The Purpose of Power - How to Build Movements for the 21st Century by Alicia Garza
35.00 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Reading Level: very good
In a powerful exploration of recent racial history, the co-founder of Black Lives Matter examines the moment we're in, how we got here, and how together we can build movements to create a just and equal world. Black Lives Matter began as a hashtag when Alicia Garza wrote what she calls 'a love letter to ...Show more
Do Make - The Power of Your Own Two Hands (Do Book Co.) by James Otter
27.00 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Do Book Co.
We are all makers. From brewing our morning coffee to folding a paper aeroplane, we find it satisfying to create something that didn't exist before. And it isn't just about the outcome. Making requires us to slow down and become absorbed in the process: an antidote to our fast-paced world.James Otter is ...Show more
Think Least of Death - Spinoza on How to Live and How to Die by Steven Nadler
29.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Princeton ANZ Paperbacks Ser.
From Pulitzer Prize-finalist Steven Nadler, an engaging guide to what Spinoza can teach us about life's big questions In 1656, after being excommunicated from Amsterdam's Portuguese-Jewish community for "abominable heresies" and "monstrous deeds," the young Baruch Spinoza abandoned his family's impo ...Show more
Men's Business Women's Business by Hannah Rachel Bell
26.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Beautiful stories of life in Australian Aboriginal society--where gender influences every aspect of existence--that show a new way to find happiness in our modern Western culture.
Skin Deep - Dispelling the Science of Race by Gavin Evans
22.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Everything you need to know about race (but were afraid to ask).MYTH- Early Europeans were white.REALITY- The first Europeans had dark skin, black, curly hair and blue eyes.MYTH- Between 50,000 and 70,000 years ago, a 'cognitive revolution' led to the birth of culture in Europe.REALITY- Modern intellige ...Show more
Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism by Kathleen Stock
32.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Material Girls presents a timely and opinionated critique of the culturally influential theory that we each have an inner feeling about our sex called a gender identity, and that this feeling is more socially significant than our actual biological sex. It makes a clear and humane feminist case for retai ...Show more
Friends by Robin Dunbar
32.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Friends matter to us, and they matter more than we think. The single most surprising fact to emerge out of the medical literature over the last decade or so has been that the number and quality of the friendships we have has a bigger influence on our happiness, health and even mortality risk than anythi ...Show more
Shakespeare in a Divided America by James Shapiro
22.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
From the author of 1599, a fresh perspective on the history of the United States - and a timely reminder of Shakespeare's indelible influence.
Happiness: A Very Short Introduction by Daniel M. Haybron
22.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Very Short Introductions
Happiness is an everyday term in our lives, and most of us strive to be happy. But defining happiness can be difficult. In this Very Short Introduction, Dan Haybron considers the true nature of happiness. By examining what it is, assessing its subjective values, its importance in our lives, and how we c ...Show more
Fact and Fiction by Bertrand Russell
29.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Routledge Classics
First published in 1961, Fact and Fiction is a collection of Bertrand Russell's essays that reflect on the books and writings that influenced his life, including fiction, essays on politics and education, divertissements and parables. Also broaching on the highly controversial issues of war and peace, i ...Show more
12 Bytes - How We Got Here. Where We Might Go Next by Jeanette Winterson
48.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Twelve eye-opening, mind-expanding, funny and provocative essays on the implications of artificial intelligence for the way we live and the way we love - from Sunday Times-bestselling author Jeanette Winterson 'Briskly and breezily, 12 Bytes joins the dots in a neglected narrative of female scientists, ...Show more
The Inevitable: Dispatches on the Right to Die by Katie Engelhart
29.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
A compelling and beautifully written exploration of the topic which breaks all taboos: assisted death. Meet Adam. He's twenty-seven years old, articulate and attractive. He also wants to die. Should he be helped? In The Inevitable, award-winning journalist Katie Engelhart explores one of our most abidin ...Show more