The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We've Lost in a World of Constant Connection by Michael Harris (Kettering University, Flint, MI Indiana University, Kokomo, IN Indiana University, Kokomo, IN Kettering University, Flint, MI Kettering University, Flint, MI)
$40.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
"Every revolution in communication technology--from papyrus to the printing press to Twitter--is as much an opportunity to be drawn away from something as it is to be drawn toward something. And yet, as we embrace technology's gifts, we usually fail to consider what we're giving up in the process. Why w ...Show more
More Decent Obsessions by Bernard Salt
$24.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
There's matters of fairness, of manners, of pleasures, of observation. Based on his weekly columns for The Australian that have been published for more than a decade they are stories powerfully told. His writing style is light, loose, crisp and fun and at times he can be glitteringly clever. He plays wi ...Show more
Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence: The Hidden Driver of Excellence by Daniel Goleman
$20.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
For more than two decades, psychologist and journalist Daniel Goleman has been scouting the leading edge of the human sciences for what's new, surprising, and important. In Focus, he delves into the science of attention in all its varieties, presenting a long overdue discussion of this little-noticed an ...Show more
Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
$33.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
'Pink is my favourite colour. I used to say my favourite colour was black to be cool, but it is pink - all shades of pink. If I have an accessory, it is probably pink. I read Vogue, and I'm not doing it ironically, though it might seem that way. I once live-tweeted the September issue.' In these funny a ...Show more
How We Are: How to Live Book 1 by Vincent Deary
$39.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
We live in small worlds. An astonishing literary debut and the first book in the monumental How To Live trilogy, How We Are explores the power of habit and the difficulty of change. A story told in three parts, this profound and ambitious trilogy gets right to the heart of what it means to be human: how ...Show more
Adolescent Country: A Lowy Institue Paper - Penguin Specials by Peter Hartcher
$9.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought | Series: Penguin Specials
The great crises that threaten Australia's national prosperity come from abroad. So do the grandest opportunities. But in Australian politics the big matters are commonly crowded out by the small. International policy is used for domestic point-scoring. Leaders are criticised for travelling beyond the w ...Show more
Art of Belonging by Hugh Mackay
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
The eternal question 'Who am I?' must be weighed against an even deeper question: 'Who are we?' We are writing each other's stories as much as we are writing our own. In his bestselling book, The Good Life, Hugh Mackay argued that kindness and respect for others are the hallmarks of a life well lived. N ...Show more
Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalisation of Democracy by Francis Fukuyama
$49.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
In The Origins of Political Order, Francis Fukuyama took us from the dawn of mankind to the French and American Revolutions. Here, he picks up the thread again in the second instalment of his definitive account of mankind's emergence as a political animal.This is the story of how state, law and democrac ...Show more
Wife Drought by Annabel Crabb
$34.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
'I need a wife' It's a common joke among women juggling work and family. But it's not actually a joke. Having a spouse who takes care of things at home is a Godsend on the domestic front. It's a potent economic asset on the work front. And it's an advantage enjoyed - even in our modern society - by vast ...Show more
How We Learn: The Aspiring Slacker's Guide to the Science of Learning by Benedict Carey
$30.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
This book will help you to learn Spanish - or the Spanish guitar - faster. This book will give an athlete the edge to turn Silver into Gold. This book will give any child the chance to perform better in exams. Full stop. How We Learn is a landmark book that shakes up everything we thought we knew about ...Show more
Plato and A Platypus Walk into A Bar: Understanding Philosphy Through Jokes by Thomas Cathcart
$25.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
This New York Times bestseller is the hilarious philosophy course everyone wishes they'd had in school Outrageously funny, Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar has been a breakout bestseller ever since authors - and born vaudevillians - Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein did their schtick on NPR's "Weeken ...Show more
This Changes Everything - Capitalism vs the Climate by Naomi Klein
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Forget everything you think you know about global warming. It's not about carbon - it's about capitalism. The good news is that we can seize this crisis to transform our failed economic system and build something radically better. In her most provocative book yet, Naomi Klein, author of the global bests ...Show more