IQ2 Podcast Books
Books highlighted here are featured on the Intelligence Squared podcast.
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All the Living and the Dead: An Exploration of the People Who Make Death Their Life's Work by Hayley Campbell
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Topics
'A superlative piece of writing... provocative, loving and profound' THE TIMES'Without exaggeration, an awe-inspiring achievement' NIGELLA LAWSON'Moving, funny, and liable to unexpectedly cause me to tear up' NEIL GAIMANAn Irish Times Book of the YearIn this profoundly moving and remarkable book, journa ...Show more
Regenesis: How to Feed the World Without Devouring the Planet by George Monbiot
$24.99 AUD
Category: Nature & Science
Winner of the 2022 Orwell Prize for Journalism / A Sunday Times (London) Bestseller / Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize for Writing on Conservation "George Monbiot is one of the most fearless and important voices in the global climate movement today." --Greta Thunberg For the first time in millen ...Show more
Survivors - The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade by Hannah Durkin
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Topics
GUARDIAN: BOOKS TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2024 WATERSTONES: JANUARY'S BEST BOOKS BBC: BOOK HIGHLIGHTS FOR 2024 'GRIPPING' THE TIMES This is an immersive and revelatory history of the survivors of the Clotilda, the last ship of the Atlantic slave trade, whose lives diverged and intersected in profound ways. ...Show more
And the Category Is... - Inside New York's Vogue, House, and Ballroom Community by Ricky Tucker
$35.00 AUD
Category: IQ2 Podcast Books
A 2023 Lambda Literary Award Finalist in Nonfiction An Electric Literature "Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Book of 2022" Selection A love letter to the legendary Black and Latinx LGBTQ underground subculture, uncovering its abundant legacy and influence in popular culture. What is Ballroom? Not a song, a do ...Show more
Noise by Daniel Kahneman
$24.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy & Psychology
Wherever there is human judgement, there is noise.From the world-leaders in strategic thinking and the multi-million copy bestselling authors of Thinking Fast and Slow and Nudge, the next big book to change the way you think.Imagine that two doctors in the same city give different diagnoses to identical ...Show more
Ordinary Human Failings by Megan Nolan
$22.99 AUD
Category: New Release
* Shortlisted for Fiction - 2023 Nero Book Awards *After the death of a young girl, the finger of suspicion is pointing at one reclusive family...'Ambitious and original' DAVID NICHOLLS'Gripping... a triumph' SUNDAY TIMESIt's 1990 in London and, after the death of a young girl on an estate, the finger o ...Show more
Optimal by Daniel Goleman; Cary Cherniss
$49.99 AUD
Category: New Release
Bestselling author of Emotional Intelligence Daniel Goleman and co-author Cary Cherniss reveal practical methods for applying the principles of EI to enter an optimal state of high performance, offering a roadmap to being at your best, every day.There are moments when we achieve peak performance: an ath ...Show more
How Minds Change - The New Science of Belief, Opinion and Persuasion by David McRaney
$39.99 AUD
Category: Self Help
'In a time when too many minds seem closed, this is a masterful analysis of what it takes to open them' Adam Grant, author of the bestselling Think Again 'Optimistic, illuminating and even inspiring' Guardian As the world is increasingly polarised, it feels impossible to change the mind of someone wi ...Show more
Surveillance State - Inside China's Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Control by Josh Chin; Liza Lin
$54.99 AUD
Category: Current Topics
Where is the line between digital utopia and digital police state?Surveillance State tells the gripping, startling, and detailed story of how China's Communist Party is building a new kind of political control: shaping the will of the people through the sophisticated--and often brutal--harnessing of dat ...Show more
Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters by Brian Klaas
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Topics
A provocative new vision of how our world really works - and why chance determines everything. In Fluke, myth-shattering social scientist Brian Klaas deep-dives into the phenomenon of randomness, unpicking our neat and tidy storybook version of events to reveal a reality far wilder and more fascinating ...Show more
Wasteland: The Dirty Truth About What We Throw Away, Where It Goes, and Why It Matters by Oliver Franklin-Wallis
$34.99 AUD
Category: IQ2 Podcast Books
'A gripping read that will anger as much as it fascinates' Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall'An incredible journey into the world of rubbish, full of fascinating characters and mind-bending facts' Oliver Bullough, author of Moneyland 'Urgent, probing and endlessly interesting' Cal Flyn, author of Islands of A ...Show more
Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe by Niall Ferguson
$26.99 AUD
Category: Culture & History
'Magisterial ... Immensely readable' Douglas Alexander, Financial Times'Insightful, productively provocative and downright brilliant' New York TimesA compelling history of catastrophes and their consequences, from 'the most brilliant British historian of his generation' (The Times)Disasters are inherent ...Show more