Love and Hunger: Thoughts on the Gift of Food by Charlotte Wood
$33.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Love and Hunger is a distillation of everything Charlotte Wood has learned over more than twenty years about cooking and the pleasures of simple food well made. In this age of gastro-porn and the fetishisation of food, the pressure to be as expert as the chefs we've turned into celebrities can feel over ...Show more
Deep Water: The World in the Ocean by James Bradley
$37.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Through history, science, nature writing, and environmentalism, Deep Water invites you to explore the deepest recesses of our natural world. 'Teeming with mysteries, wonders and heartbreaking facts, this beautiful, lucid hymn to the sea is a reminder of what we still have, what we stand to lose, and why ...Show more
The Way We Are: Lessons from a lifetime of listening by Hugh Mackay
$35.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Australia's leading social psychologist examines our society today and asks timely and urgent questions about its future Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain.Yet none of our differences-whether based on ethnicity, politics, religion,cultural tastes and preferences, or gender ...Show more
The Privileged Few by Clive Hamilton, Myra Hamilton
$36.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Male and white privilege are on the decline, yet elite privilege has gone from strength to strength. The privileges enjoyed by the rich and powerful are not only unfair but cause widespread harm, from the everyday slights and humiliations visited on those lower down to the distortions in the labour mark ...Show more
Thinking in Pictures - Adventures in Trying to Be Smart by Michael Blastland
$35.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
An original and witty guide to the world of smart-thinking that uses pictures to show where it goes right and wrong, by the creator of BBC Radio 4's More or Less.
Kin: Family in the 21st century by Marina Kamenev
$37.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Written by journalist Marina Kamenev, Kin: Family in the 21st century is an incisive and powerful look at how families are created today, and how they might be created in the future. Here’s an exercise: take a piece of paper. Grab a pen, pencil, crayon — any drawing utensil within reach. Now, draw a ty ...Show more
Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture by Kyle Chayka
$37.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
From one of the New Yorker's most exciting young writers: a brilliant breakdown of how algorithms have shaped our physical and artistic worlds. The early promise of a free Internet is long gone. Now, rather than allowing us a meaningful relationship with a range of content of our choosing, algorithms ha ...Show more
We Can Do Better: A Departure into the World of Tomorrow by Maja Gopel
$33.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
After her previous book, Rethinking Our World, eloquently untangled the complex world we live in, Maja G pel delivers the encouragement and the tools we need to go into action and build the world we want to live in. Humanity is undergoing a massive process of transformation, and the way we live will cha ...Show more
Just Friends: On the joy, influence and power of friendship by Gyan Yankovich
$35.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Voice memos, care packages, hours-long phone conversations, treasured traditions that go back decades, glasses held aloft during wedding toasts, hands held at funerals, first cuddles with newborns, work lunches with work wives, taking it to the group chat - our friendships touch and enrich every part of ...Show more
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari
$25.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER Sapiens shows us where we came from. Homo Deus shows us where we're going. Yuval Noah Harari envisions a near future in which we face a new set of challenges. Homo Deus explores the projects, dreams and nightmares that will shape the twenty-first century and beyond - from ove ...Show more
Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia by David Graeber
$25.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
One of The New Yorker's Best Books of 2023 The final book from David Graeber, the iconic intellectual, activist, and co-author of the New York Times bestseller, The Dawn of Everything. Pirates have long lived in the realm of romance and fantasy, symbolizing risk, lawlessness, and radical visions of free ...Show more
What Every Radical Should Know About State Repression: a Guide for activists by Victor Serge
$33.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
This classic manual on repression by revolutionary activist Victor Serge offers fascinating anecdotes about the tactics of police provocateurs and an analysis of the documents of the tsarist secret police in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution. With a new introduction by Howard Zinn collaborator and ...Show more