The Wonder of Little Things by Vince Copley, Lea McInerney
$34.99 AUD
Category: Culture and Ideas
'Welcome to my story. It's a simple story of a simple person, who's lived a long life now with some struggles along the way. I didn't learn a lot in school, not in the classroom, anyway. But I learned a lot from life.' Vince Copley was born on a government mission into poverty in 1936. By the time he w ...Show more
What We Owe the Future: The Million-Year View by William MacAskill
$32.99 AUD
Category: Culture and Ideas
We are remarkably early in the story of human civilisation. We are still five hundred million years away from the sterilisation of the Earth by the Sun, and one hundred trillion years away from the dying of the last stars. Leaving a shard of broken glass on the ground may harm someone tomorrow or one hu ...Show more
Joan Didion: The Last Interview, and Other Conversations by Joan Didion
$29.99 AUD
Category: Culture and Ideas | Series: The\Last Interview Ser.
The iconic writer whose prose was as influential and as it is unmistakably hers is joined in conversation with Sheila Heti, Hilton Als, Dave Eggers, Hari Kunzru and many more. Some writers define a generation. Some a genre. Joan Didion did both, and much more. Didion rose to prominence with her non ...Show more
12 Bytes: How artificial intelligence will change the way we live and love by Jeanette Winterson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Culture and Ideas
Twelve eye-opening, mind-expanding, funny and provocative essays on the implications of artificial intelligence for the way we live and the way we love - from Sunday Times-bestselling author Jeanette Winterson'Briskly and breezily, 12 Bytes joins the dots in a neglected narrative of female scientists, v ...Show more
Banned Books by DK
$24.99 AUD
Category: Culture and Ideas
A compelling illustrated account of history's most famous banned written worksDiscover the stories behind the most shocking and infamous books ever published.Censorship of one form or another has existed almost as long as the written word, while definitions of what is "acceptable" in published works hav ...Show more
Finding the Heart of the Nation: The Journey of the Uluru Statement from the Heart Continues (2nd Edition) by Thomas Mayo
$34.99 AUD
Category: Culture and Ideas
In this updated edition of the bestselling book, Finding the Heart of the Nation, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander author Thomas Mayo gets behind the politics and legal speak to explain why the Uluru Statement from the Heart is an invitation to all Australians. Australia is set to vote on a refer ...Show more
Sheilas: Badass Women of Australian History by Eliza Reilly
$34.99 AUD
Category: Culture and Ideas
An entertaining romp through Australian history that celebrates the badass sheroes we were never taught about in school and who deserve to be printed on our money, goddamn it! It's been said that 'well-behaved women seldom make history', but the handful of white boys who wrote our history books convenie ...Show more
Plants: Past, Present and Future (First Knowledges) by Zena Cumpston, Michael-Shawn Fletcher, Lesley Head
$24.99 AUD
Category: Culture and Ideas | Series: First Knowledges Ser.
What do you need to know to prosper as a people for at least 65,000 years? The First Knowledges series provides a deeper understanding of the expertise and ingenuity of Indigenous Australians. Plants are the foundation of life on Earth. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have always known thi ...Show more
How Many More Women?: Exposing how the law silences women by Jennifer Robinson, Keina Yoshida
$34.99 AUD
Category: Culture and Ideas
This book is about a movement. A movement made up of women and men around the world who are no longer afraid to speak out about violence, abuse, harassment, sexism, abuse of power and patriarchy. A movement which started with the courage of a number of women in the media and advertising industries and h ...Show more
Daughters of Melbourne: A Guide to the Invisible Statues of Melbourne by Maree Coote
$54.99 AUD
Category: Culture and Ideas
At last! A TRUER History of Melbourne... With Added Women for extra strength!Meet the daughters of Melbourne. The rich gals; the poor gals; the gorgeous gay gals—And the gals who’d rather paint. Meet Aboriginal warriors who don’t care for compromise. Meet divas dubbed ‘difficult’, while their men are ne ...Show more
Lockdown by Chip Le Grand
$32.95 AUD
Category: Culture and Ideas
How does a city go from being the world’s most liveable to its most locked down? For 262 days, Melbourne was cocooned by stay-at-home orders. Businesses were forcibly closed, classrooms shuttered, and community and social life relegated to an impersonal online world. To stop the spread of a virus, peopl ...Show more
Pearls - Wisdom from the Women of New South Wales by Angela Schaffer; Liz Schaffer (Editor)
$65.00 AUD
Category: Culture and Ideas
Pearls is a series of intimate, face to face interviews with a broad spectrum of women across NSW. Taking two years to complete, the author and her journalist daughter travelled over 12,000 km criss-crossing the state in search of both remarkable and everyday stories from a vibrant cast of curious, crea ...Show more