Resistance - A Songwriter's Story of Hope, Change and Courage by Tori Amos
$35.00 AUD
Category: Social Thought
Since the release of her first, career-defining solo album Little Earthquakes, Tori Amos has been one of the music industry's most enduring and ingenious artists. From her unnerving depiction of sexual assault in "Me and a Gun" to her post-9/11 album Scarlet's Walk to her latest album Native Invader, he ...Show more
Out of the Ordinary: True Tales of Everyday Craziness by Jon Ronson
$22.95 AUD
Category: Social Thought
A collection of Jon's newspaper features, reworked and with new material, with a common theme: the ways in which people get themselves into wholly irrational bubbles, within which all manner of lunacy makes perfect sense. In Jon's previous two books, Them and The Men Who Stare at Goats, the nuttiness to ...Show more
Black Sheep : The Hidden Benefits of Being Bad by Dr. Richard Stephens
$29.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
From the man who won the Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize 2014 and married a human statue comes a book of weird and wonderful psychological science from the far-flung corners of human experience. Richard Stephens became the focus of international media attention for his research on the psychological ...Show more
Man Up : Surviving Modern Masculinity by Jack Urwin
$22.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
What does masculinity add up to in the 21st Century? Jack Urwin traces modern ideas of masculinity from the inability of older generations to deal with the horrors of war, to the mob mentality of football terraces or Fight Club and the disturbing rise of mental health problems among men - especially yo ...Show more
Don't Be Evil - How Big Tech Betrayed Its Founding Principles - and All of Us by Rana Foroohar
$35.00 AUD
Category: Social Thought
Today Google and Facebook receive 90% of the world's news ad-spending. Amazon takes half of all ecommerce in the US. Google and Apple operating systems run on all but 1% of cell phones globally. And 80% of corporate wealth is now held by 10% of companies - not the GEs and Toyotas of this world, but the ...Show more
How to Talk to a Science Denier: Conversations with Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy Reason by Lee McIntyre
$37.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
Can we change the minds of science deniers? Encounters with flat earthers, anti-vaxxers, coronavirus truthers, and others. Climate change is a hoax--and so is coronavirus. Vaccines are bad for you. These days, many of our fellow citizens reject scientific expertise and prefer ideology to facts. They ...Show more
A Dying Colonialism by Frantz Fanon; Haakon Chevalier (Translator); Frantz Fanon
$32.00 AUD
Category: Social Thought | Series: Fanon, Frantz Ser.
Frantz Fanon's seminal work on anticolonialism and the fifth year of the Algerian Revolution. Psychiatrist, humanist, revolutionary, Frantz Fanon was one of the great political analysts of our time, the author of such seminal works of modern revolutionary theory asThe Wretched of the Earth andBlack Ski ...Show more
Strong Female Character by Hanna Flint
$32.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
Leading film critic of her generation offers an unflinchingly honest and humorous account of her millennial journey towards self-acceptance through a cinematic lens. Hanna Flint speaks from the heart in Strong Female Character, a personal and incisive reflection on how cinema has been the key to underst ...Show more
Why Women Are Poorer Than Men and What We Can Do About It by Annabelle Williams
$22.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
An exploration of how the world favours men financially, along with practical steps we can all take to bring about meaningful changeNearly 70% of Britain's homeless are women.There are more men called Dave running the UK's top 100 companies than there are women altogether.Women outperform men educationa ...Show more
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari
$24.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought | Reading Level: good-very good
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
Missionary Position: Mother Teresa In Theory And Practice by Christopher Hitchens; Thomas Mallon (Foreword by)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
Among his many books, perhaps none have sparked more outrage than The Missionary Position, Christopher Hitchens's meticulous and searing study of the life and deeds of Mother Teresa--and it is now available as a Signal deluxe paperback. A Nobel Peace Prize recipient canonized by the Catholic Church ...Show more
Value of Everything by Mariana Mazzucato
$35.00 AUD
Category: Social Thought
Who really creates wealth in our world? And how do we decide the value of what they do? In modern capitalism, value-extraction - the siphoning off of profits, from shareholders' dividends to bankers' bonuses - is rewarded more highly than value-creation- the productive process that drives a healthy econ ...Show more