Heide by Pi O
$39.95 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
Heide is an epic poem about history, painting, painters, patrons and the people who made art happen in Australia — from Louis Buvelot to Edith Rowan, Tom Roberts and Robert Streeton to Vassilief, Nolan, Tucker, Joy Hester, the Boyds, Mirka Mora, and Albert Namatjira, with a particular focus on the artis ...Show more
George Seddon: Selected Writings by Andrea Gaynor
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
George Seddon, one of Australia's most revered environmental scholars, was renowned for championing 'a sense of place'. He was a connoisseur of landscapes - from the rugged Snowy River Mountains to the humble domestic backyard - who explored the contested relationship between metropolitan suburbs, agric ...Show more
Conversations with RBG - Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Life, Love, Liberty, and Law by Jeffrey Rosen
$42.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
In her own words, Ruth Bader Ginsburg offers an intimate look at her life and career, though an extraordinary series of conversations with the head of the National Constitution Center. Conversations with RBG is a remarkable and unique book, an informal portrait of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, drawing o ...Show more
Meanjin Quarterly Summer 2019 - Vol 78 No 4 by Jonathan Green
$24.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
Rediscovering Captain James Cook- Paul Daley combs through the archives, visits Cook's papers in the National Library, speaks with Indigenous Australian thinkers and comes up with a reappraisal of the great explorer's impact.Selling the farm- the author of Rusted Off Why Country Australia Is Fed Up, Gab ...Show more
Split: True stories of leaving, loss and new beginnings by Peter Bishop; Lee Kofman
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies | Series: True Stories by Prominent Australian Writers
In this compelling anthology of personal essays, curated by award-winning author Lee Kofman, some of Australia's most beloved writers reveal, for the first time, powerful, occasionally funny and often heartbreaking stories of significant endings and their aftermath. Graeme Simsion, author of The Rosie P ...Show more
Breaking News - The Remaking of Journalism and Why It Matters Now by Alan Rusbridger
$24.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
We are living in a modern world where falsehood regularly seems to overwhelm truth. The ability of billions of people to publish has created a vast amount of unreliable and false news which now competes with and sometimes drowns more established forms of journalism. So where can we look for reliable, ve ...Show more
Vulnerability in Resistance by Judith Butler (Editor); Zeynep Gambetti (Editor); Leticia Sabsay (Editor)
$89.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
Vulnerability and resistance have often been seen as opposites, with the assumption that vulnerability requires protection and the strengthening of paternalistic power at the expense of collective resistance. Focusing on political movements and cultural practices in different global locations, including ...Show more
What's Your Pronoun? - Beyond He and She by Dennis Baron
$39.95 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
Like trigger warnings and gender-neutral bathrooms, pronouns are sparking a national debate, prompting new policies in schools, workplaces, even prisons, about what pronouns to use. Colleges ask students to declare their pronouns along with their majors; corporate conferences print name tags with space ...Show more
Jacinda Ardern (I Know This to Be True): On Kindness, Empathy and Strength by Geoff Blackwell; Jacinda Ardern
$17.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies | Series: I KNOW THIS TO BE TRUE
Thoughts on kindness, empathy and strength from Jacinda Ardern, politician, feminist and champion for social equality.
Men Who Hate Women by Laura Bates
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
Imagine a world in which a vast network of misogynists is able to operate, virtually undetected. Imagine a world in which these extremists commit terrorist acts, united by their deep hatred of women. Imagine a world in which they groom and radicalise vulnerable teenage boys, shielded by veils of irony a ...Show more
Drama Games for Classrooms and Workshops by Jessica Swale
$23.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies | Series: Drama Games Ser.
A resource book, packed with 101 lively drama games for use in any classroom or workshop setting, suitable for players of all ages. These games explore a wide range of core drama skills: energy, focus, teamwork, trust, character, storytelling, imagination, and improvisation, as well as warming up and co ...Show more
The 100 Best Nonfiction Books of All Time by Robert McCrum
$49.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
The author's choice of the 100 best nonfiction books in English spanning 400 years. Each entry has a two page critique of the book in question.