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
Watching Out: Reflections on Justice and Injustice by Julian Burnside
$29.99 AUD
Category: World Matters: Social Cultural, Philosophy, Psychology, Spirituality
When put to the test, most people have difficulty identifying what justice is, especially when there is tension between proper process and a desired result. Due process is inherent in our conception of justice. But bad process can yield the right result, just as good process can produce the wrong result ...Show more
Stuff You Should Know: An Incomplete Compendium of Mostly Interesting Things by Josh Clark, Chuck Bryant
$34.99 AUD
Category: World Matters: Social Cultural, Philosophy, Psychology, Spirituality
From the duo behind the massively successful and award-winning podcast Stuff You Should Know comes an unexpected look at things you thought you knew.Josh Clark and Chuck Bryant started the podcast Stuff You Should Know back in 2008 because they were curious - curious about the world around them, curious ...Show more
Reliable Essays - The Best of Clive James by Clive James
$32.99 AUD
Category: Social & Cultural Notes
Including Clive James's most memorable pieces - his 'Postcard from Rome', his observations on Margaret Thatcher, his insights into Heaney, Larkin and Orwell - this book also contains brilliantly funny examinations of characters like Barry Humphries, as well as showcasing James's more thoughtful, analyti ...Show more
Night Games: Sex, Power and Sport by Anna Krien
$19.99 AUD
Category: World Matters: Social Cultural, Philosophy, Psychology, Spirituality
Sex, celebrity, and power come together in a critically lauded, true-life courtroom drama centering on a rape case in the world of top-level sport. *Winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2014* 'The Pies beat the Saints and the city of Melbourne was still cloaked in black and w ...Show more
Webtopia - The Worldwide Wreck of Tech and How to Make the Net Work by Peter Lewis
$32.99 AUD
Category: Science | Reading Level: very good
Sydney in the 1970s and 1980s was a world of limited choice, one where we all watched the same television programs and the household phone was at the heart of allnetworks people belonged to: family, school, church and the neighbourhood. The arrival of the internet promised a utopian, creative and democr ...Show more
Refugee Rights Policy Wrongs A Frank, Up-To-Date Guide by Experts by Jane McAdam; Fiona Chong
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Everyone has the right to seek asylum under international law, but public discourse in Australia about refugees is dominated by scare-mongering and political point-scoring. The government seeks to `stop the boats' whatever the cost, be it human, economic, moral or legal. In this new book, Jane McAdam an ...Show more
Beyond the Veil: Male-Female Dynamics in Modern Muslim Society by Fatima Mernissi
$64.00 AUD
Category: Social & Cultural Notes
An expanded and updated edition of this classic study includes a new introduction on Muslim women and fundamentalism, in which Fatima Mernissi argues that the present conservative wave against women in the Muslim world is a defence against recent profound changes in sex roles and in perceptions of sexua ...Show more
Nature and the Human Soul by Bill Plotkin
$29.95 AUD
Category: Social & Cultural Notes
Today there is a growing awareness that our planet has entered a time of crisis. Bill Plotkin profiles eight maturation stages in the human life cycle from child to elder and depicts the qualities and challenges of each. He offers a practical integration ofpersonal and spiritual understandings (from nat ...Show more
Satiristas - Comedians, Contrarians, Raconteurs and Vulgarians by Paul Provenza; Dan Dion; Tanner Colby
$60.00 AUD
Category: Social & Cultural Notes
Featuring our greatest comedic minds on the nature of humor, its relevance in society--and why sometimes you just need a good dirty joke to cleanse the palate--Satiristas is a hilarious multi-voiced manifesto on satire and comedy presented by Paul Provenza, co-creator of The Aristocrats.
Stranger to History: A Son's Journey Through Islamic Lands by Aatish Taseer
$34.95 AUD
Category: Social & Cultural Notes
What does it mean to be a young Muslim in the twenty-first century?When Aatish Taseer receives a challenging letter from his estranged father in Pakistan, he decides to set off on an expedition across the Islamic world in search of his own Islamic heritage, as well as to discover how other young people ...Show more