The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee
$32.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
What would make a society drain its public swimming baths and fill them with concrete rather than opening them to everyone? Political researcher Heather McGhee sets out across America to learn why white voters so often act against their own interests. Why do they block changes that would help them, and ...Show more
Hype by Gabrielle Bluestone
$32.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
From Vice journalist and executive producer of hit Netflix documentary Fyre comes an eye-opening look at the con artists, grifters and snake oil salesmen of the digital age--and why we can't stop falling for them. We live in an age where scams are the new normal. A charismatic entrepreneur sells thousa ...Show more
Sex and Lies by Leila Slimani
$27.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought | Reading Level: very good
The first work of non-fiction in English from the prize-winning and internationally bestselling author of Lullaby and Adèle In these essays, Leila Slimani gives voice to young Moroccan women who are grappling with a conservative Arab culture that at once condemns and commodifies sex. In a country where ...Show more
I Want You To Know We're Still Here - My family, the holocaust and my search for truth by Esther Safran Foer
$32.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought | Reading Level: very good
A moving and powerful inter-generational memoir about story and memory. Mine is a family of readers and writers. Our house is filled with books. There are contemporary design books on the coffee table in the living room, legal books in my husband's home office, and piles of children's books for when my ...Show more
The Verso Book of Feminism - Revolutionary Words from Four Millennia of Rebellion by Jessie Kindig (Editor)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
An unprecedented collection of feminist voices from four millennia of global history. Throughout written history and across the world, women have protested the restrictions of gender and the limitations placed on women's bodies and women's lives. People-of any and no gender-have protested and theorized ...Show more
Notes on an Exodus by Richard Flanagan
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Category: Social Thought
Notes on the exodus of refugees from Syria, by Man Booker Prize winner Richard Flanagan. With illustrations from Archibald Prize winner Ben Quilty. In January 2016 Richard Flanagan and Ben Quilty travelled to Lebanon, Greece, and Serbia to follow the river that is the exodus of our age: that of refugees ...Show more
Still Lucky: Why you should feel optomistic about Australia and its people by Rebecca Huntley
$35.00 AUD
Category: Social Thought
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What Is Your Dangerous Idea?: Today's Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable by John Brockman
$24.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought | Series: Edge Question Series
The world's leading scientific thinkers explore bold, remarkable, perilous ideas that could change our lives--for better . . . or for worse . . .From Copernicus to Darwin, to current-day thinkers, scientists have always promoted theories and unveiled discoveries that challenge everything society holds d ...Show more
Better than Sex: Women write about sex and romance in the digital age by Samantha Trenoweth
$29.95 AUD
Category: Social Thought
In an age that mashes internet porn with Tinder and arranged marriage, in an age in which everything (sexuality, gender, consent) seems fluid, what does the landscape of love look like, really? And how are the seismic jolts in the ways we negotiate sex and romance affecting women? In the third book in S ...Show more
Shrill - Notes from a Loud Woman by Lindy West
$22.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
Condition: **NEW** 'Women are told, from birth, that it's our job to be small: physically small, small in our presence, and small in our impact on the world. We're supposed to spend our lives passive, quiet and hungry. I want to obliterate that expectation...' Guardian columnist Lindy West wasn't alway ...Show more
The Kingdom of Speech by Tom Wolfe
$19.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
"A great journalist with a whip-like satirical prose style...Wolfe's great gift is to make the heavy seem light and this book is such an entertaining polemic that I read it in a day and immediately wanted to read it again." (Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times). Tom Wolfe, whose legend began in journalism, ta ...Show more
The Well-Tempered City: What Modern Science, Ancient Civilizations, and Human Nature Teach Us About the Future of Urban Life by Jonathan F. P. Rose
$34.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
2017 PROSE Award Winner: Outstanding Scholarly Work by a Trade Publisher In the vein of Jane Jacobs’s The Death and Life of Great American Cities and Edward Glaeser’s Triumph of the City, Jonathan F. P. Rose—a visionary in urban development and renewal—champions the role of cities in addressing the ...Show more