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
Hype by Gabrielle Bluestone
$32.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
From Vice journalist and executive producer of hit Netflix documentary Fyre comes an eye-opening look at the con artists, grifters and snake oil salesmen of the digital age--and why we can't stop falling for them. We live in an age where scams are the new normal. A charismatic entrepreneur sells thousa ...Show more
You're about to Make a Terrible Mistake! - How Biases Distort Decision-Making and What You Can Do to Fight Them by Olivier Sibony
$29.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
You're About to Make a Terrible Mistake! distils the latest developments in behavioural economics and cognitive psychology into actionable tools for making smart, effective decisions in business and beyond.
Skin Deep The Inside Story of Our Outer Selves by Phillipa McGuinness
$34.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
A book about skin, that wonderful thing that covers our body, acting as both barrier and receptor to life.This is a book about skin. The strange wonderfulness of our bodily covering. What happens to it when something goes wrong. How the world responds to imperfection and difference. It's about how skin ...Show more
There's a War Going On But No One Can See It by Huib Modderkolk
$22.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
'A brilliant page-turner by one of Holland's finest investigative journalists' Rutger Bregman, author of Humankind' Essential . . . What's revealed are networks of spies and criminals fighting an invisible war that involves us all' Eliot Higgins, bestselling author of We Are Bellingcat Summer 2017: co ...Show more
Misogynation - The True Scale of Sexism by Laura Bates
$22.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS FROM BESTSELLING AUTHOR AND FOUNDER OF THE EVERYDAY SEXISM PROJECT, LAURA BATES. 'Following [Everyday Sexism] will make most women feel oddly saner.' Caitlin Moran 'Piercingly astute.' Stylist Laura Bates, pioneering feminist, activist and bestselling author, has given voice ...Show more
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
Quarterly Essay 85: Not Waving, Drowning: Mental Illness and Vulnerability in Australia by Sarah Krasnostein
$24.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
How can we mend Australia's broken mental health system? Around one-fifth of Australians will suffer from mental illness in any given year. And the pandemic is making things worse, especially in schools. Our mental health system is under stress and not fit for purpose. What is to be done? In this brilli ...Show more
On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal by Naomi Klein
$19.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
#1 New York Times and internationally bestselling author Naomi Klein makes the case for a Green New Deal in this "keenly argued, well-researched, and impassioned" manifesto (The Washington Post). An instant bestseller, On Fire shows Klein at her most prophetic and philosophical, investigating the clim ...Show more
The Time of Our Lives: Growing Older Well by Robert Dessaix
$32.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
At the height of his powers in this remarkable (and often witty) book, Robert Dessaix addresses these increasingly urgent questions in inimitable prose and comes up with some surprising answers. From Java to Hobart via Berlin, Dessaix invites us to eavesdrop on his intimate, no-nonsense conversations ab ...Show more
The Atlas of Christmas - The Merriest, Tastiest, Quirkiest Holiday Traditions from Around the World by Alex Palmer
$26.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
Discover the fascinating (and sometimes downright odd ) ways that people and nations celebrate the holiday season and share this festive compendium's unique traditions together with family and friends.Do you know that in Guatemala there's a "Burn the Devil" tradition to kick off the Christmas season, wh ...Show more
The Storm Is Upon Us: How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult, and Conspiracy Theory of Everything by Mike Rothschild
$32.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
Its messaging can seem cryptic, even nonsensical, yet for tens of thousands of people, it explains everything: What is QAnon, where did it come from, and is the Capitol insurgency a sign of where it's going next? On October 5, 2017, President Trump made a cryptic remark in the State Dining Room at a ga ...Show more