People who Lunch: Essays on work, leisure and loose living by Sally Olds
$29.99 AUD
Category: Essays
This book is about working and not working, hating work and needing to work, intimacy and technology, money and love, labour and pleasure. Across a series of essays, Sally Olds probes the ambivalent utopias of polyamory, cryptocurrency, clubbing, communes, a secret fraternity, and the essay form itself. ...Show more
Crimes Against Humanity: The Struggle For Global Justice by Geoffrey Robertson
$45.00 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
A freshly updated version of the definitive book on human rights law, now with a new chapter on war crimes in Ukraine In a newly updated edition of Crimes Against Humanity, Geoffrey Robertson QC explains why we must hold political and military leaders accountable for genocide, torture and mass murder. H ...Show more
The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Botton
$27.99 AUD
Category: Essays
One of the great, but often unmentioned, causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our environment: the kind of walls, chairs, buildings and streets we're surrounded by. And yet a concern for architecture and design is too often described as frivolous, even self-indulgent. The Architecture o ...Show more
Fear of Abandonment: Australia in the world since 1942 (Updated 2021) by Allan Gyngell
$34.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
In Fear of Abandonment, expert and insider Allan Gyngell tells the story of how Australia has shaped the world and been shaped by it since it established an independent foreign policy during the dangerous days of 1942. Gyngell argues that the fear of being abandoned - originally by Britain, and later by ...Show more
The Party: The Communist Party of Australia from Heyday to Reckoning by Stuart Macintyre
$49.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
The long awaited second volume in Stuart Macintyre's definitive history of the Communist Party of Australia. Communism was unlike any other political movement Australia has ever seen. At its peak in the 1940s, unions led by communists could call a strike that paralysed the nation, and communists influen ...Show more
A Short History Of The World According To Sheep by Sally Coulthard
$22.99 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
'This book deserves a place in your bookcase next to Harari's Sapiens. It's every bit as fascinating and is surely destined to be just as successful' Julian Norton From the plains of ancient Mesopotamia to the vast sheep farms of modern-day Australia, sheep have been central to the human story. Since ou ...Show more
Rigged: How Networks of Powerful Mates Rip Off Everyday Australians by Paul Frijters, Cameron Murray
$32.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
The shocking story of how networks of Mates have come to dominate business and government, and managed to rob the majority of ordinary Australians of half our wealth. 'This book will open your eyes to how Australia really works. It's not good news, but you need to know it.' - Ross Gittins 'You'll be sho ...Show more
The Fran Lebowitz Reader (PB) by Fran Lebowitz
$24.99 AUD
Category: Essays | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
Acerbic, wisecracking and hilarious, this is the definitive essay collection from New York legend and satirist, Fran Lebowitz, star of Martin Scorsese's hit Netflix series, Pretend It's a City.'The gold standard for intelligence, efficiency and humour. Now and forever' DAVID SEDARIS'She's inexhaustible ...Show more
12 Bytes: How artificial intelligence will change the way we live and love by Jeanette Winterson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
Twelve eye-opening, mind-expanding, funny and provocative essays on the implications of artificial intelligence for the way we live and the way we love - from Sunday Times-bestselling author Jeanette Winterson'Briskly and breezily, 12 Bytes joins the dots in a neglected narrative of female scientists, v ...Show more
A Guest at the Feast by Colm Toibin
$34.99 AUD
Category: Essays
A Guest at the Feast uncovers the places where politics and poetics meet, where life and fiction overlap, where one can be inside writing and also outside of it. From the melancholy and amusement within the work of the writer John McGahern to an extraordinary essay on his own cancer diagnosis, Tóibín de ...Show more
Dreamers and Schemers: A Political History of Australia by Frank Bongiorno
$39.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
A landmark book - the first full political history of AustraliaIn this compelling and comprehensive work, renowned historian Frank Bongiorno presents a social and cultural history of Australia's political life, from pre-settlement Indigenous systems to the present day. Depicting a wonderful parade of d ...Show more
Analogia: The Entangled Destinies of Nature, Human Beings and Machines by George Dyson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
A spellbinding exploration of the emergence of the digital age and an unsettling vision of what comes nextIn a world where humans coexist with technologies they no longer control or understand, who holds the future? George Dyson plots a thrilling and unexpected course through 300 years of history and sc ...Show more