$32.95 (Paperback book / Melb Univ Press / ISBN:9780522854909)
The Blogging Revolution
In many countries, internet censorship has become one of the key human rights issues of the twenty-first century.
Best-selling author Antony Loewenstein conducts a searching examination of the ways the internet is threatening the rule of some of the planet's most repressive governments, including in countries such as Iran, Saudi Arabia, China, Cuba, Egypt and Syria. With first-hand investigative reporting, Loewenstein discovers the ways that Western multinationals are assisting the restriction of information in these countries, how bloggers are leading the charge for change and how, thanks to the web, we in the West now have a unique insight into cultures at once radically different from and yet distinctly similar to our own.
Antony Loewenstein is a Sydney-based journalist and author. He has written for The Sydney Morning Herald, The Sun-Herald, The Australian, The Bulletin, Znet, Crikey, New Matilda, The Big Issue and Counterpunch. He is a board member of Macquarie University's Centre for Middle East and North African Studies.
September 2008 Politics
Human Rights Overboard
$35.00 (Trade paperback / Scribe Publications )
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Mike's Election Guide
$24.95 (Paperback book / Penguin Books )
Democracy. It's easily the best system in the world, ever. Which is why so amny countries are desperate to have it enforced on them by soldiers!
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My Guantanamo Diary: The Detainees And The Stories They Told Me
$29.95 (Trade paperback / Scribe Publications )
Mahvish Khan is an American lawyer, born to immigrant Afghan parents in Michigan. Outraged that her country was illegally imprisoning people at Guantanamo, she volunteered to translate for the prisoners. She spoke their ... More »
The Blogging Revolution
$32.95 (Paperback book / Melb Univ Press )
In many countries, internet censorship has become one of the key human rights issues of the twenty-first century.
Best-selling author Antony Loewenstein conducts a searching examination of the ways the internet is threat... More »
Eating Between The Lines: Food And Equality In Australia
$24.95 (Paperback book / Black Inc )
We live in an age of gastronomic soul-searching. Why is childhood obesity on the rise, especially among the poor? Is the traditional family dinner really dying out – and if so, does it matter? Jamie Oliver and Bill Grang... More »
The Racket
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Pan Macmillan )
A generation ago in Australia, abortion was a crime. It was also the basis of one of the country's most lucrative and longest-lasting criminal rackets.
The Racket describes the rise and fall of an extraordinary web of in... More »
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