Inventing Peace: A Dialogue on Perception by Wim Wenders
$34.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Inventing Peace revolves around the question of how we look at the world, but do not see it when there is so much war, injustice, suffering and violence. What are the ethical and moral consequences of looking, but not seeing, and, most of all, what has become of the notion of peace in all this? In the f ...Show more
Tribes: We need you to lead us by Seth Godin
$30.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
The New York Times, BusinessWeek, and Wall Street Journal Bestseller that redefined what it means to be a leader. Since it was first published almost a decade ago, Seth Godin's visionary book has helped tens of thousands of leaders turn a scattering of followers into a loyal tribe. If you need to ra ...Show more
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell
$25.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Malcolm Gladwell's provocative new #1 bestseller -- now in paperback. Three thousand years ago on a battlefield in ancient Palestine, a shepherd boy felled a mighty warrior with nothing more than a pebble and a sling-and ever since, the names of David and Goliath have stood for battles between underdo ...Show more
Feminine Lost: Why Most Women Are Male by Jennifer Granger
$20.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Feminine Lost explores the premise that all human beings are constructed of two energies, one masculine and one feminine. With the rise of the feminist movement, many women have migrated to their masculine side, some to the extent of losing access to their feminine side altogether. As a consequence, men ...Show more
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
$27.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Around the world in Britain, the United States, Asia and the Middle East, there are people with power who are cashing in on chaos; exploiting bloodshed and catastrophe to brutally remake our world in their image. They are the shock doctors. Thrilling and revelatory, "The Shock Doctrine" cracks open the ...Show more
The Default Line: The Inside Story of People, Banks and Entire Nations on the Edge by Faisal Islam
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
How does the economy of a Western nation-state simply run out of money? Why did the London arm of a US corporation bet an amount more than the total GDP of the European Union on US housing? How can a banking system become so unregulated that it offers a gold credit card to a dog? For Channel 4's Editor ...Show more
Finding Your Element by Ken Robinson; Lou Aronica
$25.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
The New York Times bestselling author of The Element gives readers an inspirational and practical guide to self-improvement, happiness, creativity, and personal transformation. You, Your Child, and School is forthcoming from Viking. Sir Ken Robinson's TED talk video and groundbreaking book, The Elem ...Show more
Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Have you ever seen something that wasn't really there? Heard someone call your name in an empty house? Sensed someone following you and turned around to find nothing? Hallucinations don't belong wholly to the insane. Much more commonly, they are linked to sensory deprivation, intoxication, illness, or ...Show more
An Anthropologist on Mars - Seven Paradoxical Tales by Oliver W Sacks
$19.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought | Series: Vintage
Neurological patients, Oliver Sacks once wrote, are travellers to unimaginable lands. An Anthropologist on Mars offers portraits of seven such travellers - including a surgeon consumed by the compulsive tics of Tourette's syndrome unless he is operating; an artist who loses all sense of color in a car a ...Show more
Seeing Voices: A Journey into the World of the Deaf by Oliver W Sacks
$30.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Like The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, this is a fascinating voyage into a strange and wonderful land, a provocative meditation on communication, biology, adaptation, and culture.In Seeing Voices, Oliver Sacks turns his attention to the subject of deafness, and the result is a deeply felt portrait ...Show more
Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood by Oliver Sacks
$19.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Long before Oliver Sacks became a distinguished neurologist and bestselling writer, he was a small English boy fascinated by metals-also by chemical reactions (the louder and smellier the better), photography, squids and cuttlefish, H.G. Wells, and the periodic table. In this endlessly charming and eloq ...Show more
Awakenings by Oliver W Sacks
$30.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought | Series: Vintage
"Awakenings"--which inspired the major motion picture--is the remarkable story of a group of patients who contracted sleeping-sickness during the great epidemic just after World War I. Frozen for decades in a trance-like state, these men and women were given up as hopeless until 1969, when Dr. Oliver Sa ...Show more