Cynical Theories by Helen Pluckrose and James A. Lindsay
$29.99 AUD
Category: SOCIETY AND CULTURE
'Exposes the surprisingly shallow intellectual roots of the movements that appear to be engulfing our culture' - Steven PinkerHave you heard that language is violence and that science is sexist? Have you read that certain people shouldn't practise yoga or cook Chinese food? Or been told that being obese ...Show more
Nomadland by Jessica Bruder
$22.99 AUD
Category: SOCIETY AND CULTURE
The inspiration for the film 'Nomadland' starring Frances McDormand. From the beet fields of North Dakota to the campgrounds of California to Amazon's CamperForce program in Texas, employers have discovered a new, low-cost labour pool, made up largely of transient older adults. These invisible casualti ...Show more
Australia's Second Chance by George Megalogenis
$24.99 AUD
Category: SOCIETY AND CULTURE | Reading Level: General Adult
Most nations don't get a first chance to prosper. Australia is on its second. For the best part of the nineteenth century, Australia was the world's richest country, a pioneer for democracy and a magnet for migrants. Yet our last big boom was followed by a fifty-year bust as we lost our luck, our riches ...Show more
Wake up: Why the World Has Gone Nuts by Piers Morgan
$34.99 AUD
Category: SOCIETY AND CULTURE
'The biggest threat to our freedom in the 21st century isn't coronavirus but hysterically woke liberals trying to kill democracy by suppressing free speech. 'This is my clarion call, as a liberal myself, for them to stop screaming, shaming and cancelling everyone they disagree with, and start being par ...Show more
In the Shadow of Man by Jane Goodall
$24.99 AUD
Category: SOCIETY AND CULTURE
World-renowned primatologist, conservationist, and humanitarian Dr. Jane Goodall's account of her life among the wild chimpanzees of Gombe is one of the most enthralling stories of animal behavior ever written. Her adventure began when the famous anthropologist Dr. Louis Leakey suggested that a long-ter ...Show more
Dopesick: Dealers Doctors and the Drug Company That Addicted America by Beth Macy
$32.99 AUD
Category: SOCIETY AND CULTURE | Reading Level: very good
'A shocking investigation ... [Dopesick] is essential' The Times. Beth Macy takes us into the heart of America's struggle with opioid addiction. From distressed small communities in Central Appalachia to wealthy suburbs and once-idyllic farm towns, this powerful and moving story illustrates how a nation ...Show more
The Disappearance of Lydia Harvey (HB) - One Trial, Six Lives and the Dawn of the Twentieth Century by Julia Laite
$34.99 AUD
Category: SOCIETY AND CULTURE
An immersive historical account of a fascinating and important untold story.
Australia Reimagined: Towards a More Compassionate, Less Anxious Society by Hugh Mackay
$19.99 AUD
Category: SOCIETY AND CULTURE
'When it comes to our future, misplaced optimism is as dangerous as blind faith. What is needed is the courage to face the way things are, and the wisdom and imagination to work out how to make things better.'Australia's unprecedented run of economic growth has failed to deliver a more stable or harmoni ...Show more
She Speaks - Women's Speeches That Changed the World, from Pankhurst to Greta by Yvette Cooper
$19.99 AUD
Category: SOCIETY AND CULTURE
A powerful celebration of brilliant speeches by women throughout the ages, from Emmeline Pankhurst to Greta Thunberg. 'A treasure trove of trailblazers' - Cathy Newman Looking at lists of the greatest speeches of all time, you might think that powerful oratory is the preserve of men. But the truth is ...Show more
The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty by Daron Acemoglu
$26.99 AUD
Category: SOCIETY AND CULTURE
From the authors of the international bestseller Why Nations Fail, a crucial new big-picture framework that answers the question of how liberty flourishes in some states but falls to authoritarianism or anarchy in others--and explains how it can continue to thrive despite new threats. In Why Nations ...Show more
Strangers to Ourselves: Stories of Unsettled Minds by Rachel Aviv
$35.00 AUD
Category: SOCIETY AND CULTURE
We place a great deal of trust in the medical system. But does a mental health diagnosis have the power to perpetuate, or even create, symptoms as its subject adapts to live within it? Is there another way of talking about their experience? And are patients being truly heard? In an attempt to answer t ...Show more
Wealth Supremacy: How the Extractive Economy and the Biased Rules of Capitalism Drive Today's Crises by MARJORIE KELLY
$55.00 AUD
Category: SOCIETY AND CULTURE
A powerful analysis of how the bias towards wealth that is woven into the very fabric of American capitalism is damaging people, the economy, and the planet, and what the foundations of a new economy could be. This bold manifesto exposes seven myths underlying wealth supremacy, the bias that institutio ...Show more