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How We Got To Now: The History and Power of Great Ideas by Steven Johnson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
How did our mastery of artificial cold help give birth to at least four million babies, create the golden age of Hollywood and unlock the secrets of the universe? And what about our battle against dirt? How did that create the flat screen and the iPhone?This book is a celebration of ideas: how they happ ...Show more
Plastic Free: The Inspiring Story of a Global Environmental Movement and Why It Matters by Rebecca Prince-Ruiz; Joanna Atherfold Finn
$32.99 AUD
Category: Sustainability/Environment
‘I’m going plastic free next month, who wants to join me?’ When Rebecca Prince-Ruiz asked her colleagues this question in 2011, she had no idea that less than a decade later it would inspire a global movement of 250 million people in 177 countries to reduce their plastic use. Plastic Free tells the incr ...Show more
Me and White Supremacy - How to Recognise Your Privilege, Combat Racism and Change the World by Layla F Saad
$29.99 AUD
Category: Essays
'White supremacy is a violent system of oppression that harms Black, Indigenous and People of Colour. And if you are a person who holds white privilege, then you are complicit in upholding that harm, whether you realise it or not. This is not my opinion. This is fact. And if you are person who holds whi ...Show more
Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe
$22.99 AUD
Category: Chat10Looks3 Recommendations
Dark Emu argues for a reconsideration of the 'hunter-gatherer' tag for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians and attempts to rebut the colonial myths that have worked to justify dispossession. Accomplished author Bruce Pascoe provides compelling evidence from the diaries of early explorers that suggests ...Show more
How Do We Know We're Doing It Right? Essays on Modern Life by Pandora Sykes
$35.00 AUD
Category: Essays
'Pandora is my personal guru on all things relating to the zeitgeist. How lucky you are that she can now be yours too.' - Dolly Alderton Modern life is full of choices. We're told that happiness lies within and we can be whoever we want to be. But with endless possibility comes a feeling of restlessnes ...Show more
More Than a Woman by Caitlin Moran
$35.00 AUD
Category: Sociology
How to be an older woman? Who knows. Being a young woman can be challenging. But it turns out not even a fraction of the bullshit has happened to you by the time you turn thirty. Because your thirties, forties and beyond see you dealing with Real Life, the stuff you never thought would happen to you- gr ...Show more
Rage by Bob Woodward
$49.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
Bob Woodward's new book, Rage, is an unprecedented and intimate tour de force of original reporting on the Trump presidency. Rage goes behind the scenes like never before, with stunning new details about early national security decisions and operations and Trump's moves as he faces a global pandemic, e ...Show more
White Fragility - Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism by Robin DiAngelo
$22.99 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
Anger. Fear. Guilt. Denial. Silence. These are the ways in which ordinary white people react when it is pointed out to them that they have done or said something that has - unintentionally - caused racial offence or hurt. After, all, a racist is the worst thing a person can be, right? But these reaction ...Show more
Too Much And Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man by Mary L. Trump
$32.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
In this revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him, Mary L. Trump, a trained clinical psychologist and Donald's only niece, shines a bright light on the dark history of their family in order to explain how her uncle became the man who now threatens the world ...Show more
The Carbon Club: How a Network of Influential Climate Sceptics, Politicians and Business Leaders Fought to Control Australia's Climate Policy by Marian Wilkinson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Sustainability/Environment
The inside story of how a network of influential climate sceptics, politicians and business leaders fought to control Australia's response to the climate crisis. As the climate crisis threatens more extreme bushfire seasons, droughts and floods, many Australians are demanding their leaders answer the qu ...Show more
Truth Is Trouble by Malcolm Knox
$32.99 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
Why did the sacking of rugby player Israel Folau over his social media posts become one of the nation's most polarizing controversies? How could one man's religious views activate so many people in modern Australia? And what does the sides people found themselves on tell us about the kind of country we' ...Show more
When America Stopped Being Great: A History of the Present by Nick Bryant
$34.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
The presidency of Donald Trump is commonly seen as an historical accident. In When America Stopped Being Great, Nick Bryant argues that by 2016 it had become almost historically inescapable. In this highly personal account, drawing on decades of covering Washington for the BBC, Bryant shows how the bill ...Show more