Awakenings by Oliver Sacks
$24.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought | Series: Picador Collection
'The story of a disease that plunged its victims into a prison of viscous time, and the drug that catapulted them out of it' - GuardianHailed as a medical classic, and the subject of a major feature film as well as radio and stage plays and various TV documentaries, Awakenings by Oliver Sacks is the ext ...Show more
Faking It: Artificial Intelligence in a Human World by Toby Walsh
$34.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
A prescient analysis of what makes artificial intelligence so ... artificial Artificially intelligent machines are set to play an increasingly important role in our lives. They will take the dirty tasks of life off our hands, as well as the dull, the difficult and the dangerous - which is a good thing. ...Show more
See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Abuse by Jess Hill
$36.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
Winner of the Stella Prize 2020. At the office of Safe Steps, Victoria's dedicated 24/7 family violence response call centre, phone counsellors receive a call every three minutes. Many women are repeat callers- on average, they will go back to an abusive partner eight times before leaving for good. ' ...Show more
A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto by China Mieville
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Category: Social Thought
China Miéville's brilliant reading of the modern world's most controversial and enduring political document: The Communist Manifesto. In 1848, a strange political tract was published by two German émigrés. Marx and Engles's apocalyptic vision of an insatiable system, which penetrates every corner of th ...Show more
Enchanted Forests The Poetic Construction of a World Before Time by Boria Sax
$49.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
Linking literature, philosophy, art, and personal experience, a moving exploration of the wooded landscape's power. In 1985 Boria Sax inherited an area of forest in New York State, which had been purchased by his Russian, Jewish, and Communist grandparents as a buffer against what they felt was a hostil ...Show more
For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of the Experts Advice to Women by Deirdre English; Barbara Ehrenreich
$24.95 AUD
Category: Social Thought | Reading Level: General Adult
From the bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed and a former editor in chief Mother Jones, this women's history classic brilliantly uncovers the constraints imposed on women in the name of science. Since the nineteenth century, professionals have been invoking scientific expertise to prescribe what wome ...Show more
The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer
$19.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics Ser.
Available in audio for the first time since its publication in 1970, and narrated by the author, Germaine Greer. A worldwide best seller, The Female Eunuch is a landmark book in the history of the women's movement and a ground-breaking feminist tract. Drawing from history, literature, and popular cultu ...Show more
The First Move by Emily Brooks
$32.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
Time to rip up The Rules: a powerful social commentary and self-help guide for young women navigating the dating scene by the inaugural editor of Nine's Future Women.
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
Career and Family Women’s Century-Long Journey toward Equity by Claudia Goldin
$34.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
A renowned economic historian traces women's journey to close the gender wage gap and sheds new light on the continued struggle to achieve equity between couples at home A century ago, it was a given that a woman with a college degree had to choose between having a career and a family. Today, there ar ...Show more
So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought | Series: Picador Collection
CELEBRATING FIFTY YEARS OF PICADOR BOOKS 'It's about the terror, isn't it?' 'The terror of what?' I said. 'The terror of being found out.' The rise of social media has seen a great renaissance in public shaming. Justice has been democratized. The silent majority are getting a voice. But what are we doin ...Show more
Disconnect: Why we get pushed to extremes online and how to stop it by Jordan Guiao
$29.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
Many of us know an anti-vaxxer or a selfie-obsessed narcissist who clutters our social feeds; an online conspiracy theorist or a child whose face is buried in a smartphone. Some of us even live with one. How do we pull these people back from the brink of a digital abyss? In this animated study, journali ...Show more