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Love and Hunger: Thoughts on the Gift of Food by Charlotte Wood
$30.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Love and Hunger is a distillation of everything Charlotte Wood has learned over more than twenty years about cooking and the pleasures of simple food well made. In this age of gastro-porn and the fetishisation of food, the pressure to be as expert as the chefs we've turned into celebrities can feel over ...Show more
Some Achieve Greatness: Lessons On Leadership and Character From Shakespeare and One of His Greatest Admirers by John Bell
$30.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
“Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them.” William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night Around the globe people have been crying out for “Leadership”: demanding it, begging for it. From the farcical spectacle of short-lived Australian prime ministers shoving each other ...Show more
Truth Is Trouble by Malcolm Knox
$33.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Why did the sacking of rugby player Israel Folau over his social media posts become one of the nation's most polarizing controversies? How could one man's religious views activate so many people in modern Australia? And what does the sides people found themselves on tell us about the kind of country we' ...Show more
Open Minds: Academic Freedom and Freedom of Speech of Australia by Carolyn Evans; Adrienne Stone
$30.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Recently the alarm has been raised - basic freedoms are under attack in our universities. A generation of 'snowflake' students are shutting out ideas that challenge their views. Ideologically motivated academics are promoting propaganda at the expense of rigorous research and balanced teaching. Universi ...Show more
Lead The Way: How To Change The World, From A Teen Activist And School Striker by Jean Hinchcliffe
$25.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Want to take action and fight for what's right, but don't know where to start? Lead the Way is your ultimate guide to activism and making systematic change, your way. Jean Hinchliffe is one of the key organisers of School Strikes 4 Climate, and in this book she shares her tools, stories and learnings f ...Show more
Mission Economy: A Moonshot Approach to the Economy by Mariana Mazzucato
$35.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Even before the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, capitalism was stuck. It had no answers to a host of problems, including disease, inequality, the digital divide and, perhaps most blatantly, the environmental crisis. Taking her inspiration from the 'moonshot' programmes which successfully co-ordinated public ...Show more
Rooted: An Australian History of Bad Language by Amanda Laugesen
$33.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Bugger, rooted, bloody oath...What is it about Australians and swearing? We've got an international reputation for using bad language (Where the bloody hell are ya?) and letting rip with a choice swear word or two has long been a very Aussie thing to do. From the defiant curses of the convicts and bullo ...Show more
Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women by Kate Manne
$23.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Male entitlement takes many forms. To sex, yes, but more insidiously to admiration, bodily autonomy, knowledge, power, even care. In this urgent intervention, philosopher Kate Manne offers a radical new framework for understanding misogyny.In clear-sighted, powerful prose, she ranges widely across the c ...Show more
The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World by Tim Marshall
$33.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
'Quite simply, one of the best books about geopolitics you could imagine: reading it is like having a light shone on your understanding' - Nicholas Lezard, Evening Standard, on Prisoners of Geography If you want to understand what's happening in the world, look at a map. Tim Marshall's global bestselle ...Show more
Women and Leadership by Julia Gillard; Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
$35.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
An inspirational and practical book written by two high-achieving women, sharing the experience and advice of some of our most extraordinary women leaders, in their own words. From their broad experience on the world stage in politics, economics and global not-for-profits, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and Julia ...Show more
I Saw the Dog by Alexandra Aikhenvald
$30.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
A leading expert draws on a lifetime of fieldwork to reveal the mysteries and magic of language.
Head Hand Heart - The Struggle for Dignity and Status in the 21st Century by David Goodhart
$40.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
A good society needs a balance between aptitudes relating to Head (cognitive), Hand (manual/craft) and Heart (caring/emotional). In recent decades in Western societies they have got out of kilter. One form of human aptitude -cognitive ability - has become the gold standard of human esteem. The cognitive ...Show more