Talking up a Legacy: Australian Prime Ministers and the Speeches We Remember Them By by Tom Clark
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Category: Current Affairs
The Light That Failed: A Reckoning by Ivan Krastev; Stephen Holmes; Anon
$45.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A landmark book that completely transforms our understanding of the crisis of liberalism from two pre-eminent intellectuals Why did the West, after winning the Cold War, lose its political balance? In the early 1990s, hopes for the eastward spread of liberal democracy were high. And yet the transformati ...Show more
Is Masculinity Toxic?: A primer for the 21st century by Andrew Smiler
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Category: Current Affairs | Series: The\Big Idea Ser.
This timely title weighsmasculinity's capacity forgood against its potentialfor destruction in thecontext of contemporarydebates on the topic. In the wake of the MeToo movement and the upsurge in both feminist and men's rights activism, traditional masculinity has become the topic of impassioned debate ...Show more
Should We All Be Vegan?: A Primer for the 21st Century (The Big Idea) by Rebecca Chesney; Molly Watson; Matthew Taylor
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Category: Current Affairs | Series: The Big Idea
An insightful look atthe arguments forand against universal adoption of a vegan diet and lifestyle. As concern grows over the environmental costs and ethical implications of intensive factory farming, an increasing number of people are embracing diets and lifestyles free from animal products. Should We ...Show more
All Hell Breaking Loose - Climate Change, Global Chaos, and American National Security by Michael Klare
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Category: Current Affairs
The Pentagon, unsentimental and politically conservative, might not seem likely to be worried about climate change--still linked, for many people, with polar bears and coral reefs. Yet of all the major institutions in American society, none take climate change as seriously as the U.S. military. Both as ...Show more
American Gulag by Jeff Merkley
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Category: Current Affairs
An expos and cry of outrage at the cruelty and chaos the Trump administration has wrought at the border with child separations, border blockades, and a massive gulag of child prisons housing thousands. Jeff Merkley couldn't believe his eyes. He never dreamed the United States could treat vulnerable youn ...Show more
Generation F: Why we Still Struggle with Sex and Power by Virginia Trioli
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Category: Current Affairs
‘For me these Ormond College women were, and are, the first voices of the revolution that is #MeToo in Australia.’ Twenty-five years ago, Australia was in the grip of another debate about sex and power. The Master of Ormond College at the University of Melbourne had been acquitted of indecent assault ...Show more
Unfree Speech: The Threat to Global Democracy and Why We Must Act, Now by Joshua Wong
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Category: Current Affairs
An urgent manifesto for global democracy from Joshua Wong, the 22-year-old phenomenon leading Hong Kong's protests - Nobel Peace Prize nominee and TIME, Forbes, and Fortune world leader - with an introduction by Ai Weiwei Aged 14, Joshua Wong made history. While the adults stayed silent, Joshua staged ...Show more
Party Animals: The Secret History of a Labor Fiasco by Samantha Maiden
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Category: Current Affairs
The Labor Party was the unbeatable favourite to win the 2019 election right up until the polls closed and voters delivered the shock verdict. If the results surprised pundits, they also shocked Bill Shorten and his frontbench who had spent the final weeks of the campaign carefully planning for their fir ...Show more
City on Fire: Hong Kong's Fight for Democracy by Antony Dapiran
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Category: Current Affairs
A long-term resident and expert observer of dissent in Hong Kong takes readers to the front lines of Hong Kong's revolution. Through the long, hot summer of 2019, Hong Kong burned. Anti-government protests, sparked by a government proposal to introduce a controversial extradition law, grew into a pro-de ...Show more
Tomorrows Versus Yesterdays: Conversations in Defense of the Future by Andrew Keen
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Category: Current Affairs
In a collection of 18 exclusive interviews, Andrew Keen discusses the impact of the digital revolution and possible solutions to the challenges we face today with some of the most influential thinkers of our time.
Running Against the Devil by Rick Wilson
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Category: Current Affairs
Trump is as bad as we thought, and worse. His reelection would be a disaster for democracy, for America, and the world as we know it. A thirty-year veteran of national political campaigns and one of the most famous ad makers in politics, Rick Wilson brings his experience, insight, knowledge, and signatu ...Show more