How To Be Alone by Jonathan Franzen
$25.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Passionate, independent-minded nonfiction from the international bestselling author of 'The Corrections'. Jonathan Franzen's 'Freedom' was the literary sensation of 2010, whilst 'The Corrections' was the best-loved and most written-about novel the previous decade. 'How to be Alone', is a collection of t ...Show more
Eyes Wide Open: How to Make Smart Decisions in a Confusing World by Noreena Hertz
$27.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
In a fast-moving world we're often overloaded with differing opinions, conflicting data and changing advice. In this essential guide, Noreena Hertz offers practical steps to making better, smarter decisions. Most of us think we make decisions for the right reasons: we scour books, we talk over options ...Show more
Immortality: The Quest To Live Forever and How It Drives Civilisation by Stephen Cave
$37.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Immortality shows how the quest to live forever has driven the development of human civilisation, and how that quest is now coming to a climax through modern science. It argues that humans are hardwired to pursue eternal life - and that the way they have done so has stayed remarkably consistent through ...Show more
Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much by Sendhil Mullainathan
$45.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Why can we never seem to keep on top of our workload, social diary or chores? Why does poverty persist around the world? Why do successful people do things at the last minute in a sudden rush of energy? Here, economist Sendhil Mullainathan and psychologist Eldar Shafir reveal that the hidden side of all ...Show more
Floating City: Hustlers, Strivers, Dealers, Call Girls and Other Lives in Illicit New York by Sudhir Venkatesh
$45.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
After his insider's study of Chicago crack gangs electrified the academy, Columbia University sociologist Sudhir Venkatesh spent a decade immersed in New York's underbelly, observing the call girls, drug dealers, prostitutes and other strivers that make up this booming underground economy. Amidst the tr ...Show more
Far from the Tree: A Dozen Kinds of Love by Andrew Solomon
$32.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
"In Far from the Tree, Andrew Solomon tells the stories of parents who not only learn to deal with their exceptional children but also find profound meaning in doing so. His proposition is that diversity is what unites us all. He writes about families coping with deafness, dwarfism, Down syndrome, autis ...Show more
In Praise of Ageing by Patricia Edgar
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Retirement is not the time to cut all ties and head off to live in a warm climate but rather to ask: Who do I want to be near? How will my relationships be reaffirmed? What do I care about? What can I create and contribute to the world? Meet Jim Brierley, who was still jumping out of planes aged eighty- ...Show more
Stop Press: The Last Days of Newspapers by Rachel Buchanan
$24.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
There is a story that no one in the media seems to be willing to tell. It is one in which many journalists have a vested interest: the death of newspapers, traditionally the form known to break the biggest headlines, to chase the rumours to their source, and to undertake the most in-depth reporting. A u ...Show more
What's Next in Journalism? by Margaret Simons
$19.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
For the first time in human history, most people in developed countries are able to publish their news and thoughts to the world within a few minutes of deciding to do so. Meanwhile, the big industrial-scale media organisations are in decline, and at the same time there is a new blog, website, or social ...Show more
Join the Club: How Peer Pressure Can Transform the World by Tina Rosenberg
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
In the style of Nudge or The Spirit Level - a groundbreaking book that will change the way you look at the world.
The Great Convergence: Asia, the West, and the Logic of One World by Kishore Mahbubani
$34.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Since the 1990s, the world's economies have become ever more globalized and interdependent, but political power has not readjusted. Mahbubani shows why power must shift, reflecting the new global realities, to avoid disunity and conflict in our future. Globalization began in earnest in the 1990s with th ...Show more
Payback: The Case for Revenge by Thane Rosenbaum
$39.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
We call it justice - the assassination of Osama bin Laden, the incarceration of corrupt politicians or financiers like Rod Blagojevich and Bernard Madoff, and the climactic slaying of cinema-screen villains by superheroes. But could we not also call it revenge? We are told that revenge is uncivilized an ...Show more