New Politics
Reporting Conflict: New Directions In Peace Journalism
$39.95 (Trade paperback / Univ Queensland Pr )
Introducing a compelling new series that offers leading international thinking on conflict and peacebuilding.
Journalists control our access to news. By pitching stories from particular angles, the media decides the issu... More »
Nothing But The Truth: Selected Dispatches
$34.95 (Trade paperback / Harvill )
A wide-ranging and lasting collection of writing by one of the most outstanding and courageous reporters of our era.
Until her murder in October 2006, Anna Politkovskaya wrote for the Russian newspaper Novaya gazeta. She... More »
Malcolm Fraser: The Political Memoirs
$59.95$49.95 (Hardcover book / Melb Univ Press )
Malcolm Fraser is one of the most interesting and possibly most misunderstood of Australia's Prime Ministers. In this part memoir and part authorised biography, Fraser at the age of 79 years talks about his time in publi... More »
Trouble: Evolution Of A Radical, Selected Writings 1970-2010
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Black Inc )
In 1970 Kate Jennings, twenty-one, stunned a Sydney anti-war rally into silence with a pull-no-punches speech calling for women’s empowerment. Brave, impassioned and searingly funny, it set the tone for an unconventional... More »
Requiem For A Species: Why We Resist The Truth About Climate Change
$24.99 (Paperback book / Allen & Unwin )
We know how dire the future looks. We know how little time we have left to act. Yet we continue to ignore the warnings ... One of Australia's sharpest thinkers explores the reasons why and offers his vison of our new fut... More »
Review
Quarterly Essay 37: On The Future Of Conservatism: Where The Right Went Wrong
$19.95 (Paperback book / Black Inc )
What did George W. Bush and John Howard do to conservatism? In their wake, the conservative parties in the US and Australia seem to have lost their way – they no longer have a vision of the future. Their neoconservative ... More »
Whoops! The Story Of Recent Foolproof Ways To Lose Money
$49.95 (Hardcover book / Allen Lane )
There's probably a word in German for that feeling you get when you can understand something while it's being explained to you, but lose hold of the explanation as soon as it stops. A lot of writing about the credit crun... More »
A Wall In Palestine
$28.95 (Paperback book / Picador )
The West Bank Barrier is expected to be completed in 2010. Declared illegal by the United Nations International Court of Justice, this network of concrete walls, trenches, and barbed-wire fences could permanently redraw ... More »
Them And Us
$35.00 (Trade paperback / Little Brown )
The suddenness and depth of the recession has raised questions about the workability of capitalism not seen since the 1930s. One of the constraints on recovery is the growing belief that if the old model did not work the... More »
The Great Depression Ahead: How To Prosper In The Crash That Follows The Greatest Boom In History
$24.95 (Paperback book / Schwartz )
The first and last economic depression of your lifetime is happening right now.
Did you know our stock market and economy have peaked every 40 years due to generational spending trends: in 1929, 1968 and 2009? Did you kn... More »
Stripping Bare The Body: Politics, Violence, War
$39.95 (Trade paperback / Black Inc )
Stripping Bare the Body shows at close hand how terrorism works and how war looks and smells and feels. Drawing on rich narratives of politics and violence and war from around the world, Stripping Bare the Body is a mora... More »
Review
Invictus: Nelson Mandela And The Game That Made A Nation
$26.95 (Paperback book / Atlantic Books )
Invictus: Nelson Mandela and the Game that made a Nation by John Carlin is now a major film, starring Morgan Freeman (as Nelson Mandela) and Matt Damon.
'[A] revelatory examination of Nelson Mandela's political genius . ... More »
Race Of A Lifetime: How Obama Won The White House
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Penguin Group Uk )
Race of a Lifetime: How Obama Won the White House is Published in the USA as Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime.
The American presidential election of 2008 was as riveting a... More »
Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis
$35.00 (Trade paperback / Bloomsbury )
Al Gore offers a visionary blueprint of the changes that we should make as a world community in order to prevent the climate crisis from threatening human civilisation.
Al Gore has been a passionate advocate of action to... More »
Quarterly Essay 36: Australian Story: Kevin Rudd and the Lucky Country
$16.95 (Paperback book / Black Inc )
In Australian Story, Mungo MacCallum investigates the political success of Kevin Rudd. What does he know about Australia that his opponents don’t? This is a characteristically barbed and perceptive look at the challenges... More »
What The Dog Saw
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Allen Lane )
From criminology to dog training to ketchup, Malcolm Gladwell takes everyday subjects and shows us surprising new ways of looking at the world. What the Dog Saw is Gladwell at his very best – asking questions and seeking... More »
The Value Of Nothing
$24.95 (Paperback book / Black Inc )
Credit has crunched, debt has turned toxic, the gears of the world economy have ground to a halt. Yet despite its failures, the same market-driven ideas are being applied to everything from the food crisis to climate cha... More »
Superfreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Allen Lane )
Here at last is the long awaited sequel to the international bestselling phenomenon, Freakonomics. Steven Levitt, the original rogue economist, and Stephen Dubner have been working hard, uncovering the hidden side of eve... More »
The 700 Habits Of Highly Ineffective Parents
$28.00 (Paperback book / Melb Univ Press )
Following the success of his first book 'The 700 Habits of Highly Ineffective People', Jonathan Biggins explores the world of the ineffective parent, that dismal figure traditionally held responsible for all the sins, pr... More »
Scroogenomics: Why You Shouldn't Buy Presents For The Holidays
$14.95 (Hardcover book / Princeton Univ Press )
""Scroogenomics" is a very well-written and entertaining read, and offers an extremely comprehensive overview of the economics of Christmas spending and gift giving."--Diane Coyle, author of "The Soulful Science: What Ec... More »
Free To A Good Home
$24.95 (Paperback book / Black Inc )
'Despite all the big talk and fancy press releases, let's face it, Swine Flu, you're more Babe than razorback. Twenty dead? Come on! More die choking on ham sandwiches every week. Sure, I won't be pashing any pigs for a ... More »
Best Australian Political Cartoons 2009
$29.95 (Paperback book / Scribe Publications )
Australia's funniest and most perceptive political cartoonists are already back on the job, pencils sharpened and eager to draw fresh blood.
The seventh edition of this best-selling series features the work of editorial ... More »
Bendable Learnings: The Wisdom Of Modern Management
$32.95 (Hardcover book / Alfred A Knopf )
Moving forward from DEATH SENTENCE and WEASEL WORDS with an enhanced world class third volume in this series - a benchmark in terms of funny word books.
Mission statements are everywhere: you have to have one, whether yo... More »
Open Veins Of Latin America
$35.00 (Trade paperback / Scribe Publications )
Since its U.S. debut a quarter-century ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America. It is also an outstanding political economy, a social and cultural narrative of the high... More »
Review
First as Tragedy, then as Farce
$26.00 (Paperback book / Verso )
In this bravura analysis of the current global crisis-following on from his bestselling Welcome to the Desert of the Real - Slavoj Zizek argues that the liberal idea of the "end of history," declared by Francis Fukuyama ... More »
The Great Crash Of 2008
$24.99 (Paperback book / Melb Univ Press )
The great crash of 2008 was one that no one saw coming, or, if they did, they ignored the warning signs.
Ross Garnaut, respected economist and author of the Garnaut Climate Change Review, takes us through the recent boom... More »
The Good Soldiers
$35.00 (Trade paperback / Scribe Publications )
It was the last-chance moment of the war.
In January 2007, President George W. Bush announced a new strategy for Iraq. It became known as ‘the surge’. ‘Many listening tonight will ask why this effort will succeed when pr... More »
Listening To Grasshoppers: Field Notes On Democracy
$39.95 (Hardcover book / Hamish Hamilton )
This series of essays examines the dark side of democracy in contemporary India. It looks closely at how religious majoritarianism, cultural nationalism and neo-fascism simmer just under the surface of a country that pro... More »
The Capitalism Delusion
$24.95 (Paperback book / Penguin Books )
The collapse of capitalism in 2008 incensed Bob Ellis to write this book in a white heat in one month! He gives facts, figures, arguments and anecdotes to show the GFC was inevitable.
The Capitalism Delusion is sobering ... More »
Crunch Time
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Scribe Publications )
As the world struggles with the twin crises of economic catastrophe and rapidly accelerating climate disruption, a new urgency has entered into discussions of what needs to be done.
In America, President Obama has launch... More »
The Making Of Julia Gillard
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Viking )
From prize-winning biographer Jacqueline Kent comes the first biography of the woman most likely to be Australia’s first female Prime Minister, Julia Gillard.
Including interviews with Gillard and those close to her, K... More »
Fit To Print: Misrepresenting The Middle East
$29.95 (Trade paperback / Scribe Publications )
WINNER OF THE 2007 NS PUBLIEKSPRIJS
'Luyendijk writes damn well and is a very honest journalist. Fit to Print is a very good book that examines the limitations of journalism, especially when it comes to the coverage of c... More »
Strange Days Indeed: The Golden Age Of Paranoia
$32.99 (Trade paperback / Harper Collins )
In 1971 Richard Nixon installed a sophisticated voice-activated recording system in the White House. Three years later he became the first US president to resign, implicated in the Watergate cover-up by the evidence of h... More »
Apply Within: Stories of Career Sabotage
$27.99 (Paperback book / Melb Univ Press )
When Michaela McGuire was hired by a federal MP eight months before the 2007 election, she didn't know exactly what to expect. She probably should have, because before that she had worked in the highrollers' room of a ca... More »
My Israel Question (Revised Edition)
$24.95 (Paperback book / Melb Univ Press )
The undeclared war in the Middle East is the abiding conflict of our era, with little apparent hope of resolution despite years of peace talks. On one side of the conflict, in the face of suicide bombings and internation... More »
The Bin Ladens: Oil, Money, Terrorism And The Secret Saudi World
$26.95 (Paperback book / Penguin Books )
The Bin Ladens are shrouded in secrecy, living in one of the most closed, unaccountable countries on earth. Little has been known about the world that created Osama - until now.
In this gripping account prizewinning jour... More »
The House Of Wisdom: How The Arabs Transformed Western Civilization
$35.00 (Trade paperback / Bloomsbury )
In this fascinating and thoughtful book Jonathan Lyons restores credit to the Arab thinkers of the past, whose learning laid the foundations of the Renaissance.
For centuries following the fall of Rome, Western Europe wa... More »
Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better
$49.95 (Hardcover book / Allen Lane )
Everyone knows that the poor in rich societies are more likely to have shorter, less healthy, lives, to do less well at school and to end up on the wrong side of the law. But The Spirit Level goes further than this... More »
In Mortal Hands: A Cautionary History Of The Nuclear Age
$36.95 (Trade paperback / Black Inc )
In Mortal Hands is a nuclear history of our age - from the Manhattan Project to the present energy crisis and what it means for our future.
Drawing on unprecedented access to industry insiders and historical documents, S... More »
Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives The Economy And Why It Matters For Global Capitalism
$42.95 (Hardcover book / Princeton Univ Press )
The global financial crisis has made it painfully clear that powerful psychological forces are imperiling the wealth of nations today. From blind faith in ever-rising housing prices to plummeting confidence in capital ma... More »
The Statute Of Liberty: How Australians Can Take Back Their Rights
$19.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )
The Australian people emerged from a polyglot mixture of nationalities and other races: a kind of human minestrone. Not only a race, but a race apart, thanks to the kindness of distance. What distinctive moral vision hav... More »
Dead Aid: Destroying The Biggest Global Myth Of Our Time
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Allen Lane )
The well-documented horrors of extreme poverty around the world have created a moral imperative that people have responded to in their millions.
Yet the poverty persists. At a time of unprecedented global prosperity, chi... More »
Arabian Plights: The Future Middle East
$29.95 (Trade paperback / Scribe Publications )
The Arab footprint on our world is profound — from Islam to astronomy, from oil to Osama bin Laden. But can the threads of a shared language, a mostly shared religion, and overlapping historical experience equip Arab sta... More »
The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One
$35.00 (Trade paperback / Scribe Publications )
War in the post-9/11 world is far different from what we expected it be. Counterinsurgency and protracted guerrilla warfare, not shock and awe, are the order of the day. David Kilcullen is the world’s foremost expert on ... More »
Quarterly Essay 33: Quarry Vision Coal Climate Change and the Resources Boom
$16.95 (Paperback book / Black Inc )
This is an essay about 'quarry vision', the mindset that sees Australia's greatest asset as its mineral resources - coal especially. How has this distorted our national politics and our response to climate change? What w... More »
The Next 100 Years: A Forecast For The 21st Century
$29.95 (Trade paperback / Black Inc )
'Predictions have made George Friedman a hot property these days.' - The Wall Street Journal
In The Next 100 Years, George Friedman offers a lucid, highly readable forecast of the changes we can expect around the world d... More »
Review
To The Bitter End: The Dramatic Story Of The Fall Of John Howard And The Rise Of Kevin Rudd
$35.00 (Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin )
On 24 November 2007 Australia resoundingly changed government. If you think you know what really happened during that tumultuous year behind the closed doors of the Liberal Party, in the back rooms of the ACTU and deep i... More »
Filthy Lucre: Economics For Those Who Hate Capitalism
$35.00 (Trade paperback / Scribe Publications )
A dozen times every day, individuals and organisations use economic claims to support social and political points of view. Those on the left tend to distrust economists, seeing them as friends of the right. There i... More »
America Between The Wars: From 11/9 to 9/11
$32.00 (Paperback book / Public Affairs )
On November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall collapsed, taking the Cold War down with it. The next 12 years passed in a haze of self-congratulation, Republican confusion, and angst, and economic prosperity — until the stunning c... More »
Gough Whitlam: A Moment In History
$34.99 (Trade paperback / Miegunyah Press )
This moment was not his alone, nor could it ever have come about without him…Gough Whitlam turned to Graham Freudenberg, touched him lightly on the shoulder, saying, 'It's been a long road, Comrade, but we're there', and... More »
The Costello Memoirs
$34.99 (Trade paperback / Melb Univ Press )
Last year's bestseller now in paperback, with a new chapter on the Global Financial Crisis and beyond.
The Costello Memoirs is a frank and fearless look inside the engine-room of the Liberal Party and the Howard Governme... More »
Battlelines
$34.99 (Trade paperback / Melb Univ Press )
What's next for the conservative side of politics? Where are new battlelines to be drawn?
Parliamentary pugilist and senior Liberal party figure Tony Abbott offers a lively and frank examination of the way forward for th... More »
The March Of Patriots: The Struggle For Modern Australia
$59.99$34.95 (Hardcover book / Melb Univ Press )
The March of Patriots looks at the creation of a modern Australia during the 1991–2007 era of Paul Keating and John Howard.
Keating and Howard were the first two Australian prime ministers of the globalised age. They w... More »
Spectre At The Feast: Capitalist Crisis And The Politics Of Recession
$39.95 (Paperback book / Palgrave )
After a long feast of prosperity in the western world, the crisis in the financial markets has conjured up an old spectre – the spectre of capitalist crisis, which many thought had been finally exorcised. On past experie... More »
Shooting Balibo: Blood and Memory in East Timor
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Viking )
In 1975, journalist Tony Maniaty flew to the Portuguese colony of East Timor looking for a war to film. He found it at a dusty outpost called Balibo.
Maniaty and his ABC News crew were shelled and five other television n... More »
Frames of War: When is Life Grievable?
$45.00 (Hardcover book / Verso )
This is a profound exploration of the current wars, looking at violence, gender and different forms of resistance. In "Frames of War", Judith Butler explores the media's portrayal of state violence, a process integral to... More »
Courage, Survival And Greed: Sydney PEN Voices: The Three Writers Project
$24.99 (Paperback book / Allen & Unwin )
'You don't have to be a writer to speak the truth as you see it, but you can't be a good writer without doing so. It is not, in the first instance, the painters and sculptors and bakers locked up or killed in China or Ru... More »
Invisible History: Afghanistan's Untold Story
$39.95 (Paperback book / City Lights )
Despite declarations made by some in power, the war in Afghanistan is far from over — in fact, the turbulence is escalating. Seven years after 9/11, the Taliban continue to regroup, attack, and claim influence over most ... More »
Power Plays
$35.00 (Trade paperback / Hachette )
Laurie Oakes is the most influential political journalist in Australia - if he says something has happened, the rest of the media (especially the Canberra Press Gallery) believe him and report it as news. He is respected... More »