Why Smart Women Make Bad Decisions: And How Critical Thinking Can Protect Them by Annie McCubbin
$29.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
This is a laugh out loud, narrative-driven self-help book. Think Bridget Jones gets a critical makeover. In Why Smart Women Make Bad Decisions, our protagonist Kat is learning that the philosophy of 'Believe-in-yourself-and Magic-will-happen' will not deliver her a better life. Her story, which reco ...Show more
Ego is the Enemy: The Fight to Master Our Greatest Opponent by Ryan Holiday
$19.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
It's wrecked the careers of promising young geniuses. It's evaporated great fortunes and run companies into the ground. It's made adversity unbearable and turned struggle into shame. Every great philosopher has warned against it, in our most lasting stories and countless works of art, in all culture and ...Show more
How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life: An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and Happiness by Russ Roberts
$24.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
"A fun, fascinating, and original book that will challenge you to become a better version of yourself." (Daniel H. Pink, author of Drive). What does it take to be truly happy? Should we pursue fame and fortune or the respect of our friends and family? How can we make the world a better place? Two hundre ...Show more
If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal: What Animal Intelligence Reveals About Human Stupidity by Justin Gregg
$32.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
What if human intelligence is actually more of a liability than a gift? After all, the animal kingdom, in all its diversity, gets by just fine without it. At first glance, human history is full of remarkable feats of intelligence, yet human exceptionalism can be a double-edged sword. With our unique cog ...Show more
Motherlands: In Search of Our Inherited Cities by Amaryllis Gacioppo
$29.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
Our creation stories begin with the notion of expulsion from our 'original' home. We spend our lives struggling to return to the place we fit in, the body we belong in, the people that understand us, the life we were meant for. But the places we remember are ever-changing, and ever since we left, they c ...Show more
Blind Spot: The Global Rise of Unhappiness and How Leaders Missed It by Jon Clifton
$44.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
The rising unhappiness that leaders didn’t see That’s because while leaders pay close attention to measures like GDP or unemployment, almost none of them track their citizens’ wellbeing.The implications of this blind spot are significant and far-reaching — leaders missed the citizen unhappiness that tri ...Show more
Queer Heroes of Myth and Legend: A celebration of gay gods, sapphic saints, and queerness through the ages by JONES DAN
$29.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
Hidden in the margins of history books, classical literature, and thousands of years of stories, myths and legends, through to contemporary literature, TV and film, there is a diverse and other-worldly super community of queer heroes to discover, learn from, and celebrate. Be captivated by stories of fo ...Show more
Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships by Daniel Goleman
$29.95 AUD
Category: Social Thought
Emotional Intelligence was an international phenomenon, appearing on the New York Times bestseller list for over a year and selling more than 5 million copies worldwide. Now, once again, Daniel Goleman has written a groundbreaking synthesis of the latest findings in biology and brain science, revealing ...Show more
Boomerang: The Biggest Bust by Michael Lewis
$22.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
Right now, Europe is in serious financial chaos. In Greece, infrastructure costs mean it would be cheaper to transport all Greek rail passengers by taxi, and hairdressing is classified as arduous for tax avoidance purposes. In Iceland, Range Rovers frequently explode as owners collect the insurance to p ...Show more
Project Unlonely - Navigate Loneliness and Reconnect with Others by Jeremy Nobel
$34.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
Chronic loneliness is a private experience of profound anguish. It has also become a public health crisis.The Unlonely Project will not just sound an alarm about the significant, growing negative impact of loneliness on nearly every sector of society, but also offer solace, hope and solutions.While we c ...Show more
Outliers: The Story of Success0 by Malcolm Gladwell
$24.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought | Reading Level: very good
In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"--the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different? His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful ...Show more
Bad Science by Ben Goldacre
$19.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought | Reading Level: good
Ben Goldacre's wise and witty bestseller, shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, lifts the lid on quack doctors, flaky statistics, scaremongering journalists and evil pharmaceutical corporations. Since 2003 Dr Ben Goldacre has been exposing dodgy medical data in his popular Guardian column. In this e ...Show more