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.
How to Prevent Dementia: An Expert's Guide to Long-Term Brain Health by Richard Restak
$36.99 AUD
Category: Mind Body Spirit
The comprehensive guide to preventing Alzheimer's and other thinking disorders, from renowned authority Dr Richard Restak How to Prevent Dementia begins with the principle that the more we know about dementia, the easier it is to prevent or delay it. A better foundation of knowledge also helps people to ...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
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
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
The Last White Man by Mohsin Hamid
$32.99 AUD
Category: Bestseller
From the internationally bestselling author of Exit West, a story of love, loss, and rediscovery in a time of unsettling change. One morning, a man wakes up to find himself transformed. Overnight, Anders's skin has turned dark, and the reflection in the mirror seems a stranger to him. At first he share ...Show more
The Great Crashes by Linda Yueh
$36.99 AUD
Category: Current Topics
What causes financial crashes? What lessons can we learn from them? And how can we mitigate them in the future?From the Wall Street Crash in 1929 to the global financial crisis of 2007-08,the great crashes have altered the course of history. In this accessible and authoritative book, renowned economist ...Show more
Our Moon: A Human History by Rebecca Boyle
$34.99 AUD
Category: Culture & History
'I learned more about the Moon by reading this book than after a lifetime of study'CHRIS HADFIELD, author of An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth'Boyle's writing shines, shifting through time and space, science and sentiment; a luminous read'REBECCA WRAGG SYKES, author of Kindred'A riveting feat of sci ...Show more
The Story of Russia by Orlando Figes
$32.99 AUD
Category: Bestseller
'Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past', George Orwell wrote in Nineteen Eighty-Four. In this glorious work of history, Orlando Figes argues that the maxim is truer for Russia than for any other country in the world. The Story of Russia begins in the firs ...Show more
New China Playbook: Beyond Socialism and Capitalism by Keyu Jin
$36.99 AUD
Category: Culture & History
A revelatory, myth-dispelling exploration of China's juggernaut economy. 'Essential reading' - Tony Blair Although China's economy is one of the largest in the world, Western understanding of it is oftenbased on dated assumptions and incomplete information. In The New China Playbook, Keyu Jin burrowsdee ...Show more
Die Eat, Poop - How Animals Make Our World by Joe Roman
$39.99 AUD
Category: Current Topics
Joe Roman reveals how ecosystems are sculpted and sustained by animals eating, pooping, and dying-and how these fundamental functions could help save us from climate catastrophe
Brainwashed: A New History of Thought Control by Daniel Pick
$24.99 AUD
Category: Culture & History
'A frankly brilliant book' The Guardian'An extraordinarily engrossing and wide-ranging analysis of a word and a concept. I fell under its spell immediately' Simon GarfieldIn 1953, a group of prisoners of war who had fought against the communist invasion of South Korea were released. They chose - apparen ...Show more
National Populism by Roger;Goodwin Eatwell
$22.99 AUD
Category: Culture & History | Series: Pelican Bks.
A crucial new guide to one of the most urgent political phenomena of our time: the rise of national populismAcross the West, there is a rising tide of people who feel excluded, alienated from mainstream politics, and increasingly hostile towards minorities, immigrants and neo-liberal economics. Many of ...Show more