The Helen One Hundred: 100 Dates in Less Than a Year by Helen Razer
$29.99 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
A hundred dates in less than a year. Will they heal her broken heart or make it worse? Brilliant, hilarious and excruciating confessions from bestselling writer and journalist Helen Razer.
The Weather Obsession by Lawrie Zion
$29.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
We have come a long way since the days when weather information could only be found in the back pages of newspapers. The Weather Obsession takes the temperature of modern weather media and investigates how it has fuelled our fascination with all things climatic. Weather information now pervades everythi ...Show more
Democracy and its Crisis by A C Grayling
$34.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic | Reading Level: good-very good
Prompted by the EU referendum in the UK and the presidential election in the USA, A. C. Grayling investigates why the institutions of representative democracy seem unable to hold up against forces they were designed to manage, and why, crucially, it matters. First he considers moments in history - Peric ...Show more
Inferior: - How Science Got Women Wrong - and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story by Angela Saini
$29.99 AUD
Category: Sociology | Reading Level: good
From intelligence to emotion, for centuries science has told us that men and women are fundamentally different. But this is not the whole story. Shedding light on controversial research and investigating the ferocious gender wars in biology, psychology and anthropology, Angela Saini takes readers on an ...Show more
#Single: Dating in the 21st Century by Lost the Plot
$16.99 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
This book is a must read if you match any of the following criteria: You are currently online dating. You have online dated. You will online date in your future. You are a smug couple. You worry your child is a spinster/bachelor for life. You like to laugh. You are a Jewish mother. You like to breathe a ...Show more
Far and Away by Andrew Solomon
$27.99 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
In 1991 Andrew Solomon faced down tanks in Moscow with a band of Russian artists protesting the August coup. We find him on the quest for a rare bird in Zambia in 1998, and in Greenland in 2001 researching widespread depression among the Inuit. In 2002 he was in Afghanistan for the fall of the Taliban. ...Show more
The Rub of Time - Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump and Other Pieces 1986-2016 by Martin Amis
$35.00 AUD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
Of all the great novelists writing today, none shows the same gift as Martin Amis for writing non-fiction - his essays, literary criticism and journalism are justly acclaimed. The Rub of Time comprises superb critical pieces on Amis's heroes Nabokov, Bellow and Larkin to brilliantly funny ruminations on ...Show more
The Euro: And its Threat to the Future of Europe by Joseph Stiglitz
$22.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
Designed to bring Europe closer together, the euro has actually done the opposite: after nearly a decade without growth, unity has been replaced with dissent and enlargements with prospective exits. Joseph Stiglitz argues that Europe's stagnation and bleak outlook are a direct result of the fundamental ...Show more
Distraction: A Philosopher's Guide to Being Free by Damon Young
$27.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
We all know what it is to be distracted - a feeling that our attention is not quite where it should be. While it is not a new complaint, modern life is plagued by distractions. At work and at home, in relationships and in the bedroom, our attention is often torn between one thing and another. What does ...Show more
The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed the World by Michael Lewis
$24.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Bestselling author Michael Lewis examines how a Nobel Prize-winning theory of the mind altered our perception of reality--now available at a great value Forty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of breathtakingly original studies undoing our assumptions abo ...Show more
Global Discontents: Conversations on the Rising Threats to Democracy by Noam Chomsky
$29.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
What kind of world are we leaving to our grandchildren? How are the discontents kindled today likely to blaze and explode tomorrow? From escalating climate change to the devastation in Syria, pandemic state surveillance to looming nuclear war, Noam Chomsky takes stock of the world today. Over the course ...Show more
Pleasure To Be Here: Best of Clarke and Dawe by John Clarke
$29.99 AUD
Category: Essays
Drawn from John Clarke?s and Bryan Dawe?s weekly broadcasts, these timelessly funny scripts will delight readers as they revisit the scandals and stuff-ups of our lifetimes. Politics was never so preposterous. All the old favourites are here- Bob Hawke, Margaret Thatcher, Bob Collins ('the front fell of ...Show more