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 Amur River: Between Russia and China by Colin Thubron
$24.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
A dramatic and ambitious new journey for our greatest travel writerColin Thubron, at 79, will travel the important but almost unknown Amur River - the tenth longest river in the world - that separates Russia from China in the Far East. The river rises in the mountains of north-east Mongolia (heartland o ...Show more
Growing up Queer in Australia by Benjamin Law
$29.99 AUD
Category: Sociology | Series: Growing Up
'No amount of YouTube videos and queer think pieces prepared me for this moment.’ ‘The mantle of “queer migrant” compelled me to keep going – to go further.’ ‘I never “came out” to my parents. I felt I owed them no explanation.’ ‘All I heard from the pulpit were grim hints.’ ‘I became acutely aware of ...Show more
Because Internet: Understanding how language is changing by Gretchen McCulloch
$19.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!! "Gretchen McCulloch is the internet's favorite linguist, and this book is essential reading. Reading her work is like suddenly being able to see the matrix." --Jonny Sun, author of everyone's a aliebn when ur a aliebn too Because Internet is for anyone who's ever ...Show more
Upheaval - How Nations Cope with Crisis and Change by Jared Diamond
$24.99 AUD
Category: Sociology | Reading Level: very good
In his landmark international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel, and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our understanding of what makes civilizations rise and fall. Now in the third book in this monumental trilogy, he reveals how successful nations recover from crisis. Diamond’s analysis of the ways in ...Show more
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
$24.99 AUD
Category: Sociology | Reading Level: very good
'A wonderful page-turner about a fascinating idea that should affect the way every thinking person thinks about the world around him' Michael Lewis In this brilliant and original book, Malcolm Gladwell explains and analyses the 'tipping point', that magic moment when ideas, trends and social behaviour c ...Show more
big beautiful female theory (Shortlisted for the 2023 Stella Prize) by Eloise Grills
$35.00 AUD
Category: Sociology
big beautiful female theory is an anarchic and vital memoir unlike anything you've read before. Part feminist manifesto, part comic book, it is a carnivalesque exploration of the ways identity is formed through culture, relationships and the weight of society's expectations. With breathtaking honesty an ...Show more
The Momentous, Uneventful Day: A Requiem for the Office by Gideon Haigh
$24.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
Has COVID-19 ushered in the end of the office? Or is it the office's final triumph? For decades, futurologists have prophesied a boundaryless working world, freed from the cramped confines of the office. During the COVID-19 crisis, employees around the globe got a taste of it. Confined by lockdown to t ...Show more
Salt, Sugar, Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us by Michael Moss
$34.95 AUD
Category: Sociology
This is the story of how the food industry have used three essential ingredients to control much of the world's diet. In "Salt, Sugar, Fat" Michael Moss uncovers the truth about the food giants that dominate our supermarket shelves and reveals how the makers of processed foods have chosen, time and agai ...Show more
Glorious Days: Australia 1913 by MICHELLE HETHERINGTON (ed)
$44.95 AUD
Category: Sociology
This richly illustrated book takes the reader into life in Australia in 1913. That year was a fascinating and important time for Australians, although the events of the following year have tended to cast a retrospective shadow over it. In places as far apart as Antarctica, Papua and Great Britain, Austr ...Show more
Dog Days: Australia After the Boom by Ross Garnaut
$19.99 AUD
Category: Sociology | Series: Redback Ser.
A blueprint for the nation after the boom. Australians have just lived through a period of exceptional prosperity, but, says influential economist Ross Garnaut, the Dog Days are on their way. Are we ready for the challenges ahead? In Dog Days, Garnaut explains how we got here, what we can expect ...Show more