IQ2 Podcast Books
Books highlighted here are featured on the Intelligence Squared podcast.
Intelligence Squared is a media company that organizes live debates and other cultural events around the world. Founded in 2002 it is headquartered in London and has affiliates in the US, Australia, and Hong Kong. The debates are held in the traditional Oxford style in front of a live audience. IQ2 features books that inform, inspire & enlighten.
The Showman: The Inside Story of the Invasion That Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky by Simon Shuster
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Topics | Reading Level: near fine
Time correspondent Simon Shuster delivers the unmissable account of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, written and reported from inside the presidential compound in Kyiv, based on Shuster's unparalleled access to President Zelensky and his top aides. Based on four years of reporting; extensive travels wi ...Show more
Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet by Hannah Ritchie
$36.99 AUD
Category: Nature & Science
Feeling anxious, powerless or confused about the future of our planet? This book will transform how you see our biggest environmental problems - and how we can solve them We are bombarded by doomsday headlines that tell us the soil won't be able to support crops, fish will vanish from our oceans, that ...Show more
Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen
$36.99 AUD
Category: Current Topics
We could have an uninhabitable earth in a century. It could take 26 minutes and 40 seconds. An edge-of-your-seat non-fiction thriller that has to be read to be believed. Up to now, no one outside of official circles has known exactly what would happen if a rogue state launched a nuclear missile at the ...Show more
When Friday Comes by James Montague
$39.99 AUD
Category: Culture & History
'Passionate and moving and provides further evidence of the universality of football' Jonathan Wilson, FourFourTwoThe definitive story of the Middle East's unstoppable rise to football superpower, and the road to the Qatar World CupWhen James Montague first began covering football in the Middle East two ...Show more
Sensational: A New Story of our Senses by Ashley Ward
$39.99 AUD
Category: Nature & Science | Reading Level: very good
Why do women have a better sense of smell than men?Has the iPhone changed how we touch? Does the Danube really look blue when you're in love?Our senses are at the heart of how we navigate the world. They help us recognise the expressions on a loved one's face, know whether fruit is ripe by its smell, or ...Show more
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change by Charles Duhigg
$24.99 AUD
Category: Self Help | Reading Level: near fine
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - This instant classic explores how we can change our lives by changing our habits. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Wall Street Journal - Financial Times In The Power of Habit, award-winning business reporterCharles Duhigg takes us to the thrilling edge of sc ...Show more
How Humans Took Over the World: Unstoppable Us, Volume 1 (HB) by Yuval Noah Harari
$39.99 AUD
Category: IQ2 Podcast Books
*From the author of the multi-million bestselling Sapiens comes an incredible new story of the human race, for younger readers.* We humans aren't strong like lions, we don't swim as well as dolphins, and we definitely don't have wings! So how did we end up ruling the world? The answer to that is one o ...Show more
The Penguin Book of Feminist Writing by Hannah Dawson
$32.99 AUD
Category: World of Women
Feminism is the insight that women are oppressed, and the struggle against that oppression. The Penguin Book of Feminist Writing is a global anthology of feminist writers, edited and introduced by a major new essay by Hannah Dawson. It brings together an unprecedented line-up of the movement. It unfurls ...Show more
Designing Your Work Life - How to Thrive on the Job by Making It Work at Work by Bill Burnett; Dave Evans
$35.00 AUD
Category: Health
'Life has questions. They have answers' New York TimesWe will spend up to 120,000 hours at work in our lifetimes.But how best to use those hours is one of our most challenging questions.We all want to find meaning at work, but our managers can't get it for us. And as companies work to be more nimble and ...Show more
How To Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen by David Brooks
$55.00 AUD
Category: Current Topics
If you are going to care for someone, you must first understand them. If you're going to hire, marry, or befriend someone, you have to be able to see them. If you are going to work closely with someone, you have to be able to make them feel recognized and valued. As David Brooks observes, "The older I g ...Show more
The Political Thought of Xi Jinping by Steve Tsang; Olivia Cheung
$40.95 AUD
Category: Current Topics
An authoritative examination of "Xi Jinping Thought"--now the official dogma of the Chinese Communist Party--that marshals Xi's personal words and writings to reveal his plan to make "the China Dream of national rejuvenation" a reality in the coming decades.Over the course of the last half dozen years, ...Show more
Infectious Generosity: The Ultimate Idea Worth Spreading by Chris Anderson
$36.99 AUD
Category: Mind Body Spirit
From the bestselling author, technology pioneer, and curator of TED Chris Anderson, an inspiring, revelatory book about the urgent and world-changing potential of one of humankind's defining but forgotten impulses- generosity. Perhaps the simplest, most powerful moral question you can ask of your life i ...Show more
