Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
$19.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
This is Joan Didion's first work of nonfiction, offering an incisive look at the mood of 1960s America and providing an essential portrait of the Californian counterculture. She explores the influences of John Wayne and Howard Hughes, and offers ruminations on the nature of good and evil in a Death Vall ...Show more
My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem
$22.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
The consequences of racism can be found in our bodies - in skin and sinew, in bone and blood. In this ground-breaking work, therapist Resmaa Menakem examines the damage, the physical consequences of discrimination, from the perspective of body-centred psychology. He argues that until we learn to heal an ...Show more
The Shrinking Nation by Graeme Turner
$32.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
How Australia became less than it was, and how it can once again be more than it is.Over the past two decades, Australia has been experiencing a sustained period of accelerated socio-cultural change, accompanied by existential threats from natural disasters and the Covid pandemic, and punctuated by repe ...Show more
Back Roads 3: The Great Aussie Road Trip by Heather Ewart
$34.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
Heather's favourite road trips around Australia, revealing towns and communities outside the mainstream - and the colourful inhabitants whose grit and humour will uplift and inspire you. There's no better way to see this vast country of ours than by hitting roads along the coastline, or heading inland t ...Show more
Introducing Ethics - A Graphic Guide by Dave Robinson, Chris Garratt
$36.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction | Series: Introducing... Ser.
What is the place of individual choice and consequence in a post-Holocaust world of continuing genocidal ethnic cleansing? Is "identity" now a last-ditch cultural defense of ethnic nationalisms and competing fundamentalisms? In a climate of instant information, free markets and possible ecological disas ...Show more
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
$19.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
Award-winning journalist Reni Eddo-Lodge was frustrated with the way that discussions of race and racism are so often led by those blind to it, by those willfully ignorant of its legacy. Her response, Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race, has transformed the conversation both in Britain ...Show more
In Hot Water: Inside the battle to save the Great Barrier Reef by Paul Hardisty
$34.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
A searing, candid and personal account from inside the battle to save the Great Barrier Reef from the recent CEO of Australia's lading coral research institute (who also happens to be a widely published thriller writer). In the ongoing climate wars, the Great Barrier Reef has become a symbol of everythi ...Show more
Life: Selected Writings by Tim Flannery
$39.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
Tim Flannery is one of the world's great thinkers, environmental scientists and writers. Sir David Attenborough once described him as being 'in the league of the all-time great explorers like Dr David Livingstone.' This definitive collection of his work brings together thirty years of essays, speeches a ...Show more
The War on Normal People - The Truth about America's Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future by Andrew Yang
$32.00 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
From entrepreneur Andrew Yang, the founder of Venture for America, an eye-opening look at how new technologies are erasing millions of jobs before our eyes-and a rallying cry for the urgent steps America must take, including Universal Basic Income, to stabilize our economy. The shift toward automation ...Show more
Gender: A Graphic Guide by Meg-John Barker
$24.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction | Series: Introducing...
Join the creators of Queer: A Graphic History ('Could totally change the way you think about sex and gender' VICE) on an illustrated journey of gender exploration. Is masculinity 'toxic'? Why are public toilets such a political issue? How has feminism changed the available gender roles - and for whom? ...Show more
No More Rubbish Excuses! - 50 Simple, Effective Things You Can Do to Cut Your Plastic and Waste to Help the Planet by Martin Dorey
$19.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
Litter on our streets, plastics in our seas, overflowing landfill, fatbergs... Do you know where your rubbish ends up? We are all responsible for the waste we make and we can make simple changes to live more planet-friendly lives. Expert environmental campaigner Martin Dorey looks at what we recycle, wh ...Show more
Uncommon Knowledge by Tom Standage
$22.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
The world can be an amazing place if you know the right questions to ask:How did carrots become orange? What's stopping us from having a four-day week? How can we remove all the broken bits of satellite from orbit? If everything is so terrible, why is the global suicide rate falling?The keen minds of th ...Show more