Rules For Radicals by Saul Alinsky
$26.99 AUD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: General Adult
First published in 1971, Rules for Radicals is Saul Alinsky's impassioned counsel to young radicals on how to effect constructive social change and know "the difference between being a realistic radical and being a rhetorical one." Written in the midst of radical political developments whose direction A ...Show more
Bad People - and How to Be Rid of Them: A Plan B for Human Rights by Geoffrey Robertson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Twenty years ago Geoffrey Robertson inspired the global justice movement with his ground-breaking book, Crimes Against Humanity. Since then, the movement has stalled, as nationalism takes hold and populist governments retreat from international courts and refuse to comply with their rulings.But there is ...Show more
Sex, Lies and Question Time: Why the successes and struggles of women in Australia’s parliament matter to us all by Kate Ellis
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics
In 2017, a survey showed zero per cent of young Australian women would consider entering politics. Zero. In a time when we critically need women in our parliament, and in a country that was an early leader in women's political participation, there is a perception that women and politics don’t mix. Shoc ...Show more
Why First-borns Rule the World and Later-borns Want to Change It: Revised and updated by Michael Grose
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics
There are many factors affecting a child's personality and the adult they become, but the least understood is birth order. Why is it that children in a family can share the same gene pool, a similar socio-economic environment and experience similar parenting styles yet have fundamentally different perso ...Show more
The Nordic Edge: Policy Possibilities for Australia by Andrew Scott, Rod Campbell
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics
How the Nordic approach can shape Australia's future for betterClimate and energy. Work/life balance. Mining taxes. Progress on policy issues like these is essential, and yet they have become subject to the most rancorous partisanship, the precipitation of culture wars, and have brought down governments ...Show more
A Narrative of Denial: Australia and the Indonesian Violation of East Timor by Peter Job
$39.99 AUD
Category: Politics
The Indonesian invasion of East Timor in 1975 led to a prolonged conflict, severe human rights abuses and a large loss of life. From 1975 to 1983 the Indonesian military's campaign of 'encirclement and annihilation' destroyed rural food resources, creating the famine that took most of the lives lost dur ...Show more
Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy by Adam Tooze
$35.00 AUD
Category: Politics
From the author of Crashed comes a short, high-speed history of how Covid-19 ravaged the global economy, and where it leaves us nowWhen the news first began to trickle out of China about a new virus in December 2019, risk-averse financial markets were alert to its potential for disruption. Yet they coul ...Show more
Postliberal Politics: The Coming Era of Renewal by Adrian Pabst
$30.95 AUD
Category: Politics
Hyper-capitalism and extreme identity politics are driving us to distraction. Both destroy the basis of a common life shared across ages and classes. The COVID-19 crisis could accelerate these tendencies further, or it could herald something more hopeful: a post-liberal moment. Adrian Pabst argues that ...Show more
Fascism: A Warning by Madeleine Albright
$22.99 AUD
Category: Politics
The #1 NYT BESTSELLER A personal and urgent examination of Fascism in the twentieth century and how its legacy shapes today's world, written by one of America's most admired public servants, the first woman to serve as U.S. secretary of state. “There is priceless wisdom on every page.” Kirkus Starred re ...Show more
Treason to Whiteness Is Loyalty to Humanity by Noel Ignatiev; David R. Roediger (Foreword by); Zhandarka Kurti (Editor); Geer Dhondt (Editor); Jarrod Shanahan (Editor)
$39.99 AUD
Category: Politics
A new collection of essays from the bomb-throwing intellectual who described the historical origins and evolution of whiteness and white supremacy, and taught us how we might destroy it. For sixty years Noel Ignatiev provided an unflinching account of 'whiteness'-a social fiction that has for centur ...Show more
Death of the Liberal Class by Chris Hedges
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: very good
For decades the liberal class was a defense against the worst excesses of power. But the pillars of the liberal class-- the press, universities, the labor movement, the Democratic Party, and liberal religious institutions--have collapsed. In its absence, the poor, the working class, and even the middle ...Show more