Wilful Blindness - Why We Ignore the Obvious by Margaret Heffernan
$22.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Why, after every major accident and blunder, do we look back and ask, how could we have been so blind? Why do some people see what others don't? And how can we change? Drawing on studies by psychologists and neuroscientists, and from interviews with business leaders, whistleblowers and white collar crim ...Show more
Impeach: The Case Against Donald Trump by Neal Katyal; Sam Koppelman
$22.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
What is impeachment? How does it work? And why is it so urgent to impeach Donald Trump? In this clear and direct book, celebrated Supreme Court lawyer and former Acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal explains what impeachment is, why it's in the U.S. constitution and why Donald Trump has left Congress an ...Show more
The Story of More by Hope Jahren
$22.99 AUD
Category: Sustainability/Environment
Hope Jahren is an award-winning geobiologist, a brilliant writer, an inspiring teacher, and one of the seven billion people with whom we share this earth. In The Story of More, Jahren illuminates the link between human consumption habits and our imperiled planet. In short, highly readable chapters, she ...Show more
How to be a Fascist by Michela Murgia
$16.99 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
How fascist are you? A sharp, provocative conversation-starter about the authoritarian in all of us.
Eat Like The Animals by David Raubenheimer; Stephen J. Simpson
$35.00 AUD
Category: Essays
Our evolutionary ancestors once possessed the ability to intuit what food their bodies needed, in what proportions, and ate the right things in the proper amounts--effortlessly balanced. When and why did we lose this ability, and how can we get it back? David Raubenheimer and Stephen Simpson answer the ...Show more
Waleed Aly (I Know This to Be True): On Sincerity, Compassion and Integrity by Waleed Aly; Geoff Blackwell
$17.99 AUD
Category: Essays | Series: I Know This to be True | Reading Level: new
One of Australia's leading commentators on national and international issues, Waleed Aly answers fundamental questions about leadership and what really matters to him. Waleed Aly is an Australian broadcaster, journalist, academic and musician. As co-host of The Project, a daily primetime television news ...Show more
Greta Thunberg (I Know This to Be True): On Truth, Courage and Saving Our Planet by Geoff Blackwell; Greta Thunberg
$17.99 AUD
Category: Essays | Series: I KNOW THIS TO BE TRUE
One of the leading contemporary voices on climate change, Greta Thunberg answers fundamental questions about leadership and what really matters to her.
The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity by Toby Ord
$29.99 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
Humanity stands at a precipice. We live at a time of unprecedented innovation. Technology is accelerating faster than at any point in history, granting us ever greater power, and creating ever greater risk. In the twentieth century, we developed the means to destroy ourselves o without developing the mo ...Show more
The Dragons and the Snakes: How the Rest Learned to Fight the West by David Kilcullen
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
Soldier-scholar David Kilcullen shows what opponents of the West have learned during the last quarter-century of conflict. Just a few years ago, people spoke of the US as a hyperpower -- a titan stalking the world stage with more relative power than any empire in history. Yet as early as 1993, newly ap ...Show more
The Good State - On the Principles of Democracy by A C Grayling
$34.99 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues | Reading Level: very good
The foundations upon which our democracies stand are inherently flawed, vulnerable to corrosion from within. What is the remedy? A. C. Grayling makes the case for a clear, consistent, principled and written constitution, and sets out the reforms necessary - among them addressing the imbalance of power ...Show more
Explaining Humans - What Science Can Teach Us about Life, Love and Relationships by Camilla Pang
$32.99 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
Diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder at the age of eight, Dr Camilla Pang struggled to understand the world around her. Desperate for a solution, Camilla asked her mother if there was an instruction manual for humans that she could consult. But, without the blueprint to life she was hoping for, Camil ...Show more
This Could Be Our Future: A Manifesto for a More Generous World by Yancey Strickler
$29.99 AUD
Category: Essays
Break free from a wealth-obsessed worldWestern society is trapped by three assumptions: 1) the point of life is to maximize your self-interest and wealth, 2) we're individuals trapped in an adversarial world, and 3) that this path is inevitable. These ideas separate us, keep us powerless, and limit our ...Show more