Nature, Culture, and Inequality by Thomas Piketty
$27.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
An insightful exploration of the nature of inequality. In his new work, Thomas Piketty explores how social inequality manifests itself very differently depending on society and epoch in which it arises. History and culture play a central role, inequality being strongly linked to various socio-economic ...Show more
Women Rising: The Forces That Hold Us Back. The Tools to Help Us Rise by Megan Dalla-Camina
$34.95 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
It's time to create a future where feminine power and leadership is celebrated. It's time for a radical awakening and a revolution. It's time for women to rise. In Women Rising, you'll discover how to recognise and resist the very real forces of power that limit how you work and live as a woman. Are yo ...Show more
Make It Make Sense: From Shit You Should Care About's Lucy Blakiston and Bel Hawkins by Bel Hawkins, Lucy Blakiston
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
The debut book from the authors behind the global media sensation Shit You Should Care About.Shit You Should Care about was launched as a WordPress blog by three best friends in the back of a political science lecture. Today it's a global ecosystem of content - two podcasts, 3.5 million Instagram follow ...Show more
Other Rivers: A Chinese Education by Peter Hessler
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
An intimate and revelatory eyewitness account of two generations of students in China's heartland, chronicling a country in the midst of tumultuous change through the prism of its education system
The Invisible Obvious: A Homicide Detective's Story of Mental Health Crisis and Recovery by Tim Peck
$36.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
'I don't think there's a police officer or emergency worker out there who's not going to get something from this book.'-Ron Iddles OAMIn 2014 Tim Peck's career was at its peak - after reaching his goal of working in the Homicide Squad, he had enjoyed a period of rapid promotion through the ranks, workin ...Show more
Safe Space: My experience of racism in Australia and how I found hope through community by Alyssa Huynh
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A collection of essays and advice about navigating racism in modern Australia, and creating your own safe space, for those who have faced racial discrimination and their allies. I’ve played the role of the quiet and embarrassed Asian girl who shyly laughs along more than I should have in my lifetime. ...Show more
Underestimated: The Wisdom and Power of Teenage Girls by Chelsey Goodan
$35.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A fresh, surprising, and empowering guide to better understanding teenage girls. Written with warmth and humour, Underestimatedis the first book to invite us into a teenage girl's brain and heart, as told from the point of view of a beloved and trusted mentor. Chelsey Goodan is a highly sought-after a ...Show more
Private Revolutions: Coming of Age in a New China by Yuan Yang
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A Sunday Times, Observer and Waterstones Best Book of 2024 This is a book about the coming of age of four women born in China in the 1980s and 1990s, dreaming of better futures. It is about Leiya, who wants to escape the fate of the women in her village. Still underage, she bluffs her way on to the fact ...Show more
Broken Heart: A True History of the Voice Referendum by Shireen Morris
$36.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
The inside story of the 2023 Voice Referendum, from Yes to No In late 2023, Australians voted No to recognising Indigenous peoples through a constitutional Voice. Broken Heart unpacks the true complex history of the referendum, illuminating how an alliance with constitutional conservatives fractured un ...Show more
Repeat: A Warning from History by Dennis Glover
$26.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Are we about to see history repeat? 'Do you ever stop and ask, 'Is it all going to happen again?' --Siegfried Sassoon We live in an age that seems eerily familiar. A time of dictators, populists, organised lying, European wars, grabs for territory, ideological extremism, and even antisemitism, when th ...Show more
Highway to Hell: Climate Change and Australia's Future: Quarterly Essay 94 by Joëlle Gergis
$27.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
What will the climate crisis mean for Australia? What is the price of our inertia? Australia is in peril. Do we truly grasp the impact of a warming planet - in particular, what it will mean for the sunburnt country? This searing essay by a leading climate scientist takes aim at the folly of "adaptation" ...Show more
More. Numbers. Every. Day. by Micael Dahlen; Helge Thorbjørnsen
$21.00 AUD
$34.99 (39% off)
Category: Current Affairs
"How many steps have you done today? How many emails answered? How much money have you spent this week And how many hours have you slept? Welcome to the numberdemic, where a deluge of figures, stats and data manipulate your every move. From the way you work, date and exercise to the products you buy and ...Show more