How Powerful We Are: Behind the scenes with one of Australia's leading activists by Sally Rugg
$32.99 AUD
Category: Culture and Ideas
Even if you're not an activist (yet), at a time when the news is written for clicks and elections are foight with three-word slogans, it's crucial to preserve some record of events that isn't 'fake news' or political spin. In part, this book is my attempt to counter the re-writing of how Australia achie ...Show more
Believe Me - How Trusting Women Can Change the World by Jessica Valenti (Editor); Jaclyn Friedman (Editor)
$39.99 AUD
Category: Culture and Ideas
What would happen if we believed women? A groundbreaking anthology offers a potent rallying cry and theory of changeHarvey Weinstein. Brett Kavanaugh. Jeffrey Epstein. Donald Trump. The most infamous abusers in modern American history are being outed as women speak up to publicly expose behavior that wa ...Show more
Australia Day by Stan Grant
$34.99 AUD
Category: Culture and Ideas
Australia is poised at a critical moment of its history - but the time to act is now. Since publishing Talking to My Country in early 2016, Stan Grant has been crossing the country, talking to huge crowds everywhere about how racism is at the heart of our history and the Australian dream. But Stan knows ...Show more
Talking To My Country: The passionate and powerful bestselling book by critically acclaimed journalist and author of Tears of Strangers and The Queen is Dead by Stan Grant
$24.99 AUD
Category: Culture and Ideas
An extraordinarily powerful and personal meditation on race, culture, and identity. When Stan Grant was born in Australia in 1963, the national census classed him and his family among the country's flora and fauna. As Aboriginal Australians, their history and culture had been suppressed for centuries. A ...Show more
In Her Footsteps: Where Trailblazing Women Changed the World by .
$34.99 AUD
Category: Culture and Ideas | Series: Lonely Planet
Discover the lives and locations of trailblazing women who changed the course of history as you journey to the heart of women's activism, history and creativity through the ages. From the temple of Queen Hatshepsut in Egypt and Empress Dowager Cixi's summer palace in Beijing, to the homes and meeting si ...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
The System: Who Owns the Internet, and How It Owns Us by James Ball
$32.99 AUD
Category: Culture and Ideas | Reading Level: very good
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
After Australia by Sweatshop Anthology
$24.99 AUD
Category: Culture and Ideas | Series: edited Michael Mohammed Ahmad
Climate catastrophe, police brutality, white genocide, totalitarian rule and the erasure of black history provide the backdrop for stories of love, courage and hope. In this unflinching new anthology, eleven of Australia's most daring Indigenous writers and writers of colour provide a glimpse of Austral ...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 planet, ...Show more
Fight Like A Girl by Clementine Ford
$22.99 AUD
Category: Culture and Ideas | Reading Level: very good
Personal and fearless - a call to arms for feminists new, old and as yet unrealised by one of our most outspoken feminist writers.
On Eating Meat - The truth about its production and the ethics of eating it by Matthew Evans
$32.99 AUD
Category: Culture and Ideas | Series: Truth About Production and Should We Eat It? | Reading Level: very good
A scorching manifesto on the ethics of eating meat by the best placed person to write about it - farmer and chef Matthew Evans, aka The Gourmet Farmer. 'Compelling, illuminating and often confronting, On Eating Meat is a brilliant blend of a gastronome's passion with forensic research into the sources o ...Show more
The Motherhood by Jamila Rizvi
$34.99 AUD
Category: Culture and Ideas
'Welcome to The Motherhood, my dear.'After her son was born, Jamila Rizvi felt isolated, exhausted and confused. While desperately in love with her new baby, the world she'd known had disappeared overnight and so had her sense of self.Jamila's salvation came in the form of a letter. A dear friend, Clare ...Show more