Time to Reboot : Feminism in the Algorithm Age by Carla Wilshire
$19.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
Technology is radically transforming society. From social media to artificial intelligence, our world is now governed by algorithms, powerful tools that not only predict human behaviour but affect how we look at each other, and ourselves. At the same time, we are seeing hard-fought-for women’s rights be ...Show more
The Diggers of Kapyong: The story of the Aussies who changed the course of the Korean War by Tom Gilling
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
The gripping account of Australia in the Korean War and how 3RAR battalion held back an entire Chinese army division to prevent Seoul being overrun We charged and we began to get shot down . . . there were so many bullets coming that it was like walking, running into a very stiff breeze. Most of the sec ...Show more
Alice ™: The biggest untold story in the history of money by Stuart Kells
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
In the 1980s and 90s, amid an explosion in international money flows, a handful of people saw a new financial future and staked claims in it, triggering a battle to control the world's money markets. With phenomenal profits at stake, the conflict would go all the way to the United States Supreme Court, ...Show more
The Nameless Names: Recovering the Missing Anzacs by Scott Bennett
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
Few Australians realise that of the 62,000 Anzac soldiers who died in the Great War, over one-third are still listed as 'missing'. With no marked graves, the only reminders of their sacrifice are the many names inscribed on ageing war memorials around the world. Bennett deftly tells the story of such mi ...Show more
Girt by Sea: Re-Imagining Australia's Security by Rebecca Strating, Joanne Wallis
$36.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
A clear-eyed examination of how Australia should approach the complex security challenges at play in its maritime domain Security starts at home ... Australia has drawn closer to many of its Asia-Pacific neighbours in recent years, but 'when push comes to shove, it continues to look well beyond the oce ...Show more
For Social Betterment Social Work Education in Australia 1900-1960 by Jane Miller
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
Australia introduced professional education for social workers thirty years later than much of the developed world. It joined an international movement to set up the new profession and was helped by the well-established American and British social workers. As Australian social work education approaches ...Show more
Monument by Bonny Cassidy
$32.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
An important literary memoir which views white settler family history against the impacts on the Indigenous people with whom they interact. is poet and critic Bonny Cassidy’s fourth book. Moving seamlessly through genres in its recovery of the past — part poetry, part prose, microhistory, memoir, travel ...Show more
Bee Miles: Australia's famous bohemian rebel, and the untold story behind the legend by Rose Ellis
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
The untold story of the uncompromising and fearless woman who captivated mid-20th century Australia with her spectacular acts of defiance. Bee Miles was famous for appearing in public in towns and cities across Australia, breaking their rules, and living, she said 'recklessly'. But she was no ordinary w ...Show more
Mine is the Kingdom: The rise and fall of Brian Houston and the Hillsong Church by David Hardaker
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
The inside story of the global megachurch and its charismatic leader, Brian Houston. In 2023 the curtain finally came down on Brian Houston. The rock star of Pentecostalism, former Global Senior Pastor of Hillsong Church, was acquitted of concealing his father's sexual abuse of a minor, but it was too ...Show more
Some People Want to Shoot Me by Wayne Bergmann,Madelaine Dickie,
$35.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
Discover the remarkable story of Wayne Bergmann, a Nyikina man and Kimberley leader who has dedicated his life to his community, in this moving memoir of living between two cultures. As a Nyikina man who straddles both traditional and modern cultures, Wayne Bergmann has faced criticism and condemnation ...Show more
Celestial Footy: The Story of Chinese Heritage Aussie Rules by Patrick Skene
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
Since the Miners versus Market Gardeners 'Celestial football match' on the Victorian goldfields in 1892, Chinese-Australians have embraced Australian Rules football and been among its most enthusiastic followers. In Celestial Footy, Patrick Skene chronicles the participation and passion of Chinese-herit ...Show more
2023: A Year of Consequence by The Conversation; Justin Bergman (Editor)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
"This was a year of consequential decisions - not just for Australia, but the world. In Australia, the year was dominated by a historic referendum on the Voice to Parliament, transforming its military to respond to the shifting security challenges in the region and how the government help everyday Austr ...Show more