New Politics
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 »
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 »
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Drawing on unprecedented access to industry insiders and historical documents, S...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 »
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 »
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 »
Invisible History: Afghanistan's Untold Story
$35.95 (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 »
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 »
Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives The Economy And Why It Matters For Global Capitalism
$49.95 (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 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
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 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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 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 »
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 »