On the Meaning of Sex - Thoughts about the New Definition of Woman by Kajsa Ekis Ekman
$39.95 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
A new definition of woman has taken hold in Western societies. Instead of a matter of biology and material reality, we are told it is an identity. Anyone who declares herself to be a woman is a woman; the body has henceforth become irrelevant. Gender, we are told, is a spectrum, and it resides in the mi ...Show more
The Dark Cloud: How the Digital World Is Costing the Earth by Guillaume Pitron
$35.00 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
A gripping new investigation into the underbelly of digital technology, which addresses the pressing question of the carbon footprint it leaves behind. In a sort of news thriller, the author reveals not only how costly the virtual world is, but how damaging it is to the environment. A simple 'like' sent ...Show more
Brainwashed: A New History of Thought Control by Daniel Pick
$24.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
'A frankly brilliant book' The Guardian'An extraordinarily engrossing and wide-ranging analysis of a word and a concept. I fell under its spell immediately' Simon GarfieldIn 1953, a group of prisoners of war who had fought against the communist invasion of South Korea were released. They chose - apparen ...Show more
Growing Up Disabled in Australia by Carly Findlay
$29.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: Growing Up
'My body and its place in the world seemed quite normal to me.' 'I didn't grow up disabled, I grew up with a problem. A problem those around me wanted to fix.' 'We have all felt that uncanny sensation that someone is watching us.' 'The diagnosis helped but it didn't fix everything.' 'Don't fear the labe ...Show more
Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis
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Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Ranging from the age of slavery to contemporary injustices, this groundbreaking history of race, gender and class inequality by the radical political activist Angela Davis offers an alternative view of female struggles for liberation. Tracing the intertwined histories of the abolitionist and women's suf ...Show more
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
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Category: Culture & Ideas
The acclaimed bestseller that will change the way you make decisions.In Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahneman takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think and make choices. One system is fast, intuitive, and emotional; the other is slower, more delib ...Show more
You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters by Kate Murphy
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Category: Culture & Ideas
When was the last time you listened to someone, or someonereally listened to you?"If you're like most people, you don't listen as often or as well as you'd like. There's no one better qualified than a talented journalist to introduce you to the right mindset and skillset--and this book does it with scie ...Show more
On Eating Meat - The truth about its production and the ethics of eating it by Matthew Evans
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Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: Truth About Production and Should We Eat It?
A scorching manifesto on the ethics of eating meat by the best placed person to write about it - farmer and chef Matthew Evans, aka The Gourmet Farmer. 'Compelling, illuminating and often confronting, On Eating Meat is a brilliant blend of a gastronome's passion with forensic research into the sources o ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 91: Lifeboat: Disability, Humanity and the NDIS by Micheline Lee
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Category: Culture & Ideas
What ails the NDIS? In this powerful essay, Micheline Lee tells the story of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), a transformative social change that ran into problems. For some users it has been an "oasis in the desert," but for others it has meant still more exclusion. Lee explains how a ...Show more
The Other Pandemic: How QAnon Contaminated the World by James Ball
$34.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist James Ball takes us into the depths of the internet to trace the origins and rapid ascent of QAnon, the movement that mutated from a niche online conspiracy theory into the world's first digital pandemic.*A Financial Times Book to Read in 2023* Imagine a ...Show more
Griffith Review 84: Attachment Styles
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Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: Griffith Review Ser.
The attachments we form shape our experience of the world and our understanding of who we are. ‘Hell is other people', wrote Jean-Paul Sartre, his point being less about misanthropy and more about how entwined our self-perception is with the ways in which others perceive us. And alongside our personal r ...Show more
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari
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Category: Culture & Ideas
THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER Sapiens shows us where we came from. Homo Deus shows us where we're going. Yuval Noah Harari envisions a near future in which we face a new set of challenges. Homo Deus explores the projects, dreams and nightmares that will shape the twenty-first century and beyond - from ove ...Show more