The Tragedy of Heterosexuality by Jane Ward
$52.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought | Series: Sexual Cultures Ser.
A troubling account of heterosexual desire in the era of #MeTooHeterosexuality is in crisis. Reports of sexual harassment, misconduct, and rape saturate the news in the era of #MeToo. Straight men and women spend thousands of dollars every day on relationship coaches, seduction boot camps, and couple's ...Show more
Heaven in Disorder by Slavoj Zizek
$33.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
As we emerge (though perhaps only temporarily) from the pandemic, other crises move center stage: outrageous inequality, climate disaster, desperate refugees, mounting tensions of a new cold war. The abiding motif of our time is relentless chaos. Acknowledging the possibilities for new beginnings at suc ...Show more
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
$30.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
What a rare mushroom can teach us about sustaining life on a fragile planet Matsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world-and a weed that grows in human-disturbed forests across the Northern Hemisphere. Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing's account of these sought-after fungi offers insights into areas far bey ...Show more
Moonshot: Inside Pfizer's Nine-Month Race to Make the Impossible Possible by Albert Bourla
$33.00 AUD
Category: Science
The exclusive, first-hand, behind-the-scenes story of how Pfizer raced to create the first Covid-19 vaccine, told by Pfizer’s CEO Dr. Albert Bourla A riveting, fast-paced, inside look at one of the most incredible private sector achievements in history, Moonshot recounts the intensive nine months in 202 ...Show more
On the Future: Prospects for Humanity by Martin Rees
$23.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
A provocative and inspiring look at the future of humanity and science from world-renowned scientist and bestselling author Martin ReesHumanity has reached a critical moment. Our world is unsettled and rapidly changing, and we face existential risks over the next century. Various outcomes — good and bad ...Show more
Inner and Outer Worlds: Gail Jones' Fiction
$45.00 AUD
Category: On Writing | Series: Sydney Studies in Australian Literature Ser.
Gail Jones is one of Australia’s foremost contemporary novelists. Her books have won or been shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Award, the Miles Franklin Award, the Stella Prize, and numerous state literary awards. They are taught in high schools and universities across the country.This colle ...Show more
The Science of Life and Death in Frankenstein by Sharon Ruston
$50.00 AUD
Category: Science
What is life? This was a question of particular concern for Mary Shelley and her contemporaries. But how did she, and her fellow Romantic writers, incorporate this debate into their work, and how much were they influenced by contemporary science, medicine and personal loss?This book is the first to comp ...Show more
The Power of Podcasting: Telling stories through sound by Siobhán McHugh
$35.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Podcasting is hailed for its intimacy and authenticity in an age of mistrust and disinformation. This portable audio format is hugely popular, with journalists, entertainers, corporates, celebrities, artists, activists and hobbyists all dipping a toe in the podcast pond.But while it is relatively easy t ...Show more
Accidence Will Happen The Non-Pedantic Guide to English Usage by Oliver Kamm
$25.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
Are standards of English alright - or should that be all right? To knowingly split an infinitive or not to? And what about ending a sentence with preposition, or for that matter beginning one with 'and'? We learn language by instinct, but good English, the pedants tell us, requires rules. Yet, as Oliver ...Show more
Animal Vegetable Criminal by Mary Roach
$40.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
What's to be done about a jaywalking moose? A grizzly bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? We've never been good at sharing the planet... In the past, when wild animals 'broke the law', they might be given lawyers and put on trial. But what's the solution now, as we humans increasingly ...Show more
For the Good of the World: Is Global Agreement on Global Challenges Possible? by A. C. Grayling
$35.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Can we human beings agree on a set of values which will allow us to confront the numerous threats that we and our planet face? Or will we continue our disagreements, rivalries and antipathies, even as we collectively approach what, in the not impossible extreme, might be extinction? To answer these que ...Show more
Sexual Revolution: Modern Fascism and the Feminist Fightback by Laurie Penny
$30.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
This is a story about how modern masculinity is killing the world, and how feminism can save it. It’s a story about sex and power and trauma and resistance and persistence. It’s a story about how you can track the crisis of democracy against the crisis of White masculinity, and how the far right is risi ...Show more