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Growing up Disabled in Australia by Carly Findlay
$29.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
'My body and its place in the world seemed quite normal to me.' 'I didn't grow up disabled, I grew up with a problem. A problem those around me wanted to fix.' 'We have all felt that uncanny sensation that someone is watching us.' 'The diagnosis helped but it didn't fix everything.' 'Don't fear the labe ...Show more
The Bomber Mafia: A Story Set in War by Malcolm Gladwell
$35.00 AUD
Category: Social Thought
A riveting tale of persistence, innovation, and the incalculable wages of war, from the international bestselling author of Talking to Strangers and host of the award-winning podcast Revisionist History Most military thinkers in the years leading up to World War II saw the airplane as an afterthought. ...Show more
Beyond Order - 12 More Rules for Life (H/B) by Jordan B. Peterson
$45.00 AUD
Category: Social Thought
The sequel to 12 Rules for Life offers further guidance on the perilous path of modern life. In 12 Rules for Life, clinical psychologist and celebrated professor at Harvard and the University of Toronto Dr. Jordan B. Peterson helped millions of readers impose order on the chaos of their lives. Now, i ...Show more
Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life by Jordan B Peterson
$35.00 AUD
Category: Social Thought
In 12 Rules for Life, public thinker and clinical psychologist Jordan B. Peterson offered an antidote to the chaos in our lives- eternal truths applied to modern anxieties. Now in this sequel, Peterson goes further, showing that part of life's meaning comes from reaching out into the domain beyond what ...Show more
Why Women Are Poorer Than Men and What We Can Do About It by WILLIAMS ANNABELLE
$35.00 AUD
Category: Social Thought
Money gives us freedom. It gives us choices . . . But why is it women are nearly always poorer than men? The modern world is rigged unfairly in men's favour. From pensions to the tampon tax, bearing children to boardroom bullying, Why Women Are Poorer Than Men shows how society conspires to limit wom ...Show more
The Pattern Seekers - A New Theory of Human Invention by Simon Baron-Cohen
$39.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
Why can humans alone invent? In this book, psychologist and world renowned autism expert Simon Baron-Cohen puts forward a bold new theory: because we can identify patterns, specifically if-and-then patterns. And he argues that the genes for this unique ability overlap with the genes for autism. From the ...Show more
Dizzy Limits - Recent Experiments in Australian Nonfiction by contributors, Various
$29.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
What is ‘experimental nonfiction’? Like all nonfiction writing it is steeped in facts, in real events, and in real people, with the aim of communicating information, argument, and truth. It differs from traditional nonfiction in that it tries to convey its meaning using unorthodox form, or style, or voi ...Show more
Just Us - A Conversation by Claudia Rankine
$49.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
Contemporary America finds itself riven by a culture war in which friendships, families and communities are under strain and defensiveness and aggression alike are on the rise, enshrined in federal law-making and government policy. It is not alone. In such partisan conditions, how can humans best approa ...Show more
The Kindness Revolution: How we can restore hope, rebuild trust and inspire optimism by Hugh Mackay
$32.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
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
Which Side of History? - How Technology Is Reshaping Democracy and Our Lives by James P. Steyer
$34.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
Which Side of History?offers a collection of bold essays on how technology is affecting democracy, society, and our future. Featuring prominent national voices such as Sacha Baron Cohen, Marc Benioff, Ellen Pao, Ken Auletta, Chelsea Clinton, Tim Wu, Khaled Hosseini, Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, ...Show more
Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman
$32.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERA Guardian, Daily Telegraph, New Statesman and Daily Express Book of the Year'Hugely, highly and happily recommended' Stephen Fry'You should read Humankind. You'll learn a lot (I did) and you'll have good reason to feel better about the human race' Tim Harford'Made me see hum ...Show more
The Species that Changed Itself by Gale, Edwin
$39.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
An inquisitive, expansive and fascinating exploration of humans as creatures of our own making Other species adapt to their environments; we alone create ours. Over generations, we have remade the world to suit ourselves - using improved knowledge and technology to confront the traditional scourges - a ...Show more