Quarterly Essay 93: Bad Cop: Peter Dutton's Strongman Politics by Lech Blaine
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Category: World Matters: Social Cultural, Philosophy, Psychology, Spirituality
Where will Dutton lead the Coalition? A portrait of Peter Dutton, as well as a modern interrogation of the Australian suburbs and the people who live there. 2022 saw the splintering of the Liberal Party's electoral coalition. Influential conservatives have urged Peter Dutton to forget about the seats l ...Show more
The Economy of Algorithms: AI and the Rise of the Digital Minions by Marek Kowalkiewicz
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Category: World Matters: Social Cultural, Philosophy, Psychology, Spirituality
An insider's guide to the invisible new economy that is reshaping our lives. Welcome to the economy of algorithms. It's here and it's growing. In the past few years, we have been flooded with examples of impressive technology. Algorithms have been around for hundreds of years, but they have only recent ...Show more
The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality by Angus Deaton
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Category: Economics
The world is a better place than it used to be. People are healthier, wealthier, and live longer. Yet the escapes from destitution by so many has left gaping inequalities between people and nations. In The Great Escape, Angus Deaton--one of the foremost experts on economic development and on poverty--te ...Show more
The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World by Antony Loewenstein
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Category: Politics | Reading Level: very good
Bestselling journalist Antony Loewenstein uncovers the widespread commercialisation and brutal deployment globally of Israel's occupation-enforcing technologies. For more than 50 years, the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza has given the Israeli state invaluable experience in controlling an 'enemy' p ...Show more
Best Wishes by Richard Glover
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Category: World Matters: Social Cultural, Philosophy, Psychology, Spirituality
Making the world a better, less annoying place one wish at a time.Do you hate noisy restaurants, pre-ripped jeans and pedestrians who walk five abreast? Do you also have a problem with plastic-wrapped fruit, climate-change deniers and take-away sandwiches priced at $14.95? And, most of all, do you thin ...Show more
We Need To Talk About Xi: What we need to know about the world's most powerful leader by Michael Dillon
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Category: World Matters: Social Cultural, Philosophy, Psychology, Spirituality
A short, urgent book that sorts the fact from the fiction about Xi Jinping - one of the world's most powerful political leaders - to truly understand how he came to power, his hold on China and why we should care. Meet the most powerful leader in the world. Chinese premier Xi Jinping graces our televisi ...Show more
Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change Denial Is Threatening Our Planet, Destrying Our Politics & Driving Us Crazy by Michael Mann, Tom Toles
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Category: Environment
The award-winning climate scientist Michael E. Mann and the Pulitzer Prize'��winning political cartoonist Tom Toles have been on the front lines of the fight against climate denialism for most of their careers. They have witnessed the manipulation of the media by business and political interests and the ...Show more
Areopagitica and Other Prose Works by John Milton; C. E. Vaughan (Introduction by)
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Category: Social & Cultural Notes | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
1927. The immediate occasion of the Areopagitica was the order of June 1643, by which Parliament reestablished the censorship of the Press. Milton's main object is to show the absurdity and iniquity of this measure, and to press for its repeal. But he does not confine himself within these comparatively ...Show more
Spirit of the Phoenix: Beirut and the Story of Lebanon by Tim Llewellyn
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Category: Politics
Sitting at the center of the war-torn Middle East, Lebanon seems eternally on the brink of crisis. But what is the country all about? Why has this tiny, fertile Mediterranean country--smaller than the state of Connecticut--become a world symbol of violence and chaos, able to impact the superpowers? And ...Show more
New Ideas For Old Concerns by Prinsley, Derek
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Category: World Matters: Social Cultural, Philosophy, Psychology, Spirituality
Climate Change - The Facts 2020 by Jennifer Marohasy (Editor)
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Category: Environment
On 24 September 2019, the 17-year-old activist Greta Thunberg addressed the United Nations Climate Action Summit saying, "People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction." A day earlier, however, the climate policy foundation Climate ...Show more
KJV, Economy Bible, Paperback - Beautiful. Trustworthy. Timeless by Thomas Thomas Nelson
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Category: Spirituality
The King James Version of the Bible is the bestselling and most-read English translation of all time. This low-cost Bible with extra helps is perfect for churches and ministries looking to distribute God's Word through their outreach events. Features include: Complete text of the King James Version ...Show more