Tristes Tropiques by Claude Levi-Strauss
$50.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
"Tristes Tropiques" begins with the line 'I hate travelling and explorers', yet during his life Claude Levi-Strauss travelled from wartime France to the Amazon basin and the dense upland jungles of Brazil, where he found 'human society reduced to its most basic expression'. His account of the people he ...Show more
Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein with Two Shorter Stories by Ms Gertrude Stein
$20.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.
What's Wrong with Diplomacy?: The Future of Diplomacy and the Case of China and the UK by Kerry Brown
$9.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought | Series: Penguin Specials
Traditional methods of diplomacy are fast becoming antiquated. Secrecy, pomp and elitism may have dictated diplomatic strategy of the Cold War era, but in a digitised twenty-first century, inclusivity and transparency are values of increasing importance. Access to information is being democratised for a ...Show more
No Ordinary Disruption: The Four Global Forces Breaking All the Trends by Richard Dobbs
$40.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
The world not only feels different. The data tell us it isdifferent. Based on years of research by the directors of the McKinsey Global Institute, No Ordinary Disruption: The Four Forces Breaking All the Trends is a timely and important analysis of how we need to reset our intuition as a result of four ...Show more
The War on Journalism by Andrew Fowler
$34.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Mass media is in Crisis. Newspapers and TV networks that once led the world are Failing. Yet they Co-wrote their own Epitaph - with Dirty Deeds and Power without principle. In The War on Journalism, former ABC Four Corners investigative journalist Andrew Fowler traces both the evolution of the fourth es ...Show more
Cakes, Custard and Category Theory: Easy Recipes for Understanding Complex Maths by Eugenia Cheng
$27.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Most people imagine maths is something like a slow cooker: very useful, but pretty limited in what it can do. Maths, though, isn't just a tool for solving a specific problem - and it's definitely not something to be afraid of. Whether you're a maths glutton or have forgotten how long division works (or ...Show more
Wonder Women: Sex, Power, and the Quest for Perfection by Debora L Spar
$28.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Debora L. Spar spent most of her life avoiding feminism. Raised after the tumult of the 1960s, she presumed that the gender war was over. "We thought we could glide into the new era with babies, board seats, and husbands in tow," she writes. "We were wrong." Spar should know. One of the first women prof ...Show more
Inequality by Anthony B. Atkinson
$68.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Inequality is one of our most urgent social problems. Curbed in the decades after World War II, it has recently returned with a vengeance. We all know the scale of the problem talk about the 99% and the 1% is entrenched in public debate but there has been little discussion of what we can do but despair. ...Show more
On Happiness : New Ideas for the Twenty-First Century by Camilla Nelson
$29.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
What is happiness, and how does the pursuit of happiness shape our lives? Happiness appears to be a simple emotion, individual and pleasurable, yet the problems associated with happiness in politics, economics and philosophy suggest that it is perhaps more complex and paradoxical than we first thought. ...Show more
Black Sheep : The Hidden Benefits of Being Bad by Dr. Richard Stephens
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
From the man who won the Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize 2014 and married a human statue comes a book of weird and wonderful psychological science from the far-flung corners of human experience. Richard Stephens became the focus of international media attention for his research on the psychological ...Show more
Hack Attack : How the Truth Caught Up with Rupert Murdoch by Nick Davies
$25.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Award-winning journalist Nick Davies spent more than six years uncovering the truth about the crimes at the News of the World. Hack Attack is the definitive, inside story of the whole scandal. This book tells for the first time how Davies and a network of rebel lawyers, MPs and celebrities worked tirele ...Show more
Crimes Against Humanity: The Struggle For Global Justice by Geoffrey Robertson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
When it was first published in 1999, Crimes Against Humanity called for a radical shift from diplomacy to justice in international affairs. In vivid, non-legalese prose, leading human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson made a riveting case for holding political and military leaders accountable in internat ...Show more