The Simple Life by Rhonda Hetzel
$10.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought | Series: Penguin Specials
Rhonda Hetzel feels passionately that living simply leads to a richer, more fulfilling existence. Having made the decision to live frugally, embrace sustainability and opt out of the capitalist consumerist mindset, she set about working out how to achieve her goal, learning traditional skills, reducing ...Show more
What About Me? The Struggle For Identity In A Market-Based Society by Paul Verhaeghe
$30.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
According to current thinking, anyone who fails to succeed must have something wrong with them. The pressure to achieve and be happy is taking a heavy toll, resulting in a warped view of the self, disorientation, and despair. People are lonelier than ever before. Today’s pay-for-performance mentality is ...Show more
Social Physics How Good Ideas Spread by Alex Pentland
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Social Physics: How Good Ideas Spread - The Lessons from a New Science
The News - A User's Manual by Alain De Botton
$30.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Alain de Botton explores our relationship with 'the news' in this book full of his trademark wit and wisdom. Following on from his bestselling Religion for Atheists, Alain de Botton turns now to look at the manic and peculiar positions that 'the news' occupies in our lives. We invest it with an authorit ...Show more
The World Until Yesterday - What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? by Jared Diamond
$23.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
The no. 1 bestselling author of Collapse and Guns, Germs and Steel explores the profound lessons that traditional societies offer us today. Over the past 500 years, the West achieved global dominance, but do Westerners necessarily have better ideas about how to raise children, care for the elderly, or s ...Show more
Stephen Ward Was Innocent, OK: The Case for Overturning his Conviction by Geoffrey Robertson
$25.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
In the summer of '61 John Profumo, Minister for War, enjoyed a brief affair with Christine Keeler...Late in the afternoon of Wednesday 31 July 1963, Dr Stephen Ward was convicted at the Old Bailey on two counts alleging that he lived on the earnings of a prostitute. He was not in the dock but comatose i ...Show more
Taking God to School by Marion Maddox
$30.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Fewer Australians now practise a religion or believe in God than ever. Yet our governments increasingly push conservative Christianity on our children. Nearly forty per cent of secondary students attend a private school, which are overwhelmingly Christian. Canberra funds them heavily, and sends evangeli ...Show more
Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason and the Gap Between Us and Them by Joshua Greene
$33.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Our brains were designed for tribal life, for getting along with a select group of others (Us), and for fighting off everyone else (Them). But modern life has thrust the world's tribes into a shared space, creating conflicts of interest and clashes of values, along with unprecedented opportunities. As t ...Show more
Free Schools by David Gillespie
$30.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
David Gillespie has six kids. When it came time to select high schools, he thought it worth doing some investigation to assess the level of advantage his kids would enjoy if he spent the required $1.3 million to send them all to private schools. Shockingly, the answer was: none whatsoever. Intrigued, Da ...Show more
Nuclear War and Enviromental Catastrophe by Noam Chomsky
$19.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Nuclear War and Environmental Catastrophe is a focused discussion on the existential threats of today and their points of intersection since WWII. Both nuclear war and environmental catastrophe have the potential for similar outcomes: a world made uninhabitable by the scarcity of water, food and liveabl ...Show more
Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion by Randal Marlin
$35.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
This book develops a sophisticated account of propaganda and its intriguing history. It begins with a brief overview of Western propaganda, including Ancient Greek theories of rhetoric, and traces propaganda's development through the Christian era, the rise of the nation-state, World War I, Nazism, Comm ...Show more
The Book of Legendary Lands by Umberto Eco
$60.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
From Homer's poems to contemporary science fiction, literature through the ages has continuously invented imaginary and legendary lands, projecting there all those wishes, dreams, utopias and nightmares that are too intrusive and challenging for our limited daily reality. Umberto Eco leads us on an illu ...Show more