The Rudd Rebellion by Bruce Hawker
$24.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
This is a fascinating account of one of the most challenging political campaigns Australia has ever seen. From the detailed war-gaming of potential political outcomes to the nail-biting lead-up to the polls...what really happened on that campaign trail? How did Rudd resume the prime ministership? Did hi ...Show more
Stuff I've Been Reading by Nick Hornby
$27.99 AUD
Category: Essays
Stuff I've Been Reading by Nick Hornby - the bestselling novelist's rich, witty and inspiring reading diary. 'Read what you enjoy, not what bores you,' Nick Hornby tells us. And in this new collection of his columns from the Believer magazine (taking off where The Complete Polysyllabic Spree finished), ...Show more
End of the Road?: Australia's love affair with the car industry, its current difficulties, and why we shouldn't rush into a divorce by Gideon Haigh
$9.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic | Series: Penguin Specials
Australia is one of just thirteen countries in the world equipped to take a car from design concept all the way to a showroom - a remarkable achievement in a market so small. Yet the industry has few friends, and many vociferous critics who argue that the country should not make cars at all. In this eng ...Show more
Not on the Label: What Really Goes into the Food on Your Plate by Felicity Lawrence
$22.99 AUD
Category: Sustainability/Environment
This is Felicity Lawrence's Sunday Times bestseller Not on the Label, updated with extraordinary new material on the horsemeat scandal. In 2004 Felicity Lawrence published her ground-breaking book, Not on the Label, where, in a series of undercover investigations she provided a shocking account of what ...Show more
How to Think About Exercise (School of Life) by Damon Young
$19.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: School of Life Ser.
We tend to regard exercise as pure physical exertion, a working of the muscles to develop (or show) bodily strength and vitality. We do not exercise to improve our minds or to learn something new; we commonly make this division of the body and mind. But this was not always so; the ancient Greeks rarely ...Show more
The News - A User's Manual by Alain De Botton
$29.99 AUD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
Alain de Botton explores our relationship with 'the news' in this book full of his trademark wit and wisdom. Following on from his bestselling Religion for Atheists, Alain de Botton turns now to look at the manic and peculiar positions that 'the news' occupies in our lives. We invest it with an authorit ...Show more
Demographic Cliff: How to survive and prosper during the Great Deflation of 2014-2019 The by Harry S. Dent Jr.
$29.99 AUD
Category: Essays
Bestselling author and financial guru Harry Dent shows why we're facing a "great deflation" after five years of desperate stimulus--and what to do about it now Throughout his long career as an economic forecaster, Harry Dent has relied on a not-so-secret weapon: demographics. Studying the predictable t ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 53: That Sinking Feeling: Asylum Seekers and the Search for the Indonesian Solution by Paul Toohey
$19.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
In Quarterly Essay 53, Paul Toohey looks at one of Tony Abbott's signature promises: to stop the boats. Has his government succeeded? If so, at what cost?In Java, Toohey observes asylum seekers heading for Australia and reports on the Indonesian response. He tells the stories of individual refugees, loo ...Show more
Tales From Boom Town: Western Australian Premiers from Brand to Barnett by Peter Kennedy
$29.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
Veteran political journalist Peter Kennedy spent more than forty years observing eleven Premiers of Western Australia, across an extraordinary period of change in Western Australia's history, from 1970 to 2013. His insiders account reveals first-hand the issues linked with the jailing of two Premiers an ...Show more
The Underground Girls of Kabul: The Hidden Lives of Afghan Girls Disguised as Boys by Jenny Nordberg
$29.99 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
An Afghan woman's life expectancy is just 44 years, and her life cycle often begins and ends in disappointment: being born a girl and finally, having a daughter of her own. For some, disguising themselves as boys is the only way to get ahead. Nordberg follows women such as Azita Rafaat, a parliament ...Show more
Deep Field - Behind the Frontlines of Aid Relief: from Pakistan to Kazan, the Punjab to the Pacific by Tom Bamforth
$26.95 AUD
Category: Sustainability/Environment
'Deep Field' is a UN term for humanitarian operations that take place in extremis - amid the destruction caused by war and natural disaster, beyond the boundaries of what is controllable and known. This book takes the reader 'deep field' in the footsteps of Tom Bamforth, an aid worker responding to the ...Show more
Birth Matters by Ina May Gaskin
$27.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
Renowned for her practice's exemplary results and low intervention rates, Ina May Gaskin has gained international notoriety for promoting natural birth. She is a much-beloved leader of a movement that seeks to stop the hyper-medicalization of birth--which has lead to nearly a third of hospital births in ...Show more