It Could Happen Here: Why America Is Tipping from Hate to the Unthinkable - And How We Can Stop It by Jonathan Greenblatt
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics
"Refreshingly candid . . . Get off Instagram and read this book." --Sacha Baron Cohen From the dynamic head of ADL, an impassioned argument about the terrifying path that America finds itself on today--and how we can save ourselves. It's almost impossible to imagine that unbridled hate and systemat ...Show more
It Happened in a Holden 2nd Edition by Paddy O'Reilly (Editor)
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
It Takes Two: a History of the Couples Who Dared to Be Different by Cathy Newman
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
'Sometimes, 1+1 = changing the world. Cathy Newman's witty, warm history on the power of determined couples will make you look at your relationship and wonder, "Could we be doing more this weekend than just going to IKEA?"' CAITLIN MORAN Throughout history, collaboration has fuelled greatness. From riv ...Show more
Italian Life: A Modern Fable of Loyalty and Betrayal by Tim Parks
$35.00 AUD
Category: Culture Studies
Forty years ago, Tim Parks made the bel paese his home. Italian Life is his reckoning with his adopted country, an attempt to get to the core of it, to make sense of it, to fold others' stories in with his own experience - now that he is, in his own words, 'to some degree Italian' himself. The result i ...Show more
It's Not about the Burqa: Muslim Women on Faith, Feminism, Sexuality and Race by Mariam Khan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
When was the last time you heard a Muslim woman speak for herself without a filter? In 2016, Mariam Khan read that David Cameron had linked the radicalization of Muslim men to the 'traditional submissiveness' of Muslim women. Mariam felt pretty sure she didn't know a single Muslim woman who would descri ...Show more
It's Our Country: Indigenous Arguments for Meaningful Constitutional Recognition and Reform by Megan Davis & Marcia Langton (ed.)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Culture Studies
It is a collection of short essays by leading and emerging Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander thinkers and leaders. Edited by and including contributions from Megan Davis and Marcia Langton, it conveys to Australians why indigenous peoples should have a direct say in the decisions that affect their l ...Show more
It's the Government, Stupid!: How Governments Blame Citizens for Their Own Policies by Keith Dowding
$44.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Governments have developed a convenient habit of blaming social problems on their citizens, placing too much emphasis on personal responsibility and pursuing policies to ‘nudge’ their citizens to better behaviour. Dowding shows that, in fact, responsibility for many of our biggest social crises — includ ...Show more
I've Been Meaning to Tell You: A Letter to My Daughter (HB) by David Chariandy
$24.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
"Stunning. A precise puncturing of the post-racial bubble." --Nafkote Tamirat For readers of Between the World and Me and We Should All Be Feminists, an intimate and profound meditation on the politics of race today, from prizewinning novelist David Chariandy. I can glimpse, through the lens of my own e ...Show more
JFK: the Smoking Gun by Colin McLaren
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
On 22nd November 1963, the 35th president of the United States, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, and his wife Jackie were taking part in a presidential motorcade through Dallas. Thousands lined the streets cheering; others hung out of windows to catch a glimpse of the much-loved First Lady and President. Sudden ...Show more
Jambusters: The Story of the Women's Institute in the Second World War by Julie Summers
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
The Second World War was the WI's finest hour. The whole of its previous history - two decades of educating, entertaining and supporting women and campaigning on women's issues - culminated in the enormous collective responsibility felt by the members to 'do their bit' for Britain. With all the vigour, ...Show more
James Hardy Vaux's 1819 Dictionary of Criminal Slang and Other Impolite Terms as Used by the Convicts of the British Colonies of Australia with Additional True Stories, Remarkable Facts and Illustrations by Simon Barnard
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
In the early 1800s magistrates in the Australian colonies were often frustrated by the language used by reoffending convicts to disguise their criminal activities and intensions. Convict clerk James Hardy Vaux came up with a useful idea: a dictionary of slang and other terms used by convicts. And so, in ...Show more
James Hardy Vaux's 1819 Dictionary of Criminal Slang and Other Impolite terms as Used by the Convicts of the British Colonies of Australia by Simon Barnard
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
In the early 1800s magistrates in the Australian colonies were often frustrated by the language used by reoffending convicts to disguise their criminal activities and intensions. Convict clerk James Hardy Vaux came up with a useful idea: a dictionary of slang and other terms used by convicts. And so, in ...Show more