She Speaks: The Power of Women's Voices by Yvette Cooper
$24.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
A powerful celebration of 30 brilliant speeches by women throughout the ages, from Joan of Arc to Michelle Obama, that have inspired change and altered the course of history. Looking at the greatest speeches of all time, you'd be forgiven for thinking that Elizabeth I and Boudica were about the only wo ...Show more
The Feminist Quiz Book - Test Your Knowledge of the Women Your Teachers Forgot About by Sara Pascoe, Sian Meades-Williams, Laura Brown
$24.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
Test your knowledge with over 100 questions on feminist history from around the world! Test your friends and family on what they really know, and find out what your teachers should have taught you... Delve into the fascinating history of women who refused, dared, led, asked and discovered, from Queen E ...Show more
Mediocre - The Dangerous Legacy of White Male Power by Ijeoma Oluo
$32.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought | Reading Level: near fine
From the author of the Sunday Times and number 1 New York Times bestseller So You Want to Talk About Race, a subversive history of white male American identity. 'Deftly combines history and sociological study with personal narrative, and the result is both uncomfortable and illuminating' Washington Post ...Show more
Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class by Owen Jones
$22.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
In modern Britain, the working class has become an object of fear and ridicule. From Little Britain's Vicky Pollard to the demonization of Jade Goody, media and politicians alike dismiss as feckless, criminalized and ignorant a vast, underprivileged swathe of society whose members have become stereotype ...Show more
Artificial Intimacy: Virtual friends, Digital Lovers and Algorithmic Matchmakers by Rob Brooks
$32.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
People have long told machines what to do by pushing buttons. Now, with advances in technology, machines are pushing our buttons.In Artificial Intimacy, evolutionary biologist Rob Brooks takes us from the origins of human behaviour to the latest in artificially intelligent technologies, providing a fres ...Show more
Awakening - #MeToo and the Global Fight for Women's Rights by Meighan Stone; Vogelstein
$32.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
All over the world, #MeToo inspired generations of women to fight in new ways for their rights. Yet so far, the news is dominated by narratives of celebrities and politicians in the US and UK. These are the stories you haven't heard. Stories of campaigning in the face of censorship, arrest and murder. S ...Show more
The Alignment Problem - How Can Artificial Intelligence Learn Human Values? by Brian Christian
$22.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
How do we prevent AI working against us?
Torpor by Chris Kraus
$19.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought | Reading Level: very good
In 1991, unhappily married Sylvie and her husband set off on a journey across Eastern Europe in search of a Romanian orphan to adopt. Sylvie wanted to believe that misery could simply be replaced with happiness. Time was a straight line, stretching out before you. If you could create a golden kind of ti ...Show more
Farmageddon - The True Cost of Cheap Meat by Philip Lymbery
$19.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
Farm animals have been disappearing from our fields as the production of food has become a global industry. We no longer know for certain what is entering the food chain and what we are eating - as the UK horsemeat scandal demonstrated. We are reaching a tipping point as the farming revolution threatens ...Show more
Stuffocation - Living More with Less by James Wallman
$24.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
In this groundbreaking book, trend forecaster James Wallman reveals the world's growing sense of Stuffocation - and how we can move away from it 'Like The Tipping Point meets Freakonomics - but with a huge idea at its heart' Sunday Times We have more stuff than we could ever need - clothes we don't we ...Show more
Atheists: The Origin of the Species by Nick Spencer
$35.00 AUD
Category: Social Thought
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Speaking Out: A 21st-Century Handbook for Women and Girls by Tara Moss
$22.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
An accessible and practical handbook for women on speaking out safely and confidently. Worldwide, less than one out of every four people we hear from or about in the media is female and men outnumber women in parliament by more than three to one. If half of humanity's experiences, perspectives and poss ...Show more