Philosophy, politics & economics 2019

How to Teach Philosophy to Your Dog
In this uniquely entertaining take on morality and ethics, the dutiful duo set out to uncover who - if anyone - has the right end of the ethical stick and can tell us how best to live one's life.
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Fascists Among Us: Online Hate and the Christchurch Massacre
The first book since Christchurch to trace the massacre's fascist roots and what it represents.
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The Surprise Party: How the Coalition Went from Chaos to Comeback
In this gripping behind-the-scenes account, acclaimed journalist Aaron Patrick examines how the Coalition came back from the brink, and what that means for Australia.
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The Outlaw Ocean
The Outlaw Ocean is a riveting, adrenaline-fuelled tour of a vast, lawless and rampantly criminal world that few have ever seen: the high seas.
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Becoming Beauvoir: A Life
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Permanent Record
Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government's system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his life, including how he helped to build that system and what motivated him to try...
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Mindful Money
Canna Campbell leads by example, sharing her personal tips and tricks for building, managing and protecting your money. No matter what you earn or what level of knowledge you have, Mindful Money will help you to...
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Banking Bad
How corporate greed broke our trust and failed Australia.
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The Politics of the Common Good
With insight, passion and an eye on history, Jane Goodall argues that as the ravages of neo-liberalism tear ever more deeply into the social fabric, the principle of the commons should be restored to the heart of our politics.
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Malebranche: Theological Figure, Being 2
Alain Badiou offers a tour de force encounter with a lesser-known seventeenth-century philosopher and theologian, Nicolas Malebranche, a contemporary and peer of Spinoza and Leibniz. The seminar is at once a record of Badiou's...
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Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto
A different kind of politics for a new kind of society - beyond work, scarcity and capitalism
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Chinese Spies: From Chairman Mao to Xi Jinping
Are the Chinese secret services now the most powerful in the world? After a long investigation into Beijing's intelligence services and the backrooms of international politics, journalist Roger Faligot may have found the answer.
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Digital Cash
The fascinating untold story of digital cash and its creators, from experiments in the 1970s to the mania over Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. --Provided by publisher.
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The Great Great Wall
An architectural historian takes a deep dive into the story of Trump's wall and examines famous walls from throughout human history and what they reveal about us.
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A Wunch of Bankers
For Daniel Ziffer and his Australia-wide audience, it was a complicated, galling, and gasp-inducing year at the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry.
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The Colonial Fantasy: Why white Australia can’t solve black problems
A call for a radical restructuring of the relationship between black and white Australia.
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Live Like A Stoic: 52 Exercises for Cultivating a Good Life
The answers to our daily worries and anxieties - big or small - lie at the heart of Stoic philosophy. Live Like a Stoic is the essential guide to help us live the good life.
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Trump
This concise account of the meaning of Trump should be read by everyone who wants to understand what is happening in our world today.
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How to Defend Australia
A brilliant and important book about Australia's future
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Plots and Prayers
In an enthralling sequel to her bestselling The Road to Ruin, Niki Savva reveals the inside story of eight days of madness that cast a Liberal prime minister and his party into the outer darkness of Australian politics.
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The Socialist Manifesto
From one of the most prominent voices on the American left, a galvanizing argument for why we need socialism today.
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Buddhism for Meat Eaters
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My Seditious Heart
Collected essays and speeches from the bestselling, Booker-winning author of The Ministry of Utmost Happiness.
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How We Fight White Supremacy
This celebration of Black resistance, from protests to art to sermons to joy, offers a blueprint for the fight for freedom and justice-and ideas for how each of us can contribute.
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Rockonomics
How the music industry explains the workings of our economy, the changes of markets and prepares us the future - from one of the modern era's foremost economists
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Never Ending Nightmare
First published as 'Ce cauchemar qui n'en finit pas: Comment le naeolibaeralisme daefait la daemocratie' AEditions La Daecouverte 2016 -- Title page verso.
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On the Other Side of Freedom
Our work needs no more martyrs. You can fight these fights and live.
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The Great Successor
The behind-the-scenes story of the rise and reign of the world's strangest and most elusive tyrant, Kim Jong Un, by the journalist with the best connections and insights into the bizarrely dangerous world of North Korea.
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Dreams of Leaving and Remaining
The anatomy of Britain on the edge of Brexit by Orwell Prize winning journalist
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The Ministry of Truth: A Biography of George Orwell’s 1984
In The Ministry of Truth, Dorian Lynskey charts the life of George Orwell's 1984: one of the most influential books of the 20th Century, a perennial bestseller, and a work that remains more relevant than ever in today's tumultuous...
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A Summer with Montaigne
Translation of: Un aetae avec Montaigne.
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People’s Republic of Walmart
Since the demise of the USSR, the mantle of the largest planned economies in the world has been taken up by the likes of Walmart, Amazon and other multinational corporations.
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Why Superman Doesn’t Take Over The World
Why Superman Doesn't Take Over The World: What Superheroes Can Tell Us About Economics probes the motivations of our favourite heroes, and considers what it would look like if their stories played out in reality.
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Last Days at Hot Slit
Selections from the work of radical feminist author Andrea Dworkin, famous for her antipornography stance and role in the feminist sex wars of the 1980s.
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Fire and Fury
The New York Times and Sunday Times number one book that exposed the chaos of Donald Trump's White House to the world, now in paperback with a new afterword by the author.
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The Great Firewall of China: How to Build and Control an Alternative Version of the Internet
Exposing the world's biggest and most sophisticated system of internet censorship
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Biased
In Biased Jennifer Eberhardt draws on groundbreaking research to demonstrate that even without explicit racism, our unconscious biases powerfully shape our behaviour leading to racial disparities in all sectors of society.
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Democracy on the Road
A deeply insightful book about the world's largest and most complex exercise in democracy.
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The Long ‘68: Radical Protest and Its Enemies
The 'long 68' is a striking and original attempt, half a century on, to show how these events, which in some ways still seem so current, stemmed from histories and societies which are in practice now extraordinarily remote from...
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The Resurrection of Winnie Mandela
An elegant and challenging portrait of the extraordinary, glamorous, complex and brutal revolutionary, Winnie Mandela
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Robert Menzies: The Art of Politics
A revelatory biography of Australia's longest-serving prime minister.
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Falter
The most urgent call-to-arms yet for us to solve climate change, from one of the world's most influential and respected environmental advocates
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Democracy Hacked
This book shows how hackers are gaming democracy, why they can do it, and what we need to do to save democracy for the digital age.
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Assembly
Each year an eruption of leaderless social movements leaves external observers and activists perplexed. Why have the movements, which address the needs and desires of so many, not been able to achieve lasting change? In...
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Amplifications: Poetic Migration, Auditory Memory
A personal narrative to sound written by one of the top figures in sound studies and that outlines a new way of thinking about migratory poetics --
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Political Correctness Gone Mad?
Has political correctness gone too far?
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Granta 146: The Politics of Feeling
This issue of Granta looks at the ways we feel politically - and asks whether it's possible to feel any other way.
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How to Hide an Empire
For a country that has always denied having dreams of empire, the United States owns a lot of overseas territory. The birth control pill, chemotherapy, plastic, Godzilla, the Beatles, the name America itself - you can't understand...
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Political Troglodytes and Economic Lunatics
Political Troglodytes and Economic Lunatics is a case study in how some very determined people can change a political culture.
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The Thinking Woman
A memoir combined with rigorous thinking and analysis, a book that prompts insightful questions about how we live. One of the age-old questions of philosophy is what does it mean to live a good life? In this extraordinary book,...
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Quarterly Essay 73: Australia Fair - Listening to the Nation
In this vivid, grounded essay, Rebecca Huntley looks at the state of the nation and asks: what does social-democratic Australia want, and why?
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The Future Is Asian
Leading global strategist Parag Khanna explains how Asia is reshaping the entire planet and setting a new template for our collective future
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The Traveller’s Guide to Classical Philosophy
A primer for anyone interested in the foundation of Western thought and a companion for visitors to Greek and Roman sites. It unfolds the thinking about nature, life, death and other worlds that informed the culture and society of...
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Dead Right
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Antisemitism: Here and Now
The award-winning author of The Eichmann Trial and Denial: Holocaust History on Trial gives us a penetrating and provocative analysis of the hate that will not die, focusing on its current, virulent incarnations on both the...
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The Change Makers
Now more than ever we need leaders who can be strong yet humble, bold and assertive when it counts but have the capacity to listen and learn, who can motivate and influence, and who can get the best out of those around them....
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A Writer of Our Time: The Life and Work of John Berger
The first intellectual biography of the life and work of John Berger
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Diderot And The Art Of Thinking Freely
A spirited biography of the prophetic and sympathetic philosopher who, along with Voltaire and Rousseau, helped build the foundations of the modern world.
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The Four Horsemen: The Discussion that Sparked an Atheist Revolution
Known as the `four horsemen' of New Atheism, these four big thinkers of the twenty-first century met only once. Everything that was said as they agreed and disagreed with one another, interrogated ideas and exchanged insights -...
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In the Closet of the Vatican: Power, Homosexuality, Hypocrisy
In the Closet of the Vatican exposes the rot at the heart of the Vatican and the Roman Catholic Church today. This brilliant piece of investigative writing is based on four years' authoritative research, including extensive...
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Breaking Point: The Future of Australian Cities
In this timely critique of our nation's urban development and planning culture, Peter Seamer argues that vested interests often distort rational thinking on our cities. Looking to the future, he sets out cogent new strategies to...
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From Secret Ballot to Democracy Sausage
Lively and inspiring, From Secret Ballot to Democracy Sausage is a landmark account of the character of Australian democracy by the celebrated historian Judith Brett, the prize-winning biographer of Alfred Deakin.
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We Need to Talk About Putin
Who is the real Vladimir Putin? What does he want? And what will he do next?
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