The Paradox of Evolution: The Strange Relationship Between Natural Selection and Reproduction by Stephen Rothman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
This book examines a little-noted contradiction inherent in the two essential elements of Darwin's theory of biological evolution--natural selection and reproduction. Physiologist Stephen Rothman makes the revolutionary claim that the evolution of life's complex and diverse reproductive mechanisms is no ...Show more
The Lucky Country? Reinventing Australia by Ian Lowe
$29.95 AUD
Category: Sociology
"Can we reinvent The Lucky Country? In 1964, Donald Horne described Australia as 'a lucky country run mainly by second-rate people who share its luck' in his iconic book.a Now, more than five decades later, internationally respected scientist and environmentalist Ian Lowe shows that little has changed a ...Show more
Beyond Belief by Hugh Mackay
$32.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
What do people actually mean when they say 'God'?Around two-thirds of us say we believe in God or some 'higher power', but fewer than one in ten Australians attend church weekly. In Beyond Belief, Hugh Mackay presents this discrepancy as one of the great unexamined topics of our time. He argues that whi ...Show more
The War on Women by Sue Lloyd-Roberts
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Category: Sociology
Sue Lloyd-Roberts joined ITN in 1973 as a news trainee, she went on to become the UK's first female video-journalist, reporting alone from the bleak outposts of the former Soviet Union and China. With a 30-year-long career in human-rights journalism, she has travelled the globe and witnessed the worst a ...Show more
God is Good for You: A defence of Christianity in troubled times by Greg Sheridan
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Category: Sociology
The Judeo-Christian tradition has created and underpinned the moral and legal fabric of Western civilisation for more than 2000 years, yet now we've reached a point in both Australia and many parts of the West where Christianity has become a minority faith rather than the mainstream belief. It's a situa ...Show more
Draw Your Weapons by Sarah Sentilles
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Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
''How to live in the face of so much suffering? What difference can one person make in this beautiful, imperfect, and imperilled world?'' In Draw Your Weapons, Sarah Sentilles offers an impassioned defence of life lived by peace and principle. Through a dazzling combination of memoir, history, reportin ...Show more
The Intelligence Trap: Why smart people do stupid things and how to make wiser decisions by David Robson
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Category: Sociology
'As a rule, I have found that the greater brain a man has, and the better he is educated, the easier it has been to mystify him,' Houdini to Arthur Conan Doyle Smart people are not only just as prone to making mistakes as everyone else-they may be even more susceptible to them. This is the "intelligenc ...Show more
Fake: A Startling True Story of Love in a World of Liars, Cheats, Narcissists, Fantasists and Phonies by Stephanie Wood
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Category: Chat10Looks3 Recommendations
Women the world over are brought up to hope, even expect, to find the man of their dreams, marry and live happily ever after. When Stephanie Wood meets a sweet man who owns a farm and property, she embarks on an exhilarating romance with him. He seems compassionate, truthful and loving. He talks about t ...Show more
White Working Class: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America by Joan C. Williams
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Category: Sociology
Around the world, populist movements are gaining traction among the white working class. Meanwhile, the professional elite--journalists, managers, and establishment politicians--is on the outside looking in, and left to argue over the reasons why. In White Working Class, Joan C. Williams, described as " ...Show more
Out There by Kerri Sackville
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Category: Sociology
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The Future of Us: Demography Gets a Makeover by Liz Allen
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Category: Sociology
Demography is far more important than destiny. By tracing connections between a population’s past and present, demographers can foresee its future. The true wonder of demography, though, is not its ability to predict the future but to shape it. With energy and passion, demographer Liz Allen sets out the ...Show more
The Politics of the Common Good: Dispossession in Australia by Jane R. Goodall
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Category: Sociology | Series: Dispossession in Australia
`The Earth is a Common Treasury', proclaimed the English Revolutionaries in the 1640s. Does the principle of the commons offer us ways to respond now to the increasingly destructive effects of neoliberalism? With insight, passion and an eye on history, Jane Goodall argues that as the ravages of neo-libe ...Show more