Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe by Roger McNamee
32.99 AUD
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
31.95 AUD
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
The Ministry of Truth - A Biography of George Orwell's 1984 by Dorian Lynskey
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Category: Non-Fiction
1984 isn't just a novel; it's a key to understanding the modern world. George Orwell's final work is a treasure chest of ideas and memes - Big Brother, the Thought Police, Doublethink, Newspeak, 2+2=5 - that gain potency with every year. Particularly in 2016, when the election of Donald Trump made it a ...Show more
Near-Death Experiences ... and Others by Robert Gottlieb
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Category: Non-Fiction
A new collection of immersive essays from the most acclaimed editor of the second half of the twentieth century This new collection from the legendary editor Robert Gottlieb features twenty or so pieces he's written mostly for The New York Review of Books, ranging from reconsiderations of American writ ...Show more
On the Other Side of Freedom - Race and Justice in a Divided America by DeRay Mckesson
22.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
Five years ago, DeRay Mckesson quit his job as a schoolteacher, moved to Ferguson, Missouri, and spent the next 400 days on the streets as an activist, helping to bring the Black Lives Matter movement into being. Now, in his first book, he draws on his own experiences - of growing up without his mother, ...Show more
Fools, Frauds and Firebrands - Thinkers of the New Left by Roger Scruton
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Category: Non-Fiction
In Fools, Frauds and Firebrands, Roger Scruton first surveys and then deconstructs the golden idols of left wing thought from the 1960s to the present day. He dissects the hollow works of Hobsbawm and E. P. Thompson, Galbraith and Dworkin, Sartre and Foucault and exposes the lack of coherence in the wor ...Show more
Reinventing the Wheel - Milk, Microbes and the Fight for Real Cheese by Bronwen Percival; Francis Percival
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Category: Non-Fiction
Wine and Spirits Book of the Year 2017 In little more than a century, the drive towards industrial and intensive farming has altered every aspect of the cheesemaking process, from the bodies of the animals that provide the milk to the science behind the microbial strains that ferment it. Reinventing the ...Show more
The Fire This Time - A New Generation Speaks about Race by Jesmyn Ward
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Category: Non-Fiction
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. Edited by two-time National Book Award winner and Women's Prize shortlisted-author Jesmyn Ward, a timely and groundbreaking collection of essays and poems about race in America. In this bestselling collection of essays and poems, Jesmyn Ward gathers a new generation of wri ...Show more
Clearing the Air by Tim Smedley
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Category: Non-Fiction
Air pollution has become the world's greatest environmental health risk, and science is only beginning to reveal its wide-ranging effects. Globally, 19,000 people die each day from air pollution, killing more than HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and car accidents combined. What happened to the air we br ...Show more
The Fate of Food: What We'll Eat in a Bigger Hotter Smarter World by Amanda Little
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Category: Non-Fiction
Is the future of food looking bleak - or better than ever? At a time when every day brings news of drought and famine, Amanda Little investigates what it will take to feed a hotter, hungrier, more crowded world. She explores the past along with the present and discovers startling innovations: remote-con ...Show more