Abandon Every Hope: Essays for the Dead by Hayley Singer
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
Abandon Every Hope mournfully investigates the literatures of the slaughterhouse and a world motivated by profitable death, to ultimately ask- where does this horror begin and how can it end?;Can anyone smell the suffering of souls? Of sadness, of hell on earth? Hell, I imagine, has a smell that bloats ...Show more
The Trial of Vladimir Putin by Geoffrey Robertson QC
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
There have been dozens of books about the Russian President since he launched his illegal invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Some have examined the historical aspects of the conflict, others have analysed its military and geopolitical importance. However, none so far have looked purely at the legal c ...Show more
Kin: Family in the 21st century by Marina Kamenev
$36.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
Written by journalist Marina Kamenev, Kin: Family in the 21st century is an incisive and powerful look at how families are created today, and how they might be created in the future. Here’s an exercise: take a piece of paper. Grab a pen, pencil, crayon — any drawing utensil within reach. Now, draw a ty ...Show more
No Silly Questions: The Daily Aus explains how the world works (and why you should care) by Sam Koslowski, Zara Seidler
$35.00 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
Understand the news stories that matter. Be part of the important conversations. And feel confident - whether you're walking into a date, a work event or a voting booth. From the creators of the phenomenally successful news service The Daily Aus comes your ultimate playbook for how the world works.Do yo ...Show more
How Many More Women?: Exposing how the law silences women by Jennifer Robinson, Keina Yoshida
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
This book is about a movement. A movement made up of women and men around the world who are no longer afraid to speak out about violence, abuse, harassment, sexism, abuse of power and patriarchy. A movement which started with the courage of a number of women in the media and advertising industries and h ...Show more
What About Men? by Caitlin Moran
$35.00 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
A frank, funny and galvanising exploration of masculinity, and a manifesto for male allyship, from million-copy bestseller and feminist powerhouse Caitlin Moran. As any feminist who talks about the problems of girls and women will know, the first question you will ever be asked is 'But what about MEN?' ...Show more
Pandemedia - How Covid Changed Journalism by Tracey Kirkland and Gavin Fang (eds)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
If journalism is the first draft of history, what will it say about Covid? The Covid-19 pandemic ripped through the world with no regard for borders, age, status or wealth. It was brutal in its impact and created a raft of new social norms. And without warning, the pandemic changed journalism, in some ...Show more
The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World by Antony Loewenstein
$35.00 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
Bestselling journalist Antony Loewenstein uncovers the widespread commercialisation and brutal deployment globally of Israel's occupation-enforcing technologies. For more than 50 years, the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza has given the Israeli state invaluable experience in controlling an 'enemy' p ...Show more
Rogue Corporations: Inside Australia’s biggest business scandals by Quentin Beresford
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
Crown Casino, the Bond Group, James Hardie, HIH Insurance, Geoffrey Edelsten’s Allied Medical Group, 7 Eleven and Rio Tinto, the list goes on…Award-winning author Quentin Beresford has dissected the rise and fall of the Gunns logging company and analysed the proposed Adani mine and our greatest river sy ...Show more
Vulture Capitalism: Corporate crimes, backdoor bailouts, and the death of freedom by Grace Blakeley
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
All over the world, democracy is in crisis. Liberal political systems are straining under the pressure imposed by authoritarian strong men undermining institutions, the rule of law and the international system that governs relations between countries. Obvious examples include Donald Trump and Boris John ...Show more
Griffith Review 83 Past Perfect
$27.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Griffith Review Ser.
The past, famously, is a foreign country — but in the twenty-first century, it’s one in which we increasingly seek solace. No matter the relentless pace of technological innovation and the digitisation of everything from money to media – our appetites for retro design and aesthetics, for cultural produc ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 92: The Great Divide: Australia's Housing Mess and How to Fix It by Alan Kohler
$27.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Current Affairs
What caused Australia's housing crisis - and how we might fix it One of the great mysteries of Australian life is that a land of sweeping plains, with one of the lowest population densities on the planet, has a shortage of land for houses. As a result, Sydney's median house price is the second most exp ...Show more