Our Very Own Brexit: Australia's Hollow Politics and Where It Could Lead Us by Sam Roggeveen
$12.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Society
How did Australian politics get so weird? This book argues that Australia is part of a major shift happening across the world's democracies. Pundits say populism is the big new danger, but they're wrong.Political parties are at the core of democracy, yet all over the West, big parties are hollowing out- ...Show more
The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity by Toby Ord
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Society
Humanity stands at a precipice. We live at a time of unprecedented innovation. Technology is accelerating faster than at any point in history, granting us ever greater power, and creating ever greater risk. In the twentieth century, we developed the means to destroy ourselves o without developing the mo ...Show more
Unveiled: How Western Liberals Empower Radical Islam by Yasmine Mohammed
$39.95 AUD
Category: Politics & Society
Ayaan Hirsi Ali's Infidel meets The Handmaid's Tale Since September 11th, 2001, the Western world has been preoccupied with Islam and its role in terrorism. Yet public debate about the faith is polarized--one camp praises "the religion of peace" while the other claims all Muslims are terrorists. Canadi ...Show more
Politics Is...
$19.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Society
What is populism? Is communism the same in China and Cuba? What makes a democracy? If you're not sure, this is the book for you! Look inside to find out why politics matters, and how ideas shape our world. How do ideas make the world go round? What are the political left and right? What's the difference ...Show more
Vexed: Ethics Beyond Political Tribes by James Mumford
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Society
In Vexed, James Mumford tackles the polarization of civil society across the democratic West, taking a fresh look at the existential questions and "hot button" issues that are an essential part of the politics of the Left and Right. In examining issues like the "right-to-die" movement and assisted suic ...Show more
Speaking of Race - Constructive Conversations about an Explosive Topic by Patricia Roberts-Miller
$16.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Society
From a scholar of communication, a guide to healing our fractured discourse on race and racism by infusing the topic with more constructive and enriching dialogue It's happened to virtually all of us: Someone calls something "racist," and you're not sure you agree. (Or someone calls you racist, and ...Show more
The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World by Antony Loewenstein
$35.00 AUD
Category: Politics & Society
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
Quarterly Essay 73: Australia Fair: Listening to the Nation by Rebecca Huntley
$22.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Society | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
For some time, a majority of Australians have been saying they want change - on climate and energy, on housing and inequality, on corporate donations and their corrupting effect on democracy, to name just a few.Recent attention has focused on the angry, reactionary minority. But is there a progressive c ...Show more
Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present by Yanis Varoufakis
$22.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Society
'One of my few heroes. As long as people like Varoufakis are around, there still is hope' Slavoj Zizek Imagine a world with no banks. No stock market. No tech giants. No billionaires. Imagine if Occupy and Extinction Rebellion actually won. In Another Now world-famous economist, Yanis Varoufakis, shows ...Show more
The Other Pandemic: How QAnon Contaminated the World by James Ball
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Society
Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist James Ball takes us into the depths of the internet to trace the origins and rapid ascent of QAnon, the movement that mutated from a niche online conspiracy theory into the world's first digital pandemic.*A Financial Times Book to Read in 2023* Imagine a ...Show more
How to Teach Economics to Your Dog - A Quirky Introduction by Rebecca Campbell; Anthony McGowan
$22.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Society | Series: How to Teach Ser.
A fun take on some of the biggest questions in economics, made accessible for non-experts (and dogs) Monty is a dog, not a financial genius, but economics still shapes his everyday life. Over the course of seventeen walks, Dr Rebecca Campbell chews over economic concepts and investigates how they appl ...Show more
End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites and the Path of Political Disintegration by Peter Turchin
$36.99 AUD
Category: Politics & Society
A brilliant big-picture explanation of our age of instability from the pioneering co-founder of Cliodynamics, the ground-breaking science of historyPeter Turchin, one of the most interesting thinkers today, has infused the study of history with insights from other fields for over a quarter of a century. ...Show more