Arab, Australian, Other: Stories on Race and Identity by Randa Abdel-Fattah,Sara Saleh
32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
Although there are 22 separate Arab nationalities representing an enormous variety of cultural backgrounds and experiences, the portrayal of Arabs in Australia tends to range from homogenising (at best) to racist pop-culture caricatures. Edited by award-winning author and academic Randa Abdel-Fattah, an ...Show more
Growing up Queer in Australia by Benjamin Law
29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction | Series: Growing Up
'No amount of YouTube videos and queer think pieces prepared me for this moment.’ ‘The mantle of “queer migrant” compelled me to keep going – to go further.’ ‘I never “came out” to my parents. I felt I owed them no explanation.’ ‘All I heard from the pulpit were grim hints.’ ‘I became acutely aware of ...Show more
Sludge: Disaster on Victoria's Goldfields by Susan Lawrence
34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
Everyone knows gold made Victoria rich. But did you know gold mining was disastrous for the land, drowning it in floods of sand, gravel and silt that gushed out of the mines? Or that this environmental devastation still affects our rivers and floodplains? Victorians had a name for this mining waste- 's ...Show more
James Hardy Vaux's 1819 Dictionary of Criminal Slang and Other Impolite terms as Used by the Convicts of the British Colonies of Australia by Simon Barnard
29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
In the early 1800s magistrates in the Australian colonies were often frustrated by the language used by reoffending convicts to disguise their criminal activities and intensions. Convict clerk James Hardy Vaux came up with a useful idea: a dictionary of slang and other terms used by convicts. And so, in ...Show more
Griffith Review 65: Crimes and Punishments by Ashley Hay (Editor)
27.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction | Series: Griffith Review Ser.
What is it about crime stories that make people hunger for them? The volume of content produced in these genres - from the pages of mysteries and thrillers to audio and visual dramas and reconstructions - hints at a primal and deeply ingrained fascination with the darker side of human nature. While crim ...Show more
Salt: Selected Essays and Stories by Bruce Pascoe
34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
A collection of stories and essays by the award-winning author of Dark Emu, showcasing his shimmering genius across a lifetime of work. Bruce Pascoe has been described as a 'living national treasure' and his work as 'revelatory'. This volume of his best and most celebrated stories and essays, collected ...Show more
Inside the Greens: The True Story of the Party, the Politics and the People by Paddy Manning
34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
A revelatory examination of the history and the future of the Australian Greens. After a decade of unprecedented political volatility, Australians appear increasingly disillusioned with the two major parties. Yet the Greens, the third force in Australian politics since the turn of the century, get comp ...Show more
Enchantment of the Long-Haired Rat: A Rodent History of Australia by Tim Bonyhady
32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction | Series: Rodent History of Australia
The Enchantment of the Long-haired Rat tells the story of a small Australian rodent known for its fast and prodigious spread after big rains: plagues for the European colonists who feared and loathed all rats; an abundance of food for the indigenous peoples who feasted with delight in these times of ple ...Show more
The Full Catastrophe: Stories from When Life Was So Bad It Was Funny by Rebecca Huntley; Sarah Macdonald
32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
We've all had days when if we didn't laugh, we'd cry. Whether it's a domestic drama, career cockup or just a run-of-the-mill disaster, we've all been there - no matter who we are. In this hilarious and moving collection, well-known Australians from all walks of life share their stories as a kind of mass ...Show more
Bauhaus Diaspora and Beyond: Transforming Education Through Art, Design and Architecture by Ann Stephen; Philip Goad; Andrew McNamara; Harriet Edquist
64.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
Bauhaus Diaspora and Beyond- Transforming Education in Art, Architecture and Design presents an extraordinary new Australasian cultural history. It is a migrant and refugee story- from 1930, the arrival of so many emigre, internee and refugee educators helped to transform art, architecture and design in ...Show more
Changing Fortunes - A History of the Australian Treasury by Paul Tilley
44.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction
Treasury has been at the centre of every major economic policy issue the Australian Government has faced, its role evolving from the government's bookkeeper at Federation in 1901 to the economic policy advising agency it is today. Throughout its history Treasury has been a robust and stable institution ...Show more
Journals of the First Fleet by Arthur Phillip; Arthur Philip; Watkin Tench; Bogdan Meunier (Editor)
29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non-Fiction