Men at Work: Australia's Parenthood Trap by Annabel Crabb
$22.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
When New Zealand's prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, announced her pregnancy, the headlines raced around the world. But when Scott Morrison and Josh Frydenberg became the first prime minister and treasurer duo since the 1970s to take on their roles while bringing up young children, this detail passed larg ...Show more
Untold Resilience by Future Women
$32.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
We are not the first generation to live through something as seismic and all-encompassing as the coronavirus pandemic, even though it can feel right now like we are. But when it comes to the stories of the wars, financial crises and diseases that have threatened our societies in the past century, most ...Show more
Badly Behaved Women Seldom Make History - A Cultural History of Modern Feminism by Anna-Maria Crowhurst
$49.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
Badly Behaved Womenis the illustrated story of the past 100 years of the women's movement, from suffrage, alleged bra burning and the politics of hair to Beyoncé, body positivity and #MeToo. In the early twentieth century, through ceaseless dedication and fearless campaigning, the women's movement achie ...Show more
Animals Make Us Human by Leah Kaminsky; Meg Keneally
$29.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
Through words and images, writers, photographers and researchers reflect on their connection with animals and nature. They share moments of wonder and revelation from encounters in the natural world- seeing a wild platypus at play, an echidna dawdling across a bush track, or the inexplicable leap of a t ...Show more
Head Hand Heart - The Struggle for Dignity and Status in the 21st Century by David Goodhart
$39.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
A good society needs a balance between aptitudes relating to Head (cognitive), Hand (manual/craft) and Heart (caring/emotional). In recent decades in Western societies they have got out of kilter. One form of human aptitude -cognitive ability - has become the gold standard of human esteem. The cognitive ...Show more
Can't Even - How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation by Anne Helen Petersen
$35.00 AUD
Category: Social Thought
A BEST BOOK OF THE FALL AS SEEN IN:Apartment Therapy *Book Riot *Business Insider *BuzzFeed *Daily Nebraskan *Entertainment Weekly *Esquire *Fortune *Harper's Bazaar *HelloGiggles *LinkedIn *O Magazine *Time Magazine"[A] razor sharp book of cultural criticism...With blistering prose and all-too vivid re ...Show more
The Species That Changed Itself: How Prosperity Reshaped Humanity by Edwin Gale
$39.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
An inquisitive, expansive and fascinating exploration of humans as creatures of our own making Other species adapt to their environments; we alone create ours. Over generations, we have remade the world to suit ourselves - using improved knowledge and technology to confront the traditional scourges - a ...Show more
On Charlatans by Chris Bowen
$16.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought | Series: On Ser.
Chris Bowen, who was to be the next Treasurer has had plenty of time to think about what went wrong and why charlatans are winning in the game of politics. Why do we continue to vote for politicians who say, 'I don't hold a hose, mate,' or advocate we drink bleach to fight COVID? Or shut down pubs at 10 ...Show more
Why Women Are Poorer Than Men and What We Can Do About It by WILLIAMS ANNABELLE
$35.00 AUD
Category: Social Thought
Money gives us freedom.It gives us choices . . .But why is it women are nearly always poorer than men?The modern world is rigged unfairly in men's favour. From pensions to the tampon tax, bearing children to boardroom bullying, Why Women Are Poorer Than Men shows how society conspires to limit women's w ...Show more
The Bomber Mafia - A Story Set in War by Malcolm Gladwell
$35.00 AUD
Category: Social Thought | Reading Level: very good
A riveting tale of persistence, innovation, and the incalculable wages of war, from the international bestselling author of Talking to Strangers and host of the award-winning podcast Revisionist History Most military thinkers in the years leading up to World War II saw the airplane as an afterthought. B ...Show more
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