Still Lucky: Why you should feel optomistic about Australia and its people by Rebecca Huntley
$35.00 AUD
Category: Sociology
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Peak Reinventing Middle Age by Patricia Edgar
$32.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
Society is changing faster than policies and attitudes are keeping up with. People are living longer, retiring from work later, and remaining active and valuable contributors to the community well into and beyond their 50s and 60s. Peak- Reinventing Middle Age focuses on Australians in the 50-75 age bra ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 65: The White Queen, One Nation and the Politics of Race by David Marr
$22.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic | Series: Quarterly Essay
Most Australians despise what Pauline Hanson stands for, yet politics in this country is now orbiting around One Nation. In this timely Quarterly Essay, David Marr looks at Australia's politics of fear, resentment and race. Who votes One Nation, and why? How much of this is due to inequality? How much ...Show more
The Phoenix Years : A History of Modern China by Madeleine O'Dea
$34.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
If there is one lesson that can be drawn from our current times it is that the instinct be true to oneself, and to live an authentic life is a universal one, even in the face of autocracy or terrorism. From a young girl agitating for education in Pakistan, to idealistic filmmakers in Iran, from punk poe ...Show more
Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman by Lindy West
$29.99 AUD
Category: 2017 Perth Writers Festival
'Women are told, from birth, that it's our job to be small: physically small, small in our presence, and small in our impact on the world. We're supposed to spend our lives passive, quiet and hungry. I want to obliterate that expectation...' Guardian columnist Lindy West wasn't always loud. It's difficu ...Show more
The Age of Jihad: Islamic State and the Great War for the Middle East by Patrick Cockburn
$31.99 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
This is essential reading for anyone interested in the collapse of the Middle East, and the devastating role of the West in the creation of this hellish crucible. In Age of Jihad Cockburn exposes the dominant conflict of our time-the Sunni-Shia war, and the subsequent origins of ISIS. As he shows this d ...Show more
Fighting Hislam by Susan Carland
$29.99 AUD
Category: Essays
Muslim women oppose sexism in their community in many ways- pray-in protests, feisty Tumblrs, demanding to enter mosques through the main entrance, teaching Islamic classes to women and girls, writing their own female-friendly translations of the Qur'an, making films with Muslim protagonists...In Fighti ...Show more
23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism by Ha-Joon Chang
$24.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic | Reading Level: good
The acclaimed Ha-Joon Chang is a voice of sanity--and wit--in this lighthearted audiobook with a serious purpose: to question the assumptions behind the dogma and sheer hype that the dominant school of neoliberal economists have spun since the Age of Reagan. 23 Things They Don't Tell You about Capitalis ...Show more
How Did We Get Into This Mess? Politics, Equality, Nature by George Monbiot
$19.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic | Reading Level: near fine
Leading political and environmental commentator on where we have gone wrong, and what to do about it " Without countervailing voices, naming and challenging power, political freedom withers and dies. Without countervailing voices, a better world can never materialise. Without countervailing voices, well ...Show more
The Chaser's America: the Chaser, Issue 6 by The Chaser
$12.95 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
With Donald Trump taking the Whitehouse in late January, The Chaser takes a new look at the United States, its institutions and its former allies and new foes. Inspired by last year's The Chaser's Australia, The Chaser's Americais a full colour primer about the world's best-marketed country, it also fea ...Show more
The Disruptors: Social Entrepreneurs Reinventing Business and Society by Kerryn Krige
$45.00 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
"Can business change the world? Can the world change business?" For a new breed of social entrepreneurs, striving to build and grow enterprises that fight social ills, foster opportunity, and help to improve society, the answer is not can, it s must. Impassioned by purpose, driven by dreams, emboldened ...Show more
Work Strife Balance by Mia Freedman
$34.99 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
This audiobook is for every woman who's been told success is as simple as Lean In, Say Yes, Live Your Best Life, Beat Your Fear, Follow Your Dream ... and then feel #soblessed. It's for guilty friends, bad mums, crap wives, imperfect feminists, rebellious daughters and any girl with a big mouth and at l ...Show more