On Animals by Susan Orlean
$29.99 AUD
Category: Essays
A delightful and entertaining collection of a lifetime of musings, meditations and in-depth profiles about animals, by the bestselling author of The Orchid Thief and The Library Book.
Doing Politics: Writing on Public Life by Judith Brett
$34.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
A brilliant collection of the best essays by award-winning writer Judith Brett, long revered by those in the know as Australia's brightest and most astute political commentator. Since the 1980s Judith Brett has been helping to shape Australians' conversations about politics, bringing a historian's eye ...Show more
Wildland: The Making of America's Fury by Evan Osnos
$29.99 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues | Reading Level: very good
After a decade abroad, the National Book Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Evan Osnos returns to three places he has lived in the United States--Greenwich, CT; Clarksburg, WV; and Chicago, IL--to illuminate the origins of America's political fury. Evan Osnos moved to Washington, D.C., in 2013 aft ...Show more
Sweat: A History of Exercise by Bill Hayes
$29.99 AUD
Category: Essays
From Insomniac City author Bill Hayes, who can tackle just about any subject in book form, and make you glad he did (SF Chronicle)--a cultural, scientific, literary, and personal history of exercise. Exercise is our modern obsession, and we have the fancy workout gear and fads from HIIT to spin class ...Show more
Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life by Clare Mac Cumhaill, Rachael Wiseman
$35.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
A ground-breaking book that examines the place of women in twentieth-century philosophy and is a call to arms for the present day 'Philosophy in a world of women. I reflected, talking with Mary, Pip and Elizabeth, how much I love them.' Two brilliant young scholars uncover the major (and unacknowledge ...Show more
Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces 2004-2021 by Margaret Atwood
$42.99 AUD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: near fine
From cultural icon Margaret Atwood comes a brilliant collection of essays - funny, erudite, endlessly curious, uncannily prescient - which seek answers to Burning Questions such as; Why do people everywhere, in all cultures, tell stories? How much of yourself can you give away without evaporating? How c ...Show more
In Search of Lost Time: Europe Before the Holocaust - Jewish Quarterly 247 by Jonathan Pearlman
$22.99 AUD
Category: Essays
This issue of The Jewish Quarterly examines the efforts to recover and remember the Jewish world of Europe before the Holocaust. In Search of Lost Time brings to light recent discoveries of hidden troves of documents and artefacts, and the attempt to retrieve them and preserve the memory of the lives an ...Show more
Wise Words from Bookish Women: Smart and sassy life advice by HARPER BY DESIGN
$16.99 AUD
Category: Essays
This uplifting collection celebrates inspiring bookish women the world over and their thoughts on life, love, politics, education and beyond. This uplifting collection celebrates inspiring bookish women the world over and their thoughts on life, love, politics, education and beyond. From writers, thinke ...Show more
Keeping Them Honest: the case for a genuine national integrity commission and other vital democratic reforms by Stephen Charles QC AO Charles, Catherine Williams
$32.99 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
A revealing and compelling case by Australia's foremost integrity advocate for a strong national body to expose political corruption, uphold accountability, and restore trust - and why the country needs it now. Over the last few years, instances of the federal government spending taxpayers' money to ga ...Show more
Unbound: A Woman's Guide To Power by Kasia Urbaniak
$35.00 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
Stop being a servant of the life you're living and become a creator of the world you want. Electrifying lessons in power, influence and persuasion to equalise women in an unequal world.Why do so many women feel they're too much yet not enough? How can you feel 'good and mad' yet reluctant to speak up in ...Show more
The Book of All Books by Roberto Calasso
$55.00 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
A splendid reimagining of key stories from the Bible, from the renowned Italian writer, thinker and publisherA man named Saul is sent to search for some lost donkeys and on the way is named king of his people. The queen of a remote African realm travels for three years with her entourage to meet the kin ...Show more
Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis by James Davies
$24.99 AUD
Category: Essays
A provocative and shocking look at how western society is misunderstanding and mistreating mental illness. In Britain alone, more than 20% of the adult population take a psychiatric drug in any one year. This is an increase of over 500% since 1980 and the numbers continue to grow. Yet, despite this pres ...Show more