Women Don't Owe You Pretty by Florence Given
$29.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
Women Don't Owe You Pretty tells you to love sex, hate sexism, protect your goddamn energy, life is short, dump them, and that you owe men nothing, least of all pretty. Florence's debut book explores all progressive corners of the feminist conversation; from insecurity projection and refusing to find co ...Show more
Brutal Truths Surviving in a World of Lies, Taboos and Bullsh#t by Simon Hammond
$29.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
After three internationally acclaimed books, Simon unleashes the 'Brutal Truths' about the way society has changed globally.Beyond COVID-19, society is facing a much bigger threat in 2021, accentuated by the pandemic, but evolving through 20 years of 'borrowed beliefs';We are a civilisation in decay thr ...Show more
The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women by Naomi Wolf
$19.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: Vintage Wolf Ser.
Provocative, punchy and important, this is one of the essential classics of modern feminist literature. In today's world, women have more power, legal recognition, and professional success than ever before. Alongside the evident progress of the women's movement, however, writer and journalist Naomi Wol ...Show more
The Guilty Feminist: From our noble goals to our worst hypocrisies by Deborah Frances-White
$29.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
In 2015 I described myself as 'guilty feminist' for the first time. My goals were noble but my concerns were trivial. I desperately wanted to close the pay gap, but I also wanted to look good sitting down naked. A funny, joyful, frank and inspiring book about embracing both feminism and our imperfectio ...Show more
The Great War: Aftermath and Commemoration by Carolyn Holbrook (Editor); Keir Reeves (Editor)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
The legacy of war is complex. From the late twentieth century as we moved closer to the centenary of the start of World War I, Australia was swept by an 'Anzac revival' and a feverish sense of commemoration. In this book, leading historians reflect on the commemorative splurge, which involved large amou ...Show more
The Collector of Leftover Souls - Dispatches from Brazil by Eliane Brum; Diane Grosklaus Whitty (Translator)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
From Brazil's answer to Svetlana Alexeivich: a powerful glimpse into the lives of ordinary Brazilians.
Going Dark: The Secret Social Lives of Extremists by Julia Ebner
$29.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
By day, Julia Ebner works at a counter-extremism think tank, monitoring radical groups from the outside, but two years ago, she began to feel that she was only seeing half the picture. She needed to get inside the groups to truly understand them. So she decided to go undercover in her spare hours - late ...Show more
The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama
$27.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
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Look What You Made Me Do - A Powerful Memoir of Coercive Control by Helen Walmsley-Johnson
$18.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
"Coercive control may have recently been made llegal in Britain, but not many women dare to open up about it. Helen Walmsley-Johson is an exception" The Times Not all abuse leaves a mark - a powerful memoir of coercive control Helen's first husband controlled her life, from the people she saw to what wa ...Show more
After Australia by Sweatshop Anthology
$24.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: edited Michael Mohammed Ahmad
Climate catastrophe, police brutality, white genocide, totalitarian rule and the erasure of black history provide the backdrop for stories of love, courage and hope. In this unflinching new anthology, eleven of Australia's most daring Indigenous writers and writers of colour provide a glimpse of Austral ...Show more
Lie Machines - How to Save Democracy from Troll Armies, Deceitful Robots, Junk News Operations, and Political Operatives by Philip N. Howard
$52.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
Technology is breaking politics--what can be done about it? Artificially intelligent "bot" accounts attack politicians and public figures on social media. Conspiracy theorists publish junk news sites to promote their outlandish beliefs. Campaigners create fake dating profiles to attract young voters. We ...Show more
The Borgias: Power and Fortune by Paul Strathern
$24.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
The glorious and infamous history of the Borgia family--a world of saints, corrupt popes, and depraved princes and poisoners--set against the golden age of the Italian Renaissance.The Borgia family have become a byword for evil. Corruption, incest, ruthless megalomania, avarice and vicious cruelty--all ...Show more