What My Mother and I Don't Talk About by Michele Filgate (Editor)
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Category: Non-Fiction
*Most Anticipated Reads of 2019 Selection by Publishers Weekly, BuzzFeed, The Rumpus, Lit Hub, and The Week* Fifteen brilliant writers explore what we don't talk to our mothers about, and how it affects us, for better or for worse. As an undergraduate, Michele Filgate started writing an essay about bein ...Show more
A Better Death: Conversations About the Art of Living and Dying Well by Ranjana Srivastava
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Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Australian Psychology
A powerful, timely exploration of the art of living and dying on our own terms by one of Australia's most respected voices Of all the experiences we share, two universal events bookend our lives: we were all born and we will all die. We don't have a choice in how we enter the world but we can have a say ...Show more
Split: True stories of leaving, loss and new beginnings by Peter Bishop; Lee Kofman
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Category: Non-Fiction | Series: True Stories by Prominent Australian Writers
In this compelling anthology of personal essays, curated by award-winning author Lee Kofman, some of Australia's most beloved writers reveal, for the first time, powerful, occasionally funny and often heartbreaking stories of significant endings and their aftermath. Graeme Simsion, author of The Rosie P ...Show more
Ufos by Leslie Kean
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Category: Non-Fiction
An Air Force major is ordered to approach a brilliant UFO in his Phantom jet over Tehran. He repeatedly attempts to engage and fire on unusual objects heading right toward his aircraft, but his missile control is locked and disabled. Witnessed from the ground, this dogfight becomes the subject of a secr ...Show more
Last Days at Hot Slit: The Radical Feminism of Andrea Dworkin by Andrea Dworkin; Johanna Fateman; Amy Scholder; Chris Kraus
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Category: Non-Fiction
Selections from the work of radical feminist author Andrea Dworkin, famous for her antipornography stance and role in the feminist sex wars of the 1980s. Radical feminist author Andrea Dworkin was a caricature of misandrist extremism in the popular imagination and a polarizing figure within the women's ...Show more
Political Risk - Facing the Threat of Global Insecurity in the Twenty-First Century by Condoleezza Rice; Amy Zegart
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Category: Non-Fiction
'Smart. Informative. Overdue' Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google Political risk - the probability that a political action could significantly affect an organisation - is changing fast, and it's more widespread than ever before.In the past, the chief concern used to be whether a foreign dictator would n ...Show more
Bitcoin Billionaires: A True Story of Sex, Genius, Betrayal & Redemption by Ben Mezrich
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Category: Non-Fiction
Ben Mezrich's 2009 bestseller The Accidental Billionaires is the definitive account of Facebook's founding - and the basis for the Academy Award-winning film The Social Network. Two of the story's iconic characters are Harvard students Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss: identical twins, Olympic rowers, and l ...Show more
Morality by Jonathan Sacks
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Category: Non-Fiction
In today's world of cultural climate change, argues Jonathan Sacks, we have outsourced morality to the markets on the one hand, and to government on the other. If the market rewards it, it must be OK - unless the law says not to. Yet while the markets have brought wealth to many and the state has done m ...Show more
A Thousand Small Sanities - The Moral Adventure of Liberalism by Adam Gopnik
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Category: Non-Fiction
The New York Times-bestselling author offers a stirring defense of liberalism against the dogmatisms of our time Not since the early twentieth century has liberalism, and liberals, been under such relentless attack, from both right and left. The crisis of democracy in our era has produced a crisis of fa ...Show more
Rockonomics How Music Explains Everything (about the Economy) by Alan Krueger
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Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Economist using examples from music industry
Alan Krueger, the former chairman of the president's Council of Economic Advisers, uses the music industry, from rock artists to music executives, from managers to promoters, as a way in to explain the principles of economics, and the forces shaping our economic lives. As economists recognize, the music ...Show more
Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe by Roger McNamee
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Category: Non-Fiction
This is the dramatic story of how a noted tech venture capitalist, an early mentor to Mark Zuckerberg and investor in his company, woke up to the serious damage Facebook was doing to our society and set out to try to stop it. If you had told Roger McNamee three years ago that he would soon be devoting h ...Show more
Coal by Mark C. Thurber
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Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Resources Ser.
By making available the almost unlimited energy stored in prehistoric plant matter, coal enabled the industrial age--and it still does. Coal today generates more electricity worldwide than any other energy source, helping drive economic growth in major emerging markets. And yet continued reliance on thi ...Show more