The Book Collectors of Daraya: A Band of Syrian Rebels, Their Underground Library, and the Stories that Carried Them Through a War by Delphine Minoui
$19.99 AUD
Category: Politics
'There is no jail that can imprison the free word, nor is there a siege tight enough that can prevent the spread of information.' - Mazen Darwish, Syrian human rights activist, in a speech given on April 23, 2016, following his release from jail in 2015. In 2012 the rebel suburb of Daraya in Damascus w ...Show more
The Beauties by Lauren Chater
$32.99 AUD
Category: World Matters: Social Cultural, Philosophy, Psychology, Spirituality
An incomparable beauty. A promise to a king. A portrait that can never be completed. In the seventeenth-century court of King Charles II, Anne Hyde, the Duchess of York has commissioned a series of ten paintings of the most beautiful women in the entourage. She hopes her series will capture something m ...Show more
Not Now, Not Ever: Ten Years On From the Misogyny Speech by Julia Gillard
$24.99 AUD
Category: Gender
This is a barn-burning piece of Australian feminist history in the making.MATILDA, BETTER READ THAN DEADThen it was done. After staying silent, I'd had my say. At no time did I feel worked up or hotly angry. I felt strong, measured, controlled. Yet emotion did play its role in the energy of the speech. ...Show more
Erasing Palestine: Free Speech and Palestinian Freedom by Rebecca Ruth Gould
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Having been accused of antisemitism for writing an account of the injustices she witnessed in Palestine, Rebecca Ruth Gould embarks on a journey to understand how the fight against antisemitism has been weaponized not to defend civil rights, but to deny them. In this exploration, she comes to a broader ...Show more
Three Fires by Denise Mina
$24.99 AUD
Category: World Matters: Social Cultural, Philosophy, Psychology, Spirituality
In Three Fires, award-winning author Denise Mina re-imagines the 'Bonfire of the Vanities', a series of fires lit throughout Florence at the end of the fifteenth century - inspired by the fanatical Girolamo Savonarola. Girolamo Savonarola was a Dominican friar living in Florence at the tail end of the ...Show more
The Greatest Evil is War by Chris Hedges
$27.99 AUD
Category: Social & Cultural Notes
Now with a new preface for the paperback edition by the author, an unflinching indictment of the horror and obscenity of war by one of our finest war correspondents. Drawn from experience and interviews by Pulitzer-prize-winner Chris Hedges, a devastating look the hidden costs of war, what it does to in ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 93: Bad Cop: Peter Dutton's Strongman Politics by Lech Blaine
$27.99 AUD
Category: World Matters: Social Cultural, Philosophy, Psychology, Spirituality
Where will Dutton lead the Coalition? A portrait of Peter Dutton, as well as a modern interrogation of the Australian suburbs and the people who live there. 2022 saw the splintering of the Liberal Party's electoral coalition. Influential conservatives have urged Peter Dutton to forget about the seats l ...Show more
The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality by Angus Deaton
$34.99 AUD
Category: Economics
The world is a better place than it used to be. People are healthier, wealthier, and live longer. Yet the escapes from destitution by so many has left gaping inequalities between people and nations. In The Great Escape, Angus Deaton--one of the foremost experts on economic development and on poverty--te ...Show more
The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World by Antony Loewenstein
$35.00 AUD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: very good
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
Best Wishes by Richard Glover
$34.99 AUD
Category: World Matters: Social Cultural, Philosophy, Psychology, Spirituality
Making the world a better, less annoying place one wish at a time.Do you hate noisy restaurants, pre-ripped jeans and pedestrians who walk five abreast? Do you also have a problem with plastic-wrapped fruit, climate-change deniers and take-away sandwiches priced at $14.95? And, most of all, do you thin ...Show more
We Need To Talk About Xi: What we need to know about the world's most powerful leader by Michael Dillon
$24.99 AUD
Category: World Matters: Social Cultural, Philosophy, Psychology, Spirituality
A short, urgent book that sorts the fact from the fiction about Xi Jinping - one of the world's most powerful political leaders - to truly understand how he came to power, his hold on China and why we should care. Meet the most powerful leader in the world. Chinese premier Xi Jinping graces our televisi ...Show more