A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things - A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet by Raj Patel; Jason Moore
$34.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
Nature, Money, Work, Care, Food, Energy, and Lives. These are the seven things that have made our world and will continue to shape its future. By making these things cheap, modern commerce has controlled, transformed, and devastated the Earth. In A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things, Raj Patel ...Show more
Wife Drought by Annabel Crabb
$34.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
'I need a wife' It's a common joke among women juggling work and family. But it's not actually a joke. Having a spouse who takes care of things at home is a Godsend on the domestic front. It's a potent economic asset on the work front. And it's an advantage enjoyed - even in our modern society - by vast ...Show more
The Climb: Conversations with Australian Women in Power by Geraldine Doogue
$32.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
Iconic journalist and television presenter Geraldine Doogue turns her attention to an issue central to our times. How are we, as women, represented at the top levels of power in Australia? In candid and personal conversations with fourteen women leading the way in fields as wide-ranging as business, pol ...Show more
World Order - Reflections on the Character of Nations and the Course of History by Henry Kissinger
$24.99 AUD
Category: Sociology | Reading Level: very good
In World Order, Henry Kissinger - one of the leading practitioners of world diplomacy and author of On China - makes his monumental investigation into the 'tectonic plates' of global history and state relations. World Order is the summation of Henry Kissinger's thinking about history, strategy and state ...Show more
Hysterical - Closing the Emotion Gender Gap by Pragya Agarwal
$34.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
An urgent exploration of how the gendering of emotions came about, and what we can do to change these damaging stereotypes.
Sunburnt Country: The History and Future of Climate Change in Australia by Joëlle Gergis
$34.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
What was Australia's climate like before official weather records began? How do scientists use tree-rings, ice cores and tropical corals to retrace the past? What do Indigenous seasonal calendars reveal? And what do settler diary entries about rainfall, droughts, bushfires and snowfalls tell us about na ...Show more
Everywhere I Look by Helen Garner
$23.99 AUD
Category: Sociology | Reading Level: very good
Garner is a 2016 Windham-Campbell Prize recipient for her non-fiction writings. The judges praised Garner's work as 'intelligent, lucid and often disturbing.' PRAISE FOR EVERYWHERE I LOOK'A captivating collection...No matter the topic, Garner is a charming and courageous writer whose distinctive voice ...Show more
The Pleasures of Leisure by Robert Dessaix
$22.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
'Almost everybody I know has done it at least once. Some of my friends indulge on a regular basis. Women seem especially susceptible to giving it a go. I?ve been at it since I was at least five. What on earth do we imagine we?re doing??Many of us lack a talent for leisure. We are working longer hours as ...Show more
Blueprint for Revolution - How to Use Rice Pudding, Lego Men, and Other Non-violent Techniques to Galvanise Communities, Overthrow Dictators, Or Simply Change the World by Srdja Popovic
$27.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
How Do Ordinary People Become Revolutionaries? In 2000, too-cool-to-care Belgrade rock kid Srdja Popovic found himself at the centre of a movement which was about to change the world. Popovic was one of the unexpected leaders of the student movement Otpor! That overthrew dictator Slobodan Milosevic and ...Show more
Bad People - and How to Be Rid of Them: A Plan B for Human Rights by Geoffrey Robertson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
Twenty years ago Geoffrey Robertson inspired the global justice movement with his ground-breaking book, Crimes Against Humanity. Since then, the movement has stalled, as nationalism takes hold and populist governments retreat from international courts and refuse to comply with their rulings.But there is ...Show more
Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag
$22.99 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
From Goya's Disasters of War to news footage and photographs of the conflicts in Vietnam, Rwanda and Bosnia, pictures have been charged with inspiring dissent, fostering violence or instilling apathy in us, the viewer. Regarding the Pain of Others will alter our thinking not only about the uses and mean ...Show more
Paper Tiger - Inside the Real China by Xu Zhiyuan
$32.99 AUD
Category: Sociology | Reading Level: very good
In PAPER TIGER the Chinese journalist and intellectual Xu Zhiyuan paints a portrait of the world's second-largest economy via a thoughtful and wide-ranging series of mini essays on contemporary Chinese society. Xu Zhiyuan describes the many stages upon which China's great transformation is taking place ...Show more