Australia Under Surveillance by Frank Moorhouse
$32.99 AUD
Category: Social Discourse
ASIO has kept a file on Frank Moorhouse since he was seventeen. Now Frank has decided it is time to report on ASIO. This year ASIO has extended its surveillance powers, made the issuing of warrants easier and limited the freedom of journalists. At a time when the government has raised the terrorist aler ...Show more
A Banquet of Consequences by Satyajit DAS
$34.99 AUD
Category: Social Discourse
Essential reading for anyone interested in the future of the global economy and their own prospects, A Banquet of Consequences incisively explains the problems confronting us, how we're making those problems worse, and what the real solutions are. For ordinary individuals, the goal of a steady job, a ho ...Show more
Australia Reimagined: Towards a More Compassionate, Less Anxious Society by Hugh Mackay
$32.99 AUD
Category: Social Discourse
'When it comes to our future, misplaced optimism is as dangerous as blind faith. What is needed is the courage to face the way things are, and the wisdom and imagination to work out how to make things better.'Australia's unprecedented run of economic growth has failed to deliver a more stable or harmoni ...Show more
Atmosphere of Hope: Searching for Solutions to the Climate Crisis by Tim Flannery
$29.99 AUD
Category: Social Discourse
A timely intervention on climate change from the internationally acclaimed scientist and author of the hugely influential The Weather Makers. How close is the great climate crisis? Can our desire to overcome it drive humanity's next great waves of positive technological economic and social revolution? ...Show more
Asylum by John Hughes
$24.99 AUD
Category: Social Discourse
'Just because you can't see the chains doesn't mean they don't exist.' In the Sanctuary, two robed men cut the hair of clients who have been called to pass through the White or Black Door. Along with their hair, the clients shed stories: of the horrors of their past, the Place they've inhabited since th ...Show more
Atmosphere of Hope : Seaching for the Solutions to the Climate Crisis by Tim Flannery
$24.99 AUD
Category: Social Discourse
"A decade after his internationally bestselling The Weather Makers, acclaimed scientist and author Tim Flannery argues that Earth's climate system is approaching a crisis. Catastrophe is not inevitable, but time is fast running out. Atmosphere of Hope provides both a snapshot of the trouble we are in an ...Show more
The Art of Belonging by Hugh Mackay
$19.99 AUD
Category: Social Discourse
The eternal question 'Who am I?' must be weighed against an even deeper question: 'Who are we?' We are writing each other's stories as much as we are writing our own.In his bestselling book, The Good Life, Hugh Mackay argued that kindness and respect for others are the hallmarks of a life well lived. No ...Show more
Art of Belonging by Hugh Mackay
$32.99 AUD
Category: Social Discourse
The eternal question 'Who am I?' must be weighed against an even deeper question: 'Who are we?' We are writing each other's stories as much as we are writing our own. In his bestselling book, The Good Life, Hugh Mackay argued that kindness and respect for others are the hallmarks of a life well lived. N ...Show more
And the Truth Shall Set You Free by David Icke
$59.99 AUD
Category: Social Discourse
David Icke exposes the real story behind global events which shape the future of human existence and the world we leave our children. Fearlessly, he lifts the veil on an astonishing web of interconnected manipulation to reveal that the same few people, secret societies and organisations control the dail ...Show more
And Yet... Essays by Christopher Hitchens
$22.99 AUD
Category: Social Discourse
Christopher Hitchens was an unparalleled, prolific writer, who raised the polemical essay to a new art form, over a lifetime of thinking and debating the defining issues of our times. As an essayist he contributed to the New Statesman, Atlantic Monthly, London Review of Books, TLS and Vanity Fair. Any p ...Show more
Amalganations by Doug Hendrie
$29.95 AUD
Category: Social Discourse
A whole new take on armchair travel for curious minds, who wonder what's happening where the West meets the rest. The answer, as intrepid journalist Doug Hendrie discovers on his extended travels to the furthest flung corners of the world, is a surprising set of unpredictable adaptions, each of which ma ...Show more
Adolescent Country: A Lowy Institue Paper - Penguin Specials by Peter Hartcher
$9.99 AUD
Category: Social Discourse | Series: Penguin Specials
The great crises that threaten Australia's national prosperity come from abroad. So do the grandest opportunities. But in Australian politics the big matters are commonly crowded out by the small. International policy is used for domestic point-scoring. Leaders are criticised for travelling beyond the w ...Show more