Consent Laid Bare: Sex, Entitlement & the Distortion of Desire by Chanel Contos
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Category: Culture & Ideas
A battle cry from a generation no longer willing to stay silent, this book is a must for women, and men, navigating desire in the age of entitlement. You are a fourteen-year-old girl at a party. You are drunk. All your friends are drunk. A boy is pressuring you to have sex. You don't really want to, but ...Show more
The Life You Can Save by Peter Singer
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Category: Culture & Ideas
In this Tenth Anniversary Edition of The Life You Can Save, Peter Singer brings his landmark book up to date. In addition to restating his compelling arguments about how we should respond to extreme poverty, he examines the progress we are making and recounts how the first edition transformed the lives ...Show more
Bad Cop: Peter Dutton's Strongman Politics (Quarterly Essay #93) by Lech Blaine
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Category: Culture & Ideas
Where will Dutton lead the Coalition? A portrait of Peter Dutton, as well as a modern interrogation of the Australian suburbs and the people who live there. 2022 saw the splintering of the Liberal Party's electoral coalition. Influential conservatives have urged Peter Dutton to forget about the seats l ...Show more
The Great Divide: Australia's Housing Mess and How to Fix It; Quarterly Essay 92 by Alan Kohler
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Category: Culture & Ideas
What caused Australia's housing crisis - and how we might fix it One of the great mysteries of Australian life is that a land of sweeping plains, with one of the lowest population densities on the planet, has a shortage of land for houses. As a result, Sydney's median house price is the second most exp ...Show more
Winning for Women A Personal Story by Iola Mathews
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Category: Culture & Ideas
What was it like to be involved in the heady days of 'second wave' feminism in Australia, when the role of women at home and at work changed decisively? Iola Mathews was one of the founders of the Women's Electoral Lobby, a journalist at The Age, and later a leading ACTU advocate for women workers durin ...Show more
Conspiracy - Why the Rational Believe the Irrational by Michael Shermer
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Category: Culture & Ideas
"A well-written and essential tool for those navigating today's complicated geopolitical landscape."--Library Journal Best-selling author Michael Shermer presents an overarching theory of conspiracy theories--who believes them and why, which ones are real, and what we should do about them.Nothing happen ...Show more
I Don't by Clementine Ford
$34.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
Incendiary feminist and bestselling author Clementine Ford presents the inarguable case against marriage for the modern woman. Provocative, controversial and above all, compellingly and persuasively argued. I want this book to end marriages. But more importantly, I want it to prevent marriages. Women ...Show more
Kin: Family in the 21st century by Marina Kamenev
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Category: Culture & Ideas
Written by journalist Marina Kamenev, Kin: Family in the 21st century is an incisive and powerful look at how families are created today, and how they might be created in the future. Here’s an exercise: take a piece of paper. Grab a pen, pencil, crayon — any drawing utensil within reach. Now, draw a ty ...Show more
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
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Category: Culture & Ideas
From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity's creation and evolution--a #1 international bestseller--that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be "human." One hundred thousand years ago, at least six ...Show more
Bite Back: Feminism, media, politics, and our power to change it all by Hannah Ferguson
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Category: Culture & Ideas
Articulating sharp, progressive perspectives on the social and political issues that matter, Bite Back offers constructive talking points to provoke and inspire meaningful change. The Co-Founder of Cheek Media Co. delivers the conversations we've been missing on everything from diet culture to the futur ...Show more
Frasier: A Cultural History by Joseph J. Darowski, Kate Darowski
$46.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
After America's most pompous barhound left the Cheer's gang in Boston, he returned to Seattle and found himself surrounded by an equally colorful cast of friends and family alike. For eleven seasons, radio psychiatrist Frasier Crane contended with his blue-collar ex-cop father Martin, English caretaker ...Show more
Foreverism by Grafton Tanner
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Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: Theory Redux Ser.
What do cinematic "universes," cloud archiving, and voice cloning have in common? They're in the business of foreverizing - the process of revitalizing things that have degraded, failed, or disappeared so that they can remain active in the present. To foreverize something is to reanimate it, to enclose ...Show more