Nemesis - One Man and the Battle for Rio by Misha Glenny
$35.00 AUD
Category: Sociology
'Breaking Bad meets City of God' Roberto Saviano, author of GomorrahHUSBAND. This is the story of an ordinary man who became the king of the largest slum in Rio, the head of a drug cartel and Brazil?s most notorious criminal. FATHER. A man who tried to bring welfare and justice to a playground of gang c ...Show more
Shrinking the World - The 4,000-year Story of How Email Came to Rule Our Lives by John Freeman
$34.95 AUD
Category: Sociology | Reading Level: very good
The first email was sent less than forty years ago; by 2011, there will be 3.2 billion users. The flood of messages is ceaseless. As the toll of email mounts, reducing our time for leisure and contemplation, and separating us from each other in the lonely battle with the inbox, John Freeman enters a ple ...Show more
An End to Murder: Human Beings Have Always Been Cruel, Savage and Murderous. Is All That About to Change? by Colin Wilson
$26.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
Creatively and intellectually there is no other species that has ever come close to equalling humanity's achievements, but nor is any other species as suicidally prone to internecine conflict. We are the only species on the planet whose ingrained habit of conflict constitutes the chief threat to our own ...Show more
Winter is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must be Stopped by Garry Kasparov
$39.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
"Garry Kasparov has been a vocal critic of Putin for over a decade, even leading the pro-democracy opposition in the 2008 Presidential election. Yet years of seeing his Cassandra-like prophecies about Putin's intentions fulfilled have left Kasparov with the realization of a darker truth: Putin's Russia, ...Show more
From the Heart Women of Letters by Marieke Hardy
$29.99 AUD
Category: Essays
'Letters, we have witnessed firsthand, stir some unusually beautiful things in people,' write Women of Letters curators Marieke Hardy and Michaela McGuire. In From the Heart, the full power of letter-writing is on display. Rock star Amanda Palmer thanks a song for reminding her of the importance of musi ...Show more
The Climb: Conversations with Australian Women in Power by Geraldine Doogue
$24.99 AUD
Category: Essays
Iconic journalist and television presenter Geraldine Doogue turns her attention to an issue central to our times. How are we, as women, represented at the top levels of power in Australia? In candid and personal conversations with fourteen women leading the way in fields as wide-ranging as business, pol ...Show more
TED: The Great Questions of Tomorrow by David Rothkopf
$19.99 AUD
Category: Essays | Series: Ted 2 Ser.
Government, war, the economy, human identity, philosophy and the way we work. All of these, among others, are soon to be transformed. As technological advancements usher in a time where each and every human being on the planet will be connected by more than 50 billion manmade devices, our global society ...Show more
The World as 100 People: A Visual Guide to 7 Billion Humans by Aileen Lord
$19.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
What would the world look like if the 7 billion people on this planet were presented as 100 individuals? This beautifully illustrated and informative infographics book re-examines the world's population with fascinating and often sobering results. Covering diverse subjects such as demography, education, ...Show more
How Did We Get into This Mess?: Politics, Equality, Nature by George Monbiot
$36.99 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues | Reading Level: very good
Leading political and environmental commentator on where we have gone wrong, and what to do about it "Without countervailing voices, naming and challenging power, political freedom withers and dies. Without countervailing voices, a better world can never materialise. Without countervailing voices, wells ...Show more
Beautiful Failures by Lucy Clark
$34.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
'I imagine we would all agree on the things education should not be. It should not, surely, make one quarter of all kids drop out and be lost to learning. It should not, surely, make children feel so bad about themselves that they hurt themselves, or shut down, or become lacking in any confidence about ...Show more
The Great Multinational Tax Rort : How We're Being Robbed by Martin Feil
$32.99 AUD
Category: Essays
" Enough is enough,' Australia's tax commisssioner, Chris Jordon, told a Senate inquiry earlier this year. The Great Multinational Tax Rort explains what he was talking about. Multinational corporations have avoided trillions of dollars of tax over the past 25 years. Tax avoidance is legal, but its mass ...Show more