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Little Big Men: Bodybuilding Subculture and Gender Construction by Alan M. Klein
$14.00 NZD
Category: Social Science | Series: SUNY Series on Sport, Culture, and Social Relations Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Little Big Men is a study of competitive bodybuilders on the West Coast that examines the subculture from the perspective of bodybuilders' everyday activities. It offers fascinating descriptions and insightful analogies of an important and understudied subculture that has risen to widespread popularity ...Show more
On Disruption by Katharine Murphy
$5.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Series: On Series | Reading Level: near fine
The internet has shaken the foundations of life: public and private lives are wrought by the 24-hour, seven-day-a-week news cycle that means no one is ever off duty. On Disruption is a report from the coalface of that change: what has happened, will it keep happening, and is there any way out of the cha ...Show more
On Doubt by Leigh Sales
$5.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Series: On Series | Reading Level: near fine
Her classic personal essay carries a message of truth, scrutiny and accountability--a much-needed'pocket-sized antidote to fake news. Donald Trump, the post-truth world and the instability of Australian politics are all examined ?in this fresh take on her prescient essay on the media and political tren ...Show more
On Father by John Birmingham
$5.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Series: On Series | Reading Level: near fine
John Birmingham's father died. And his life fell apart. The next six months were spent grinding through the dark forests of depression until he finally emerged out of the darkness onto sunlit upland. A unique yet universal story, On Father reaches out to everyone who has experienced and survived deep gr ...Show more
On Hope by Daisy Jeffrey
$6.00 NZD
Category: Ecology | Series: On ... Series | Reading Level: near fine
As extreme weather becomes the norm, scientists agree that our climate is changing. But it seems too many of our leaders aren't listening to the science and are failing to act. In On Hope, one of the lead organisers of the Australian Climate strike, 17-year-old Daisy Jeffrey shows how ordinary people ar ...Show more
On Identity by Stan Grant
$5.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Series: On Series | Reading Level: near fine
Stan Grant asks why when it comes to identity he is asked to choose between black and white. Is identity a myth? A constructed story we tell ourselves? Tribalism, nationalism and sectarianism are dividing the world into us and them. Communities are a tinderbox of anger and resentment. He passionately ho ...Show more
On Lust & Longing by Blanche d'Alpuget
$5.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Series: On Series | Reading Level: near fine
On Lust and On Longing together for the first time. When On Lust was first published it caused a media sensation: Blanche d'Alpuget wrote of a pillar of society who had molested children and of events that ended in mystery. Now she reveals all. On Longing caused a similar sensation, for different reason ...Show more
On Mother by Sarah Ferguson
$5.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Series: On Series | Reading Level: near fine
A mother's love over decades and across continents. The sudden death of Sarah's mother reveals their relationship with poignant clarity and shows her the individual who existed beyond motherhood. A reflection on mothers and daughters.
On Mutiny by David Speers
$5.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Series: On Series | Reading Level: near fine
Why was Malcolm Turnbull removed and how did Scott Morrison emerge as Australia's thirtieth prime minister? On Mutinyis the inside story, a blow-by-blow expose of the plotting, double dealing and numbers game by politicians in the most brutal period in Australian politics since the Dismissal. If w ...Show more
On Quiet by Nikki Gemmell
$5.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Series: On Series | Reading Level: near fine
International bestselling author Nikki Gemmell writes on the power of quiet in today's shouty world.Quiet comes as a shock in these troubled times.Quietism means 'devotional contemplation and abandonment of the will ... a calm acceptance of things as they are'. Gemmell makes the case for why quiet is st ...Show more
On Violence by Natasha Stott Despoja
$5.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Series: On Series | Reading Level: near fine
Why is violence against women endemic, and how do we stop it?Every two minutes, police are called to a family violence matter. Every week, a woman is killed by a current or former partner.This is Australia's national emergency.Violence against women is preventable. It is not an inevitable part of the hu ...Show more
Stepchildren of Nature: Krafft-Ebing, Psychiatry, and the Making of Sexual Identity by Harry Oosterhuis
$15.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Series: The\Chicago Series on Sexuality, History, and Society Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Psychiatrist Richard von Krafft-Ebing (1840-1902) played a key role in the construction of the modern concept of sexuality. As the author of the famous "Psychopathia sexualis," he named and classified virtually all nonprocreative sexualities, synthesizing knowledge on sadism, masochism, fetishism, homos ...Show more
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