Now or Never: A Sustainable Future for Australia? by Tim Flannery
$22.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Now or Neveris an essential book about the most urgent issue of our time- climate change. In it, Tim Flannery begins by discussing the idea of sustainability and asks whether humanity can rise to this challenge. He brings to life the latest climate science and its implications. And he discusses in fasci ...Show more
Cradle to Cradle - Re-making the way we make things by Michael Braungart; William McDonough
$24.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
"Reduce, reuse, recycle' urge environmentalists; in other words, do more with less in order to minimize damage. But as architect William McDonough and chemist Michael Braungart point out in this provocative, visionary book, this approach only perpetuates the one-way, 'cradle to grave' manufacturing mode ...Show more
The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead by Richard Alpert
$24.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"The Psychedelic Experience", created by the prophetic shaman-professors Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzer and Richard Alpert, is a foundational text that serves as a model and a guide for all subsequent mind-expanding inquiries. In this wholly unique book, the authors provide an interpretation of an ancient ...Show more
A Plea for Eros by Siri Hustvedt
$24.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
A collection of essays, which addresses many of the themes explored in the author's novels - identity, sexual attraction, relationships, family, mental illness, the power of the imagination, a sense of belonging and mortality. In three cases, it focuses on the novels of other writers - Dickens, James an ...Show more
The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pick-up Artists by Neil Strauss
$34.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Nothing you have heard about The Game will prepare you for it. Neil Strauss reveals the bizarre world of the pick-up artist - men who devote their lives to mastering the techniques of seducing women. None of this is fiction. These men have their own vernacular and codes of honour, they trade strategies ...Show more
Affluenza: When too much is never enough by Clive Hamilton, Richard Denniss
$24.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Anyone concerned about the level of their personal debt or frustrated by the rat race of aspiring to an affluent lifestyle will appreciate this critique of the effects of over-consumption. This analysis pulls no punches as it describes both the problem and what can be done to stop it. Analyzing the incr ...Show more
Status Anxiety by Alain De Botton
$28.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
In Status Anxiety, bestselling author Alain de Botton sets out to understand our universal fear of failure - and how we might change. We all worry about what others think of us. We all long to succeed and fear failure. We all suffer - to a greater or lesser degree, usually privately and with embarrassme ...Show more
The Official Fahrenheit 9/11 Reader by Michael Moore
$24.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Bush-blasting, box-office-busting, Oscar-storming: Mike's turning up the heat . . .Fahrenheit 9/11 is the scorching cinema sensation that's sent waves of shock and awe across the globe. Now you can get the facts behind the most talked about film of the year. Here Mike gives you the full, explosive trans ...Show more
The Screwtape Letters by Lewis, C.S.
$18.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
This narrative takes the form of a series of letters from Screwtape, a devil high in the Infernal Civil Service, to his nephew Wormwood, a junior colleague engaged in his first mission on Earth, trying to secure the damnation of a young man who has just become a Christian.
The First Stone: Some Questions About Sex and Power by Helen Garner
$22.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
In the autumn of 1992, two young women students at Melbourne University went to the police claiming that they had been indecently assaulted at a party. The man they accused was the head of their co-ed residential college. The shock of these charges split the community and painfully focused the debate ...Show more
This is Not the End of the Book - Two great men discuss our digital future by Umberto Eco & Jean-Claude Carrière
$32.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought