7 Myths about Women and Work
Catherine Fox
New South, PB, 9781742233475
Being a woman, raising children, succeeding in a leadership role and living a full life remains a tall order in modern Australia if you don't happen to be extraordinary. Being a woman on a board, running an ASX top-listed company, or running a government department remains an exception rather than the norm. Despite the progress made towards a fairer workplace, in ... More/Buy
Beauty and the Inferno: Essays
Roberto Saviano
Maclehose, PB, 9780857050106
Twenty-five powerful and incisive essays by the formidably courageous investigative journalist Roberto Saviano, author of Gomorrah. Roberto Saviano is best known for his work on the Italian mafia, but Beauty and the Inferno also tackles universal themes with great insight and humanity, with urgency, and often with anger. This important collection includes essays on the legacy of the earthquake at L'Aquila, ... More/Buy
The Fan Who Knew Too Much: Aretha Franklin, The Rise of the Soap Opera, Children of the Gospel Church, and Other Meditations
Anthony Heilbut
Knopf, HB, 9780375400803
In" The Fan Who Knew Too Much," Heilbut writes about art and obsession, from country blues singers and male sopranos to European intellectuals and the originators of radio soap opera--figures transfixed and transformed who helped to change the American cultural ... More/Buy
How Much is Enough?: The Love of Money, and the Case for the Good Life
Robert Skidelsky, Edward Skidelsky
Allen Lane, HB, 9781846144486
It's a good question, isn't it - how much money does any of us really need? Anger towards 'greedy' bankers and their 'obscene' bonuses has recently given way to a deeper dissatisfaction towards an economic system geared overwhelmingly to the accumulation of greater and greater wealth. Huge income disparities and an ever-growing gap between the richest and the rest has ... More/Buy
I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts: Drive-By Essays on American Dread, American Dream
Mark Dery
Minnesota University Press, HB, 9780816677733
Exploring the darkest corners of the national psyche and the nethermost regions of the self—the gothic, the grotesque, and the carnivalesque—Mark Dery makes sense of the cultural dynamics of the American madhouse early in the 21st century. Here are essays on the pornographic fantasies of Star Trek fans, Facebook as Limbo of the Lost, George W. Bush’s fear of his inner ... More/Buy
The Mansion of Happiness: A History of Life and Death
Jill Lepore
Knopf, HB, 9780307592996
How does life begin? What does it mean? What happens when we die? New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore has crafted a history of American ideas about life and death from before the cradle to beyond the grave. She starts with the story of a 17th century Englishman who had the idea that all life begins with an egg, and ends ... More/Buy
Our Kind of People: Thoughts on the HIV/AIDS epidemic
Uzodinma Iweala
John Murray, PB, 9780719523502
HIV/AIDS is more divisive and destructive than any other disease - tearing apart communities and ostracising the afflicted. Award-winning novelist Uzodinma Iweala embarks on a remarkable journey around the African continent meeting individuals and communities that are struggling daily with the disease. He meets people from all walks of life, from sex workers to the truck drivers who frequent them; from ... More/Buy
Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men
Mara Hvistendahl
Public Affairs, PB, 9781610391511
Rampant sex-selective abortion has contributed to the disappearance of an estimated 160 million females from Asia's population. And gender imbalance reaches far beyond South and East Asia, affecting the Caucasus countries, Eastern Europe, and even some groups in the United States' a rate of diffusion so rapid that one prominent expert on the topic compares it to an epidemic. So many ... More/Buy
What It Is Like To Go To War
Karl Marlantes
Atlantic, PB, 9780857893802
In 1968, at the age of 22, Karl Marlantes abandoned his Oxford University scholarship to sign up for active service with the US Marine Corps in Vietnam. Pitched into a war that had no defined military objective other than kill ratios and body counts, what he experienced over the next thirteen months in the jungles of South East Asia shook him ... More/Buy