Know Your Rights: And Claim Them by Angelina Jolie, Geraldine Van Bueren
$18.99 AUD
Category: Social History
'We can stand up for our rights once we understand them. This book is a guide for every child and young person who believes in liberty, equality and a better world for all' Malala Yousafzai Jointly written by Angelina Jolie and Amnesty International with Geraldine Van Bueren QC. If you are aged under 18 ...Show more
Made in Sweden: 25 Ideas That Created a Country by Elisabeth Asbrink
$29.99 AUD
Category: Social History
In recent times, we have come to favour all things Scandi - their food, furnishings, fiction, fashion, and general way of life. We seem to regard the Swedes and their Scandinavian neighbours as altogether more sophisticated, admirable, and evolved than us. We have all aspired to be Swedish, to live in t ...Show more
Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein
$19.99 AUD
Category: Social History
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
Rebellious Daughters by Maria Katsonis & Lee Kofman (edited by)
$32.99 AUD
Category: Social History
Good daughters hold their tongues, obey their elders and let their families determine their destiny. Rebellious daughters are just the opposite. In Rebellious Daughters, some of Australia's most talented female writers share intimate and touching stories of rebellion and independence as they defy the ex ...Show more
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Patterns of Life) by Yuval Noah Harari
$24.99 AUD
Category: Social History | Series: Patterns of Life | Reading Level: very good
Yuval Noah Harari's bestselling phenomenon now in a beautifully packaged new special edition. Planet Earth is 4.5 billion years old. In just a fraction of that time, one species among countless others has conquered it. Us. We are the most advanced and most destructive animals ever to have lived. What ma ...Show more
Signs Taken for Wonders - Essays in the Sociology of Literary Forms by Franco Moretti; Susan Fischer (Translator); David Forgacs (Translator); David Miller (Translator)
$15.99 AUD
Category: Social History
Shakespearean tragedy and Dracula, Sherlock Holmes and Ulysses, Frankenstei and The Waste Land--all are celebrated "wonders" of modern literature, whether in its mandarin or popular form. However, it is the fact that these texts are so central to our contemporary notion of literature that sometimes hind ...Show more
The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka by Clare Wright
$34.99 AUD
Category: Social History | Series: Democracy Trilogy Ser.
Winner of the Stella Prize, 2014. The Eureka Stockade. It's one of Australia's foundation legends yet the story has always been told as if half the participants weren't there. But what if the hot-tempered, free-spirited gold miners we learned about at school were actually husbands and fathers, brothers ...Show more
The Illustrated Histories of Everyday Inventions - Discover the True Stories Behind the World's 64 Most Overlooked Objects by Laura Hetherington; Rebecca Pryce (Illustrator)
$26.99 AUD
Category: Social History | Series: Illustrated Histories Ser.
The Illustrated Histories of Everyday Inventions uncovers the fascinating, humorous, and often unbelievable origins behind the world's most overlooked innovations!Nobody knows the backstories behind our most taken-for-granted inventions, like credit cards, egg cartons, windshield wipers, and breakfast s ...Show more
The Medicine - A Doctor's Notes by Karen Hitchcock
$32.99 AUD
Category: Social History | Reading Level: near fine
What happens when a doctor kills a patient? Are GPs overprescribing antidepressants? Does 'female Viagra' work? What role can psychedelics and cannabis play in treating pain? What is sickness, and how much of it is in our heads? In The Medicine, Dr Karen Hitchcock takes us to the frontlines of everyday ...Show more
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women and Queer Radicals by Saidiya Hartman
$24.99 AUD
Category: Social History
Revolution in a minor key: how young black women invented freedom. WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE 2020 At the dawn of the twentieth century, black women in the US were carving out new ways of living. The first generations born after emancipati ...Show more
Where We Swim by Ingrid Horrocks
$32.99 AUD
Category: Social History
As Ingrid Horrocks takes swims in rivers, oceans and pools around the world, she considers her relationship with water and with the world around her. The question didn't seem to be so much why we swim, as where and how we swim, and with whom. Also, where we fail to swim, water threatening to flood our ...Show more