Not One Inch - America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate by M. E. Sarotte
$51.95 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
Thirty years after the Soviet Union's collapse, this book reveals how tensions between America, NATO, and Russia transformed geopolitics in the decade after the fall of the Berlin Wall "The most engaging and carefully documented account of this period in East-West diplomacy currently available."--Andrew ...Show more
What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe
$33.00 AUD
Category: Science
WHAT IF... one man decided to answer all the unanswerable questions, using science. The Sunday Times-bestselling author and xkcd creator, Randall Munroe is here to provide the best answers yet to the important questions you probably never thought to ask. The millions of people around the world who rea ...Show more
Freedom to Think: The Long Struggle to Liberate Our Minds by Susie Alegre
$35.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
The story of our most fundamental human right - and why it is in grave danger. Without a moment's pause, we share our most intimate thoughts with trillion-dollar tech companies. Their algorithms categorize us and jump to conclusions about who we are. They even shape our everyday thoughts and actions - f ...Show more
Supercharge Me - Net Zero Faster by Eric Lonergan; Corinne Sawers
$35.00 AUD
Category: Climate | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
How can we "supercharge" our response to climate change? Almost everyone agrees on the need to transition the global economy to net zero. But how do we do it? And how do we do it faster? If you feel demoralized, depressed or confused about the climate crisis this book will provide some answers - and one ...Show more
Growth for Good - Reshaping Capitalism to Save Humanity from Climate Catastrophe by Alessio Terzi
$49.95 AUD
Category: Climate
From the front lines of economics and policymaking, a compelling case that economic growth is a force for good and a blueprint for enrolling it in the fight against climate change.Economic growth is wrecking the planet. It's the engine driving climate change, pollution, and the shrinking of natural spac ...Show more
Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid: How the Natural World is Adapting to Climate Change by Thor Hanson
$39.99 AUD
Category: Climate
Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid is the first major book by a biologist to focus on the fascinating story of how the natural world is adjusting, adapting, and sometimes measurably evolving in response to climate change. Lyrical and thought-provoking, this book broadens the climate focus from humans t ...Show more
Fragile Futures: The Uncertain Economics of Disasters, Pandemics, and Climate Change by Vito Tanzi
$37.95 AUD
Category: Climate
This book revisits a distinction introduced in 1921 by economists Frank Knight and John Maynard Keynes: that between statistically predictable future events ('risks') and statistically unpredictable, uncertain events ('uncertainties'). Governments have generally ignored the latter, perceiving phenomena ...Show more
The Great Plant-Based Con: Why eating a plants-only diet won't improve your health or save the planet by Jayne Buxton
$33.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
Almost every day we hear a call for us to reduce our consumption of meat and dairy, with the long-term goal for many being the widespread conversion to a totally vegan lifestyle. 'Plant-based' has become a term so worthy and ubiquitous that many people have forgotten their historic antipathy to an extre ...Show more
Living Democracy: An Ecological Manifesto for the End of the World As We Know It by Tim Hollo
$33.00 AUD
Category: Climate
There's a mounting sense of desperation in the face of ecological crises, gaping economic inequality and racial injustice, and a post-truth in politics that's divorced from reality. But what if it were possible for us to not just survive, but thrive, in the 21st century? What if the solutions to our eco ...Show more
Provocations: New and selected writing by Jeff Sparrow
$33.00 AUD
Category: Essays
'Genuine radicalism depends on the provision of hope. It provokes through a scandalous insistence that life can be otherwise, that we aren’t doomed to economic and environmental decline, and that the future can exceed than the past.’Jeff Sparrow is one of Australia’s leading public intellectuals. From g ...Show more
Abominations - Selected Essays From a Career of Courting Self-Destruction by Lionel Shriver
$33.00 AUD
Category: Essays
A masterful collection from one of the most acclaimed writers of our time. Abominations: Selected essays from a career of courting self-destruction showcases Lionel Shriver's relentlessly sceptical and deeply insightful thoughts on our contemporary era. Uniting essays from the Spectator, New York Times, ...Show more
How Woke Won: The Elitist Movement That Threatens Democracy, Tolerance and Reason by Joanna Williams
$26.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Wokeness has conquered our institutions. The worlds of politics, academia and even corporate capitalism now bend the knee to the new orthodoxies around gender, racism and identity. How Woke Won explores the intellectual roots of wokeness and how this movement, which poses as radical and left-wing, came ...Show more