Sex Cult Nun by Faith Jones
$27.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
‘Sex and sexuality were our gifts, not our shame, and sharing them was not optional. No one discussed power imbalances, exploitation, or rape. To do so would have been seen as rebellious, or worse, heretical.’ Faith Jones was raised to be part of an elite army preparing for the End Times. Isolated on a ...Show more
Black and White Thinking: The burden of a binary brain in a complex world by Kevin Dutton
$19.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
From the author of the bestselling The Wisdom of Psychopaths, this is a wake-up call, a groundbreaking and timely explanation of the polarization seen in some of the biggest global news stories of our times.'Essential insights into the character of human choice and decision-making.' ROBERT CIALDINI, aut ...Show more
Bi: The Hidden Culture, History and Science of Bisexuality by Julia Shaw
$32.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
A personal and scientific manifesto for the sexually in-between, from the internationally bestselling author and co-host of Bad People. Bisexuality is the largest sexual minority in the world and the least well understood. This book sets out to answer some of the questions that many people have about bi ...Show more
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks
$24.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
'A humane discourse on the fragility of our minds, of the bodies that give rise to them, and of the world they create for us. This book is filled with wonders' Daily Telegraph Oliver Sacks' compassionate tales of people struggling to adapt to different neurological conditions have fundamentally changed ...Show more
Stuffocation: Living More with Less by James Wallman
$24.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
We're all stuffocated. We have more stuff than we could ever need - but it's bad for the planet and it's making us stressed. It might even be killing us. In this groundbreaking book, trend forecaster James Wallman finds that a rising number of people are turning away from all-you-can-get consumption, fr ...Show more
Thinking is Overrated: Empty Brain Happy by Niels Birbaumer
$27.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
Find the happiness of emptiness.Few things scare us more than inner emptiness. The presumed emptiness of coma or dementia scares us so much that we even sign living wills to avoid these states. Yet as Zen masters have long known, inner emptiness can also be productive and useful. We can reach this state ...Show more
The Reputation Game - The Art of Changing How People See You by David Waller; Rupert Younger
$19.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
You 're already playing the game, whether you like it or not. You can try to ignore what others say about you or you can choose to learn the rules and discover that the potential benefits are unlimited. Reputation can 't be owned or managed not by an individual, an organization or the media professional ...Show more
Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins by Garry Kasparov; Mig Greengard (Contribution by)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
Garry Kasparov's 1997 chess match against the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue was a watershed moment in the history of technology. It was the dawn of a new era in artificial intelligence: a machine capable of beating the reigning human champion at this most cerebral game. That moment was more than a centur ...Show more
Reimagining Death by Lucinda Herring
$34.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
Honor your loved ones and the earth by choosing practical, spiritual, and eco-friendly after-death care Natural, legal, and innovative after-death care options are transforming the paradigm of the existing funeral industry, helping families and communities recover their instinctive capacity to care for ...Show more
Duped: Compulsive Liars and How They Can Deceive You by Abby Ellin
$32.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought | Reading Level: very good
'Abby Ellin's writing is everything her fiancé pretended to be: witty, vulnerable, brave, smart, and honest.' -- Michael Finkel, author of The Stranger in the Woods While leading a double life would seem to be the exclusive domain of psychopaths and undercover agents, thousands of 'regular people' keep ...Show more
It's up to the Women by Eleanor Roosevelt; Jill Lepore (Introduction by)
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Category: Social Thought | Reading Level: very good
Written at the height of the Great Depression, It's Up to the Women is Eleanor Roosevelt's advice to women of all ages on every aspect of life. During a time of extreme hardship, she called on women particularly to do their part-cutting costs where needed, spending reasonably, and taking a personal resp ...Show more
How I Learned to Understand the World by Hans Rosling
$22.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKThe moving, playful memoir of Hans Rosling - Swedish statistics mastermind, researcher extraordinaire and author of the global bestseller, Factfulness.This is a book that contains very few numbers. Instead, it is about meeting people who have opened my eyes.It was facts that ...Show more