Poisoned: The True Story of the Deadly E. Coli Outbreak That Changed the Way Americans Eat by Jeff Benedict
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Category: SOCIETY AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
NOW A NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY From Jeff Benedict, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Tiger Woods and The Dynasty, Poisoned chronicles the events surrounding the worst food-poisoning epidemic in US history: the deadly Jack in the Box E. coli infections in 1993. On December 24, 1992, six-year-old Lau ...Show more
Sleights Of Mind: What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals About Our Brains by Stephen L. Macknik & Susana Martinez-Conde & Sandra Blakeslee
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Category: SOCIETY AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
A unique and fascinating look at the relationship between magic, the brain and everyday life. What can magic tell us about ourselves and our daily lives? If you subtly change the subject during an uncomfortable conversation, did you know you're using attentional 'misdirection', a core technique of ...Show more
What We Really Do All Day by Jonathan Gershuny and Oriel Sullivan
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Category: SOCIETY AND SOCIAL SCIENCES | Series: Pelican Bks.
Are we spending more time at work than we would have 50 years ago? Are we sleeping less? How has the Internet affected the way we use our spare time? Everything we do happens in time and it feels like our lives are busier than ever before. Yet a detailed look at our daily activities reveals some surpris ...Show more
100 Deadly Skills: Survival Edition: The Seal Operative's Guide to Surviving in the Wild and Being Prepared for Any Disaster by Clint Emerson
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Category: SOCIETY AND SOCIAL SCIENCES | Series: 100 Deadly Skills
These 100 skills, adapted for civilians from actual field experiences of Special Forces operations, offer a complete hands-on and practical guide to help you survive in the wild no matter the climate or terrain; be prepared for any crisis; and have the critical life-saving knowledge for staying safe in ...Show more
Media Unmade: Australian Media's Most Disruptive Decade by Tim Burrowes
$34.99 AUD
Category: SOCIETY AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
Media Unmade presents the definitive story of the decade in which big media in Australia was cut down to size - a decade that forever altered what had until then been perceived as the unbreachable foundations of the industry in this country. Drawing on insights from his ringside seat, independent journa ...Show more
The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet by Leah Thomas
$24.99 AUD
Category: SOCIETY AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
A radical and empowering primer for the next generation of activists.
What is a Woman?: And Other Essays by Toril Moi
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Category: SOCIETY AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
What is a woman? And what does it mean to be a feminist today? In her first full-scale engagement with feminist theory since her internationally renowned Sexual/Textual Politics (1985), Toril Moi challenges the dominant trends in contemporary feminist and cultural thought, arguing for a feminism of free ...Show more
Girl of the Southern Sea by Michelle Kadarusman
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Category: SOCIETY AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
From Governor General's Literary Award finalist Michelle Kadarusman, an empowering novel about a girl from the slums of Jakarta who dreams of an education and the chance at a better life From the time she was a little girl, Nia has dreamed up adventures about the Javanese mythical princess, Dewi Kadita. ...Show more
The Rise of the Creative Class by 1
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Category: SOCIETY AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
World-renowned urbanist Richard Florida's bestselling classic on the transformation of our cities in the twenty-first century -- now updated with a new prefaceIn his modern classic The Rise of the Creative Class, urbanist Richard Florida identifies the emergence of a new social class reshaping the twent ...Show more
Legendary Children: The First Decade of RuPaul's Drag Race and the Last Century of Queer Life by Tom Fitzgerald, Lorenzo Marquez
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Category: SOCIETY AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
Legendary Children centres itself around the idea that not only is RuPaul's Drag Race the queerest show in the history of television, but that RuPaul and company devised a show that serves as an actual museum of queer cultural and social history, drawing on queer traditions and the work of legendary fig ...Show more
The Suitcase Kid by Jacqueline Wilson
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Category: SOCIETY AND SOCIAL SCIENCES | Reading Level: very good
When my parents split up they didn't know what to do with me... My family always lived at Mulberry Cottage. Mum, Dad, me - and Radish, my Sylvanian rabbit. But now, Mum lives with Bill the Baboon and his three kids. Dad lives with Carrie and her twins. And where do I live? I live out of a suitcase. One ...Show more
Think Like an Anthropologist by Matthew Engelke
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Category: SOCIETY AND SOCIAL SCIENCES | Series: Pelican Bks.
How does anthropology help us understand who we are? What can it tell us about culture, from Melanesia to the City of London? Why does it matter? For well over one hundred years, social and cultural anthropologists have traversed the world from urban Zimbabwe to suburban England, Beijing to Barcelona, u ...Show more