A Therapeutic Journey: Lessons from the School of Life by Alain de Botton
$37.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
The essential guide to mental health from the bestselling author of The School of Life: A Therapeutic Journey follows the arc from mental crisis and collapse to convalescence and recovery. Written with kindness, knowledge and sympathy, it is both a practical guide and a source of consolation and compani ...Show more
Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein
$37.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
A personal trip into the uncanny Mirror World of our polarised culture, from the international bestselling author of The Shock Doctrine. What if you woke up one morning and found you'd acquired a double? Someone almost like you, and yet not you at all? When Naomi Klein discovered that a woman who share ...Show more
Twelve Words for Moss by Elizabeth-Jane Burnett
$35.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
A moving tale of recovery and reconnection and an immersive journey through British wetlandsGlowflake, Rocket, Small Skies, Kind Spears, Marilyn . . .Moss is known as the living carpet but if you look really closely, it contains an irrepressible light. In Twelve Words for Moss, Elizabeth-Jane Burnett ce ...Show more
The Power of Language: Multilingualism, Self and Society by Viorica Marian
$45.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
An acclaimed psycholinguist reveals how language shapes our brain - and moulds the way we look at the worldWhy should we learn more than one language?Can it change the way we think?Does it have the power to transform how we see the world? You may think you speak only one language. In fact, your mind is ...Show more
Illegitimate Authority: Facing the Challenges of Our Time by Noam Chomsky & C. J. Polychroniou
$23.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
In these wide-ranging and incisive interviews, Chomsky addresses the urgent questions of this tumultuous time, speaking to the rapidly deteriorating quality of democracy in the United States and rising tensions globally. Noam Chomsky examines the crumbling of the social fabric and the fractures of the ...Show more
This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race by Nicole Perlroth
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE FT & McKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2021 'An intricately detailed, deeply sourced and reported history of the origins and growth of the cyberweapons market . . . Hot, propulsive . . . Sets out from the start to scare us out of our c ...Show more
Time for Socialism: Dispatches from a World on Fire, 2016 - 2021 by Thomas Piketty
$26.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
A chronicle of recent events that have shaken the world, from the author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century"What makes this manifesto noteworthy is that it comes from . . . an economist who gained his reputation as a researcher with vaguely left-of-center sensibilities but was far from a radical. Ye ...Show more
The Right to Sex by Amia Srinivasan
$23.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER BLACKWELL'S BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021. Essential lessons on the world we live in, from one of our greatest young thinkers a guide to what everybody is talking about today' Unparalleled and extraordinary . . . A bracing revivification of a crucial lineage in feminist writing' JIA ...Show more
Orwell's Roses by Rebecca Solnit
$25.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for NonfictionFinalist for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography "An exhilarating romp through Orwell's life and times and also through the life and times of roses." --Margaret Atwood "A captivating account of Orwell as gardener, lover, ...Show more
My Body by Emily Ratajkowski
$23.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
<font size="+1">*THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*A deeply honest investigation of what it means to be a woman and a commodity from Emily Ratajkowski, the archetypal, multi-hyphenate celebrity of our time.</font>_______________'This is the book for every woman trying to place their body on the ...Show more
Good Arguments: What the art of debating can teach us about listening better and disagreeing well by Bo Seo
$35.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
At a time when every disagreement turns toxic, world champion debater Bo Seo reveals the timeless secrets of effective communication and persuasion.
The World in 2050: How to Think About the Future by Hamish McRae
$23.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
A bold and illuminating vision of the future, from one of Europe's foremost speakers on global trends in economics, business and society. What will the world look like in 2050? How will complex forces of change demography, the environment, finance, technology and ideas about governance affect our global ...Show more