Quantum Bullsh*t by Chris Ferrie
$29.99 AUD
Category: Culture and Ideas
Science is so f*cking rad. We don't deserve it. What actually is quantum physics? If you can answer that questions without bullsh*tting the person standing next to you in the bookstore, you can stop reading right now. But although most of us don't actually understand quantum physics, we know that it's ...Show more
Enchantment by Katherine May
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Category: Culture and Ideas
From the internationally bestselling author of Wintering comes this balm for anxious times and an invitation to rediscover the feelings of awe and wonder available to us all. Our sense of enchantment is not only triggered by grand things. The awe-inspiring, the numinous, is all around us, all the time ...Show more
Motherland by Stephanie Trethewey
$34.99 AUD
Category: Culture and Ideas
Stories of the strength, heartbreak and passion of rural mothers. 'Motherland had me feeling angry, then sobbing, then laughing, then cheering and finally left me so inspired. These true stories, captured so beautifully by Stephanie Trethewey, reveal the guts, grit and courage of rural women while cele ...Show more
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney Cooper
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Category: Culture and Ideas
An Emma Watson "Our Shared Shelf" Selection for November/December 2018 *NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2018 BY:The New York Public Library*Mashable* The Atlantic*Bustle*The Root *NPR* Fast Company("10 Best Books for Battling Your Sexist Workplace") Roxane Gay: "I encourage you to check outEloquent Rage out now." ...Show more
Whose Story Is This? Old Conflicts New Chapters by Rebecca Solnit
$27.99 AUD
Category: Culture and Ideas | Reading Level: very good
Who gets to shape the narrative of our times? The current moment is a battle royale over that foundational power, one in which women, people of color, non-straight people are telling other versions, and white people and men and particularly white men are trying to hang onto the old versions and their ow ...Show more
Heart Berries - A Memoir by Terese Marie Mailhot
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Category: Culture and Ideas
*Canada Reads 2019 Longlist *National Bestseller *New York Times Bestseller *Finalist for the 2018 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction *Finalist for the 2018 Governor General's Literary Awards *Longlisted for the 2019 RBC Taylor Prize *A New York Times Editor's Choice *A Globe and Mail Bes ...Show more
The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women by Naomi Wolf
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Category: Culture and Ideas | Series: Vintage Wolf Ser.
Provocative, punchy and important, this is one of the essential classics of modern feminist literature. In today's world, women have more power, legal recognition, and professional success than ever before. Alongside the evident progress of the women's movement, however, writer and journalist Naomi Wol ...Show more
How To Be a Woman by Caitlin Moran
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Category: Culture and Ideas | Reading Level: very good
The New York Times bestseller, now available in paperback--"Half memoir, half polemic, and entirely necessary," (Elle UK) Caitlin Moran's debut--an instant runaway bestseller in the UK--puts a new face on feminism, cutting to the heart of issues with an irreverent, transcendent, and hilarious touch. "Ca ...Show more
Half the Sky: How to Change the World by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
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Category: Culture and Ideas
With Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn as our guides, we undertake a journey through Africa and Asia to meet an extraordinary array of women struggling under profoundly dire circumstances: a Cambodian teenager sold into sex slavery; an Ethiopian woman left for dead after a dif ...Show more
All About Love by Bell Hooks
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Category: Culture and Ideas | Series: Love Song to the Nation
THE ACCLAIMED FIRST VOLUME IN HER "LOVE SONG TO THE NATION" "The word 'love' is most often defined as a noun, yet . . . we would all love better if we used it as a verb," writes bell hooks as she comes out fighting and on fire in All About Love. Here, at her most provocative and intensely personal, the ...Show more
Gigorou: It’s Time to Reclaim Beauty. First Nations Wisdom and Womanhood by Sasha Kutabah Sarago
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Category: Culture and Ideas
'You're too pretty to be Aboriginal' is a shocking statement Sasha Kutabah Sarago experienced at a young age. In her 2020 TEDx talk, 'The (de)colonising of beauty', Sasha shares how she reclaimed her femininity by redefining beauty. In challenging our modern-day concepts of beauty from a First Nations w ...Show more
Grounded: A Journey Through Landscapes, Sanctuaries and Sacred Places by James Canton
$29.99 AUD
Category: Culture and Ideas
From the author of The Oak Papers, a beautiful meditation on how to foster a profound and healing spiritual communion with the natural worldFor thousands of years, our ancestors held a close connection with the landscapes they lived in. They imbued it with meaning- stone monuments, sacred groves, places ...Show more