The Four Horsemen: Dawkins, Harris, Dennett & Hitchens by Richard Dawkins; Daniel C. Dennett; Sam Harris; Christopher Hitchens
$24.99 AUD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
Known as the 'four horsemen' of New Atheism, these four big thinkers of the twenty-first century met only once. Their electrifying examination of ideas on this remarkable occasion was intense and wide-ranging. Everything that was said as they agreed and disagreed with one another, interrogated ideas an ...Show more
Aftershocks - Selected Writings and Interviews by Anthony Macris
$29.99 AUD
Category: Essays
Hand to Mouth : The Truth About Being Poor in a Wealthy World by Linda Tirado
$32.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
Linda Tirado knows from experience what it is to be poor, to struggle to make ends meet. She was working all hours at two jobs - as a food service worker in a chain restaurant and as a voting rights activist at a non-profit organization - to support her young family. She knows what it's like to have pro ...Show more
The Internet is Not the Answer by Andrew Keen
$22.99 AUD
Category: Essays
"In this sharp and witty book, long-time Silicon Valley observer and author Andrew Keen argues that, on balance, the Internet has had a disastrous impact on all our lives. By tracing the history of the Internet, from its founding in the 1960s to the creation of the World Wide Web in 1989, through the wa ...Show more
Planet Jackson - Power, greed & unions by Brad Norington
$29.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
Kathy Jackson was hailed as a heroine for blowing the whistle on the million-dollar fraud of Michael Williamson, the corrupt boss of the Health Services Union. While remaining steadfast in this very public ordeal, she endured bitter personal attacks from enemies in the Labor Party and the union movement ...Show more
Peak Reinventing Middle Age by Patricia Edgar
$32.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
Society is changing faster than policies and attitudes are keeping up with. People are living longer, retiring from work later, and remaining active and valuable contributors to the community well into and beyond their 50s and 60s. Peak- Reinventing Middle Age focuses on Australians in the 50-75 age bra ...Show more
Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces 2004-2021 by Margaret Atwood
$42.99 AUD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: near fine
From cultural icon Margaret Atwood comes a brilliant collection of essays - funny, erudite, endlessly curious, uncannily prescient - which seek answers to Burning Questions such as; Why do people everywhere, in all cultures, tell stories? How much of yourself can you give away without evaporating? How c ...Show more
Man Alone with Himself by Friedrich Nietzsche
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Great Ideas | Reading Level: very good
Friedrich Nietzsche was one of the most revolutionary thinkers in Western philosophy. Here he sets out his subversive views in a series of aphorisms on subjects ranging from art to arrogance, boredom to passion, science to vanity, rejecting conventional notions of morality to celebrate the individual's ...Show more
Airmail - Women of Letters by Marieke Hardy and Michaela McGuire
$29.99 AUD
Category: Essays
Women of Letters have conquered the world with their passion for correspondence. Taking their literary salons on a global tour, they've collected an astounding and sweeping array of contributions from some of the world's brightest talents. From Ubud, award-winning author Lionel Shriver writes with unexp ...Show more
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
WINNER OF THE 2015 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN NONFICTION WINNER OF THE 2015 DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE WINNER OF THE NAACP IMAGE AWARD FOR BEST NON-FICTION A powerful, bold true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix America's broken system of justic ...Show more
An Economy is Not a Society: Winners and Losers in the New Australia by Dennis Glover
$19.99 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
In modern Australia, productivity is all that matters, our leaders tell us. Economic growth above all else. But is this really what we, the people, want? Does it make our lives and our communities better?If the high priests of economics want the credit for Australia's economic growth over the last three ...Show more
Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends on it by Ian Leslie
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Category: Philosophy
'I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious' Albert Einstein. Everyone is born curious. But only some retain the habits of exploring, learning and discovering as they grow older. Which side of the 'curiosity divide' are you on? In Curious Ian Leslie makes a passionate case for the culti ...Show more