Screw Business as Usual by Sir Richard Branson
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Category: Political / Economic
Can we bring more meaning to our lives and help change the world at the same time? Richard Branson, at his brilliant and motivating best, reveals how with his exciting new vision for the future. It is time to turn capitalism upside down - to shift our values, to switch from a profit focus to caring for ...Show more
On Suicide by David Hume
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Great Ideas | Reading Level: very good
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the w ...Show more
A Life With Books by Julian Barnes
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$4.95 (39% off)
Category: Essays
Julian Barnes writes about his early awareness of books and about his obsessive book-collecting and time spent in second-hand bookshops around the country. He ends by praising the physical book and expressing the confident hope ...Show more
The Omnivorous Mind: Our Evolving Relationship with Food by ALLEN, JOHN S.
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Category: Sustainability/Environment
Nothing to Envy: Life, Love and Death in North Korea by Barbara Demick
$19.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
WINNER OF THE 2010 SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION What if the world imagined by George Orwell in Nineteen Eighty-four was real? What if everything around you was black and white except for the red letters on propaganda signs? Where spies like Orwell's Thought Police studied your facial expressions ...Show more
Future and Related Nonsense: The Insiders Guide to Where We Are And Where We're Heading by Antony Funnell
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Category: Sustainability/Environment
'So, verily I say unto you, brothers and sisters - cast aside your digital rosary beads and look more closely at the world around you. Or better still, roll up your trouser legs and join me for a paddle through the shallow water at the edge of the future. Be curious, be positive, and embrace your inner ...Show more
Secret Affairs: Britain's Collusion with Radical Islam by Mark Curtis
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Category: Political / Economic
This updated edition of "Secret Affairs" covers the momentous events of the past year in the Middle East. It reveals the unreported attempts by Britain to cultivate relations with the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt after the fall of Mubarak, the military intervention on the side of Libyan rebel forces whic ...Show more
The Happy Life: The Search for Contentment in the Modern World by David Malouf
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Category: Philosophy
In this elegant treatise, David Malouf returns to one of the most fundamental questions and gives it a modern twist: what makes for a happy life? With grace and profundity, Malouf discusses new and old ways to talk about contentment and the self. In considering the happy life - what it is, and what make ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 45: Us and Them: On The Importance Of Animals by Anna Krien
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
For the first time in history, humans sit unchallenged at the top of the food chain. As we encroach on the wild and a vast wave of extinctions gathers force, how has our relationship with animals changed? In this dazzling essay, Anna Krien investigates the world we have made and the complexity of the c ...Show more
The China Choice: Why America Should Share Power by Hugh White
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Category: Political / Economic
The crucial question for this century is how America should respond to the rise of China. In The China Choice, strategic expert Hugh White sets out America's options in the Asian century. As China ascends, America faces a stark decision about its future. If China continues to grow, the current American ...Show more
Killing the Earth to Save it: How Environmentalists are Ruining the Planet, Destroying the Economy and Stealing Your Jobs by James Delingpole
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Category: Sustainability/Environment
Carbon taxes won't make the slightest difference to climate change, so why are we introducing them? Polar bear populations are on the increase, so why are we worrying about them? Global warming is better than global cooling, so why are we trying to stop it? James Delingpole has all the answers - and the ...Show more
Here on Earth : An Argument for Hope by Tim Flannery
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Category: Essays | Reading Level: vert good
"We stand at a crossroads, where comprehension of our place in nature - of our true abilities and of our history - is supremely important. We have formed a global civilisation of unprecedented might, driven forward by the power of our minds - a civilisation which is transforming our Earth. We are master ...Show more