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
Me and White Supremacy - How to Recognise Your Privilege, Combat Racism and Change the World by Layla F Saad
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Category: SOCIETY AND SOCIAL SCIENCES | Reading Level: good-very good
'White supremacy is a violent system of oppression that harms Black, Indigenous and People of Colour. And if you are a person who holds white privilege, then you are complicit in upholding that harm, whether you realise it or not. This is not my opinion. This is fact. And if you are person who holds whi ...Show more
Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World by Tyson Yunkaporta
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Category: SOCIETY AND SOCIAL SCIENCES | Series: Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
This remarkable book is about everything from echidnas to evolution, cosmology to cooking, sex and science and spirits to Schrodinger's cat. Tyson Yunkaporta looks at global systems from an Indigenous perspective. He asks how contemporary life diverges from the pattern of creation. How does this affect ...Show more
The Colonial Fantasy: Why white Australia can't solve black problems by Sarah Maddison
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Category: SOCIETY AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
Australia is wreaking devastation on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. The evidence is incontrovertible. Whatever the policy - from protection to assimilation, self-determination to intervention, reconciliation to recognition - government policies and programs have made little positive diffe ...Show more
Pathogenesis - How infectious diseases shaped human history by Jonathan Kennedy
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Category: SOCIETY AND SOCIAL SCIENCES | Reading Level: very good
Humans did not make history - we played host. This book is Guns, Germs and Steel without the guns and steel, Sapiens for the pandemic era. A major new history of the world. This humbling and revelatory book shows how infectious disease has shaped humanity at every stage, from the first success of Homo s ...Show more
Bad Blood - Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou
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Category: SOCIETY AND SOCIAL SCIENCES | Reading Level: very good
"You will not want to put this riveting, masterfully reported book down. No matter how bad you think the Theranos story was, you'll learn that the reality was actually far worse." Bethany McLean, bestselling coauthor of The Smartest Guys in the Room and All the Devils Are Here A New York Times bestselle ...Show more
She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Story of Heredity, Its Past Present and Future by Carl Zimmer
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Category: SOCIETY AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION She Has Her Mother's Laugh presents a profoundly original perspective on what we pass along from generation to generation. Charles Darwin played a crucial part in turning heredity into a scientific question, and yet he failed spectacularly ...Show more
How to Argue with a Racist (HB) by Adam Rutherford
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Category: SOCIETY AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
Race is real because we perceive it. Racism is real because we enact it. But the appeal to science to strengthen racist ideologies is on the rise - and increasingly part of the public discourse on politics, migration, education, sport and intelligence. Stereotypes and myths about race are expressed not ...Show more
The Gospel of the Eels: A Father, a Son and the World's Most Enigmatic Fish by Patrik Svensson
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Category: SOCIETY AND SOCIAL SCIENCES | Reading Level: good
'I can't recall us ever talking about anything other than eels and how to best catch them, down there by the stream. Actually, I can't remember us speaking at all. Maybe because we never did.' The European eel, Anguilla anguilla, is one of the strangest creatures nature ever created. Remarkably little ...Show more
Mysteries Uncovered by Thompson, Emily G.
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Category: SOCIETY AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
The mysterious is all around us... UFOs, extraterrestrial encounters, baffling disappearances - Mysteries Uncovered investigates, without prejudice, some of the most notorious, disturbing and enduring mysteries ever recorded. - UFO activity: the Roswell Incident, the Phoenix Lights, the Rendlesham Inc ...Show more
Thick and Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom
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Category: SOCIETY AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
Recommended by the Washington Post, Bustle, Entertainment Weekly, Book Riot, Lit Hub, and HelloGiggles. "To say this collection is transgressive, provocative, and brilliant is simply to tell you the truth." --Roxane Gay, author of Hunger and Bad Feminist Smart, humorous, and strikingly original essays ...Show more
Finding the Heart of the Nation: The Journey of the Uluru Statement from the Heart Continues (2nd Edition) by Thomas Mayo
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Category: SOCIETY AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
In this updated edition of the bestselling book, Finding the Heart of the Nation, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander author Thomas Mayo gets behind the politics and legal speak to explain why the Uluru Statement from the Heart is an invitation to all Australians. Australia is set to vote on a refer ...Show more