Who's Afraid of Gender? by Judith Butler
$55.00 AUD
Category: Gender Studies
From a global icon, a bold, essential account of how a fear of gender is fuelling reactionary politics around the world Judith Butler, the ground-breaking philosopher whose work has redefined how we think about gender and sexuality, confronts the attacks on gender that have become central to right-wing ...Show more
Who's Black and Why? - A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race by Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Editor); Andrew S. Curran (Editor)
$49.95 AUD
Category: History
The first translation and publication of sixteen submissions to the notorious eighteenth-century Bordeaux essay contest on the cause of black skin--an indispensable chronicle of the rise of scientifically based, anti-Black racism.In 1739 Bordeaux's Royal Academy of Sciences announced a contest for the b ...Show more
Whose Story Is This? Old Conflicts New Chapters by Rebecca Solnit
$27.99 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking
Who gets to shape the narrative of our times? The current moment is a battle royale over that foundational power, one in which women, people of color, non-straight people are telling other versions, and white people and men and particularly white men are trying to hang onto the old versions and their ow ...Show more
Whose Water Is It, Anyway? - Taking Water Protection into Public Hands by Maude Barlow
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Category: Current Affairs
"Maude Barlow is one of our planet's greatest water defenders." -- Naomi Klein, bestselling author of This Changes Everything and The Shock Doctrine "This book is a blueprint for communities around the world to take back that responsibility and maintain water as a human right." -- David Suzuki "This is ...Show more
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race by Beverly Tatum
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Category: Anti-Racism
Walk into any racially mixed secondary school and you will see young people clustered in their own groups according to race. Is this self-segregation a problem to address or a coping strategy? Beverly Daniel Tatum, a renowned psychology Professor, guides us through how racial identity develops, from ver ...Show more
Why Empires Fall by John Rapley; Peter Heather
$45.00 AUD
Category: Politics
Over the last three centuries, the West rose to dominate the planet. Then, suddenly, around the turn of the millennium, history reversed. Faced with economic stagnation and internal political division, the West has found itself in rapid decline.This is not the first time the global order has witnessed s ...Show more
Why Governments Get It Wrong: and how they can get it right by Dennis C. Grube
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Category: Politics
Sometimes governments seem clueless. At other times, they are able to project a sense of calm competence. Some decisions leave people confused, whilst others make sense even to those who oppose them. Why? Why Governments Get it Wrong argues that governments are at their most effective when they get the ...Show more
Why Grow Up? - Subversive Thoughts for an Infantile Age by Susan Neiman
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Category: Current Affairs
Our culture is obsessed with youth--and why not? What's the appeal of growing old, of gaining responsibilities and giving up on dreams, of steadily trading possibility for experience? The philosopher Susan Neiman argues that the absence of appealing models of maturity is not an accident: by describing l ...Show more
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
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Category: Current Affairs
Award-winning journalist Reni Eddo-Lodge was frustrated with the way that discussions of race and racism are so often led by those blind to it, by those willfully ignorant of its legacy. Her response, Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race, has transformed the conversation both in Britain ...Show more
Why Liberalism Failed by Patrick J. Deneen
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Category: Current Affairs | Series: Politics and Culture Ser.
Of the three dominant ideologies of the twentieth century—fascism, communism, and liberalism—only the last remains. This has created a peculiar situation in which liberalism’s proponents tend to forget that it is an ideology and not the natural end-state of human political evolution. As Patrick Deneen a ...Show more
Why Politics Fails: The Five Traps of the Modern World — and How to Escape Them by Ben Ansell
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Category: Politics
An award-winning Oxford professor explains why the revolving doors of power always leave us disappointed - and how to fix it. Why do the revolving doors of power always leave us disappointed? In Why Politics Fails, award-winning Oxford professor Ben Ansell shows that it's not the politicians that are t ...Show more
Why Waste Food? by Andrew F. Smith
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Category: Current Affairs | Series: Food Controversies Ser.
About one-third of all food grown for human consumption is lost or discarded every year, despite financial, environmental, and ethical reasons not to waste food. We grow enough food to adequately feed everyone on the planet, yet hundreds of millions of people suffer from hunger, malnutrition, or food in ...Show more