Just Money: Misadventures in the Great Australian Debt Trap by Royce Kurmelovs
$32.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
The debt business is booming. Millions of Australians grapple with credit cards, mortgages and student debt repayments each day. As the result of a car crash without insurance, investigative journalist Royce Kurmelovs finds himself among them. When a debt collector knocks on his door, he embarks on a j ...Show more
Our Next Reality - How the AI-Powered Metaverse Will Reshape the World by Alvin Wang Graylin; Louis Rosenberg
$34.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
Foreword by Neal Stephenson, bestselling author of Snow Crash Over the last 100 years, technology has changed our world. Over the next decade it will transform our reality. The planet is headed for a momentous upheaval, and we are not prepared. We are entering a new technological age in which artifici ...Show more
The Malay Archipelago 2 Volume Set - The Land of the Orang-Utan, and the Bird of Paradise. A Narrative of Travel, with Studies of Man and Nature by Alfred Russel Wallace
$130.95 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Zoology Ser.
Alfred Russel Wallace (1823 1913) was a British naturalist who is best remembered as the co-discoverer, with Darwin, of natural selection. His extensive fieldwork and advocacy of the theory of evolution led to him being considered one of the nineteenth century's foremost evolutionary theorists. These vo ...Show more
Middle KingdomThe Colonial History of the Highlands of Papua New Guinea by James Sinclair
$89.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
This is an account of the 'discovery', exploration, pacification and development of the Eastern, Western and Southern Highlands, Simbu and Enga Provinces of Papua New Guinea, from their beginnings to independence in September 1975 - the colonial era. New Guinea was the last of the great land masses of ...Show more
The Witches Are Coming: Essays by Lindy West
$29.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
From the very moment powerful men on top started falling to the #MeToo movement, the lamentations have been raging from every corner: this is feminism gone too far, this is injustice, this is a witch hunt. In The Witches Are Coming, firebrand author of the New York Times bestselling memoir and now criti ...Show more
The Silo Effect: Why putting everything in its place isn't such a bright idea by Gillian Tett
$22.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
Ever since civilised society began, we have felt the need to classify, categorise and specialise. It can make things more efficient, and help give the leaders of any organisation a sense of confidence that they have the right people focusing on the right tasks. But it can also be catastrophic, leading t ...Show more
The First Stone: 25th Anniversary Edition by Helen Garner
$32.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: GARNER. HELEN
In the autumn of 1992, two young women students at Melbourne University went to the police claiming that they had been indecently assaulted at a party. The man they accused was the head of their co-ed residential college. The First Stone has been reviled and revered. At the time of publication, its auth ...Show more
A Lasting Conversation: Stories on Ageing by Susan Ogle (Editor); Melanie Joosten (Editor)
$29.95 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
A Lasting Conversation, Stories on Ageing explores many a spec ts o f ageing including resilience and defeat, satisfaction and reg ret, excitement and fear, love, loss and laughter. These stories are written from various perspectives, including older women and men, their daughters and sons, grandchildre ...Show more
Team Human by Douglas Rushkoff
$39.95 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
Team Human is a manifesto--a fiery distillation of preeminent digital theorist Douglas Rushkoff's most urgent thoughts on civilization and human nature. In one hundred lean and incisive statements, he argues that we are essentially social creatures, and that we achieve our greatest aspirations when we w ...Show more
The System: Who Owns the Internet, and How It Owns Us by James Ball
$29.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
The internet is a network of physical cables and connections, a web of wires enmeshing the world, linking huge data centres to one another and eventually to us. All are owned by someone, financed by someone, regulated by someone. We refer to the internet as abstract from reality. By doing so, we obscure ...Show more
Badly Behaved Women Seldom Make History - A Cultural History of Modern Feminism by Anna-Maria Crowhurst
$49.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
Badly Behaved Womenis the illustrated story of the past 100 years of the women's movement, from suffrage, alleged bra burning and the politics of hair to Beyoncé, body positivity and #MeToo. In the early twentieth century, through ceaseless dedication and fearless campaigning, the women's movement achie ...Show more
Intoxicating: Ten Drinks that Shaped Australia by Allen, Max
$32.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
The fiery burn of rebellion rum, a thirst-quenching gulp of ice-cold beer, the medicinal tang of restorative bitters... What did the drinks that shaped Australia first taste like? In search of answers, award-winning writer Max Allen takes us on a personal journey through Australia's colourful and comple ...Show more