Disconnect: Why we get pushed to extremes online and how to stop it by Jordan Guiao
$29.99 AUD
Category: Cultural Studies
Many of us know an anti-vaxxer or a selfie-obsessed narcissist who clutters our social feeds; an online conspiracy theorist or a child whose face is buried in a smartphone. Some of us even live with one. How do we pull these people back from the brink of a digital abyss? In this animated study, journali ...Show more
Divided - Racism, Medicine and Why We Need to Decolonise Healthcare by Annabel Sowemimo
$39.99 AUD
Category: Cultural Studies
'AN ILLUMINATING AND POWERFUL INTERSECTIONAL ANALYSIS OF HEALTH INEQUALITIES AND RACISM' i-D Magazine'A VITAL CALL TO ACTION' Leah HazardEDITOR'S CHOICE, BOOKSELLER In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, we are all too aware of the urgent health inequalities that plague our world. But these inequalities ...Show more
Do As I Say: How cults control, why we join them, and what they teach us about bullying, abuse and coercion by Sarah Steel
$34.99 AUD
Category: Cultural Studies
At the heart of being human is the desire to belong. It can make us unspeakably vulnerable to the manipulations of others. Cult leaders prey on this desire, but so do many unscrupulous operators hiding in plain sight. Sarah Steel, the creator of the popular 'Let's Talk About Sects' podcast, has research ...Show more
Do Humankind's Best Days Lie Ahead? by Steven Pinker Malcolm Gladwell Alain De Botton Matt Ridley
$4.25 AUD
$16.99 (74% off)
Category: Politics
From the Enlightenment onwards, the West has had an enduring belief that through the evolution of institutions, innovations, and ideas, the human condition is improving. This process is supposedly accelerating as new technologies, individual freedoms, and the spread of global norms empower individuals a ...Show more
Does Monogamy Work? by Luke Brunning
$24.99 AUD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: The\Big Idea Ser.
Even with the current rise in awareness of sexual and intimate diversity, monogamous relationships remain the cultural norm. Most people aspire to it, and the state encourages it, providing legal and financial benefits to married couples; however, statistics show adultery is commonplace, marriage rates ...Show more
Doing Politics: Writing on Public Life by Judith Brett
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics
A brilliant collection of the best essays by award-winning writer Judith Brett, long revered by those in the know as Australia's brightest and most astute political commentator. Since the 1980s Judith Brett has been helping to shape Australians' conversations about politics, bringing a historian's eye ...Show more
Dominion by Paul Lussier
$35.00 AUD
Category: Politics
A landmark account of the race to save the planet, by one of the world's foremost experts on climate science. At the current rate of carbon pollution, we are likely to see the first wave of global catastrophes as a result of CO2 levels within the next twenty to twenty-five years. As a result, a group ...Show more
Don Dunstan: The visionary politician who changed Australia by Angela Woollacott
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Don Dunstan was one of the most significant political figures of twentieth-century Australia. As Premier of South Australia, he blazed a trail of reform. But his influence reached far beyond his home state. He was seen as the architect of a new kind of Australian society, and his decade in office marked ...Show more
Don't Be Evil - How Big Tech Betrayed Its Founding Principles - and All of Us by Rana Foroohar
$35.00 AUD
Category: Cultural Studies
Today Google and Facebook receive 90% of the world's news ad-spending. Amazon takes half of all ecommerce in the US. Google and Apple operating systems run on all but 1% of cell phones globally. And 80% of corporate wealth is now held by 10% of companies - not the GEs and Toyotas of this world, but the ...Show more
Doom - The Politics of Catastrophe by Niall Ferguson
$35.00 AUD
Category: Politics
Disasters are by their very nature hard to predict. Pandemics, like earthquakes, wildfires, financial crises and wars, are not normally distributed; there is no cycle of history to help us anticipate the next catastrophe. But when disaster strikes, we ought to be better prepared than the Romans were whe ...Show more
Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe by Niall Ferguson
$26.99 AUD
Category: Politics
'Magisterial ... Immensely readable' Douglas Alexander, Financial Times'Insightful, productively provocative and downright brilliant' New York TimesA compelling history of catastrophes and their consequences, from 'the most brilliant British historian of his generation' (The Times)Disasters are inherent ...Show more
Dopesick: Dealers Doctors and the Drug Company That Addicted America by Beth Macy
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics
'A shocking investigation ... [Dopesick] is essential' The Times. Beth Macy takes us into the heart of America's struggle with opioid addiction. From distressed small communities in Central Appalachia to wealthy suburbs and once-idyllic farm towns, this powerful and moving story illustrates how a nation ...Show more