Mothers: An Essay on Love and Cruelty by Jacqueline Rose
$24.99 AUD
Category: Essays & Letters | Reading Level: near fine
A simple argument guides this book: motherhood is the place in our culture where we lodge, or rather bury, the reality of our own conflicts. By making mothers the objects of both licensed idealization and cruelty, we blind ourselves to the world's iniquities and shut down the portals of the heart. Mothe ...Show more
The Most Dammed Country in the World by Dai Qing
$9.99 AUD
Category: Essays & Letters | Series: Penguin Green Ideas
The courageous, unflinching speeches and writings collected here detail the devastating human and environmental cost of China's economic rise.
Admissions: Voices within mental health by David Stavanger, Radhiah Chowdhury, Mohammad Award
$29.99 AUD
Category: Essays & Letters
An unprecedented look at the lived experience of mental health in creative work, as told by writers, comedians and public figures We are full of worlds that can't be contained by a pill.This groundbreaking collection documents the state of mental health in Australia, foregrounding a wide range of voice ...Show more
Hearth - Keeping the Fire Alive by Susan O'Connor (Editor); Annick Smith (Editor)
$39.99 AUD
Category: Essays & Letters
A multicultural anthology, edited by Susan O'Connor and Annick Smith, about the enduring importance and shifting associations of the hearth in our world. A hearth is many things: a place for solitude; a source of identity; something we make and share with others; a history of ourselves and our homes ...Show more
Azadi - Freedom. Fascism. Fiction by Arundhati Roy
$14.99 AUD
Category: Essays & Letters | Reading Level: very good
With fascism on the march once more, this is an urgent dispatch from one of the great writers and intellectuals of our time 'Azadi!' - Urdu for 'freedom' - is the iconic chant of the Kashmiri freedom struggle. And now, while Kashmir's streets have been silenced, the irony is that this same anthem echoe ...Show more
Time to Listen An Indigenous Voice to Parliament by Melissa Castan, Lynette Russell
$19.95 AUD
Category: Essays & Letters | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
In 2023, debate about an Indigenous Voice to Parliament swirls around us as Australia heads towards a referendum on amending the Constitution to make this Voice a reality. The idea of a ' First Nations Voice' was famously raised in 2017, when Indigenous leaders drafted the Statement from the Heart-- als ...Show more