Non-fiction books 2017

Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump’s America
Essays by Cheryl Strayed, Rebecca Solnit, Jessica Valenti, Alicia Garza, Katha Pollitt, Samantha Irby, and Nicole Chung, among others --Cover.
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Tinkering: The Complete Book of John Clarke
This fine collection includes John Clarke's writing for radio, television, stage and screen, as well as previously unpublished pieces.
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The Game Changers
In The Game Changers, Samantha and Steph have handpicked the world's most inspiring women, and these women are letting you into their worlds. They are sharing their secrets to overcoming fears and challenges, and...
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Rogue Nation
This fascinating first-hand account of the phenomenon of One Nation, from within Canberra and outside it, will be compulsory reading for any Australian who cares about their vote.
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Buddhism for the Unbelievably Busy
Way cheaper than hours of therapy, Buddhism for the Unbelievably Busy is your go-to guide for zen!
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The Conversation Yearbook 2017: 50 articles that informed public debate
In a time of heightened hostility towards experts, academics and scientists, the 2017 collection of the best Conversation articles and essays is a must-read. If proof were needed that academia makes an essential contribution to...
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Tell Me How it Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions
A moving, eye-opening polemic about the US-Mexico border and what happens to the tens of thousands of unaccompanied Mexican and Central American children arriving in the US without papers
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The Little Book of Lykke: The Danish Search for the World’s Happiest People
From how we spend our precious time, to how we relate to our neighbours and cook dinner, he gathers evidence, stories and tips from the very happiest corners of the planet. This is the guide to how we can all find a little more...
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On Being Awesome: A Unified Theory of How Not to Suck
At the core of [this] work is the idea that awesome people are exemplars of social creativity. We suck when we foil their attempts at creative community building. To be down, game, chill, basic, wack, or a preference dictator are...
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There It Is Again: Collected Writings
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They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us
Abdurraqib uses music and culture as a lens through which to view our world, so that we might better understand ourselves, and in so doing proves himself a bellwether for our times.
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What a Plant Knows: A Field Guide to the Senses (Revised Edition)
A captivating journey into the inner lives of plants - from the colours they see to the schedules they keep How does a Venus flytrap know when to snap shut? Can a fern get jet lag? Do roses remember the romance of springtime?
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The Woman Who Fooled the World
Belle Gibson convinced the world she had healed herself from terminal brain cancer with a healthy diet. She built a global business based upon her claims. There was just one problem: she'd never had cancer.
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The Secret Life of Whales
Marine biologist Micheline Jenner discovered humpback breeding grounds off the Kimberley coast, has swum through orange golfball-sized pygmy blue whale poo to......
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Quarterly Essay 68: Without America - Australia in the New Asia
America is fading, and China will soon be the dominant power in our region. What does this mean for Australia's future?
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Acland Street: The Grand Lady of St Kilda
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The Best Australian Essays 2017
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John Curtin’s War (Volume I)
Volume one of a major new biography of arguably our greatest (and one of our most underrated) Prime Ministers, who shaped modern Australia.
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A Pleasure to Be Here: The Best of Clarke and Dawe 1989-2017
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Paradise in Chains: The Bounty Mutiny and the Founding of Australia
Celebrated historian Diana Preston presents betrayals, escapes, and survival at sea in her account of the mutiny of the Bounty and the flight of convicts from the Australian penal colony.
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1947: Where Now Begins
As the clock strikes the end of the war, the time begins to turn towards a new age - the one we call now.
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True Stories: The Collected Short Non-Fiction
An extraordinary book of collected short non-fiction, spanning fifty years of work, by one of Australia's great writers.
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Becoming Myself: A Psychiatrist’s Memoir
The must-read new memoir from one of psychiatry's most important figures.
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The Good Country: The Djadja Wurrung, The Settlers and the Protectors
In this superbly researched book Bain Attwood eschews the generalisations of national and colonial history to provide a finely grained local history of the......
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No Front Line
Australia's foremost investigative journalist goes deep into the heart of our Special Forces long war in Afghanistan.
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The Best Australian Science Writing 2017
Would it be ethical to eat sentient aliens? What is the basis of the difference between the sexes? Why is there something rather than nothing? Now in its seventh year, The Best Australian Science Writing 2017 draws on the...
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The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
Putin's bestselling biographer reveals how, in the space of a generation, Russia surrendered to a more virulent and invincible new strain of autocracy.
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Woman of Substances: A Journey into Addiction and Treatment
Journalist Jenny Valentish investigates the female experience of drugs and alcohol, using her own story to light the way.
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Can You Tolerate This?
Can You Tolerate This? is a collection of twenty-one personal essays by Ashleigh Young.
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The Library: A Catalogue of Wonders
The Library: A Catalogue of Wonders is a love letter to libraries not just as mere collections of books, but as magical, fabled places.
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The Princess Bitchface Syndrome 2.0
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The Mother of All Questions: Further Feminisms
A new collection of 'further feminisms' - searing, smart and provocative essays from one of the most important public intellectuals writing today.
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Return to Moscow
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Into the Heart of Tasmania: A Search For Human Antiquity
In 1908 Ernest Westlake collected over 13,000 Aboriginal stone tools in Tasmania. He believed he had found the remnants of an extinct race whose culture was akin to the most ancient Stone Age Europeans. But Westlake unwittingly...
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Sunlight and Seaweed
Internationally renowned climate change expert Professor Tim Flannery presents a detailed and fascinating vision of the technologies that will prove invaluable in ensuring a sustainable future for our planet.
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A Writing Life: Helen Garner and Her Work
The first full-length study of Helen Garner's forty years of writing - a literary portrait that maps Garner's works against the different stages of her life.
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The Clever Guts Diet: How to revolutionise your body from the inside out
The definitive book on the newest frontier in science, health and diet. Loaded with facts and examples but, above all a practical guide for anyone who wants to fine-tune their body by revolutionising the workings of their gut.
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Whiteley on Trial
Offers a tale of obsession, greed and ego, where the richly diverse worlds of art, horse-racing, high finance, the luxury car trade and a humble tradesman collide - and no one is entirely innocent. Except perhaps the tradesman.
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The Rules Do Not Apply
The new book by New Yorker journalist and author of Female Chauvinist Pigs, Ariel Levy.
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The Abundance
The best writing from the Pulitzer Prize-winning nature writer, with a foreword by Geoff Dyer.
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They Cannot Take the Sky: Stories from detention
Revealing, moving and confronting accounts of the reality of life in mandatory detention by those who've experienced it.
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Watching Out: Reflections on Justice and Injustice
Rich with fascinating case studies, and eloquent in its defence of civil society, Watching Out is a beacon of legal liberalism in an intemporate age.
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Quarterly Essay 65: The White Queen - One Nation and the Politics of Race
Most Australians despise what Pauline Hanson stands for, yet politics in this country is now orbiting around One Nation.
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Breaking the Mould
An extraordinary transformation is taking place in Australian sport; from suburban footy fields to stadium cage fights, sportswomen are breaking through the...
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first, we make the beast beautiful: A New Story About Anxiety
The world's foremost writer on the dangers of sugar discovers the hidden value and advantages of being an anxious person.
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Why I Am Not a Feminist: A Feminist Manifesto
A searing rejection of contemporary feminism and a bracing manifesto for revolution. Jessa Crispin, cultural critic and founder of Bookslut, offers a brilliant rejection of contemporary feminism - and demands something better.
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The Lost Words: Rediscover our natural world with this spellbinding book
From Acorn to Weasel: a gorgeous, hand-illustrated, large-format spell book celebrating the magic and wonder of the natural world.
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The Road to Ruin
In the original edition of The Road to Ruin, prominent political commentator, author, and columnist for The Australian Niki Savva revealed the ruinous behaviour of former prime minister Tony Abbott and his chief of staff, Peta...
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Taming Toxic People
Bestselling author David Gillespie turns his attention to a phenomenon that damages businesses, seeds mental disease and discomfort and can bring civilisations to the brink of implosion - the psychopath.
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Quarterly Essay 66: The Long Goodbye: Coal, Coral and Australia’s Climate Deadlock
The Great Barrier Reef is dying. Extreme weather is becoming all too familiar. And the Coalition government is divided and paralysed.
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Braving the Wilderness
`True belonging doesn't require us to change who we are. She writes, `True belonging requires us to believe in and belong to ourselves so fully that we can find sacredness both in both being a part of something, and in standing...
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Quarterly Essay 67: Moral Panic 101 - Equality, Acceptance and the Safe Schools Scandal
Are Australian schools safe? And if they're not, what happens when kids are caught in a bleak collision between ill-equipped school staff and a confected media scandal?
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Selfie: How We Became So Self-obsessed and What It’s Doing to Us
A compelling new work about the mysterious power of the self and the danger of our modern obsession with it
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Women Leading
Smashes tired prescriptions that women should lead like men, highlighting a long history of innovative female leadership. Christine Nixon and Amanda Sinclair draw on their own and thousands of others' experiences to argue it is...
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Beyond Veiled Cliches
Amal Awad spoke with women in the Arab world and Arab Australian women to discover what their lives are really like. The breadth, variety and beauty of what she discovered will surprise you.
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The Prince Boofhead Syndrome
By the author of the phenomenally successful The Princess Bitchface Syndrome comes the highly anticipated and long-awaited companion volume about parenting teenage boys.
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Capital in the Twenty-First Century
The main driver of inequality--returns on capital that exceed the rate of economic growth--is again threatening to generate extreme discontent and undermine democratic values. Thomas Piketty's findings in this ambitious, original,...
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Defiant Earth: The Fate of Humans in the Anthropocene
Humans have become so powerful that we are disrupting the functioning of the earth, to the point where scientists now consider we have entered a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene. Clive Hamilton argues this forces us to...
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Depends What You Mean by Extremist: Going Rogue with Australian Deplorables
No one turns up where they're not wanted quite like John Safran. In this hilarious and disorienting adventure he gets among our diverse community of ..
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The Courage to be Disliked
Released for the first time in the English language, the Japanese phenomenon that teaches us the simple yet profound lessons needed to liberate our real selves and find lasting happiness.
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Fighting Hislam: Women, Faith and Sexism
The Muslim community that is portrayed to the West is a misogynist's playground; within the Muslim community, feminism is often regarded with.....
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Draw Your Weapons
Draw Your Weapons stirs and confronts, disturbs and illuminates. A single book might not change the world, but this utterly original meditation on art and war might transform the way you see the world-and that makes all the...
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Fear of Abandonment: Australia in the World Since 1942
Everything Australia wants to achieve as a country depends on its capacity to understand the world outside and to respond effectively to it.
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The Wonder of Birds: What They Tell Us About Ourselves, the World, and a Better Future
A fascinating investigation into the miraculous world of birds and the powerful - and surprising - ways they enrich our lives and sustain the planet
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On Tyranny
In the twentieth century, European democracies collapsed into fascism, Nazism and communism. These were movements in which a leader or a party claimed to give voice to the people and established rule by an elite with a monopoly on...
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Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
The essential universe, from a celebrated and beloved astrophysicist.
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9 Ways to a Resilient Child
The author of 21 Days to a Happier Family, Dr Justin Coulson, on raising kids who'll bounce back from adversity and challenging times. Have you ever watched your child give up too quickly and...
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The Family
A powerful work of investigative journalism that reveals the legacy of a notorious cult.
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Gimme Shelter: Stories of Courage, Endurance and Survival from the Frontline and Back Home
For many returned service men and women, coming home is when the battle really begins. These are the stories that must be told.
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Footsteps: From Ferrante’s Naples to Hammett’s San Francisco, Literary Pilgrimages Around the World
A curated collection of the New York Times' travel column, Footsteps, exploring iconic authors' relationships to landmarks and cities around the world.
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The Strength Switch: How the New Science of Strength-Based Parenting Helps Your Child and Teen to Flourish
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Mischka’s War: A European Odyssey of the 1940s
Sheila Fitzpatrick pieces together her late husband's story through diaries, correspondence and recollections: 'This is a historian's book but it's also a wife's book about her husband ... an offering of love that is also a search...
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Anaesthesia: The Gift of Oblivion
An astonishing work of creative non-fiction, about the enigma at the heart of modern medicine, and the mystery of the interrupted self.
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Override: my quest to discover the truth about brain training and rewire my imperfect mind
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Is Racism an Environmental Threat?
The ecological crisis is the most overwhelming to have ever faced humanity and its consequences permeate every domain of life. This trenchant book examines its relation to Islamophobia as the dominant form of racism today, showing...
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Sex after Sixty: a French guide to loving intimacy
In Sex After Sixty, Marie de Hennezel addresses the most taboo of subjects: the sexuality of seniors.
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The Captain Class: The Hidden Force that Creates the World’s Greatest Teams
Drawing on original interviews with athletes from two dozen countries as well as coaches, managers and others skilled at building teams, the author attempts to answer questions such as: Are great captains made or born? Why do so...
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Flights
A literary and imaginative book that explores subjects such as anatomy and psychology through narratives and reflections on travel and the body, and life and death.
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Scratch: Writers, Money, and the Art of Making a Living
A collection of essays from today's most acclaimed authors--from Cheryl Strayed to Roxane Gay to Jennifer Weiner, Alexander Chee, Nick Hornby, and Jonathan Franzen--on the realities of making a living in the writing world --
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Into the Grey Zone: A Neuroscientist Explores the Border Between Life and Death
In 2006 Dr Adrian Owen and his team made medical history. They discovered a new realm of consciousness, a twilight zone somewhere between life and death. They called this the Grey Zone. Into the Grey Zone reveals astonishing...
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Devil’s Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the storming of the presidency
From the reporter who was there at the very beginning comes the revealing inside story of the partnership between Steve Bannon and Donald Trump - the key to understanding the rise of the alt-right, the fall of Hillary Clinton, and...
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On Kate Jennings: Writers on Writers
‘Kate says she doesn't know what to say about writing. When people ask, she tells them to prepare for a life of failure.'
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The Last of the Tsars: Nicholas II and the Russian Revolution
A riveting account of the last eighteen months of Tsar Nicholas II's life and reign from one of our finest historians of Russia.
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The Death and Life of Australian Soccer
This is more than a book about soccer - it is the story of Australia's national identity.
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The Honest History Book
In Australia's rush to commemorate all things Anzac, have we lost our ability to look beyond war as the central pillar of Australia's history and identity The passionate historians of the ...
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The Quantum Astrologer’s Handbook
A book of science like no other, about a scientist like no other.
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The Pleasures of Leisure
In today's crazily busy world the importance of making time for leisure is more vital than ever. Yet so many of us lack a talent for it. We are working longer.....
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Why I March: Images from the Women’s March Around the World
On January 21st, 2017, five million people in 82 countries and on all seven continents stood up with one voice. The Women's March began with one cause.
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Confabulations
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The Show: Another Side of Santamaria’s Movement
In 1942, on the recommendation of 26-year-old Bob Santamaria, Australia's Catholic bishops created a clandestine church organisation to smash the Communist Party's massive trade union base. Soon, The Movement, working closely with...
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Heartthrobs: A History of Women and Desire
The story of female desire and fantasy, told through the cultural history of the heartthrob, from Byron to boy-bands. Feminists have commonly represented women as objects of the 'male gaze': this book looks at men through the eyes...
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Says Who? The struggle for authority in a market-based society
A call to rethink authority from one of the world's foremost psychoanalytic thinkers.
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Stop Fixing Women: Why building fairer workplaces is everybody’s business
Millions of words have been spent in our quest to explain men's seemingly never-ending dominance in boardrooms, in parliaments, in the bureaucracy and in ...
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The Show That Never Ends: The Rise and Fall of Prog Rock
The wildly entertaining story of progressive rock, the music that ruled the 1970s charts-and has divided listeners ever since.
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No Way But This: In Search of Paul Robeson
Vocalist. Actor. Athlete. Agitator. Icon. Martyr.
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The Weather Obsession
We have come a long way since the days when weather information could only be found in the back pages of newspapers. The Weather Obsession takes the temperature of modern weather media and investigates how it has fuelled our...
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