How the World Works by Noam Chomsky
$27.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
According to The New York Times, Noam Chomsky is "arguably the most important intellectual alive." But he isn't easy to read . . . or at least he wasn't until these books came along. Made up of intensively edited speeches and interviews, they offer something not found anywhere else: pure Chomsky, with e ...Show more
Mediocre - The Dangerous Legacy of White Male Power by Ijeoma Oluo
$32.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
From the author of the Sunday Times and number 1 New York Times bestseller So You Want to Talk About Race, a subversive history of white male American identity. 'Deftly combines history and sociological study with personal narrative, and the result is both uncomfortable and illuminating' Washington Post ...Show more
Trust - America's Best Chance by Pete Buttigieg
$32.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
'His campaign was historic for all America' GuardianTrust will be our essential tool as we face unique challenges of the decades ahead.In a century warped by terrorism, Trumpism, financial collapse, populism, systemic racism, Russian interference and a global pandemic, trust within and among nations has ...Show more
Power of Hope by Kon Karapanagiotidis
$32.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
A powerful, inspiring memoir from Kon Karapanagiotidis, founder of the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre, which argues that by putting community, love and compassion at the centre of our lives, we have the power to change our world. 'I hope you take from this book the message that we all matter. That there ...Show more
Australia Reimagined: Towards a More Compassionate, Less Anxious Society by Hugh Mackay
$32.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
'When it comes to our future, misplaced optimism is as dangerous as blind faith. What is needed is the courage to face the way things are, and the wisdom and imagination to work out how to make things better.'Australia's unprecedented run of economic growth has failed to deliver a more stable or harmoni ...Show more
Absolute Power : How the Pope Became the Most Influential Man in the World by Paul Collins
$39.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
The sensational story of the last two centuries of the papacy, its most influential pontiffs, troubling doctrines, and rise in global authorityIn 1799, the papacy was at rock bottom: The Papal States had been swept away and Rome seized by the revolutionary French armies. With cardinals scattered across ...Show more
On Indignation by Don Watson
$14.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
Corrosive, mad and frequently fatal, indignation is a great destructive force in human affairs, and just as often a wellspring of mirth and merriment. Don Watson traces this seemingly ineradicable emotion in a journey that takes us, via his forebears, Flaubert and The Sopranos, from the Old Testament to ...Show more
Secret Sisterhood:The Hidden Friendships of Austen, Bronte, Eliot and Woolf by Emily Midorikawa; Emma Claire Sweeney; Margaret Atwood (Foreword by)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
'In digging up the forgotten friendships chronicled in A Secret Sisterhood, Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney have done much service to literary history.'Margaret Atwood 'A Secret Sisterhood will help make women's literary friendships of the past relevant to the present.'Mich#65533;le Roberts 'A ...Show more
Accidental Feminists by Jane Caro
$32.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
Women over fifty-five are of the generation that changed everything. We didn't expect to. Or intend to. We weren't brought up much differently from the women who came before us, and we rarely identified as feminists, although almost all of us do now. Accidental Feminists is our story. It explores how th ...Show more
The People vs the Banks by Michael Roddan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
The banking royal commission has put the financial sector on trial and exposed its self-interest, corruption and excess. The People vs The Banks reveals what happens when businesses put profit before punters, reward bad behaviour and assume they are beyond the law. The day of reckoning for liars and thi ...Show more
Everybody Lies by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
$19.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEARA NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR'This book is about a whole new way of studying the mind ... Endlessly fascinating' Steven Pinker'A whirlwind tour of the modern human psyche' EconomistEverybody lies, to friends, lovers, doctors, pollsters - and t ...Show more
UTS Writers' Anthology 2019 by VARIOUS AUTHORS
$26.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
The UTS Writers' Anthology is an annual publication produced by students at the University of Technology, Sydney. Undergraduate, postgraduate and research students submit their work anonymously, and a student editorial committee then selects and edits the work. Over the years the Anthology has featured ...Show more