What Do We Need Men For? - A Modest Proposal by E. Jean Carroll
$41.99 AUD
Category: Culture Studies
"The writing... is just riveting. But it's also journalistically very powerful, very precise, very careful...." -Lawrence O'DonnellAs seen on the cover of New York Magazine and in the breaking news story about Donald Trump,America's longest running advice columnist goes on the road to speak to women abo ...Show more
What Happens Next?: Reconstructing Australia after COVID-19 by Emma Dawson; Janet McCalman
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Long before the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the global economy, a reset to serve the wellbeing of people and the planet was plainly needed. As Australia rebuilds, after the immediate health crisis has passed, it must be with the explicit purpose of constructing an economically and ecologically sustainab ...Show more
What I Believe by Bertrand Russell
$35.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Routledge Great Minds
Bertrand Russell is widely regarded as one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century and a brilliant writer and commentator on social and political affairs. What I Believe offers a lucid and concise insight into Russell's thinking on issues that preoccupied him throughout his life: atheism, ...Show more
What Is Antiracism?: And Why It Means Anticapitalism by Arun Kundnani
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A groundbreaking account of neoliberalism that puts race at the center of the story-the ideal follow up to Ibram X. Kendi's How to Be an Antiracist What is "racial capitalism" and how do we overcome it? This sharp, slim, revelatory book argues that we misunderstand contemporary capitalism if we miss th ...Show more
What Is Cybersecurity For? by Tim Stevens
$19.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Cybersecurity is one of the key practical and political challenges of our time. This book explains the complexities of global information systems, the challenges of providing security to users, societies, states and the international system, and the multitude of competing players and ambitions in this a ...Show more
What Is History, Now? by Helen Carr; Suzannah Lipscomb
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
Inspired by the influential text WHAT IS HISTORY? authored by Helen Carr's great-grandfather, E.H. Carr, and published on the 60th anniversary of that book, this is a groundbreaking new collection addressing the burning issue of how we interpret history today. What stories are told, and by whom, who sh ...Show more
What Is Philanthropy For? by Rhodri Davies
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Category: Current Affairs
Philanthropy, the use of private assets for public good, has been much criticized in recent years. Rhodri Davies, drawing on his deep knowledge of the past and present landscape of philanthropy, examines pressing questions that philanthropy must tackle if it is to be equal to the challenges of the 21st ...Show more
What Is War For? by Jack McDonald
$19.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
This book examines how changes to social rules reshape how states explain their military actions, and changes to technology and society transform contemporary warfare. Analysing the role that war serves in global politics, it outlines the ways in which war affects the contemporary world, from internatio ...Show more
What Is at Stake Now: My Appeal for Peace and Freedom by Mikhail Gorbachev; Jessica Spengler (Translator)
$26.95 AUD
Category: Politics
Thirty years after the end of the Cold War, world peace is at risk again. The President of the United States has withdrawn from the disarmament treaty with Russia, Europe is disintegrating, China is surging forward and a wave of nationalism and populism is destabilizing established political institution ...Show more
What Is to Be Done: political engagement and saving the planet by Barry Jones
$35.00 AUD
Category: Politics
A sequel to the prescient bestseller, first published in 1982, that alerted the public to the likely impacts of information technologies and the emergence of a post-industrial society. When Sleepers, Wake!was first released in Australia, it immediately became influential around the world: it was read by ...Show more
What Just Happened?! Dispatches from Turbulent Times by Marina Hyde
$29.99 AUD
Category: Essays
No other writer is more suited to chronicle the absurd and chaotic times we live in. This book - based on Hyde's spectacularly funny Guardian columns - tells the story of the hellscape of the Cameron, May and Johnson eras, Trumpian wtf-ery to celebrity twattery, the Royal soap-opera and the series final ...Show more