Testing 3,2,1: What Australian Education Can Learn from Finland: a Teachers Perspective by Michael Lawrence
$27.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
"Finnish teachers looked at me as if I was a child molester when I described the NAPLAN tests given to children as young as eight. When they suggested that the results of these tests would lead to increased funding and assistance for those students and schools that did not do well, it was difficult to e ...Show more
Acting with Power: Why We Are More Powerful Than We Believe by Deborah Gruenfeld
$29.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
A bold and eye-opening exploration of the true nature of power; using techniques borrowed from actors, we can all learn to wield power more confidently in our personal and professional lives.
On Pandemics Deadly Diseases from Bubonic Plague to Coronavirus by David Waltner-Towes
$29.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
ritten by a leading epidemiologist, this engrossing book answers our questions about animal diseases that jump to humans - called zoonoses - including why they have become more common in recent history, and what we can do about them. Almost all pandemics and epidemics - including SARS, Ebola and now COV ...Show more
The Time of Our Lives: Growing Older Well by Robert Dessaix
$32.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
At the height of his powers in this remarkable (and often witty) book, Robert Dessaix addresses these increasingly urgent questions in inimitable prose and comes up with some surprising answers. From Java to Hobart via Berlin, Dessaix invites us to eavesdrop on his intimate, no-nonsense conversations ab ...Show more
The Species That Changed Itself: How Prosperity Reshaped Humanity by Edwin Gale
$39.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
An inquisitive, expansive and fascinating exploration of humans as creatures of our own making Other species adapt to their environments; we alone create ours. Over generations, we have remade the world to suit ourselves - using improved knowledge and technology to confront the traditional scourges - a ...Show more
On Charlatans by Chris Bowen
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Category: Social Thought | Series: On Ser.
Chris Bowen, who was to be the next Treasurer has had plenty of time to think about what went wrong and why charlatans are winning in the game of politics. Why do we continue to vote for politicians who say, 'I don't hold a hose, mate,' or advocate we drink bleach to fight COVID? Or shut down pubs at 10 ...Show more
Why Women Are Poorer Than Men and What We Can Do About It by WILLIAMS ANNABELLE
$35.00 AUD
Category: Social Thought
Money gives us freedom.It gives us choices . . .But why is it women are nearly always poorer than men?The modern world is rigged unfairly in men's favour. From pensions to the tampon tax, bearing children to boardroom bullying, Why Women Are Poorer Than Men shows how society conspires to limit women's w ...Show more
Know My Name by Chanel Miller
$35.00 AUD
Category: Social Thought
The riveting, powerful memoir of the woman whose letter to Brock Turner gave voice to millions of survivors.
The Right to Sex by Amia Srinivasan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
We still do not know how to talk about sex. The current debate about sexual entitlement, objectification, rape culture or pornography fixates on the idea of consent as an objective frame through which to view our sexual encounters. Yet stripped of morality and ethics, consent is a blunt tool, of limited ...Show more
Inferior: The True Power of Women and the Science That Shows It by Angela Saini
$24.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
From intelligence to emotion, for centuries science has told us that men and women are fundamentally different. But this is not the whole story.Shedding light on controversial research and investigating the ferocious gender wars in biology, psychology and anthropology, Angela Saini takes readers on an e ...Show more
Human Origins: 7 million years and counting by New Scientist Staff
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Category: Social Thought | Series: New Scientist Instant Expert Ser.
Where did we come from? Where are we going? Homo sapiens is the most successful, the most widespread and the most influential species ever to walk the Earth. In the blink of an evolutionary eye we have spread around the globe, taken control of Earth's biological and mineral resources, transformed the en ...Show more
Lucid by Lucy Holden
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Category: Social Thought
'In Bath I lay in a field with headphones on, drunk, and staring at an empty blue sky that reflected nothing of the chaos in the world. Below the fields flashed the seaweed-green of a London train and I imagined my former life at the end of it but felt more like it had been tied to the tracks and career ...Show more