Affluenza: When too much is never enough by Clive Hamilton, Richard Denniss
$24.95 AUD
Category: Social Discourse
Anyone concerned about the level of their personal debt or frustrated by the rat race of aspiring to an affluent lifestyle will appreciate this critique of the effects of over-consumption. This analysis pulls no punches as it describes both the problem and what can be done to stop it. Analyzing the incr ...Show more
Adani and the War over Coal by Quentin Beresford
$34.99 AUD
Category: Social Discourse
Coal is the political, economic and cultural totem for debates about climate change. Yet Australian politicians have had a love affair with coal, which has helped lock our politics--and our country--into the fossil fuel age. This searing book takes apart the pivotal role of the Adani Carmichael mine in ...Show more
Acid Test : LSD, Ecstasy, and the Power to Heal by Tom Shroder
$34.99 AUD
Category: Social Discourse
Despite the illegal status of psychedelic drugs, many Americans are already familiar with their effects. Yet while LSD and MDMA (better known as Ecstasy) have proven extraordinarily effective in treating anxiety disorders such as PTSD, they remain off-limits to the millions who might benefit from them. ...Show more
A Very Expensive Poison by Luke Harding
$22.99 AUD
Category: Social Discourse
1st November 2006: Alexander Litvinenko is brazenly poisoned in central London. Twenty-two days later he dies, killed from the inside by Polonium - a rare, lethal and highly radioactive substance. His crime? He had made some powerful enemies in Russia. This is the inside story of the life and death of L ...Show more
2020: World of War by Paul Cornish
$35.00 AUD
Category: Social Discourse
The year is 2020 and civilisation is on the verge of a Third World War. Will the Russian invasion of the Arctic trigger the military response called for in the NATO treaty? Will the simultaneous Chinese cyber-attack on the Pentagon cripple the world's biggest military machine? Who's arming the refugees ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 53: That Sinking Feeling: Asylum Seekers and the Search for the Indonesian Solution by Paul Toohey
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Category: Social Discourse | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
In Quarterly Essay 53, Paul Toohey looks at one of Tony Abbott's signature promises: to stop the boats. Has his government succeeded? If so, at what cost?In Java, Toohey observes asylum seekers heading for Australia and reports on the Indonesian response. He tells the stories of individual refugees, loo ...Show more
17 Carnations - The Windsors, the Nazis and the Cover-Up by Andrew Morton
$24.95 AUD
Category: Social Discourse
The story of the love affair between Wallis Simpson and King Edward VIII, and his abdication in order to marry the divorcee, has provoked fascination and discussion for decades. However, the full story of the couple's links with the German aristocracy and Hitler has until now remained untold. Meticulous ...Show more
A World of Three Zeroes: the new economics of zero poverty, zero unemployment, and zero carbon emissions by Muhammad Yunus
$32.99 AUD
Category: Social Discourse
The bestselling author of Banker to the Poorand Creating aWorld Without Povertyand co-winner of the Nobel Peace Prize outlines his radical economic vision for tackling inequality, joblessness, and environmental degradation, and describes the worldwide movement already working to make it a reality. Muham ...Show more
Total Propaganda: Basic Marxist Brainwashing for the Angry and the Young by Helen Razer
$27.99 AUD
Category: Social Discourse
Marxism and socialism explained for a younger readership
The Grand Chessboard : American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives by Zbigniew Brzezinski
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Category: Social Discourse
Bestselling author and eminent foreign policy scholar Zbigniew Brzezinski's classic book on American's strategic mission in the modern world.In The Grand Chessboard, renowned geostrategist Zbigniew Brzezinski delivers a brutally honest and provocative vision for American preeminence in the twenty-first ...Show more
Senate Intelligence Committee Report on Torture: Committee Study of the Central Intelligence Agency's Detention and Interrogation Program by Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
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Category: Social Discourse
One of the most significant government reports in American history, this is the complete official summary report of the Senate Intelligence Committee's investigation of the Central Intelligence Agency's interrogation and detention programs launched in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. 'Releasing this report ...Show more
Selfie - How We Became So Self-Obsessed and What It's Doing To Us by Will Storr
$32.99 AUD
Category: Social Discourse
We are living in an age of heightened individualism. Success is a personal responsibility. Our culture tells us that to succeed is to be slim, rich, happy, extroverted, popular--flawless. We have become self-obsessed. And our expectation of perfection comes at a cost. Millions are suffering under the to ...Show more