Women & Power: A Manifesto by Mary Beard
$16.99 AUD
Category: Essays
An updated edition of the Sunday Times Bestseller. Britain's best-known classicist Mary Beard, is also a committed and vocal feminist. With wry wit, she revisits the gender agenda and shows how history has treated powerful women. Her examples range from the classical world to the modern day, from Medus ...Show more
Paper Emperors: The rise of Australia's newspaper empires by Sally Young
$49.99 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
'A tour de force.' -- Professor Rodney Tiffen Beforenewspapers were ravaged by the digital age, they were a powerful force,especially in Australia -- a country of newspaper giants and kingmakers. Thismagisterial book revealswho owned Australia's newspapers and how they used them to wield politicalpower. ...Show more
Larrikan Bush Tales by Graham Seal
$29.99 AUD
Category: Essays
From one of our master storytellers, author of the bestselling Great Australian Stories, comes another collection of yarns, tall tales, bush legends, and colorful characters. Taking us from the deep outback to the glistening sea, they go to the heart of what makes us distinctively Australian.
An Inconvenient Genocide - Who Remembers the Armenians? by Geoffrey Robertson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Essays
The most controversial issue left over from the First World War - was there an Armenian Genocide? - comes to a head on 24 April 2015, when Armenians throughout the world commemorate the centenary of the murder of 1.5 million - over half - of their people, at the hands of the Ottoman Turkish government. ...Show more
Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
$29.99 AUD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
'Pink is my favourite colour. I used to say my favourite colour was black to be cool, but it is pink - all shades of pink. If I have an accessory, it is probably pink. I read Vogue, and I'm not doing it ironically, though it might seem that way. I once live-tweeted the September issue.' In these funny a ...Show more
The Utopia of Rules - On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy by David Graeber
$32.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic | Reading Level: very good
Where does the desire for endless rules, regulations, and bureaucracy come from? How did we come to spend so much of our time filling out forms? To answer these questions, anthropologist David Graeber - one of the most prominent and provocative thinkers working today - takes a journey through ancient an ...Show more
Buy Me the Sky: The Remarkable Truth of China's One-Child Generations by Xinran
$32.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
With journalistic acumen and a novelist's flair, Xinran tells the remarkable stories of men and women born in China after 1979 - the recent generations raised under China's single-child policy. At a time when the country continues to transform at the speed of light, these generations of precious 'one an ...Show more
A Doubter's Guide to the Bible: Inside History's Bestseller for Believers and Skeptics by John Dickson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues | Reading Level: General Adult
A Doubter's Guide to the Bible is a concise account of the whole biblical narrative and the lifestyle it inspires, representing a unique and engaging framework for those observing Christianity from the outside, especially those who think there are good reasons not to believe.In this book, Dickson provid ...Show more
Catch and Kill: The Politics of Power by Joel Deane
$32.95 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
Power is the only measure of a politician that matters. How they win power. How they wield power. How they lose power. Catch and Kill is an inside account of the beguiling and nomadic nature of the unholy trinity of politics - the winning, the wielding, the losing. Taking us into the inner sanctum of st ...Show more
How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life: An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and Happiness by Russ Roberts
$24.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
"A fun, fascinating, and original book that will challenge you to become a better version of yourself." (Daniel H. Pink, author of Drive). What does it take to be truly happy? Should we pursue fame and fortune or the respect of our friends and family? How can we make the world a better place? Two hundre ...Show more
The Invention of Russia: The Journey from Gorbachev's Freedom to Putin's War by Arkady Ostrovsky
$45.00 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
"By tracing the history of modern Russia from Mikhail Gorbachev to the rise of ex KGB agent Vladimir Putin, Arkady Ostrovsky reveals how the Soviet Union came to its end and how Russia has since reinvented itself. Russia today bears little resemblance to the country that embraced freedom in the late eig ...Show more
Damned Whores and God's Police by Anne Summers
$39.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
Sexual harassment, domestic violence and date rape had not been named, although they certainly existed, when Damned Whores and God's Police was first published in 1975. That was before the Sex Discrimination Act of 1984 and before large numbers of women became visible in employment, in politics and else ...Show more