The Macho Paradox - Why Some Men Hurt Women and and How All Men Can Help by Jackson Katz
$39.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
Updated with important new discussions and studies for 2019Revised and updated to include current studies, politics, and discussions, The Macho Paradox by pioneering anti-violence educator Jackson Katz is the first book to show how violence against women is a male issue as well as a female one -- and ho ...Show more
Masculinity and the Ruling of the World by Denise Thompson
$40.00 AUD
Category: Social Thought
Masculinity and the Ruling of the World argues that there is a world-wide culture of masculinity that breeds arrogant dissociated men who are the prime culprits in the depredations that have brought humanity to its present grievous condition. The argument is that male domination not only oppresses women ...Show more
A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century - Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life by Heather Heying; Bret Weinstein
$56.00 AUD
Category: Social Thought
A provocative exploration of the tension between our evolutionary history and our modern woes--and what we can do about it. We are living through the most prosperous age in all of human history, yet we are listless, divided, and miserable. Wealth and comfort are unparalleled, but our political landscape ...Show more
The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World by Max Fisher
$34.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
From a New York Times investigative reporter and Pulitzer Prize finalist, "an essential book for our times" (Ezra Klein), tracking the high-stakes inside story of how Big Tech's breakneck race to drive engagement--and profits--at all costs fractured the world We all have a vague sense that social media ...Show more
You've Been Played by Adrian Hon
$39.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
How games are being harnessed as instruments of exploitation ? and what we can do about it.
Gigorou: It’s Time to Reclaim Beauty. First Nations Wisdom and Womanhood by Sasha Kutabah Sarago
$34.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
'You're too pretty to be Aboriginal' is a shocking statement Sasha Kutabah Sarago experienced at a young age. In her 2020 TEDx talk, 'The (de)colonising of beauty', Sasha shares how she reclaimed her femininity by redefining beauty. In challenging our modern-day concepts of beauty from a First Nations w ...Show more
Beyond Belief by Hugh Mackay
$32.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
What do people actually mean when they say 'God'?Around two-thirds of us say we believe in God or some 'higher power', but fewer than one in ten Australians attend church weekly. In Beyond Belief, Hugh Mackay presents this discrepancy as one of the great unexamined topics of our time. He argues that whi ...Show more
Food of the Gods by Terence McKenna
$27.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
"A journey is some of the Earth's most endangered people in the remote Upper Amazon. . . . a look at the rituals of the Bwiti cults of Gabon and Zaire. . . . . a field watch on the easting habits of 'stoned' apes and chimpanzees - these adventures are all a part of ethnobotanis t Terence McKenna's extra ...Show more
There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness by Carlo Rovelli
$35.00 AUD
Category: Social Thought
One of the most inspiring and counter-intuitive thinkers of our age, the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, transforms the way we think about the world with his reflections on science, history and humanity. In this collection of writings, the logbook of an intelligence always on the m ...Show more
Bad Men: The Hidden Roots of Sexual Deception, Harassment and Assault by David Buss
$32.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
Sexual conflict permeates ancient religions, from injunctions about thy neighbor's wife to the sexual obligations of marriage. It is etched in written laws that dictate who can and cannot have sex with whom. Its manifestations shape our sexual morality, evoking approving accolades or contemptuous condem ...Show more
Conversations on Love: with Philippa Perry, Dolly Alderton, Roxane Gay, Stephen Grosz, Esther Perel, and many more by Natasha Lunn
$35.00 AUD
Category: Social Thought
A celebration of love in all its strange and beautiful forms. After years of feeling that love was always out of reach, journalist Natasha Lunn set out to understand how relationships work and evolve over a lifetime. She turned to authors and experts to learn about their experiences, as well as drawing ...Show more
The Story of Looking by Mark Cousins
$39.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
Looking can be an act of empathy or aggression. It can provoke desire or express it. And from the blurry, edgeless world we inhabit as infants to the landscape of screens we grow into, looking can define us. In The Story of Looking , filmmaker and writer Mark Cousins takes us on a lightning-bright tour ...Show more