Our Bodies, Their Battlefield - What War Does to Women by Christina Lamb
$34.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought | Reading Level: very good
‘A wake-up call … These women’s stories will make you weep, and then rage at the world's indifference.’ Amal Clooney From award-winning war reporter and co-author of I Am Malala, this is the first major account to address the scale of rape and sexual violence in modern conflict. Christina Lamb has worke ...Show more
Notes to Self by Emilie Pine
$22.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
The extraordinary #1 bestseller - a word-of-mouth literary phenomenon 'I am afraid of being the disruptive woman. And of not being disruptive enough. I am afraid. But I am doing it anyway.' In this dazzling debut, Emilie Pine speaks to the business of living as a woman in the 21st century - its extr ...Show more
Sex and Lies by Leila Slimani
$27.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought | Reading Level: very good
The first work of non-fiction in English from the prize-winning and internationally bestselling author of Lullaby and Adèle In these essays, Leila Slimani gives voice to young Moroccan women who are grappling with a conservative Arab culture that at once condemns and commodifies sex. In a country where ...Show more
I Want You To Know We're Still Here - My family, the holocaust and my search for truth by Esther Safran Foer
$32.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought | Reading Level: very good
A moving and powerful inter-generational memoir about story and memory. Mine is a family of readers and writers. Our house is filled with books. There are contemporary design books on the coffee table in the living room, legal books in my husband's home office, and piles of children's books for when my ...Show more
Testing 3,2,1: What Australian Education Can Learn from Finland: a Teachers Perspective by Michael Lawrence
$27.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
"Finnish teachers looked at me as if I was a child molester when I described the NAPLAN tests given to children as young as eight. When they suggested that the results of these tests would lead to increased funding and assistance for those students and schools that did not do well, it was difficult to e ...Show more
Acting with Power: Why We Are More Powerful Than We Believe by Deborah Gruenfeld
$29.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
A bold and eye-opening exploration of the true nature of power; using techniques borrowed from actors, we can all learn to wield power more confidently in our personal and professional lives.
Burn It Down! - Feminist Manifestos for the Revolution by Breanne Fahs
$39.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
In this landmark collection spanning three centuries and four waves of feminist activism and writing, Burn It Down! is a testament to what is possible when women are driven to the edge. The manifesto raging and wanting, quarreling and provocative has always been central to feminism, and it's the angry, ...Show more
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
$35.00 AUD
Category: Social Thought
Not being racist is not enough. We have to be antiracist. In this rousing and deeply empathetic book, Ibram X. Kendi, founding director of the Antiracism Research and Policy Center, shows that when it comes to racism, neutrality is not an option: until we become part of the solution, we can only be par ...Show more
The Inner Self: The joy of discovering who we really are by Hugh Mackay
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Category: Social Thought
'How can I get in touch with this real self, underlying all my surface behaviour? How can I become myself?' Carl Rogers, US psychotherapist The Inner Self is a book about the ways we hide from the truth about ourselves - both as individuals and as human beings - and the psychological freedom we enjoy wh ...Show more
Caste: The Lies That Divide us by Isabel Wilkerson
$35.00 AUD
Category: Social Thought
'The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power - which groups have it and which do not' Beyond race or class, our lives are defined by a powerful, unspoken system of divisions. In Caste, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson gives an astounding portrait of this hid ...Show more
Black and White Thinking - When Grey Matter and Grey Matters Collide by Kevin Dutton
$35.00 AUD
Category: Social Thought
'Essential insights into the character of human choice and decision-making. You'll not think about thinking the same way afterwards.' Robert Cialdini, author of Influence and Pre-suasion_______________ It is human instinct to sort and categorize. We are hardwired to discriminate and frame everything in ...Show more
Masculinity and the Ruling of the World by Denise Thompson
$40.00 AUD
Category: Social Thought
Masculinity and the Ruling of the World argues that there is a world-wide culture of masculinity that breeds arrogant dissociated men who are the prime culprits in the depredations that have brought humanity to its present grievous condition. The argument is that male domination not only oppresses women ...Show more