Supercommunicators: The Power of Conversation and the Hidden Language of Connection by Charles Duhigg
$36.99 AUD
Category: Culture and Ideas
How is it that we find it easy to talk to some people and struggle to do so with others? Why does the effectiveness of a message rely so strongly on who the messenger is? And what is the secret of having a successful difficult conversation?Charles Duhigg has the answer to all these questions and many mo ...Show more
The Afghans: Three lives through war, love and revolt by Asne Seierstad
$34.99 AUD
Category: Culture and Ideas
'Asne Seierstad is the supreme non-fiction writer of her generation' Luke Harding In her international bestseller The Bookseller of Kabul, award-winning journalist Asne Seierstad studied life in Afghanistan before and after the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001. Now twenty years later, the Taliban is ...Show more
Human? : A Lie That's Been Killing Us Since 1788 by Ziggy Ramo
$34.99 AUD
Category: Culture and Ideas
So-called Australia is built upon a lie- that 97% of the population are human, and the others simply 'Indigenous', devoid of the same basic rights. Human? is the story of Ziggy Ramo's experience growing up under the weight of this lie. We've had 235 years of continued destruction in the name of 'civilis ...Show more
The Little Book of Pride Heroes: Icons of the LGBTQIA+ community by Jared Richards
$19.99 AUD
Category: Culture and Ideas
A celebration of queer trailblazers! This book is a celebration of LGBTQIA+ activists, artists, comedians, writers, musicians, and pop-culture giants who have shaped our worlds, expanded our horizons, and radically increased queer visibility. Featuring trailblazing queer icons such as James Baldwin, Geo ...Show more
The Empty Honour Board by Martin Flanagan
$24.99 AUD
Category: Culture and Ideas
A prison diary, a story of brotherly love, a journey of redemption, Martin Flanagan's compelling book about his boarding school days goes inside an experience many have had but few have talked about. In 1966, at the age of 10, Martin Flanagan was sent to a Catholic boarding school in north-west Tasmani ...Show more
God is Good for You: A defence of Christianity in troubled times by Greg Sheridan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Culture and Ideas
The Judeo-Christian tradition has created and underpinned the moral and legal fabric of Western civilisation for more than 2000 years, yet now we've reached a point in both Australia and many parts of the West where Christianity has become a minority faith rather than the mainstream belief. It's a situa ...Show more
You Daughters of Freedom: The Australians Who Won the Vote and Inspired the World by Clare Wright
$34.99 AUD
Category: Culture and Ideas | Series: Democracy Trilogy Ser.
For the ten years from 1902, when Australia's suffrage campaigners won the vote for white women, the world looked to this trailblazing young democracy for inspiration. Clare Wright's epic new history tells the story of that victory--and of Australia's role in the subsequent international struggle--throu ...Show more
Why Vegan? by Peter Singer
$10.99 AUD
Category: Culture and Ideas | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
'So the only question is: do animals other than man suffer?' One of the great moral philosophers of the modern age, Peter Singer asks unflinching questions about how we should live our lives. The ideas collected in these writings, arguing that human tyranny over animals is a wrong comparable to racism a ...Show more
On David Malouf: Writers on Writers by Nam Le
$17.99 AUD
Category: Culture and Ideas
'[on reading Malouf for the first time] Here was a very-much-alive half-Lebanese (from provincial Brisbane, no less) producing English-language writing of the first order. And that in prose, not poetry. The poetry was in the prose; it stayed and sprung its rhythms, chorded its ideas, concentrated its im ...Show more
On Kate Jennings : Writers on Writers by Erik Jensen
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Category: Culture and Ideas
Award-winning writer Erik Jensen plunges the reader into the world of acclaimed novelist, poet and pioneering feminist Kate Jennings. Weaving in his interviews with Jennings in New York, he shows how poetry, politics and family were transmuted into her first novel, Snake- a work of art that depicts rura ...Show more
On Patrick White: Writers on Writers by Christos Tsiolkas
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Category: Culture and Ideas | Series: Writers on Writers
'Patrick White, the un-Australian writer who did more than any other writer in the twentieth century to create an imaginative language that we can call Australian, who unshackled us from the demand that we write as the English do, who recognised, through his own alienation and also through his profound ...Show more
On Peter Carey: Writers on Writers by Sarah Krasnostein
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Category: Culture and Ideas
Award-winning writer Sarah Krasnostein shines new light on the impossibly vulnerable Ned Kelly of Peter Carey's True History of the Kelly Gang. Carey, who moved from Australia to America, conjured Kelly after seeing Sidney Nolan's paintings of the bushranger at the Met. In this moving essay Krasnostein, ...Show more