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Brutal Truths Surviving in a World of Lies, Taboos and Bullsh#t by Simon Hammond
$29.99 AUD
Category: Society & Culture
After three internationally acclaimed books, Simon unleashes the 'Brutal Truths' about the way society has changed globally.Beyond COVID-19, society is facing a much bigger threat in 2021, accentuated by the pandemic, but evolving through 20 years of 'borrowed beliefs';We are a civilisation in decay thr ...Show more
Queen Bees: Six Brilliant and Extraordinary Society Hostesses Between the Wars - A Spectacle of Celebrity, Talent, and Burning Ambition by Sian Evans
$22.99 AUD
Category: Society & Culture
Queen Bees looks at the lives of six remarkable women who made careers out of being society hostesses, including Lady Astor, who went on to become the first female MP, and Mrs Greville, who cultivated relationships with Edward VII, as well as Lady Londonderry, Lady Cunard, Laura Corrigan and Lady Colefa ...Show more
The Global Sexual Revolution - Destruction of Freedom in the Name of Freedom by Gabriele Kuby; Robert Spaemann (Foreword by); James Patrick Kirchner (Translator)
$49.95 AUD
Category: Society & Culture
The core of the global cultural revolution is the deliberate confusion of sexual norms. It is the culmination of a metaphysical revolution as well--a shifting of the fundamental ground upon which we stand and build a culture, even a civilization. Instead of desire being subjected to natural, social, mor ...Show more
Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present by Yanis Varoufakis
$29.99 AUD
Category: Society & Culture
What would a fair and equal society look like? Imagine it is now 2025 and that years earlier, in the wake of the world financial crisis of 2008, a new post-Capitalist society had been born. In this ingenious book, world-famous economist Yanis Varoufakis draws on the greatest thinkers in European cultur ...Show more
Growing up Queer in Australia by Benjamin Law
$29.99 AUD
Category: Society & Culture
No amount of YouTube videos and queer think pieces prepared me for this moment.’ ‘The mantle of “queer migrant” compelled me to keep going – to go further.’ ‘I never “came out” to my parents. I felt I owed them no explanation.’ ‘All I heard from the pulpit were grim hints.’ ‘I became acutely aware of th ...Show more
Outraged: Why Everyone Is Shouting and No One Is Talking by Ashley 'Dotty' Charles
$29.99 AUD
Category: Society & Culture
Presenter and DJ Ashley Dotty Charles explores our age of outrage, and how it's debasing civil discourse.'Funny, nuanced and wonderful' Jon Ronson We're living in a post-modern utopia of sorts, where thanks to our resolute predecessors, we've checked a bunch of items off our outrage shopping list. Slav ...Show more
The First Stone: 25th Anniversary Edition by Helen Garner
$32.99 AUD
Category: Society & Culture
In the autumn of 1992, two young women students at Melbourne University went to the police claiming that they had been indecently assaulted at a party. The man they accused was the head of their co-ed residential college. The First Stone has been reviled and revered. At the time of publication, its auth ...Show more
'I Still Find That Offensive!' by Claire Fox
$19.99 AUD
Category: Society & Culture | Series: Provocations Ser.
How did we become so thin-skinned? In this new and updated edition of her acclaimed polemic I Find That Offensive Claire Fox addresses head on the possible causes of what is fast becoming known as 'Generation Snowflake' in a rallying cry to toughen up, become more robust and make a virtue of the right ...Show more
The Spirit Level : Why Equality is Better for Everyone by Richard Wilkinson; Kate Pickett
$24.99 AUD
Category: Society & Culture
Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett's The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone is the most influential and talked-about book on society in the last decade - now updated with a new chapter on the controversy the book has ignited. Why do we mistrust people more in the UK than in Japan? Why do ...Show more
Women, Men and the Whole Damn Thing ***RECALL 6/9/19 by David Leser
$29.99 AUD
Category: Society & Culture | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
One of the most talked-about and widely praised articles of 2018, expanded into the water-cooler book of the #MeToo era. 'How to find the right words to frame this horror? How to understand why men do what they do to women? How to comprehend this malign force that seems to seep from the male psyche and ...Show more
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