Living Democracy: An Ecological Manifesto for the End of the World As We Know It by Tim Hollo
$33.00 AUD
Category: Climate
There's a mounting sense of desperation in the face of ecological crises, gaping economic inequality and racial injustice, and a post-truth in politics that's divorced from reality. But what if it were possible for us to not just survive, but thrive, in the 21st century? What if the solutions to our eco ...Show more
Provocations: New and selected writing by Jeff Sparrow
$33.00 AUD
Category: Essays
'Genuine radicalism depends on the provision of hope. It provokes through a scandalous insistence that life can be otherwise, that we aren’t doomed to economic and environmental decline, and that the future can exceed than the past.’Jeff Sparrow is one of Australia’s leading public intellectuals. From g ...Show more
Abominations - Selected Essays From a Career of Courting Self-Destruction by Lionel Shriver
$33.00 AUD
Category: Essays
A masterful collection from one of the most acclaimed writers of our time. Abominations: Selected essays from a career of courting self-destruction showcases Lionel Shriver's relentlessly sceptical and deeply insightful thoughts on our contemporary era. Uniting essays from the Spectator, New York Times, ...Show more
How Woke Won: The Elitist Movement That Threatens Democracy, Tolerance and Reason by Joanna Williams
$26.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Wokeness has conquered our institutions. The worlds of politics, academia and even corporate capitalism now bend the knee to the new orthodoxies around gender, racism and identity. How Woke Won explores the intellectual roots of wokeness and how this movement, which poses as radical and left-wing, came ...Show more
The Crash Course: The Unsustainable Future of Our Economy, Energy, and Environment by Chris Martenson
$45.95 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
The next twenty years will be completely unlike the last twenty years. The world is in economic crisis, and there are no easy fixes to our predicament. Unsustainable trends in the economy, energy, and the environment have finally caught up with us and are converging on a very narrow window of time-the " ...Show more
What We Owe the Future: The Million-Year View by William MacAskill
$33.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
We are remarkably early in the story of human civilisation. We are still five hundred million years away from the sterilisation of the Earth by the Sun, and one hundred trillion years away from the dying of the last stars. Leaving a shard of broken glass on the ground may harm someone tomorrow or one hu ...Show more
Love and the Novel: Life After Reading by Christina Lupton
$35.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
'A subversive, brilliant and beautifully written book about love, play and power in fiction and in the well-read life' - Sarah Moss, author of Summerwater' A delicious combination of critical thought and passionate personal experience.' - Tanya Shadrick, author of The Cure for Sleep Romantic love was ...Show more
Out of Sheer Rage - In the Shadow of D. H. Lawrence by Geoff Dyer
$23.00 AUD
Category: Essays
Sitting down to write a book about his hero D. H. Lawrence, Geoff Dyer finds himself compelled to write about anything else. He is in fact compelled to do more or less anything else instead of write. In Sicily he is too preoccupied by his hatred of seafood to follow the great writer's footsteps; in Mexi ...Show more
The Last Days of Roger Federer: And Other Endings (HB) by Geoff Dyer
$40.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
'Quite possibly the best living writer in Britain' Daily Telegraph. Much attention has been paid to so-called late style - but what about last style? When does last begin? How early is late? When does the end set in? In this endlessly stimulating investigation, Geoff Dyer sets his own encounter wit ...Show more
False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet by Bjorn Lomborg
$25.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
The New York Times-bestselling "skeptical environmentalist" argues that panic over climate change is causing more harm than good Hurricanes batter our coasts. Wildfires rage across the American West. Glaciers collapse in the Artic. Politicians, activists, and the media espouse a common message: clim ...Show more
Disabling Professions by Ivan Illich; John McKnight; Irving K. Zola; Jonathan Caplan; Harley Shaiken
$33.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas | Series: Open Forum Ser.
How the caring professions destabilise our lives: a radical analysis of the welfare power-base.
Limits To Medicine Medical Nemesis The Expropriation Of Health by Illich Ivan
$33.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
The medical establishment has become a major threat to health. This is the opening statement and basic contention of Ivan Illich's searing social critique. In Limits to Medicine Ivan Illich has enlarged on this theme of disabling social services, schools, and transport, which have become, through over-i ...Show more