Australian Foreign Affairs: Friends, Allies and Enemies; Asia's Shifting Loyalties; Aust by Jonathan Pearlman
$22.99 AUD
Category: Politics
The tenth issue of Australian Foreign Affairs examines the new alliances, blocs and rivalries that are emerging across the Asia-Pacific as countries adjust to the changing balance of power in a changed world. Friends, Allies and Enemies looks at Australia’s diplomatic options as loyalties shift in an in ...Show more
Australia's Second Chance by George Megalogenis
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Most nations don't get a first chance to prosper. Australia is on its second. For the best part of the nineteenth century, Australia was the world's richest country, a pioneer for democracy and a magnet for migrants. Yet our last big boom was followed by a fifty-year bust as we lost our luck, our riches ...Show more
Australia’s China Odyssey: From euphoria to fear by James Curran
$34.99 AUD
Category: #Auspol
Australia’s relationship with China is one of the dominant geopolitical stories of our times. The need to understand the tectonic forces of history moving beneath the surface of these critical events has never been more pressing.In Australia’s China Odyssey, acclaimed historian James Curran explores thi ...Show more
Authenticity: Reclaiming Reality In A Counterfeit Culture by Alice Sherwood
$34.99 AUD
Category: Cultural Studies
'Brilliantly witty, profoundly illuminating, Alice Sherwood is a master storyteller' - Simon SchamaWe live in an age when the pursuit of authenticity - from living our 'best life' to eating artisan food - matters more and more to us, but where the forces of inauthenticity seem to be taking over. Our wor ...Show more
Bad Gays: A Homosexual History by Huw Lemmey; Ben Miller
$29.99 AUD
Category: LGBTQ+
An unconventional history of homosexuality. Too many popular histories seek to establish heroes, pioneers and martyrs but as Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller argue, the past is filled with queer people whose sexualities and/or dastardly deeds have been overlooked. We all remember Oscar Wilde, but who speaks fo ...Show more
Bad News: Why We Fall for Fake News by Rob Brotherton
$29.99 AUD
Category: Cultural Studies
From the bestselling author of Suspicious Minds There was a time when the news came once a day, in the morning newspaper. A time when the only way to see what was happening around the world was to catch the latest newsreel at the movies. Times have changed. Now we're inundated. The news is no longer con ...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
Bad Taste Or the Politics of Ugliness by Nathalie Olah
$32.99 AUD
Category: Cultural Studies
This is a book about taste, or lack thereof. It is about the growing importance that we place on subjective ideas of taste in a culture that is saturated by imagery, and the sometimes damaging impact this can have on our identities, communities and politics. Who are the tastemakers and how does their ...Show more
Bait and Switch - The Futile Pursuit of the Corporate Dream by Barbara Ehrenreich
$22.99 AUD
Category: Cultural Studies
The reissue of a searing investigation into white-collar unemployment from the bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed.
Balance of Power - States, Societies and the Narrow Corridor to Liberty by Daron Acemoglu; James A. Robinson
$55.00 AUD
Category: Politics
From the authors of the international bestseller Why Nations Fail, based on decades of research, this powerful new big-picture framework explains how some countries develop towards and provide liberty while others fall to authoritarianism or anarchy - and explains how liberty can thrive despite new thre ...Show more
Banking Bad: Whistleblowers. Corporate cover-ups. One Journalist's Fight for the truth. by Adele Ferguson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: Corporate Greed/Broken Governance Failed Aust.
Winner of the Davitt Award for Non-fiction Crime 2020 The shocking truth about Australia's financial institutions, as told by the journalist who did most to bring about Australia's banking royal commission. Against all the odds Australia ended up with a banking royal commission. Since hearings began i ...Show more
Be Antiracist - A Journal for Awareness, Reflection and Action by Ibram X. Kendi
$22.99 AUD
Category: Cultural Studies
Being antiracist is not something you are. It's something we do. In his global, game-changing bestseller How To Be An Antiracist Ibram X. Kendi, director of the Centre for Antiracist Research at Boston University, showed that when it comes to racism, neutrality is not an option: until we become part of ...Show more