Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez
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Category: society culture gender
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
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (TPB) (EE) by Malcolm Gladwell
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Category: society culture gender
Bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell revolutionises the way we understand the world within. Blink is a book about about choices that seem to be made in an instant - in the blink of an eye - that actually aren't as simple as they seem. Why are some people brilliant decision makers, while others are consis ...Show more
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
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Category: society culture gender
'A wonderful page-turner about a fascinating idea that should affect the way every thinking person thinks about the world around him' Michael Lewis In this brilliant and original book, Malcolm Gladwell explains and analyses the 'tipping point', that magic moment when ideas, trends and social behaviour c ...Show more
Three Women by Lisa Taddeo
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Category: society culture gender
All Lina wanted was to be desired. How did she end up in a marriage with two children and a husband who wouldn’t touch her? All Maggie wanted was to be understood. How did she end up in a relationship with her teacher and then in court, a hated pariah in her small town? All Sloane wanted was to be admir ...Show more
The Library Book by Susan Orlean
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Category: society culture gender
Susan Orlean's bestseller and New York Times Notable Book is "a sheer delight...as rich in insight and as varied as the treasures contained on the shelves in any local library" (USA TODAY)--a dazzling love letter to a beloved institution and an investigation into one of its greatest mysteries. "Everybod ...Show more
Men Explain Things to Me - And Other Essays by Rebecca Solnit
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Category: society culture gender
In her comic, scathing essay "Men Explain Things to Me," Rebecca Solnit takes on what often goes wrong in conversations between men and women. She writes about men who wrongly assume they know things and wrongly assume women don't, about why this arises, and how this aspect of the gender wars works, air ...Show more
A Field Guide To Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit
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Category: society culture gender | Series: Canons
In this investigation into loss, losing and being lost, Rebecca Solnit explores the challenges of living with uncertainty. A Field Guide to Getting Lost takes in subjects as eclectic as memory and mapmaking, Hitchcock movies and Renaissance painting, Beautifully written, this book combines memoir, histo ...Show more
How to Do Nothing - Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell
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Category: society culture gender
A galvanising critique of the forces vying for our attention - and our personal information - that redefines what we think of as productivity and reveals what we've been too distracted to see about ourselves and our world. Nothing is harder to do these days than nothing. But in a world where our value i ...Show more
Start With Why: The Inspiring Million-Copy Bestseller That Will Help You Find Your Purpose by Simon Sinek
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Category: society culture gender
The inspiring, life-changing bestseller by the author of LEADERS EAT LAST and TOGETHER IS BETTER. In 2009, Simon Sinek started a movement to help people become more inspired at work, and in turn inspire their colleagues and customers. Since then, millions have been touched by the power of his ideas, in ...Show more
On Eating Meat - The truth about its production and the ethics of eating it by Matthew Evans
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Category: society culture gender | Series: Truth About Production and Should We Eat It?
A scorching manifesto on the ethics of eating meat by the best placed person to write about it - farmer and chef Matthew Evans, aka The Gourmet Farmer. 'Compelling, illuminating and often confronting, On Eating Meat is a brilliant blend of a gastronome's passion with forensic research into the sources o ...Show more
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir; Constance Borde (Translator); Sheila Malovany-Chevallier (Translator)
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Category: society culture gender
Of all the writing that emerged from the existentialist movement, Simone de Beauvoir's groundbreaking study of women will probably have the most extensive and enduring impact. It is at once a work of anthropology and sociology, of biology and psychoanalysis, from the pen of a writer and novelist of penn ...Show more
See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Abuse by Jess Hill
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Category: society culture gender
Winner of the Stella Prize 2020. At the office of Safe Steps, Victoria's dedicated 24/7 family violence response call centre, phone counsellors receive a call every three minutes. Many women are repeat callers- on average, they will go back to an abusive partner eight times before leaving for good. ' ...Show more