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
On Connection by Kae Tempest
$17.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Staggering talent Kae Tempest's first work of non-fiction: a meditation on the power of creative connection. Beneath the surface we are all connected . . . This is a meditation on the power of creative connection. Drawing on twenty years' experience as a writer and performer, Kae Tempest explores how an ...Show more
Noise by Daniel Kahneman
$25.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Wherever there is human judgement, there is noise.From the world-leaders in strategic thinking and the multi-million copy bestselling authors of Thinking Fast and Slow and Nudge, the next big book to change the way you think.Imagine that two doctors in the same city give different diagnoses to identical ...Show more
The Naked Don't Fear the Water by Matthieu Aikins
$30.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
In 2016, a young Afghan driver and translator named Omar makes the heart-wrenching choice to flee his war-torn country, saying goodbye to Laila, the love of his life, without knowing when they might be reunited again. He is one of millions of refugees who leave their homes that year. Matthieu Aikins, a ...Show more
Gay Bar: Why We Went Out by Jeremy Atherton Lin
$23.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
An indispensable, intimate and stylish celebration of the institution of the gay bar, from the post-AIDS-crisis 1990s to today's fluid queer spaces.
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses by Robin Wall Kimmerer
$23.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Living at the limits of our ordinary perception, mosses are a common but largely unnoticed element of the natural world. Gathering Moss is a beautifully written mix of science and personal reflection that invites readers to explore and learn from the elegantly simple lives of mosses.In these interwoven ...Show more
The Good State - On the Principles of Democracy by A. C. Grayling
$23.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
The foundations upon which our democracies stand are inherently flawed, vulnerable to corrosion from within. What is the remedy? A. C. Grayling makes the case for a clear, consistent, principled, and written constitution, and sets out the reforms necessary-among them addressing the imbalance of power be ...Show more
Men at Work: Australia's Parenthood Trap by Annabel Crabb
$25.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
When New Zealand's prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, announced her pregnancy, the headlines raced around the world. But when Scott Morrison and Josh Frydenberg became the first prime minister and treasurer duo since the 1970s to take on their roles while bringing up young children, this detail passed larg ...Show more
Boys Will Be Boys - Power, patriarchy and the toxic bonds of mateship by Clementine Ford
$23.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Clementine Ford reports that one of the questions she is most asked in person and online is 'how do I raise my son to be a feminist? How do I make sure he's a supporter rather than a perpetrator?' That is a question that many parents with sons are haunted by. Now that Clem is mother to a baby boy of her ...Show more
Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez
$25.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
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
Three Women by Lisa Taddeo
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
All Lina wanted was to be desired. How did she end up in a marriage with two children and a husband who wouldn’t touch her? All Maggie wanted was to be understood. How did she end up in a relationship with her teacher and then in court, a hated pariah in her small town? All Sloane wanted was to be admir ...Show more
White Tears/Brown Scars by Ruby Hamad
$35.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought | Series: Social & Cultural history
When white people cry foul it is often people of colour who suffer. White tears have a potency that silences racial minorities. White Tears/Brown Scarsblows open the inconvenient truth that when it comes to race, white entitlement is too often masked by victimhood. Never is this more obvious than the de ...Show more