Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia by Anita Heiss
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: Growing Up
Childhood stories of family, country and belonging What is it like to grow up Aboriginal in Australia? This anthology, compiled by award-winning author Anita Heiss, showcases many diverse voices, experiences and stories in order to answer that question. Accounts from well-known authors and high-profile ...Show more
It's OK To Be Angry About Capitalism by Bernie Sanders
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A takedown of the status quo that has enriched a few billionaires at the expense of the rest of us - and a blueprint for real change It's OK to be angry about capitalism. It's OK to want something better. Bernie Sanders takes on the 1% and speaks blunt truths about a system that is rigged against ord ...Show more
Nomad Century by Gaia Vince
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
We are facing a species emergency. With every degree of temperature rise, a billion people will be displaced from the zone in which humans have lived for thousands of years. From Bangladesh to Sudan to the western United States, and in cities from Cardiff to New Orleans to Shanghai, the quadruple threat ...Show more
Irresistible: How Cuteness Wired our Brains and Conquered the World by Joshua Paul Dale
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
The psychology and biology behind what we find cute, and how cuteness has shaped cultures around the world.
Who's Afraid of Gender? by Judith Butler
$55.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
From a global icon, a bold, essential account of how a fear of gender is fuelling reactionary politics around the world Judith Butler, the ground-breaking philosopher whose work has redefined how we think about gender and sexuality, confronts the attacks on gender that have become central to right-wing ...Show more
Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen
$36.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
We could have an uninhabitable earth in a century. It could take 26 minutes and 40 seconds. An edge-of-your-seat non-fiction thriller that has to be read to be believed. Up to now, no one outside of official circles has known exactly what would happen if a rogue state launched a nuclear missile at the ...Show more
When Friday Comes by James Montague
$39.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
'Passionate and moving and provides further evidence of the universality of football' Jonathan Wilson, FourFourTwoThe definitive story of the Middle East's unstoppable rise to football superpower, and the road to the Qatar World CupWhen James Montague first began covering football in the Middle East two ...Show more
Free and Equal: What Would a Fair Society Look Like? by Daniel Chandler
$55.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
In this ambitious and uplifting debut, Daniel Chandler argues that the ideas of John Rawls - the twentieth century’s greatest political philosopher - have the potential to transform society for the better, ending years of escalating inequality, democratic erosion, and culture wars. Taking Rawls’s egalit ...Show more
The Givenness of Things by Marilynne Robinson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Robinson has plumbed the depths of the human spirit in her trilogy of novels - Pulitzer Prize-winning Gilead, Orange-Prize winning Home and National Book Critics Circle Award-winning Lila - and in her moving essay collection When I Was a Child I Read Books. Now, in The Givenness of Things, she brings a ...Show more
Eurowhiteness - Culture, Empire and Race in the European Project by Hans Kundnani
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
The European Union is often seen as a cosmopolitan rejection of violent nationalism. Yet the idea of Europe has a long, problematic history--in medieval times, it was synonymous with Christianity; in the modern era, it became associated with "whiteness." Eurowhiteness exposes the EU as a vehicle for im ...Show more
The Politics of Time: Gaining Control in the Age of Uncertainty by Guy Standing
$55.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
The renowned radical economist Guy Standing turns his attention to our time, and how to reclaim it Time has always been political. Throughout history, how we use our time has been defined and controlled by the powerful, and today is no exception. But we can reclaim control, and in this book, the pioneer ...Show more
On Hope by Daisy Jeffrey
$16.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: On ... Series
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