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How We Got To Now: The History and Power of Great Ideas by Steven Johnson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
How did our mastery of artificial cold help give birth to at least four million babies, create the golden age of Hollywood and unlock the secrets of the universe? And what about our battle against dirt? How did that create the flat screen and the iPhone?This book is a celebration of ideas: how they happ ...Show more
Plastic Free: The Inspiring Story of a Global Environmental Movement and Why It Matters by Rebecca Prince-Ruiz; Joanna Atherfold Finn
$32.99 AUD
Category: Sustainability/Environment
‘I’m going plastic free next month, who wants to join me?’ When Rebecca Prince-Ruiz asked her colleagues this question in 2011, she had no idea that less than a decade later it would inspire a global movement of 250 million people in 177 countries to reduce their plastic use. Plastic Free tells the incr ...Show more
Me and White Supremacy - How to Recognise Your Privilege, Combat Racism and Change the World by Layla F Saad
$29.99 AUD
Category: Essays
'White supremacy is a violent system of oppression that harms Black, Indigenous and People of Colour. And if you are a person who holds white privilege, then you are complicit in upholding that harm, whether you realise it or not. This is not my opinion. This is fact. And if you are person who holds whi ...Show more
Boys Will Be Boys: Power, Patriarchy and the Toxic Bonds of Mateship by Clementine Ford
$32.99 AUD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: good
The incendiary new book about toxic masculinity and misogyny from Clementine Ford, author of the best-selling feminist manifesto, Fight Like A Girl . 'Everyone's afraid that their daughters might be hurt. No one seems to be scared that their sons might be the ones to do it ... This book ... is the culm ...Show more
Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe
$22.99 AUD
Category: Chat10Looks3 Recommendations
Dark Emu argues for a reconsideration of the 'hunter-gatherer' tag for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians and attempts to rebut the colonial myths that have worked to justify dispossession. Accomplished author Bruce Pascoe provides compelling evidence from the diaries of early explorers that suggests ...Show more
White Fragility - Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism by Robin DiAngelo
$22.99 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
Anger. Fear. Guilt. Denial. Silence. These are the ways in which ordinary white people react when it is pointed out to them that they have done or said something that has - unintentionally - caused racial offence or hurt. After, all, a racist is the worst thing a person can be, right? But these reacti ...Show more
The Good State: On the Principles of Democracy by A. C. Grayling
$34.99 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues | Reading Level: very good
The foundations upon which our democracies stand are inherently flawed, vulnerable to corrosion from within. What is the remedy? A. C. Grayling makes the case for a clear, consistent, principled and written constitution, and sets out the reforms necessary - among them addressing the imbalance of power ...Show more
Stop Reading the News - How to Cope with the Information Overload and Think More Clearly by Rolf Dobelli
$27.99 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
News is to the mind as sugar is to the body. In 2013 Rolf Dobelli stood in front of a room full of journalists and proclaimed that he did not read the news. It caused a riot. Now he finally sets down his philosophy in detail. And he practices what he preaches: he hasn't read the news for a decade. Stop ...Show more
21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
$22.99 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
Sapiens showed us where we came from. Homo Deus looked to the future. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century explores the present. How can we protect ourselves from nuclear war, ecological cataclysms and technological disruptions? What can we do about the epidemic of fake news or the threat of terrorism? What ...Show more
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
$19.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
Award-winning journalist Reni Eddo-Lodge was frustrated with the way that discussions of race and racism are so often led by those blind to it, by those willfully ignorant of its legacy. Her response, Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race, has transformed the conversation both in Britain ...Show more
The Story of More by Hope Jahren
$22.99 AUD
Category: Sustainability/Environment
Hope Jahren is an award-winning geobiologist, a brilliant writer, an inspiring teacher, and one of the seven billion people with whom we share this earth. In The Story of More, Jahren illuminates the link between human consumption habits and our imperiled planet. In short, highly readable chapters, she ...Show more
Too Much And Never Enough: How My Family Created The World's Most Dangerous Man by Mary L. Trump
$32.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
In this revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him, Mary L. Trump, a trained clinical psychologist and Donald's only niece, shines a bright light on the dark history of their family in order to explain how her uncle became the man who now threatens the world ...Show more