The Kabul Peace House: How a Group of Young People Are Daring to Dream in a Land of War by Mark Isaacs
$29.99 AUD
Category: SOCIETY AND SOCIAL SCIENCES | Series: Young Afghans Peace Community
A story of peace in a land of unending war. This is a story of hope and resilience in Afghanistan, a country constantly under siege from within and without. Refugee advocate, activist and acclaimed author Mark Isaacs takes us inside a remarkable and unlikely peace project established in one of the mo ...Show more
Media Unmade: Australian Media's Most Disruptive Decade by Tim Burrowes
$34.99 AUD
Category: SOCIETY AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
Media Unmade presents the definitive story of the decade in which big media in Australia was cut down to size - a decade that forever altered what had until then been perceived as the unbreachable foundations of the industry in this country. Drawing on insights from his ringside seat, independent journa ...Show more
Sleights Of Mind: What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals About Our Brains by Stephen L. Macknik & Susana Martinez-Conde & Sandra Blakeslee
$22.99 AUD
Category: SOCIETY AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
A unique and fascinating look at the relationship between magic, the brain and everyday life. What can magic tell us about ourselves and our daily lives? If you subtly change the subject during an uncomfortable conversation, did you know you're using attentional 'misdirection', a core technique of ...Show more
What We Really Do All Day by Jonathan Gershuny and Oriel Sullivan
$22.99 AUD
Category: SOCIETY AND SOCIAL SCIENCES | Series: Pelican Bks.
Are we spending more time at work than we would have 50 years ago? Are we sleeping less? How has the Internet affected the way we use our spare time? Everything we do happens in time and it feels like our lives are busier than ever before. Yet a detailed look at our daily activities reveals some surpris ...Show more
The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet by Leah Thomas
$24.99 AUD
Category: SOCIETY AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
A radical and empowering primer for the next generation of activists.
100 Deadly Skills: Survival Edition: The Seal Operative's Guide to Surviving in the Wild and Being Prepared for Any Disaster by Clint Emerson
$29.99 AUD
Category: SOCIETY AND SOCIAL SCIENCES | Series: 100 Deadly Skills
These 100 skills, adapted for civilians from actual field experiences of Special Forces operations, offer a complete hands-on and practical guide to help you survive in the wild no matter the climate or terrain; be prepared for any crisis; and have the critical life-saving knowledge for staying safe in ...Show more
What is a Woman?: And Other Essays by Toril Moi
$100.95 AUD
Category: SOCIETY AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
What is a woman? And what does it mean to be a feminist today? In her first full-scale engagement with feminist theory since her internationally renowned Sexual/Textual Politics (1985), Toril Moi challenges the dominant trends in contemporary feminist and cultural thought, arguing for a feminism of free ...Show more
Girl of the Southern Sea by Michelle Kadarusman
$16.99 AUD
Category: SOCIETY AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
From Governor General's Literary Award finalist Michelle Kadarusman, an empowering novel about a girl from the slums of Jakarta who dreams of an education and the chance at a better life From the time she was a little girl, Nia has dreamed up adventures about the Javanese mythical princess, Dewi Kadita. ...Show more
The Rise of the Creative Class by 1
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Category: SOCIETY AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
World-renowned urbanist Richard Florida's bestselling classic on the transformation of our cities in the twenty-first century -- now updated with a new prefaceIn his modern classic The Rise of the Creative Class, urbanist Richard Florida identifies the emergence of a new social class reshaping the twent ...Show more
Legendary Children: The First Decade of RuPaul's Drag Race and the Last Century of Queer Life by Tom Fitzgerald, Lorenzo Marquez
$29.99 AUD
Category: SOCIETY AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
Legendary Children centres itself around the idea that not only is RuPaul's Drag Race the queerest show in the history of television, but that RuPaul and company devised a show that serves as an actual museum of queer cultural and social history, drawing on queer traditions and the work of legendary fig ...Show more
The Colonial Fantasy: Why white Australia can't solve black problems by Sarah Maddison
$34.99 AUD
Category: SOCIETY AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
Australia is wreaking devastation on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. The evidence is incontrovertible. Whatever the policy - from protection to assimilation, self-determination to intervention, reconciliation to recognition - government policies and programs have made little positive diffe ...Show more
Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World by Tyson Yunkaporta
$32.99 AUD
Category: SOCIETY AND SOCIAL SCIENCES | Series: Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
This remarkable book is about everything from echidnas to evolution, cosmology to cooking, sex and science and spirits to Schrodinger's cat. Tyson Yunkaporta looks at global systems from an Indigenous perspective. He asks how contemporary life diverges from the pattern of creation. How does this affect ...Show more