big beautiful female theory (Shortlisted for the 2023 Stella Prize) by Eloise Grills
35.00 AUD
Category: Sociology
big beautiful female theory is an anarchic and vital memoir unlike anything you've read before. Part feminist manifesto, part comic book, it is a carnivalesque exploration of the ways identity is formed through culture, relationships and the weight of society's expectations. With breathtaking honesty an ...Show more
Crossing the Line: The explosive inside story behind the Ben Roberts-Smith headlines by Nick McKenzie
34.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
An explosive expose and testament to the power of investigative journalism. In mid-2017, whispers from Australia's most secretive and elite military unit reached Walkley Award-winning journalist Nick McKenzie. McKenzie and veteran reporter Chris Masters began an investigation that would not only reveal ...Show more
Puff Piece by John Safran
34.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
Wild, hilarious and thought-provoking, Puff Piece is a probing look into Big Tobacco and the vaping industry, and how words can be literally a matter of life and death. The folks that bring you Marlboro - Philip Morris - are wheezing, slowly dying. Cigarettes are out of favour with everyone, from world ...Show more
Fight Like A Girl by Clementine Ford
22.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
Personal and fearless - a call to arms for feminists new, old and as yet unrealised by one of our most outspoken feminist writers.
POWER: A woman's guide to living and leading without apology by Kemi Nekvapil
34.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
Shift your thinking about what power is and who gets to have it, and live life fully and without apology. Kemi Nekvapil knows the feelings of fear, vulnerability and powerlessness. Growing up in foster care, many times she had the doors to validation and opportunity closed to her because of her race an ...Show more
Fake: A startling true story of love in a world of liars, cheats, narcissists, fantasists and phonies by Stephanie Wood
22.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
Women the world over are brought up to hope, even expect, to find the man of their dreams and live happily ever after. When Stephanie Wood meets a former architect turned farmer she embarks on an exhilarating romance with him. He seems compassionate, loving, truthful. They talk about the future. She fal ...Show more
The Great Divide: Australia's Housing Mess and How to Fix It; Quarterly Essay 92 by Alan Kohler
27.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
What caused Australia's housing crisis - and how we might fix it One of the great mysteries of Australian life is that a land of sweeping plains, with one of the lowest population densities on the planet, has a shortage of land for houses. As a result, Sydney's median house price is the second most exp ...Show more
Upturn: A Better Normal after COVID-19 by Tanya Plibersek (Editor)
32.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
If you had asked most people a year ago, they would have told you there was no way that school children could shift overnight to online learning; that it was impossible for banks to offer mortgage holidays; impossible to double unemployment benefits; impossible to house rough sleepers or put a hold on e ...Show more
The Hype Machine: How Social Media Disrupts Our Elections, Our Economy and Our Health - and How We Must Adapt by Sinan Aral
9.99 AUD
34.99 (71% off)
Category: Sociology
In this brilliant smart-thinking book about the power and influence of social media, Professor Sinan Aral shows how ‘hyper-socialization' has profoundly changed us. Why does fake news spread faster than the truth? Do products and ideas become popular because they are good or because they are rated high ...Show more
The Soul of a Woman by Isabel Allende
22.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
The wise, warm, defiant new book from literary legend Isabel Allende – a meditation on power, feminism and what it means to be a woman. When I say that I was a feminist in kindergarten, I am not exaggerating. As a child, Isabel Allende watched her mother, abandoned by her husband, provide for her three ...Show more
The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity by Douglas Murray
22.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA Times and Sunday Times Book of the YearIn his devastating new book The Madness of Crowds, Douglas Murray examines the twenty-first century's most divisive issues - sexuality, gender, technology and race. He reveals the astonishing new culture wars playing out in our workplac ...Show more
Who Gets to Be Smart: Privilege, Power and Knowledge by Bri Lee
32.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
In 2018 Bri Lee's brilliant young friend Damian is named a Rhodes Scholar, an apex of academic achievement. When she goes to visit him and takes a tour of Oxford and Rhodes House, she begins questioning her belief in a system she has previously revered, as she learns the truth behind what Virginia Woolf ...Show more