Sideshow by Lindsay Tanner
$22.95 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
The two key rules that now govern the practice of Australian politics are: (1) Look like you're doing something; and (2) Don't offend anyone who matters. These imperatives are a direct consequence of the interaction between media coverage and political activity.
The Future by Al Gore
$34.95 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
In "The Future", former US Vice President Al Gore, explores the political, social and economic forces that are shaping what America and the world will become in ensuing decades. From demographics to democracy, Gore explores what he calls the 'Drivers of Global Change', framing the international conversa ...Show more
Salt, Sugar, Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us by Michael Moss
$34.95 AUD
Category: Sociology
This is the story of how the food industry have used three essential ingredients to control much of the world's diet. In "Salt, Sugar, Fat" Michael Moss uncovers the truth about the food giants that dominate our supermarket shelves and reveals how the makers of processed foods have chosen, time and agai ...Show more
Metaphysics & the New Age by DALEY, DR PETER
$32.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
This work describes the dangers faced in the last half of the 20th.century, and the ways by which we were able to survive attacks from Outer Space; and from Hell itself which could have entered the physical world, at one stage. The rest of the book contains details of Occultism and Mysticism which chall ...Show more
Black 9/11: Money Motive and Technology by GAFFNEY, MARK H.
$29.95 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
Quarterly Essay 49: Not Dead Yet: Labor's Post-Left Future by Mark Latham
$19.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
'During the term of the Rudd and Gillard governments, criticism of the Labor Party became a national pastime.' So writes Mark Latham, a one-time leader of the party and still its most perceptive - and fiercest - critic.In Quarterly Essay 49, Latham argues that the time has come to go beyond criticism to ...Show more
Glorious Days: Australia 1913 by MICHELLE HETHERINGTON (ed)
$44.95 AUD
Category: Sociology
This richly illustrated book takes the reader into life in Australia in 1913. That year was a fascinating and important time for Australians, although the events of the following year have tended to cast a retrospective shadow over it. In places as far apart as Antarctica, Papua and Great Britain, Austr ...Show more
The Fourth Gospel by John Shelby Spong
$29.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
John Shelby Spong, bestselling author and popular proponent of a modern, scholarly and authentic Christianity, argues that this last gospel to be written was misinterpreted by the framers of the fourth-century creeds to be a literal account of the life of Jesus when in fact it is a literary, interpretiv ...Show more
Great Australian Outback School Stories by Bill Marsh
$32.99 AUD
Category: Essays | Series: Great Australian Stories
Fabulous yarns and memories of going to school and teaching in the Outback. If your teacher commuted to school in a plane; if you had to watch out for rogue bulls rather than traffic; if your daily pick-up was done by a horse - you probably went to an outback school. this collection of more than sixty s ...Show more
Dog Days: Australia After the Boom by Ross Garnaut
$19.99 AUD
Category: Sociology | Series: Redback Ser.
A blueprint for the nation after the boom. Australians have just lived through a period of exceptional prosperity, but, says influential economist Ross Garnaut, the Dog Days are on their way. Are we ready for the challenges ahead? In Dog Days, Garnaut explains how we got here, what we can expect ...Show more
Broken Tablets: Restoring the Ten Commandments by MIKVA RACHEL
$39.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Smarter Than You Think: How Technology is Changing Our Minds for the Better by Clive Thompson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
From the 'Wired' and 'New York Times Magazine' contributor, a brilliant examination into how the internet is profoundly changing the way we think. In this groundbreaking book, Clive Thompson argues that the internet is boosting our brainpower, encouraging new ways of thinking, and making us more - not l ...Show more