It's OK to Be Angry about Capitalism by Bernie Sanders; John Nichols (As told to)
$36.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Modern Thought
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A progressive takedown of the uber-capitalist status quo that has enriched millionaires and billionaires at the expense of the working class, and a blueprint for what transformational change would actually look like--with a new afterword "A clarion call against the Americ ...Show more
Thin Places by Kerri ni Dochartaigh
$28.00 AUD
Category: History
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING - HIGHLY COMMENDED'A special, beautiful, many-faceted book' Amy Liptrot'A remarkable piece of writing . . . Luminous' Robert MacfarlaneKerri ní Dochartaigh was born in Derry, on the border of the North and South of Ireland, at the very height of th ...Show more
The Selected Works of Edward Said, 1966 - 2006 by Edward W. Said; Moustafa Bayoumi (Editor); Andrew Rubin (Editor)
$34.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Modern Thought
The renowned literary and cultural critic Edward Said was one of our era's most provocative and important thinkers. This comprehensive collection of his work, expanded from the earlier Edward Said Reader, now draws from across his entire four-decade career, including his posthumously published books, m ...Show more
The Road to Serfdom by F.A. Hayek
$49.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Modern Thought | Series: Routledge Classics
The Road to Serfdom remains one of the all-time classics of twentieth-century intellectual thought. For over half a century, it has inspired politicians and thinkers around the world, and has had a crucial impact on our political and cultural history. With trademark brilliance, Hayek argues convincingly ...Show more
Stubborn Attachments - A Vision for a Society of Free, Prosperous, and Responsible Individuals by Tyler Cowen
$31.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Modern Thought
From a bestselling author and economist, a contemporary moral case for economic growth--and a dose of inspiration and optimism about our future possibilities. Growth is good. Throughout history, economic growth in particular has alleviated human misery, improved human happiness and opportunity, and len ...Show more
The Immortalization Commission: The Strange Quest to Cheat Death by John Gray
$29.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy
This title is nominated for "Sunday Times", "New Statesman" and "TLS" Books Of The Year. At the heart of all human experience lies our obsession with death. For many years we turned to religion for answers, but with the twentieth century came ideas from evolution and politics to suggest that our lives - ...Show more
Stories That Want To Be Told: The Long Lede Anthology by Judith Neilson Institute
$30.00 AUD
Category: Essays
Passion pieces from the next generation of Australian longform journalists. Nine Australian writers, mentored by nine experienced Australian journalists, developed stories that they knew needed to be shared. With direction from Amanda Hooton of GW, Claire Keenan explores Catholicism in rural Australia, ...Show more
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine - A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017 by Rashid Khalidi
$36.00 AUD
Category: History
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Riveting and original ... a work enriched by solid scholarship, vivid personal experience, and acute appreciation of the concerns and aspirations of the contending parties in this deeply unequal conflict ' Noam ChomskyThe twentieth century for Palestine and the Palestinians ...Show more
I Saw Ramallah by Muraid Barghauthai
$27.00 AUD
Category: History
Winner of the prestigious Naguib Mahfouz Medal, this fierce and moving work is an unparalleled rendering of the human aspects of the Palestinian predicament. Barred from his homeland after 1967's Six-Day War, the poet Mourid Barghouti spent thirty years in exile--shuttling among the world's cities, yet ...Show more
An Oral History of the Palestinian Nakba by Doctor Nahla Abdo (Editor); Nur Masalha (Editor)
$56.00 AUD
Category: History
In 2018, Palestinians mark the 70th anniversary of the Nakba, when over 750,000 people were uprooted and forced to flee their homes in the early days of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Even today, the bitterness and trauma of the Nakba remains raw, and it has become the pivotal event both in the shapi ...Show more
War by Kurt Almqvist & Alexander Linklater (eds.)
$39.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Modern Thought | Series: Essay Ser.
It has been claimed that around 14,500 wars have been fought since 3,500 BC. Humanity has only experienced 300 years of peace on Earth. During the twentieth century more people in total, were killed in wars, than during any previous century. Relatively, though we kill each other less often now. Are we g ...Show more
Ernst Jünger: Philosophy Under Occupation by Justin Clemens, Nicolas Hausdorf
$30.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
More than twenty years after Ernst Jünger's death in 1998, the controversial German writer's work continues to compel the attention of readers, critics, and scholars. In early 2019, Jünger's diaries, the Strahlungen, written while he was an officer in occupied Paris during World War II, were published i ...Show more