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Affluenza: When too much is never enough by Clive Hamilton, Richard Denniss
$24.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Anyone concerned about the level of their personal debt or frustrated by the rat race of aspiring to an affluent lifestyle will appreciate this critique of the effects of over-consumption. This analysis pulls no punches as it describes both the problem and what can be done to stop it. Analyzing the incr ...Show more
Defiant Earth: The fate of humans in the anthropocene by Clive Hamilton
$30.00 AUD
Category: Science
Forget everything you know. Nature is no longer nature. Humans are no longer humans. We have entered a new era - the Anthropocene. Everything has changed. Humans have become so powerful that we have disrupted the functioning of the Earth, bringing on a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene. The stable ...Show more
Earthmasters: Playing God with the Climate by Clive Hamilton
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
While Washington, London and Canberra fiddle, the planet burns. It has become painfully clear that the big democracies won't take the hard decisions to halt climate change. Climate scientists now expect the worst, and they're considering a response which sounds like science fiction: climate engineering. ...Show more
Freedom Paradox: Towards a Post-secular Ethics by Clive Hamilton
$23.14 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Why is it so many of us lack contentment, despite all the wealth and freedoms we enjoy? The past two centuries delivered individual and political freedoms that promised unprecedented opportunities for personal fulfilment. Yet citizens of affluent countries are encouraged to pursue lives of consumerism, ...Show more
Hidden Hand: Exposing How the Chinese Communist Party Is Reshaping the World by Clive Hamilton; Mareike Ohlberg
$32.99 AUD
Category: Asian
In this landmark follow-up to the bestselling Silent Invasion, Hidden Hand exposes the Chinese Communist Party’s global program of influence and subversion, and the threat it poses to democracy. With its enormous economic power, China is now a global political and military force engaged in an ideologic ...Show more
Living Hot: Surviving and Thriving on a Heating Planet by Clive Hamilton, George Wilkenfeld
$28.00 AUD
Category: Climate
Living Hot tells the blunt truth about our current climate change predicament: it’s time to get cracking on making Australia resilient to intensifying climate extremes. If we prepare well, we can give ourselves a fighting chance to preserve some of the best of what we have, build stronger and fairer com ...Show more
Provocateur: A Life of Ideas in Action by Clive Hamilton
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Clive Hamilton has spent a life asking why. In his unique memoir, Provocateur, he shows us why questioning the status quo matters, how powerful arguments can change the country, and how the life of ideas in action actually works. From why climate change matters to how we understand ourselves as Austral ...Show more
Requiem for a Species: Why We Resist the Truth About Climate Change by Clive Hamilton
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
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 future.
Scorcher: The Dirty Politics of Climate Change by Clive Hamilton
$29.95 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Black Inc. Agenda Ser.
This is the book that blows the whistle on the politics of global warming in Australia. Why have our political leaders been so slow to act? Which are the fossil-fuel lobby groups that still set the policy agenda? How many different ways can one spin, deceive, lie and obfuscate instead of facing facts an ...Show more
Silencing Dissent: How the Australian Government is Controlling Public Opinion and Stifling Debate by Clive Hamilton
$24.95 AUD
Category: History
Silencing Dissent is a timely, disturbing and unnerving book' from the foreword by Robert Manne For over a decade, the Howard government has found ways to silence its critics, one by one. Like the proverbial frog in boiling water, Australians have become accustomed to repeated attacks on respected indiv ...Show more
Silent Invasion : China's Influence in Australia by Clive Hamilton
$35.00 AUD
Category: Asian
Respected academic Clive Hamilton realised something big was happening when, in 2016, it was revealed that wealthy Chinese businessmen linked to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) had become the largest donors to both major Australian political parties. Hamilton began to investigate the Chinese governmen ...Show more
The Privileged Few by Clive Hamilton, Myra Hamilton
$36.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Male and white privilege are on the decline, yet elite privilege has gone from strength to strength. The privileges enjoyed by the rich and powerful are not only unfair but cause widespread harm, from the everyday slights and humiliations visited on those lower down to the distortions in the labour mark ...Show more