Leaning Out: A Fairer Future for Women at Work in Australia by Kristine Ziwica
$24.99 AUD
Category: Culture and Ideas | Series: The\Crikey Read Ser.
In Leaning Out, respected journalist Kristine Ziwica maps a decade of stasis on the gender equality front in Australia, and why the pandemic has led to a breakthrough. As the historic 2020 Women's March attests, a generation of younger women are speaking truth to power and changing the way we think of ...Show more
Back Roads by Heather Ewart; Karen Michelmore (As told to)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Culture and Ideas
A road trip around Australia, discovering towns and communities outside the mainstream - and the colourful inhabitants whose grit and humour will uplift and inspire you. Discover the resilient and inspiring people who live outside big Australian cities - and indeed off the beaten track altogether. Defi ...Show more
The Future of Geography: How power and politics in space will change our world by Tim Marshall
$34.99 AUD
Category: Culture and Ideas
Spy satellites orbiting the moon. Space metals worth more than most countries' GDP. People on Mars within the next ten years.This isn't science fiction. It's astropolitics.Humans are heading up and out, and we're taking our power struggles with us. Soon, what happens in space will shape human history as ...Show more
Time of Our Lives: Celebrating Older Women by Maggie Kirkman
$34.99 AUD
Category: Culture and Ideas
Time of Our Lives presents the extraordinary lives of ordinary women in their seventies, eighties and nineties, challenging the stereotype of the helpless old woman who is nothing more than a burden. The first collection of its kind in Australia, it demonstrates the rich lives led by 20 women of diverse ...Show more
The Other Side: A Journey into Women, Art and the Spirit World by Jennifer Higgie
$34.99 AUD
Category: Culture and Ideas
It's not so long ago that a woman's expressed interest in other realms would have ruined her reputation, or even killed her. And yet spiritualism, in various incarnations, has influenced numerous men - including lauded modernist artists such as Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, Kazimir Malevich and Paul ...Show more
Worst Words: A Compendium for Our Times by Don Watson; Helen Smith (Contribution by)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Culture and Ideas
Dr Don Watson - with his trademark wit and wisdom - says enough already! The English language is complex and evolving, and can win minds, hearts and nations. Why don't we try using it?Depending where you are on the change continuum, a quick pulse check will be in order and a scan of the forthcoming weat ...Show more
Watson's Dictionary Of Weasel Words by Don Watson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Culture and Ideas
The prime minister speaks of core and non-core election promises, your boss asks you to commit to an involuntary career event (you're fired), and hospitals refer to negative patient outcomes (you're dead)u How to fight back? This book is a heavy weapon against politicians, managers and all those whose w ...Show more
There It Is Again: Selected Non-Fiction by Don Watson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Culture and Ideas
Historian, essayist, speechwriter, humourist, anti-cant crusader; Don Watson has a gift for luring us to the nub of a matter, or at least to a new view of it, there to grin or grind our teeth at the spectacle. Over the years Don Watson has written on politics and politicians in Australia and the USA, sp ...Show more
Death Sentence: The Decay of Public Language by Don Watson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Culture and Ideas
Part diatribe, part cool reflection on the state of Australia's public language, Don Watson's Death Sentenceis scathing, funny and brilliant.' ... in public life the language has never been held in less regard. It withers in the dungeons of the technocratic mind. It is butchered by the media. In politic ...Show more
Caledonia Australis: Scottish Highlanders on the Frontier of Australia by Don Watson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Culture and Ideas | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
After their military defeat in 1745, the Scottish Highlanders suffered a worse humiliation. They were displaced from their ancestral lands and became curiosities: objects of romantic nostalgia, charity, scorn, anthropology - and emigration. This is a tale of their dispossession. It also tells the rout o ...Show more
By the Book: A Reader's Guide to Life by Ramona Koval
$22.99 AUD
Category: Culture and Ideas
By the Book is Ramona Koval's love letter to books and writing. What is it about reading that we love so much? Why do books make our lives so much richer? Ramona Koval's By the Book is about reading and living, and about the authors that have written themselves into her life: from Oliver Sacks to Oscar ...Show more
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