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Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic by David Frum
$49.99 AUD
Category: Modern Thought
A New York Times Bestseller Bestselling author, former White House speechwriter, and Atlantic columnist and media commentator David Frum explains why President Trump has undermined our most important institutions in ways even the most critical media has missed, in this thoughtful and hard-hitting book ...Show more
The Senate Intelligence Committee Report on Torture by Senate Select Senate Select Committee On Intelligence; Daniel Jones (Introduction by); Dianne Feinstein (Foreword by)
$32.99 AUD
Category: Modern Thought
"The most extensive review of U.S. intelligence-gathering tactics in generations." --Los Angeles TimesThis is the Executive Summary of the "Committee Study of the Central Intelligence Agency's Detention and Interrogation Program," a U.S. Senate investigation -- a.k.a., The Torture Report. Based on more ...Show more
Fire Country: How Indigenous Fire Management Could Save Australia by Victor Steffensen
$29.99 AUD
Category: Modern Thought
Delving deep into the Australian landscape and its alarming state of devastation, Fire Country is a powerful account from Indigenous land management expert Victor Steffensen on how the revival of Indigenous fire practices, including what's called 'cool burns', could restore our country. Fire Country o ...Show more
She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Ignited a Movement by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey
$32.99 AUD
Category: Modern Thought
JANE PERLEZ: "A tightly written, easy-to-read drama, the story of Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein and his decades-long sexual harassment of young women, from famous actresses to his assistants. It took guts, persuasive powers, and amazing journalism by two New York Times reporters to unlock the sordid ...Show more
The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy by Michael Lewis
$22.99 AUD
Category: Modern Thought
The morning after Trump was elected president, the people who ran the US Department of Energy - an agency that deals with some of the most powerful risks facing humanity - waited to welcome the incoming administration's transition team. Nobody appeared. Across the US government, the same thing happened- ...Show more
The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity by Toby Ord
$29.99 AUD
Category: Modern Thought
Humanity stands at a precipice. We live at a time of unprecedented innovation. Technology is accelerating faster than at any point in history, granting us ever greater power, and creating ever greater risk. In the twentieth century, we developed the means to destroy ourselves o without developing the mo ...Show more
How Fear Works - Culture of Fear in the Twenty-First Century by Frank Furedi
$22.99 AUD
Category: Modern Thought
In 1997, Frank Furedi published a book calledCulture of Fear. It was widely acclaimed as perceptive and prophetic. Now Furedi returns to his original theme, as most of what he predicted has come true. InHow Fear Works, Furedi seeks to explain two interrelated themes: why has fear acquired such a morally ...Show more
Rise of the Right by Greg Barns
$24.99 AUD
Category: Modern Thought
To most of us, liberal values mean respect for openness, progress, tolerance and the rule of law. But in Australia, these values are increasingly under threat. It is not just on the fringes of our community or body politic that we find liberal values challenged. The decline of liberal values in this nat ...Show more
Drawdown: The Most comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming by Paul Hawken
$35.00 AUD
Category: Modern Thought
For the first time ever, an international coalition of leading researchers, scientists and policymakers has come together to offer a set of realistic and bold solutions to climate change. All of the techniques described here - some well-known, some you may have never heard of - are economically viable, ...Show more
My Country: Stories, Essays & Speeches by David Marr
$39.99 AUD
Category: Modern Thought
David Marr is the rarest of breeds- one of Australia's most unflinching, forensic reporters of political controversy, and one of its most subtle and eloquent biographers. In Marr's hands, those things we call reportage and commentary are elevated to artful and illuminating chronicles of our time. My Co ...Show more
50 Standout Articles from Australia's Top Thinkers The Conversation Yearbook 2019 by John Watson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Modern Thought
A little bit of authority goes a long way in an opinionated world. Here Australia's most erudite thinkers share expert views on the issues that shaped the nation in 2019. The Conversation Yearbook has become an annual bestselling collection that navigates fake news and shouty views and offers a fresh pe ...Show more
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt
$27.99 AUD
Category: Modern Thought
In this "landmark contribution to humanity's understanding of itself" (The New York Times Book Review) social psychologist Jonathan Haidtchallenges conventional thinking about morality, politics, and religion in a way that speaks to conservatives and liberals alike. Drawing on his twenty-five years of ...Show more