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
On Being Nice (The School of Life) by The School of Life
$32.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: The\School of Life Library | Reading Level: near fine
Most books that want to change us seek to make us richer or thinner. This book wants to help us to be nicer, that is: less irritable, more patient, readier to listen, warmer, less prickly ...Niceness may not have the immediate allure of money or fame, but it is a hugely important quality nevertheless an ...Show more
A Job to Love - The School of Life by The School of Life
$32.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: The\School of Life Library
Alongside a satisfying relationship, a career we love is one of the foremost requirements for a fulfilled life. Unfortunately, it is devilishly hard to understand oneself well enough to know quite where one's energies should be directed. A Job To Love is designed to help us out of some of these impasses ...Show more
Relationships - The School of Life by The School of Life
$32.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: The\School of Life Library
Few things promise us greater happiness than our relationships - yet few things more reliably deliver misery and frustration. Our error is to suppose that we are born knowing how to love and that managing a relationship might therefore be intuitive and easy. This book starts from a different premise: th ...Show more
Small Pleasures - The School of Life by The School of Life
$32.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: The\School of Life Library | Reading Level: very good
So often, we exhaust ourselves and the planet in a search for very large pleasures - while all around us lies a wealth of small pleasures, which - if only we paid more attention - could daily bring us solace and joy at little cost and effort. But we need some encouragement to focus our gaze. This is a b ...Show more
The Year Everything Changed: 2001 by Phillipa McGuinness
$34.99 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
On New Year's Eve 2001, with her husband by her side, Phillipa McGuinness buried her son. They stood with a young priest in Chua Chu Kang Cemetery and watched a small coffin go into the ground. Later that night, shattered, they sat looking out at the hundreds of ships waiting to come into port in Singap ...Show more
Reading the Landscape: A Celebration of Australian Writing by Bernadette Brennan (Introduction by)
$29.95 AUD
Category: Essays
UQP celebrates 70 years of publishing the best Australian writing with a unique anthology that showcases the diversity of the Australian literary landscape.Featuring 25 of the greatest Australian writing names from UQP's past and present, this unique publishing project will showcase specially commission ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 70: Dead Right: How Neoliberalism Ate Itself and What Comes Next by Richard Denniss
$22.99 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues | Series: Quarterly Essay
How did the big banks get away with so much for so long? Why are so many aged-care residents malnourished? And when did arms manufacturers start sponsoring the Australian War Memorial? In this passionate essay, Richard Denniss explores what neoliberalism has done to Australian society. For decades, ...Show more
Curry by Naben Ruthnum
$19.99 AUD
Category: Essays
No two curries are the same. Curryasks why the dish is supposed to represent everything brown people eat, read, and do. Curry is a dish that doesn't quite exist, but, as this wildly funny and sharp essay points out, a dish that doesn't properly exist can have infinite, equally authentic variations. By ...Show more
Trump/Russia - A Definitive History by Seth Hettena
$32.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic | Reading Level: very good
Is the 45th President of the United States under the control of a foreign power? Award-winning Associated Press reporter Seth Hettena untangles the story of Donald Trump's long involvement with Russia in damning detail - including new reporting never before published. As Special Counsel Robert Mueller' ...Show more
Waiting for Elijah by Kate Wild
$35.00 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
Some witnesses to the shooting say otherwise, though, and this act of aggression doesn't fit with the sweet, sensitive, but troubled young man that Elijah's family and friends knew him to be. The shooting devastates Elijah's family and the police officer alike. So what happened in that Armidale laneway ...Show more