Unshrinking: How to Fight Fatphobia by Kate Manne
$37.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
"Size discrimination harms everyone. Acclaimed philosopher Kate Manne shows how to combat it. For as long as she can remember, Kate Manne has wanted to be smaller. She can tell you what she weighed on any significant occasion: her wedding day, the day she became a professor, the day her daughter was bor ...Show more
The Age of AI: And Our Human Future by Henry A Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, Daniel Huttenlocher
$25.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
A Wall Street Journal Bestseller 'IT SHOULD BE READ BY ANYONE TRYING TO MAKE SENSE OF GEOPOLITICS TODAY' FINANCIAL TIMES Three of our most accomplished and deep thinkers come together to explore Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the way it is transforming human society - and what it means for us all. An ...Show more
Seeing Others: How to Redefine Worth in a Divided World by Michèle Lamont
$55.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
From internationally renowned sociologist Michèle Lamont, a game-changing argument about what we value and why How do we measure our self-worth? For many of us, it signifies accomplishment, self-reliance, and wealth. Decades of neoliberalism have driven our definition of success. Yet, as we have amasse ...Show more
Faking It: Artificial Intelligence in a Human World by Toby Walsh
$35.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
A prescient analysis of what makes artificial intelligence so ... artificial Artificially intelligent machines are set to play an increasingly important role in our lives. They will take the dirty tasks of life off our hands, as well as the dull, the difficult and the dangerous - which is a good thing. ...Show more
Lesbian Love Story: A Queer History of Sapphic Romance by Amelia Possanza
$55.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Charting the stories of Olympic athletes and lesbian memoirists, via Sappho, Lesbian Love Story is a genre-defying respository of sapphic romance like no other. On her quest to discovering lesbian role models overlooked by history, Amelia Possanza uncovers seven incredible love stories in the archives. ...Show more
Gaia and Philosophy by Lynn Margulis; Anicka Yi (Illustrator); Dorion Sagan (Introduction by)
$19.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
In the 1970s, microbiologist Lynn Margulis and atmospheric chemist James Lovelock developed the Gaia theory. Embracing the circular logic of life and engineering systems, the Gaia theory states that Earth is a self-regulating complex system in which life interacts with and eventually becomes its own en ...Show more
Bite Back: Feminism, media, politics, and our power to change it all by Hannah Ferguson
$35.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Articulating sharp, progressive perspectives on the social and political issues that matter, Bite Back offers constructive talking points to provoke and inspire meaningful change. The Co-Founder of Cheek Media Co. delivers the conversations we've been missing on everything from diet culture to the futur ...Show more
The Canceling of the American Mind: How Cancel Culture Undermines Trust, Destroys Institutions, and Threatens Us All by Greg Lukianoff, Rikki Schlott
$55.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
A new way of thinking about cancel culture and the much-needed antidote for our dangerous and divisive times Cancel culture isn't just a moral panic- it erodes our ability to argue productively, listen generously and to be civil when we disagree. Whether on university campuses, in the workplace or on s ...Show more
A Therapeutic Journey: Lessons from the School of Life by Alain de Botton
$37.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
The essential guide to mental health from the bestselling author of The School of Life: A Therapeutic Journey follows the arc from mental crisis and collapse to convalescence and recovery. Written with kindness, knowledge and sympathy, it is both a practical guide and a source of consolation and compani ...Show more
Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein
$37.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
A personal trip into the uncanny Mirror World of our polarised culture, from the international bestselling author of The Shock Doctrine. What if you woke up one morning and found you'd acquired a double? Someone almost like you, and yet not you at all? When Naomi Klein discovered that a woman who share ...Show more
Twelve Words for Moss by Elizabeth-Jane Burnett
$35.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
A moving tale of recovery and reconnection and an immersive journey through British wetlandsGlowflake, Rocket, Small Skies, Kind Spears, Marilyn . . .Moss is known as the living carpet but if you look really closely, it contains an irrepressible light. In Twelve Words for Moss, Elizabeth-Jane Burnett ce ...Show more
The Power of Language: Multilingualism, Self and Society by Viorica Marian
$45.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
An acclaimed psycholinguist reveals how language shapes our brain - and moulds the way we look at the worldWhy should we learn more than one language?Can it change the way we think?Does it have the power to transform how we see the world? You may think you speak only one language. In fact, your mind is ...Show more