The Good-Enough Life by Avram Alpert
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
We live in a world oriented toward greatness, one in which we feel compelled to be among the wealthiest, most powerful, and most famous. Avram Alpert explains why no one truly benefits from this competitive social order and reveals how another way of life is possible-a good-enough life for all. Alpert s ...Show more
We Can Do Better: A Departure into the World of Tomorrow by Maja Gopel
32.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
After her previous book, Rethinking Our World, eloquently untangled the complex world we live in, Maja G pel delivers the encouragement and the tools we need to go into action and build the world we want to live in. Humanity is undergoing a massive process of transformation, and the way we live will cha ...Show more
The City of Today Is a Dying Thing - In Search of the Cities of Tomorrow by Des Fitzgerald
42.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
An unmissable journey into the past, present and future of urban life.
A Land Without Borders: My Journey Around East Jerusalem and the West Bank by Nir Baram
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: General Adult
Award-winning journalist and author Nir Baram spent a year and a half travelling around the West Bank and East Jerusalem. In this fascinating recount of that journey, Baram navigates the conflict-ridden regions and hostile terrain to speak with a wide range of people, among them Palestinian-Israeli citi ...Show more
All About Love by Bell Hooks
24.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Love Song to the Nation
THE ACCLAIMED FIRST VOLUME IN HER "LOVE SONG TO THE NATION" "The word 'love' is most often defined as a noun, yet . . . we would all love better if we used it as a verb," writes bell hooks as she comes out fighting and on fire in All About Love. Here, at her most provocative and intensely personal, the ...Show more
Class: A Graphic Guide by Laura Harvey, Sarah Leaney
35.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Graphic Guides
What do we mean by social class in the 21st century?
The Power of Ideas Words of Faith and Wisdom by Jonathan Sacks
24.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
'One of the world's great voices for moral, spiritual, and historical awareness and for global peace' - The John Templeton Foundation 'One of the great moral thinkers of our time' - Robert D. Putnam, author of Bowling Alone With a foreword by HRH The Prince of Wales Following his death in Nov ...Show more
Misbelief: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things by Dan Ariely
36.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Misinformation affects us daily, from social media to politics and even personal relationships. Policing social media alone cannot solve the complex problem shaped by partisan politics and subjective interpretations of truth. In Misbelief social scientist Dan Ariely explores the behaviour of 'misbelief ...Show more
The Social Brain - The Psychology of Successful Groups by Tracey Camilleri; Samantha Rockey; Robin Dunbar
29.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
'A remarkable and important book . . . a highly accessible, timely and invaluable guide to anybody working in groups.' Prof Paul Gilbert OBE ___________________________________________________ How many people does the ideal team contain? How do groups bond, earn trust and forge shared identities? How ca ...Show more
In The Freud Archives by Janet Malcolm
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Who will inherit the secrets of Sigmund Freud? Who will protect his reputation? Who may destroy it? Janet Malcolm's investigation into the personalities who clash over Freud's legacy has become a celebrated story of seduction and betrayal, love and hatred, fantasy and reality. It is both a comedy and a ...Show more
The White Album by Joan Didion
19.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
An extraordinary report on the aftermath of the 1960s in America by the New York Times-bestselling author of South and West and Slouching Towards Bethlehem.In this landmark essay collection, Joan Didion brilliantly interweaves her own "bad dreams" with those of a nation confronting the dark underside of ...Show more
The History of Philosophy by A. C. Grayling
24.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
The first authoritative and accessible single-volume history of philosophy to cover both Western and Eastern traditions, from one of the world's most eminent thinkers The story of philosophy is an epic tale, spanning civilizations and continents. It explores some of the most creative minds in history. B ...Show more