Misbelief: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things by Dan Ariely
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Category: Current Affairs
Misinformation affects us daily, from social media to politics and even personal relationships. Policing social media alone cannot solve the complex problem shaped by partisan politics and subjective interpretations of truth. In Misbelief social scientist Dan Ariely explores the behaviour of 'misbelief ...Show more
Putin's Playbook: Russia's Secret Plan to Defeat America by Rebekah Koffler
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Category: Current Affairs
The war Russia is waging against America is very different from anything you have heard in the press, as Russian-born U.S. intelligence expert Rebekah Koffler reveals. Koffler details how Vladimir Putin is orchestrating a wide-ranging, multi-faceted campaign to retake his country’s role as a super-power ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 91: Lifeboat: Disability, Humanity and the NDIS by Micheline Lee
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Category: Current Affairs
What ails the NDIS? In this powerful essay, Micheline Lee tells the story of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), a transformative social change that ran into problems. For some users it has been an "oasis in the desert," but for others it has meant still more exclusion. Lee explains how a ...Show more
Red Memory: Living, Remembering and Forgetting China's Cultural Revolution by Tania Branigan
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Category: Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
An indelible exploration of the Cultural Revolution andhow it shapes China today, Red Memory uncovers fortyyears of silence through the rarely heard stories of individuals who lived through Mao's decade of madness. 'Took my breath away.' BARBARA DEMICK'Haunting.' OLIVER BURKEMAN'A masterpiece.' JULIA LO ...Show more
Saved by the Siesta: The great benefits of a little nap by Brice Faraut
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Category: Current Affairs
Millions of people struggle every day against a chronic lack of sleep that exhausts them and threatens their health. There is a simple remedy- a daytime nap.Saved by the Siesta explains how siestas work and the remarkable role they can play in overcoming the destructive effects on the brain and the body ...Show more
The Dissident: Alexey Navalny: Profile of a Political Prisoner by David Herszenhorn
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Category: Current Affairs
THE DISSIDENT is the story of how one fearless man, offended by the dishonesty and criminality of the Russian political system, mounted a relentless opposition movement and became President Vladimir Putin's most formidable rival-so despised that the Russian leader makes a point of never uttering Navalny ...Show more
The Echidna Strategy: Australia's Search for Power and Peace by Sam Roggeveen
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Category: Current Affairs
In the wake of a shift in the global power balance, how can Australia best protect itself?Amid China's rise and America's decline in Asia, what will happen to Australia?In this authoritative account, defence expert and insider Sam Roggeveen questions the claim that Australia is vulnerable to China's mil ...Show more
The Future of the Professions - How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts, Updated Edition by Richard Susskind; Daniel Susskind
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Category: Current Affairs
This book predicts the decline of today's professions and introduces the people and systems that will replace them. In an internet-enhanced society, according to Richard Susskind and Daniel Susskind, we will neither need nor want doctors, teachers, accountants, architects, the clergy, consultants, lawye ...Show more
The Perennials: Unleashing the Power of our Postigenerational Society by Mauro Guillen
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Category: Current Affairs
For the first time ever, eight generations live side by side - this groundbreaking new book reveals what we must chaneg and how to all benefit from our multigenerational society. For the first time in history, eight defined generations live side by side with each other, from Alphas to the Greatest Gene ...Show more
The Skeptics' Guide to the Future by Steven Novella
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Category: Current Affairs
OUT NOW: the new book from the bestselling authors and hosts of the wildy popular 'The Skeptics Guide to the Universe'__________Our predictions of the future are a wild fantasy, inextricably linked to our present hopes and fears, biases and ignorance. Whether they be the outlandish leaps predicted in th ...Show more
The Struggle for India's Soul: Nationalism and the Fate of Democracy by Shashi Tharoor
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Category: Current Affairs
Dissects how competing, increasingly strident visions of India will shape its destiny for decades to come. Over a billion Indians are alive today. But are some more Indian than others? To answer this question, central to the identity of all who belong to modern India, Shashi Tharoor explores hotly cont ...Show more
Things They Don't Want You to Know - Eleven Lessons for Raising a 21st-Century Teenager by Ben Brooks
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Category: Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
A GUIDE TO TEENAGERS FROM THIS CENTURY - FOR PARENTS FROM THE LAST CENTURY Written from a teenager's perspective, this is a unique field guide for parents about the secret lives of 21st century adolescents - from mental health to self-harm, from drugs to sexting - and how you can help them and yourself ...Show more