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
The Dark Net by Jamie Bartlett
$35.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
The online world most of us inhabit represents only a small fraction of the internet. Beyond Google and commercial web browsers lies a parallel universe, a 'deep web' twenty-five times larger than the surface web: a world of private chat rooms, second lives and anonymous markets; places where people str ...Show more
Microelectronics and societya report to the Club of Rome by Club of Rome
$20.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness by Rebecca Solnit
$50.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
The incomparable Rebecca Solnit, author of more than a dozen acclaimed books of nonfiction, brings the same dazzling writing to the twenty-nine essays in The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness. As the title suggests, the territory of Solnit’s concerns is vast, and in her signature alchemical style ...Show more
Iconoclast by Berns - HBP
$21.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
No organization can survive without iconoclasts - innovators who single-handedly upturn conventional wisdom and manage to achieve what so many others deem impossible. Though indispensable, true iconoclasts are few and far between. In "Iconoclast", neuroscientist Gregory Berns explains why. He explores t ...Show more
Trouble in Paradise by Slavoj Zizek
$39.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
In Trouble in Paradise, Slavoj Zizek, one of our most famous, most combative philosophers, explains how by drawing on the ideas of communism, we can find a way out of the crisis of capitalism. There is obviously trouble in the global capitalist paradise. But why do we find it so difficult to imagine a w ...Show more
The Islamist Phoenix - The islamic State and the Redrawing of the Middle East by Loretta Napoleoni
$20.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
A timely, piercing study of the Islamic State, as its rise to prominence and domination of Middle Eastern politics, is explained in revealing detail by economist and bestselling author Loretta Napoleoni. Napoleoni illuminates the singularity of IS and how it differs from other jihadist organisations, pa ...Show more
Internet is Not the Answer by Andrew Keen
$30.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
The worldwide web is now a quarter of a century old. Invented in 1989, there can be no doubt that the web, and the new businesses it has enabled, has transformed the world. But, according to Andrew Keen, this disruption has been a terrible failure. In The Internet is not the Answer, Keen has written a ...Show more
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-ravaged Hospital by Sheri Fink
$21.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
"In the tradition of the best writing on human behaviour and moral choices in the face of disaster, physician and reporter Sheri Fink reconstructs five days at New Orleans' Memorial Medical Center during Hurricane Katrina and draws the reader into the lives of those who struggled mightily to survive and ...Show more