The Life You Can Save by Peter Singer
$14.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
In this Tenth Anniversary Edition of The Life You Can Save, Peter Singer brings his landmark book up to date. In addition to restating his compelling arguments about how we should respond to extreme poverty, he examines the progress we are making and recounts how the first edition transformed the lives ...Show more
Nature, Culture, and Inequality by Thomas Piketty
$27.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
An insightful exploration of the nature of inequality. In his new work, Thomas Piketty explores how social inequality manifests itself very differently depending on society and epoch in which it arises. History and culture play a central role, inequality being strongly linked to various socio-economic ...Show more
To My Sisters - A Guide to Building Lifelong Friendships by Courtney Daniella Boateng; Renee Kapuku
$24.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
'A testament to the revolutionary power of sisterhood' - Kelechi Okafor, author of Edge of Here 'A guide to manifesting sisterhood that lasts a lifetime and nourishes beyond the surface level' - Dazed From the hosts of the hit podcast, To My Sisters, comes this frank, funny, and essential guide to siste ...Show more
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari
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Category: Culture & Ideas
THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER Sapiens shows us where we came from. Homo Deus shows us where we're going. Yuval Noah Harari envisions a near future in which we face a new set of challenges. Homo Deus explores the projects, dreams and nightmares that will shape the twenty-first century and beyond - from ove ...Show more
Complicit: How Our Culture Enables Misbehaving Men by Reah Bravo
$34.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
A thoroughly researched and deeply personal examination of how women unintentionally condone workplace abuse in a post-#MeToo world--and what we can do to change things for the better.When Reah Bravo began working at the Charlie Rose show, the open secret of Rose's conduct towards women didn't deter her ...Show more
Who's Afraid of Gender? by Judith Butler
$55.00 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
Judith Butler, the ground-breaking philosopher whose work has redefined how we think about gender and sexuality, confronts the attacks on gender that have become central to right-wing movements today. Global networks have formed 'anti-gender ideology movements' dedicated to circulating a fantasy that ge ...Show more
More Than a Woman by Caitlin Moran
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Category: Culture & Ideas
How to be an older woman? Who knows. Being a young woman can be challenging. But it turns out not even a fraction of the bullshit has happened to you by the time you turn thirty. Because your thirties, forties and beyond see you dealing with Real Life, the stuff you never thought would happen to you- gr ...Show more
Idiots, Follies and Misadventures by Mikey Robins
$32.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the universe. Albert Einstein The history books are full of heroes and villains… but what about all the idiots? Comedian and armchair historian Mikey Robins tells the astonishing story of human stupidity, one idiot at a ti ...Show more
The Malay Archipelago 2 Volume Set - The Land of the Orang-Utan, and the Bird of Paradise. A Narrative of Travel, with Studies of Man and Nature by Alfred Russel Wallace
$130.95 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Zoology Ser.
Alfred Russel Wallace (1823 1913) was a British naturalist who is best remembered as the co-discoverer, with Darwin, of natural selection. His extensive fieldwork and advocacy of the theory of evolution led to him being considered one of the nineteenth century's foremost evolutionary theorists. These vo ...Show more
The Silo Effect: Why putting everything in its place isn't such a bright idea by Gillian Tett
$22.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
Ever since civilised society began, we have felt the need to classify, categorise and specialise. It can make things more efficient, and help give the leaders of any organisation a sense of confidence that they have the right people focusing on the right tasks. But it can also be catastrophic, leading t ...Show more
The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell by Brian Evenson
$33.75 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
"Here is how monstrous humans are." A sentient, murderous prosthetic leg; shadowy creatures lurking behind a shimmering wall; brutal barrow men--of all the terrors that populate The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell, perhaps the most alarming are the beings who decimated the habitable Earth: humans. In th ...Show more