The Wellness Trap: Break Free from Diet Culture, Disinformation, and Dubious Diagnoses and Find Your True Well-Being by Christy Harrison
$34.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
From the paradigm-shifting author of Anti-Diet comes a deep dive into the underbelly of modern wellness culture and how it stands in the way of true well-being. "It's not a diet, it's a lifestyle." You've probably heard this phrase from any number of people in the wellness space. But as Christy Harrison ...Show more
Women Without Kids by Ruby Warrington
$32.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
What is "woman" if not "mother"?Anything she wants to be.Foregoing motherhood has traditionally marked a woman as "other." With no official place setting for her in our society, she has hovered on the sidelines: the quirky girl, the neurotic career obsessive, the "eccentric" aunt. Instead of continuing ...Show more
Stories from the Streets by MITCHELL. THERESA
$28.95 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
Have you ever stopped to really consider what it's like to be homeless in Australia? Homelessness does not discriminate; no-one is immune - all people, from all walks of life, including families, children and the elderly, are at risk. In fact, statistics show we are all just one major trauma away from b ...Show more
Good Data: An Optimist's Guide to Our Digital Future by Sam Gilbert
$29.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
Digital technology is now so pervasive that it's very hard to escape its influence, and with that growth comes fear. But whatever the news has told you about data and technology, think again. Data expert and tech insider Sam Gilbert shows that, actually, this data revolution could be the best thing tha ...Show more
Always On by Rory Cellan-Jones
$29.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
We live at a time when billions have access to unbelievably powerful technology. The most extraordinary tool that has been invented in the last century, the smartphone, is forcing radical changes in the way we live and work - and unlike previous technologies it is in the hands of just about everyone. Co ...Show more
The Power of Us: Harnessing Our Shared Identities to Improve Performance, Increase Cooperation, and Promote Social Harmony by Jay Van Bavel, Dominic Packer
$32.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
If you're like most people, you probably believe that your identity is stable. But in fact, your identity is constantly changing - often outside your conscious awareness and sometimes even against your wishes - to reflect the interests of the groups of which you're a part. And that fluid identity has a ...Show more
Waiting for Gonski: How Australia failed its schools by Tom Greenwell, Chris Bonnor
$39.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
Why is education in Australia failing?Where did we go wrong, and how do we fix it?The Gonski Review appeared to represent a breakthrough. Commissioned by Prime Minster Julia Gillard and chaired by leading businessman David Gonski, the 2010 review made clear that school education policy wasn’t working, a ...Show more
No One is Too Small to Make a Difference by Greta Thunberg
$7.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
'Everything needs to change. And it has to start today.'In August 2018 a fifteen-year-old Swedish girl, Greta Thunberg, decided not to go to school one day. Her actions ended up sparking a global movement for action against the climate crisis, inspiring millions of pupils to go on strike for our planet, ...Show more
Channel Kindness: Stories of Kindness and Community by Born This Way Foundation Reporters with Lady Gaga
$39.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: Lady Gaga
Channel Kindness is a collection of fifty-one stories of kindness, bravery, and resilience from young people all over the world collected by the Born This Way Foundation and introduced by Lady Gaga. For Lady Gaga, kindness is the driving force behind everything she says and does. The quiet power of kind ...Show more
How We Became Human by Tim Dean
$34.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
Over thousands of years, humans have developed mechanisms to help us live together in ever-larger social groups. We developed a set of 'moral emotions' such as empathy, guilt and outrage, as well as a tendency to favour people in our in-groups and a propensity to punish perceived wrongdoers. Our cultur ...Show more
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism by Robin DiAngelo
$22.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
Anger. Fear. Guilt. Denial. Silence. These are the ways in which ordinary white people react when it is pointed out to them that they have done or said something that has - unintentionally - caused racial offence or hurt. After, all, a racist is the worst thing a person can be, right? But these reaction ...Show more
Media Unmade: Australian Media's Most Disruptive Decade by Tim Burrowes
$34.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
Media Unmade presents the definitive story of the decade in which big media in Australia was cut down to size - a decade that forever altered what had until then been perceived as the unbreachable foundations of the industry in this country. Drawing on insights from his ringside seat, independent journa ...Show more