Labor People: The Stories of Six True Believers by Chris Bowen
$29.95 AUD
Category: Politics
How much do you know about the history of Australia’s oldest political party, the Australian Labor Party? You know the big names: Curtin, Chifley, Whitlam, Hawke and Keating. But what about the names behind the big names? The unsung and overlooked True Believers who have been the backbone of the Labor P ...Show more
Our Biggest Experiment - The Scientists, Inventors and Activists Who Made, Discovered and Challenged the Climate Crisis by Alice Bell
$32.99 AUD
Category: Environment
It was Eunice Newton Foote, an American scientist and women's rights campaigner living in Seneca Falls, New York, who first warned the world that an atmosphere heavy with carbon dioxide could send temperatures here on Earth soaring. This was back in 1856. At the time, no one paid much attention.Our Bigg ...Show more
Jacinda Ardern: Leading With Empathy by Supriya Vani, Carl A Harte
$37.99 AUD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: very good
Jacinda Ardern: Leading with Empathy is a major biography of one of the most important and inspirational leaders of the twenty-first century, based on interviews with the New Zealand Prime Minister herself. Jacinda Ardern was swept into office in 2017, with a wave of popular adulation dubbed ‘Jacindaman ...Show more
Population Shock (In the National Interest) by Abul Rizvi
$19.95 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
Long-term population directions, in terms of both size and age composition, drive the destiny of all nations. While for decades we have worried about global overpopulation, it is far more likely that the period 1950–2050 will be an extraordinary population growth shock, culminating in severe population ...Show more
Cartoonists Against Racism The Secret Jewish War on Bigotry by Craig Yoe, RAFAEL MEDOFF
$37.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Horrific scenes of anti-Jewish violence in Europe filled the newsreels in American theaters in the 1930s and 1940s. What could be done to make sure it didn't happen in America? One Jewish organization hit upon a remarkable idea-to enlist some of America's most beloved cartoonists to wage a war on bigotr ...Show more
'Unto This Last' & Other Writings by John Ruskin
$29.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Classics Ser.
First and foremost an outcry against injustice and inhumanity, Unto this Last is also a closely argued assault on the science of political economy, which dominated the Victorian period. Ruskin was a profoundly conservative man who looked back to the Middle Ages as a Utopia, yet his ideas had a considera ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 75: Men at Work: Australia's Parenthood Trap by Annabel Crabb
$22.99 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: Quarterly Essay # 7 | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
When New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced her pregnancy, the headlines raced around the world. But when Scott Morrison and Josh Frydenberg became the first Prime Minister and Treasurer duo since the 1970s to take on those roles while bringing up primary-school-aged children, this detail p ...Show more
Democracy and its Crisis by A C Grayling
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: good-very good
Prompted by the EU referendum in the UK and the presidential election in the USA, A. C. Grayling investigates why the institutions of representative democracy seem unable to hold up against forces they were designed to manage, and why, crucially, it matters. First he considers moments in history - Peric ...Show more
Trumpedia by Dominic Knight
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics
A bitingly funny satire on the world of Donald Trump, from the author of the Christmas bestseller Strayapedia.
A Short History of Brexit by Kevin O'Rourke
$35.00 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: Pelican Bks.
A succinct, expert guide to how we got to Brexit After all the debates, manoeuvrings, recriminations and exaltations, Brexit is upon us. But, as Kevin O'Rourke writes, Brexit did not emerge out of nowhere: it is the culmination of events that have been under way for decades and have historical roots str ...Show more
Quantum Economics - The New Science of Money by David Orrell
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics
A decade after the financial crisis, there is a growing consensus that economics has failed and needs to go back to the drawing board. David Orrell argues that it has been trying to solve the wrong problem all along. Economics sees itself as the science of scarcity. Instead, it should be the science of ...Show more
Remembering Bob by Sue Pieters-Hawke (Editor); Louise Swinn (Editor)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: 3 Biography
Bob Hawke's death in May 2019 sparked national mourning across the country as we remembered just how important Bob had been in the shaping of modern Australia. In an age when political personas have become increasingly formulaic and predictable, Bob was a man of glorious contradictions. He was a Rhodes ...Show more