Watching Brief - Reflections on Human Rights, Law and Justice by Julian Burnside
$32.95 AUD
Category: Politics
The first decade of the twenty-first century has seen a sharp decline in respect for human rights and the international rule of law. The legal conventions of the new realpolitik seem to owe more to Guantanamo than Geneva. Australia has tarnished its reputation in the field of human rights, through its ...Show more
Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong by Louisa Lim
$34.99 AUD
Category: Social & Cultural Notes | Reading Level: very goo
An award-winning journalist takes to the protest-riven streets of Hong Kong to write this startling landmark account of the island city's complex past and precarious future. The story of Hong Kong has long been obscured by competing myths- to Britain, a 'barren rock' with no appreciable history; to Chin ...Show more
Bourgery. Atlas of Human Anatomy and Surgery by Henri Sick, Jean-Marie Le Minor
$40.00 AUD
Category: Science
Anatomically correct: An unsurpassed treatise of the human body We owe a great debt to Jean Baptiste Marc Bourgery (1797-1849) for his Atlas of Anatomy, which was not only a massive event in medical history, but also remains one of the most comprehensive and beautifully illustrated anatomical treatises ...Show more
The Art of Communicating by Thich Nhat Hanh
$27.99 AUD
Category: Spirituality
Thich Nhat Hanh is the subject of the upcoming major documentary Walk With Menarrated by Benedict CumberbatchDespite all of our best intentions, communication is still a challenge for most of us. How do we say what we mean in a way that the other person can really hear? How can we learn to listen with c ...Show more
Saving Time - Discovering A Life Beyond The Clock by Jenny Odell
$35.00 AUD
Category: Social & Cultural Notes | Reading Level: very good
We are living on the wrong clock, and it is destroying us. The New York Times bestselling author of How to Do Nothing offers us different ways to experience time in this dazzling, subversive, and deeply hopeful book. In her first book, How to Do Nothing, Jenny Odell wrote about the importance of disconn ...Show more
Chatter: The Voice in Our Head and How to Harness It by Ethan Kross
$24.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
Turn your inner voice from critic to coach As humans, we all have a special ability that is unique to our species: an inner voice. It helps us focus, achieve our goals and reflect on life's most joyful moments. But it can also be our biggest enemy, chewing over painful emotions and replaying embarrassme ...Show more
Bullets and Opium: Real-Life Stories of China after Tiananmen Square by Liao Yiwu
$45.00 AUD
Category: Politics
"A series of harrowing, unforgettable tales...Had [Liao Yiwu] not fled the country in 2011, they may never have emerged. An indispensable historical document." --Kirkus Reviews (starred review)From the award-winning poet, dissident, and "one of the most original and remarkable Chinese writers of our tim ...Show more
Ukraine 22: Ukrainian Writers Respond to War by Mark Andryczyk
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics
A selection of Ukraine's leading writers convey the reality of life within Ukraine during the first year of the invasion. On 24 February 2022, the lives of Ukrainians were devastatingly altered. Since that day, many of Ukraine's writers have attempted to fathom what is happening to them and to their co ...Show more
Putin's Russia by Anna Politkovskaya
$32.95 AUD
Category: Politics
Former KGB spy Vladimir Putin, named Prime Minister of Russia in 1999 and, one year later, President, has been something of a media darling in the West, having successfully marketed himself as an enlightened leader with both feet planted firmly on the Eastern borders of Europe. Anti-establishment journa ...Show more
Farewell Kabul - From Afghanistan to a More Dangerous World by Christina Lamb
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: very good
From the award-winning co-author of 'I Am Malala', this book asks just how the might of NATO, with 48 countries and 140,000 troops on the ground, failed to defeat a group of religious students and farmers? How did it go so wrong? 'Farewell Kabul' tells how the West turned success into defeat in the long ...Show more
Instant Psychology: Key Thinkers, Theories, Discoveries and Concepts by Nicky Hayes, Sarah Tomley
$29.99 AUD
Category: Psychology | Series: Instant Ser.
Instant Psychology pulls together all the pivotal psychological knowledge and thought into one concise volume. Each page contains a discrete "cheat sheet", which tells you the most important facts in bite-sized chunks, meaning you can become an expert in an instant. From Freud and Jung to the Rorschach ...Show more
The Art of Happiness by The Dalai Lama
$24.99 AUD
Category: Spirituality
Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, the very purpose of our life is happiness, the very motion of our life is towards happiness. -H.H. the Dalai Lama, from The Art of Happiness So popular and so rarely understood, this Nobel Peace Prize winner ...Show more