Men at Work: Australia's Parenthood Trap by Annabel Crabb
$22.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
When New Zealand's prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, announced her pregnancy, the headlines raced around the world. But when Scott Morrison and Josh Frydenberg became the first prime minister and treasurer duo since the 1970s to take on their roles while bringing up young children, this detail passed larg ...Show more
My Promised Land - The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel by Ari Shavit
$35.00 AUD
Category: Sociology | Reading Level: very good
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND THE ECONOMISTWinner of the Natan Book Award, the National Jewish Book Award, and the Anisfield-Wolf Book AwardAn authoritative and deeply personal narrative history of the State of Israel, by one of ...Show more
Farmageddon - The True Cost of Cheap Meat by Philip Lymbery
$19.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
Farm animals have been disappearing from our fields as the production of food has become a global industry. We no longer know for certain what is entering the food chain and what we are eating - as the UK horsemeat scandal demonstrated. We are reaching a tipping point as the farming revolution threatens ...Show more
The Museum of Broken Relationships (HB) by Olinka Vistica
$39.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
When Olinka Vistica and Drazen Grubisic split up, they did what no separated couple had ever done before - they set up a museum dedicated to mementos of love, and the touching, often humorous stories of how that love developed. And how it ended. The Museum of Broken Relationships, in the Old Town of Za ...Show more
One: Valuing the Single Life by Clare Payne
$19.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
More adults than ever before are now living alone-one quarter of all households in Australia are currently single-person households. They are forging new ways of having contented and connected lives.Onegives insight to the once maligned and now increasingly chosen status of being single. It is an inspir ...Show more
Ecological Intelligence: The Coming Age of Radical Transparency by Daniel Goleman
$27.99 AUD
Category: Sociology | Reading Level: very good
Although we all want to help the environment, our knowledge of what are 'green' choices is often so limited that we can do more harm than good. This book shows you: Why a T-shirt that claims it is '100% organic cotton' may be in fact no such thing; and, Why it's good to buy tulips from Kenya and wine fr ...Show more
The Death of Expertise : The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters by Tom Nichols
$30.95 AUD
Category: Sociology
Technology and increasing levels of education have exposed people to more information than ever before. These societal gains, however, have also helped fuel a surge in narcissistic and misguided intellectual egalitarianism that has crippled informed debates on any number of issues. Today, everyone knows ...Show more
The Idea of Australia: A search for the soul of the nation by Julianne Schultz
$34.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
Publisher of Griffith Review, Professor Julianne Schultz challenges our notions of what it means to be Australian and asks timely and urgent questions about our national identity. Maybe because Australia has been so rich for so long, complacency and entitlement, rather than innovation and aspiration ha ...Show more
Gen F'd?: How Young Australians Can Reclaim Their Uncertain Futures by Alison Pennington
$24.99 AUD
Category: Sociology | Series: The\Crikey Read Ser.
In Gen F-d?, economist Alison Pennington shows how the most educated generation in Australia's history stands to be the first generation worse off than their parents, and gives young people the tools to create the change we need. This is the fifth book in The Crikey Read series from Crikey and Hardie G ...Show more
I Think You'll Find it's a Bit More Complicated Than That by Ben Goldacre
$19.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
The very best journalism from one of Britain's most admired and outspoken science writers, author of the bestselling Bad Science and Bad Pharma. In Bad Science, Ben Goldacre hilariously exposed the tricks that quacks and journalists use to distort science. In Bad Pharma, he put the $600 billion global p ...Show more
The Prisoner by Kerry Tucker
$34.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
Kerry Tucker seemed to be a typical suburban mother of two, but she was harbouring a terrible secret- over the years she had stolen $2 million from her employers.When her crime was discovered she was sentenced to seven years at a maximum-security prison, alongside some of Victoria's most notorious crimi ...Show more
Digital Ape How to Live (in Peace) with Smart Machines by Nigel;Hampson Shadbolt
$32.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
How smart machines are transforming us all - and what we should do about it. The smart machines revolution is re-shaping our lives and our societies. Here, Shadbolt and Hampson - Britain's pre-eminent authorities on AI - dispel terror, confusion, and misconception by demonstrating that we are not about ...Show more