Collection: Adult Non Fiction - Society & Culture

A powerful, personal and compelling book on the challenges facing our world, from one of Australia's most experienced journalists and international commentators, Stan Grant. History is turning. In only a few short decades, we have come a long way from Francis Fukuyama's declaration of the 'end of...

A powerful message to help women break free from comparison and competition, embrace God's purpose, and realize a life without rival.

A masterful and deeply troubling expose, "Witness" is the culmination of almost five years' work for investigative journalist Louise Milligan. Charting the experiences of those who have the courage to come forward and face their abusers in high-profile child abuse and sexual assault cases, Millig...

Britain's best known classicist Mary Beard shows how history has treated powerful women. With examples ranging from Medusa and Athena to Theresa May and Elizabeth Warren, Beard explores the cultural underpinnings of misogyny, considering the public voice of women, how we look at women who exercis...

What if you aren't depressed? What if you don't have chronic fatigue? What if you are just... angry? In a world where patience is a virtue and being a good girl is for life, women are never allowed to truly express their anger - and it is making us ill. After a lifetime of being told to repress i...

This book will tell you to... love sex, hate sexism, protect your goddamn energy, life is short, dump them, and that you owe men nothing, least of all pretty. Florence's debut book explores all progressive corners of the feminist conversation; from insecurity projection and refusing to find comfo...

Jacqueline Rose's new book begins with three remarkable women: revolutionary socialist Rosa Luxemburg; German-Jewish painter Charlotte Salomon, persecuted by family tragedy and Nazism; film icon and consummate performer Marilyn Monroe. Together these women have a shared story to tell, as they bla...

Anne Aly, Liz Byrski, Sarah Drummond, Mehreen Faruqi, Goldie Goldbloom, Krissy Kneen, Jeanine Leane, Brigid Lowry and Pat Mamanyjun Torres are among fifteen voices recounting what it is like to be a woman on the other side of 40. These are stories of identity and survival, and a celebration of ge...

Thirty women philosophers explore topics of pressing interest for today. Their ideas are discussed in lively interviews from Philosophy Bites, the world's foremost philosophy podcast. These conversations illuminate diverse aspects of being human -- personal, social, and political -- for anyone in...

A practical and inspiring guide to hosting women's circles of your own. Including the history of circles, the importance of gathering, and steps for hosting 35 different rituals with the women in your life -- a bridal blessing, mamahood blessing, memorial circle, new love circle, grief circle, su...