Storytellers: Questions, Answers and the Craft of Journalism by Leigh Sales
36.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
Leigh Sales is one of Australia's most accomplished journalists, having anchored the ABC's flagship 7.30 program for twelve years. She has been a foreign correspondent, hosted Lateline and anchored numerous elections for the ABC. In this book, she turns her interviewing skills onto her own profession, ...Show more
You're Doing it Wrong: A History of Bad & Bonkers Advice to Women by Kaz Cooke
34.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
A fresh, funny and furious look at the terrible advice women have been told for centuries. Stroll with bestselling author Kaz Cooke through instructions on how to day-drink, wear a dress made of arsenic, pretend you're an idiot, have sex with a billionaire biker, curtsey, get properly harassed at work, ...Show more
Innovation: Knowledge and Ingenuity (First Knowledges) by Ian J McNiven, Lynette Russell
24.99 AUD
Category: Australian History | Series: First Knowledges Ser.
'Deeply insightful, sensitive and passionate. An inspiring, meticulous picture of the innovations that have made us the world's oldest living culture.' - Larissa Behrendt 'Another fascinating volume in this landmark Australian publishing series.' - Richard Flanagan What do you need to know to prosper as ...Show more
Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture by Bruce Pascoe
27.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
Dark Emu argues for a reconsideration of the 'hunter-gatherer' tag for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians and attempts to rebut the colonial myths that have worked to justify dispossession. Accomplished author Bruce Pascoe provides compelling evidence from the diaries of early explorers that suggests t ...Show more
The Little Book of World Mythology: A Pocket Guide to Myths and Legends by Hannah Bowstead
17.99 AUD
Category: History
This pocket guide offers readers an engaging and accessible introduction to the major world mythologies, exploring their origins, foundational stories and key mythological figures.Step into a world of gods, heroes and monsters Throughout history, mythologies have been fundamental to societies and cultur ...Show more
Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement by Tarana Burke
14.99 AUD
32.99 (54% off)
Category: Sociology
From the founder and activist behind one of the largest movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the me too movement, Tarana Burke debuts a powerful memoir about her own journey to saying those two simple yet infinitely powerful words and how she brought empathy back to an entire generatio ...Show more
Unruly: A History of England's Kings and Queens by David Mitchell
36.99 AUD
Category: History
A seriously FUNNY, seriously CLEVER history of our early kings and queens by one of our favourite comedians and cultural commentators This will be the most refreshing, entertaining history of England you'll have ever read. Certainly, the funniest. Because David Mitchell will explain how it is not all n ...Show more
Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia by Anita Heiss
29.99 AUD
Category: Australian History | Series: Growing Up
Childhood stories of family, country and belonging What is it like to grow up Aboriginal in Australia? This anthology, compiled by award-winning author Anita Heiss, showcases many diverse voices, experiences and stories in order to answer that question. Accounts from well-known authors and high-profile ...Show more
Heroes: The myths of the Ancient Greek heroes retold by Stephen Fry
22.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Stephen Fry's Greek Myths
Mortals and Monsters. Quests and Adventures . . . There are Heroes - and then there are Greek Heroes. Few mere mortals have ever embarked on such bold and heart-stirring adventures, overcome myriad monstrous perils, or outwitted scheming vengeful gods, quite as stylishly and triumphantly as Greek heroes ...Show more
Making Australian History by Anna Clark
34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
Australian history has been revised and reinterpreted by successive generations of historians, writers, governments and public commentators, yet there has been no account of the ways it has changed, who makes history, and how. Making Australian History responds to this critical gap in Australian histori ...Show more
Black Summer: Stories of loss, courage and community from the 2019-2020 bushfires by Rowland Michael
34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History
Told by ABC journalists who were on the ground and broadcasting during our worst ever fire season, spearheaded by Michael Rowland The bushfires that burnt across Australia from June 2019 to February
Memento Mori - What the Romans Can Tell Us about Old Age and Death by Peter Jones
24.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Classic Civilisations
In this revealing and entertaining guide to how the Romans confronted their own mortality, Peter Jones shows us that all the problems associated with old age and death that so transfix us today were already dealt with by our ancient ancestors 2,000 years ago. Romans inhabited a world where people, knowi ...Show more