The Fall: The End of the Murdoch Empire by Michael Wolff
$34.99 AUD
Category: Cultural Studies
Meet the Murdochs and the disastrously dysfunctional family of Fox News. Until recently, they formed the most powerful media and political force in America. Now their empire is cracking up and crashing down. In his irresistible trilogy on the chaotic Trump presidency - Fire and Fury, Siege, and Landslid ...Show more
The Good, The Bad & the Unlikely by Mungo MacCallum
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Category: #Auspol
From Barton to AlbaneseUpdated editionSince 1901, thirty-one different leaders have run the national show. Whether their term was eight days or eighteen years, each prime minister has a story worth sharing.Edmund Barton united the bickering states in a federation. The unlucky Jimmy Scullin took office d ...Show more
The Locked-up Country: Learning the Lessons from Australia's Covid-19 Response by Tom Chodor, Shahar Hameiri
$32.99 AUD
Category: #Auspol
A timely analysis of Australia's response to the pandemic, which asks what have we learned?Donald Horne famously called Australia 'the lucky country'. So how did we become the locked-up country and how might the future look different?Australia has changed enormously since Horne's 1960s, but its response ...Show more
The Pleasures of Leisure by Robert Dessaix
$22.99 AUD
Category: Cultural Studies
'Almost everybody I know has done it at least once. Some of my friends indulge on a regular basis. Women seem especially susceptible to giving it a go. I?ve been at it since I was at least five. What on earth do we imagine we?re doing??Many of us lack a talent for leisure. We are working longer hours as ...Show more
The Story of Australia's People Vol. II: The Rise and Rise of a New Australia by Geoffrey Blainey
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Category: Cultural Studies
Australia is indeed made up of many peoples, and together their story is one of high drama, courage and resilience. When the first Europeans crossed the world to settle the vast southern continent that became known as Australia, it was almost unknown. Over time it revealed itself to be a land of reward, ...Show more
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
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Category: Cultural Studies
The acclaimed bestseller that will change the way you make decisions.In Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahneman takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think and make choices. One system is fast, intuitive, and emotional; the other is slower, more delib ...Show more
We Have Always Been Here (PB) by Samra Habib
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Category: LGBTQ+
Triumphant and uplifting - a queer Muslim memoir about forgiveness and freedom. 'Revolutionary' Mona Eltahawy * 'Exquisite, powerful and urgent' Stacey May Fowles * 'I fell in love with this book' Shani Mootoo A memoir of hope, faith and love, Samra Habib's story starts with growing up as part of a th ...Show more
Why Men?: A Human History of Violence and Inequality by Nancy Lindisfarne, Jonathan Neale
$49.99 AUD
Category: Cultural Studies
Are war and inequality inevitable, because evolution made men competitive and dominant? Think again with this entertaining yet powerful new history of 'true' human nature.How did humans, a species that evolved to be cooperative and egalitarian, develop societies of enforced inequality? Why did our ances ...Show more
Working It - Sex Workers on the Work of Sex by Janis Luna (Editor); Molly Smith (Foreword by); Matilda Bickers (Editor); peech breshears (Editor)
$32.99 AUD
Category: Cultural Studies
Fiercely intelligent, fantastically transgressive, Working It is an intimate portrait of the lives of sex workers. A polyphonic story of triumph, survival and solidarity this collection showcases the vastly different experiences and interests of those who have traded sex; among them a brothel worker in ...Show more
Writers and Missionaries: Essays on the Radical Imagination by Adam Shatz
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Category: Cultural Studies
What does it mean to be a politically committed writer? Through a close reading of the lives and works of some of the greatest intellectuals of recent times, Adam Shatz asks: do writers have an ethical imperative to question injustice? How can one remain a dispassionate thinker when involved in the ...Show more
140 Artists' Ideas for Planet Earth by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Kostas Stasinopoulos
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Category: Climate
An urgent and entertaining guide to tackling the climate emergency at home, within your community and within yourself, from some of the best artistic minds of our generation Through 140 drawings, thought experiments, recipes, activist instructions, gardening ideas, insurgences and personal revolutions, ...Show more
21 Lessons for the 21st Century: 'Truly mind-expanding... Ultra-topical' Guardian by Yuval Noah Harari
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Category: Cultural Studies
Sapiens showed us where we came from. Homo Deus looked to the future. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century explores the present. How can we protect ourselves from nuclear war, ecological cataclysms and technological disruptions? What can we do about the epidemic of fake news or the threat of terrorism? What ...Show more