Asian Girls are Going Places: How to Navigate the World as an Asian Woman Today by Michelle Law
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Category: SOCIETY AND CULTURE | Series: Girls Guide to the World Ser.
The third in the Girls Guide to the World series,Asian Girls are Going Places is a gift book with a difference: it features practical advice (and more) from author Michelle Law and her interviewees that specifically targets the joys, fears and obligations unique to Asian women travelling the world. Sepa ...Show more
She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Ignited a Movement by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey
$32.99 AUD
Category: SOCIETY AND CULTURE | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
JANE PERLEZ: "A tightly written, easy-to-read drama, the story of Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein and his decades-long sexual harassment of young women, from famous actresses to his assistants. It took guts, persuasive powers, and amazing journalism by two New York Times reporters to unlock the sordid ...Show more
Class in Australia by Threadgold Steven
$39.95 AUD
Category: SOCIETY AND CULTURE
Two decades since it was claimed that class is dead, social, economic and cultural inequalities are rising. Though Australia is often described as a ‘lucky country’ with a strong economy, we are witness to intensifying inequality with entrenched poverty and the growth of precarious and insecure labour. ...Show more
Mind of the Nation: Universities in Australian Life by Michael Wesley
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Category: SOCIETY AND CULTURE
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
Great Women's Speeches by RUSSELL ANNA
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Category: SOCIETY AND CULTURE
Discover the inspiring voices that have changed our world, and started a new conversation. The first dedicated collection of seminal speeches by women from around the world, Great Womens Speeches is about women at the forefront of change-within politics, science, human rights, and media; discussing ever ...Show more
The Gentle Art Of Persuasion by Chester Porter
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Category: SOCIETY AND CULTURE
"The Gentle Art of Persuasion teaches you how to argue effectively! Much of life is spent in arguing, domestically, at work, professionally, or it just happens that way. Most arguments are futile wastes of time. Neither the participants nor the audience learn anything. Between men in crowded pubs argume ...Show more
A Thirst for Empire - How Tea Shaped the Modern World by Erika Rappaport
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Category: SOCIETY AND CULTURE
How the global tea industry influenced the international economy and the rise of mass consumerismTea has been one of the most popular commodities in the world. For centuries, profits from its growth and sales funded wars and fueled colonization, and its cultivation brought about massive changes--in land ...Show more
Vagabonds: Life on the Streets of Nineteenth-Century London by OSKAR JENSEN
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Category: SOCIETY AND CULTURE
Compelling, moving and unexpected portraits of London's poor from a rising star British historian the Dickensian city brought to real and vivid life. Until now, our view of bustling late Georgian and Victorian London has been filtered through its great chroniclers, who did not themselves come from pover ...Show more
Help Yourself by Curtis Sittenfeld
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Category: SOCIETY AND CULTURE
'Nobody else writes with such precison and amusement about the absolute inability of men and women to understand each other' RED MAGAZINESittenfeld's wryly hilarious and insightful new collection, HELP YOURSELF, illuminates human experience and gracefully upends our assumptions about class and race, env ...Show more
The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls by Mona Eltahawy
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Category: SOCIETY AND CULTURE
Seizing upon the energy of the #MeToo movement, feminist activist Mona Eltahawy advocates a muscular, out-loud approach to teaching women and girls to harness their power through what she calls the "seven necessary sins" that women and girls are not supposed to commit: to be angry, ambitious, profane, v ...Show more
The Expendables: How the middle class got screwed by globalisation by Jeff Rubin
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Category: SOCIETY AND CULTURE
A provocative, far-reaching account of how the middle class got stuck with the bill for globalisation, and how the blowback — from Brexit to Trump to populist Europe — will change the developed world. Real wages have not risen much for decades. Union membership has collapsed. Full-time employment is be ...Show more
Women, Men and the Whole Damn Thing by David Leser
$29.99 AUD
Category: SOCIETY AND CULTURE | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
One of the most talked-about and widely praised articles of 2018, expanded into the water-cooler book of the #MeToo era. 'How to find the right words to frame this horror? How to understand why men do what they do to women? How to comprehend this malign force that seems to seep from the male psyche and ...Show more