Axed: Who Killed Australian Magazines? by Phil Barker
$34.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
Axed charts the dramatic decline of the magazine industry in Australia from the million-selling highs of the 1990s to the recent round of mergers, closures and mass-redundancies. What went wrong? Written by former magazine editor Phil Barker, Axed explains how a once thriving and lucrative business that ...Show more
The Simpsons: A Cultural History by Moritz Fink
$46.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
From its crudely drawn vignettes on The Tracey Ullman Show to its nearly 700 episodes, The Simpsons has evolved from an alternative programming experiment to a worldwide cultural phenomenon. At 30 seasons and counting, The Simpsons boasts the distinction as the longest-running fictional primetime series ...Show more
Middle KingdomThe Colonial History of the Highlands of Papua New Guinea by James Sinclair
$89.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
This is an account of the 'discovery', exploration, pacification and development of the Eastern, Western and Southern Highlands, Simbu and Enga Provinces of Papua New Guinea, from their beginnings to independence in September 1975 - the colonial era. New Guinea was the last of the great land masses of ...Show more
Being Numerous - Essays on Non-Fascist Life by Natasha Lennard
$29.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
An urgent challenge to the prevailing moral order from one of the freshest, most compelling voices in radical politics today Being Numerous shatters the mainstream consensus on politics and personhood, offering in its place a bracing analysis of a perilous world and how we should live in it. Beginning ...Show more
A Lasting Conversation: Stories on Ageing by Susan Ogle (Editor); Melanie Joosten (Editor)
$29.95 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
A Lasting Conversation, Stories on Ageing explores many a spec ts o f ageing including resilience and defeat, satisfaction and reg ret, excitement and fear, love, loss and laughter. These stories are written from various perspectives, including older women and men, their daughters and sons, grandchildre ...Show more
The Witches Are Coming: Essays by Lindy West
$29.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
From the very moment powerful men on top started falling to the #MeToo movement, the lamentations have been raging from every corner: this is feminism gone too far, this is injustice, this is a witch hunt. In The Witches Are Coming, firebrand author of the New York Times bestselling memoir and now criti ...Show more
How to Be Online and Also Be Happy by Issy Beech
$19.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: Survive the Modern World Ser.
How to Be Online and Also Be Happy is your playful guide to using the internet in a rewarding, productive and meaningful way. While spending time online can be one of the most fulfilling aspects of our lives, it’s also a source of great discontent, addiction and anxiety. But there’s no reason to belie ...Show more
The Lonely Century - Coming Together in a World that's Pulling Apart by Noreena Hertz
$32.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
A radical call to arms and a bold new vision of how we must act, fast, to reconnect society at individual, government and business level, from a global economist hailed by the Observer as 'one of the world's leading thinkers'. Professor Noreena Hertz has travelled the world to explore the loneliness epi ...Show more
The System: Who Owns the Internet, and How It Owns Us by James Ball
$29.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
The internet is a network of physical cables and connections, a web of wires enmeshing the world, linking huge data centres to one another and eventually to us. All are owned by someone, financed by someone, regulated by someone. We refer to the internet as abstract from reality. By doing so, we obscure ...Show more
Badly Behaved Women Seldom Make History - A Cultural History of Modern Feminism by Anna-Maria Crowhurst
$49.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
Badly Behaved Womenis the illustrated story of the past 100 years of the women's movement, from suffrage, alleged bra burning and the politics of hair to Beyoncé, body positivity and #MeToo. In the early twentieth century, through ceaseless dedication and fearless campaigning, the women's movement achie ...Show more
Griffith Review 72: States of Mind by Hay Ashley
$27.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
Ask yourself this: What state am I in? And how much is it a reaction to the state of the world today?Griffith Review 72: States of Mind examines the ways we think about our psychological, existential and political condition. Anxiety and depression are on the rise in Australia and across the globe. Digit ...Show more
No Stopping Us Now - The Adventures of Older Women in American History by Gail Collins
$26.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
"You're not getting older. You're getting better!" or so promised the famous 1970s ad for women's hair dye. Americans have always had a complicated relationship with aging, and women have been on the front lines of this battle, willingly or not. Celebrating the achievements of heroines from Martha Washi ...Show more