Into the Abyss - A Neuropsychiatrist's Notes on Troubled Minds by Anthony David
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We cannot know how to fix a problem until we understand its causes. But even for some of the most common mental health problems, three specialists might offer you three completely different treatments. As a cognitive neuropsychiatrist, Professor Anthony David brings together many fields of study, from ...Show more
Title Fight: How the Yindjibarndi battled and defeated a mining giant by Paul Cleary
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A David-and-Goliath story set in the ancient landscape of the Pilbara In the space of just fifteen years, Andrew 'Twiggy' Forrest's Fortescue Metals Group has built a global iron-ore giant generating $19 billion in revenue a year. But in its rush to develop, FMG has damaged and destroyed ancient Aborig ...Show more
The Digital Silk Road: China's Quest to Wire the World and Win the Future by Jonathan E. Hillman
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An expert on China's growing digital empire provides an urgent look at the battle to connect and control tomorrow's networks. Its vast infrastructure projects now extend from the ocean floor to outer space, and from Africa's megacities into rural America. China is wiring the world, and, in doing so, re ...Show more
The Dark Cloud: How the Digital World Is Costing the Earth by Guillaume Pitron
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A gripping new investigation into the underbelly of digital technology, which addresses the pressing question of the carbon footprint it leaves behind. In a sort of news thriller, the author reveals not only how costly the virtual world is, but how damaging it is to the environment. A simple 'like' sent ...Show more
Age of the City: Why our Future will be Won or Lost Together by Ian Goldin; Tom Lee-Devlin
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Visionary Oxford professor Ian Goldin and The Economist's Tom Lee-Devlin show why the city is where the battles of inequality, social division, pandemics and climate change must be faced.From centres of antiquity like Athens or Rome to modern metropolises like New York or Shanghai, cities throughout his ...Show more
Secret Voices: Women's Diaries: A Daily Anthology by Sarah Gristwood
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A captivating collection of extracts from women's diaries, looking back over four centuries to discover how women's experience--of men and children, sex and shopping, work and the natural world--has changed down the years. And, of course, how it hasn't. In this fascinating anthology, with a selection ...Show more
Big Ideas, Little Pictures: Explaining the world one sketch at a time by Jono Hey
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"This is such a cool book. The range of Jono's knowledge is astounding, and so is his ability to digest complex ideas into deceptively simple drawings. You'll learn something on every page--and be entertained too." --Bill GatesIn Big Ideas, Little Pictures, Jono Hey explains complex concepts through a c ...Show more
The Essential UN by United Nations (Editor)
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As the world's only truly universal global organization, the United Nations has become the foremost forum to address issues that transcend national boundaries and cannot be resolved by any one country acting alone. This authoritative reference provides a comprehensive introduction and overview of the wo ...Show more
An Insider's Guide to the UN by Linda Fasulo
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Prominent NPR journalist Linda Fasulo’s guide to the United Nations has established a reputation as the most lively, authoritative, and insightful book on its subject. The fourth edition comes at a time when nuclear proliferation has moved to the top of the Security Council’s agenda, followed closely by ...Show more
The Odd Couple: Re-configuring the America-Australia relationship by Allan Behm
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America matters. Australia matters. They matter to each other. They matter to the world. Their institutional and structural alignments are deep and powerful. Americans believe in themselves. Australians believe in each other. They are mates. They are gregarious. Americans are single-minded and ambitious ...Show more
Red White and Blown Is the US a Cult? by Guy Rundle
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From renowned journalist Guy Rundle, Red, White and Blown is a piercing and provocative investigation into the United States' resolute failure to reckon with its own divisions and blind spots. Interrogating the political events of the 2022 midterm elections as well as their cultural and historical backd ...Show more
The Known Unknowns: The Unsolved Mysteries of the Cosmos by Lawrence M. Krauss
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Internationally known theoretical physicist and bestselling popular science writer Lawrence Krauss explores cosmology's greatest unanswered questions.Three of the most important words in science are 'I don't know'. Not knowing implies a universe of opportunities - the possibility of discovery and surpri ...Show more