Converge: A futurist's insights into the potential of our world as technology and humanity collide
By: Catherine Ball
3.73
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Multi-award-winning scientific futurist Dr. Catherine Ball presents insights into how technology an…
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1. Drug Dealer, MD: How Doctors Were Duped, Patients Got Hooked, and Why It's So Hard to Stop
By: Anna Lembke
4.01
Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition
Three out of four people addicted to heroin probably started on a prescription opioid, according to… read more
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"Doctors and health care institutions are complicit in the medicalization of poverty that encourages the creation of professional patients."-Anna Lembke, Drug Dealer, MD: How Doctors Were Duped, Patients Got Hooked, and Why It's So Hard to Stop
2. The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
By: Tim Flannery , Peter Wohlleben , Jane Billinghurst , Suzanne Simard
4.07
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben shares his deep love of woods and forests and explains… read more
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"A tree’s most important means of staying connected to other trees is a “wood wide web"-Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
"Trees could solve the problems if people trying to improve things would only allow them to takeover"-Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
"So many questions remain unanswered. Perhaps we are poorer for having lost a possible explanation or richer for having gained a mystery. But aren't both possibilities equally intriguing?"-Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
3. Dark Emu
By: Bruce Pascoe
3.36
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Dark Emu puts forward an argument for a reconsideration of the hunter-gatherer tag for precolonial … read more
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4. Old Babes in the Wood: Stories
By: Margaret Atwood
3.71
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling collection of short stories from the internationally acclaimed, award-winning author of … read more
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"Many things get broken in a war."-Margaret Atwood, Old Babes in the Wood: Stories
"Holiness is a form of monstrosity"-Margaret Atwood, Old Babes in the Wood: Stories
"Many obscure women have been done to death merely for existing."-Margaret Atwood, Old Babes in the Wood: Stories
"They're dead now. A thing that happens increasingly: people die."-Margaret Atwood, Old Babes in the Wood: Stories
5. Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens
By: Shankari Chandran
4.21
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Welcome to Cinnamon Gardens, a home for those who are lost and the stories they treasure. Cinnam… read more
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6. Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life
By: Anna Funder
4.13
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
This is the story of the marriage behind some of the most famous literary works of the 20th century… read more
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7. Boy Swallows Universe
By: Trent Dalton
4.34
Format: 474 pages, Paperback
A novel of love, crime, magic, fate and coming of age, set in Brisbane's violent working class subu… read more
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"Don't fuckin' swear."-Trent Dalton, Boy Swallows Universe
"Stay sweet, Eli Bell."-Trent Dalton, Boy Swallows Universe
"Most things people say don't need to be said."-Trent Dalton, Boy Swallows Universe
"To burn this house down or set the world on fire. Up to you, Eli."-Trent Dalton, Boy Swallows Universe
8. Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life
By: Nir Eyal
3.75
Format: 290 pages, Hardcover
You sit down at your desk to work on an important project, but a notification on your phone interru… read more
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9. The Resilience Project: Finding Happiness through Gratitude, Empathy and Mindfulness
By: Hugh van Cuylenburg
4.31
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Hugh van Cuylenburg was a primary school teacher volunteering in northern India when he had a life-… read more
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10. The Angry Women's Choir
By: Meg Bignell
4.07
Format: 403 pages, Paperback
By the acclaimed author of Welcome To Nowhere River comes a heart-warming and uplifting story about… read more
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11. What Happened to Nina?
By: Dervla McTiernan
4.11
Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition
10 hours, 50 minutes From the #1 internationally bestselling author of The Murder Rule comes an… read more
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12. Orbital
By: Samantha Harvey
3.73
Format: 207 pages, Hardcover
A slender novel of epic power, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more
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"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
13. Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment
By: Daniel Kahneman
3.66
Format: 454 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Thinking, Fast and Slow and the co-author of Nudge, a groundbreaking… read more
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14. When Things Are Alive They Hum
By: Hannah Bent
4.03
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
This is a previously-published edition of ISBN 9781761150081. Marlowe and Harper share a bond de… read more
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15. Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
By: Tyson Yunkaporta
4.36
Format: 256 pages, ebook
This remarkable book is about everything from echidnas to evolution, cosmology to cooking, sex and … read more
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"The war between good and evil is in reality an imposition of stupidity and simplicity over wisdom and complexity."-Tyson Yunkaporta, Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
"Guilt is like any other energy: you can't accumulate it or keep it because it makes you sick and disrupts the system you live in - you have to let it go. Face the truth, make amends and let it go."-Tyson Yunkaporta, Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
"Engaging with them (malignant narcissists) alone is futile - never wrestle a pig, as the old saying goes; you both end up covered in shit, and the pig likes it. The fundamental rules of human interac…"-Tyson Yunkaporta, Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
"Understanding your own culture and the ways it interacts with others, particularly the power dynamics of it, is far more appreciated. My reading of Germane Greer when I was a young lad was a lot more…"-Tyson Yunkaporta, Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
16. The Work
By: Bri Lee
3.43
Format: 386 pages, Paperback
Lally has invested everything into her gallery in Manhattan and the sacrifices are finally paying o… read more
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17. Mine!: How the Hidden Rules of Ownership Control Our Lives
By: Michael A. Heller
4.12
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An Adam Grant Spring Book PickFinalist for the Next Big Idea Club A must-read this spring -- a … read more
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18. Red Moon
By: Kim Stanley Robinson
3.38
Format: 446 pages, Hardcover
American Fred Fredericks is making his first trip, his purpose to install a communications system f… read more
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"One sequence of these diary notes had lasted longer than most, and by their content he saw that they came from the time right after his father had died. One line stuck him like a thorn: Alone in the …"-Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Moon
19. The New Hustle: Don't work harder, just work better
By: Emma Isaacs
3.76
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
What if we've been served a big, fat lie about what it takes to be successful at work?Pro-hustlers … read more
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20. Converge: A futurist's insights into the potential of our world as technology and humanity collide
By: Catherine Ball
3.73
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Multi-award-winning scientific futurist Dr. Catherine Ball presents insights into how technology an… read more
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