Sapiens - A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
$27.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity's creation and evolution--a #1 international bestseller--that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be "human." One hundred thousand years ago, at least six ...Show more
Frasier: A Cultural History by Joseph J. Darowski, Kate Darowski
$46.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
After America's most pompous barhound left the Cheer's gang in Boston, he returned to Seattle and found himself surrounded by an equally colorful cast of friends and family alike. For eleven seasons, radio psychiatrist Frasier Crane contended with his blue-collar ex-cop father Martin, English caretaker ...Show more
Foreverism by Grafton Tanner
$20.95 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: Theory Redux Ser.
What do cinematic "universes," cloud archiving, and voice cloning have in common? They're in the business of foreverizing - the process of revitalizing things that have degraded, failed, or disappeared so that they can remain active in the present. To foreverize something is to reanimate it, to enclose ...Show more
Humans by Brandon Stanton
$30.00 AUD
$44.99 (33% off)
Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: Humans of New York
Brandon Stanton's Humans is a book that connects readers as global citizens at a time when erecting more borders is the order of the day. It shows us the entire world, one story at a time. After five years of travelling the globe, the creator of Humans of New York brings people from all parts of the wor ...Show more
Machines Behaving Badly : The Morality of AI by Toby Walsh
$36.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
Can we build moral machines? Toby Walsh, AI expert, examines the ethical issues we face in a future dominated by artificial intelligence.Artificial intelligence is an essential part of our lives - for better or worse. It can be used to influence what we buy, who gets shortlisted for a job and even how w ...Show more
Cancel Culture and the Left's Long March by Kevin Donnelly
$29.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
Cancel culture and political correctness are destroying free speech and Western civilizations institutions and way of life its time to fight back and return to sanity. A topical and informative anthology exploring the origins and impact of cancel culture and political correctness on Western societies in ...Show more
Trouble With Gender: Sex Facts, Gender Fictions by Alex Byrne
$51.95 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
Sex used to rule. Now gender identity is on the throne. Sex survives as a cheap imitation of its former self: assigned at birth, on a spectrum, socially constructed, and definitely not binary. Apparently quite a few of us fall outside the categories male and female. But gender identity is universal--we ...Show more
Irresistible: How Cuteness Wired our Brains and Conquered the World by Joshua Paul Dale
$34.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
The psychology and biology behind what we find cute, and how cuteness has shaped cultures around the world.
Tea & Honesty: Heartfelt Conversations. Lessons Learned. Stories Shared. by Jules Sebastian
$32.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
Warm, heartfelt conversations with inspirational figures about the feelings and experiences common to us all, and a personal insight into one of Australia's most beloved celebrity couples, Guy Sebastian and Jules Sebastian. 'Jules is one of those people you meet & instantly love. She speaks from th ...Show more
What Is History For? by Robert Gildea
$19.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: What Is It For? Ser.
"History", suggests Robert Gildea, "is a battlefield." Questions of power, rights, identity and nationhood always have an ancient and modern historical dimension and countries still go to war over their interpretation of history. Yet accounts of history are just as prone to fabrication as fake news, so ...Show more
What Are Prisons For? by Hindpal Singh Bhui
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Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: What Is It For? Ser.
What does a good prison look like? Over eleven million people are currently locked up in prisons across the world, but does that mean that prison actually works? The answer usually depends on what people believe and feel about crime, punishment and what happens inside prisons. The deep social and person ...Show more
What Are the Olympics For? by Jules Boykoff
$19.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: What Is It For? Ser.
'Athletes first' is a slogan the International Olympic Committee often touts, but the reality is very different, as preeminent Olympics expert Jules Boykoff shows in this book. While the world's attention is riveted by the triumphs and tribulations on their screens, there is much that goes on behind the ...Show more