Do Humankind's Best Days Lie Ahead? by Steven Pinker Malcolm Gladwell Alain De Botton Matt Ridley
16.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
From the Enlightenment onwards, the West has had an enduring belief that through the evolution of institutions, innovations, and ideas, the human condition is improving. This process is supposedly accelerating as new technologies, individual freedoms, and the spread of global norms empower individuals a ...Show more
No Such Thing as a Free Gift - The Gates Foundation and the Price of Philanthropy by Linsey McGoey
19.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Reading Level: very good
The charitable sector is one of the fastest-growing industries in the global economy. Nearly half of the more than 85,000 private foundations in the United States have come into being since the year 2000. Just under 5,000 more were established in 2011 alone. This deluge of philanthropy has helped create ...Show more
Beyond the Vapour Trail by Brett Pierce
29.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
A two year old girl is abandoned on the streets of Ulaan Bataar with a bag of clothes and a note pinned to her: 'Please take care of me ...'Twelve year old Betty, alone looking after her dying mother, is kidnapped to become a child soldier ...An Australian aid worker finds himself off the tourist map co ...Show more
The Atheist Muslim by Ali A. Rizvi
35.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
In much of the Muslim world, religion is the central foundation upon which family, community, morality, and identity are built. The inextricable embedment of religion in Muslim culture has forced a new generation of non-believing Muslims to face the heavy costs of abandoning their parents' religion: dis ...Show more
2020: World of War by Paul Cornish
35.00 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
The year is 2020 and civilisation is on the verge of a Third World War. Will the Russian invasion of the Arctic trigger the military response called for in the NATO treaty? Will the simultaneous Chinese cyber-attack on the Pentagon cripple the world's biggest military machine? Who's arming the refugees ...Show more
Invisibility Blues: From Pop to Theory by Michele Wallace
19.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Radical Thinkers
First published in 1990, Michele Wallace's Invisibility Blues is widely regarded as a landmark in the history of black feminism. Wallace's considerations of the black experience in America include recollections of her early life in Harlem; a look at the continued underrepresentation of black voices in p ...Show more
Upstream: Selected Essays by Mary Oliver
49.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
In the beginning I was so young and such a stranger to myself I hardly existed. I had to go out into the world and see it and hear it and react to it, before I knew at all who I was, what I was, what I wanted to be. So begins Upstream, a collection of essays in which beloved poet Mary Oliver reflects on ...Show more
One Toss of the Dice: The Incredible Story of How a Poem Made Us Modern by R. Howard Bloch
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
The forerunner of our digital age, a French poem about a shipwreck published in 1897, with its mind-bending possibilities of being read up and down, backwards and forwards, even sideways, launched modernism. Stephane Mallarme's "One Toss of the Dice" has for over a century tantalised everyone from physi ...Show more
Inside Scientology: The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion by Janet Reitman
29.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Scientology, created in 1954 by a prolific sci-fi writer named L. Ron Hubbard, claims to be the world's fastest growing religion, with millions of members around the world and huge financial holdings. Its celebrity believers keep its profile high, and its teams of "volunteer ministers" offer aid at disa ...Show more
The Art of the Affair: An Illustrated History of Love, Sex, and Artistic Influence by Catherine Lacey
28.00 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Poet Robert Lowell died of a heart attack, clutching a portrait of his lover, Caroline Blackwood, painted by her ex-husband, Lucian Freud. Lowell was on his way to see his own ex-wife, Elizabeth Hardwick, who was a longtime friend of Mary McCarthy. McCarthy left the father of her child to marry Edmund W ...Show more
Why I am Not a Feminist: A Feminist Manifesto by Jessa Crispin
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Outspoken critic Jessa Crispin delivers a searing rejection of contemporary feminism . . . and a bracing manifesto for revolution. Are you a feminist? Do you believe women are human beings and that they deserve to be treated as such? That women deserve all the same rights and liberties bestowed upon m ...Show more
Born Digital: How Children Grow Up in a Digital Age by John Palfrey
26.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
The first generation of children who were born into and raised in the digital world are coming of age and reshaping the world in their image. Our economy, our politics, our culture, and even the shape of our family life are being transformed. But who are these wired young people? And what is the world t ...Show more