New Social Studies
A History Of Books
$26.95 – Paperback book / Giramondo Publishing
This new work by Gerald Murnane is a fictionalised autobiography told in thirty sections, each of which begins with the memory of a book that has left an image on the writer's mind.
The titles aren't given but the reader... Buy or find out more →
Drift: The Unmooring Of American Military Power
$35.95 – Hardcover book /
‘One of my favourite ideas is, never to keep an unnecessary soldier,’ Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1792. Neither Jefferson nor the other founding fathers could ever have envisaged the modern national security state, with it... Buy or find out more →
On Shakespeare
$29.95 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
With humour, wit and a lifetime of experience this is a fascinating backstage pass to the life and plays of the Bard from Australia's best-known Shakespearean actor and director, John Bell. It's Shakespeare and his world... Buy or find out more →
In Praise Of Love
$22.99 – Hardcover book / Serpents Tail
French philosopher Alain Badiou turns his attention to love
A new century, new threats to love . . .Love without risks is like war without deaths - but, today, love is threatened by an alliance of liberalism and hedonism... Buy or find out more →
The Office
$45.00 – Paperback book / Melb Univ Press
A lively social and cultural history of the office, blending its birth, growth and emergence as a means of organising a company, an institution or a bureaucracy to the place in which most of us spend more time than any o... Buy or find out more →
Farther Away
$24.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
Jonathan Franzen′s FREEDOM was the runaway most-discussed novel of 2010, an ambitious and searching engagement with life in America in the 21st century. The editor of THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, Sam Tanenhaus, procla... Buy or find out more →
The Novels Of Alex Miller: An Introduction
$39.99 – Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin
One of Australia's most respected novelists, Alex Miller's writing is both popular and critically well-received. He is twice winner of Australia's premier literary prize, the Miles Franklin Award. He has said that writin... Buy or find out more →
Quiet: The Power Of Introverts In A World That Cant Stop Talking
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Viking
Our lives are driven by a fact that most of us can't name and don't understand. It defines who our friends and lovers are, which careers we choose, and whether we blush when we're embarrassed.
That fact is whether we're ... Buy or find out more →
March Was Made Of Yarn: Writers Respond To Japan's Earthquake, Tsunami and Nuclear Meltdown
$29.95 – Paperback book / Harvill
A collection of new writing on the subject of the 2011 Japanese earthquake, including pieces by David Peace, Yoko Ogawa and Ryu Murakami.
Royalties from the sale of this book will go to charities working towards the reco... Buy or find out more →
The New Hate: The A History Of Fear And Loathing On The Populist Right
$32.95 – Paperback book / Scribe Publications
‘Arthur Goldwag confronts conspiracist fantasies and fringe paranoia with reason and humanity — not to mention the briskness and drama of great historical storytelling. His dissection of how the political fringe has edge... Buy or find out more →
You Can't Read This Book: Censorship In An Age Of Freedom
$24.99 – Hardcover book / Harper Collins
From the fall of the Berlin Wall to the advert of the Web, everywhere you turn you are told that we live in age of unparalleled freedom. This is dangerously naïve. From the revolution in Iran that wasn’t to the impositio... Buy or find out more →
Warriors Of The Rainbow: Chronicle Of The Greenpeace Movementfrom 1971 to 1979
$29.95 – Paperback book / Freemantle Press
The story you hold in your hands is too powerful to ignore. It is the story of the birth and early years of Greenpeace, the most important environmental activist organization to come out of North America.
Bob Hunter’s na... Buy or find out more →
Bigger Or Better: Australia's Population Debate
$34.95 – Paperback book / Univ Queensland Pr
A comprehensive and detailed analysis of the controversial debate about Australia's population numbers.
When Kevin Rudd responded to a government forecast that the Australian population could reach 36 million by 2050 by ... Buy or find out more →
Mad Women: The Other Side Of Life On Madison Avenue In The 1960s And Beyond
$27.99 – Trade paperback / Harper Collins
Mad Men is one of the hottest shows on television, and its fans are dying to know how accurate it is: did people really have that much sex in the office? Were there really three-martini lunches? Were women really second-... Buy or find out more →
The Savvy Girl's Money Book
$29.99 – Paperback book /
You work hard and you love life. You're busy and it's a bit eye-glazing to have to think about money. But if your debts are rising and the idea of ever owning your own home is fading, maybe it's time you did. With a few ... Buy or find out more →
Demons: Encounters with the Devil and His Minions, Fallen Angels, and the Possessed
$24.99 – Paperback book / Murdoch Books
This bone-chilling collection explores demons in many forms - from spirit possession of the human soul to fallen angels to the devil. The next book in Black Dog & Leventhal's supernatural series, Demons presents thir... Buy or find out more →
Working With Mean Girls: Identifying And Protecting Yourself From Workplace Nastiness
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Viking
What do you do when the Queen Bee has you in her sights, demanding to know whey you haven't done the report she never asked for?
What do you do when the colleague you thought was your friend takes all the credit for the ... Buy or find out more →
Together The Rituals Pleasures And Politics Of Cooperation
$40.95 – Hardcover book / Yale Univ Pr
Living with people who differ--racially, ethnically, religiously, or economically--is the most urgent challenge facing civil society today. We tend socially to avoid engaging with people unlike ourselves, and modern poli... Buy or find out more →
Mia Culpa
$19.95 – Paperback book / Penguin
'Mia Culpa is often very funny, and sometimes very serious.' DAILY TELEGRAPH
'Engaging stuff.' SUNDAY AGE
Sometimes, when I meet someone new and I tell them I'm a writer, they ask 'What do you write about?' Tricky questi... Buy or find out more →
Brutal Simplicity Of Thought
$24.95 – Hardcover book / Ebury Press
Simplicity looks easy. It’s not. It’s easier to complicate than simplify. No one knows this better than Maurice Saatchi, the man behind the world’s most successful advertising agency. In this book he presents stunningly ... Buy or find out more →
Hung Like An Argentine Duck: A Journey Back In Time To The Origins Of Sexual Intimacy
$29.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
No doubt about it, sex sells. From homosexual penguins, lesbian ostriches to necrophiliac snakes and fellating fruitbats, it′s all here in this unusual little book.
Dr John Long discovered the Gogo Fish. What′s that yo... Buy or find out more →
Women Of Letters
$29.95 – Paperback book / Penguin
In a world of the short and swift, of texts and Twitter, there's something of special value about a carefully composed letter.
In homage to this most civilised of activities, Marieke Hardy and Michaela McGuire created th... Buy or find out more →
Women's Stuff
$59.95 – Hardcover book / Penguin Books
Whether you're starting or ending a relationship, a friend has found a lump in her breast, you're in debt, your partner's lost interest in sex or you don't know whether to believe the moisturiser label, Women's Stuff is ... Buy or find out more →
Boyer Lectures 2011: The Idea Of Home
$24.99$19.95 – Paperback book / Abc Books
For the Boyer Lecture 2011, best-selling author and journalist Geraldine Brooks tackles the topic of The Idea of Home. Drawing on her personal experience from being an adolescent pen pal to being a foreign correspondent ... Buy or find out more →
Life of SYN: A Story Of The Digital Generation
$19.95 – Paperback book / Monash University Epress
SYN (Student Youth Network) is a media organisation run by people between the ages of 12 and 26. In this ‘coming of age story’, Ellie Rennie follows the SYNners as they build Australia’s most unusual media empire against... Buy or find out more →
The Table Comes First
$39.99 – Hardcover book / Quercus
Our modern society is very particular about what constitutes good food: local, seasonal, organic produce that doesn't overly impact on the environment. But throughout history every generation has believed that it alone k... Buy or find out more →
How The World Works
$24.95 – Trade paperback / Hamish Hamilton
According to "The New York Times," Noam Chomsky is "arguably the most important intellectual alive." But he isn't easy to read . . . or at least he wasn't until these books came along. Made up of intensively edited speec... Buy or find out more →
Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction To Its Own Past
$26.95 – Paperback book / Faber
We live in a pop age gone loco for retro and crazy for commemoration. Band re-formations and reunion tours, expanded reissues of classic albums and outtake-crammed box sets, remakes and sequels, tribute albums and mash-u... Buy or find out more →