On the Offensive: Prejudice in Language Past and Present by Karen Stollznow
$29.95 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
I'm not a racist, but... You look good, for your age... She was asking for it... You're crazy... That's so gay... Have you ever wondered why certain language has the power to offend? It is often difficult to recognize the veiled racism, sexism, ageism (and other -isms) that hide in our everyday discours ...Show more
Fangirls by Yve Blake
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Category: Literary Studies
Meet Edna: she's 14, she's a misfit, she's kind of a genius and ... she's in love. With Harry. There's just one problem: Harry doesn't actually know that she exists. Because Harry is in the world's biggest boy band, True Connection. But to Edna, that's just a small obstacle. When True Connection announc ...Show more
Some Achieve Greatness: Lessons on leadership and character from Shakespeare and one of his greatest admirers by John Bell
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Category: Literary Studies
“Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them.” William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night Around the globe people have been crying out for “Leadership”: demanding it, begging for it. From the farcical spectacle of short-lived Australian prime ministers shoving each other ...Show more
The Cambridge Introduction to Comedy by Eric Weitz
$41.95 AUD
Category: Literary Studies | Series: Cambridge Introductions to Literature Ser.
'Laughter', says Eric Weitz, 'may be considered one of the most extravagant physical effects one person can have on another without touching them'. But how do we identify something which is meant to be comic, what defines something as 'comedy', and what does this mean for the way we enter the world of a ...Show more
You're Doing it Wrong: A History of Bad & Bonkers Advice to Women by Kaz Cooke
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Category: Literary Studies
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
How to Lose Friends and Influence White People by Antoinette Lattouf
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Category: Literary Studies
A guide through the balancing act of activist, advocate and ally, remembering that just because others are learning you don't need to be the teacher, from the dynamic and sharp co-founder of Media Diversity Australia, Antoinette Lattouf. Poignant, inspiring, funny and most importantly authentic, How to ...Show more
In Defence of Witches: Why Women Are Still on Trial by Mona Chollet
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Category: Literary Studies
What remains of the witch hunts? A stubborn misogyny, which still tints the way our societies look at single women, childless women, aging women, or quite simply, free women . . . Today more than ever, witches tell us about our world and lead the way.' - Telerama A source of terror, a misogynistic image ...Show more
Think Like a Feminist: The Philosophy Behind the Revolution by Carol Hay
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Category: Literary Studies
Think Like a Feminist is an irreverent yet rigorous primer that unpacks over two hundred years of feminist thought. In a time when the word feminism triggers all sorts of responses, many of them conflicting and misinformed, Professor Carol Hay provides this balanced, clarifying, and inspiring examinatio ...Show more
Bookstores - A Celebration of Independent Booksellers by Horst A. Friedrichs (Photographer); Stuart Husband
$95.00 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
Explore the magic of independent bookstores in this beautiful photographic journey across the world. Bookstores are treasure troves of knowledge and ideas, invaluable for the imagination, and often reflect their owners' personalities in ways internet behemoths could never re-create. In this book, photo ...Show more
I Don't by Clementine Ford
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Category: Literary Studies
Incendiary feminist and bestselling author Clementine Ford presents the inarguable case against marriage for the modern woman. Provocative, controversial and above all, compellingly and persuasively argued. I want this book to end marriages. But more importantly, I want it to prevent marriages. Women ...Show more
Simple Act of Reading by Debra Adelaide
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Category: Literary Studies
For it is in the simple act of reading where the living and the dead, the real and the imagined, meet. It is in the simple act of reading where we exercise those two most sacred of human vocations: compassion and creativity. For as we know, without either of these primes there is no possibility for a hu ...Show more