Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution by Adrienne Rich
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Category: Social Issues
The pathbreaking investigation into motherhood and womanhood from an influential and enduring feminist voice,now for a new generation. In Of Woman Born, originally published in 1976, influential poet and feminist Adrienne Rich examines the patriarchic systems and political institutions that define moth ...Show more
On the Grid: Australian Electricity in Transition by Guillaume Roger (Ed.)
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Category: Social Issues
Around the world and within Australia an energy transition is occurring. While engineering solutions are being developed to facilitate this transformation, the institutions governing Australia’s electricity market are failing to adjust rapidly enough to the new energy mix and to the demands on the power ...Show more
Origin Story: A Big History Of Everything by David Christian
21.99 AUD
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Category: History | Series: Australian
How did we get from the Big Bang to today's staggering complexity, in which seven billion humans are connected into networks powerful enough to transform the planet? And why, in comparison, are our closest primate relatives reduced to near-extinction?Big History creator David Christian gives the answers ...Show more
Pagan Britain by Ronald Hutton
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Category: History
Britain's pagan past, with its mysterious monuments, atmospheric sites, enigmatic artifacts, bloodthirsty legends, and cryptic inscriptions, is both enthralling and perplexing to a resident of the twenty-first century. In this ambitious and thoroughly up-to-date book, Ronald Hutton reveals the long deve ...Show more
Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths by Natalie Haynes
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Category: Ancient History/Mythology
Natalie Haynes is the nation's muse' Adam Rutherford The Greek myths are among the world's most important cultural building blocks and they have been retold many times, but rarely do they focus on the remarkable women at the heart of these ancient stories. Stories of gods and monsters are the mainstay o ...Show more
Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World by Irene Vallejo
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Category: History
Best Books of 2022 - Financial Times ... 'A literary phenomenon.' - Times Literary Supplement ... 'Imaginative, lively and contemporary...masterly.' - Economist ... 'Vallejo enlivens history with imagination and personal anecdote' - Observer ... 'A mindboggling history of the earliest books... the stor ...Show more
Persians: The Age of The Great Kings by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
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Category: History
A stunning portrait of the magnificent splendor and enduring legacy of ancient Persia The Achaemenid Persian kings ruled over the largest empire of antiquity, stretching from Libya to the steppes of Asia and from Ethiopia to Pakistan. From the palace-city of Persepolis, Cyrus the Great, Darius, Xerxes, ...Show more
Pharaohs of the Sun - How Egypt's Despots and Dreamers Drove the Rise and Fall of Tutankhamun's Dynasty by Guy de la Bedoyere
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Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
In 1922, a century ago, the most sensational archaeological discovery of all time was made. When Tutankhamun's tomb was found in Egypt's Valley of the Kings, the contents staggered the world and have done so ever since.Tutankhamun, so obscure he was almost forgotten after his rule, was one of the last k ...Show more
Poison - The History of Potions, Powders and Murderous Practitioners by Ben Hubbard
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Category: History
Chronologically recounting the story of history's silent assassin, Poison documents the gripping tales of the users and victims of these mysterious substances, from Cleopatra, the Borgias and Qin Shi Huang to contemporary secret service agents and terrorists. Profiles of the most commonly used toxins of ...Show more
Princes in the Tower: Solving History's Greatest Cold Case by Philippa Langley
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Category: History
Philippa Langley took the world by storm when, against all the odds and a seven-year investigation, she discovered the grave of King Richard III (1452-1485) in a Leicester car park. A king finally laid to rest, the rediscovery and reburial of Richard III was watched by an estimated global audience of ov ...Show more
Pure Flame: On Mothers and Daughters by Michelle Orange
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Category: Social Issues
'Rich and moving' New York Times'A book that expands and breaks your heart' Adelle WaldmanA revelatory enquiry into selfhood, freedom, mortality, storytelling, and what it means to be a mother's daughterDuring one of the texting sessions that became our habit over the period I now think of as both late ...Show more
Queer Intentions - A (Personal) Journey Through LGBTQ + Culture by Amelia Abraham
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Category: Social Issues
'Eloquent, empathetic and passionate, this book will not just resonate with a new generation of queer people, but with all those who seek to be their allies. A brilliant book.' - Owen Jones Today, the options and freedoms on offer to LGBTQ+ people living in the West are greater than ever before. But is ...Show more