Heaven and Earth: Global Warming, the Missing Science by Ian Plimer
$19.95 AUD
Category: Social issues, cultural & politics
In this controversial new book Australia's leading geologist makes the case that carbon dioxide is just one of many factors that drive climate--and a relatively insignificant one at that. Heaven and Earth engagingly and comprehensively synthesizes what we know--or think we know -- about the sun, earth, ...Show more
Our Bodies, Their Battlefield - What War Does to Women by Christina Lamb
$29.99 AUD
Category: Social issues, cultural & politics | Reading Level: very good
‘A wake-up call … These women’s stories will make you weep, and then rage at the world's indifference.’ Amal Clooney From award-winning war reporter and co-author of I Am Malala, this is the first major account to address the scale of rape and sexual violence in modern conflict. Christina Lamb has worke ...Show more
The Desert and the Sea - 977 Days Captive on the Somali Pirate Coast by Michael Scott Moore
$24.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Michael Scott Moore, a journalist and the author of Sweetness and Blood, incorporates personal narrative and rigorous investigative journalism in this profound and revelatory memoir of his three-year captivity by Somali pirates--a riveting, thoughtful, and emotionally resonant exploration of foreign pol ...Show more
We've Got This: Stories by Disabled Parents by Eliza Hull
$24.99 AUD
$32.99 (24% off)
Category: Biography
The first major anthology by parents with disabilities How do two parents who are blind take their children to the park? How is a mother with dwarfism treated when she walks her child down the street? How do Deaf parents know when their baby cries in the night? When writer and musician Eliza Hull was ...Show more
The Feminist Killjoy Handbook by Sara Ahmed
$29.99 AUD
Category: Social issues, cultural & politics
A profound guide to existing on your own terms, the first trade book from renowned intersectional feminist scholar Sara Ahmed We have to keep saying it because they keep doing it. Do colleagues roll their eyes in a meeting when you use words like sexism or racism? Do you refuse to laugh at jokes that ...Show more
Dark Winter: An insider’s guide to pandemics and biosecurity by Raina MacIntyre
$22.99 AUD
$32.99 (30% off)
Category: Social issues, cultural & politics
Renowned epidemiologist and biosecurity expert Raina MacIntyre reveals her insights into biological warfare, pandemics and the threats that lie ahead.In Dark Winter, world-leading epidemiologist Professor Raina MacIntyre navigates the past, present and future of pandemics and biosecurity. MacIntyre exam ...Show more
Political Vision by CHAPMAN ANDREWS
$20.00 AUD
Category: Social issues, cultural & politics
Pope Francis and the New Vatican by David Yoder
$59.99 AUD
Category: Social issues, cultural & politics
Pope Francis' appointment to the papacy in 2013 electrified the world and injected a new energy into the Catholic Church. His message of mercy and humility resonates the world over, with people of every faith. For this extraordinary book, National Geographic photographer Dave Yoder spent more than six m ...Show more
Keeping Them Honest: the case for a genuine national integrity commission and other vital democratic reforms by Stephen Charles QC AO Charles, Catherine Williams
$22.99 AUD
$32.99 (30% off)
Category: Social issues, cultural & politics
A revealing and compelling case by Australia's foremost integrity advocate for a strong national body to expose political corruption, uphold accountability, and restore trust - and why the country needs it now. Over the last few years, instances of the federal government spending taxpayers' money to ga ...Show more
Finding My Place: From Cairo to Canberra by Anne Aly
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
From Cairo to Canberra - the irresistible story of an irrespressible woman 'Anne Aly's ... influence will be felt for years to come ... It sinks in how significant she may be to public life.' - The Good Weekend In 2016, Anne Aly was the first Australian Muslim woman, the first Egyptian-born woman and th ...Show more
No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood
$14.00 AUD
$19.99 (29% off)
Category: Social issues, cultural & politics
This is a story about a life lived in two halves. It's about what happens when real life collides with the world accessed through a screen. It's about where we go when existential threats loom and high-stakes reality claims us back. It's about living in world that contains both an abundance of proof tha ...Show more
When We Say Black Lives Matter by Maxine Beneba Clarke
$26.99 AUD
Category: Early Readers 0 - 6 years | Reading Level: near fine
Little one, when we say Black Lives Matter,we're saying black people are wonderful-strong. That we deserve to be treated with basic respect,and that history's done us wrong. From birth to the end of school, in joy and in sorrow, on the trumpet and the djembe, at home and in the community, a black child' ...Show more