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
Badly Behaved Women: The History of Modern Feminism by Anna-Marie Crowhurst
Category: Sociology
Badly Behaved Women is the illustrated story of the past 100 years of the women's movement, from suffrage, alleged bra burning and the politics of hair to Beyoncé, body positivity and #MeToo. In the early twentieth century, through ceaseless dedication and fearless campaigning, the women's movement ac ...Show more
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
Heroes: The myths of the Ancient Greek heroes retold by Stephen Fry
Category: History | Series: Stephen Fry's Greek Myths
Mortals and Monsters. Quests and Adventures . . . There are Heroes - and then there are Greek Heroes. Few mere mortals have ever embarked on such bold and heart-stirring adventures, overcome myriad monstrous perils, or outwitted scheming vengeful gods, quite as stylishly and triumphantly as Greek heroes ...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
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
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
The Penguin Book of Norse Myths: Gods of the Vikings by Kevin Crossley-Holland
Category: History
The extraordinary Scandinavian myth cycle is one of the most enduring, exciting, dramatic and compelling of the world's great stories.A series of intertwined tales which together form a strange and fantastical world teeming with gods and goddesses, heroes and monsters, battles and couplings, the Norse m ...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