The Coal Curse: Resources, Climate and Australia's Future (Quarterly Essay #78)
By: Judith Brett
4.20
Format: 120 pages, Kindle Edition
Australia is a wealthy nation with the economic profile of a developing country - heavy on raw mate…
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1. So You've Been Publicly Shamed
By: Jon Ronson
3.93
Format: 290 pages, Hardcover
For the past three years, Jon Ronson has travelled the world meeting recipients of high-profile pub… read more
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"The snowflake never needs to feel responsible for the avalanche."-Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed
"...all violence being a person’s attempt to replace shame with self-esteem."-Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed
"[W]e need to think twice about raining down vengeance and anger as our default position."-Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed
"A wronged person is still a wronged person even if they're an unfashionable wronged person."-Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed
2. Roadside Picnic
By: Theodore Sturgeon , Arkady Strugatsky , Boris Strugatsky , Antonina W. Bouis , None
4.14
Format: 145 pages, Paperback
Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those young rebels who are compelled, in spite of extreme danger,… read more
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"Keep your head high,"-Theodore Sturgeon, Roadside Picnic
"Los halagos son el bálsamo de los complejos."-Theodore Sturgeon, Roadside Picnic
"You need money so you don’t have to think about money."-Theodore Sturgeon, Roadside Picnic
"Щастие за всички даром и нека никой да не бъде пренебрегнат!"-Theodore Sturgeon, Roadside Picnic
3. Debt: The First 5,000 Years
By: David Graeber
3.61
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Before there was money, there was debt Every economics textbook says the same thing: Money was inve… read more
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4. The Woman in Black
By: Susan Hill , John Lawrence
3.85
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
What real reader does not yearn, somewhere in the recesses of his or her heart, for a really litera… read more
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5. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
By: Doris Kearns Goodwin , Suzanne Toren
4.28
Format: 916 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Lincoln PrizeAcclaimed historian Doris Kearns Goodwin illuminates Lincoln's political… read more
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"An adult friend of Lincoln's: "Life was to him a school."-Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
"And Lincoln, as would be evidenced throughout his presidency, was a master of timing."-Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
"(from John Hay's diary) “The President never appeared to better advantage in the world,"-Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
"I hope to stand firm enough not to go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause."-Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
6. The Way of Kings, Part 2 (The Stormlight Archive #1.2)
By: Brandon Sanderson
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
According to mythology mankind used to live in The Tranquiline Halls. Heaven. But then the Voidbrin… read more
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7. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
By: Loung Ung
4.34
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
From a childhood survivor of the Cambodian genocide under the regime of Pol Pot, this is a riveting… read more
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"In my heart I know the truth, but my mind cannot accept the reality of what this all means."-Loung Ung, First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
"I think how the world is still somehow beautiful even when I feel no joy at being alive within it. "-Loung Ung, First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
"No one knows how precious you are. You are a diamond in the rough and with a little polishing, you will shine,"-Loung Ung, First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
"This is what the war has done to me. Now I want to destroy because of it. There is such hate and rage inside me now. The Angkar has taught me to hate so deeply that I now know I have the power to des…"-Loung Ung, First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
8. The Way of Kings, Part 1 (The Stormlight Archive #1.1)
By: Brandon Sanderson
4.00
Format: 201 pages, Paperback
SPEAK AGAIN THE ANCIENT OATHS, LIFE BEFORE DEATH. STRENGTH BEFORE WEAKNESS. JOURNEY BEFORE DESTINAT… read more
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9. Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
By: Tim Marshall
4.20
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In the bestselling tradition of Why Nations Fail and The Revenge of Geography, an award-winning jou… read more
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"All great nations spend peacetime preparing for the day war breaks out."-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
"India and Pakistan can agree on one thing: neither wants the other one around."-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
"What is now the EU was set up so that France and Germany could hug each other so tightly in a loving embrace that neither would be able to get an arm free with which to punch the other."-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
"THE MIDDLE OF WHAT? EAST OF WHERE? THE REGION’S VERY name is based on a European view of the world, and it is a European view of the region that shaped it. The Europeans used ink to draw lines on map…"-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
10. Tall Man: The Death of Doomadgee
By: Chloe Hooper
3.17
Format: None pages,
In 2004 on Palm Island,an Aboriginal settlement in the "Deep North" of Australia, a thirty-six-year… read more
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11. Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World
By: Michael Pollan
3.72
Format: 2 pages, Audible Audio
Listening time = 2h 2m Pollan takes us on a journey through the history of the drug, which was f… read more
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12. Prima Facie
By: Suzie Miller
4.37
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
This is not life, this is law… Tessa Ensler loves her job. She’s worked her up to being a top cr… read more
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"All I know is that somewhere. Some time. Somehow. Something has to change."-Suzie Miller, Prima Facie
13. Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione
By: Jonathan Haidt
4.21
Format: 420 pages, Paperback
Una suggestiva indagine dei meccanismi profondi che regolano la nostra esistenza, le decisioni che … read more
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"Reasoning can take you wherever you want to go."-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione
"Intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second."-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione
"Anyone who values truth should stop worshipping reason."-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione
"Science is a smorgasbord, and google will guide you to the study that's right for you."-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione
14. The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner
By: Grace Tame
3.98
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Grace Tame has never walked on middle ground. From a young age, her life was defined by uncertai… read more
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"I learned something about the commodification of trauma that day [Tame's appearance on the ABC's Q&A programme], which is that you have to take things into your own hands. If you don't speak, people …"-Grace Tame, The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner
"I survived being Australian of the Year because I knew already that it wouldn't be a true reflection of my worth. I knew it would be ugly, at least in part. I came equipped with a glimpse of fame tha…"-Grace Tame, The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner
"I frowned at Scott Morrison deliberately because, in my opinion, he has done and assisted in objectively terrible things. No matter what your politics are, the harm that was caused under his governme…"-Grace Tame, The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner
15. The Call
By: Christian White
3.56
Format: 4 pages, Audible Audio
Jackie and Pete King have lived in Dunmore for years, running one of the two local pubs in the slee… read more
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16. Tell Me Again
By: Amy Thunig
4.41
Format: 184 pages, Kindle Edition
For years, Amy Thunig thought she knew all the details about the day she was born, often demanding … read more
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"Chapter 20-Part 2 "The hardest part of childhood with parents with these and are criminalised, isn’t necessarily life inside your home, it's how you are treated and mistreated by those outside your h…"-Amy Thunig, Tell Me Again
"I have been reading Amy Thunigs book. And this quote stood out to me. I really think this explains a lot about how AOD stigma and harmful prohibition drug policies that disproportionately criminalize…"-Amy Thunig, Tell Me Again
17. The Avoidable War: The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict between the US and Xi Jinping's China
By: Kevin Rudd
4.27
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A war between China and the US would be catastrophic, deadly, and destructive. Unfortunately, it is… read more
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18. The Woman Who Fooled The World: Belle Gibson’s Cancer Con, and the Darkness at the Heart of the Wellness Industry
By: Beau Donelly
4.06
Format: 324 pages, Paperback
Belle Gibson convinced the world she had healed herself of terminal brain cancer by eating a health… read more
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19. Humanity's Moment : A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope
By: Joëlle Gergis
4.24
Format: 325 pages, Paperback
When climate scientist Joëlle Gergis set to work on the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on … read more
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20. Breath
By: Carly-Jay Metcalfe
4.38
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Queensland Literary Award Winner 2024 Queensland Book of the Year People's Choice Award 'I am d… read more
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21. The Coal Curse: Resources, Climate and Australia's Future (Quarterly Essay #78)
By: Judith Brett
4.20
Format: 120 pages, Kindle Edition
Australia is a wealthy nation with the economic profile of a developing country - heavy on raw mate… read more
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- climate change
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