A Message from Ukraine by Volodymyr Zelensky
$19.99 AUD
Category: Politics
The words of a man. The message of a people. Bringing together a new introduction by Volodymyr Zelensky with his most powerful war speeches, this book recounts Ukraine's war through the words of its president. It is the story of a people valiantly defending themselves from Russian aggression. And it is ...Show more
All About Love by Bell Hooks
$24.99 AUD
Category: Culture Studies | Series: Love Song to the Nation
THE ACCLAIMED FIRST VOLUME IN HER "LOVE SONG TO THE NATION" "The word 'love' is most often defined as a noun, yet . . . we would all love better if we used it as a verb," writes bell hooks as she comes out fighting and on fire in All About Love. Here, at her most provocative and intensely personal, the ...Show more
All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess by Becca Rothfeld
$32.99 AUD
Category: Essays
What is the relationship between Marie Kondo and many modern novels? Why do we get addicted to stories - particularly when they're about serial killers? Seven years after #metoo, how can we have the sex we really want? Is it ok to think Troll 2 is a good film? In All Things Are Too Small, virtuoso ...Show more
Blood on the Snow: The Russian Revolution 1914-1924 by Robert Service
$65.00 AUD
Category: History
'A terrific book about a terrifying subject by the best historian of Russia working today' - Michael Burleigh In Blood on the Snow, Robert Service returns to the subject that has formed the backbone of his long and distinguished career: the Russian Revolution. For Service, the great unanswered questio ...Show more
Dark Brilliance: The Age of Reason from Descartes to Peter the Great by Paul Strathern
$36.99 AUD
Category: History
Between the end of the Renaissance and the start of the Enlightenment, Europe lived through an era known as the Age of Reason. This was a period which saw advances in areas such as art, science, philosophy, political theory and economics. However, all this was achieved against a background of extreme ...Show more
Dharawal: the first contact people - 250 years of black and white relations by Bruce Watt
$40.00 AUD
Category: History
Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
The renowned Israeli historian revisits the formative period of the State of Israel. Between 1947 and 1949, over 400 Palestinian villages were deliberately destroyed, civilians were massacred, and around a million men, women, and children were expelled from their homes at gunpoint. Denied for almost six ...Show more
Finding Endurance: Shackleton, My Father and a World Without End by Darrel Bristow-Bovey
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
'Beautiful, thrilling, heroic and kind, a ripping yarn' - CLAIRE ROBERTSON, AUTHOR OF THE SPIRAL HOUSE 'Tender, heartfelt and lyrical' - PETINA GAPPAH, AUTHOR OF OUT OF DARKNESS, SHINING LIGHT Since the discovery of the wreck of Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance on the bed of the Antarctic ocean, the ...Show more
Gallipoli and the Dardanelles 1915-1916 by JOHN GREHAN
$44.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Despatches from the Front Ser.
The fighting in the Gallipoli or Dardanelles campaign began in 1915 as a purely naval affair undertaken partly at the instigation of Winston Churchill, who, as First Lord of the Admiralty, had entertained plans of capturing the Dardanelles as early as September 1914. It was the Royal Navy that bore the ...Show more
Humanly Possible: The great humanist experiment in living by Sarah Bakewell
$24.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
The bestselling, prizewinning author of How to Live and At the Existentialist Café explores the great tradition of humanist writers, thinkers, scientists and artists, all trying to understand what it means to be truly human.*** THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER *** A BARACK OBAMA BOOK OF THE YEAR ***'I can' ...Show more
It's OK To Be Angry About Capitalism by Bernie Sanders
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics
A takedown of the status quo that has enriched a few billionaires at the expense of the rest of us - and a blueprint for real change It's OK to be angry about capitalism. It's OK to want something better. Bernie Sanders takes on the 1% and speaks blunt truths about a system that is rigged against ordina ...Show more
Kintsugi by Marie O'Rourke
$29.99 AUD
Category: Essays
These essays are a poignant reminder that some things cannot be fixed but can still hold immense beauty and meaning. All her life, Marie O'Rourke has been a Good Girl, a perfectionist, using words to apply golden seams to an imperfect life in an attempt to make something beautiful out of things that are ...Show more