Webtopia - The Worldwide Wreck of Tech and How to Make the Net Work by Peter Lewis
32.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
Sydney in the 1970s and 1980s was a world of limited choice, one where we all watched the same television programs and the household phone was at the heart of allnetworks people belonged to: family, school, church and the neighbourhood. The arrival of the internet promised a utopian, creative and democr ...Show more
I'm a Joke and So Are You - A Comedian's Take on What Makes Us Human by Robin Ince
22.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
Evening Standard's the Best Comedy Books of the Year Skinny's Book of the Year What better way to understand ourselves than through the eyes of comedians - those who professionally examine our quirks on stage daily? Reviews for I'm a Joke and So Are You: 'Joyfully entertaining.' - Observer 'Funny, ho ...Show more
On Eating Meat - The truth about its production and the ethics of eating it by Matthew Evans
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Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Truth About Production and Should We Eat It?
A scorching manifesto on the ethics of eating meat by the best placed person to write about it - farmer and chef Matthew Evans, aka The Gourmet Farmer. 'Compelling, illuminating and often confronting, On Eating Meat is a brilliant blend of a gastronome's passion with forensic research into the sources o ...Show more
The Breakdown: How to Make Sense of Politics in a Messed-Up World by Tatton Spiller
29.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
We're in a time of enormous political engagement, but most of us are ill equipped to truly understand and debate the issues currently rocking our world. Instead, we become entrenched in our echo chambers, convinced that those with a different viewpoint are stupid, awful human beings whose actions must ...Show more
Oneness vs the 1% Shattering Illusions, Seeding Freedom by Vandana Shiva with Kartikey Shiva
24.95 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
Widespread poverty and malnutrition, an alarming refugee crisis, social unrest, economic polarisation... have become our lived reality as the top 1% of the world’s seven-billion-plus population pushes the planet – and all its people – to the social and ecological brink. In Oneness vs The 1%, Vandana Sh ...Show more
Soulless - The Case Against R. Kelly by Jim DeRogatis
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Category: Non-Fiction
The essential account of R. Kelly's actions and their consequences, a reckoning two decades in the making In November 2000, Chicago journalist and music critic Jim DeRogatis received an anonymous fax that alleged R. Kelly had a problem with "young girls." Weeks later, DeRogatis broke the shocking stor ...Show more
Not Working - Where Have All the Good Jobs Gone? by David G. Blanchflower
54.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
A candid assessment of why the job market is not as healthy as we thinkDon't trust low unemployment numbers as proof that the labor market is doing fine--it isn't. Not Working is about those who can't find full-time work at a decent wage--the underemployed--and how their plight is contributing to widesp ...Show more
Digital Cash - The Unknown History of the Anarchists, Utopians, and Technologists Who Created Cryptocurrency by Finn Brunton
44.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
The fascinating untold story of digital cash and its creatorsâe"from experiments in the 1970s to the mania over Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies Bitcoin may appear to be a revolutionary form of digital cash without precedent or prehistory. In fact, it is only the best-known recent experiment in a lon ...Show more
Incentivology: The Forces That Explain Tremendous Success and Spectacular Failure by Jason Murphy
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Category: Non-Fiction
Rewards. Punishments. Prices. The Nobel Prize. Candy Crush. Incentives take more forms than you might expect and they can be hard to spot, but they shape our lives in ways that we rarely examine. Many of the most powerful incentives are accidental, and invisible even to those who designed them. Some ar ...Show more
The Rising Tide: Among the Islands and Atolls of the Pacific Ocean by Tom Bamforth
29.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
Vanuatu. The Cook Islands. Fiji. The names evoke white-sand beaches, swaying palms and lazy holidays. But in reality, these idyllic places are tropical maelstroms of global realpolitik, caught between the world's superpowers and former colonial masters. Collectively the Pacific nations, which form one t ...Show more
Second Nature by Michael Pollan
32.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Bloomsbury Paperbacks Gardening Classics Ser.
This is an account of one man's experience in his garden. The book invites an exploration of unexamined feelings about nature and the place of society in the landscape, and what gardening has to teach about the troubled borders between nature and culture.
Blockchain - The Next Everything by Stephen P. Williams
39.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
The perfect book for everybody who's either never heard of Blockchain or simply wants to know more about the technology which is about to transform the world we live in for the better. What is blockchain? Why does everyone from tech experts to business moguls to philanthropists believe it is a paradig ...Show more