Sweet Spot: How Australia Made Its Own Luck - And Could Now Throw It All Away The by Peter Hartcher
$19.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
This book will change the way you think about your country... Australians now officially have the best living conditions in the world. Our country is both fair and free - and the only developed nation to have avoided a recession in the past twenty years. So how did it happen and why don't we care? In ...Show more
The World Until Yesterday - What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? by Jared Diamond
$26.99 AUD
Category: Sociology | Reading Level: near fine
The no. 1 bestselling author of Collapse and Guns, Germs and Steel explores the profound lessons that traditional societies offer us today. Over the past 500 years, the West achieved global dominance, but do Westerners necessarily have better ideas about how to raise children, care for the elderly, or s ...Show more
Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason and the Gap Between Us and Them by Joshua Greene
$32.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Our brains were designed for tribal life, for getting along with a select group of others (Us), and for fighting off everyone else (Them). But modern life has thrust the world's tribes into a shared space, creating conflicts of interest and clashes of values, along with unprecedented opportunities. As t ...Show more
Poisoned Planet by Julian Cribb
$29.99 AUD
Category: Sustainability/Environment
From morning to night, we are surrounded by man-made chemicals, most of them untested, many of them toxic. It's the price we pay for convenient, cheap products. The effects on our health are just now becoming known. We want things to be cheap, convenient and useful. Our food arrives contaminated with pe ...Show more
The Undesirables by Mark Isaacs
$29.95 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
On Friday 19th July 2013, it was reported in the Australian media that over 150 asylum seekers had rioted and razed the Nauru Regional Processing Centre to the ground. The Nauruan community were mobilised into an emergency police force in an attempt to subdue the men. Asylum seekers, Nauruans and Austra ...Show more
Everyday Sexism by Laura Bates
$24.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
Women are standing up and #shoutingback. In a culture that's driven by social media, for the first time women are using this online space (@EverydaySexism www.everydaysexism.com) to come together, share their stories and encourage a new generation to recognise the problems that women face. This book is ...Show more
Dangerous Allies by Malcolm Fraser
$65.00 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
Australia has always been reliant on 'great and powerful friends' for its sense of national security and for direction on its foreign policyandmdash;first on the British Empire and now on the United States. Australia has actively pursued a policy of strategic dependence, believing that making a grand ba ...Show more
Dirty Secrets : Our ASIO files by Meredith Burgmann
$32.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
In this moving, funny and sometimes chilling book, leading Australians open their ASIO files and read what the state's security apparatus said about them. Writers from across the political spectrum including Mark Aarons, Phillip Adams, Nadia Wheatley, Michael Kirby, Peter Cundall, Gary Foley and Anne Su ...Show more
Atheists: The Origin of the Species by Nick Spencer
$35.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
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Unspeakable Things: Sex, Lies and Revolution by Laurie Penny
$29.99 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
'This is not a fairytale. This is a story about how sex and money and power police our dreams.' Clear-eyed, witty and irreverent, Laurie Penny is as ruthless in her dissection of modern feminism and class politics as she is in discussing her own experiences in journalism, activism and underground cultur ...Show more
Class Act by Maxine McKew
$19.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
Through a series of conversations and case studies Maxine McKew documents the transformation that's now underway in classrooms around Australia and examines the strategies that are helping to lift academic performance, particularly in some of Australia's most challenged schools. Class Act invites reflec ...Show more
Feeding Frenzy: Land Grabs, Price Spikes, and the World Food Crisis by Paul McMahon
$29.99 AUD
Category: Sustainability/Environment
"Feeding Frenzy" traces the history of the global food system and reveals the underlying causes of recent turmoil in food markets. Supplies are running short, prices keep spiking, and the media is full of talk of a world food crisis. The turmoil has unleashed some dangerous forces. Food-producing countr ...Show more