Collateral Damage: Britain, America and Europe in the Age of Trump by Kim Darroch
$18.00 AUD
Category: Politics
'Much bigger and more ambitious than a first-person "rise and fall" ... Great vignettes and classy analysis from the man who until a year ago sat at the top of the diplomatic tree ... There is nothing dusty or dry in his account of dealing with the twin forces of Boris and Donald, and how they've shaped ...Show more
Curious Eyes - Spanish, French and American Expeditions Watched the Fledgling Convict Colony at Port Jackson. What Were Their Motives? What Did They See? by Bruce Watt
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
'Curious eyes' brings another perspective to the simplistic convict origin story of Australia. It introduces three non-British visitors to the colony of Port Jackson in the first decade or so of its establishment and asks questions about Australia's origin and historical authenticity. Spain's historical ...Show more
East Coast Encounters 1770 - Reflections on a Cultural Clash by Pauline Curby (Editor)
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
East Coast Encounters 1770, reflections on a cultural clash presents a new assessment of these extraordinary events when James Cook and the Endeavour crew landed on our shores 250 years ago.This compilation of ten articles by different authors provides forthe general community a range of perspectives on ...Show more
Just Friends: On the joy, influence and power of friendship by Gyan Yankovich
$34.99 AUD
Category: Essays
Voice memos, care packages, hours-long phone conversations, treasured traditions that go back decades, glasses held aloft during wedding toasts, hands held at funerals, first cuddles with newborns, work lunches with work wives, taking it to the group chat - our friendships touch and enrich every part of ...Show more
Peripathetic: Notes on (un)belonging by Cher Tan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Essays
There was something so captivating about always being on the edge, on that shaky precipice of promise — something new and something cool was just lurking around the corner and we’d arrive at it if we kick around long enough. Peripathetic is about shit jobs. About being who you are and who you aren’t o ...Show more
Smoke And Ashes: Opium's Hidden Histories by Amitav Ghosh
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
When Amitav Ghosh began the research for his monumental cycle of novels, The Ibis Trilogy, ten years ago, he was startled to find how the lives of the 19th century sailors and soldiers he wrote of were dictated not only by the currents of the Indian Ocean, but also by the precious commodity carried in e ...Show more
The Fires Next Time: Understanding Australia's Black Summer by Peter Christoff
$35.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Following a three-year drought and during the hottest and driest year on record, a flume of scorching air set the Australian continent aflame. Australia's Black Summer fires were unprecedented. Over six months in 2019-20 they burned more than ten million hectares of Australia's southern and eastern fore ...Show more
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonial Conquest and Resistance by Rashid I. Khalidi
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
'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 Chomsky The twentieth century for Palestine and the Palestinians has been a century of denia ...Show more
We Can Do Better: A Departure into the World of Tomorrow by Maja Gopel
$32.99 AUD
Category: Politics
After her previous book, Rethinking Our World, eloquently untangled the complex world we live in, Maja G pel delivers the encouragement and the tools we need to go into action and build the world we want to live in. Humanity is undergoing a massive process of transformation, and the way we live will cha ...Show more
12 Rules for Strife by Jeff Sparrow, Sam Wallman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Politics
This is a handbook for change. Because we all know ways in which life could be better. And it can be better. We can make it better. We don't need to wait for a leader or saviour. We don't need to limit ourselves to comments and clicks. In this stunningly original comic-book tour of a serious topic, Jeff ...Show more
A Little History of the Australian Labor Party by Nick Dyrenfurth, Frank Bongiorno
$27.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A little book about the big history of one of Australia’s most important institutions The Australian Labor Party is one of the oldest labour parties in the world and the first to form a government. This short, sharp history tells the story of the party’s formation, its successes and failures at winning ...Show more
Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
The renowned Israeli historian revisits the formative period of the State of Israel. Between 1947 and 1949, over 400 Palestinian villages were deliberately destroyed, civilians were massacred, and around a million men, women, and children were expelled from their homes at gunpoint. Denied for almost six ...Show more