Books for Dads (and Everyone): Your Purchase Fuels Change

Whether Father's Day has you thinking about books or you're personally looking for your next read, we've got you covered. This month, Maslow's friends and the team have curated book recommendations that go beyond just finding a good story.

Cindy Gallop recommends Fair Play: A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do (and More Life to Live) by Eve Rodsky

Aubrey Blanche recommends Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need by Sasha Costanza-Chock

Vicki Saunders recommends Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teaching of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Tracey Spicer AM recommends Nature’s Last Dance: Tales of Wonder in an Age of Extinction by Natalie Kyriacou OAM

Gillian Marcelle, PhD recommends Whose Reality Counts? Putting the First Last by Robert Chambers

Hilary Callaghan recommends Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI by Karen Hao 

Kane Jackson recommends Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World by Tyson Yunkaporta

Clare Johnson recommends Wobbles: Tears, Laughter, Love and Inspiration by Mark Wilson and Ian Hunter

Dr Niki Vincent recommends Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias by Caroline Criado Perez

Other recommendations

Man-Made How the bias of the past is being built into the future by Tracey Spicer AM

Wealth Supremacy: How the Extractive Economy and the Biased Rules of Capitalism Drive Today’s Crises by Marjorie Kelly

Africa Is Not A Country by Dipo Faloyin

Redundant Charities: Escaping The Cycle of Dependence by Weh Yeoh

How to Lose Friends and Influence White People by Antoinette Lattouf

For online ordering, here are two amazing social enterprises creating positive change that you can order from:

Rosey Ravelston Books
50% of profits to local refugee charities. They will take special orders for any books they don’t currently have online.

Better World Books
Better World Books is a for-profit social enterprise that collects and sells books online to fund literacy initiatives worldwide. Read more about their impact here.

Or you can support your local independent community-owned bookstore and library.