Bad Pharma - How Medicine is Broken and How We Can Fix It by Ben Goldacre
$19.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
'Bad Science' hilariously exposed the tricks that quacks and journalists use to distort science, becoming a 400,000 copy bestseller. Now Ben Goldacre puts the $600bn global pharmaceutical industry under the microscope. What he reveals is a fascinating, terrifying mess. Doctors and patients need good sci ...Show more
Why Time Flies: A Mostly Scientific Investigation by Alan Burdick
$32.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
For more than two thousand years the world's great minds have argued about the true essence of time. Is it finite or infinite? Is it continuous or discrete? Does it flow like a river or is it granular, proceeding in small bits like sand trickling through an hourglass? And most immediately, what is the p ...Show more
Better : The Everyday Art of Sustainable Living by Nicole Caldwell
$24.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
For God's Sake by Jane Caro, Anthony Loewenstein, Simon Smart & Rachel Woodlock
$32.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
Four of Australia's most interesting religious - and anti-religious - thinkers come together to ask and answer the big questions, such as: What is the nature of the universe? What is a good life? How do we account for evil? and Where do we find hope? Along the way we are introduced to the detail of diff ...Show more
The Militant Muse: Love, War and the Women of Surrealism by Whitney Chadwick
$50.00 AUD
Category: Social Thought
Farewell to the Muse documents what it meant to be young, ambitious, and female in the context of an avant-garde movement defined by celebrated men whose backgrounds were often quite different from those of their younger lovers and companions. Focusing on the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, Whitney Chadwick ch ...Show more
Do it Like a Woman - And Change the World by Caroline Criado-Perez
$27.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
Every day, all around the world, women are reinventing what it means to be female in cultures where power, privilege or basic freedoms are all too often equated with being male. Here, Caroline Criado-Perez, one of the most vocal and tenacious campaigners of her generation, introduces us to some of these ...Show more
UnboundHow Eight Technologies Made Us Human, Transformed Society, and Brought Our World to the Brink by Richard L. Currier
$42.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
*A Wall Street Journal Bestseller* Like Guns, Germs, and Steel, a work of breathtaking sweep and originality that reinterprets the human story. Although we usually think of technology as something unique to modern times, our ancestors began to create the first technologies millions of years ago in the ...Show more
This Modern Love by Will Darbyshire
$32.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
This Modern Love is a unique crowdsourced book of letters, stories, and photographs about the state of modern romance by YouTuber Will Darbyshire. 'Question 1. What would you say to your ex, without judgement?' Seeking closure after a tough break-up, Will Darbyshire was driven to strike up an intimate c ...Show more
The Sports Gene Talent Practice and the Truth About Success by David Epstein
$24.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
Offers an exploration of athletic success, and explodes myths about how and why humans excel. This book exposes the flaws in the so-called 10,000-hour rule that states that rigorous practice from a young age is the only route to success.
Crossing the Unknown Sea by David Whyte
$24.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
Crossing the Unknown Sea shows how poetry and practicality, far from being mutually exclusive, reinforce each other to give every aspect of our lives meaning and direction. For anyone who wants to deepen their connection to their work-or find out what their life's work is-this book is essential to navig ...Show more
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Life by Richard Dawkins
$59.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
A fully updated edition of one of the most original accounts of evolution ever written, featuring new fractal diagrams, six new 'tales' and the latest scientific developments. THE ANCESTOR'S TALE is a dazzling, four-billion-year pilgrimage to the origins of life: Richard Dawkins and Yan Wong take us on ...Show more
Five Day Course in Thinking by Edward De Bono
$35.00 AUD
Category: Social Thought
First published in 1967, this remarkable title from one of history's greatest minds remains a must-read in the world of creative thinking. Based on the tenet that an error can lead to the right decision, de Bono guides the reader through a series of non-mathematical problems and puzzles, all designed to ...Show more