On Living by Kerry Egan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Essays
A hospice chaplain's lessons on the meaning of life, from those who are leaving it What are the top regrets of the dying? That's what Kerry Egan, a hospice chaplain, learned as she listened to her patients on their deathbeds, witnessing what she calls the "spiritual work of dying" - the work of finding ...Show more
True Stories: The Collected Short Non-Fiction by Helen Garner
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Category: Essays
Helen Garner visits the morgue, and goes cruising on a Russian ship. She sees women giving birth, and gets the sack for teaching her students about sex. She attends a school dance and a gun show. She writes about dreaming, about turning fifty, and the storm caused by The First Stone. Her stories on the ...Show more
Life Lessons from Remarkable Women: Tales of Triumph, Failure and Learning to Love Yourself
$24.99 AUD
Category: Essays
We asked remarkable women from all walks of life to reveal the one life lesson they want all women to know. Lessons covering issues that all women face including finding confidence within ourselves, dealing with failure, building long-lasting and meaningful relationships, pursuing a fulfilling and succe ...Show more
Australia Reimagined: Towards a More Compassionate, Less Anxious Society by Hugh Mackay
$32.99 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
'When it comes to our future, misplaced optimism is as dangerous as blind faith. What is needed is the courage to face the way things are, and the wisdom and imagination to work out how to make things better.'Australia's unprecedented run of economic growth has failed to deliver a more stable or harmoni ...Show more
The Big Four: The Curious Past and Perilous Future of Global Accounting Monopoly by Stuart Kells, Ian D. Gow
$32.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
Across the globe, the so-called Big Four accounting and audit firms - Deloitte, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Ernst & Young, and KPMG - are massively influential. Together, they earn more than US$100 billion annually and employ almost one million people. In many profound ways, they have changed how we wor ...Show more
See What Can Be Done: Essays, Criticism, and Commentary by Lorrie Moore
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Category: Essays
A welcome surprise: more than fifty prose pieces, gathered together for the first time, by one of America's most revered and admired novelists and short-story writers, whose articles, essays, and cultural commentary--appearing in The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review, The New York ...Show more
Witches - What Women Do Together by Sam George-Allen
$32.99 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
Witches is a celebration of the power and pleasure of working with other women, and a powerful statement against the cultural conspiracy to keep us apart from one another - against the myths of the 'cool girl' or the 'catty workplace'. Sam George-Allen knows that women working together are formidable. S ...Show more
Choice Words: A collection of writing about abortion by Louise Swinn
$29.99 AUD
Category: Essays
Edited by Louise Swinn, Choice Words is a timely collection of stories, essays, rants and raves from high profile women that seeks to demystify abortion and its surrounding stigma.
Turning the Tide on Plastic - How Humanity (and You) Can Make Our Globe Clean Again by Lucy Siegle
$22.99 AUD
Category: Sustainability/Environment
Enough plastic is thrown away every year to circle the world 4 timesMore than 8 million tonnes of plastic enter the oceans each year300 million tonnes of new plastic is produced every yearAn estimated 15-51 trillion pieces of plastic now litter the world's oceans38.5 million plastic bottles are used eve ...Show more
On Artists by Ashleigh Wilson
$14.99 AUD
Category: Essays
The #MeToo movement is overturning a cliche that has forgiven bad behaviour for years- to be creative is to be prone to eccentricity, madness, addiction and excess. No longer can artists be excused from the standards of conduct that apply to us all. But if we denounce the artist, then what becomes of th ...Show more
Atheists: The Origin of the Species by Nick Spencer
$35.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
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Half the Sky: How to Change the World by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
$24.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
With Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn as our guides, we undertake a journey through Africa and Asia to meet an extraordinary array of women struggling under profoundly dire circumstances: a Cambodian teenager sold into sex slavery; an Ethiopian woman left for dead after a dif ...Show more