The Story of Australia's People Vol. II: The Rise and Rise of a New Australia by Geoffrey Blainey
$34.99 AUD
Category: Cultural Studies
Australia is indeed made up of many peoples, and together their story is one of high drama, courage and resilience. When the first Europeans crossed the world to settle the vast southern continent that became known as Australia, it was almost unknown. Over time it revealed itself to be a land of reward, ...Show more
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
$24.99 AUD
Category: Cultural Studies
The acclaimed bestseller that will change the way you make decisions.In Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahneman takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think and make choices. One system is fast, intuitive, and emotional; the other is slower, more delib ...Show more
We Have Always Been Here (PB) by Samra Habib
$24.99 AUD
Category: LGBTQ+
Triumphant and uplifting - a queer Muslim memoir about forgiveness and freedom. 'Revolutionary' Mona Eltahawy * 'Exquisite, powerful and urgent' Stacey May Fowles * 'I fell in love with this book' Shani Mootoo A memoir of hope, faith and love, Samra Habib's story starts with growing up as part of a th ...Show more
Writers and Missionaries: Essays on the Radical Imagination by Adam Shatz
$49.99 AUD
Category: Cultural Studies
What does it mean to be a politically committed writer? Through a close reading of the lives and works of some of the greatest intellectuals of recent times, Adam Shatz asks: do writers have an ethical imperative to question injustice? How can one remain a dispassionate thinker when involved in the ...Show more
140 Artists' Ideas for Planet Earth by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Kostas Stasinopoulos
$16.99 AUD
Category: Climate
An urgent and entertaining guide to tackling the climate emergency at home, within your community and within yourself, from some of the best artistic minds of our generation Through 140 drawings, thought experiments, recipes, activist instructions, gardening ideas, insurgences and personal revolutions, ...Show more
21 Lessons for the 21st Century: 'Truly mind-expanding... Ultra-topical' Guardian by Yuval Noah Harari
$24.99 AUD
Category: Cultural Studies
Sapiens showed us where we came from. Homo Deus looked to the future. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century explores the present. How can we protect ourselves from nuclear war, ecological cataclysms and technological disruptions? What can we do about the epidemic of fake news or the threat of terrorism? What ...Show more
A Bigger Picture by Malcolm Turnbull
$55.00 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
When Malcolm Turnbull took over the nation’s top job there was a sense of excitement in Australia. Sky-high opinion polls followed as the political outsider with a successful business, legal and media career took charge. The infighting that had dogged politics for the best part of a decade looked to be ...Show more
A History of Masculinity: From Patriarchy to Gender Justice by Ivan Jablonka
$26.99 AUD
Category: Gender Studies
A highly acclaimed, bestselling work from one of France's pre-eminent historians. What does it mean to be a good man? To be a good father, or a good partner? A good brother, or a good friend? In this clear-sighted analysis, social historian Ivan Jablonka offers a re-examination of the patriarchy and i ...Show more
A Short History of Queer Women by Kirsty Loehr
$22.99 AUD
Category: LGBTQ+
No, they weren’t ‘just friends’! Queer women have been written out of history since, well, forever. ‘But historians famously care about women!’, said no one. From Anne Bonny and Mary Read who sailed the seas together disguised as pirates, to US football captain Megan Rapinoe declaring ‘You can’t win ...Show more
A Warning from the Golden Toad by Tim Flannery
$9.99 AUD
Category: Climate | Series: Penguin Green Ideas
Taking us on an extraordinary journey into the past and around the globe, from coral reefs to the North Pole, deserts to rainforests, Tim Flannery tells the story of the earth's climate, and how we have changed it.
Abortion Care is Health Care by Barbara Baird
$40.00 AUD
Category: Politics
A history of the challenges facing medical abortion provision in Australia and the people trying to overcome them.In Abortion Care is Health Care Barbara Baird tells the history of the provision of abortion care in Australia since 1990. Against the backdrop of a reticent public sector Baird describes a ...Show more
Africa Is Not A Country: Breaking Stereotypes of Modern Africa by Dipo Faloyin
$35.00 AUD
Category: Cultural Studies
Africa Is Not A Country is a kaleidoscopic portrait of modern Africa, that pushes back against harmful stereotypes to tell a more comprehensive story. You already know these stereotypes. So often Africa is depicted simplistically as an arid red landscape of famines and safaris, uniquely plagued by pover ...Show more