Magic Pill: The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks of the New Weight Loss Drugs by Johann Hari
$34.99 AUD
Category: Society & Culture
The bestselling author of Lost Connections and Stolen Focus takes a revelatory look at the new drugs transforming weight loss as we know it sharing his personal experience on Ozempic and examining our ability to heal society's dysfunctional relationship with food, weight and our bodies. In January 2023, ...Show more
Safe Space: My experience of racism in Australia and how I found hope through community by Alyssa Huynh
$34.99 AUD
Category: Society & Culture
A collection of essays and advice about navigating racism in modern Australia, and creating your own safe space, for those who have faced racial discrimination and their allies. I’ve played the role of the quiet and embarrassed Asian girl who shyly laughs along more than I should have in my lifetime. ...Show more
The Way We Are: Lessons from a lifetime of listening by Hugh Mackay
$34.99 AUD
Category: Society & Culture
Australia's leading social psychologist examines our society today and asks timely and urgent questions about its future Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain.Yet none of our differences-whether based on ethnicity, politics, religion,cultural tastes and preferences, or gender ...Show more
Beyond Reasonable Drought: Photographs of a Changing Land and Its People by Don Watson (Forward)
$39.95 AUD
Category: Society & Culture
There has been nothing like it in living memory. Theories about cycles and seasons struggle to explain it. Early this century, as drought gripped the nation, a group of photographers crisscrossed the country, and captured a seismic shift in the way Australians were living their lives. Caught in these ph ...Show more
Death As Told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal by Juan José Millás, Juan Luis Arsuaga
$32.99 AUD
Category: Society & Culture
A dazzling follow-up to Life As Told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal. 'We would love to discover that each species has a biological clock in its cells, because, if that clock existed and if we were able to find it, perhaps we could stop it and thus become eternal,' Arsuaga tells Millás in this book, in wh ...Show more
Bite Back: Feminism, media, politics, and our power to change it all by Hannah Ferguson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Society & Culture
Articulating sharp, progressive perspectives on the social and political issues that matter, Bite Back offers constructive talking points to provoke and inspire meaningful change. The Co-Founder of Cheek Media Co. delivers the conversations we've been missing on everything from diet culture to the futur ...Show more
The Child Snatchers by Jasmin Newman
$17.99 AUD
Category: Society & Culture
Child abduction has impacted everyone from royalty to a-list movie stars. It is estimated that every year at least 500 children will be abducted from Australia, overseas. Many more will be abducted within our shores, making Australia one of the highest ranking parent-child abduction hotspots in the worl ...Show more
Abandon Every Hope: Essays for the Dead by Hayley Singer
$29.99 AUD
Category: Essays
Abandon Every Hope mournfully investigates the literatures of the slaughterhouse and a world motivated by profitable death, to ultimately ask- where does this horror begin and how can it end?;Can anyone smell the suffering of souls? Of sadness, of hell on earth? Hell, I imagine, has a smell that bloats ...Show more
Red Notice by Bill Browder
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
I have to assume that there is a very real chance that Putin or members of his regime will have me killed some day. If I'm killed, you will know who did it. When my enemies read this book, they will know that you know. In November 2009, the young lawyer Sergei Magnitsky was beaten to death by eight poli ...Show more
Dark Emu : Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture by Bruce Pascoe
$27.99 AUD
Category: First Nations Voices | Reading Level: very good
Dark Emu argues for a reconsideration of the 'hunter-gatherer' tag for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians and attempts to rebut the colonial myths that have worked to justify dispossession. Accomplished author Bruce Pascoe provides compelling evidence from the diaries of early explorers that suggests t ...Show more
Connect with Nature by Les Higgins
$26.95 AUD
Category: Society & Culture
If you want a deeper connection with nature, this book is for you. It will help you form a relationship with nature that can improve happiness, well-being and health. At the same time, it will foster in you a desire to take care of the natural environment. You will learn how easy and rewarding it is ...Show more
My Efficient Electric Home Handbook: How To Slash Your Energy Bills, Protect Your Health & Save the Planet by Tim Forcey
$29.99 AUD
Category: Society & Culture
Everything you need to know to transform your home - old, new or rented - for an efficient, comfortable, cheaper electric future. Do you want to ... Make your home healthier and more comfortable in all seasons? Shrink your home's total energy costs? Make your gas bill disappear completely? Reduce your c ...Show more