Sex: Two Billion Years of Procreation and Recreation by David Baker
$34.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
The big history of sex from early life to sexbots How did sex begin? How did it evolve to be so varied and complex in humans? What influence does our genetic ancestry have on our love life today? And what might sex look like in the future? Sex traces where all the facets of human sexuality came from, ...Show more
How the World Works by Noam Chomsky
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
The essential introduction to Chomsky's political ideasWith exceptional clarity and power of argument, Noam Chomsky lays bare as no one else can the realities of contemporary geopolitics. Divided into four sections and originally published in the US as individual short books which have collectively sold ...Show more
Body Count: How Climate Change is Killing Us by Paddy Manning
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
'Our house is on fire,' 16-year-old Swedish school strike activist Greta Thunberg told world leaders in 2019. Across an angry year of weather, Australians watched it in real-time: record heatwaves and worsening drought, unprecedented fish kills in the Murray-Darling Basin and devastating wildfires acros ...Show more
Traitors and Spies by John Fahey
$34.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
The history of Australia's intelligence operations in the early 20th century reveals the dark underside of Australian politics, including early infiltration by Russian agents, persecution of innocent civilians, and corruption, right up to the prime minister's office. Dozens of Russian anarchists, social ...Show more
The Climate Book by Greta Thunberg
$55.00 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
It seems like an impossible task - secure a safe future for life on Earth, at a scale and speed that the world has never seen, in the face of vast and powerful forces -not just oil tycoons and governments, but the changing climate system itself. The odds are against us, and we are running out of time. B ...Show more
The Case Against Fragrance by Kate Grenville
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
Kate Grenville had always associated perfume with elegance and beauty. Then the headaches started. Like perhaps a quarter of the population, Grenville reacts badly to the artificial fragrances around us: other people's perfumes, and all those scented cosmetics, cleaning products and air fresheners. On a ...Show more
The Cost of Labour: How we are all trapped by the politics of pregnancy and parenting by Natalie Kon-Yu
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
Natalie Kon-yu was nine weeks pregnant when the trembling began. Two weeks later she checked herself into a mental health unit. Rather than a woman with a health concern, the GPs, nurses and psychiatrists saw Natalie as a vessel carrying precious cargo. The loss of agency carried on through her pregnanc ...Show more
Politics - Why It Matters by Andrew Gamble
$20.95 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction | Series: Companions to Linguistics Series (CLNZ) Ser.
People so often focus on the negative aspects of politics, like greed and corruption, but without politics we would be lost. It frames everything we do, and it has the power to bring about real and positive change. Politics, Andrew Gamble reminds us, defeated slavery and secured equal rights for women ...Show more
White Tears/Brown Scars by Ruby Hamad
$34.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction | Series: Social & Cultural history
When white people cry foul it is often people of colour who suffer. White tears have a potency that silences racial minorities. White Tears/Brown Scarsblows open the inconvenient truth that when it comes to race, white entitlement is too often masked by victimhood. Never is this more obvious than the de ...Show more
The Arbornaut by Meg LOWMAN
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
Nicknamed the 'Real-Life Lorax' by National Geographic, the botanist and conservationist Meg Lowman takes us on an adventure into the eighth continent of the world's treetops, along her journey as a scientist, and into climate action. One of the world's first tree-top scientists, Meg Lowman is as innov ...Show more
QAnon and On: A Short and Shocking History of Internet Conspiracy Cults by Van Badham
$36.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
In QAnon and On, Guardian columnist Van Badham delves headfirst into the QAnon conspiracy theory, unpicking the why, how and who behind this century’s most dangerous and far-fetched internet cult. From Gamergate to Pizzagate and beyond to QAnon, internet manipulation and disinformation campaigns have ...Show more
Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism by Mariana Mazzucato
$22.99 AUD
Category: General Non Fiction
Longlisted for the 2021 Porchlight Business Book Awards, Big Ideas & New Perspectives "She offers something both broad and scarce: a compelling new story about how to create a desirable future."--New York Times An award-winning author and leading international economist delivers a hard-hitting and ...Show more