American Journeys by Don Watson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Culture and Ideas
A superb book about Don Watson's journeys around America. Featured as one of Newsweek's 50 'What to Read Now and Why' titles.Only in America - the most powerful democracy on earth, home to the best and worst of everything - are the most extreme contradictions possible. In a series of journeys acclaimed ...Show more
One Minute's Silence by David Metzenthen
$16.99 AUD
Category: Culture and Ideas
A moving and powerful story about the meaning of Remembrance Day, drawing on the ANZAC and Turkish battle at Gallipoli
Win Every Argument: The Art of Debating, Persuading, and Public Speaking by Mehdi Hasan
$36.99 AUD
Category: Culture and Ideas
No one ever goes into an argument intending to lose. Indeed, it is no exaggeration to say that every single person on the face of the planet has, at some point in their lives, tried to win an argument. Because arguments are everywhere. Whether it is in the comments section on Facebook, or in the Houses ...Show more
Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind by Tom Holland
$26.99 AUD
Category: Culture and Ideas
Christianity is the most enduring and influential legacy of the ancient world, and its emergence the single most transformative development in Western history. Even the increasing number in the West today who have abandoned the faith of their forebears, and dismiss all religion as pointless superstition ...Show more
Fear Stalks the Land!: A Commonplace Book by Thom Yorke,Stanley Donwood
$19.99 AUD
Category: Culture and Ideas
A celebration of the process and artwork created for the Radiohead albums Kid A and Amnesiac. In which the writings of the authors Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood are gathered together. This commonplace book includes faxes, notes, fledgling lyrics, sketches, lists of all kinds and scribblings towards ni ...Show more
The Voice to Parliament Handbook: All the Detail You Need by Thomas Mayo, Kerry O'Brien
$16.99 AUD
Category: Culture and Ideas
The Voice to Parliament Handbook is an easy-to-follow guide for the millions of Australians who have expressed support for the Uluru Statement from the Heart, but want to better understand what a Voice to Parliament actually means. 'We invite you to walk with us in a movement of the Australian people f ...Show more
Grog War by Alexis Wright
$29.99 AUD
Category: Culture and Ideas
A revamped Magabala classic by Miles Franklin award‑winning author Alexis Wright.First published in 1997, this vivid portrayal of how the Indigenous people of Tennant Creek worked together to achieve community-wide alcohol restrictions, is more relevant now than ever. A searing account of what transpire ...Show more
Aboriginal Men of High Degree by A. P. Elkin
$22.99 AUD
Category: Culture and Ideas
The first book to reveal the secret and sacred practices of Aboriginal shamans, Aboriginal Men of High Degree presents an extraordinary series of rites by which the young Aboriginal male begins the degrees of shamanic initiation--each marked by its own portion of esoteric knowledge. One of Australia's m ...Show more
Legacy by James Kerr
$32.99 AUD
Category: Culture and Ideas | Reading Level: very good
Go inside the notoriously secretive world of the New Zealand All Blacks rugby team to reveal 15 powerful and practical lessons for leadership and business that helped to build one of the most successful sporting clubs in history, now the subject of the Amazon Prime documentary series All or Nothing. In ...Show more
Small Pleasures (The School of Life) by The School of Life, The School of Life
$25.00 AUD
Category: Culture and Ideas
The School of Life is a global organisation helping people lead more fulfilled lives. Through our range of books, gifts and stationery, we aim to prompt more thoughtful natures and help everyone to find fulfilment. The School of Life Press brings together the thinking and ideas of the School of Life cre ...Show more
The Meaning of Life (The School of Life) by The School of Life
$27.00 AUD
Category: Culture and Ideas
To wonder too openly or intensely about the meaning of life can seem a peculiar, ill-fated and faintly ridiculous pastime. It can seem like a topic on which ordinary mortals cannot make much progress. In truth, it is for all of us to wonder about, define and work towards a more meaningful existence. Thi ...Show more
Philosophy in 40 Ideas (The School of Life) by The School The School of Life
$22.99 AUD
Category: Culture and Ideas
Philosophy is a discipline committed to helping us live wiser and less sorrowful lives. This book artfully draws together 40 of the greatest and most useful ideas found in philosophy, taking us on a journey around key concepts from both Eastern and Western cultures.We are invited to sample the distincti ...Show more