Life As We Knew It: the extraordinary story of Australia's pandemic by Aisha Dow, Melissa Cunningham
$35.00 AUD
Category: Social & Cultural Notes
It was never part of the plan that Australia would be locked down and shut off from the world for two years. But when the COVID-19 pandemic arrived in 2020, and the bodies began piling up overseas, Australians took unprecedented steps to avoid a catastrophe heading their way. The country’s near-eliminat ...Show more
Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong by Louisa Lim
$34.99 AUD
Category: Social & Cultural Notes | Reading Level: very goo
An award-winning journalist takes to the protest-riven streets of Hong Kong to write this startling landmark account of the island city's complex past and precarious future. The story of Hong Kong has long been obscured by competing myths- to Britain, a 'barren rock' with no appreciable history; to Chin ...Show more
Saving Time - Discovering A Life Beyond The Clock by Jenny Odell
$35.00 AUD
Category: Social & Cultural Notes | Reading Level: very good
We are living on the wrong clock, and it is destroying us. The New York Times bestselling author of How to Do Nothing offers us different ways to experience time in this dazzling, subversive, and deeply hopeful book. In her first book, How to Do Nothing, Jenny Odell wrote about the importance of disconn ...Show more
Hippocrasy: How doctors are betraying their oath by Rachelle Buchbinder, Ian Harris
$32.99 AUD
Category: Social & Cultural Notes
In Hippocrasy, two world-leading doctors — rheumatologist and epidemiologist Rachelle Buchbinder and orthopaedic surgeon Ian Harris — reveal the true state of modern medicine and how doctors are letting their patients down. They argue that the benefits of treatments are often wildly overstated and the h ...Show more
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations by Marcus Aurelius; trans. Gregory Hays
$24.99 AUD
Category: Social & Cultural Notes | Series: Modern Library Classics | Reading Level: very good
A series of spiritual exercises filled with wisdom, practical guidance, and profound understanding of human behavior, Marcus Aurelius's Meditations remains one of the greatest works of spiritual and ethical reflection ever written. Marcus's insights and advice - on everything from living in the world to ...Show more
The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon ; Jean-Paul Sartre (Preface by)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Social & Cultural Notes | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Frantz Fanon was one of the most important theorists of revolutionary struggle, colonialism, and racial difference in history. Fanon's masterwork is a classic alongside Edward Said's Orientalism or The Autob ...Show more
Orientalism by Edward W. Said
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Category: Social & Cultural Notes | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
ORIENTALISM is one of the greatest and most influential of books of ideas to be published since the end of the European empires. For generations now it has defined our understanding of colonialism and empire and with each passing year its influence becomes if anything even greater. Edward Said, the not ...Show more
Thoreau's Axe - Distraction and Discipline in American Culture by Caleb Smith
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Category: Social & Cultural Notes
How nineteenth-century "disciplines of attention" anticipated the contemporary concern with mindfulness and being "spiritual but not religious" Today, we're driven to distraction, our attention overwhelmed by the many demands upon it--most of which emanate from our beeping and blinking digital devices. ...Show more
Letters of Note: Fathers by USHER, SHAUN
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Category: Social & Cultural Notes
A compulsive collection of the world's most entertaining, inspiring and powerful letters with fathers at their heart, curated by the founder of the global phenomenon lettersofnote.com