Rethinking Our World: an invitation to rescue our future by David Shaw, Maja Gopel
$29.99 AUD
Category: Sustainability/Environment | Reading Level: near fine
A compelling and persuasive look at the social transformations needed to cope with our environmental crises.Our world is at a tipping point, and we feel it every day. On the one hand, we have never been so well off; on the other hand, we find destruction and crisis everywhere we look. Whether throughout ...Show more
Values, Voice and Virtue: The New British Politics by Matthew Goodwin
$26.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
'Forceful ... The fundamental thrust of Goodwin's argument is right ... a new centre ground of British politics is being formed - even if both parties have yet to fully comprehend it' The Times *A bold new theory for our ongoing political instability, from the co-author of the Sunday Times bestseller N ...Show more
Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence: The Hidden Driver of Excellence by Daniel Goleman
$22.99 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
For more than two decades, psychologist and journalist Daniel Goleman has been scouting the leading edge of the human sciences for what's new, surprising, and important. In Focus, he delves into the science of attention in all its varieties, presenting a long overdue discussion of this little-noticed an ...Show more
Philosophy and Life: Exploring the Great Questions of How to Live by A. C. Grayling
$35.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
From the eminent philosopher, an answer to the big question- how should I live my life? How should I live my life? What values shall I live by? What sort of person should I be? What shall I aim for? In this summation of a lifetime thinking and writing about these great questions, A. C. Grayling explores ...Show more
Art and Fear - Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking by Ted Orland; David Bayles
$24.99 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
Art & Fear is about the way art gets made, the reasons it often doesn't get made, and the nature of the difficulties that cause so many artists to give up along the way. Drawing on the authors' own experiences as two working artists, the book delves into the internal and external challenges to makin ...Show more
New Domino Theory: Does China really want to attack Australia? Australian Foreign Affairs 19 by Jonathan Pearlman
$22.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
The latest issue of Australian Foreign Affairs examines China's ultimate goals as an emerging superpower, including the extent of its territorial ambitions. New Domino Theory looks at Australia's place in China's long-term plans and at the threat - if any - that Beijing poses to Australian security, pol ...Show more
Songlines: The Power and Promise (First Knowledges) by Margo Neale, Lynne Kelly
$24.99 AUD
Category: Sociology | Series: First Knowledges
Songlines are an archive for powerful knowledges that ensured Australia's many Indigenous cultures flourished for over 60,000 years. Much more than a navigational path in the cartographic sense, these vast and robust stores of information are encoded through song, story, dance, art and ceremony, rather ...Show more
Cryptocurrency (WIRED guides): How Digital Money Could Transform Finance by Volpicelli Gian
$19.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
The everything-you-need-to-know WIRED guide to cryptocurrencyThe past decade has seen the relentless rise of cryptocurrency as an alternative form of digital currency. But what precisely is it and what potential does it have to change the world of money? In this brilliantly clear, one-stop guide WIRED S ...Show more
Sapiens A Graphic History, Volume 2: The Pillars of Civilization by Yuval Noah Harari
$39.99 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
The second volume of an epic, beautifully illustrated graphic history of humankind, based on Yuval Noah Harari's internationally bestselling phenomenon. When nomadic Homo sapiens settled to live in one place, they started working harder and harder. But why didn't they get a better life in return? In Th ...Show more
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
$27.99 AUD
Category: Sociology | Reading Level: good
From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity's creation and evolution--a #1 international bestseller--that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be "human." One hundred thousand years ago, at least six ...Show more
Bite Back: Feminism, media, politics, and our power to change it all by Hannah Ferguson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
Articulating sharp, progressive perspectives on the social and political issues that matter, Bite Back offers constructive talking points to provoke and inspire meaningful change. The Co-Founder of Cheek Media Co. delivers the conversations we've been missing on everything from diet culture to the futur ...Show more
Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez
$24.99 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
Imagine a world where… Your phone is too big for your hand Your doctor prescribes a drug that is wrong for your body In a car accident you are 47% more likely to be injured. If any of that sounds familiar, chances are you’re a woman. From government policy and medical research, to technology, workplac ...Show more