Hippocrasy: How doctors are betraying their oath by Rachelle Buchbinder, Ian Harris
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
In Hippocrasy, two world-leading doctors — rheumatologist and epidemiologist Rachelle Buchbinder and orthopaedic surgeon Ian Harris — reveal the true state of modern medicine and how doctors are letting their patients down. They argue that the benefits of treatments are often wildly overstated and the h ...Show more
Mortals: How the fear of death shaped human society by Rachel Menzies, Ross Menzies
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Human society is shaped by many things, but underlying them all is one fundamental force - our fear of death. This is the ground-breaking theory explored in Mortals.Mortals is a ground-breaking book uncovering the fear of death as the hidden driver of most of our species' endeavours over millennia. The ...Show more
Women Don't Owe You Pretty - The Small Edition by Florence Given
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Category: Current Affairs
'THE BEAUTY MYTH' FOR THE INSTAGRAM GENERATION Women Don't Owe You Pretty is the ultimate book for anyone who wants to challenge the out-dated narratives supplied to us by the patriarchy.Through Florence's story you will learn how to protect your energy, discover that you are the love of your own life, ...Show more
Power Play: Elon Musk, Tesla, and the Bet of the Century by Tim Higgins
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Category: Current Affairs
The fast-paced business story of Tesla- Egos, Engines and Elon's battle to build the mass-market electric car to change the world Join the race to drive the future Can a startup conquer the biggest and most entrenched industry in the global economy? The petrol car transformed our lives, both as a life ...Show more
Toxic: The Rotting Underbelly of the Tasmanian Salmon Industry by Richard Flanagan
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Category: Current Affairs
Is Tasmanian salmon one big lie? In a triumph of marketing, the Tasmanian salmon industry has for decades succeeded in presenting itself as world’s best practice and its product as healthy and clean, grown in environmentally pristine conditions. What could be more appealing than the idea of Atlantic sal ...Show more
When the Adults Change, Everything Changes: Seismic shifts in school behaviour by Paul Dix
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Category: Current Affairs
If the quickest way for a pupil to achieve celebrity in your school is by being the worst behaved, you have a culture problem. You can buy in the best behaviour tracking software, introduce 24/7 detentions or scream 'NO EXCUSES' as often as you want - but ultimately the solution lies with the behaviour ...Show more
Bad People - and How to Be Rid of Them: A Plan B for Human Rights by Geoffrey Robertson
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Category: Current Affairs
Twenty years ago Geoffrey Robertson inspired the global justice movement with his ground-breaking book, Crimes Against Humanity. Since then, the movement has stalled, as nationalism takes hold and populist governments retreat from international courts and refuse to comply with their rulings.But there is ...Show more
The Culture Map: Decoding How People Think, Lead, and Get Things Done Across Cultures by Erin Meyer
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Category: Current Affairs
Whether you work in a home office or abroad, business success in our ever more globalized and virtual world requires the skills to navigate through cultural differences and decode cultures foreign to your own. Renowned expert Erin Meyer is your guide through this subtle, sometimes treacherous terrain wh ...Show more
On Violence by Natasha Stott Despoja
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Category: Current Affairs | Series: On Series
Why is violence against women endemic, and how do we stop it?Every two minutes, police are called to a family violence matter. Every week, a woman is killed by a current or former partner.This is Australia's national emergency.Violence against women is preventable. It is not an inevitable part of the hu ...Show more
Boys Will Be Boys - Power, patriarchy and the toxic bonds of mateship by Clementine Ford
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Category: Current Affairs
Clementine Ford reports that one of the questions she is most asked in person and online is 'how do I raise my son to be a feminist? How do I make sure he's a supporter rather than a perpetrator?' That is a question that many parents with sons are haunted by. Now that Clem is mother to a baby boy of her ...Show more
Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez
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Category: Current Affairs
Imagine a world where… Your phone is too big for your hand Your doctor prescribes a drug that is wrong for your body In a car accident you are 47% more likely to be injured. If any of that sounds familiar, chances are you’re a woman. From government policy and medical research, to technology, workplac ...Show more
Mysteries Uncovered by Thompson, Emily G.
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Category: Current Affairs
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