known it will probably come to an end. Australia's best-informed commentator on US politics sends a chilling warning. What if Trump (or a Trump-like candidate) becomes US president in 2 ...Show more
How to Think Like a Philosopher: Essential Principles for Clearer Thinking by Julian Baggini
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Category: Philosophy
The key principles for a more humane and balanced approach to thinking, to politics and to life, from the Sunday Times bestselling author of How the World Thinks. Pay attention.As politics slides toward impulsivity, and outrage bests rationality, how can philosophy help us critically engage with real w ...Show more
The Russo-Ukrainian War by Serhii Plokhy
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Category: Politics
An illuminating account of the war in Ukraine - its historical roots, its course, its possible outcomes - from the bestselling, award-winning author of Chernobyl On 24 February 2022, Russia stunned the world by launching an invasion of Ukraine. In the midst of checking on the family and friends who were ...Show more
Machines Behaving Badly : The Morality of AI by Toby Walsh
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Category: Popular Science
Can we build moral machines? Toby Walsh, AI expert, examines the ethical issues we face in a future dominated by artificial intelligence.Artificial intelligence is an essential part of our lives - for better or worse. It can be used to influence what we buy, who gets shortlisted for a job and even how w ...Show more
The Big Switch: Australia's Electric Future by Saul Griffith
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Category: Popular Science
An inspiring, practical plan to transform Australia's energy system and supercharge our response to the climate crisis An optimistic - but realistic and feasible - action plan for fighting climate change while creating new jobs and a healthier environment- electrify everything. Climate change is a plane ...Show more