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Intimations: Six Essays by Zadie Smith
$12.99 AUD
Category: Culture and Ideas
Deeply personal and powerfully moving, a short and timely series of essays on the experience of lockdown, by one of the most clear-sighted and essential writers of our time From the critically acclaimed author of Feel Free, Swing Time, White Teeth and many more 'There will be many books written about ...Show more
No One is Too Small to Make a Difference by Greta Thunberg
$7.99 AUD
Category: Culture and Ideas
'Everything needs to change. And it has to start today.' In August 2018 a fifteen-year-old Swedish girl, Greta Thunberg, decided not to go to school one day. Her actions ended up sparking a global movement for action against the climate crisis, inspiring millions of pupils to go on strike for our plane ...Show more
What Happens Next?: Reconstructing Australia after COVID-19 by Emma Dawson; Janet McCalman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Culture and Ideas
Long before the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the global economy, a reset to serve the wellbeing of people and the planet was plainly needed. As Australia rebuilds, after the immediate health crisis has passed, it must be with the explicit purpose of constructing an economically and ecologically sustainab ...Show more
White Fragility - Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism by Robin DiAngelo
$22.99 AUD
Category: Culture and Ideas
Anger. Fear. Guilt. Denial. Silence. These are the ways in which ordinary white people react when it is pointed out to them that they have done or said something that has - unintentionally - caused racial offence or hurt. After, all, a racist is the worst thing a person can be, right? But these reaction ...Show more
How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division by Elif Shafak
$12.99 AUD
Category: Culture and Ideas
The Booker Prize-shortlisted author on how staying optimistic can make our world better.
Feminism Is...
$19.99 AUD
Category: Culture and Ideas
A lively and accessible book for teens on the history, pioneers, theories, questions, arguments, and daily reality of feminism today.What is feminism?Combining insightful text with graphic illustrations, this engaging book introduces young adult readers to a subject that should matter to everyone. Posed ...Show more
Manifesta (Twentieth Anniversary Edition) by Jennifer Baumgardner; Amy Richards
$32.99 AUD
Category: Culture and Ideas
Today, people of all genders strive to uphold the goals of feminism and proudly embrace the term, but the movement itself is often beset with confusion and questions. Does personal empowerment happen at the expense of politics? Is feminism for the few--or does it speak to the many as they bump up agains ...Show more
Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilites by Rebecca Solnit
$22.99 AUD
Category: Culture and Ideas | Series: Canons Ser.
With Hope in the Dark, Rebecca Solnit makes a radical case for hope as a commitment to act in a world whose future remains uncertain and unknowable. Drawing on her decades of activism and a wide reading of environmental, cultural, and political history, Solnit argued that radicals have a long, neglected ...Show more
The Expendables: How the middle class got screwed by globalisation by Jeff Rubin
$34.99 AUD
Category: Culture and Ideas
A provocative, far-reaching account of how the middle class got stuck with the bill for globalisation, and how the blowback — from Brexit to Trump to populist Europe — will change the developed world. Real wages have not risen much for decades. Union membership has collapsed. Full-time employment is be ...Show more
Mouth Full of Blood - Essays, Speeches, Meditations by Toni Morrison
$24.99 AUD
Category: Culture and Ideas
A vital new non-fiction collection from one of the most celebrated and revered writers of our time. 'We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.' - The Nobel Lecture in Literature, 1993 The power of language, discussed beautifully in Toni Morrison's ...Show more
Channel Kindness by Lady Gaga
$39.99 AUD
Category: Culture and Ideas
Channel Kindness is a collection of fifty-one stories of kindness, bravery, and resilience from young people all over the world collected by the Born This Way Foundation and introduced by Lady Gaga. For Lady Gaga, kindness is the driving force behind everything she says and does. The quiet power of kin ...Show more
The System: Who Owns the Internet, and How It Owns Us by James Ball
$32.99 AUD
Category: Culture and Ideas
The internet is a network of physical cables and connections, a web of wires enmeshing the world, linking huge data centres to one another and eventually to us. All are owned by someone, financed by someone, regulated by someone. We refer to the internet as abstract from reality. By doing so, we obscure ...Show more
