Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
We could have an uninhabitable earth in a century. It could take 26 minutes and 40 seconds. An edge-of-your-seat non-fiction thriller that has to be read to be believed. Up to now, no one outside of official circles has known exactly what would happen if a rogue state launched a nuclear missile at the ...Show more
Think: In Defence of a Thoughtful Life by Svend Brinkmann
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
A defining feature of being human is our ability to think. We refer to ourselves, after all, as homo sapiens. But in a world where experiencing and achieving as much as possible is the number one preoccupation, there is little room for reflection. Technology is also making everything easier, eroding the ...Show more
Laughter in Ancient Rome: On Joking, Tickling, and Cracking Up by Mary Beard
31.95 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Sather Classical Lectures
"Superbly acute and unashamedly complex."-The Telegraph "Rich and provocative."-Times Literary Supplement "An engaging exploration."-The New Yorker "The phenomenal Ms. Beard has written another cracking book, one of her best."-The Independent What made the Romans laugh? Was ancient Rome a carnival, fil ...Show more
The Nirvana Express: How the Search for Enlightenment Went West by Mick Brown
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
The captivating story of the West's love affair with Indian spirituality--from the orientalism of the British Empire to modern counterculture.In 1897, an Indian yogi exhibited himself at London's Westminster Aquarium, demonstrating yoga positions to a bemused audience. Four years earlier, Hindu philosop ...Show more
The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World by Melinda Gates
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
For the last twenty years, Melinda Gates has been on a mission. Her goal, as co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, has been to find solutions for people with the most urgent needs, wherever they live. Throughout this journey, one thing has become increasingly clear to her: If you want to ...Show more
Inspiring Change : How to Influence Behaviour for a Better World by Liam Smith (Editor); Jim Curtis (Editor); Peter Bragge (Editor); Paul Kellner (Editor)
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Change can be hard. We try our best as individuals to improve our fitness, dietary habits and financial stability, and to do the right thing by others and the planet, but it often falls to government and other institutions to persuade us to change our ways.BehaviourWorks Australia (BWA) is a leading beh ...Show more
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (TPB) (EE) by Malcolm Gladwell
24.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Reading Level: very good
Bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell revolutionises the way we understand the world within. Blink is a book about about choices that seem to be made in an instant - in the blink of an eye - that actually aren't as simple as they seem. Why are some people brilliant decision makers, while others are consis ...Show more
The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time by Yascha Mounk
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
The origins, consequences and limitations of an ideology that has quickly become highly influential around the world. For much of their history, societies have violently oppressed ethnic, religious and sexual minorities. It is no surprise then that many who passionately believe in social justice have co ...Show more
People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present by Dara Horn
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
A startling and profound exploration of how Jewish history is exploited to appease the living. Renowned and beloved as a prizewinning novelist, Dara Horn has also been publishing penetrating essays since she was a teenager. Often asked by major publications to write on subjects related to Jewish culture ...Show more
Pitfall: The Race to Mine the World's Most Vulnerable Places by Christopher Pollon
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
A fascinating investigation into a wild industry and the global race to exploit our world's dwindling natural resources. The stakes couldn't be higher- How can we mine the metals we need without replicating the environmental and human rights abuses of the past? A global race is on to exploit the last bo ...Show more
Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times by Jonathan Sacks
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
A distinguished religious leader's stirring case for reconstructing a shared framework of virtues and values. With liberal democracy embattled, public discourse grown toxic, family life breaking down, and drug abuse and depression on the rise, many fear what the future holds. In Morality, respec ...Show more
The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule by Angela Saini
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2023'I learned something new on every page of this totally essential book' Sathnam Sanghera'By thinking about gendered inequality as rooted in something unalterable within us, we fail to see it for what it is: something more fragile that has had to ...Show more