Brief History of Thought: Philosophical by Luc Ferry
$26.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought | Series: Learning to Live Ser.
Eight months on the bestseller lists in France! From the timeless wisdom of the ancient Greeks to Christianity, the Enlightenment, existentialism, and postmodernism, Luc Ferry's instant classic brilliantly and accessibly explains the enduring teachings of philosophy--including its profound relevance to ...Show more
In the Dust of This Planet by Eugene Thacker
$26.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
The world is increasingly unthinkable, a world of planetary disasters, emerging pandemics, and the looming threat of extinction. In this book Eugene Thacker suggests that we look to the genre of horror as offering a way of thinking about the unthinkable world. To confront this idea is to confront the li ...Show more
Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone
$23.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
**Winner of the 2013 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award**Though Amazon.com started off delivering books through the mail, its visionary founder, Jeff Bezos, was never content with being just a bookseller. He wanted Amazon to become 'the everything store', offering limitles ...Show more
Swallow This : What the Food Industry Wants You to Eat by Joanna Blythman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
From the author of What to Eat and Shopped, a revelatory investigation into what really goes into the food we eat. Even with 25 years experience as a journalist and investigator of the food chain, Joanna Blythman still felt she had unanswered questions about the food we consume every day. How 'natural' ...Show more
One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacres in Norway by Asne Seierstad
$35.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
On 22 July 2011 Anders Behring Breivik killed 77 of his fellow Norwegians in a terrorist atrocity that shocked the world. Many were teenagers, just beginning their adult lives. In the devastating aftermath, the inevitable questions began. How could this happen? Why did it happen? And who was Anders Brei ...Show more
Blueprint for Revolution - How to Use Rice Pudding, Lego Men, and Other Non-violent Techniques to Galvanise Communities, Overthrow Dictators, Or Simply Change the World by Srdja Popovic
$28.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
How Do Ordinary People Become Revolutionaries? In 2000, too-cool-to-care Belgrade rock kid Srdja Popovic found himself at the centre of a movement which was about to change the world. Popovic was one of the unexpected leaders of the student movement Otpor! That overthrew dictator Slobodan Milosevic and ...Show more
Chasing the Scream - The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs by Johann Hari
$30.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
It is now 100 years since drugs were first banned. On the eve of this centenary, journalist Johann Hari set off on an epic three-year, 30,000-mile journey into the war on drugs to uncover its secrets - and he found that there is a startling gap between what we have been told and what is really going on. ...Show more
Legal Highs by Wensley Clarkson
$23.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Legal Highs are without doubt the biggest drug scourge to blight the world since recreational drugs first hit the streets more than 100 years ago. Their growing menace opens up a new front in the drug war, shifting the battle line from the Colombian jungles, Moroccan valleys, Afghan hills and the Winneb ...Show more
The Utopia of Rules - On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy by David Graeber
$33.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Where does the desire for endless rules, regulations, and bureaucracy come from? How did we come to spend so much of our time filling out forms? To answer these questions, anthropologist David Graeber - one of the most prominent and provocative thinkers working today - takes a journey through ancient an ...Show more
Fury - Women Write About Sex, Power and Violence by Samantha Trenoweth
$27.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
In Australia violence against women is a silent epidemic. By the age of 15 almost 20% of women have experienced sexual violence and more than one in three have experienced physical violence. One woman dies every week due to domestic violence in Australia. Violence against women is the leading contributo ...Show more
Art of Asking - How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help by Amanda Palmer
$30.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
NOW FEATURING POSTSCRIPT FROM MARIA POPOVA 'When we really see each other, we want to help each other' - Amanda Palmer Imagine standing on a box in the middle of a busy city, dressed as a white-faced bride, and silently using your eyes to ask people for money. Or touring Europe in a punk cabaret band, a ...Show more
Cowardice: A Brief History by Chris Walsh
$46.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Coward. It's a grave insult, likely to provoke anger, shame, even violence. But what exactly is cowardice? When terrorists are called cowards, does it mean the same as when the term is applied to soldiers? And what, if anything, does cowardice have to do with the rest of us? Bringing together sources fr ...Show more