Lockdown by Chip Le Grand
$32.95 AUD
Category: Social & Cultural Notes
How does a city go from being the world’s most liveable to its most locked down? For 262 days, Melbourne was cocooned by stay-at-home orders. Businesses were forcibly closed, classrooms shuttered, and community and social life relegated to an impersonal online world. To stop the spread of a virus, peopl ...Show more
Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family & the Making of Modern India by Sujatha Gidla
$29.99 AUD
Category: Social & Cultural Notes
A moving portrait of love, hardship, and struggle, this is the stunning true story of an untouchable family who become teachers, and one, a poet and revolutionary.
James Acaster's Guide to Quitting Social Media by James Acaster
$49.99 AUD
Category: Social & Cultural Notes
This is a self-help book like no other. Because you are not helping yourself, James Acaster is helping you.In 2019, James quit all forms of social media - covering his phone in tar and driving it to a lock-up in Rhyl, before setting up home in a castle he'd built himself called Castle Anti-Net. But when ...Show more
The Shot Anthology: Vol. 1 by The Chaser
$27.99 AUD
Category: Social & Cultural Notes
When the pandemic hit Australia, and Victoria in particular, a then-unknown blog called The Shot emerged through the haze as a voice of reason, comfort, hope and swear words.As one lockdown blurred into the next and curfewed Melburnians sought community, connection and a counter-narrative to the warped ...Show more
Under the Banner of Heaven (TV Tie-In) by Jon Krakauer
$24.99 AUD
Category: Social & Cultural Notes
True crime in the American heartland. Under the Banner of Heaven is a riveting account of Mormon fundamentalism and renegade prophets, from the bestselling author of Into the Wild and Into Thin Air.Brothers Ron and Dan Lafferty insist they were commanded to kill by God. Jon Krakauer's investigation into ...Show more
Second-Hand Time An Oral History of the Fall of the Soviet Union by Svetlana Alexievich
$32.99 AUD
Category: Social & Cultural Notes
In this magnificent requiem to a civilization in ruins, the winne of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature reinvents a singular, polyphonic literary form, bringing together the voices of dozens of witnesses to the collapse of the USSR in a formidable attempt to chart the disappearance of a culture and to s ...Show more
Talking Cure: An Essay on the Civilizing Power of Conversation by Paula Marantz Cohen
$29.99 AUD
Category: Social & Cultural Notes
An invigorating exploration of the pleasures and social benefits of conversation, Talking Cure is a timely and enticing excursion into the art of good conversation. Paula Marantz Cohen reveals how conversation connects us in ways that social media never can and explains why simply talking to each other ...Show more
Axiomatic by Maria Tumarkin
$24.99 AUD
Category: Social & Cultural Notes
From the winner of the Windham Campbell Prize Winner of the Melbourne Prize for Literature’s Best Writing Award Shortlisted for the 2019 Stella Prize Shortlisted for the Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction in the 2019 NSW Premier's Literary Awards Longlisted for the 2019 Indie Book Awards for Non-Fict ...Show more
Not Here to Make You Comfortable: 50 Women Who Stand Up, Speak Out, Inspire Change
$22.99 AUD
Category: Social & Cultural Notes
A collection celebrating boldness, bravery and brilliance. Here are fifty times a woman did something brave. Something disruptive. Something exceptional. We saw them. And we were inspired to be more confident and maybe a little bold. It's time to stop saying yes all the time. It's time to stop apologis ...Show more
Art by Simon Schama
$7.99 AUD
Category: Social & Cultural Notes | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
'Great art has dreadful manners... ...The hushed reverence of the gallery can fool you into believing masterpieces are visions that soothe, charm and beguile, but actually they are thugs. Merciless and wily, the greatest paintings grab you in a headlock and proceed in short order to re-arrange your sen ...Show more
Living with AI (In the National Interest) by Campbell Wilson
$19.95 AUD
Category: Social & Cultural Notes | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
Technology described as artificial intelligence is becoming more pervasive, with AI algorithms transforming science and industry, along with our everyday lives. They can rapidly analyse and classify all manner of data. They can generate passages of text and produce realistic images. They are used to des ...Show more
Growing Up Disabled in Australia by Carly Findlay
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction | Series: Growing Up
'My body and its place in the world seemed quite normal to me.' 'I didn't grow up disabled, I grew up with a problem. A problem those around me wanted to fix.' 'We have all felt that uncanny sensation that someone is watching us.' 'The diagnosis helped but it didn't fix everything.' 'Don't fear the labe ...Show more