How to be a Renaissance Woman: The Untold History of Beauty and Female Creativity by Jill Burke
$49.99 AUD
Category: Cultural Studies
Beauty, make up, art, power: An alternative history of the Renaissance told by the women behind the paintings
Hysterical - Closing the Emotion Gender Gap by Pragya Agarwal
$36.99 AUD
Category: Gender Studies
An urgent exploration of how the gendering of emotions came about, and what we can do to change these damaging stereotypes.
Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong by Louisa Lim
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics
An award-winning journalist takes to the protest-riven streets of Hong Kong to write this startling landmark account of the island city's complex past and precarious future. The story of Hong Kong has long been obscured by competing myths- to Britain, a 'barren rock' with no appreciable history; to Chin ...Show more
Intact: A Defence of the Unmodified Body by Clare Chambers
$26.99 AUD
Category: Cultural Studies
A vital exploration of equality and the body from an acclaimed political philosopherThe pressure to change our bodies is overwhelming. We strive to defy ageing, build our biceps, cure our disabilities, conceal our quirks. Surrounded by filtered photos and surgically-enhanced features, we must contort ou ...Show more
Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape by Cal Flyn
$22.99 AUD
Category: Climate
THE SUNDAY TIMES' BESTSELLER AND SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT CONSERVATION AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE HIGHLAND BOOK PRIZE This is a book about abandoned places: ghost to ...Show more
James Acaster's Guide to Quitting Social Media by James Acaster
$49.99 AUD
Category: Cultural Studies
This is a self-help book like no other. Because you are not helping yourself, James Acaster is helping you.In 2019, James quit all forms of social media - covering his phone in tar and driving it to a lock-up in Rhyl, before setting up home in a castle he'd built himself called Castle Anti-Net. But when ...Show more
Life on the Rocks Building a Future for Coral Reefs by Juli Berwald
$27.99 AUD
Category: Climate
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORKER AND BOOKLISTThe story of the urgent fight to save coral reefs, and why it matters to us allCoral reefs are a microcosm of our planet- extraordinarily diverse, deeply interconnected, and full of wonders. When they're thriving, these fairy gardens hidden ben ...Show more
Matrescence: On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth and Motherhood by Lucy Jones
$55.00 AUD
Category: Gender Studies
A radical new examination of the transition into motherhood and how it affects the mind, brain and bodyDuring pregnancy, childbirth, and early motherhood, women undergo a far-reaching physiological, psychological and social metamorphosis.There is no other time in a human's life course that entails such ...Show more
Mind of the Nation: Universities in Australian Life by Michael Wesley
$34.99 AUD
Category: Cultural Studies
In this thought-provoking and timely examination, academic and writer Michael Wesley asks what Australians really think and how they feel about our universities, and where to next?In 1964, Donald Horne wrote in his classic The Lucky Country that 'in a sense - Australia does not have a mind. Intellectual ...Show more
Modern Warfare: A Lowy Institute Paper: Penguin Special: Lessons from Ukraine by Sir Lawrence Freedman
$12.99 AUD
Category: Politics
The foremost authority on modern war in the English-speaking world examines Europe's most important conflict since World War IIMore than any other modern war, the fight between Russia and Ukraine has been a tough testing ground for modern weapons and operational concepts.Drawing on extensive research in ...Show more
Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma by Claire Dederer
$32.99 AUD
Category: Cultural Studies
'An incredible book, the best work of criticism I have read in a very long time' NICK HORNBY 'An exhilarating, shape-shifting exploration of the perilous boundaries between art and life' JENNY OFFILL A passionate, provocative and blisteringly smart interrogation of how we experience art in the age of #M ...Show more
None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary by Travis Alabanza
$24.99 AUD
Category: Gender Studies
'When you are someone that falls outside of categories in so many ways, a lot of things are said to you. And I have had a lot of things said to me.' In None of the Above, Travis Alabanza examines seven phrases people have directed at them about their gender identity. These phrases have stayed with them ...Show more