The Medicine - A Doctor's Notes by Karen Hitchcock
$32.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: near fine
What happens when a doctor kills a patient? Are GPs overprescribing antidepressants? Does 'female Viagra' work? What role can psychedelics and cannabis play in treating pain? What is sickness, and how much of it is in our heads? In The Medicine, Dr Karen Hitchcock takes us to the frontlines of everyday ...Show more
The Order of Things: Archaeology of the Human Sciences by Michel Foucault
$29.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
With vast erudition, Foucault cuts across disciplines and reaches back into seventeenth century to show how classical systems of knowledge, which linked all of nature within a great chain of being and analogies between the stars in the heavens and the features in a human face, gave way to the modern sci ...Show more
The Other Half of You: Shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2022 by Michael Mohammed Ahmad
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Category: General
Any mistakes which brought me to this moment, I would not hesitate to make again. Bani Adam has known all his life what was expected of him. To marry a good girl. To live in a nice home. To have a respectable job. To start a family. In a series of letters to his son Kahlil, Bani recounts each of his adu ...Show more
The Palestine Laboratory: how Israel exports the technology of occupation around the world by Antony Loewenstein
$35.00 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
Bestselling journalist Antony Loewenstein uncovers the widespread commercialisation and brutal deployment globally of Israel's occupation-enforcing technologies. For more than 50 years, the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza has given the Israeli state invaluable experience in controlling an 'enemy' p ...Show more
The Politics of Trauma - Somatics, Healing, and Social Justice by Staci Haines; Ai-jen Poo (Foreword by); Richard Strozzi-Heckler (Afterword by)
$49.99 AUD
Category: General
An essential tool for healers, therapists, activists, and survivors of trauma who are interested in a justice-centered approach to somatic transformation The Politics of Trauma offers somatics with a social analysis. This book is for therapists and social activists who understand that trauma healing ...Show more
The Psychology of Prejudice by Richard Gross
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Category: General | Series: The\Psychology of Everything Ser.
Why do we develop extreme attitudes to others? Can our personality contribute to our prejudices? How do we reduce prejudice and discrimination? The Psychology of Prejudice explores different forms of prejudice and discrimination, from racial jokes to genocide. It looks at what might cause our prejudic ...Show more
The Saturday Portraits by Maxine Beneba Clarke
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Category: General
A collection of stunning biographical portraits from Maxine Beneba Clarke, bestselling and prize-winning author of THE HATE RACE and FOREIGN SOIL. The year is 2014, editor Erik Jensen contacts short fiction writer Maxine Beneba Clarke, and convinces her to write creative portraits for a new national new ...Show more
The Sealed Letter by Emma Donoghue
$35.00 AUD
Category: General
Miss Emily 'Fido' Faithfull is a 'woman of business' and a spinster pioneer in the British women's movement, independent of mind but naively trusting of heart. Distracted from her cause by the sudden return of her once-dear friend, the unhappily wed Helen Codrington, Fido is swept up in the intimate det ...Show more
The Sex Obsession - Perversity and Possibility in American Politics by Janet R. Jakobsen
$42.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: Sexual Cultures Ser.
Finalist, 2021 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ Studies Offers a way to undo the inextricable American knot of sex, politics, religion, and power American politics are obsessed with sex. Before the first televised presidential debate, John F. Kennedy trailed Richard Nixon in the polls. As Americans tune ...Show more
The Truths We Hold: An American Journey by Kamala Harris
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Category: General
A New York Times bestseller From Kamala Harris, one of America's most inspiring political leaders and Joe Biden's pick for his 2020 running mate, a book about the core truths that unite us, and the long struggle to discern what those truths are and how best to act upon them, in her own life and across ...Show more
The Verso Book of Dissent - Revolutionary Words from Three Millennia of Rebellion and Resistance by Andrew Hsiao (Editor); Audrea Lim (Editor)
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Category: General
Throughout the ages and across every continent, people have struggled against those in power and raised their voices in protest--rallying others around them and inspiring uprisings in eras yet to come. Their echoes reverberate from Ancient Greece, China and Egypt, via the dissident poets and philosopher ...Show more
The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love by bell hooks
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Category: General
With the courage, honesty, and compassion that have made her one of America's most provocative authorities on modern culture, bell hooks takes on the interior lives of men and answers their most intimate questions about love. Everyone needs to love and be loved -- even men. In this groundbreaking book, ...Show more