Future Stories: A user's guide to the future by David Christian
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Category: Social Issues
Big History professor and bestselling author of Origin Story tells you everything you need to know about the future in this ambitious, interdisciplinary book, taking in history, philosophy, theology, physics, biology, chemistry and, of course, futurology...Every second of our lives - whether we're looki ...Show more
The Mirrored Door - Break Through the Hidden Barrier That Locks Successful Women in Place by Ellen Connelly Taaffe
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Category: Social Issues
Unlock what's blocking your career, and open the door to new opportunity At some point in their careers, many women encounter the mirrored door--the place where, when presented with opportunities, we reflect inward and hesitate, and deem we're not ready or worthy enough to move forward, whether that is ...Show more
Unshrinking: How to Fight Fatphobia by Kate Manne
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Category: Social Issues
"Size discrimination harms everyone. Acclaimed philosopher Kate Manne shows how to combat it. For as long as she can remember, Kate Manne has wanted to be smaller. She can tell you what she weighed on any significant occasion: her wedding day, the day she became a professor, the day her daughter was bor ...Show more
Women & Power: A Manifesto by Mary Beard
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Category: Social Issues
An updated edition of the Sunday Times Bestseller. Britain's best-known classicist Mary Beard, is also a committed and vocal feminist. With wry wit, she revisits the gender agenda and shows how history has treated powerful women. Her examples range from the classical world to the modern day, from Medus ...Show more
A Letter to Layla - Travels to Our Deep Past and near Future by Ramona Koval
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Category: Social Issues
How might the origins of our species inform the way we think about our planet? At a point of unparalleled crisis, can human ingenuity save us from ourselves? Much-loved writer and broadcaster Ramona Koval travels the globe in a quest to answer these difficult questions and more. She speaks with an emin ...Show more
Extra Time - 10 Lessons for an Ageing World by Camilla Cavendish
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Category: Social Issues
'An inspirational call to arms' DAILY MAIL 'This book is so sensible, so substantially researched, so briskly written, so clear in its arguments, that one wishes Baroness Cavendish was still whispering into the prime ministerial ear' THE TIMES 'A thoughtful handbook to help societies age gracefully' F ...Show more
Fight Like A Girl by Clementine Ford
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Category: Social Issues | Reading Level: very good
Personal and fearless - a call to arms for feminists new, old and as yet unrealised by one of our most outspoken feminist writers.
How Powerful We Are: Behind the scenes with one of Australia's leading activists by Sally Rugg
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Category: Social Issues
Even if you're not an activist (yet), at a time when the news is written for clicks and elections are foight with three-word slogans, it's crucial to preserve some record of events that isn't 'fake news' or political spin. In part, this book is my attempt to counter the re-writing of how Australia achie ...Show more
Magdalena: River of Dreams by Wade Davis
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Category: Social Issues
A captivating new book from Wade Davis - winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Into the Silence - that brings vividly to life the story of the great Rio Magdalena, illuminating Colombia's complex past, present, and future. Travellers often become enchanted with the first country that captures their he ...Show more
Matrescence: On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth and Motherhood by Lucy Jones
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Category: Social Issues
A radical new examination of the transition into motherhood and how it affects the mind, brain and bodyDuring pregnancy, childbirth, and early motherhood, women undergo a far-reaching physiological, psychological and social metamorphosis.There is no other time in a human's life course that entails such ...Show more
Nomadland by Jessica Bruder
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Category: Social Issues
The inspiration for the film 'Nomadland' starring Frances McDormand. From the beet fields of North Dakota to the campgrounds of California to Amazon's CamperForce program in Texas, employers have discovered a new, low-cost labour pool, made up largely of transient older adults. These invisible casualti ...Show more
Not Here to Make You Comfortable: 50 Women Who Stand Up, Speak Out, Inspire Change
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Category: Social Issues
A collection celebrating boldness, bravery and brilliance. Here are fifty times a woman did something brave. Something disruptive. Something exceptional. We saw them. And we were inspired to be more confident and maybe a little bold. It's time to stop saying yes all the time. It's time to stop apologis ...Show more