Who Ate the First Oyster? The Extraordinary People Behind the Greatest Firsts in History by Cody Cassidy
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
Who wore the first pants? Who painted the first masterpiece? Who first rode the horse? Who invented soap? This madcap adventure across ancient history uses everything from modern genetics to archaeology to uncover the geniuses behind these and other world-changing innovations. Who invented the wheel? Wh ...Show more
Who Can You Trust? How Technology Brought Us Together - and Why It Could Drive Us Apart by Rachel Botsman
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Nominated for the Business Book Awards 'Embracing Change' category ----- A ground-breaking exploration of how the digital era is revolutionising human trust If you can't trust those in charge, who can you trust? From government to business, banks to media, trust in institutions is at an all-time low. ...Show more
Who Cares?: Life on Welfare in Australia by Eve Vincent
$33.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
The welfare state meets the 2020s in AustraliaThe twentieth-century Australian welfare state made the bold promise to care for its citizens. But since the 1990s, social security has become increasingly conditional and punitive in its provision of this so-called care. Who Cares? outlines the perspectives ...Show more
Who Cares Wins - Reasons for Optimism in Our Changing World by Lily Cole
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A radical guide to thinking differently about the world and initiating changeOptimism demands action. Optimism is an active choice. Optimism is not naive and it is not impossible. We are living in an age of turmoil, destruction and uncertainty. Global warming has reached terrifying heights of severity, ...Show more
Who Cares Wins: Reasons for Optimism in our Changing World by Lily Cole
$35.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Optimism demands action. Optimism is an active choice. Optimism is not naïve and it is not impossible. We are living in an age of turmoil, destruction and uncertainty. Global warming has reached terrifying heights of severity, human expansion has caused the extinction of countless species, and Neolibera ...Show more
Who Dares Loses: Pariah Policies (In the National Interest) by Wayne Errington, Peter van Onselen
$19.95 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
Why does Australia go through cycles of public policy boldness and timidity? The COVID-19 crisis has shown that the Australian political system has much more tolerance for policy innovation than appeared to be the case on the evidence of the previous twenty years. As another election approaches, though, ...Show more
Who Gets Believed? When the Truth Isn't Enough by Dina Nayeri
$35.00 AUD
Category: Culture Studies
The prizewinning author of The Ungrateful Refugee asks who is heard in our society, who is not - and why?'I knew this from the beginning, when I was inside the lorry, thinking about truth. If you are a good storyteller you will be trusted, get a life, and escape from hell. But what do you need to do to ...Show more
Who Gets to Be Smart: Privilege, Power and Knowledge by Bri Lee
$32.99 AUD
Category: Culture Studies
In 2018 Bri Lee's brilliant young friend Damian is named a Rhodes Scholar, an apex of academic achievement. When she goes to visit him and takes a tour of Oxford and Rhodes House, she begins questioning her belief in a system she has previously revered, as she learns the truth behind what Virginia Woolf ...Show more
Who Needs the ABC? Why Taking It For Granted is No Longer An Option by Matthew Ricketson, Patrick Mullins
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
For the past nine years, the ABC has been besieged. Its funding has been slashed. Its staffing levels have been cut. It has been assailed by complaints from ministers and prime ministers. Its board has been stacked with a succession of political appointees. It has been relentlessly attacked by commercia ...Show more
Who Owns History? Elgin's Loot and the Case for Returning Plundered Treasure by Geoffrey Robertson
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
Hard on the heels of his best-selling autobiography Rather His Own Man, one of Australia's foremost public intellectuals turns his mind to one of the most important contemporary questions that divides the world of art and culture- the restitution of heritage treasures removed in earlier times from subju ...Show more
Who Owns History? The Case of Elgin's Loot (HB) by Geoffrey Robertson
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
The controversy about the Elgin Marbles continues to rage. This book will be the first to propound a system for the return of cultural property, based on human rights law principles that are being developed by the courts to decide whether artworks, manuscripts and sculptures have cultural importance and ...Show more
Who Poisoned Your Bacon Sandwich? - The Dangerous History of Meat Additives by Guillaume Coudray
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A powerful exploration of the use of carcinogenic nitro-additives in the meat millions of people eat every week.