Innovation : Knowledge and Ingenuity (First Knowledges) by Ian J McNiven, Lynette Russell
Category: Australian History | Series: First Knowledges Ser.
'Deeply insightful, sensitive and passionate. An inspiring, meticulous picture of the innovations that have made us the world's oldest living culture.' - Larissa Behrendt'Another fascinating volume in this landmark Australian publishing series.' - Richard FlanaganWhat do you need to know to prosper as a ...Show more
Between Five Eyes: 50 Years of Intelligence Sharing by Anthony R. Wells
Category: History
UK-US intelligence and the wider Five Eyes community of Canada, Australia and New Zealand is primarily about one main thing, relationships. In this remarkable book, Anthony Wells charts fifty years of change, turmoil, intense challenges, successes and failures, and never-ending abiding UK-US and Five Ey ...Show more
Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia by Anita Heiss
Category: Australian History | Series: Growing Up
Childhood stories of family, country and belonging What is it like to grow up Aboriginal in Australia? This anthology, compiled by award-winning author Anita Heiss, showcases many diverse voices, experiences and stories in order to answer that question. Accounts from well-known authors and high-profile ...Show more
2020 When the World Lost Its Balance - Living in Covid by Kristina McGhee (Editor)
Category: Sociology
An anthology of experiences and thoughts from around the world, during the Coronavirus pandemic of 2020.
2020 Dictionary by Dominic Knight
Category: Sociology
2020 sucked. It's been a year of bushfires, floods, a recession, a global pandemic and Kanye West's presidential campaign. But it was also the year we all watched Hamilton, baked sourdough, had dinner parties on Zoom and drank constantly - okay, so maybe that wasn't such a great thing either.Amid the no ...Show more
Enchanted Beneath the Bluff - Agnes and Geraldine's Pursuit of Elwood's Elusive Black Diamonds by Isaac Douglas Hermann & Heather Andrea Arnold
Category: Australian History
Within a place of love, sorrow and salvation, where Elwood’s Swamp met St Kilda’s Red Bluff, two ardent women, Agnes Simmons and Geraldine Minet, challenged providence and geology. In the days of Suffrage and Spiritualism, these two daring Theosophists sought to bring prosperity to Colonial Victoria o ...Show more
The Queer Bible by Jack Guinness (Editor)
Category: Sociology
‘We stand on the shoulders of giants. Now we learn their names.' The Queer Bible is a collection of essays written by queer icons, about the queer trailblazers throughout history who inspired them. From Elton John on Divine to Graham Norton on Armistead Maupin; Russell Tovey on David Robilliard to Lady ...Show more
Dark Emu : Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture by Bruce Pascoe
Category: Australian History
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
Law: The Way of the Ancestors (First Knowledges) by Marcia Langton, Aaron Corn
Category: Australian History | Series: First Knowledges Ser.
Law is culture, and culture is law. Given by the ancestors and cultivated over millennia, Indigenous law defines what it is to be human. Complex and evolving, law holds the keys to resilient, caring communities and a life in balance with nature. Marcia Langton and Aaron Corn show how Indigenous law has ...Show more
Talking To My Country: The passionate and powerful bestselling book by critically acclaimed journalist and author of Tears of Strangers and The Queen is Dead by Stan Grant
Category: Australian History
An extraordinarily powerful and personal meditation on race, culture, and identity. When Stan Grant was born in Australia in 1963, the national census classed him and his family among the country's flora and fauna. As Aboriginal Australians, their history and culture had been suppressed for centuries. A ...Show more
The Little Book of World Mythology: A Pocket Guide to Myths and Legends by Hannah Bowstead
Category: History
This pocket guide offers readers an engaging and accessible introduction to the major world mythologies, exploring their origins, foundational stories and key mythological figures.Step into a world of gods, heroes and monsters Throughout history, mythologies have been fundamental to societies and cultur ...Show more
Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold by Stephen Fry
Category: History | Series: Stephen Fry's Greek Myths
No one loves and quarrels, desires and deceives as boldly or brilliantly as Greek gods and goddesses. In Stephen Fry's vivid retelling we gaze in wonder as wise Athena is born from the cracking open of the great head of Zeus and follow doomed Persephone into the dark and lonely realm of the Underworld. ...Show more