Oil Under Troubled Water by Bernard Collaery
$39.99 AUD
Category: Politics
In May 2018 Bernard Collaery, a former Attorney-General of the Australian Capital Territory and long-term legal counsel to the government of East Timor, was charged with conspiracy to breach the Intelligence Services Act 2001. He was forbidden from talking about the charges against him, but under parlia ...Show more
Feminism: Ideas in Profile by Deborah Cameron
$22.99 AUD
Category: Gender | Series: Ideas in Profile Ser.
'Feminism' wrote Marie Shear in 1986, 'is the radical notion that women are people'. But, simple and powerful though this definition is, feminism is not a single, clear narrative. It doesn't begin with a specific event at a particular moment in time, it can't be identified with any one political organiz ...Show more
Joseph Akeroyd: Rediscovering a Prison Reformer by Ron Wilson
$20.99 AUD
Category: Social & Cultural Notes
School teacher Joseph Akeroyd was appointed Inspector General of Victoria's prison system in 1924. He held this role until 1947 becoming the longest serving Inspector General in Victoria's history. This book examines the experiences, achievements and failures of Joseph Akeroyd, the longest serving Inspe ...Show more
Cruel Care A History of Children at Our Borders by Jordana Silverstein
$34.99 AUD
Category: World Matters: Social Cultural, Philosophy, Psychology, Spirituality
A ground-breaking history of Australia’s treatment of child refugees Cruel Care tells a story of government, politics and the emotions that drive decisions. It asks why Australia has treated child refugees with violence and why governments say that the cruel acts they perpetrate are a form of care. Ba ...Show more
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
Data Grab: The new Colonialism of Big Tech and how to fight back by Ulises A. Mejias, Nick Couldry
$36.99 AUD
Category: World Matters: Social Cultural, Philosophy, Psychology, Spirituality
If you're not paying for the product, then you are the product. In the past, colonialism was a landgrab of natural resources, exploitative labour and private property from developing countries. It made shiny promises to modernise and civilise, but actually sought to control. It made native populations s ...Show more
Domestic Economic Abuse by Supriya Singh
$94.99 AUD
Category: World Matters: Social Cultural, Philosophy, Psychology, Spirituality
Supriya Singh tells the stories of 12 Anglo-Celtic and Indian women in Australia who survived economic abuse. She describes the lived experience of coercive control underlying economic abuse across cultures. Each story shows how the woman was entrapped and lost her freedom because her husband denied he ...Show more
Justice and Hope: Essays, Lectures and Other Writings by Raimond Gaita
$65.00 AUD
Category: World Matters: Social Cultural, Philosophy, Psychology, Spirituality
The collected writings of Raimond Gaita 'From where will we draw the moral energy to stay true to justice?' For more than three decades the incomparable voice of Raimond Gaita has been summoning us to new conversations that deepen our understanding of what matters most to human life and awaken the sen ...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