Period: It's About Bloody Time by Emma Barnett
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs, Culture & Society
The fierce and funny manifesto from broadcaster Emma Barnett. Myth-debunking and taboo-busting, this is going to be the book that everyone is talking about. Period. At a time when women around the world are raising their voices in the fight for equality, there is still one taboo where there remains a d ...Show more
How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship by Ece Temelkuran
$27.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs, Culture & Society
An urgent call to action from one of Europe's most well-regarded political thinkers. How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship is a field guide to spotting the insidious patterns and mechanisms of the populist wave sweeping the globe - before it's too late. `It couldn't happen he ...Show more
Fascism: A Warning by Madeleine Albright
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs, Culture & Society
The #1 NYT BESTSELLER A personal and urgent examination of Fascism in the twentieth century and how its legacy shapes today's world, written by one of America's most admired public servants, the first woman to serve as U.S. secretary of state. “There is priceless wisdom on every page.” Kirkus Starred re ...Show more
The Hype Machine: How Social Media Disrupts Our Elections, Our Economy and Our Health - and How We Must Adapt by Sinan Aral
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs, Culture & Society
In this brilliant smart-thinking book about the power and influence of social media, Professor Sinan Aral shows how ‘hyper-socialization' has profoundly changed us. Why does fake news spread faster than the truth? Do products and ideas become popular because they are good or because they are rated high ...Show more
The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer
$19.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs, Culture & Society | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics Ser.
Available in audio for the first time since its publication in 1970, and narrated by the author, Germaine Greer. A worldwide best seller, The Female Eunuch is a landmark book in the history of the women's movement and a ground-breaking feminist tract. Drawing from history, literature, and popular cultu ...Show more
Fight Like A Girl by Clementine Ford
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs, Culture & Society
Personal and fearless - a call to arms for feminists new, old and as yet unrealised by one of our most outspoken feminist writers.
The Future of Capitalism - Facing the New Anxieties by Paul Collier
$45.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs, Culture & Society
Deep new rifts are tearing apart the fabric of Britain and other Western societies: thriving cities versus the provinces, the highly skilled elite versus the less educated, wealthy versus developing countries. As these divides deepen, we have lost the sense of ethical obligation to others that was cruci ...Show more
Dead in the Water: A very angry book about our greatest environmental catastrophe. . . the death of the Murray-Darling Basin by Richard Beasley
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs, Culture & Society
Full-throated and provocative, this is a very personal battle cry to save our most precious natural resource. 'I LOVE IT.' Peter FitzSimons'With a deft mixture of outrage, humour and in-depth knowledge, only Beasley could make water policy a page turner.' Craig Reucassel'It's great to shed some more l ...Show more
The Land Before Avocado by Richard Glover
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs, Culture & Society
'It was a simpler time'. We had more fun back then'. 'Everyone could afford a house'. There's plenty of nostalgia right now for the Australia of the past, but what was it really like? In The Land Before Avocado, Richard Glover takes a journey to an almost unrecognisable Australia. It's a vivid portrait ...Show more
Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs, Culture & Society
From the bestselling author of The Black Swan, a bold book that challenges many of our long-held beliefs about risk and reward, politics and religion, finance and personal responsibility Why should we never listen to people who explain rather than do? Why do companies go bust? How is it that we have mor ...Show more