Downfall : How the Labor Party Ripped Itself Apart by Aaron Patrick
$29.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
It's the biggest and most puzzling story in Australian politics: how did the Australian Labor Party go from a thumping win in 2007 to facing annihilation in the forthcoming election? Other books have pointed to a lack of coherent policies and an over-reliance on polls--all true--but as this book makes c ...Show more
For God's Sake by Jane Caro, Anthony Loewenstein, Simon Smart & Rachel Woodlock
$32.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Four of Australia's most interesting religious - and anti-religious - thinkers come together to ask and answer the big questions, such as: What is the nature of the universe? What is a good life? How do we account for evil? and Where do we find hope? Along the way we are introduced to the detail of diff ...Show more
Bad Pharma - How Medicine is Broken and How We Can Fix It by Ben Goldacre
$19.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
'Bad Science' hilariously exposed the tricks that quacks and journalists use to distort science, becoming a 400,000 copy bestseller. Now Ben Goldacre puts the $600bn global pharmaceutical industry under the microscope. What he reveals is a fascinating, terrifying mess. Doctors and patients need good sci ...Show more
Out of the Mountains by David Kilcullen
$32.95 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
In his third book, David Kilcullen takes us out of the mountains: away from the remote, rural guerrilla warfare of Afghanistan, and into the marginalised slums and complex security threats of the world's coastal cities, where almost 75 per cent of us will be living by mid-century.
North Korea Undercover by John Sweeney
$34.95 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
Award-winning BBC journalist John Sweeney is one of the few to have witnessed at first hand the devastating reality of life in the controversial and isolated nation of North Korea. Posing as a university professor, Sweeney went undercover to gain unprecedented access to the world's most secret state. He ...Show more
Life Lessons from Kierkegaard - The School of Life by Robert Ferguson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Soren Kierkegaard was a Danish philosopher, theologian, literary stylist and social critic. Born in 1813 in Copenhagen, his philosophical work addressed living as a single individual and the importance of personal choice. A famously fierce critic of the idealist thinkers of his time, he is regarded as t ...Show more
The Anarchical Society: A Study of Order in World Politics by BULL, HEDLEY
$53.95 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
This Book Will Make You Think: Philosophical Quotes and What They Mean by Alain Stephen
$24.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy
We may have heard of Socrates, Plato, Descartes and Nietzsche, but what did they believe? What were their famous aphorisms? This Book Will Make You Think: Philosophical Quotes and What They Mean explains as simply as possible the ideas behind the world's most highly regarded philosophers, examining thei ...Show more
Sweet Spot: How Australia Made Its Own Luck - And Could Now Throw It All Away The by Peter Hartcher
$19.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
This book will change the way you think about your country... Australians now officially have the best living conditions in the world. Our country is both fair and free - and the only developed nation to have avoided a recession in the past twenty years. So how did it happen and why don't we care? In ...Show more
The World Until Yesterday - What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? by Jared Diamond
$26.99 AUD
Category: Sociology | Reading Level: near fine
The no. 1 bestselling author of Collapse and Guns, Germs and Steel explores the profound lessons that traditional societies offer us today. Over the past 500 years, the West achieved global dominance, but do Westerners necessarily have better ideas about how to raise children, care for the elderly, or s ...Show more