What About Men? by Caitlin Moran
$35.00 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
A frank, funny and galvanising exploration of masculinity, and a manifesto for male allyship, from million-copy bestseller and feminist powerhouse Caitlin Moran. As any feminist who talks about the problems of girls and women will know, the first question you will ever be asked is 'But what about MEN?' ...Show more
The Perils of Perception - Why We're Wrong about Nearly Everything (PB) by Bobby Duffy
$22.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
New Statesman's Best Books of 2018'Mandatory reading' Steven Pinker Do you eat too much sugar? What proportion of your country are immigrants? What does it cost to raise a child? How much tax do the rich pay? Are we more ignorant than we used to be? Take a minute to answer these questions. No matter h ...Show more
Glimpses of Utopia: Real Ideas for a Fairer World by Jess Scully
$24.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
It's hard to be excited about the future right now. Climate change is accelerating; inequality is growing; politics is polarised; institutions designed to protect us are strained; technology is disrupting the world of work. We need to upgrade the operating systems of our society. Jess Scully asks, What ...Show more
The Saviour Syndrome: Searching for Hope and Meaning in an Age of Unbelief by John Carroll
$37.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
Who do we look up to? Christ the Savior is no more. In the modern West, the life of the most significant figure in the history of the culture is assumed to be obsolete. What remains? Quite a lot, actually. In this groundbreaking work, acclaimed sociologist John Carroll argues that humans in the Western ...Show more
Culture & Imperialism by Edward W. Said
$32.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
From Jane Austen to Salman Rushdie, and from Yeats to the news coverage of the Gulf War, this is broad account of the roots of imperialism in European culture, and an analysis of the impact of 19th-century British and French imperialism on the culture of the period.
The Kindness Revolution: How we can restore hope, rebuild trust and inspire optimism by Hugh Mackay
$32.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
Generous, erudite, optimistic and candid...Hugh Mackay encourages us to find the best in ourselves and in our society in both good and troubled times. Revolutions never start at the top. If we dare to dream of a more loving country - kinder, more compassionate, more cooperative, more respectful, more i ...Show more
Going Mainstream: How extremists are taking over by Julia Ebner
$34.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
The internationally bestselling author of Going Dark: the secret social lives of extremists (A Telegraph Book of the Year) returns to explore why radical ideas are increasingly infiltrating politics, popular culture and our everyday lives. Incels. Anti Vaxxers. Conspiracy theorists. Neo-Nazis. Once, th ...Show more
2030: How Today's Biggest Trends Will Collide and Reshape the Future of Everything by Mauro F. Guillén
$35.00 AUD
$49.99 (29% off)
Category: Culture & Ideas
A groundbreaking analysis of the fundamental demographic, economic and technological trends rapidly remaking the world - and now accelerating under the global impact of COVID-19.Once upon a time, the world was neatly divided into prosperous and backward economies. Babies were plentiful, workers outnumbe ...Show more
Introducing Psychology :A Graphic Guide to Your Mind and Behaviour by Nigel Benson
$21.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: Introducing... Ser.
What is psychology? When did it begin? Where did it come from? How does psychology compare with related subjects such as psychiatry and psychotherapy? To what extent is it scientific? "Introducing Psychology" answers all these questions and more, explaining what the subject has been in the past and what ...Show more
Introducing Sociology: A Graphic Guide by John Nagle; Piero (Illustrator)
$21.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: Introducing... Ser.
Sociology is interested in the way citizens shape a society and the way a society shapes its citizens. Simply, it is the study of how society functions, or how it doesn't. In the series' inimitable style, Introducing Sociology: A Graphic Guide traces the origins of sociology from industrialization, revo ...Show more
Introducing Epigenetics: A Graphic Guide by Cath Ennis, Oliver Pugh
$21.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: Introducing... Ser.
Epigenetics is the most exciting field in biology today, developing our understanding of how and why we inherit certain traits, develop diseases and age, and evolve as a species. This non-fiction comic book introduces us to genetics, cell biology and the fascinating science of epigenetics, which is ...Show more
Introducing Genetics: A Graphic Guide by Steve Jones
$21.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: Introducing... S.
Genetics is the newest of all sciences - nothing useful was known about inheritance until just over a century ago. Now genetics is exploding, and before long we will have the complete code, written in three thousand million letters of DNA, of what makes a human being. Introducing Genetics takes us from ...Show more