Kintsugi by Marie O'Rourke
$29.99 AUD
Category: Essays
These essays are a poignant reminder that some things cannot be fixed but can still hold immense beauty and meaning. All her life, Marie O'Rourke has been a Good Girl, a perfectionist, using words to apply golden seams to an imperfect life in an attempt to make something beautiful out of things that are ...Show more
Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis
$36.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
The world-famous #1 bestselling economist explains how capitalism has been usurped by a technologically enhanced form of feudalism. No one noticed when capitalism died. Perhaps we were too distracted by the implosion of global finance, or the rise of populism, or the demise of the planet - or all of th ...Show more
Not Just Lucky by Jamila Rizvi
$35.00 AUD
Category: Sociology
'Feisty and inquisitive - a fresh take on modern feminist issues.' Julia GillardAustralian women are suffering from a crisis of confidence about work. Accustomed to being overlooked and undervalued, even when women do get to the top, they explain their success away as 'luck'. But it's not.Not Just Lucky ...Show more
Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen
$36.99 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
We could have an uninhabitable earth in a century. It could take 26 minutes and 40 seconds. An edge-of-your-seat non-fiction thriller that has to be read to be believed. Up to now, no one outside of official circles has known exactly what would happen if a rogue state launched a nuclear missile at the ...Show more
Media Tarts Revised and Updated Edition by Julia Baird
$34.99 AUD
Category: Essays
Based on a series of extensive interviews - and now revised and updated to reflect current events - Media Tarts provides an in-depth analysis of the influence of a generation of prominent female politicians on the Australian political system and explores the part played by the press in their downfall. ' ...Show more
Fix the System, Not the Women by Laura Bates
$24.99 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
*PRE-ORDER NOW* WITH A BRAND-NEW CHAPTER 'Get your daughters to read this, but only after your partners and sons have finished it’ Jo Brand 'An astute and persuasive page-turner' Observer _____________________________________________________ Too often, we blame women. For walking home alone at night. ...Show more
The Shakespeare and Company Book of Interviews by Adam Biles (Editor)
$39.99 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
An illuminating collection of interviews between the prestigious Shakespeare and Company and the best writers of our time Shakespeare and Company, Paris, is one of the world's most iconic and beautiful bookshops. Located on the banks of the Seine, opposite Notre-Dame, it's long been a meeting place for ...Show more
The Truth About Crypto: A Practical, Easy-to-Understand Guide to Bitcoin, Blockchain, NFTs, and Other Digital Assets by Ric Edelman
$32.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
A straightforward, practical guide to the newest frontier in investment strategy--crypto--from #1 New York Times bestselling author and personal finance expert Ric Edelman.Blockchain and bitcoin are here to stay--and as the Bank of England stated, this new technology could transform the global financial ...Show more
Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture by Bruce Pascoe
$27.99 AUD
Category: Chat10Looks3 Recommendations | Reading Level: very good
Dark Emu argues for a reconsideration of the 'hunter-gatherer' tag for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians and attempts to rebut the colonial myths that have worked to justify dispossession. Accomplished author Bruce Pascoe provides compelling evidence from the diaries of early explorers that suggests t ...Show more
The School of Life: Collected Essays by The School of Life
$55.00 AUD
Category: Essays
A 15th anniversary collection of The School of Life's most popular andessential essays on self-knowledge, relationships, work and culture. The School of Life is an organisation with a focused mission at its heart: to help foster calm, self-understanding and greater emotional maturity. Over 15 years, we ...Show more
On Freedom by Tory Shepherd
$14.99 AUD
Category: Essays
They're labelled as selfish, as 'deliberately barren', and sometimes as crazy old cat ladies, but increasingly women are choosing to be childfree. By 2030 couples without children are set to outnumber those who have them.Tory Shepherd looks at how women's freedom to choose motherhood is reshaping their ...Show more
The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity and Love in our Digital Age by Danielle Keats Citron
$35.00 AUD
Category: Sociology
'Devastating and urgent, this book could not be more timely' Caroline Criado Perez Danielle Citron takes the conversation about technology and privacy out of the boardrooms and op-eds to reach readers where we are - in our bathrooms and bedrooms; with our families and our lovers; in all the parts of our ...Show more