How to Be Bored by Eva Hoffman
$19.99 AUD
Category: Essays | Series: The School of Life | Reading Level: very good
How to embrace boredom and find meaning in doing nothing. Lethargic inactivity can be debilitating and depressing; but for those living in the modern world, the pendulum has swung far in the other direction. We live in a hectic, hyperactive, over-stimulated age. Excessive busyness and overfilled schedul ...Show more
The Good Life by Hugh Mackay
$19.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
"No one can promise you that a life lived for others will bring you a deep sense of satisfaction, but it's certain that nothing else will."Hugh Mackay has spent his entire working life asking Australians about their values, motivations, ambitions, hopes and fears. Now, in The Good Life, he addresses the ...Show more
Griffith Review 51: Fixing the System by Gabbie Stroud
$27.99 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues | Series: Griffith REVIEW
Griffith Review 51: Fixing the System sets out to examine Australia's political and social system and to investigate why so many believe it to be unfit for the purpose. While Australia has never been richer, its people better educated and the country better connected internationally, there is a widespre ...Show more
When to Rob a Bank - A Rogue Economist's Guide to the World by Steven D. Levitt
$24.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
This is the ultimate guide to the world of the Freak. Renegade thinkers and bestselling sensations Levitt and Dubner have carefully curated the very best of their blogs, conversations, wisecracks and advice from the last decade to reveal the outlandish truth about everything from lying to bankrobbing, f ...Show more
Our Man Elsewhere In Search of Alan Moorehead by Thornton McCamish
$39.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
A world-famous Australian writer, an inspiration to Robert Hughes and Clive James, a legendary war correspondent who also wrote bestselling histories of exploration and conservation . . . and yet forgotten? In this dazzling book, Thornton McCamish delves into the past to reclaim a remarkable figure, Ala ...Show more
The Battle for Home: Memoir of a Syrian Architect by Marwa al-Sabouni
$39.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
Drawing on the author's personal experience of living and working as an architect in Syria, this book offers an eyewitness perspective on the country's bitter conflict through the lens of architecture, showing how the built environment offers a mirror to the community that inhabits it. From Syria's tole ...Show more
My Journey into the Heart of Terror: Ten Days in the Islamic State by Jurgen Todenhofer
$32.99 AUD
Category: Essays
An alarming and enlightening first-hand account of what's really going on behind the borders of the Islamic State. ISIS, IS, the Islamic State. The name is chilling. The images are horrific. This is a group that chops the heads off journalists - and yet one, the German Jurgen Todenhofer, went out of his ...Show more
Freedom Regained: The Possibility of Free Will by Julian Baggini
$23.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
Do we have free will? It's a question that has puzzled philosophers and theologians for centuries and feeds into numerous political, social, and personal concerns. Are we products of our culture, or free agents within it? How much responsibility should we take for our actions? Are our neural pathways fi ...Show more
Breaking the Ice: How We Will Get Through Australia's Methamphetamine Crisis by Matthew Noffs
$27.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
'The so-called war on drugs has been a colossal failure, and this book offers further proof that we must treat drug use as a public health issue, not as a crime' Sir Richard Branson This landmark book, from Matt Noffs and his team at the Noffs Foundation, is a much-needed voice of reason in the national ...Show more
Bolt - Worth Fighting for : Insights and Reflections 2 by Andrew Bolt
$24.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
Andrew Bolt is Australia's most prominent and controversial commentator. In this second book of columns and reflections, Bolt is again in the front lines of our most urgent political and social debates, from Islam and immigration to the green movement and the rise of the slacktivist. But he also reveals ...Show more
The Shepherd's Life: A Tale of the Lake District (HB) by James Rebanks
$42.99 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
From James Rebanks, the Herdwick Shepherd, comes The Shepherd's Life, a story of the Lake District and its people which could redefine the literature of rural life Some people's lives are entirely their own creations. James Rebanks' isn't. The first son of a shepherd, who was the first son of a shepherd ...Show more
The View from the Cheap Seats - Selected Non-Fiction by Neil Gaiman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
The View from the Cheap Seats draws together myriad non-fiction writing by international phenomenon and Sunday Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman. From Make Good Art, the speech that went viral, to pieces on artists and legends including Terry Pratchett and Lou Reed, the collection offers a glimpse in ...Show more