How to Defend Australia by Hugh White
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs, Culture & Society
A brilliant and important book about Australia's future. Can Australia defend itself in the Asian century? How seriously ought we take the risk of war? Do we want to remain a middle power? What kind of strategy, and what Australian Defence Force, do we need? In this groundbreaking book, Hugh White cons ...Show more
Am I There Yet? by Mari Andrew
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs, Culture & Society
New York Times bestseller This on-point guide to growing up by Instagram sensation Mari Andrew captures the feelings and comical complexities of millennials and adulthood with essays and illustrations. In the journey toward adulthood, it is easy to find yourself treading the path of those who came b ...Show more
For Small Creatures Such as We: Ritual.. by Sasha Sagan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs, Culture & Society
For Small Creatures Such as We hunts for the meaning behind our most common, beloved celebrations and envisions how we can grow these roots into new and fulfilling secular rituals. From the daughter of celebrated scientist, Carl Sagan, this is a luminous and moving tribute to a father, a newborn daughte ...Show more
Body Image Warrior: One woman's fight for change in the modelling industry by Chelsea Bonner
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs, Culture & Society
Body Image Warrior offers an insider's perspective on the curve model industry, in this uplifting story about one woman's mission to change the way we think about beauty and body image forever.
China Rich Girlfriend by Kevin Kwan
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs, Culture & Society | Series: Crazy Rich Asians #2
From the bestselling author of Crazy Rich Asians (Now a MAJOR MOTION PICTURE) comes a deliciously fun story of family, fortune, and fame in Mainland China. Book Two of the Crazy Rich Asians Trilogy It's the eve of Rachel Chu's wedding, and she should be over the moon. She has a flawless Asscher- ...Show more
Silent Invasion : China's Influence in Australia by Clive Hamilton
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs, Culture & Society
Respected academic Clive Hamilton realised something big was happening when, in 2016, it was revealed that wealthy Chinese businessmen linked to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) had become the largest donors to both major Australian political parties. Hamilton began to investigate the Chinese governmen ...Show more
The Politics of the Common Good: Dispossession in Australia by Jane R. Goodall
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs, Culture & Society | Series: Dispossession in Australia
`The Earth is a Common Treasury', proclaimed the English Revolutionaries in the 1640s. Does the principle of the commons offer us ways to respond now to the increasingly destructive effects of neoliberalism? With insight, passion and an eye on history, Jane Goodall argues that as the ravages of neo-libe ...Show more
Paper Emperors: The rise of Australia's newspaper empires by Sally Young
$39.99 AUD
$49.99 (20% off)
Category: Current Affairs, Culture & Society
'A tour de force.' -- Professor Rodney Tiffen Beforenewspapers were ravaged by the digital age, they were a powerful force,especially in Australia -- a country of newspaper giants and kingmakers. Thismagisterial book revealswho owned Australia's newspapers and how they used them to wield politicalpower. ...Show more
Women Rowing North: Navigating Life's Currents and Flourishing As We Age (HB) by Mary Pipher
$39.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs, Culture & Society | Series: How to flourish as we age
The New York Times bestseller from the author of Reviving Ophelia--a guide to wisdom, authenticity, and bliss for women as they age. Women growing older contend with ageism, misogyny, and loss. Yet as Mary Pipher shows, most older women are deeply happy and filled with gratitude for the gifts of life. ...Show more
Debt : The First 5,000 Years,Updated and Expanded by David Graeber
$39.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs, Culture & Society
Before there was money, there was debt. Every economics textbook says the same thing: Money was invented to replace onerous and complicated barter systems-to relieve ancient people from having to haul their goods to market. The problem with this version of history? There's not a shred of evidence to sup ...Show more
Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness by Rebecca Solnit
$50.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs, Culture & Society
The incomparable Rebecca Solnit, author of more than a dozen acclaimed books of nonfiction, brings the same dazzling writing to the twenty-nine essays in The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness. As the title suggests, the territory of Solnit’s concerns is vast, and in her signature alchemical style ...Show more
Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis
$25.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs, Culture & Society | Series: Open Media Ser.
With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case for the latest abolition movement in American life: the abolition of the prison. As she quite correctly notes, American life is replete with abolition movements, and when they were engaged in these struggle ...Show more