The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism by Martin Wolf
$26.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A magnificent reckoning of how and why the marriage between democracy and capitalism is coming undone all over the world, and what can be done to save it We are living in an age when economic failings have shaken faith in global capitalism. Political failings have undermined trust in liberal democracy ...Show more
Growing Up Disabled in Australia by Carly Findlay
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: Growing Up
'My body and its place in the world seemed quite normal to me.' 'I didn't grow up disabled, I grew up with a problem. A problem those around me wanted to fix.' 'We have all felt that uncanny sensation that someone is watching us.' 'The diagnosis helped but it didn't fix everything.' 'Don't fear the labe ...Show more
Remote as Ever: The Aboriginal Struggle for Autonomy in Australia's Western Desert by David Scrimgeour
$39.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
In Remote as Ever, David Scrimgeour tells the story of his working life as a doctor in isolated communities in Australia's Western Desert in the late 1970s. Being involved in the Homelands movement and the Aboriginal community-controlled health campaign gave him significant insight into the strength of ...Show more
Scary Smart: The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World by Mo Gawdat
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A Sunday Times Business Book of the Year'No one ever regrets reading anything Mo Gawdat has written.' - Emma Gannon, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Multi-Hyphen Method and host of award-winning podcast Ctrl Alt Delete'Mo is an exquisite writer and speaker with deep expertise of technology . . . ...Show more
End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites and the Path of Political Disintegration by Peter Turchin
$36.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A brilliant big-picture explanation of our age of instability from the pioneering co-founder of Cliodynamics, the ground-breaking science of historyPeter Turchin, one of the most interesting thinkers today, has infused the study of history with insights from other fields for over a quarter of a century. ...Show more
Consent Laid Bare: Sex, Entitlement & the Distortion of Desire by Chanel Contos
$36.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A battle cry from a generation no longer willing to stay silent, this book is a must for women, and men, navigating desire in the age of entitlement. You are a fourteen-year-old girl at a party. You are drunk. All your friends are drunk. A boy is pressuring you to have sex. You don't really want to, but ...Show more
Keanu Reeves Is Not in Love with You - The Murky World of Online Romance by Becky Holmes
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
One woman's hilarious and fascinating quest to expose the truth behind fraudulent Twitter profiles: romance scammers beware, you have met your match! Online romance fraud is a problem across the globe. It causes financial and emotional devastation, yet many people refuse to take it seriously. This is t ...Show more
The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society by Joseph Stiglitz
$36.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A major reappraisal, by the Nobel-prizewinning economist, of the relationship between capitalism and freedom Despite its manifest failures, the narrative of neoliberalism retains its grip on the public mind and the policies of governments all over the world. By this narrative, less regulation and more ...Show more
Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty
$43.95 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality, the concentration of wealth, and the prospects for economic growth lie at the heart of political economy. But satisfactory answers have been hard to find for lack o ...Show more
Pixel Flesh: How Toxic Beauty Culture Harms Women by Ellen Atlanta
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
'I am surrounded by women who are emblems of modern feminism and #Girlboss culture. These same women admit to me in private that the hardest part of the day is getting dressed, that they Facetune their photos, obsess over diets, break down over their appearance and spend thousands on invasive treatments ...Show more
The Welcome to Country Handbook: A Guide to Indigenous Australia by Marcia Langton
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
The Welcome to Country Handbook by Professor Marcia Langton is your accessible introduction to First Nations Peoples, history and cultures. Drawn from the bestselling Welcome to Country, this guide is essential reading for every Australian, and an excellent resource for cultural awareness training in th ...Show more
Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth by Ingrid Robeyns
$55.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
We all notice when the poor get poorer- when there are more rough sleepers and food bank queues start to grow. But if the rich become richer, there is nothing much to see in public and, for most of us, daily life doesn't change. Or at least, not immediately.In this game-changing intervention, leading ph ...Show more