The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World by Melinda Gates
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Category: Current Affairs
For the last twenty years, Melinda Gates has been on a mission. Her goal, as co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, has been to find solutions for people with the most urgent needs, wherever they live. Throughout this journey, one thing has become increasingly clear to her: If you want to ...Show more
Hazelwood by Tom Doig
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Category: Current Affairs
Early in the afternoon of 9 February 2014, during the worst drought and heatwave south-eastern Australia had experienced in over a century, two separate bushfires raged towards the massive Hazelwood open-pit brown-coal mine, near Morwell in the Latrobe Valley. The fires overwhelmed local fire-fighting e ...Show more
Breaking News - The Remaking of Journalism and Why It Matters Now by Alan Rusbridger
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Category: Current Affairs
We are living in a modern world where falsehood regularly seems to overwhelm truth. The ability of billions of people to publish has created a vast amount of unreliable and false news which now competes with and sometimes drowns more established forms of journalism. So where can we look for reliable, ve ...Show more
Price of Inequality by Joseph Stiglitz
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Category: Current Affairs
The social impact of inequality is now increasingly understood - higher crime, health problems and mental illness, lower educational achievements and life expectancy. But what are the causes of inequality, why is it growing so rapidly and what are its economic and political impacts? In this exceptional ...Show more
Identity: Contemporary Identity Politics and the Struggle for Recognition by Francis Fukuyama
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Category: Current Affairs
Currently in Bill Gates's bookbag and FT Books of 2018Increasingly, the demands of identity direct the world's politics. Nation, religion, sect, race, ethnicity, gender: these categories have overtaken broader, inclusive ideas of who we are. We have built walls rather than bridges. The result: increasin ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 75: Men at Work: Australia's Parenthood Trap by Annabel Crabb
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Category: Current Affairs | Series: Quarterly Essay # 7
When New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced her pregnancy, the headlines raced around the world. But when Scott Morrison and Josh Frydenberg became the first Prime Minister and Treasurer duo since the 1970s to take on those roles while bringing up primary-school-aged children, this detail p ...Show more
So You Wanna Be an Ally - Going Beyond the Safety Pin by Marissa Johnson; Leslie Mac
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Category: Current Affairs
How to Be Alone - Essays on Modern Romance, If That's Even a Thing Anymore by Lane Moore
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Category: Current Affairs
The former Sex & Relationships Editor for Cosmopolitan and host of the wildly popular comedy show Tinder Live with Lane Moore presents her poignant, funny, and deeply moving first book.Lane Moore is a rare performer who is as impressive onstage--whether hosting her iconic show Tinder Live or being t ...Show more
The Surprise Party: How the Coalition Went from Chaos to Comeback by Aaron Patrick
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Category: Current Affairs
Disunity is said to be death in politics - but not in 2019. In The Surprise Party, Aaron Patrick tells how the Coalition came back from the brink. Patrick interviews key insiders to reveal the story behind the scenes - the turning points and the cunning schemes. He covers the fall of Turnbull and the fa ...Show more
A Warning: A Senior Trump Administration Official by Anonymous
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Category: Current Affairs
An unprecedented behind-the-scenes portrait of the Trump presidency from the anonymous senior official whose first words of warning about the president rocked the nation's capital.
Outsiders by Mark Latham
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Category: Current Affairs
Mark Latham is the original Outsider, a politician who rose to the very top of his profession but refused to be cowed by political correctness and refused to bend his knee to the leftist fads of the day. Outsiders is a thoughtfully curated collection of Mark's previously-published articles and thoughts ...Show more
The Road to Ruin: The Global Elite's Secret Plan for the Next Financial Crisis by James Rickards
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Category: Current Affairs
The bestselling author of The Death of Money on how investors can prepare for the next financial panic - and why it's coming sooner than you think. The global economy has made what seems like an incredible comeback after the financial crisis of 2008. Yet this comeback is artificial. Central banks have p ...Show more