| Author: | Steven Johnson |
| 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 ha... read more
| Author: | Matthew Evans |
| Category: |
Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues |
| Reading Level: | 4 Non Fiction |
A scorching manifesto on the ethics of eating meat by the best placed person to write about it - farmer and chef Matthew Evans, aka The Gourmet Farmer.
'Compelling, illuminating and often confronti... read more
| Author: | Nick Bruining |
| Category: |
Political / Economic |
Guide on how you don't need $1m in order to retire comfortably
| Author: | Stan Grant |
| Category: |
Essays |
Australia is poised at a critical moment of its history - but the time to act is now. Since publishing Talking to My Country in early 2016, Stan Grant has been crossing the country, talking to huge crowds everywhere about how racism is at the heart of our history and the Australian dream.... read more
| Author: | Bruce Pascoe |
| Category: |
Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues |
'Dark Emu injects a profound authenticity into the conversation about how we Australians understand our continent ... [It is] essential reading for anyone who wants to understand what Australia once was, or what it... read more
| Author: | Clementine Ford |
| Category: |
Essays |
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 ... read more
| Author: | Greta Thunberg |
| Category: |
Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues |
The history-making, ground-breaking speeches of Greta Thunberg, the young activist who has become the voice of a generation
'Everything needs to change. And it has to start today'
In August 2018 a fifteen-year-old Swedish gir... read more
| Author: | Michael Wolff |
| Category: |
Political / Economic |
Michael Wolff, author of the bombshell bestseller FIRE AND FURY, once again takes us inside the Trump presidency to reveal a White House under siege. With FIRE AND FURY, Michael Wolff defined the first phase of the Trump administration; now, in SIEGE, he has written a... read more
| Author: | Alan Krueger |
| Category: |
Political / Economic |
Alan Krueger, the former chairman of the president's Council of Economic Advisers, uses the music industry, from rock artists to music executives, from managers to promoters, as a way in to explain the principles of economics, and ... read more
| Author: | Yuval Noah Harari |
| Category: |
Sociology |
The Number One Bestseller 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 w... read more
| Author: | Stan Grant |
| Category: |
Essays |
Stan Grant asks why when it comes to identity he is asked to choose between black and white. Is identity a myth? A constructed story we tell ourselves? Tribalism, nationalism and sectarianism are dividing the world into us and them. Communities are a tinderbox of anger and resentment. He... read more
| Author: | Sally McManus |
| Category: |
Essays |
| Reading Level: | 4 Non Fiction |
Most of us believe in fairness. Why then do we have creeping inequality in the land of the fair go? The answer lies in stagnant wage rises, gender pay inequity, insecure work and the lack of real opportunities for all while corporations are still consuming large profits and executives cl... read more
