The Way We Are: Lessons from a lifetime of listening by Hugh Mackay
$34.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
Australia's leading social psychologist examines our society today and asks timely and urgent questions about its future Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain.Yet none of our differences-whether based on ethnicity, politics, religion,cultural tastes and preferences, or gender ...Show more
Not Just Lucky by Jamila Rizvi
$35.00 AUD
Category: Sociology
'Feisty and inquisitive - a fresh take on modern feminist issues.' Julia GillardAustralian women are suffering from a crisis of confidence about work. Accustomed to being overlooked and undervalued, even when women do get to the top, they explain their success away as 'luck'. But it's not.Not Just Lucky ...Show more
The Truth About Crypto: A Practical, Easy-to-Understand Guide to Bitcoin, Blockchain, NFTs, and Other Digital Assets by Ric Edelman
$32.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
A straightforward, practical guide to the newest frontier in investment strategy--crypto--from #1 New York Times bestselling author and personal finance expert Ric Edelman.Blockchain and bitcoin are here to stay--and as the Bank of England stated, this new technology could transform the global financial ...Show more
The Shakespeare and Company Book of Interviews by Adam Biles (Editor)
$39.99 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
An illuminating collection of interviews between the prestigious Shakespeare and Company and the best writers of our time Shakespeare and Company, Paris, is one of the world's most iconic and beautiful bookshops. Located on the banks of the Seine, opposite Notre-Dame, it's long been a meeting place for ...Show more
Dark Emu : Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture by Bruce Pascoe
$27.99 AUD
Category: Chat10Looks3 Recommendations | Reading Level: very good
Dark Emu argues for a reconsideration of the 'hunter-gatherer' tag for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians and attempts to rebut the colonial myths that have worked to justify dispossession. Accomplished author Bruce Pascoe provides compelling evidence from the diaries of early explorers that suggests t ...Show more
The School of Life: Collected Essays by The School of Life
$55.00 AUD
Category: Essays
A 15th anniversary collection of The School of Life's most popular andessential essays on self-knowledge, relationships, work and culture. The School of Life is an organisation with a focused mission at its heart: to help foster calm, self-understanding and greater emotional maturity. Over 15 years, we ...Show more
Fix the System, Not the Women by Laura Bates
$24.99 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
*PRE-ORDER NOW* WITH A BRAND-NEW CHAPTER 'Get your daughters to read this, but only after your partners and sons have finished it’ Jo Brand 'An astute and persuasive page-turner' Observer _____________________________________________________ Too often, we blame women. For walking home alone at night. ...Show more
The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity and Love in our Digital Age by Danielle Keats Citron
$35.00 AUD
Category: Sociology
'Devastating and urgent, this book could not be more timely' Caroline Criado Perez Danielle Citron takes the conversation about technology and privacy out of the boardrooms and op-eds to reach readers where we are - in our bathrooms and bedrooms; with our families and our lovers; in all the parts of our ...Show more
Cryptocurrency (WIRED guides): How Digital Money Could Transform Finance by Volpicelli Gian
$19.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
The everything-you-need-to-know WIRED guide to cryptocurrencyThe past decade has seen the relentless rise of cryptocurrency as an alternative form of digital currency. But what precisely is it and what potential does it have to change the world of money? In this brilliantly clear, one-stop guide WIRED S ...Show more
Sapiens A Graphic History, Volume 2: The Pillars of Civilization by Yuval Noah Harari
$39.99 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
The second volume of an epic, beautifully illustrated graphic history of humankind, based on Yuval Noah Harari's internationally bestselling phenomenon. When nomadic Homo sapiens settled to live in one place, they started working harder and harder. But why didn't they get a better life in return? In Th ...Show more
Songlines: The Power and Promise (First Knowledges) by Margo Neale, Lynne Kelly
$24.99 AUD
Category: Sociology | Series: First Knowledges
Songlines are an archive for powerful knowledges that ensured Australia's many Indigenous cultures flourished for over 60,000 years. Much more than a navigational path in the cartographic sense, these vast and robust stores of information are encoded through song, story, dance, art and ceremony, rather ...Show more
Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence: The Hidden Driver of Excellence by Daniel Goleman
$22.99 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
For more than two decades, psychologist and journalist Daniel Goleman has been scouting the leading edge of the human sciences for what's new, surprising, and important. In Focus, he delves into the science of attention in all its varieties, presenting a long overdue discussion of this little-noticed an ...Show more