The Cure for Hate - A Former White Supremacist's Journey from Violent Extremism to Radical Compassion by Tony McAleer
$29.99 AUD
Category: Social & Cultural Notes
How does an affluent, middle-class, private-school-attending son of a doctor end up at the Aryan Nations compound in Idaho, falling in with and then recruiting for some of the most notorious neo-Nazi groups in Canada and the United States? The Cure for Hate paints a very human picture of a young man ...Show more
How Innovation Works by Matt Ridley
$24.99 AUD
Category: Social & Cultural Notes
'Ridley is spot-on when it comes to the vital ingredients for success' Sir James Dyson Building on his bestseller The Rational Optimist, Matt Ridley chronicles the history of innovation, and how we need to change our thinking on the subject. Innovation is the main event of the modern age, the reason we ...Show more
The Digital Revolution: A Survival Guide (In the National Interest) by Simon Wilkie
$19.95 AUD
Category: Social & Cultural Notes | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
The Fourth Industrial Revolution, the digital disruption of business by the information and communications sectors, is well underway in Australia and around the globe. The COVID-19 pandemic has only accelerated the pace of change. We are witnessing a proliferation of new platforms and new markets, with ...Show more
What Really Happened In Wuhan: A Virus Like No Other, Countless Infections, Millions of Deaths by Sharri Markson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Social & Cultural Notes
Walkley Award-winning journalist, Sharri Markson is the Investigations Editor at The Australian and host of prime-time show Sharri on Sky News Australia. MORE THAN 109 MILLION INFECTIONS MORE THAN 2.7 MILLION DEATHS HOW DID IT HAPPEN? The origins of COVID-19 are shrouded in mystery and conspiracy theori ...Show more
Time for Socialism - Dispatches from a World on Fire, 2016-2021 by Thomas Piketty
$34.95 AUD
Category: Social & Cultural Notes
As a correspondent for the French newspaper Le Monde, world-renowned economist Thomas Piketty has documented the rise and fall of Trump, the drama of Brexit, Emmanuel Macron's ascendance to the French presidency, the unfolding of a global pandemic, and much else besides, always from the perspective of h ...Show more
Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence by Anna Lembke
$32.99 AUD
Category: Social & Cultural Notes
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES and LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER"Brilliant... riveting, scary, cogent, and cleverly argued."--Beth Macy, author of DopesickAs heard on Fresh Air This book is about pleasure. It's also about pain. Most important, it's about how to find the delicate balance between the two, and wh ...Show more
Explain That: 31 intriguing reasons why from The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald by Felicity Lewis (ed.)
$32.99 AUD
Category: Social & Cultural Notes
From the nation's most trusted news outlets comes an entertaining and authoritative look at the world around us. Have you ever wondered if time travel is actually possible? Or where the Australian accent came from? Or what it feels like to have dementia? If you're an inquisitive person who likes to und ...Show more
Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in the Woods by Lyndsie Bourgon
$32.99 AUD
Category: Social & Cultural Notes
The tree was poached in a two-part operation. It was felled one night and taken another.Here was a murder mystery in the deep woods: who had taken the cedar, how had they done so, and - most importantly - why?__________A gripping account of the billion-dollar timber black market -- and how it intersects ...Show more
Kokoro: An Intimate Portrait of Japanese Inner Life by Lafcadio Hearn
$24.99 AUD
Category: Social & Cultural Notes
'The papers composing this volume treat of the inner rather than of the outer life of Japan, for which reason they have been grouped under the title Kokoro (heart). [This] word signifies also mind, in the emotional sense; spirit; courage; resolve; sentiment; affection; and inner meaning, just as we say ...Show more
War on Corruption: An Indonesian Experience by Todung Mulya Lubis
$40.00 AUD
Category: Social & Cultural Notes
What stands between Indonesia taking its rightful place in the world?For Indonesian society, corruption remains a huge problem. Some of the reasons for this are easy to identify, flowing on from the authoritarianism of the Soeharto New Order (1966-1998). Other factors are less well known and less able t ...Show more
A Little Give: the unsung, unseen, undone work of women by Marina Benjamin
$29.99 AUD
Category: Social & Cultural Notes
Sometimes I think that carrying - other people, the continuity of history, generational identity, the emotional load of the everyday - is the main thing that women do. In Marina Benjamin's new set of interlinked essays, she turns her astute eye to the tasks once termed 'women's work'. From cooking and ...Show more
Mothers - An Essay on Love and Cruelty by Jacqueline Rose
$24.99 AUD
Category: Social & Cultural Notes
A daring and provocative book-length essay on why we both romanticize and vilify mothersA simple argument guides this book: motherhood is the place in our culture where we lodge, or rather bury, the reality of our own conflicts. By making mothers the objects of both licensed idealization and cruelty, we ...Show more