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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
The Walker - On Losing and Finding Yourself in the Modern City by Matthew Beaumont
$40.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
A literary history of walking From Dickens to Zizek There is no such thing as the wrong step; every time we walk we are going somewhere. Moving around the modern city becomes more than from getting from A to B, but a way of understanding who and where you are. In a series of riveting intellectual ramb ...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
Expert - Understanding the Path from Apprentice to Master by Roger Kneebone
$35.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
What do lace makers share with pulmonary surgeons? Saville Row tailors with molecular scientists? Jazz musicians with fighter pilots? Seemingly, they have little in common, other than being skilled at what they do. But the expert on experts, Professor Roger Kneebone, has spent his life finding the point ...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
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
Lead the Way: How to Change the World, from the Frontline of the Schoolstrikes by Jean Hinchcliffe
$25.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
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 from the movement with you. From identifying your cause to finding allies, planni ...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
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
This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends by Nicole Perlroth
$30.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Zero day- a software bug that allows a hacker to break in and scamper through the world's computer networks invisibly until discovered. One of the most coveted tools in a spy's arsenal, a zero day has the power to tap into any iPhone, dismantle safety controls at a chemical plant and shut down the power ...Show more
This Is Why I Resist by Shola Mos-Shogbamimu
$33.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
This book is the hard conversation we must have. Black people are still fighting for the right to be judged by the content of their character and not the colour of their skin, and in the words of the author, "there is no freedom without rights and no rights without the freedom to exercise those rights." ...Show more