Green Is The New Black: Inside Australia's Hardest Women's Jails by James Phelps
$22.99 AUD
Category: Politics & society
Ivan Milat, the notorious backpacker serial killer, is not the most feared person in the prison system. Nor is it Martin Bryant, the man responsible for claiming 35 lives in the Port Arthur massacre. No, the person in Australia controversially ruled 'too dangerous to be released', the one who needs chai ...Show more
What's for Dinner? by Jill Griffiths
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics & society
What are we really eating? How do we eat in a way that nourishes us and does least harm to the environment? What exactly do farmers do? Should the world go vegan? Do food miles matter?Never before has so much food been produced by so few people to feed so many. Never before have Australian consumers bee ...Show more
War Gardens - A Journey Through Conflict in Search of Calm by Lalage Snow
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics & society
A journey through the most unlikely of gardens: the oases of peace people create in the midst of war In this millennium, we have become war weary. From Afghanistan to Iraq, from Ukraine to South Sudan and Syria, from Kashmir to the West Bank, conflict is as contagious and poisonous as Japanese knotweed ...Show more
Investing in Wristwatches Rolex by CAPPELLETTI,
$140.00 AUD
Category: Politics & society | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Why do we collect? For some, it is a pursuit of pure passion those who appreciate the wristwatch as an artform: the intricacy of its mechanics, the finesse of its form. Yet for others, collecting is an investment, and a watch's value is of as much importance as its appearance. All collectors ought to ha ...Show more
Law: The Way of the Ancestors (First Knowledges) by Marcia Langton, Aaron Corn
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics & society | Series: First Knowledges Ser.
Law is culture, and culture is law. Given by the ancestors and cultivated over millennia, Indigenous law defines what it is to be human. Complex and evolving, law holds the keys to resilient, caring communities and a life in balance with nature. Marcia Langton and Aaron Corn show how Indigenous law has ...Show more
The War on Normal People - The Truth about America's Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future by Andrew Yang
$36.25 AUD
Category: Politics & society
From entrepreneur Andrew Yang, the founder of Venture for America, an eye-opening look at how new technologies are erasing millions of jobs before our eyes-and a rallying cry for the urgent steps America must take, including Universal Basic Income, to stabilize our economy. The shift toward automation ...Show more
Bullshit Jobs - A Theory by David Graeber
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics & society | Reading Level: very good
'Spectacular and terrifyingly true' Owen Jones'Thought-provoking and funny' The TimesBe honest: if your job didn't exist, would anybody miss it? Have you ever wondered why not? Up to 40% of us secretly believe our jobs probably aren't necessary. In other words: they are bullshit jobs. This book shows wh ...Show more
The Problem with Work - Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries by Kathi Weeks
$55.00 AUD
Category: Politics & society | Series: A\John Hope Franklin Center Book Ser.
In The Problem with Work, Kathi Weeks boldly challenges the presupposition that work, or waged labor, is inherently a social and political good. While progressive political movements, including the Marxist and feminist movements, have fought for equal pay, better work conditions, and the recognition of ...Show more
Gen F'd?: How Young Australians Can Reclaim Their Uncertain Futures by Alison Pennington
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics & society | Series: The\Crikey Read Ser.
In Gen F-d?, economist Alison Pennington shows how the most educated generation in Australia's history stands to be the first generation worse off than their parents, and gives young people the tools to create the change we need. This is the fifth book in The Crikey Read series from Crikey and Hardie G ...Show more
Conservatism by Yoram Hazony
$49.99 AUD
Category: Politics & society
The idea that conservatism amounts to little more than being in favour of free market capitalism and a small state - widely held for decades - is seriously mistaken.
Man-Made: How the bias of the past is being built into the future by Tracey Spicer
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics & society
Walkley Award-winning journalist Tracey Spicer exposes the next frontier of feminism. Man Made aims to open readers’ eyes to a transformative technological shift in society and give them the tools to make positive change. `Mum, I want a robot slave.’ Broadcaster Tracey Spicer had an epiphany when her ...Show more
The Other Side: A Journey into Women, Art and the Spirit World by Jennifer Higgie
$34.99 AUD
Category: Politics & society
It's not so long ago that a woman's expressed interest in other realms would have ruined her reputation, or even killed her. And yet spiritualism, in various incarnations, has influenced numerous men - including lauded modernist artists such as Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, Kazimir Malevich and Paul ...Show more