Out There by Kerri Sackville
$29.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
The ultimate survival guide for dating in mid-life
Happiness Industry - How the Government and Big Business Sold Us Well-Being by William Davies
$29.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
In winter 2014, a Tibetan monk lectured the world leaders gathered at Davos on the importance of Happiness. In the recent DSM 5, the charter of all diagnosable mental illnesses for the first time included shyness and grief as treatable diseases. Happiness has become the biggest idea of ourage, a new rel ...Show more
Draw Your Weapons by Sarah Sentilles
$32.99 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
''How to live in the face of so much suffering? What difference can one person make in this beautiful, imperfect, and imperilled world?'' In Draw Your Weapons, Sarah Sentilles offers an impassioned defence of life lived by peace and principle. Through a dazzling combination of memoir, history, reportin ...Show more
Utopia Experiment by Dylan Evans
$29.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
In 2007 Dr Dylan Evans, a respected behavioural psychologist, and an expert on robots and artificial intelligence, was sectioned at a hospital in Aberdeen. The following morning he sat at breakfast with six other psychiatric inmates - one of whom was heavily tattooed and sporting bleeding knuckles - mus ...Show more
The Politics of the Common Good: Dispossession in Australia by Jane R. Goodall
$32.99 AUD
Category: Sociology | Series: Dispossession in Australia
`The Earth is a Common Treasury', proclaimed the English Revolutionaries in the 1640s. Does the principle of the commons offer us ways to respond now to the increasingly destructive effects of neoliberalism? With insight, passion and an eye on history, Jane Goodall argues that as the ravages of neo-libe ...Show more
Broken: Children, Parents and Family Courts by Camilla Nelson, Catharine Lumby
$32.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
A devastating account of how Australia's family courts fail children, families and victims of domestic abuseThe family courts intimately affect the lives of those who come before them. Judges can decide where you are allowed to live and work, which school your child can attend and whether you are even p ...Show more
The Case for Working with Your Hands: Or Why Office Work is Bad for Us and Fixing Things Feels Good by Matthew B. Crawford
$29.95 AUD
Category: Sociology
It's time to rethink our attitudes to work. For too long we have convinced ourselves that the only jobs worth doing involve sitting at a desk. Generations of school-leavers head for university lacking the skills to fix or even understand the most basic technology. And yet many of us are not suited to of ...Show more
The Lucky Country? Reinventing Australia by Ian Lowe
$29.95 AUD
Category: Sociology
"Can we reinvent The Lucky Country? In 1964, Donald Horne described Australia as 'a lucky country run mainly by second-rate people who share its luck' in his iconic book.a Now, more than five decades later, internationally respected scientist and environmentalist Ian Lowe shows that little has changed a ...Show more
Alchemy by Kate Forsyth
$49.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
When a bestselling author and a much-esteemed painter meet at a party, they soon cook up the idea to collaborate and make a book about the life cycle of a woman... Two brilliant artists get together and plan a dramatic book in words and images about the twists and turns in the life cycle of a woman. Fr ...Show more
Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future by Paul Mason
$49.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
Over the past two centuries or so, capitalism has undergone continual change - economic cycles that lurch from boom to bust - and has always emerged transformed and strengthened. Surveying this turbulent history, Paul Mason wonders whether today we are on the brink of a change so big, so profound, that ...Show more
Politics in Minutes by Marcus Weeks
$22.99 AUD
Category: Sociology | Series: In Minutes
Quick, accessible, compact guide to understanding key political concepts. Contents include: Liberty, Justice, Equality, Human rights, Social contract, Democracy, Monarchy, Anarchism, Capitalism, Socialism, Nationalism and Globalisation.
WIN, WIN - When Business Works for Women, It Works for Everyone by Joanne Lipman
$32.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
Going beyond the message of Lean In and The Confidence Code, the editor in chief of the USA Today Network contends that to achieve parity in the office, women don't have to change-men do-and in this inclusive and realistic handbook, offers solutions to help professionals solve gender gap issues and achi ...Show more