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
Warriors of the Rainbow: A Chronicle of the Greenpeace Movement from 1971 to 1979 by Robert Hunter
$29.95 AUD
Category: Social & Cultural Notes
A gripping personal account, this book is written by a man who participated in some of the most publicized international environmental actions ever undertaken. Robert Hunter was a much loved member of Greenpeace from its inception, when he and 10 others sailed aboard a rusting ship on a voyage to protec ...Show more
Once Were Warriors by Alan Duff
$14.99 AUD
Category: Social & Cultural Notes
Ground-breaking. Original. Heart-rending. Most talked about book in New Zealand, ever. Adapted into a blockbuster movie. Still in print three decades later. Once Were Warriors is one of a dozen classics released in the Popular Penguin format to mark 50 years of publishing in New Zealand. The format rea ...Show more
Mind of the Nation: Universities in Australian Life by Michael Wesley
$34.99 AUD
Category: Social & Cultural Notes
In this thought-provoking and timely examination, academic and writer Michael Wesley asks what Australians really think and how they feel about our universities, and where to next?In 1964, Donald Horne wrote in his classic The Lucky Country that 'in a sense - Australia does not have a mind. Intellectual ...Show more
The Land of Hope and Fear: Israel's battle for its inner soul by Isabel Kershner
$35.00 AUD
Category: Social & Cultural Notes
A correspondent who has spent thirty years in Israel - the last fifteen for The New York Times - presents a rich, wide-ranging portrait of the Israeli people today at a critical juncture in their country's history. A correspondent who has spent thirty years in Israel presents a rich, wide-ranging portr ...Show more
Letters of Note: Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience by Shaun Usher
$59.99 AUD
Category: Social & Cultural Notes
Letters of Note, the book based on the beloved website of the same name, became an instant classic on publication in 2013, selling hundreds of thousands of copies. This new edition sees the collection of the world's most entertaining, inspiring and unusual letters updated with fourteen riveting new miss ...Show more
QAnon and On: A Short and Shocking History of Internet Conspiracy Cults by Van Badham
$34.99 AUD
Category: Social & Cultural Notes
In QAnon and On, Guardian columnist Van Badham delves headfirst into the QAnon conspiracy theory, unpicking the why, how and who behind this century’s most dangerous and far-fetched internet cult. From Gamergate to Pizzagate and beyond to QAnon, internet manipulation and disinformation campaigns have ...Show more
Dear Dolly: On Love, Life and Friendship, the instant Sunday Times bestseller by Dolly Alderton
$35.00 AUD
Category: Social & Cultural Notes
From the bestselling and beloved author of Everything I Know about Love and Ghosts - the definitive selection of her Dear Dolly agony aunt letters and answers from her hugely popular Sunday Times Style column- with an introduction by Dolly. 'What I learnt from sharing my most private pain with a semi-pr ...Show more
Caste: The International Bestseller by Isabel Wilkerson
$26.99 AUD
Category: Social & Cultural Notes
The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power - which groups have it and which do not' Beyond race or class, our lives are defined by a powerful, unspoken system of divisions. In Caste, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson gives an astounding portrait of this hi ...Show more
Internet-Linked Atlas of Discovery by JACARANDA
$51.95 AUD
Category: Social & Cultural Notes
Covers amazing places, natural and built environments, people and culture - a world that challenges students to inquire, investigate, discover and understand.
Vendetta: The Mafia, Judge Falcone and the Quest for Justice by John Follain
$22.99 AUD
Category: Social & Cultural Notes
On 23 May 1992 the Mafia assassinated its 'Number One Enemy', the legendary prosecutor Judge Falcone, with a motorway bomb that also killed his wife Francesca and three bodyguards. Fifty-seven days later, the Mafia killed Falcone's friend and colleague, Judge Paolo Borsellino, with a car bomb outside hi ...Show more
The Pedant in the Kitchen by Julian Barnes
$19.99 AUD
Category: Social & Cultural Notes
The Pedant's ambition is simple. He wants to cook tasty, nutritious food; he wants not to poison his friends; and he wants to expand, slowly and with pleasure, his culinary repertoire. A stern critic of himself and others, he knows he is never going to invent his own recipes (although he might, in a bur ...Show more