Quarterly Essay 67 Moral Panic 101: Equality, Acceptance, and The Safe Schools Scandal QE67 by Benjamin Law
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Category: General Non Fiction | Series: Quarterly Essay
In 2016, the Safe Schools program became the focus of an ideological firestorm. In Moral Panic 101, Benjamin Law explores how and why this happened. He weaves a subtle, gripping account of schools today, sexuality, teenagers, new ideas of gender fluidity, media scandal and mental health.In this timely e ...Show more
Anatomy of Terror: From the Death of Bin Laden to the Rise of the Islamic State by Ali H. Soufan
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Category: General Non Fiction
In early 2011, the heart of the Muslim world roiled in protest, consumed with the upheaval of the Arab Spring. The governments of Tunisia and Egypt had already fallen; those of Libya and Yemen would soon follow. Watching the chaos from his hideout in Pakistan, Osama bin Laden saw a historic opportunity: ...Show more
Leverage Leadership: A Practical Guide to Building Exceptional Schools by Paul Bambrick-Santoyo
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Category: General Non Fiction
Examines seven principles at the core of effective leadership Paul Bambrick-Santoyo (Managing Director of Uncommon Schools) shows leaders how they can raise their schools to greatness by following a core set of principles. These seven principles, or "levers," allow for consistent, transformational, and ...Show more
In the Shadows of the American Century - The Rise and Decline of US Global Power by Alfred McCoy
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Category: General Non Fiction | Series: Dispatch Bks.
In a completely original analysis, prize-winning historian Alfred W. McCoy explores America's rise as a world power--from the 1890s through the Cold War--and its bid to extend its hegemony deep into the twenty-first century through a fusion of cyberwar, space warfare, trade pacts, and military alliances ...Show more
Bolt - Worth Fighting for : Insights and Reflections 2 by Andrew Bolt
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Category: General Non Fiction
Andrew Bolt is Australia's most prominent and controversial commentator. In this second book of columns and reflections, Bolt is again in the front lines of our most urgent political and social debates, from Islam and immigration to the green movement and the rise of the slacktivist. But he also reveals ...Show more
Project Sunshine - How Science Can Use the Sun to Fuel and Feed the World by Steve Mckevitt; Tony Ryan
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Category: General Non Fiction
It's an astonishing fact that capturing all the energy in just one hour's worth of sunlight would enable us to meet the planet's food and energy needs for an entire year. Project Sunshine tells the story of how scientists are working to reconnect us to the 'solar economy', harnessing the power of the su ...Show more
Love Wins by Jim Obergefell, Debbie Cenziper
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Category: General Non Fiction
In June 2015, the Supreme Court made same-sex marriage the law in all fifty states in a decision as groundbreaking as Roe v Wade. At the heart of the Obergefell v Hodges case is a story of law and love and a promise made to a dying man who wanted to know how he would be remembered. Twenty years ago, Jim ...Show more
Wasted: A Story of Alcohol, Grief and a Death in Brisbane by Elspeth Muir
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Category: General Non Fiction
In 2009 Elspeth Muir's youngest brother finished his last university exam and went out with some mates to get drunk. Later that night he wandered to the Story Bridge. He put his phone, wallet, T-shirt and thongs on the walkway, climbed over the railing, and jumped thirty metres into the Brisbane River b ...Show more
Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View by Stanley Milgram
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Category: General Non Fiction
THE INSPIRATION FOR THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE THE EXPERIMENTER "The classic account of the human tendency to follow orders, no matter who they hurt or what their consequences." - Michael Dirda, Washington Post Book World In the 1960s Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram famously carried out a ...Show more
Beautiful Failures by Lucy Clark
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Category: General Non Fiction
'I imagine we would all agree on the things education should not be. It should not, surely, make one quarter of all kids drop out and be lost to learning. It should not, surely, make children feel so bad about themselves that they hurt themselves, or shut down, or become lacking in any confidence about ...Show more
The True Story of the Bilderberg Group by ESTULIN D
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Category: General Non Fiction
Delving into a world once shrouded in complete mystery and impenetrable security, this investigative report provides a fascinating account of the annual meetings of the world's most powerful people--the Bilderberg Group. Since its inception in 1954 at the Bilderberg Hotel in the small Dutch town of Oost ...Show more
The Death of Right and Wrong by Tammy Bruce
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Category: General Non Fiction
Tammy Bruce reveals how the American Left is trying to destroy the values that define our civilization. Leftist activists have turned morals and decency on their heads and erased the distinction between Right and Wrong. You'll discover powerful tools in these pages to help you understand the psychology ...Show more