Animal Vegetable Criminal by Mary Roach
$39.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
What's to be done about a jaywalking moose? A grizzly bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? We've never been good at sharing the planet... In the past, when wild animals 'broke the law', they might be given lawyers and put on trial. But what's the solution now, as we humans increasingly d ...Show more
Anatomical Oddities by Alice Roberts
$32.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
Every part of the human body has a name - and story. But how familiar are you with your arachnoid mater or your Haversian canals? Anatomical Oddities is an artistic and linguistic adventure, taking the reader on a journey to discover the hidden landscape of the human body: its crypts and caverns, gorges ...Show more
The 100 Trillion Dollar Wealth Transfer - How the Handover from Boomers to Gen Z Will Revolutionize Capitalism by Ken Costa
$32.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
An insider's look into how Generation Z's focus on ethics, climate change and purpose will change capitalism forever. In the next ten years there will be an unprecedented wealth transfer from the so-called 'baby boomer' generation to the young. Never before will so much money - in housing, land, sto ...Show more
All Our Relations: Indigenous trauma in the shadow of colonialism by Tanya Talaga
$27.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
The world's Indigenous communities are fighting to live and dying too young. In this vital and incisive work, Tanya Talaga explores intergenerational trauma and the alarming rise of youth suicide. From Northern Ontario to Nunavut, Norway, Brazil, Australia, and the United States, the Indigenous experien ...Show more
Guest House for Young Widows - Among the Women of ISIS by Azadeh Moaveni
$32.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought | Reading Level: very good
An intimate, deeply reported account of the women who made a shocking decision- to leave their comfortable lives behind and join the Islamic State. In early 2014, the Islamic State clinched its control of Raqqa in Syria. Baghdadi, the leader of ISIS, urged Muslims around the world to come join the calip ...Show more
Psycho-Cybernetics (Updated and Expanded) by Maxwell Maltz
$24.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
The classic work of the human potential movement that has sold 30 million copies worldwide
The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter and How to Make the Most of Them Now by Meg Jay
$29.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
Contemporary culture tells us the twentysomething years don't matter. Clinical psychologist Dr Meg Jay argues that this could not be further from the truth. In fact, your twenties are the most defining decade of adulthood. The Defining Decade weaves the latest science of the twentysomething years with r ...Show more
The Bomber Mafia: A Story Set in War by Malcolm Gladwell
$22.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
What is the price of progress?In this tale of innovation and obsession Gladwell revisits one of the bloodiest attacks of the Second World War to show what happens when technological inventions slip out of our control.Weaving together the stories of a group of renegade pilots, the ruthless bomber command ...Show more
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism by Robin DiAngelo
$22.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
Anger. Fear. Guilt. Denial. Silence. These are the ways in which ordinary white people react when it is pointed out to them that they have done or said something that has - unintentionally - caused racial offence or hurt. After, all, a racist is the worst thing a person can be, right? But these reaction ...Show more
Death by Comfort: How modern life is killing us and what we can do about it by Paul Taylor
$32.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
Our genome has not changed in over 45,000 years, but the world has changed enormously and there are multiple mismatches with modern life. Homo Sapiens evolved and thrived because we could hunt down prey with the tools we made, ate a range of natural foods from the environment and led highly physically l ...Show more
The Saviour Syndrome: Searching for Hope and Meaning in an Age of Unbelief by John Carroll
$37.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
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
Seize the Fire: Three Speeches by Richard Flanagan
$12.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
Australia is not a fixed entity, a collection of outdated bigotries and reactionary credos, but rather an invitation to dream, and this country-our country-belongs to its dreamers . . . if we are finally to once more go forward as a people it's time our dreamers were brought in from the cold. Richard F ...Show more