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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Mental State: The insanity of Australia's mental health system - and how to fix it, from the bestselling author of ANXIETY and CHANGING MINDS by Dr Mark Cross
$35.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Psychiatrist Dr Mark Cross has spent most of his adult life working in the mental health system. He also suffers from anxiety, as do three out of four Australians at some point in their lives, so he knows first-hand the challenges, successes and failures facing both patients and professionals. What he h ...Show more
Here Comes the Sun: How a High-School Dropout Brought Renewable Energy to Coal Country by Andy McCarthy
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
How a high-school dropout brought renewable energy to coal country Here Comes the Sun is a story of succeeding in the face of adversity, about finding and following a purpose, and the potholes that can bring you unstuck. Suffering from ADHD at school, misunderstood, tormented and bullied for years, And ...Show more