The Worth of Water: Our Story of Chasing Solutions to the World's Greatest Challenge by Gary White, Matt Damon
$42.99 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
From the founders of nonprofits Water.org & WaterEquity Gary White and Matt Damon, the incredible true story of two unlikely allies on a mission to end the global water crisis for good On any given morning, you might wake up and shower with water, make your coffee with water, flush your toilet with ...Show more
Australia’s China Odyssey: From euphoria to fear by James Curran
$34.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
Australia’s relationship with China is one of the dominant geopolitical stories of our times. The need to understand the tectonic forces of history moving beneath the surface of these critical events has never been more pressing.In Australia’s China Odyssey, acclaimed historian James Curran explores thi ...Show more
Iran: What Does It Want? - Jewish Quarterly 249 by Jonathan Pearlman
$22.99 AUD
Category: Essays
This issue of The Jewish Quarterly examines the motivations behind Iran's changing role and influence in the Middle East. Iran- What Does It Want? investigates Tehran's interventions in the affairs of countries across the region, and assesses the prospects for resolving tensions over its nuclear program ...Show more
Farm - The making of a climate activist by Nicola Harvey
$32.99 AUD
Category: Sustainability/Environment
Is it possible to survive as a new farmer and change the future of farming at the same time? For years we've been told that the food system is destroying the planet. That there are too many cows and tractors, too much fertiliser, too much waste, and that farmers and food manufacturers are polluting our ...Show more
Not Now, Not Ever: Ten years on from the misogyny speech by Julia Gillard
$35.00 AUD
Category: Essays
Ten years on from the speech that stopped us all in our tracks – Julia Gillard’s misogyny speech. Where were you then? And where are we now? Then it was done. After staying silent, I’d had my say. At no time did I feel worked up or hotly angry. I felt strong, measured, controlled. Yet emotion did pla ...Show more
Thinking 101: Lessons on How To Transform Your Thinking and Your Life by Woo-kyoung Ahn
$34.99 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
<b>In </b><i>Thinking 101</i><b> you can transform your life with clear actionable steps to overcome challenges and biases in your thinking, from </b><b>renowned</b><b> Yale </b><b>psychologist</b><b> Woo-kyoung Ahn.</b> ...Show more
Abominations - Selected Essays From a Career of Courting Self-Destruction by Lionel Shriver
$32.99 AUD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
A masterful collection from one of the most acclaimed writers of our time. Abominations: Selected essays from a career of courting self-destruction showcases Lionel Shriver's relentlessly sceptical and deeply insightful thoughts on our contemporary era. Uniting essays from the Spectator, New York Times, ...Show more
The Good Death Through Time by Caitlin Mahar
$35.00 AUD
Category: Sociology
Can our forebears help us face complex questions of dying, now?' I have quite a bit of understanding of white man's ways, but it is difficult for me to understand this one.' ;An Australian Senate committee investigation of the Northern Territory's Rights of the Terminally Ill Act 1995, the first legisl ...Show more
Fix the System, Not the Women by Laura Bates
$29.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
10 years after founding the Everyday Sexism Project, feminist writer and activist Laura Bates connects the dots between the 'isolated incidents' of violence against women and the institutional and systemic misogyny that is so deeply ingrained in our society. Every three days in the UK, women are murdere ...Show more
The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery by Adam Gopnik
$32.99 AUD
Category: Essays
Bestselling author and New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik embarks on a wildly creative inquiry into perhaps the oldest question: how do we learn a new skill? For decades, Adam Gopnik has been one of our most beloved writers, a brilliantly perceptive critic of art, food, France, and more. But recently, he b ...Show more
The Great British Dream Factory: The Strange History of Our National Imagination by Dominic Sandbrook
$39.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
'An exuberant and learned celebration of British culture' Observer Britain's empire has gone. We no longer matter as we once did. And yet there is still one area in which we can legitimately claim superpower status: our popular culture. It is extraordinary to think that one British writer, J. K. Rowlin ...Show more
The Archipelago of Us: A Search for Our Identity in Australia’s Most Remote Territories by Reneé Pettitt-Schipp
$32.99 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
A travel narrative, a memoir and a thought-provoking look at Australia's complicated history with Christmas and Cocos (Keeling) Islands and the asylum seekers detained there.Five years after first living in the Indian Ocean Territories, Renee Pettitt-Schipp finds herself returning, haunted by memories o ...Show more