There's a War Going On But No One Can See It by Huib Modderkolk
$22.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
'A brilliant page-turner by one of Holland's finest investigative journalists' Rutger Bregman, author of Humankind' Essential . . . What's revealed are networks of spies and criminals fighting an invisible war that involves us all' Eliot Higgins, bestselling author of We Are Bellingcat Summer 2017: co ...Show more
Defending Women's Spaces by Karen Ingala Smith
$32.95 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
Who counts as a woman? This question lies at the heart of many public debates about sex and gender today. While we increasingly recognise the desire of some to eliminate the sex binary in law, a particular boiling point emerges through conflicting demands over women's spaces. Which should govern access ...Show more
What Women Want by Maxine Mei-Fung Chung
$35.00 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
From a leading psychotherapist comes an electrifying examination into female desire told through the stories of seven very different women. After thirty years of research, Sigmund Freud still felt the great unanswered question was: 'What does a woman want?' Fifteen years into her own journey as a psych ...Show more
Misogynation - The True Scale of Sexism by Laura Bates
$22.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS FROM BESTSELLING AUTHOR AND FOUNDER OF THE EVERYDAY SEXISM PROJECT, LAURA BATES. 'Following [Everyday Sexism] will make most women feel oddly saner.' Caitlin Moran 'Piercingly astute.' Stylist Laura Bates, pioneering feminist, activist and bestselling author, has given voice ...Show more
I, Human: AI, Automation, and the Quest to Reclaim What Makes Us Unique by Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
$49.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
For readers of Sapiens and Homo Deus and viewers of The Social Dilemma, psychologist Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic tackles one of the biggest questions facing our species: Will we use artificial intelligence to improve the way we work and live, or will we allow it to alienate us?It's no secret that AI is chan ...Show more
What Went Wrong? - Case Histories of Process Plant Disasters and How They Could Have Been Avoided by Trevor Kletz; Paul Amyotte
$190.95 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
"What Went Wrong?" has revolutionized the way industry views safety. The new edition continues and extends the wisdom, innovations and strategies of previous editions, by introducing new material on recent incidents, and adding an extensive new section that shows how many accidents occur through simple ...Show more
Still Going Wrong! - Case Histories of Process Plant Disasters and How They Could Have Been Avoided by Trevor Kletz
$94.95 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
This is Trevor Kletz's follow up to his extremely successful What Went Wrong? Case Histories of Process Plant Disasters. In it, Kletz reinforces the messages in his now-classic book of famous case histories, but the majority of the book covers points not covered in the original. This new volume will foc ...Show more
Along Came Google - A History of Library Digitization by Deanna Marcum; Roger C. Schonfeld
$39.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
An incisive history of the controversial Google Books project and the ongoing quest for a universal digital library Libraries have long talked about providing comprehensive access to information for everyone. But when Google announced in 2004 that it planned to digitize books to make the world's knowled ...Show more
A New War on Cancer - The Unlikely Heroes Revolutionizing Prevention by Kristina Marusic; Philip J. Landrigan (Foreword by)
$55.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
For more than fifty years, we have been waging, but not winning, the war on cancer. We're better than ever at treating the disease, yet cancer still claims the lives of one in five men and one in six women in the US. The astonishing news is that up to two-thirds of all cancer cases are linked to prevent ...Show more
LVOE II by Atticus
$39.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
In the highly anticipated follow-up to LVOE: Poems, Epigrams & Aphorisms, three-time New York Times bestselling author Atticus is inviting readers to take a deeper look behind the mask as he continues his powerful journey inward in search of love, peace, and acceptance. LVOE. Volume II is an expand ...Show more
Media Monsters: The Transformation of Australia’s Newspaper Empires by Sally Young
$49.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
In 1941, the paper emperors of the Australian newspaper industry helped bring down Robert Menzies. Over the next 30 years, they grew into media monsters.This book reveals the transformation from the golden age of newspapers during World War II, through Menzies’ return and the rise of television, to Goug ...Show more
White Tears/Brown Scars by Ruby Hamad
$34.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: Social & Cultural history
When white people cry foul it is often people of colour who suffer. White tears have a potency that silences racial minorities. White Tears/Brown Scarsblows open the inconvenient truth that when it comes to race, white entitlement is too often masked by victimhood. Never is this more obvious than the de ...Show more