Insane Clown President: Dispatches from the American Circus by Matt Taibbi
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
"The thing is, when you actually think about it, it's not funny. Given what's at stake, it's more like the opposite, like the first sign of the collapse of the United States as a global superpower. Twenty years from now, when we're all living like prehistory hominids and hunting rats with sticks, we'll ...Show more
The Sadeian Woman by Angela Carter
$22.99 AUD
Category: Sociology | Series: VMC
'Sexuality is power' - so says the Marquis de Sade, philosopher and pornographer extraordinaire. His virtuous Justine keeps to the rules laid down by men, her reward rape and humiliation; his Juliette, Justine's triumphantly monstrous antithesis, viciously exploits her sexuality. In a world where all te ...Show more
Not Quite Australian by Peter Mares
$32.99 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
"Permanent migration has long been vital to the story of Australia. From the arrival of early settlers to waves of post-war immigration, the symbolic moment of disembarking onto Australian soil is an image deeply embedded in our nation's consciousness. Today, there are more than million temporary migran ...Show more
The Australian Moment by George Megalogenis
$24.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
Winner of the 2013 Prime Minister's Literary Award, 2012 Walkley Book Award, and Australia's bestselling political book of 2012.The book of the TV series Making Australia Great.'This man is perhaps the sanest journalist in Australia. He believes in facts and figures. He has a unique grasp of politics in ...Show more
She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders by Jennifer Finney Boylan
$33.00 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
The provocative bestseller She's Not There is the exuberant memoir of a man named James who became a woman named Jenny. She's Not There is the story of a person changing genders, the story of a person bearing and finally revealing a complex secret; above all, it is a love story. By turns hilarious and d ...Show more
Shrill - Notes from a Loud Woman by Lindy West
$22.99 AUD
Category: Essays
Condition: **NEW** 'Women are told, from birth, that it's our job to be small: physically small, small in our presence, and small in our impact on the world. We're supposed to spend our lives passive, quiet and hungry. I want to obliterate that expectation...' Guardian columnist Lindy West wasn't alway ...Show more
Stop Fixing Women - Why building fairer workplaces is everybody’s business by Catherine Fox
$29.99 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues | Reading Level: near fine
Millions of words have been spent in our quest to explain men's seemingly never-ending dominance in boardrooms, in parliaments, in the bureaucracy and in almost every workplace. So why is gender inequality still such a pressing issue? Wage inequality between men and women seems one of the intractables o ...Show more
The Pleasures of Leisure by Robert Dessaix
$29.99 AUD
Category: Sociology | Reading Level: very good
In today's crazily busy world the importance of making time for leisure is more vital than ever. Yet so many of us lack a talent for it. We are working longer hours, consuming more than ever before; technology erodes the work-life balance further; increasingly, people feel that only work gives existence ...Show more
City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp by Ben Rawlence
$22.99 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
To the charity workers, Dadaab refugee camp is a humanitarian crisis; to the Kenyan government, it is a 'nursery for terrorists'; to the western media, it is a dangerous no-go area; but to its half a million residents, it is their last resort. Situated hundreds of miles from any other settlement, deep w ...Show more
The Dog's Last Walk by Howard Jacobson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: General Adult
Hilarious, heartbreaking, provocative and affecting - Howard Jacobson's irresistible journalism reveals the Man Booker Prize-winning novelist in all his humanity. From the tiniest absurdities to the most universal joys and desolations, Jacobson writes with a thunder, passion and wit unmatched. Just as d ...Show more
How the Hell Did This Happen?: The US Election of 2016 by P. J. O'Rourke
$29.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
No comedian could have written the joke this election cycle has been. The punch line is too ridiculous (whoever the punch line is going to be). Celebrated political satirist, journalist, and diehard Republican P.J. O'Rourke brings his critical eye and inimitable voice to some serious risky business. How ...Show more
Requiem for the American Dream: The Principles of Concentrated Weath and Power by Noam Chomsky
$32.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
Requiem for the American Dream is a work of some 70,000 words based on four years of interviews with Noam Chomsky on the subject of income equality. Chomsky considers these to be his final, long-form documentary interviews. It is a book that makes Chomsky's breadth and depth accessible, and at the same ...Show more