Love and Hunger: Thoughts on the Gift of Food by Charlotte Wood
$33.00 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
Thinking in Pictures - Adventures in Trying to Be Smart by Michael Blastland
$35.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
An original and witty guide to the world of smart-thinking that uses pictures to show where it goes right and wrong, by the creator of BBC Radio 4's More or Less.
Kin: Family in the 21st century by Marina Kamenev
$37.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Written by journalist Marina Kamenev, Kin: Family in the 21st century is an incisive and powerful look at how families are created today, and how they might be created in the future. Here’s an exercise: take a piece of paper. Grab a pen, pencil, crayon — any drawing utensil within reach. Now, draw a ty ...Show more
Just Friends: On the joy, influence and power of friendship by Gyan Yankovich
$35.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Voice memos, care packages, hours-long phone conversations, treasured traditions that go back decades, glasses held aloft during wedding toasts, hands held at funerals, first cuddles with newborns, work lunches with work wives, taking it to the group chat - our friendships touch and enrich every part of ...Show more
What's for Dinner? by Jill Griffiths
$35.00 AUD
Category: Food
What are we really eating? How do we eat in a way that nourishes us and does least harm to the environment? What exactly do farmers do? Should the world go vegan? Do food miles matter?Never before has so much food been produced by so few people to feed so many. Never before have Australian consumers bee ...Show more
The Economy of Algorithms: AI and the Rise of the Digital Minions by Marek Kowalkiewicz
$33.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
An insider's guide to the invisible new economy that is reshaping our lives Welcome to the economy of algorithms. It's here and it's growing. In the past few years, we have been flooded with examples of impressive technology. Algorithms have been around for hundreds of years, but they have only recently ...Show more
The Furies: Three Women and Their Violent Fight for Justice by Elizabeth Flock
$37.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
A stunning narrative investigation into three real-life women who used violence to fight back against their oppressors The Furies tells the stories of three unforgettable women who chose to use lethal force to gain power, safety, and freedom when the institutions meant to protect them - government, pol ...Show more
Slow Down: How Degrowth Communism Can Save the Earth by Kohei Saito
$35.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Can green capitalism save the planet? Is it even trying? Not when the very logic of the capitalist system pits it against Earth's life support systems, as the Japanese philosopher Kohei Saito demonstrates in one of the most astonishing bestsellers of recent times. Drawing on cutting-edge research acro ...Show more
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari
$25.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER Sapiens shows us where we came from. Homo Deus shows us where we're going. Yuval Noah Harari envisions a near future in which we face a new set of challenges. Homo Deus explores the projects, dreams and nightmares that will shape the twenty-first century and beyond - from ove ...Show more
Culture Is Not an Industry - Reclaiming Art and Culture for the Common Good by Justin O'Connor
$34.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought | Series: Manchester Capitalism Ser.
Culture is at the heart to what it means to be human. But twenty-five years ago, the British government rebranded art and culture as 'creative industries', valued for their economic contribution, and set out to launch the UK as the creative workshop of a globalised world. Where does that leave art and c ...Show more
The Relationship is the Project: A guide to working with communities by Jade Lillie (Editor); Kate Larsen (Editor); Cara Kirkwood (As told to); Jax Brown (As told to)
$35.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Community-engaged practice is not an art form. It’s not an add-on. It’s a way of working; a deep collaboration.The Relationship is the Project features provocations, tools and practical tips for working with communities. This includes the ethics and logistics of working on community-based projects, from ...Show more
Disobedient Bodies by Emma Dabiri
$23.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
An unmissable, radical essay from Emma Dabiri, bestselling author of Don't Touch My Hair and What White People Can Do NextWhat part of your beautiful self were you taught to hate? We spend a lot of time trying to improve our 'defects', according to society's ideals of beauty. But these ideals that are o ...Show more