On Our Best Behaviour - The Price Women Pay to Be Good by Elise Loehnen
22.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
A provocative manifesto on what it means for women to be 'good' - and what happens when we stop.'A stunning, big and bold encyclopedia of how to live' LISA TADDEO'You will finish this book and immediately hand your copy over to your best friend' JENNIFER ANISTON'I left feeling energized and galvanized t ...Show more
How Schools Transform: Practices, Research and Actions that Change Schools by Michael Miranda; Anderson Jefferson
49.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
How Schools Transform explores the process of transformation. This book moves beyond the why of transformation to consider how it is achieved by a range of schools around the world. Each chapter showcases a school-based example of transformation. Assessment, pedagogy, curriculum, leadership, values and ...Show more
The Secret Public: How LGBTQ Performers Shaped Popular Culture (1955–1979) by Jon Savage
34.95 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
A monumental history of the LGBTQ influence on popular culture from award-winning, Sunday Times-bestselling author. An electrifying look at key moments in music and entertainment history between 1955 and 1979, which helped move gay culture from the margins to the mainstream and changed the face of pop ...Show more
Season of the Witch: The Book of Goth by Cathi Unsworth
29.95 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
The first book to cover in-depth and from an insider's perspective the inception and rise of goth - one of the world's most enduringly popular musical subcultures.
Men Have Called Her Crazy by Anna Marie Tendler
34.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
A powerful memoir that reckons with mental health as well as the insidious ways men impact the lives of women.
The History of Ideas: Equality, Justice and Revolution by David Runciman
36.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
What is the history of ideas - and how has it shaped our world today? In this bold new follow-up to Confronting Leviathan, David Runciman unmasks modern politics and reveals the great men and women of ideas behind it. What can Samuel Butler's ideas teach us about the oddity of how we choose to organise ...Show more
De Anima (On the Soul) by Aristotle Aristotle, Aristotle
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Category: Culture & Ideas
For the Pre-Socratic philosophers the soul was the source of movement and sensation, while for Plato it was the seat of being, metaphysically distinct from the body that it was forced temporarily to inhabit. Plato's student Aristotle was determined to test the truth of both these beliefs against the eme ...Show more
The Orphic Voice by Elizabeth Sewell; David Schenck (Introduction by)
39.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
A wondrously written book of literary criticism and philosophy that maps the relationship between poetry and natural history, connecting verse from poets such as Shakespeare and Rainer Maria Rilke to the work of scientists and theorists like Francis Bacon and Michael Polanyi. The Orphic Voice is a book ...Show more
Tits Up by Sarah Thornton
36.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
Boobs. Knockers. Jugs. Cans. Baps. Melons. Puppies. Fun bags. Bosoms. Hooters. In the English language there are over 700 expressions for female mammary glands - the majority of which are mostly used by men. In Tits Up, bestselling author, sociologist and journalist Sarah Thornton asks how is it that w ...Show more
The Garden Against Time : In Search of a Common Paradise by Olivia Laing
44.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore an eighteenth-century walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual plants. The work brought to light a crucial question for our age: Who gets to live in paradise, and how can we share it while there's still time? Moving between real and imagined gardens, ...Show more
The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination by Ursula K. Le Guin
65.00 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
Ursula Le Guin's The Wave in the Mind is now available for the first time in audio!Join Ursula K. Le Guin as she explores a broad array of subjects, ranging from Tolstoy, Twain, and Tolkien to women's shoes, beauty, and family life. With her customary wit, intelligence, and literary craftsmanship, she o ...Show more
On Community by Casey Plett
27.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
We need community to live. But what does it look like? Why does it often feel like it's slipping away? We are all hinged to some definition of a community, be it as simple as where we live, complex as the beliefs we share, or as intentional as those we call family. In an episodic personal essay, Casey ...Show more