The Glass Cliff: Why Women in Power Are Undermined - and How to Fight Back by Sophie Williams
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Category: society culture gender
‘The Glass Cliff is a conversation about what happens when women break the rules, and break through The Glass Ceiling.’ Have you ever wondered why there are so few success stories of women in business leadership? Or maybe you’ve wondered what life is really like on the other side of The Glass Ceiling? ...Show more
Unwired: Gaining Control over Addictive Technologies by Gaia Bernstein
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Category: society culture gender
Our society has a technology problem. Many want to disconnect from screens but can't help themselves. These days we spend more time online than ever. Some turn to self-help-measures to limit their usage, yet repeatedly fail, while parents feel particularly powerless to help their children. Unwired: Gain ...Show more
The Greatest Evil is War by Chris Hedges
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Now with a new preface for the paperback edition by the author, an unflinching indictment of the horror and obscenity of war by one of our finest war correspondents. Drawn from experience and interviews by Pulitzer-prize-winner Chris Hedges, a devastating look the hidden costs of war, what it does to in ...Show more
Pitfall: The Race to Mine the World's Most Vulnerable Places by Christopher Pollon
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A fascinating investigation into a wild industry and the global race to exploit our world's dwindling natural resources. The stakes couldn't be higher- How can we mine the metals we need without replicating the environmental and human rights abuses of the past? A global race is on to exploit the last bo ...Show more
Just Friends: On the joy, influence and power of friendship by Gyan Yankovich
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Voice memos, care packages, hours-long phone conversations, treasured traditions that go back decades, glasses held aloft during wedding toasts, hands held at funerals, first cuddles with newborns, work lunches with work wives, taking it to the group chat - our friendships touch and enrich every part of ...Show more
Infectious Generosity: The Ultimate Idea Worth Spreading by Chris Anderson
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From the bestselling author, technology pioneer, and curator of TED Chris Anderson, an inspiring, revelatory book about the urgent and world-changing potential of one of humankind's defining but forgotten impulses- generosity. Perhaps the simplest, most powerful moral question you can ask of your life i ...Show more
Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein
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A personal trip into the uncanny Mirror World of our polarised culture, from the international bestselling author of The Shock Doctrine. What if you woke up one morning and found you'd acquired a double? Someone almost like you, and yet not you at all? When Naomi Klein discovered that a woman who share ...Show more
The Pleasures of Leisure by Robert Dessaix
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Category: society culture gender
'Almost everybody I know has done it at least once. Some of my friends indulge on a regular basis. Women seem especially susceptible to giving it a go. I?ve been at it since I was at least five. What on earth do we imagine we?re doing??Many of us lack a talent for leisure. We are working longer hours as ...Show more
Personality and Power: Builders and Destroyers of Modern Europe by Ian Kershaw
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The acclaimed historian explores how far individual leaders can alter the course of historyThe modern era saw the emergence of individuals who had command over a terrifying array of instruments of control, persuasion and death. Whole societies were re-shaped and wars fought, often with a merciless conte ...Show more
A Hell of a Lot of Glass: Achieving gender equality in the workplaces of Australia by Kate Ramsay
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Category: society culture gender
A hell of a lot of glass - achieving gender equality in the workplaces of Australia deals with the questions we’re all still asking. A hell of a lot of glass - achieving gender equality in the workplaces of Australia deals with the questions we’re all still asking: - why are there still so few women CE ...Show more
Your Face Belongs to Us: The Secretive Startup Dismantling Your Privacy by Kashmir Hill
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‘The dystopian future portrayed in some science-fiction movies is already upon us. Kashmir Hill’s fascinating book brings home the scary implications of this new reality’ JOHN CARREYROU, author of Bad Blood When Kashmir Hill stumbled upon Clearview AI, a mysterious startup selling an app that claimed i ...Show more
Irresistible How Cuteness Wired our Brains and Conquered the World by Joshua Paul Dale
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The psychology and biology behind what we find cute, and how cuteness has shaped cultures around the world.