Courage Is Contagious: And Other Reasons to Be Grateful for Michelle Obama by Nick Haramis
$29.99 AUD
Category: Essays
Michelle Obama's legacy transcends categorization; her cultural imprint is as nuanced as it is indelible. She used her time in the White House to fight for women, minorities, and health and education advocates. At the same time, her own genre-busting style encouraged others to speak, to engage, even to ...Show more
The Woman Who Fooled the World: Belle Gibson’s Cancer Con by Beau Donelly; Nick Toscano
$32.99 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
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The Checklist Manifesto: How To Get Things Right by Atul Gawande
$22.99 AUD
Category: Essays
One of the top ten greatest doctors in the world looks at the lowly checklist, and how this simple idea - which is free to reproduce - will revolutionise the way we approach problems, and help save lives. Today we find ourselves in possession of stupendous know-how, which we willingly place in the hands ...Show more
Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History by Kurt Andersen
$35.00 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
You're entitled to your own opinion but not your own facts If you want to understand Trump's America, how the lines between reality and illusion have become dangerously blurred, you have to go back to the very beginning and take a dizzying road trip across five centuries of crackpot delusion and make-b ...Show more
Death Sentence: The Decay of Public Language by Don Watson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Part diatribe, part cool reflection on the state of Australia's public language, Don Watson's Death Sentenceis scathing, funny and brilliant.' ... in public life the language has never been held in less regard. It withers in the dungeons of the technocratic mind. It is butchered by the media. In politic ...Show more
Open Wide by Melissa Ambrosini
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Category: Essays
The hip gal's 21st century relationship guide to love and relationships. Open Wide, from Melissa Ambrosini, the bestselling author of Mastering Your Mean Girl, is a radically real, upfront and no BS guide for women on finding and cultivating mind-blowing, heart-expanding, deep authentic love, real relat ...Show more
The Declaration of the Rights of Women: The Originial Manifesto for Justice, Equality and Freedom by Olympe de Gourges
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Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
** NEW** Olympe de Gouges was the most important fighter for women's rights you've never heard of. An activist and writer in revolutionary Paris, she published 'The Declaration of the Rights of Women' in 1791, and was beheaded two years later, her articulate demands for equality proving too much fo ...Show more
Silent Invasion : China's Influence in Australia by Clive Hamilton
$34.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
Respected academic Clive Hamilton realised something big was happening when, in 2016, it was revealed that wealthy Chinese businessmen linked to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) had become the largest donors to both major Australian political parties. Hamilton began to investigate the Chinese governmen ...Show more
It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America by David Cay Johnston
$39.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
The Trump administration is remaking the government. It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America tells readers exactly how it is making America worse again.Bestselling author and longtime Trump observer David Cay Johnston shines a light on the political termites who ...Show more
The Sorrows of Work by School of Life Staff; Alain de Botton (Series edited by)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues | Series: Essay Bks.
Work can be a route to creativity, excitement and purpose. Nevertheless, many of us end up confused, discouraged and beaten by our working lives. The temptation is often just to blame ourselves, and to feel privately ashamed and guilty. However, as this book lucidly explains, there is a range of well-em ...Show more
The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race by Jesmyn Ward
$24.99 AUD
Category: Essays
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEREdited by two-time National Book Award winner and Women's Prize shortlisted-author Jesmyn Ward, a timely and groundbreaking collection of essays and poems about race in AmericaIn this bestselling collection of essays and poems, Jesmyn Ward gathers a new generation of writers ...Show more
New Power by Jeremy Heimans, Henry Timms
$32.99 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
In this indispensable guide to navigating the 21st century, two visionary thinkers reveal the unexpected ways power is changing - and how 'new power' is reshaping politics, business and life. Why do some leap ahead while others fall behind in today's chaotic, connected age? In New Power, Australian Jere ...Show more