Why Women Grow: Stories of Soil, Sisterhood and Survival by Alice Vincent
24.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Twice Wainwright Prize-longlisted author Alice Vincent offers a stunning meditation on why women are drawn to the soil, featuring contributions from Ali Smith, Hazel Gardiner and Cosey Fanni Tutti
Barbie: Her Inspiration, History and Legacy by Robin Gerber
45.00 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Take an enthralling and richly illustrated trip through the official real-world story of the Barbie(TM) doll--from groundbreaking toy to beacon of female empowerment. Created in partnership with Mattel to celebrate Barbie doll's 65th anniversary and featuring rare images from their archives, Barbie: He ...Show more
How Much is Enough. The Love of Money and the Case for a Good Life by Robert Skidelsky & Edward Skidelsky
29.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
In 1930 the great economist Keynes predicted that, over the next century, income would rise steadily, people's basic needs would be met and no one would have to work more than fifteen hours a week. Why was he wrong?
The Wisdom of Epictetus: The Stoic Classic by Epictetus, Tom Butler-Bowdon
24.95 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Capstone Classics Ser.
Explore the ancient Stoic way of thinking and the valuable lessons it holds for contemporary life This new volume contains the Enchiridion and selected Discourses of the great Stoic philosopher Epictetus, who believed that moral philosophy should be a practical guide to leading a better life. His works ...Show more
A Little History of Literature by John Sutherland
20.95 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Little Histories Ser.
This 'little history' takes on a very big subject: the glorious span of literature from Greek myth to graphic novels, from The Epic of Gilgamesh to Harry Potter. John Sutherland is perfectly suited to the task. He has researched, taught, and written on virtually every area of literature, and his infecti ...Show more
Divided Isles: Solomon Islands and the China Switch by Edward Acton Cavanough
34.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
A pacy must-read analysis of one of the most consequential geopolitical events in Australia's region.In 2019, Solomon Islands made international headlines when the country severed its decades-old alliance with Taiwan in exchange for a partnership with Beijing. The decision prompted international condemn ...Show more
The End of Men: and the Rise of Women by Hanna Rosin
24.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Hanna Rosin's The End of Men is an explosive new argument for why women are winning the battle of the sexes and why men are no longer top dog, for lovers of Caitlin Moran's How to be a Woman. Men have been the dominant sex since, well the dawn of mankind. But this is no longer true. Women are no longer ...Show more
Bookshop Book by Jen Campbell
24.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
We're not talking about rooms that are just full of books. We're talking about bookshops in barns, disused factories, converted churches and underground car parks. Bookshops on boats, on buses, and in old run-down train stations. Fold-out bookshops, undercover bookshops, this-is-the-best-place-I've-eve ...Show more
Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present by Yanis Varoufakis
22.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
'One of my few heroes. As long as people like Varoufakis are around, there still is hope' Slavoj Zizek Imagine a world with no banks. No stock market. No tech giants. No billionaires. Imagine if Occupy and Extinction Rebellion actually won. In Another Now world-famous economist, Yanis Varoufakis, shows ...Show more
Under the Duvet : Deluxe Edition by Marian Keyes
22.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Let's get one thing straight- I'm not an outdoorsy type. If I was offered the choice between white-water rafting and being savaged by a rabid dog, I'd be likely to tick the box marked "dog".' Under the Duvetthe Deluxe Edition* brings together the first two volumes of Marian Keyes' unputdownable and utt ...Show more
Alienation and Freedom by Frantz Fanon
40.00 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Since the publication of The Wretched of the Earth in 1961, Fanon's work has been deeply significant for successive generations of intellectuals-for anti-colonial and civil rights activists in the 60s and 70s, for those working in postcolonial studies from the 80s to the present day, and currently for s ...Show more
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
24.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Reading Level: very good
Called the work of "a mesmerizing storyteller with deep compassion and memorable prose" (Publishers Weekly) and the book that, "anyone interested in natural history, botany, protecting nature, or Native American culture will love," by Library Journal, Braiding Sweetgrass is poised to be a classic of nat ...Show more