Well Hello: Meanderings from the world of Chat 10 Looks 3 by Leigh Sales
$39.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
From the hit podcast Chat 10 Looks 3 comes a smart, hilarious and heartfelt book about friendship, the vagaries of life and culture, and everything in between. In 2014, two of Australia's most high-profile journalists sat at a kitchen table, hit record on a phone and started a rambling conversation tha ...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
Dying of Whiteness - How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland by Jonathan M. Metzl
$22.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
A physician's "remarkable" account of how right-wing backlash policies have mortal consequences (Minneapolis Star Tribune) -- even for the white voters they promise to help. In election after election, conservative white Americans have embraced politicians who pledge to make their lives great again. Bu ...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
The FIFO Wives' Tales - The Good, the Bad and the Really Ugly by Yasmin Walter
$32.95 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
What's it really like to live a FIFO lifestyle? How does it feel to leave your partner for weeks at a time and miss out on all the family birthdays and activities? Is all that money really worth it? And how does the partner at home honestly feel, waiting for the next phone call or airport run? What stra ...Show more
Women Changing the World: Why Women Hold the Key to Unlock the Future by PEACE MITCHELL
$29.95 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
WHAT IF WE COULD INSPIRE PEOPLE EVERYWHERE TO CHANGE THE WORLD? This question was the inspiration for creating this book. A vision to create something beautiful yet powerful that would inspire others to take action, in their own lives and the work they do, to find ways to make the world a better place i ...Show more
How to Lose Friends and Influence White People by Antoinette Lattouf
$34.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
A guide through the balancing act of activist, advocate and ally, remembering that just because others are learning you don't need to be the teacher, from the dynamic and sharp co-founder of Media Diversity Australia, Antoinette Lattouf. Poignant, inspiring, funny and most importantly authentic, How to ...Show more
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
Unvaxxed: Trust, Truth and the Rise of Vaccine Outrage by Dyani Lewis
$22.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: The\Crikey Read Ser.
Unvaxxed is a nuanced, timely look at vaccine hesitancy and how uncertainty and misinformation have influenced the Australian experience of the COVID-19 pandemic. Written by award-winning science journalist Dyani Lewis, this is the second book in The Crikey Read series by Crikey and Hardie Grant Books. ...Show more
Legitimate Sexpectations: The Power of Sex-Ed by Katrina Marson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
Can we promise future generations a life free of sexual violence, in which their sexual wellbeing will be protected? Is this a promise we can keep?As a sexual offences prosecutor, Katrina Marson works for an institution that can only respond, one case at a time, to sexual violence once the damage is alr ...Show more
The Case Against the Sexual Revolution: A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century by Louise Perry
$30.95 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
Ditching the stuffy hang-ups and benighted sexual traditionalism of the past is an unambiguously positive thing. The sexual revolution has liberated us to enjoy a heady mixture of erotic freedom and personal autonomy. Right? Wrong, argues Louise Perry in her provocative new book. Although it would be n ...Show more
Last Rites - The Evolution of the American Funeral by Todd Harra
$42.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
The Untold Story of American Funeral and Mourning Traditions Why do we embalm the deceased? Why are funerals so expensive? Is there a reason coffins are shaped the way they are? When--and why--did we start viewing the deceased? Ceremonies for honoring the departed are crucial parts of our lives, but fe ...Show more