Your Best Skin: The Science of Skincare by Hannah English
$32.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Society
Your Best Skin is your essential skincare manual, breaking down the science of your skin in a friendly, trustworthy and accessible way. Pharmaceutical scientist and beauty writer Hannah English takes an unbiased, science-backed dive into everything you need to know about caring for your skin, as she d ...Show more
Politics On the Edge: The instant #1 Sunday Times bestseller from the host of hit podcast The Rest Is Politics by Rory Stewart
$36.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Society
A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabinet minister and co-presenter of breakout hit podcast The Rest Is Politics'An instant classic' MARINA HYDE'At last a politician who can write' SEBASTIAN FAULKS'Candid, angry, funny, and self-revelatory' JO ...Show more
Tipping Point by Dinuka McKenzie
$32.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Society | Series: Detective Kate Miles Ser.
A suicide. A shooting. And a reckoning, decades in the making. The must-read new Detective Kate Miles novel from 'a born storyteller' (Michael Robotham). Weeks from Christmas in the sweltering heat of summer, Detective Kate Miles' estranged brother, Luke Grayling, returns home to Esserton to farewell a ...Show more
Warning to the West by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
$14.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Society
'Can one part of humanity learn from the bitter experience of another or can it not? Is it possible or impossible to warn someone of danger...to assess soberly the worldwide menace that threatens to swallow the whole world? I was swallowed myself. I have been in the dragon's belly, in its red-hot innard ...Show more
Media Tarts Revised and Updated Edition by Julia Baird
$34.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Society
Based on a series of extensive interviews - and now revised and updated to reflect current events - Media Tarts provides an in-depth analysis of the influence of a generation of prominent female politicians on the Australian political system and explores the part played by the press in their downfall. ' ...Show more
The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time by Yascha Mounk
$55.00 AUD
Category: Culture & Society
The origins, consequences and limitations of an ideology that has quickly become highly influential around the world. For much of their history, societies have violently oppressed ethnic, religious and sexual minorities. It is no surprise then that many who passionately believe in social justice have co ...Show more
On Wanting to Change by Adam Phillips
$16.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Society
From the UK's foremost literary psychoanalyst, a dazzling new book on the universal urge to change our lives.We live in a world in which we are invited to change - to become our best selves, through politics, or fitness, or diet, or therapy.We change all the time - growing older and older - and how we t ...Show more
Pure Flame: On Mothers and Daughters by Michelle Orange
$29.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Society
'Rich and moving' New York Times'A book that expands and breaks your heart' Adelle WaldmanA revelatory enquiry into selfhood, freedom, mortality, storytelling, and what it means to be a mother's daughterDuring one of the texting sessions that became our habit over the period I now think of as both late ...Show more
Books that Made Us: The companion to the ABC TV series by Carl Reinecke
$34.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Society
A cultural history of Australia told through our fiction. Australia's novels lie at the heart of the country. Capturing everyday lives and exceptional dreams, they have held up a mirror to the nation, reflecting the good and the bad. In this companion book to the ABC TV series, Carl Reinecke looks at th ...Show more
You Just Need to Lose Weight: And 19 Other Myths About Fat People by Aubrey Gordon
$27.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Society | Series: Myths Made in America Ser.
The pushback that shows up in conversations about fat justice takes exceedingly predicable form: Losing weight is easy, calories in, calories out. Fat people are unhealthy. We're in the midst of an obesity epidemic. Fat acceptance glorifies obesity. The BMI is an objective measure of size and health. Ye ...Show more
Our Only Home by Dalai Lama XIV
$29.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Society
Saving the environment is our collective duty. With each passing day, climate change is causing Pacific islands to disappear into the sea, accelerating the extinction of species at alarming proportions and aggravating a water shortage that has affected the entire European continent. In short, climate ch ...Show more
Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein
$19.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Society
The instant Sunday Times Top Ten and New York Times bestseller 'I loved Range' - Malcolm Gladwell 'Urgent and important. . . an essential read for bosses, parents, coaches, and anyone who cares about improving performance.' - Daniel H. Pink 'So much crucial and revelatory information about performanc ...Show more