June 2008 Politics
Quarterly Essay 30: Last Drinks: The Impact of the Northern Territory Intervention.
$15.95 (Paperback book / Black Inc )
In June it will be a year since the Northern Territory intervention was announced. In Quarterly Essay 30, Paul Toohey offers a definitive account of how it came about and what it has achieved. In this riveting piece of r... More »
Review
Terror: From Tyrannicide To Terrorism
$45.00 (Trade paperback / Univ Queensland Pr )
Terror and terrorism are hot topics in today’s post-9/11 world. But what is terror? How is it described, measured and experienced?
The authors look to European history for answers, exploring landmark events ranging fro... More »
Supercapitalism: The Transformation Of Business Democracy and Everyday Life
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Scribe Publications )
Mid-twentieth-century capitalism has turned into global capitalism, and global capitalism — turbocharged, Web-based, and able to find and make almost anything just about anywhere — has turned into supercapitalism. But, a... More »
Futurecast 2020: A Global Blueprint
$39.95 (Trade paperback / Profile )
Rapid technological advances, globalisation, unparalleled demographic changes and the rise of China and India as superpowers mean that we are entering an unprecedented age. Rob Shapiro employs his immense experience in i... More »
Terror And Consent: The Wars For The Twenty First Century
$35.00 (Trade paperback / Allen Lane )
The wars against terror have begun, but it will take some time before the nature and composition of these wars is widely understood. The objective of these wars is not the conquest of territory, or the silencing of any p... More »
Shock Doctrine The Rise Of Disaster Capitalism
$26.95 (Paperback book / Penguin Books )
Around the world in Britain, the United States, Asia and the Middle East, there are people with power who are cashing in on chaos; exploiting bloodshed and catastrophe to brutally remake our world in their image. They ar... More »
Rogue Economics The Hunt For Globalisations Outlaws
$29.95 (Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin )
Respected economist and syndicated journalist Loretta Napoleoni shows how the world is being reshaped by dark economic forces. Rogue economics is creating victims out of millions of ordinary people whose lives have becom... More »
Risk: The Science And Politics Of Fear
$35.00 (Trade paperback / Scribe Publications )
We are the safest and healthiest human beings who ever lived, and yet irrational fear is growing, with deadly consequences — such as the 1,595 Americans killed when they made the mistake of switching from planes to cars ... More »