Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents—and What They Mean for The Future by Jean M. Twenge
$45.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A groundbreaking, revelatory portrait of the six generations that currently live in the United States and how they connect, conflict, and compete with one another--from the acclaimed author of Generation Me and iGen. There are currently six generations of people: -the Silents, born 1925-1945 -Bab ...Show more
Boys Will Be Boys - Power, patriarchy and the toxic bonds of mateship by Clementine Ford
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Clementine Ford reports that one of the questions she is most asked in person and online is 'how do I raise my son to be a feminist? How do I make sure he's a supporter rather than a perpetrator?' That is a question that many parents with sons are haunted by. Now that Clem is mother to a baby boy of her ...Show more
Speaking Out by Tara Moss
$19.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
An accessible, timely and practical handbook for women on speaking out safely and confidently from no.1 non-fiction bestseller Tara Moss. Worldwide, less than one out of every four people we hear from or about in the media is female, and men outnumber women in parliament by more than three to one. If ha ...Show more
Off the Edge Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything by Kelly Weill
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
"A deep dive into the world of Flat Earth conspiracy theorists . . . that brilliantly reveals how people fall into illogical beliefs, reject reason, destroy relationships, and connect with a broad range of conspiracy theories in the social media age. Beautiful, probing, and often empathetic . . . An ins ...Show more
The Wife Drought by Annabel Crabb
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
For decades, feminism has argued the case for getting women into the workplace. Affirmative action, support schemes, paid maternity leave... all valuable devices, and yet still we agonize over why women aren't better represented in the boardrooms and ministries of this country. But the answer is so shri ...Show more
The Economy of Algorithms: AI and the Rise of the Digital Minions by Marek Kowalkiewicz
$36.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
An insider's guide to the invisible new economy that is reshaping our lives. Welcome to the economy of algorithms. It's here and it's growing. In the past few years, we have been flooded with examples of impressive technology. Algorithms have been around for hundreds of years, but they have only recent ...Show more
Fortune's Fool: Australia's Choices by Satyajit Das
$19.95 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
Australia’s prosperity relies on the continent’s extraordinary natural — primarily mineral — riches and good fortune. But economic, financial, environmental, geopolitical and societal pressures now threaten the nation’s high living standards. The COVID-19 pandemic is the first of many trials to come. La ...Show more
Democracy in Chains by Nancy MacLean
$35.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Winner of the Lillian Smith Book AwardWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book PrizeFinalist for the National Book AwardThe Nation's "Most Valuable Book" " A] vibrant intellectual history of the radical right."--The Atlantic"This sixty-year campaign to make libertarianism mainstream and eventually take ...Show more
Radical Help: How We Can Remake the Relationships Between Us and Revolutionise the Welfare State by Hilary Cottam
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
How should we live: how should we care for one another; grow our capabilities to work, to learn, to love and fully realise our potential? This exciting and ambitious book shows how we can re-design the welfare state for this century. The welfare state was revolutionary: it lifted thousands out of pover ...Show more
Ladies Who Punch - The Explosive Inside Story of the View by Ramin Setoodeh
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards Finalist, Best Non-Fiction Book The gossipy real-life soap opera behind a serious show. When Barbara Walters launched The View, network executives told her that hosting it would tarnish ...Show more
Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century by Brad de Long
$26.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST ECONOMICS BOOK OF THE YEAR AND THE ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR From one of the world's leading economists, a sweeping new history of the twentieth century - ...Show more
The Canceling of the American Mind: How Cancel Culture Undermines Trust, Destroys Institutions, and Threatens Us All by Greg Lukianoff, Rikki Schlott
$55.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A new way of thinking about cancel culture and the much-needed antidote for our dangerous and divisive times Cancel culture isn't just a moral panic- it erodes our ability to argue productively, listen generously and to be civil when we disagree. Whether on university campuses, in the workplace or on s ...Show more