The Great Degeneration: How Institutions Decay and Economies Die by Niall Ferguson
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Category: Non-Fiction
Niall Ferguson's bold, pithy and insightful analysis of the degeneration of the West. The decline of the West is something that has long been prophesied. Symptoms of decline are all around us today: slowing growth, crushing debts, aging populations. But what exactly is amiss with Western civilization? T ...Show more
Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion by Alain de Botton
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Category: Non-Fiction
From the author of The Architecture of Happiness, a bold argument on how we can still benefit, without believing, from the wisdom, the beauty, and the consolatory power that religion has to offer. What if religions are neither all true nor all nonsense? The long-running and often boring debate between ...Show more
Extreme Money by Satyajit Das
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Category: Non-Fiction
Once, we built things - useful things. Now, we construct immense financial structures from thin air and lies. We have crafted a colossal worldwide financial machine that makes a few individuals staggeringly wealthy and sacrifices everyone else at its altar of risk. Bestselling author Satyajit Das draws ...Show more
Assholes: A Theory by Aaron James
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Category: Non-Fiction
What does it mean for someone to be an a**hole? Try as we might to avoid them, a**holes are found everywhere at work, at home, on the road, and in the public sphere. A**hole management begins with a**hole understanding. In the spirit of the bestselling 'On Bullshit' James gives us the concepts to think ...Show more
Out of the Mountains by David Kilcullen
32.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
In his third book, David Kilcullen takes us out of the mountains: away from the remote, rural guerrilla warfare of Afghanistan, and into the marginalised slums and complex security threats of the world's coastal cities, where almost 75 per cent of us will be living by mid-century.
Gaysia: Adventures in the Queer East by Benjamin Law
19.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
Benjamin Law considers himself pretty lucky to live in Australia: he can hold his boyfriend's hand in public and lobby his politicians to recognize same-sex marriage. But as the child of immigrants, he's also curious about how different life might have been had he grown up in Asia. So he sets off to mee ...Show more
Price of Inequality by Joseph Stiglitz
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Category: Non-Fiction
The social impact of inequality is now increasingly understood - higher crime, health problems and mental illness, lower educational achievements and life expectancy. But what are the causes of inequality, why is it growing so rapidly and what are its economic and political impacts? In this exceptional ...Show more
I Think, Therefore I Am: All the Philosophy You Need to Know by Lesley Levene
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Category: Non-Fiction | Series: I Used to Know That ...
Philosophers certainly like to make life sound awfully complicated, whether they're wondering if a falling tree still makes a sound if there's nobody around to hear it (Berkeley) or declaring that everything in the universe is in a state of flux (Heraclitus). But is philosophy really so complicated? And ...Show more
In Praise of Shadows by Junichiro Tanizaki
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Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
"This is an essay on aesthetics by one of the greatest Japanese novelists. The text ranges over architecture, jade, food, toilets, and combines an acute sense of the use of space in buildings, as well as perfect descriptions of lacquerware under candlelight and women in the darkness of the house of plea ...Show more
The Better Angels of Our Nature: The Decline of Violence In History And Its Causes by Steven Pinker
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Category: Non-Fiction
"If I could give each of you a graduation present, it would be this--the most inspiring book I've ever read."--Bill Gates (May, 2017) A provocative history of violence--from the New York Times bestselling author of The Stuff of Thought, The Blank Slate, and Enlightenment Now. Believe it or not, tod ...Show more
Crimes Against Humanity: The Struggle For Global Justice by Geoffrey Robertson
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Category: Non-Fiction
When it was first published in 1999, Crimes Against Humanity called for a radical shift from diplomacy to justice in international affairs. In vivid, non-legalese prose, leading human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson made a riveting case for holding political and military leaders accountable in internat ...Show more
On China by Henry Kissinger
22.95 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
In 1971 Henry Kissinger took the historic step of reopening relations between China and the West, and since then has been more intimately connected with the country at the highest level than any other western figure. This book distils his unique experience, examining China's history from the classical e ...Show more