Human? A Lie That's Been Killing Us Since 1788 by Ziggy Ramo
$32.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
So-called Australia is built upon a lie- that 97% of the population are human, and the others simply 'Indigenous', devoid of the same basic rights. Human? is the story of Ziggy Ramo's experience growing up under the weight of this lie. We've had 235 years of continued destruction in the name of 'civilis ...Show more
How to Be a Citizen: Learning to Rely Less on Rules and More on Each Other by C.L. Skach
$29.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
How to Be a Citizen: Learning to Rely Less on Rules and More on Each Other. We believe that rules and laws are in place to protect us. They are what keep our societies from descending into chaos. Without them, how would we know our right from wrong, live comfortably in our communities and be good neighb ...Show more
What Does Israel Fear from Palestine? by Raja Shehadeh
$19.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
A poignant, incisive meditation on Israel's longstanding rejection of peace, and what the war on Gaza means for Zionism. When apartheid in South Africa ended, dismantled by internal activism and global pressure, why did Israel continue to pursue its own apartheid policies against Palestinians? In keepin ...Show more
Rock and Tempest: Surviving Cyclone Tracy and its Aftermath by Patricia Collins
$34.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
When Cyclone Tracy flattened Darwin on Christmas Day 1974, it was the worst natural disaster Australians had ever experienced. Stationed in the city with the Women's Royal Australian Naval Service, Patricia Collins not only lived through Tracy but was part of the massive clean-up effort. This is her ext ...Show more
High Noon: Trump, Harris and America on the Brink: Quarterly Essay 95 by Don Watson
$27.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
Is the United States disintegrating? Don Watson offers a report from America that catches the madness and the politics of an election like no other. This is a deeply historically informed, characteristically mordant account of Donald Trump, Joe Biden and a divided country. Watson considers how things ...Show more
Private Revolutions: Coming of Age in a New China by Yuan Yang
$34.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
A Sunday Times, Observer and Waterstones Best Book of 2024 This is a book about the coming of age of four women born in China in the 1980s and 1990s, dreaming of better futures. It is about Leiya, who wants to escape the fate of the women in her village. Still underage, she bluffs her way on to the fact ...Show more
Highway to Hell: Climate Change and Australia's Future: Quarterly Essay 94 by Joëlle Gergis
$27.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
What will the climate crisis mean for Australia? What is the price of our inertia? Australia is in peril. Do we truly grasp the impact of a warming planet - in particular, what it will mean for the sunburnt country? This searing essay by a leading climate scientist takes aim at the folly of "adaptation" ...Show more
The Men Who Killed the News: The Inside Story of How Media Moguls Abused Their Power, Manipulated the Truth and Distorted Democracy by Eric Beecher
$36.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
Crikey owner and ex-News Corp and Fairfax editor lifts the lid on the abuse of power by media moguls - from William Randolph Hearst to Elon Musk - and on his own unique experience of working for (and being sued by) the Murdochs. What's gone wrong with our media? Eric Beecher's answer is: its owners, ma ...Show more
Nature, Culture, and Inequality by Thomas Piketty
$27.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
An insightful exploration of the nature of inequality. In his new work, Thomas Piketty explores how social inequality manifests itself very differently depending on society and epoch in which it arises. History and culture play a central role, inequality being strongly linked to various socio-economic ...Show more
Australia Calling: The ABC Radio Australia Story by Phil Kafcaloudes
$34.95 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
ABC Radio Australia has been a constant voice in international broadcasting for more than 80 years.Australia Calling: The ABC Radio Australia Story is an account of Australia's international radio service from its earliest days as an anti-propaganda service in the opening days of WWII. It tracks the ser ...Show more
More Great Australian Outback Police Stories by Bill Marsh
$34.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction | Series: Great Australian Stories Ser.
Yarns and memories that capture the experience of policing in the bush, gathered by the inimitable Bill 'Swampy' Marsh, bestselling author of GREAT AUSTRALIAN FLYING DOCTOR STORIES and GREAT AUSTRALIAN CWA STORIES. 'I tell you, you meet some strange characters in this game ...'Boasting the biggest beats ...Show more
In Hot Water: Inside the battle to save the Great Barrier Reef by Paul Hardisty E
$34.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
A searing, candid and personal account from inside the battle to save the Great Barrier Reef from the recent CEO of Australia's leading coral research institute (who also happens to be a widely published thriller writer). In the ongoing climate wars, the Great Barrier Reef has become a symbol of everyt ...Show more