Untrue - Why Nearly Everything We Believe about Women and Lust and Infidelity Is Wrong and How the New Science Can Set Us Free by Wednesday Martin
$32.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
Men are biologically programmed to want sex with lots of different women, whereas women are designed to stay true to one person, right?Wrong.In Untrue, New York Times-bestselling author Wednesday Martin reveals that we are just at the beginning of understanding women?s sexuality properly. From New York ...Show more
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot. Call if what you like, it matters now more than ever. In The Ascent of Money, Niall Ferguson shows that financial history is the back-story to all history. From the banking dynasty who funded the Italian Renaissance to the stock market bubble that caused the French Revol ...Show more
Adani and the War over Coal by Quentin Beresford
$34.99 AUD
Category: Sustainability/Environment
Coal is the political, economic and cultural totem for debates about climate change. Yet Australian politicians have had a love affair with coal, which has helped lock our politics--and our country--into the fossil fuel age. This searing book takes apart the pivotal role of the Adani Carmichael mine in ...Show more
No Place Like Home - Repairing Australia's Housing Crisis by Peter Mares
$32.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
More than a million lower-income households in Australia pay above the affordability benchmark for their housing costs. More than 100,000 people are homeless. Seventy per cent of us are concerned we'll never own property. Yet owning a home is still seen by most Australians as an essential part of our wa ...Show more
Climate Justice by Mary Robinson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Sustainability/Environment
The antidote for your climate change paralysis. --Sierra MagazineAn urgent call to arms by one of the most important voices in the international fight against climate change, sharing inspiring stories and offering vital lessons for the path forward. Holding her first grandchild in her arms in 2003, Mar ...Show more
Dopesick: Dealers Doctors and the Drug Company That Addicted America by Beth Macy
$32.99 AUD
Category: Sociology | Reading Level: very good
'A shocking investigation ... [Dopesick] is essential' The Times. Beth Macy takes us into the heart of America's struggle with opioid addiction. From distressed small communities in Central Appalachia to wealthy suburbs and once-idyllic farm towns, this powerful and moving story illustrates how a nation ...Show more
Australia Fair: Listening to the Nation: Quarterly Essay 73 by Rebecca Huntley
$22.99 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
For some time, a majority of Australians have been saying they want change - on climate and energy, on housing and inequality, on corporate donations and their corrupting effect on democracy, to name just a few.Recent attention has focused on the angry, reactionary minority. But is there a progressive c ...Show more
Unbelievable by John Shelby Spong
$32.99 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Five hundred years after Martin Luther and his Ninety-Five Theses ushered in the Reformation, bestselling author and controversial bishop and teacher John Shelby Spong delivers twelve forward-thinking theses to spark a new reformation to reinvigorate Christianity and ensure its future.At the beginning o ...Show more
How to Be Human: The Manual by Ruby Wax
$22.99 AUD
Category: Essays
With a little help from a monk, and a neuroscientist, Ruby Wax answers every question you've ever had about- evolution, thoughts, emotions, the body, addictions, relationships, kids, the future and compassion. How to be Human is extremely funny, true and the only manual you'll need to help you upgrade y ...Show more
The People vs the Banks by Michael Roddan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
The banking royal commission has put the financial sector on trial and exposed its self-interest, corruption and excess. The People vs The Banks reveals what happens when businesses put profit before punters, reward bad behaviour and assume they are beyond the law. The day of reckoning for liars and thi ...Show more
Blackout How can energy-rich Australia be running out of electricity? by Matthew Warren
$29.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
For 20 years Australia has been in political denial about the seismic changes occurring in the way we power our country. Successive governments continue to tell people that power prices will fall while the lights stay on. Debate is reduced to two equally preposterous narratives: coal-fired, climate chan ...Show more
Everything in Its Place: First Loves and Last Tales by Oliver Sacks
$39.99 AUD
Category: Essays
From the bestselling author of Gratitude and On the Move, a final volume of essays that showcase Sacks's broad range of interests - from his passion for ferns, swimming, and horsetails, to his final case histories exploring schizophrenia, dementia, and Alzheimer's. Oliver Sacks, scientist and storytelle ...Show more