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The Power of Ethics: How to Make Good Choices in a Complicated World by Susan Liautaud
$32.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
The essential guide for decision-making when ethics are on the edge. It's not your imagination. We're living in a time of moral decline. Publicly, government leaders are acting against the welfare of their citizens, companies are prioritising profits over our health and our safety, and technology pose ...Show more
Saving Justice: Truth, Transparency and Trust by James Comey
$34.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
This will not come as a surprise to anyone, including even to the President's most ardent defenders: Donald Trump lied to me from the start Saving Justice is James Comey's searing memoir and guide to reclaiming truth in the institutions of justice, which have been so badly damaged under Trump. Whether o ...Show more
American Kompromat: How the KGB cultivated Donald Trump and related tales of sex, greed, power, and treachery by Craig Unger
$35.00 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
**THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** Kompromat n.--Russian for "compromising information" American Kompromat unravels the Russian-influenced operations that amassed the dirty little secrets of the richest and most powerful men on earth. American Kompromat is based on extended and exclusive inter ...Show more
Revolt: The Worldwide Uprising Against Globalization by Nadav Eyal
$34.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
'A well-written and thought-provoking account of the current crisis of globalization. Not everyone will agree with Eyal's interpretation, but few will remain indifferent.' —Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens Revolt is an eloquent and provocative challenge to the prevailing wisdom about the rise of na ...Show more
Just Us - A Conversation by Claudia Rankine
$49.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Contemporary America finds itself riven by a culture war in which friendships, families and communities are under strain and defensiveness and aggression alike are on the rise, enshrined in federal law-making and government policy. It is not alone. In such partisan conditions, how can humans best approa ...Show more
White Russians, Red Peril: A Cold War History of Migration to Australia by Sheila Fitzpatrick
$34.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
A gripping account of the paths that led postwar Russian migrants to Australia - and what they found when they arrived.More than 20,000 ethnic Russians migrated to Australia after the Second World War - yet we know very little about their experiences. Some came via China, others from refugee camps in E ...Show more
A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster by Rebecca Solnit
$34.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
"The freshest, deepest, most optimistic account of human nature I've come across in years." -Bill McKibben The most startling thing about disasters, according to award-winning author Rebecca Solnit, is not merely that so many people rise to the occasion, but that they do so with joy. hat joy reveals a ...Show more
In the Land of the Cyclops Essays 1996-2013 by Karl Ove Knausgaard; Martin Aitken (Translator)
$39.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Karl Ove Knausgaard's My Struggle series broke new ground in fiction. In the Land of the Cyclops is his first collection of full-length essays to be published in English, and these brilliant and wide-ranging pieces meditate on themes familiar from his fiction. Collected here is a selection of his writin ...Show more
How to Be Animal - A New History of What It Means to Be Human by Melanie Challenger
$29.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Combining popular science, history and moral philosophy, this is a wide-ranging and radical new take on the human story and what it means for us today.
Buried Not Dead by Fiona McGregor
$26.95 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Novelist Fiona McGregor's new book, Buried Not Dead, is a collection of essays on art, literature and performance, sexuality, activism and the life of the city. It features performance artists, writers, dancers, tattooists and DJs, some of them famous, like Marina Abramović and Mike Parr, while others, ...Show more
How to Argue with a Racist by Adam Rutherford
$22.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK 'The ultimate anti-racism guide' Caroline Criado Perez 'Seriously important' Bill Bryson 'A fascinating debunking of racial pseudoscience' Guardian Race is real because we perceive it. Racism is real because we enact it. But the appeal ...Show more
Welcome to the New World by Jake Halpern
$32.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
A story about ordinary people navigating a strange land, in even stranger times. On the eve of the US elections, a Syrian family leave their world behind for a chance at the American dream. But as the first day of their new life dawns, they are greeted by the news of Donald Trump's victory. It's as if t ...Show more