The Big Con - How the Consulting Industry Weakens Our Businesses, Infantilizes Our Governments and Warps Our Economies by Mariana Mazzucato; Rosie Collington
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics and Society
There is an entrenched relationship between the consulting industry and the way business and government are managed today which must change.Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington show that our economies' reliance on companies such as McKinsey, Boston Consulting Group, Bain & Company, PwC, Deloitte, ...Show more
Someone Else's Empire - British Illusions and American Hegemony by Tom Stevenson
$42.99 AUD
Category: Politics and Society
Someone's Else's Empire coolly reassesses Britain's relationship with the United States. Elite descriptions of Britain's position in the world ('punching above our weight') are untenable, Tom Stevenson argues. Yet there is a refusal, in most parts of society, to examine the assumptions behind them. Half ...Show more
Private Equity by Carrie Sun
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics and Society
A gripping memoir of one woman's self-discovery inside a top Wall Street firm, and an urgent indictment of privilege, extreme wealth, and work culture When we meet Carrie Sun, she can't shake the feeling that she's wasting her life. The daughter of Chinese immigrants, Carrie excelled in school, graduat ...Show more
How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler by Peter Pomerantsev
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics and Society
From one of our leading experts on disinformation, the incredible true story of the complex and largely forgotten WWII propagandist Sefton Delmer - and what we can learn from him today. FROM THE AUTHOR OF NOTHING IS TRUE AND EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE 'Elegant, effortlessly readable . . . essential readi ...Show more
The Widow of Walcha: A true story of love, lies and murder in a small country town by Emma Partridge
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics and Society
The Widow of Walcha is a shocking true story about death, love and lies in the small NSW town of Walcha. Shortlisted, 2023 Danger Awards, Nonfiction category All farmer Mathew Dunbar ever wanted was to find love and have a family of his own. That’s why, just months after meeting Natasha Darcy, the much- ...Show more
The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning: How to Free Yourself and your Family from a Lifetime of Clutter by Margareta Magnusson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics and Society | Series: The\Swedish Art of Living and Dying Ser.
The basis for the wonderfully funny and moving TV series developed by Amy Poehler and Scout Productions. A charming approach to putting your life in order so your loved ones won't have to. There's a word for it in Swedish- D st dning, literally, 'death cleaning'. Swedish-born Margareta Magnusson is, i ...Show more
The Forest Wars: The ugly truth about what's happening in our tall forests by David Lindenmayer
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics and Society
Lifts the lid on destruction of native forests by government corporations and logging industry that is making bushfires worse, killing wildlife and costing taxpayers millions, for the sake of woodchips for export. Since colonisation, Australia has been frantically logging our native forests as if our l ...Show more
The Age Of Magical Overthinking: Notes On Modern Irrationality by Amanda Montell
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics and Society
From the bestselling author of Cultish and host of the podcast Sounds Like a Cult, a delicious blend of cultural criticism and personal narrative that explores our cognitive biases and the power, disadvantages, and highlights of magical thinking. Utilizing the linguistic insights of her “witty and brill ...Show more
The Needs of Strangers: On solidarity and the politics of being human by Michael Ignatieff
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics and Society
This brilliant and penetrating book uncovers a crisis in the political imagination, a wide-spread failure to provide the passionate sense of community in which our need for belonging can be met . Seeking the answers to fundamental questions, Michael Ignatieff writes vividly both about ideas and about th ...Show more
The Truth Detective - A Poker Player's Guide to a Complex World by Alex O'Brien
$36.99 AUD
Category: Politics and Society
From uncertainty and risk to ambiguity, emotion and non-verbal behaviour, life can be like a game of poker. So approach it like one, with every day critical thinking. In The Truth Detective, journalist and competitive poker player Alex O'Brien shows how we can survive and make better life decisions usin ...Show more
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt
$36.99 AUD
Category: Politics and Society
Jonathan Haidt has spent his career speaking truth and wisdom in some of the most difficult spaces – communities polarized by politics and religion, campuses battling culture wars, and now the mental health emergency hitting teenagers today in many countries around the world. In The Anxious Generation, ...Show more
Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout by Cal Newport
$36.99 AUD
Category: Politics and Society
From the New York Times bestselling author of Digital Minimalism and one of the world's top productivity experts, a groundbreaking philosophy for creating great work at a sustainable pace. Hustle culture. Burnout. Quiet quitting. Today we're either sacrificing ourselves on the altar of success or we'r ...Show more