Freedom by Sebastian Junger
$19.99 AUD
Category: Social & Cultural Notes
A profound rumination on the concept of freedom from the bestselling author of The Perfect Storm Throughout history, humans have been driven by the quest for two cherished ideals: community and freedom. The two don't coexist easily: we value individuality and self-reliance, yet are utterly dependent on ...Show more
Where the Water Ends: Seeking Refuge in Fortress Europe by Zoe Holman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Social & Cultural Notes
Around the world, forced migration doubled in the decade leading up to 2019. Over that time, the borders of the European Union became the world's deadliest frontier. More than 20,000 people have died or disappeared while attempting to gain entry since 2012, the year the EU was awarded the Nobel Peace Pr ...Show more
How to Think Like an Activist by Wendy Syfret
$19.99 AUD
Category: Social & Cultural Notes | Series: Survive the Modern World Ser.
How to Think Like an Activistoffers a space for budding activists to learn from the past and look to the future. A lot of talk around changing the world gets stuck in theory, but this is about action. From small daily commitments to larger ongoing projects, this book offers tangible ways to start buildi ...Show more
Sex (Letters of Note) by USHER, SHAUN
$14.99 AUD
Category: Social & Cultural Notes
An irresistible new volume of affectionate missives about everyone's favorite taboo topic from the author of the bestselling Letters of Note collections.In Letters of Note: Sex, Shaun Usher collects together some of the most noteworthy missives ever written on the subject, from euphemism-laden, flirtati ...Show more
New York (Letters of Note) by Shaun Usher (Compiled by)
$14.99 AUD
Category: Social & Cultural Notes
A compulsive collection of the world's most entertaining, inspiring and powerful letters with New York at their heart, curated by the founder of the global phenomenon lettersofnote.com
Leadership (In the National Interest) by Don Russell
$19.95 AUD
Category: Social & Cultural Notes | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
The level of public frustration and disengagement with political leaders has never been higher. At the same time, the problems we need them to deal with, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, a crisis in aged care and accelerating climate change, are immediate and urgent. The system is designed to make our pol ...Show more
The Courage to Care: A Call for Compassion by Christie Watson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Social & Cultural Notes
'The handbook for compassion...a must-read' Chris Evans Nurses have never been more important. We benefit from their expertise in our hospitals and beyond: in our schools, on our streets, in prisons, hospices and care homes. When we feel most alone, nurses remind us that we are not alone at all. In The ...Show more
An Insider's Plague Year by Peter Doherty
$32.99 AUD
Category: Social & Cultural Notes
An illuminating glimpse into the scientific response to the COVID-19 pandemic from Australia's most prominent 'insider' In An Insider's Plague Year, Nobel laureate and prominent COVID-19 authority Professor Peter Doherty recounts his response to the pandemic as it developed from January 2020-February 20 ...Show more
The Amur River: Between Russia and China by Colin Thubron
$35.00 AUD
Category: Social & Cultural Notes
Follow our greatest travel writer (and rusty Mandarin speaker) along the far eastern river that separates Russia from China, the two great ex-Communist giants, taking in Mongolia, Siberia and the Sea of Japan A dramatic and ambitious new journey for our greatest travel writer Colin Thubron, at 79, will ...Show more
Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine by Geoff Manaugh, Nicola Twilley
$44.99 AUD
Category: Social & Cultural Notes
Quarantine has shaped our world, yet it remains both feared and misunderstood. It is our most powerful response to uncertainty, but it operates through an assumption of guilt: in quarantine, we are considered infectious until proven safe. An unusually poetic metaphor for moral and mythic ills, quarantin ...Show more
Strange Death Of Liberal England by Dangerfield George
$38.45 AUD
Category: Social & Cultural Notes
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors and the Drug Company That Addicted America [TV-Tie-In] by Beth Macy
$22.99 AUD
Category: Social & Cultural Notes
Soon to be a major TV series on Disney+ 'A shocking investigation ... Dopesick is essential' The Times 'Unfolds with all the pace of a thriller' Observer 'A deep - and deeply needed - look into the troubled soul of America' Tom Hanks 'Essential reading' New York Times Beth Macy reveals the disturbing tr ...Show more