Dismal Diplomacy, Disposable Sovereignty: Our Problem with China & America by Carrillo Gantner
$19.95 AUD
Category: Culture & Society | Series: In the National Interest
As ‘America’s shoeshine boy in the South Pacific’, Australia is accustomed to being told what to do. In the space of a mere five years, the subjugation of Australia’s national interest to that of the United States in provoking China under president Trump led us very quickly into a hostile relationship w ...Show more
The Shortest History of Economics: The Powerful Story of Economic Ideas and Forces that Shape Our World by Andrew Leigh
$26.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Society
'The secret of economics is that the most powerful insights come from a handful of big ideas that anyone can follow.' This small book tells a big story. From ancient times to the modern world, The Shortest History of Economics unearths the hidden economic forces behind war, innovation and social transf ...Show more
The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time by Yascha Mounk
$55.00 AUD
Category: Culture & Society
The origins, consequences and limitations of an ideology that has quickly become highly influential around the world. For much of their history, societies have violently oppressed ethnic, religious and sexual minorities. It is no surprise then that many who passionately believe in social justice have co ...Show more
The Life You Can Save by Peter Singer
$24.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Society
In this Tenth Anniversary Edition of The Life You Can Save, Peter Singer brings his landmark book up to date. In addition to restating his compelling arguments about how we should respond to extreme poverty, he examines the progress we are making and recounts how the first edition transformed the lives ...Show more
Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic by Simon Winchester
$34.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Society
From the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kindergarten classes—here is award-winning writer Simon Winchester’s brilliant and all-encompassing look at how humans acquire, retain, and pass on information and data, and how technology continues to change our li ...Show more
The Soul of a Woman by Isabel Allende
$22.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Society
The wise, warm, defiant new book from literary legend Isabel Allende – a meditation on power, feminism and what it means to be a woman. When I say that I was a feminist in kindergarten, I am not exaggerating. As a child, Isabel Allende watched her mother, abandoned by her husband, provide for her three ...Show more
Rogue Corporations: Inside Australia’s biggest business scandals by Quentin Beresford
$34.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Society
Crown Casino, the Bond Group, James Hardie, HIH Insurance, Geoffrey Edelsten’s Allied Medical Group, 7 Eleven and Rio Tinto, the list goes on…Award-winning author Quentin Beresford has dissected the rise and fall of the Gunns logging company and analysed the proposed Adani mine and our greatest river sy ...Show more
Burma Sahib by Paul Theroux
$34.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Society
From renowned author Paul Theroux comes the fascinating, atmospheric tale of George Orwell's years in Burma. 'There is a short period in everyone's life when his character is fixed forever.' - George Orwell Before George Orwell was Orwell - the pen name he took on becoming a writer - he was Eric Blair ...Show more
Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick
$24.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Society
James Gleick, the author of the bestsellers Chaos and Genius, brings us his crowning work: a revelatory chronicle that shows how information has become the modern era's defining quality--the blood, the fuel, the vital principle of our world. We live in the information age. But every era of history has h ...Show more
The Mutant Project - Inside the Global Race to Genetically Modify Humans by Eben Kirksey
$32.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Society
An anthropologist visits the frontiers of the next scientific revolution to ask- whose values are guiding gene editing experiments, and what are the implications for humanity? At a conference in Hong Kong in November 2018, Dr He Jiankui announced that he had created the first genetically modified babies ...Show more
Tightrope - Americans Reaching for Hope by Nicholas D. Kristof; Sheryl WuDunn
$29.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Society
New York Times Best Seller "A deft and uniquely credible exploration of rural America, and of other left-behind pockets of our country. One of the most important books I've read on the state of our disunion."--Tara Westover, author of Educated With stark poignancy and political dispassion Tightrop ...Show more
Renewal: Five Paths to a Fairer Australia by Sophie Cousins
$29.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Society
The COVID-19 pandemic has with great speed fundamentally altered the world in which we live. The changes it has wrought are of a type and on a scale unseen by most people alive. We are realising the truths we understood as immutable, the basis of our social order, are not rigid and inevitable, but const ...Show more