In Search of Good Government: Great Expectations & Political Amnesia by Laura Tingle
$22.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
With the politics of rage and resentment dominating many Western nations, including Australia, Laura Tingle's calm, perceptive analysis is more relevant than ever. What has happened to good government? Can Malcolm Turnbull apply the lessons of the past to put things right? When leaders surf the wave of ...Show more
Watching Out: Reflections on Justice and Injustice by Julian Burnside
$29.99 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
When put to the test, most people have difficulty identifying what justice is, especially when there is tension between proper process and a desired result. Due process is inherent in our conception of justice. But bad process can yield the right result, just as good process can produce the wrong result ...Show more
How to Fall in Love With Anyone: A Memoir in Essays by Mandy Len Catron
$32.99 AUD
Category: Essays
In 2014, 33-year- old Mandy Len Catron went on a date with an acquaintance. They decided to try an experiment: inspired by a study designed to create romantic feelings, Mandy and Mark spent the evening asking each other 36 increasingly intimate questions, wondering if it would lead to them falling in lo ...Show more
Inside Pine Gap: The Spy Who Came in from the Desert by David Rosenberg
$35.00 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
In 1966, Australia and the US signed a treaty that allowed the establishment of a jointly run satellite tracking station, just south of Alice Springs. For more than forty years it has operated in a shroud of secrecy and been the target of much public and political controversy. For the first time, a US h ...Show more
Total Propaganda: Basic Marxist Brainwashing for the Angry and the Young by Helen Razer
$27.99 AUD
Category: Essays
Marxism and socialism explained for a younger readership
What Happened by Hillary Rodham Clinton
$45.00 AUD
Category: Political / Economic | Reading Level: very good
“In the past, for reasons I try to explain, I’ve often felt I had to be careful in public, like I was up on a wire without a net. Now I’m letting my guard down.” —Hillary Rodham Clinton, from the introduction of What Happened For the first time, Hillary Rodham Clinton reveals what she was thinking and f ...Show more
Talking to my Daughter About the Economy - A Brief History of Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis
$29.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic | Reading Level: very good
Yanis Varoufakis, the bestselling author of Adults in the Room, uses personal stories and famous myths to explain what economics is and why it has the power to change our world. Why is there so much inequality?In this intimate and accessible book, world famous economist Yanis Varoufakis sets out to answ ...Show more
Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump's America by Samhita Mukhopadhyay
$24.99 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
The 2016 election of Donald Trump to the U.S. presidency was a devastating blow to marginalised people around the country - immigrants, Muslims, the LBTQ community, and black Americans. Intersecting with every one of those groups were women, who despaired over the halt in progress of their rights as eq ...Show more
What's Yours Is Mine: Against the Sharing Economy by Tom Slee
$29.99 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
A razor-sharp examination of the 'sharing economy'.Uber. Airbnb. Taskrabbit. Lyft. In recent years, companies like these have flooded the global market, supposedly the vanguard of a rethinking of capitalism. They've styled themselves as disrupters of the 'old order', but this new wave of technology comp ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 68: Without America: Australia in the New Asia by Hugh White
$22.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic | Series: Quarterly Essay
America is fading, and China will soon be the dominant power in our region. What does this mean for Australia's future? In this controversial and urgent essay, Hugh White shows that the contest between America and China is classic power politics of the harshest kind. He argues that we are heading for a ...Show more
The Australian Face: Essays From the Sydney Review of Books by James Ley
$29.99 AUD
Category: Essays
The Sydney Review of Books is Australia's leading space for longform literary criticism. Now celebrating five years online, the SRB has published more than five hundred essays by almost two hundred writers. To mark this occasion, The Australian Face collects some of the best essays published in the SRB ...Show more
Indigenous and Other Australians Since 1901 by Tim Rowse
$45.00 AUD
Category: Essays
As Australia became a nation in 1901, no one anticipated that 'Aboriginal affairs' would become an on-going national preoccupation. Not 'dying out' as predicted, Aboriginal numbers recovered and - along with Torres Strait Islanders - they became an articulate presence, aggrieved at colonial authority's ...Show more