Art of Belonging by Hugh Mackay
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
The eternal question 'Who am I?' must be weighed against an even deeper question: 'Who are we?' We are writing each other's stories as much as we are writing our own. In his bestselling book, The Good Life, Hugh Mackay argued that kindness and respect for others are the hallmarks of a life well lived. N ...Show more
Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalisation of Democracy by Francis Fukuyama
$49.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
In The Origins of Political Order, Francis Fukuyama took us from the dawn of mankind to the French and American Revolutions. Here, he picks up the thread again in the second instalment of his definitive account of mankind's emergence as a political animal.This is the story of how state, law and democrac ...Show more
Wife Drought by Annabel Crabb
$34.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
'I need a wife' It's a common joke among women juggling work and family. But it's not actually a joke. Having a spouse who takes care of things at home is a Godsend on the domestic front. It's a potent economic asset on the work front. And it's an advantage enjoyed - even in our modern society - by vast ...Show more
How We Learn: The Aspiring Slacker's Guide to the Science of Learning by Benedict Carey
$30.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
This book will help you to learn Spanish - or the Spanish guitar - faster. This book will give an athlete the edge to turn Silver into Gold. This book will give any child the chance to perform better in exams. Full stop. How We Learn is a landmark book that shakes up everything we thought we knew about ...Show more
Plato and A Platypus Walk into A Bar: Understanding Philosphy Through Jokes by Thomas Cathcart
$25.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
This New York Times bestseller is the hilarious philosophy course everyone wishes they'd had in school Outrageously funny, Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar has been a breakout bestseller ever since authors - and born vaudevillians - Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein did their schtick on NPR's "Weeken ...Show more
This Changes Everything - Capitalism vs the Climate by Naomi Klein
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Forget everything you think you know about global warming. It's not about carbon - it's about capitalism. The good news is that we can seize this crisis to transform our failed economic system and build something radically better. In her most provocative book yet, Naomi Klein, author of the global bests ...Show more
Class Act by Maxine McKew
$20.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Through a series of conversations and case studies Maxine McKew documents the transformation that's now underway in classrooms around Australia and examines the strategies that are helping to lift academic performance, particularly in some of Australia's most challenged schools. Class Act invites reflec ...Show more
On the Map : Why the World Looks the Way it Does by Simon Garfield
$23.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Maps fascinate us. They chart our understanding of the world and they log our progress, but above all they tell our stories. From the early sketches of philosophers and explorers through to Google Maps and beyond, Simon Garfield examines how maps both relate and realign our history. With a historical sw ...Show more
The Big Switch by CARR
$33.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
In this eye-opening look at the new computer revolution and its consequences, Nicholas Carr explains why computing is changing and what this means for all of us.A hundred years ago, companies stopped producing their own power and plugged into the newly built electric grid. The cheap power pumped out by ...Show more
Are Men Obsolete? You Decide by Caitlin Moran
$19.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
"Men are so last century. They seem to have stopped evolving. The Mad Men world is disappearing and the guys are struggling to figure out the altered parameters of manliness". (Maureen Dowd). "Do women get anything from men being obsolete? Do we win by triumphing in work, education, the economy, politi ...Show more
Feral: Searching for Enchantment on the Frontiers of Rewilding by George Monbiot
$23.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
How many of us sometimes feel that we are scratching at the walls of this life, seeking to find our way into a wider space beyond? That our mild, polite existence sometimes seems to crush the breath out of us?Feralis the lyrical and gripping story of George Monbiot's efforts to re-engage with nature and ...Show more
The Seasons: An Elegy for the Passing of the Year by Nick Groom
$45.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
For millennia, the passing seasons and their rhythms have marked our progress through the year. But what do they mean to us now that we lead increasingly atomised and urban lives and our weather becomes ever more unpredictable or extreme? Will it matter if we no longer hear, even notice, the first cucko ...Show more