Women Don't Owe You Pretty: The record-breaking best-selling book every woman needs by Florence Given
$29.99 AUD
Category: Social Discourse
Women Don't Owe You Pretty tells you to love sex, hate sexism, protect your goddamn energy, life is short, dump them, and that you owe men nothing, least of all pretty. Florence's debut book explores all progressive corners of the feminist conversation; from insecurity projection and refusing to find co ...Show more
No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison by Behrouz Boochani
$24.99 AUD
Category: Social Discourse
'Our government jailed his body, but his soul remained that of a free man.' Richard Flanagan Where have I come from? From the land of rivers, the land of waterfalls, the land of ancient chants, the land of mountains... Since 2013, Kurdish journalist Behrouz Boochani has been held in the Manus Island off ...Show more
Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion by Alain de Botton
$27.99 AUD
Category: Social Discourse
From the author of The Architecture of Happiness, a bold argument on how we can still benefit, without believing, from the wisdom, the beauty, and the consolatory power that religion has to offer. What if religions are neither all true nor all nonsense? The long-running and often boring debate between ...Show more
Murder in the Gulag - The Life and Death of Alexei Navalny by John Sweeney
$34.99 AUD
Category: Social Discourse
Beginning with the mystery of Alexei Navalny's murder in the Arctic Wolf penal colony in a remote part of Siberia, the book will tell the life story of the Russian opposition leader who was a perpetual thorn in the side of Vladimir Putin. It will be a warts-and-all biography of Navalny, a highly charism ...Show more
The Skill Code: How To Save Human Ability In An Age Of Intelligent Machines by Matt Beane
$34.99 AUD
Category: Social Discourse
From one of the world's top researchers on work and technology comes an insightful and surprising guide to protecting your skill in a world filling with AI and robots. Think of your most valuable skill, the thing you can reliably do under pressure to deliver results. How did you learn it Whatever your ...Show more
Mental State by Dr Mark Cross
$35.99 AUD
Category: Social Discourse
"Psychiatrist Dr Mark Cross has spent most of his adult life working in the mental health system. He also suffers from anxiety, as do three out of four Australians at some point in their lives, so he knows first-hand the challenges, successes and failures facing both patients and professionals. What he ...Show more
The Forever War by Nick Bryant
$36.99 AUD
Category: Social Discourse
As we approach the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the American experiment is failing. Division, mistrust and misinformation are now its defining characteristics. The storming of the Capitol, the overturning of Roe v. Wade and the increasing spotlight on Second Amendment rights rai ...Show more
Bad Luck And Trouble: (Jack Reacher #11) by Lee Child
$22.99 AUD
Category: Social Discourse
** REACHER SEASON 2: BAD LUCK AND TROUBLE coming soon to Prime video **"The invincible Reacher is as irresistible as ever." (Sunday Telegraph)You do not mess with Jack Reacher.He is as close to untraceable as a person can get. A loner comfortable in his anonymity and solitude. So when a member of his ol ...Show more
How to Be a Citizen: Learning to Rely Less on Rules and More on Each Other by C.L. Skach
$29.99 AUD
Category: Social Discourse
We believe that rules and laws are in place to protect us. They are what keep our societies from descending into chaos. Without them, how would we know our right from wrong, live comfortably in our communities and be good neighbours to one another? C.L. Skach feels differently. She always believed in th ...Show more
Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis
$36.99 AUD
Category: Social Discourse
The world-famous #1 bestselling economist explains how capitalism has been usurped by a technologically enhanced form of feudalism. No one noticed when capitalism died. Perhaps we were too distracted by the implosion of global finance, or the rise of populism, or the demise of the planet - or all of th ...Show more
Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity by Simon Johnson, Daron Acemoglu
$34.99 AUD
Category: Social Discourse
Throughout history, technological change - whether in the form of agricultural improvements in the Middle Ages, the Industrial Revolution, or today's artificial intelligence - has been viewed as a main driver of prosperity, working in the public interest. The reality, though, is that technology is shape ...Show more
Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces 2004-2021 by Margaret Atwood
$29.99 AUD
Category: Social Discourse
An exhilarating collection of non-fiction from the bestselling, double Booker Prize-winning phenomenon that is Margaret Atwood From cultural icon Margaret Atwood comes a brilliant collection of essays -- funny, erudite, endlessly curious, uncannily prescient -- which seek answers to Burning Questions su ...Show more