Body Count: How Climate Change is Killing Us by Paddy Manning
$32.99 AUD
Category: Social issues, cultural & politics
'Our house is on fire,' 16-year-old Swedish school strike activist Greta Thunberg told world leaders in 2019. Across an angry year of weather, Australians watched it in real-time: record heatwaves and worsening drought, unprecedented fish kills in the Murray-Darling Basin and devastating wildfires acros ...Show more
How to Resist Amazon and Why: The Fight for Local Economics, Data Privacy, Fair Labor, Independent Bookstores, and a People-Powered Future! by Danny Caine
$12.99 AUD
$19.99 (35% off)
Category: Social issues, cultural & politics | Series: Real World Ser.
When a company's workers are literally dying on the job, and its business model relies on preying on local businesses and even their own companies, and its CEO is the richest person in the world while its workers make minimum wage with impossible quotas...wouldn't you want to resist? Danny Caine, owner ...Show more
Fix the System, Not the Women by Laura Bates
$29.99 AUD
Category: Social issues, cultural & politics
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
Bob Hawke: Demons and Destiny by Troy Bramston
$49.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The definitive full-life biography of Australia's 23rd prime minister; the only one that Hawke cooperated with after exiting the prime ministership. This unprecedented biography of Hawke includes an exclusive series of interviews with him - the last that he gave - as well as unfiltered access to his ex ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 86: Sleepwalk to War; Australia's Unthinking Alliance with America by Hugh White
$24.99 AUD
Category: Social issues, cultural & politics
Is the US-Australia alliance now based on a fantasy? In this essential essay, Hugh White explores Australia's fateful choice to back the United States to the hilt, and oppose China. How did we come to this position - what led both sides of politics to align with America so absolutely? White considers t ...Show more
See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Abuse by Jess Hill
$32.99 AUD
Category: Social issues, cultural & politics
Winner of the Stella Prize 2020. At the office of Safe Steps, Victoria's dedicated 24/7 family violence response call centre, phone counsellors receive a call every three minutes. Many women are repeat callers- on average, they will go back to an abusive partner eight times before leaving for good. ' ...Show more
The Queen Is Dead: The passionate and powerful bestselling book by critically acclaimed journalist and author of Tears of Strangers and Talking to My Country by Stan Grant
$34.99 AUD
Category: First Nations
From Stan Grant, leading journalist and author of the critically acclaimed bestsellers Talking to My Country and Australia Day, comes an extraordinary and powerful call to action. 'History is not weighted on the scales, it is felt in our bones. It is worn on our skin. It is scarred in memory.' The Que ...Show more
Faking It: Artificial Intelligence in a Human World by Toby Walsh
$34.99 AUD
Category: Social issues, cultural & politics
A prescient analysis of what makes artificial intelligence so ... artificial Artificially intelligent machines are set to play an increasingly important role in our lives. They will take the dirty tasks of life off our hands, as well as the dull, the difficult and the dangerous - which is a good thing. ...Show more
The Way We All Became the Brady Bunch by Kimberly Potts
$24.99 AUD
$34.99 (28% off)
Category: For her
In celebration of the Brady Bunch's 50th anniversary, TV writer Kimberly Potts writes a Seinfeldia-like definitive history of the show that changed the family sitcom and made an indelible impact on pop culture.There isn't a person in this country who hasn't heard of The Brady Bunch. Whether it's the sho ...Show more
The Art of Happiness by Dalai Lama
$29.99 AUD
Category: Personal Development
Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, the very purpose of our life is happiness, the very motion of our life is towards happiness. -H.H. the Dalai Lama, from The Art of Happiness So popular and so rarely understood, this Nobel Peace Prize winner ...Show more
Full Circle: A Search for the World That Comes Next by Scott Ludlam
$34.99 AUD
Category: Social issues, cultural & politics
It's getting late. We have to get moving. A scorched eucalyptus leaf twirls out of a clear sky, a premonition that begins a journey into a world on the edge. In Full Circle, Scott Ludlam draws on his unique experience as senator and activist. Travelling the world, he discovers an emerging post-capitalis ...Show more
Sex: Two Billion Years of Procreation and Recreation by David Baker
$34.99 AUD
Category: Social issues, cultural & politics
The big history of sex from early life to sexbots How did sex begin? How did it evolve to be so varied and complex in humans? What influence does our genetic ancestry have on our love life today? And what might sex look like in the future? Sex traces where all the facets of human sexuality came from, ...Show more