The Oxford Dictionary of Original Shakespearean Pronunciation by David Crystal
$63.95 AUD
Category: Culture
This dictionary is the first comprehensive description of Shakespearean original pronunication (OP), enabling practitioners to deal with any queries about the pronunciation of individual words. It includes all the words in the First Folio, transcribed using IPA, and the accompanying website hosts sound ...Show more
Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture by Bruce Pascoe
$19.99 AUD
Category: Culture | Reading Level: very good
Dark Emu argues for a reconsideration of the 'hunter-gatherer' tag for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians and attempts to rebut the colonial myths that have worked to justify dispossession. Accomplished author Bruce Pascoe provides compelling evidence from the diaries of early explorers that suggests t ...Show more
Welcome to Country: A Travel Guide to Indigenous Australia by Marcia Langton
$39.99 AUD
Category: Culture
Marcia Langton: Welcome to Country is a curated guidebook to Indigenous Australia and the Torres Strait Islands. In its pages, respected Elder and author Professor Marcia Langton offers fascinating insights into Indigenous languages and customs, history, native title, art and dance, storytelling, and cu ...Show more
The Chaser Annual 2017 by The Chaser
$24.95 AUD
Category: Culture
It's back, better than ever. Featuring a full wrap of all the news, sport, entertainment and Trump jokes from a year that will forever be remembered as "Oh my God, remember 2017?" The Chaser Annual 2017also features original writing by some of Australia's top comedy writers, with overviews of the year ...Show more
Ducks for Dark Times by Michael Leunig
$24.99 AUD
Category: Culture
A collection of cartoons about many strange and lovely things- kind words for dark days; simple poems concerning wonderful mysteries; reflections on sadness, joy, dismay, sanity, soup and beauty. Also- doubts, confessions, laments and tributes. Spirited depictions of dogs, ducks, teapots and trees, with ...Show more
Women & Power - A Manifesto by Mary Beard
$19.99 AUD
Category: Culture | Reading Level: very good
Britain's best-known classicist Mary Beard, is also a committed and vocal feminist. With wry wit, she revisits the gender agenda and shows how history has treated powerful women. Her examples range from the classical world to the modern day, from Medusa and Athena to Theresa May and Hillary Clinton. Bea ...Show more
Autumn by Karl Ove Knausgaard
$35.00 AUD
Category: Culture | Series: Seasons Quartet | Reading Level: very good
The Sunday TimesTop Ten BestsellerThe New York TimesBestsellerFrom the author of the monumental My Struggle series, Karl Ove Knausgaard, one of the masters of contemporary literature and a genius of observation and introspection, comes the first in a new autobiographical quartet based on the four season ...Show more
We Go to the Gallery - Dung Beetle reading scheme by M Elia; E Elia
$24.99 AUD
Category: Culture | Reading Level: very good
Have you taken children to a gallery recently? Did you struggle to explain the work to them in plain , simple English? With this new Dung Beetle book, both parents and young children can learn about contemporary art, and understand many of its key themes. Join John and Susan on their exciting journey th ...Show more
Queer: A Graphic History by Meg-John Barker
$24.99 AUD
Category: Culture | Series: Graphic Guides
Activist-academic Meg-John Barker and cartoonist Julia Scheele illuminate the histories of queer thought and LGBTQ+ action in this groundbreaking non-fiction graphic novel. From identity politics and gender roles to privilege and exclusion, Queer explores how we came to view sex, gender and sexuality in ...Show more
Fight Like A Girl: Raise Voices. Raise Courage. Raise the Flag. by Clementine Ford
$29.99 AUD
Category: Culture | Reading Level: very good
Personal and fearless - a call to arms for feminists new, old and as yet unrealised by one of our most outspoken feminist writers.
Confabulations by John Berger
$16.99 AUD
Category: Culture | Series: Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
'Language is a body, a living creature ...and this creature's home is the inarticulate as well as the articulate'. John Berger's work has revolutionized the way we understand visual language. In this new book he writes about language itself, and how it relates to thought, art, song, storytelling and pol ...Show more
Curiosity by Alberto Manguel
$31.95 AUD
Category: Culture | Reading Level: General Adult
An eclectic history of human curiosity, a great feast of ideas, and a memoir of a reading life from an internationally celebrated reader and thinkerCuriosity has been seen through the ages as the impulse that drives our knowledge forward and the temptation that leads us toward dangerous and forbidden wa ...Show more