Future and Related Nonsense: The Insiders Guide to Where We Are And Where We're Heading by Antony Funnell
$24.99 AUD
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
$24.99 AUD
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
Killing the Earth to Save it: How Environmentalists are Ruining the Planet, Destroying the Economy and Stealing Your Jobs by James Delingpole
$29.95 AUD
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
$24.95 AUD
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
The Future by Al Gore
$34.95 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
In "The Future", former US Vice President Al Gore, explores the political, social and economic forces that are shaping what America and the world will become in ensuing decades. From demographics to democracy, Gore explores what he calls the 'Drivers of Global Change', framing the international conversa ...Show more
Glorious Days: Australia 1913 by MICHELLE HETHERINGTON (ed)
$44.95 AUD
Category: Sociology
This richly illustrated book takes the reader into life in Australia in 1913. That year was a fascinating and important time for Australians, although the events of the following year have tended to cast a retrospective shadow over it. In places as far apart as Antarctica, Papua and Great Britain, Austr ...Show more
On Machiavelli: The Search for Glory by Alan Ryan
$20.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Liveright Classics
In On Machiavelli: The Search for Glory, Alan Ryan illuminates the political and philosophical complexities of the often-reviled godfather of realpolitik. Thought by some to be the founder of Italian nationalism, regarded by others to be a reviver of the Roman Republic as a model for the modern Western ...Show more
Bread, Wine, Chocolate: The Slow Loss of Foods We Love by Simran Sethi
$42.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
Award-winning journalist Simran Sethi explores the history and cultural importance of our most beloved tastes, paying homage to the ingredients that give us daily pleasure, while providing a thoughtful wake-up call to the homogenization that is threatening the diversity of our food supply. Food is one ...Show more
The Good Life by Hugh Mackay
$19.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
"No one can promise you that a life lived for others will bring you a deep sense of satisfaction, but it's certain that nothing else will."Hugh Mackay has spent his entire working life asking Australians about their values, motivations, ambitions, hopes and fears. Now, in The Good Life, he addresses the ...Show more
When to Rob a Bank - A Rogue Economist's Guide to the World by Steven D. Levitt
$24.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
This is the ultimate guide to the world of the Freak. Renegade thinkers and bestselling sensations Levitt and Dubner have carefully curated the very best of their blogs, conversations, wisecracks and advice from the last decade to reveal the outlandish truth about everything from lying to bankrobbing, f ...Show more
Freedom Regained: The Possibility of Free Will by Julian Baggini
$23.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
Do we have free will? It's a question that has puzzled philosophers and theologians for centuries and feeds into numerous political, social, and personal concerns. Are we products of our culture, or free agents within it? How much responsibility should we take for our actions? Are our neural pathways fi ...Show more
The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis
$45.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good
"Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky met in war-torn 1960s Israel. Both were gifted young psychology professors: Kahneman a rootless son of holocaust survivors who saw the world as a problem to be solved; Tversky a voluble, instinctual blur of energy. In this breathtaking new book, Michael Lewis tells the ...Show more