The Way We Are: Lessons From a Lifetime of Listening by Hugh Mackay
$34.99 AUD
Category: Social & Political
Australia's leading social psychologist examines our society today and asks timely and urgent questions about its future Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain.Yet none of our differences-whether based on ethnicity, politics, religion,cultural tastes and preferences, or gender ...Show more
The Darcy Myth - Jane Austen, Literary Heartthrobs, and the Monsters They Taught Us to Love by Rachel Feder
$32.99 AUD
Category: Social & Political
What if we've been reading Jane Austen and romantic classics all wrong? A funny, brainy, eye-opening take on how our contemporary love stories are actually pretty terrifying. Covering cultural touchstones ranging from Twilight to Taylor Swift and from Lord Byron to The Bachelor, The Darcy Myth is a boo ...Show more
How to Read Now by Elaine Castillo
$34.99 AUD
Category: Social & Political
A stunningly important piece of criticism that asks us not to look away when our shared culture proves so appallingly limited but instead to look harder. To think smarter. To read better.An exploration and manifesto investigating the power of reading - and our potential to become radically better reader ...Show more
The Careless State: Reforming Australia's Social Services by Mark Considine
$34.99 AUD
Category: Social & Political
The lives of all Australians are profoundly affected by the quality of social services available, but a long list of royal commissions and public inquiries have revealed them to be failing. In The Careless State Mark Considine shows that the preferred model of reform has failed to adapt and improve.In t ...Show more
On the Voice to Parliament by Charles Prouse
$16.99 AUD
Category: Social & Political
Australia is on the brink of a landmark decision to establish a First Nations Voice to Parliament that will be enshrined in the Constitution. From there, treaty-making and truth-telling will follow. But how do we cut through the debate, get to the heart of the issue and vote in the best interests of In ...Show more
The Shakespeare and Company Book of Interviews by Adam Biles (Editor)
$39.99 AUD
Category: Social & Political
An illuminating collection of interviews between the prestigious Shakespeare and Company and the best writers of our time Shakespeare and Company, Paris, is one of the world's most iconic and beautiful bookshops. Located on the banks of the Seine, opposite Notre-Dame, it's long been a meeting place for ...Show more
Storytellers: Questions, Answers and the Craft of Journalism by Leigh Sales
$36.99 AUD
Category: Social & Political
Leigh Sales is one of Australia's most accomplished journalists, having anchored the ABC's flagship 7.30 program for twelve years. She has been a foreign correspondent, hosted Lateline and anchored numerous elections for the ABC. In this book, she turns her interviewing skills onto her own profession, ...Show more
Man Down by Matt Rudd
$14.99 AUD
$32.99 (54% off)
Category: Social & Political
'This is the most honest, most revealing - and funniest - exploration of male mental health I have ever read' Adam Kay On the surface, men today don't have much to complain about. At work, they still get paid more than women for doing the same jobs. At home, they still shirk most of the unpaid labour. ...Show more
The Key Man - The True Story of How the Global Elite Was Duped by a Capitalist Fairy Tale by Simon Clark; Will Louch
$19.99 AUD
Category: Social & Political
LONGLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES & MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEARONE OF THE ECONOMIST'S BEST BOOKS OF 2021In this compelling story of lies, greed and tarnished idealism, two Wall Street Journal reporters investigate a man who Bill Gates, Western governments, and other investors entrusted with ...Show more
Amazon Unbound by Brad Stone
$32.99 AUD
Category: Social & Political
From the bestselling author of The Everything Store, an unvarnished picture of Amazon's unprecedented growth and its billionaire founder, Jeff Bezos, revealing the most important business story of our time.Almost ten years ago, Bloomberg journalist Brad Stone captured the rise of Amazon, an internet pio ...Show more
Sexy But Psycho: How the Patriarchy Uses Women s Trauma Against Them by Dr Jessica Taylor
$24.99 AUD
Category: Social & Political
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERAngry, opinionated, mouthy, aggressive, hysterical, mad, disordered, crazy, psycho, delusional, borderline, hormonal . . . Women have long been pathologized, locked up and medicated for not conforming to whichever norms or stereotypes are expected of them in that time and spac ...Show more
Upturn: A Better Normal after COVID-19 by Tanya Plibersek (Editor)
$19.99 AUD
$32.99 (39% off)
Category: Social & Political
If you had asked most people a year ago, they would have told you there was no way that school children could shift overnight to online learning; that it was impossible for banks to offer mortgage holidays; impossible to double unemployment benefits; impossible to house rough sleepers or put a hold on e ...Show more