On the Grid: Australian Electricity in Transition by Guillaume Roger (Ed.)
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Category: Social Issues
Around the world and within Australia an energy transition is occurring. While engineering solutions are being developed to facilitate this transformation, the institutions governing Australia’s electricity market are failing to adjust rapidly enough to the new energy mix and to the demands on the power ...Show more
Pure Flame: On Mothers and Daughters by Michelle Orange
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Category: Social Issues
'Rich and moving' New York Times'A book that expands and breaks your heart' Adelle WaldmanA revelatory enquiry into selfhood, freedom, mortality, storytelling, and what it means to be a mother's daughterDuring one of the texting sessions that became our habit over the period I now think of as both late ...Show more
Queer Intentions - A (Personal) Journey Through LGBTQ + Culture by Amelia Abraham
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Category: Social Issues
'Eloquent, empathetic and passionate, this book will not just resonate with a new generation of queer people, but with all those who seek to be their allies. A brilliant book.' - Owen Jones Today, the options and freedoms on offer to LGBTQ+ people living in the West are greater than ever before. But is ...Show more
Revolting Prostitutes - The Fight for Sex Workers' Rights by Juno Mac; Molly Smith
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Category: Social Issues
Do you have to think that prostitution is good to support sex worker rights? How do sex worker rights fit with feminist and anti-capitalist politics? Is criminalising clients progressive - and can the police deliver justice? In Revolting Prostitutes, sex workers Juno Mac and Molly Smith bring a fresh ...Show more
The End of Forgetting - Growing up with Social Media by Kate Eichhorn
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Category: Social Issues
Thanks to Facebook and Instagram, our childhoods have been captured and preserved online, never to go away. But what happens when we can't leave our most embarrassing moments behind? Until recently, the awkward moments of growing up could be forgotten. But today we may be on the verge of losing the abi ...Show more
The Guilty Feminist: From our noble goals to our worst hypocrisies by Deborah Frances-White
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Category: Social Issues
In 2015 I described myself as 'guilty feminist' for the first time. My goals were noble but my concerns were trivial. I desperately wanted to close the pay gap, but I also wanted to look good sitting down naked. A funny, joyful, frank and inspiring book about embracing both feminism and our imperfectio ...Show more
The Little Book of Sociology - A Pocket Guide to the Study of Society by Rasha Barrage
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Category: Social Issues
If you've always wanted to know how societies function - and why sometimes they don't - this beginner's guide to sociology has got the essential theories and thinkers coveredSociology has almost limitless scope. From the smallest everyday interaction to the impact of vast systemic change, societies are ...Show more
The Penalty Is Death: State Power, Law, and Justice by Barry Jones ed
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Category: Social Issues
An updated edition of the classic study of capital punishment originally published 50 years ago, with a new introduction by Barry Jones.The Penalty is Death was first published in 1968, in the aftermath of the hanging of Ronald Ryan in Victoria - the last man executed in Australia. At the time, capital ...Show more
The Women's Atlas by Joni Seager
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Category: Social Issues
is is not just an atlas about women. It's a feminist remapping of the world.' - Joni Seager Joni Seager's award-winning The Women's Atlas illustrates the status of women worldwide today. Through cutting-edge infographics, the atlas portrays how women are living across continents and cultures: * Gender E ...Show more
Under the Influence - Putting Peer Pressure to Work by Robert H. Frank
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Category: Social Issues
From New York Times bestselling author and economics columnist Robert Frank, bold new ideas for creating environments that promise a brighter futurePsychologists have long understood that social environments profoundly shape our behavior, sometimes for the better, often for the worse. But social influen ...Show more
White Tears/Brown Scars by Ruby Hamad
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Category: Social Issues | Series: Social & Cultural history
When white people cry foul it is often people of colour who suffer. White tears have a potency that silences racial minorities. White Tears/Brown Scarsblows open the inconvenient truth that when it comes to race, white entitlement is too often masked by victimhood. Never is this more obvious than the de ...Show more
Women, Men and the Whole Damn Thing by David Leser
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Category: Social Issues
One of the most talked-about and widely praised articles of our time becomes the water-cooler book of the #MeToo era.