Intimations - Six Essays by Zadie Smith
$12.99 AUD
Category: Cultural Studies
Deeply personal and powerfully moving, a short and timely series of essays on the experience of lockdown, by one of the most clear-sighted and essential writers of our time From the critically acclaimed author of Feel Free, Swing Time, White Teeth and many more 'There will be many books written about th ...Show more
Machines Behaving Badly : The Morality of AI by Toby Walsh
$34.99 AUD
Category: Technology and Future Studies
Can we build moral machines? Toby Walsh, AI expert, examines the ethical issues we face in a future dominated by artificial intelligence.Artificial intelligence is an essential part of our lives - for better or worse. It can be used to influence what we buy, who gets shortlisted for a job and even how w ...Show more
My Father and Other Animals: How I Took on the Family Farm by Sam Vincent
$29.99 AUD
Category: Climate
Sam Vincent is a twenty-something writer living in the inner suburbs, scrabbling to make ends meet, when he gets a call from his mother- his father has stuck his hand in a woodchipper, but 'not to worry - it wasn't like that scene in Fargo or anything'. When Sam returns to the family farm to help out, h ...Show more
Nickel and Dimed: Undercover in Low-Wage America by Barbara Ehrenreich
$22.99 AUD
Category: Cultural Studies
A contemporary classic that has changed the way we see America.
Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women by Geraldine Brooks
$22.99 AUD
Category: Politics
" Frank, enraging and captivating. The New Yorker Australian writer Geraldine Brooks is now known internationally for her bestselling novels, but as a foreign correspondent Geraldine spent six years covering the Middle East. And when her poised and sophisticated assistant at the Cairo bureau of the Wall ...Show more
Nomad Century by Gaia Vince
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics
We are facing a species emergency. With every degree of temperature rise, a billion people will be displaced from the zone in which humans have lived for thousands of years. From Bangladesh to Sudan to the western United States, and in cities from Cardiff to New Orleans to Shanghai, the quadruple threat ...Show more
Notes on Camp by Susan Sontag
$2.50 AUD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Penguin Modern
The ultimate Camp statement - 'it's good because it's awful'. These two classic essays were the first works of criticism to break down the boundaries between 'high' and 'low' culture, and made Susan Sontag a literary sensation.
On Anarchism by Noam Chomsky
$14.99 AUD
Category: Politics
On Anarchism is an essential introduction to the Noam Chomsky's political theory. On Anarchism sheds a much needed light on the foundations of Chomsky's thought, specifically his constant questioning of the legitimacy of entrenched power. The book gathers his essays and interviews to provide a short, ac ...Show more
On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life by AHMED SARA
$51.99 AUD
Category: Race
What does diversity do? What are we doing when we use the language of diversity? Sara Ahmed offers an account of the diversity world based on interviews with diversity practitioners in higher education, as well as her own experience of doing diversity work. Diversity is an ordinary, even unremarkable, f ...Show more
On Reckoning by Amy Remeikis
$16.99 AUD
Category: #Auspol | Series: On Ser.
What happens when the usual political tactics of deflect and dodge are no longer enough? A reckoning. The Guardian's political reporter Amy Remeikis has spoken before about being a survivor of sexual assault, but Brittany Higgins going public with her story ripped the curtain back not just on political ...Show more
Our Sunburnt Country by Anika Molesworth
$34.99 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
Anika Molesworth fell in love with her family's farm, a sheep station near Broken Hill, at an early age. She formed a bond with the land as though it were a member of her family. When the Millennium Drought hit, though, bringing with it extreme heat and dust storms, the future she'd always imagined for ...Show more
Our Voices From The Heart by Patricia Anderson AO, Professor Megan Davis
$39.99 AUD
Category: #Auspol
A behind-the-scenes book about the Uluru Statement From The Heart, from the co-chairs of the Uluru Dialogue, Professor Megan Davis and Patricia Anderson, AO. The Australian story began long before the arrival of the First Fleet.We Australians all know this. We have always known this.Australia finds itse ...Show more