The Forest Wars: The ugly truth about what's happening in our tall forests by David Lindenmayer
$34.99 AUD
Category: Environment
Lifts the lid on destruction of native forests by government corporations and logging industry that is making bushfires worse, killing wildlife and costing taxpayers millions, for the sake of woodchips for export. Since colonisation, Australia has been frantically logging our native forests as if our li ...Show more
The Dark Cloud: How the Digital World Is Costing the Earth by Guillaume Pitron
$35.00 AUD
Category: Environment
A gripping new investigation into the underbelly of digital technology, which addresses the pressing question of the carbon footprint it leaves behind. In a sort of news thriller, the author reveals not only how costly the virtual world is, but how damaging it is to the environment. A simple 'like' sent ...Show more
Hope and Courage in the Climate Crisis - Wisdom and Action in the Long Emergency by John Wiseman
$35.00 AUD
Category: Environment
As the risks of the climate crisis continue to grow, so too do the challenges of facing a harsh climate future with honesty and courage; justice and compassion; meaning and purpose. Hope and Courage in the Climate Crisis explores diverse sources of learning and wisdom -from climate scientists and activi ...Show more
Behind the Lines: The Year in Political Cartoons 2023 by Museum of Australian Democracy
$25.00 AUD
Category: Politics
Behind the Lines: The Year's Best Political Cartoons 2023 celebrates another year in Australia's unique, vibrant and fearless tradition of political cartooning. No politician, party or policy is safe from the nation's best cartoonists; witty, powerful or ribald, their images offer an astutely observed j ...Show more
Not Now, Not Ever: Ten Years On From the Misogyny Speech by Julia Gillard
$24.99 AUD
Category: Gender
This is a barn-burning piece of Australian feminist history in the making.MATILDA, BETTER READ THAN DEADThen it was done. After staying silent, I'd had my say. At no time did I feel worked up or hotly angry. I felt strong, measured, controlled. Yet emotion did play its role in the energy of the speech. ...Show more
The Way to Love: Meditations for Life by Anthony de Mello, S.J.
$22.99 AUD
Category: Spirituality
"The Way to Love" contains some of the most beloved stories from Anthony de Mello. Here, more than ever before in his bestselling writing, he grapples with the ultimate question of love. In thirty-one meditations, he implores his readers with his usual pithiness to break through illusion, the great obst ...Show more
The Beginner's Guide to Winning the Nobel Prize - Advice for Young Scientists by Peter Doherty
$40.95 AUD
Category: Science
The Nobel Prize-winning medical researcher recounts his unlikely career journey in a memoir that "opens the vault to the world of science" (Nature). Beginning with his humble origins in Australia, Peter Doherty tells how he developed an interest in immunology and describes his award-winning, influentia ...Show more
Reading Genesis by Marilynne Robinson
$29.99 AUD
Category: World Matters: Social Cultural, Philosophy, Psychology, Spirituality
"For generations, the Book of Genesis has been treated by scholars as a collection of documents by various hands expressing different factional interests, with borrowings from other ancient literatures that mark the text as derivative. In other words, academic interpretation of Genesis has centered on t ...Show more
The Perfect Nine by Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
$19.99 AUD
Category: Gender
A dazzling, genre-defying novel in verse from the author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie calls 'one of the greatest writers of our time' Ngugi wa Thiong'o's novels and memoirs have received glowing praise from the likes of Barack Obama, the New Yorker, the Guardian and the New York Times Book Review; he has be ...Show more
Stories That Want To Be Told: The Long Lede Anthology by Judith Neilson Institute
$29.99 AUD
Category: World Matters: Social Cultural, Philosophy, Psychology, Spirituality
Passion pieces from the next generation of Australian longform journalists. Nine Australian writers, mentored by nine experienced Australian journalists, developed stories that they knew needed to be shared. With direction from Amanda Hooton of GW, Claire Keenan explores Catholicism in rural Australia, ...Show more
Hope, Solidarity and Death at the Australian Border - Christmas Island and Asylum Seekers by Michelle Jasmin Dimasi
$39.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Forced displacement affects millions annually, as they search for safety, yet how many of us take the time to truly understand the asylum seeker experience? Not only confronted with the risks of irregular migration, asylum seekers must navigate border politics imposed by countries seeking to deter and p ...Show more