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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
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
Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman
$33.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
A Guardian Book to Look Out For in 2020 'Humankind challenged me and made me see humanity from a fresh perspective' Yuval Noah Harari From 'the folk hero of Davos', Fox News antagonist and author of the international bestseller Utopia for Realists comes a radical history of our innate capacity for kin ...Show more
Body Count: How Climate Change is Killing Us by Paddy Manning
$33.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
'Our house is on fire,' 16-year-old Swedish school strike activist Greta Thunberg told world leaders in 2019. Across an angry year of weather, Australians watched it in real-time: record heatwaves and worsening drought, unprecedented fish kills in the Murray-Darling Basin and devastating wildfires acros ...Show more
Me and White Supremacy - How to Recognise Your Privilege, Combat Racism and Change the World by Layla F Saad
$30.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
'White supremacy is a violent system of oppression that harms Black, Indigenous and People of Colour. And if you are a person who holds white privilege, then you are complicit in upholding that harm, whether you realise it or not. This is not my opinion. This is fact. And if you are person who holds whi ...Show more
Black and White Thinking - When Grey Matter and Grey Matters Collide by Kevin Dutton
$35.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
'Essential insights into the character of human choice and decision-making. You'll not think about thinking the same way afterwards.' Robert Cialdini, author of Influence and Pre-suasion _______________ It is human instinct to sort and categorize. We are hardwired to discriminate and frame everything i ...Show more
Silliness - A Serious History by Peter Timms
$24.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Silliness is to be savoured. It exposes the cracks in our reasoning, raising a gleeful two-finger salute to convention and common sense. In a world awash with stupidity and cruel politics, silliness is childish, anarchic, mischievous, rude and sometimes shocking. But it's not new. This delightful yet i ...Show more
Unfree Speech: The Threat to Global Democracy and Why We Must Act, Now by Joshua Wong
$20.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
An urgent manifesto for global democracy from Joshua Wong, the 22-year-old phenomenon leading Hong Kong's protests - Nobel Peace Prize nominee and TIME, Forbes, and Fortune world leader - with an introduction by Ai Weiwei Aged 14, Joshua Wong made history. While the adults stayed silent, Joshua staged ...Show more
The Lonely Century by Noreena Hertz
$33.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
A radical call to arms and a bold new vision of how we must act, fast, to reconnect society at individual, government and business level, from a global economist hailed by the Observer as 'one of the world's leading thinkers'. Professor Noreena Hertz has travelled the world to explore the loneliness epi ...Show more
The System: Who Owns the Internet, and How It Owns Us by James Ball
$30.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
The internet is a network of physical cables and connections, a web of wires enmeshing the world, linking huge data centres to one another and eventually to us. All are owned by someone, financed by someone, regulated by someone. We refer to the internet as abstract from reality. By doing so, we obscure ...Show more
How to Argue with a Racist (HB) by Adam Rutherford
$30.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Race is real because we perceive it. Racism is real because we enact it. But the appeal to science to strengthen racist ideologies is on the rise - and increasingly part of the public discourse on politics, migration, education, sport and intelligence. Stereotypes and myths about race are expressed not ...Show more
The Second Mountain (PB) by Brooks, David
$23.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Everybody tells you to live for a cause larger than yourself, but how exactly do you do it? The author of The Road to Character explores what it takes to lead a meaningful life in a self-centered world. "Deeply moving, frequently eloquent and extraordinarily incisive."-- ...Show more