Strangers to Ourselves: Stories of Unsettled Minds by Rachel Aviv
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Category: SOCIETY AND CULTURE
We place a great deal of trust in the medical system. But does a mental health diagnosis have the power to perpetuate, or even create, symptoms as its subject adapts to live within it? Is there another way of talking about their experience? And are patients being truly heard? In an attempt to answer t ...Show more
The Culture of Narcissism - American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations by Christopher Lasch
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Category: SOCIETY AND CULTURE
When The Culture of Narcissism was first published, it was clear that Christopher Lasch had identified something important: what was happening to American society in the wake of the decline of the family over the last century.The book quickly became a bestseller. This edition includes a new afterword, " ...Show more
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
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Category: SOCIETY AND CULTURE | Reading Level: very good
Award-winning journalist Reni Eddo-Lodge was frustrated with the way that discussions of race and racism are so often led by those blind to it, by those willfully ignorant of its legacy. Her response, Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race, has transformed the conversation both in Britain ...Show more
Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment by Francis Fukuyama
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Category: SOCIETY AND CULTURE
Increasingly, the demands of identity direct the world's politics. Nation, religion, sect, race, ethnicity, gender: these categories have overtaken broader, inclusive ideas of who we are. We have built walls rather than bridges. The result: increasing in anti-immigrant sentiment, rioting on college camp ...Show more
Close to Home: Selected Writings by Alice Pung
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Category: SOCIETY AND CULTURE
A BRILLIANT COLLECTION FROM ONE OF AUSTRALIA'S LEADING WRITERS Close to Home brings together Alice Pung's most loved writing, on topics such as migration, family, art, belonging and identity. Warm, funny, moving and unfailingly honest, this is Alice at her best - an irresistible pleasure for fans and n ...Show more
Randomistas: How Radical Researchers Changed Our World by Andrew Leigh
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Category: SOCIETY AND CULTURE
Experiments have consistently been used in the hard sciences, but in recent decades social scientists have adopted the practice. Randomized trials have been used to design policies to increase educational attainment, lower crime rates, elevate employment rates, and improve living standards among the poo ...Show more
What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape by Sohaila Abdulali
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Category: SOCIETY AND CULTURE
Except for the foundational belief that rape is a crime, with a criminal and a victim, I will not take anything else for granted.Sohaila Abdulali was gang-raped as a teenager in Mumbai. Indignant at the silence on the issue in India, she wrote an article for a woman?s magazine challenging the way in whi ...Show more
The Death of the Gods: The New Global Power Grab by Carl Miller
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Category: SOCIETY AND CULTURE
**Winner of the Transmission Prize 2019** THE OLD GODS ARE DYING. Giant corporations collapse overnight. Newspapers are being swallowed. Stock prices plummet with a tweet. NEW IDOLS ARE RISING IN THEIR PLACE. More crime now happens online than offline. Facebook has grown bigger than any state, bots batt ...Show more
The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: and their race to save the world's most precious manuscripts by Joshua Hammer
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Category: SOCIETY AND CULTURE
Led by mild-mannered archivist and historian Abdel Kader Haidara, a band of librarians in Timbuktu pulls off a brazen heist worthy of Ocean's Eleven to save precious centuries-old Arabic texts from destruction by Al Qaeda.
Pentridge: Voices From the Other Side by Rupert Mann
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Category: SOCIETY AND CULTURE
Members of the last generation of inmates and staff return to the now-forgotten prison to tell the true and brutal story of Pentridge before developers bury it forever.Rupert Mann has worked with the past all his life, and is interested in how we use, forget, and celebrate it today. This priceless work, ...Show more
My Tidda, My Sister: Stories of Strength and Resilience from Australia’s First Women by Marlee Silva
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Category: SOCIETY AND CULTURE
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture and society has existed on this continent for millennia. It is a culture that manifests as the ultimate example of resilience, strength and beauty. It's also a culture that has consistently been led by its women. My Tidda, My Sister shares the experiences of ...Show more
Betoota's Australia 2020 by Betoota Advocate
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Category: SOCIETY AND CULTURE
From the heart of the Western Queensland Channel Country, Australia's oldest and favourite newspaper details our country's very rocky start to a new decade that was supposed to be one of great optimism and innovation. 2020 was meant to be our year of healing. A time to tend to the wounds of a country t ...Show more