Global Megatrends: Seven Patterns of Change Shaping Our Future by Stefan Hajkowicz
$35.00 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
Global Megatrends tells a story about how the world will change over the next 20 years. 'Megatrends' are gradual yet powerful trajectories of change that have the potential to throw companies, individuals and societies into freefall. In Global Megatrends author Stefan Hajkowicz identifies seven patterns ...Show more
Merchants Of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming by Naomi Oreskes
$24.99 AUD
Category: Sustainability/Environment
"Merchants of Doubt should finally put to rest the question of whether the science of climate change is settled. It is, and we ignore this message at our peril."-Elizabeth Kolbert "Brilliantly reported andwritten with brutal clarity."-Huffington Post Now a powerful documentary from the acclaimed directo ...Show more
The New Spymasters: Inside Espionage from the Cold War to Global Terror by Stephen Grey
$49.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
The New Spymasters by Stephen Grey - Inside Espionage from the Cold War to Al-Qaeda. In this era of email intercepts and drone strikes, many believe that the spy is dead. What use are double agents and dead letter boxes compared to the all-seeing digital eye? They couldn't be more wrong. The spying game ...Show more
A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age by Matt Richtel
$29.99 AUD
Category: Sociology | Reading Level: very good
From Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Matt Richtel, a brilliant, narrative-driven exploration of technology's vast influence on the human mind and society, dramatically-told through the lens of a tragic "texting-while-driving" car crash that claimed the lives of two rocket scientists in 2006.In this am ...Show more
2071: The World We'll Leave Our Grandchildren by Chris Rapley
$19.99 AUD
Category: Sustainability/Environment | Reading Level: very good
How has the climate changed in the past? How is it changing now? How do we know? And what kind of a future do we want to create?
Sectarian Gulf: Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and the Arab Spring That Wasn't by Toby Matthiesen
$32.99 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
Toby Matthiesen offers a first-hand account of the Arab Spring protests in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and the Gulf States, and shows how the regimes have encouraged sectarian divisions to undermine protests, effectively creating a Sectarian Gulf. While this has ensured regime survival in the short term, Mat ...Show more
More Human by Steve Hilton
$35.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Government, business, the lives we lead, the food we eat, the way our children are brought up, the way we relate to the natural world around us - it's all become too big and distant and industrialised. Inhuman. It's time to do something about it. It's time to put people first. It's time to make the worl ...Show more
Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
$27.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
"Imagine that Plato came to life in the twenty-first century and embarked on a multi-city speaking tour. How would he mediate a debate between a Freudian psychoanalyst and a 'tiger mum' on how to raise the perfect child? How would he handle the host of a right-wing news program who denies there can be m ...Show more
Wikileaks Files - The World According to US Empire by WikiLeaks
$29.99 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
When WikiLeaks first came to prominence in 2010, releasing millions of top secret State Department cables, the world saw for the first time what the US really thought about national leaders, friendly dictators, and supposed allies. It also discovered the dark truths of national policies, human rights vi ...Show more
Psychedelia and Other Colours by Rob Chapman
$75.00 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
In the summer of 1965 the informal parties that Ken Kesey was holding at his house in Palo Alto California were about to evolve into what became known as the Acid Tests. These spontaneous anarchic gatherings spread their tentacles far and wide until an entire generation seemed to be under their spell. F ...Show more
30-Second Politics by Steven L. Taylor
$19.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic | Series: 30-Second | Reading Level: very good
30-second Politics will help dispel this fog of mistrust and paranoia. It challenges political theorists of all colours to come up with no-frill, no-spin, tell-it-like-it-is explanations of the 50 most important political -isms, -archies, and -ocracies that have pertained since the time of Periclean Ath ...Show more
A Banquet of Consequences by Satyajit DAS
$34.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
Essential reading for anyone interested in the future of the global economy and their own prospects, A Banquet of Consequences incisively explains the problems confronting us, how we're making those problems worse, and what the real solutions are. For ordinary individuals, the goal of a steady job, a ho ...Show more