The Saviour Syndrome: Searching for Hope and Meaning in an Age of Unbelief by John Carroll
$37.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
Who do we look up to? Christ the Savior is no more. In the modern West, the life of the most significant figure in the history of the culture is assumed to be obsolete. What remains? Quite a lot, actually. In this groundbreaking work, acclaimed sociologist John Carroll argues that humans in the Western ...Show more
Women Without Kids by Ruby Warrington
$32.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
What is "woman" if not "mother"?Anything she wants to be.Foregoing motherhood has traditionally marked a woman as "other." With no official place setting for her in our society, she has hovered on the sidelines: the quirky girl, the neurotic career obsessive, the "eccentric" aunt. Instead of continuing ...Show more
On Our Best Behaviour: The Price Women Pay to Be Good by Elise Loehnen
$34.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
'A stunning, big and bold encyclopedia of how to live, the first post-pandemic book to take our latest measurements and provide something fresh to comfort, embolden, enlighten and enrich who we are today' LISA TADDEO Lust. Gluttony. Greed. Sloth. Wrath. Envy. Pride. These so-called 'deadly sins', conse ...Show more
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty by James A. Robinson, Daron Acemoglu
$24.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
This is a provocative bestseller that explains why the world is divided into nations with wildly differing levels of prosperity. Why are some nations more prosperous than others? "Why Nations Fail" sets out to answer this question, with a compelling and elegantly argued new theory: that it is not down t ...Show more
The Kindness Revolution: How we can restore hope, rebuild trust and inspire optimism by Hugh Mackay
$32.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
Generous, erudite, optimistic and candid...Hugh Mackay encourages us to find the best in ourselves and in our society in both good and troubled times. Revolutions never start at the top. If we dare to dream of a more loving country - kinder, more compassionate, more cooperative, more respectful, more i ...Show more
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism by Robin DiAngelo
$22.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
Anger. Fear. Guilt. Denial. Silence. These are the ways in which ordinary white people react when it is pointed out to them that they have done or said something that has - unintentionally - caused racial offence or hurt. After, all, a racist is the worst thing a person can be, right? But these reaction ...Show more
Media Tarts Revised and Updated Edition by Julia Baird
$34.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
Based on a series of extensive interviews - and now revised and updated to reflect current events - Media Tarts provides an in-depth analysis of the influence of a generation of prominent female politicians on the Australian political system and explores the part played by the press in their downfall. ' ...Show more
What About Men? by Caitlin Moran
$35.00 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
A frank, funny and galvanising exploration of masculinity, and a manifesto for male allyship, from million-copy bestseller and feminist powerhouse Caitlin Moran. As any feminist who talks about the problems of girls and women will know, the first question you will ever be asked is 'But what about MEN?' ...Show more
How We Became Human by Tim Dean
$34.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
Over thousands of years, humans have developed mechanisms to help us live together in ever-larger social groups. We developed a set of 'moral emotions' such as empathy, guilt and outrage, as well as a tendency to favour people in our in-groups and a propensity to punish perceived wrongdoers. Our cultur ...Show more
Tides that Bind: Australia in the Pacific (In the National Interest) by Richard Marles
$19.95 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
As the many nations of the Pacific deal with the threat of climate change, including rising sea levels and lessening access to fresh water, they are also suffering from some of the slowest rates of development of any region on earth. Now more than ever, the Pacific needs a champion, and that champion ne ...Show more
Family: Stories of Belonging by Alaina Gougoulis, Ian See
$34.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
An uplifting collection of personal essays celebrating the various forms of family, featuring contributions from some of Australia's most exciting writers and thinkers The storybook idea of family-dad, mum, kids, gran and grandpa-doesn't always reflect the bonds that tie us most closely to one another ...Show more
Idiots, Follies and Misadventures by Mikey Robins
$32.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the universe. Albert Einstein The history books are full of heroes and villains… but what about all the idiots? Comedian and armchair historian Mikey Robins tells the astonishing story of human stupidity, one idiot at a ti ...Show more