Cannibal Capitalism by Nancy Fraser
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Capital is currently cannibalizing every sphere of life-guzzling wealth from nature and racialized populations, sucking up our ability to care for each other, and gutting the practice of politics. In this tightly argued and urgent volume, leading Marxist feminist theorist Nancy Fraser charts the voracio ...Show more
Carbon Democracy - Political Power in the Age of Oil by Timothy Mitchell
$26.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Oil is a curse, it is often said, that condemns the countries producing it to an existence defined by war, corruption and enormous inequality. Carbon Democracy tells a more complex story, arguing that no nation escapes the political consequences of our collective dependence on oil. It shapes the body po ...Show more
Care - The Highest Stage of Capitalism by Premilla Nadasen
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
An eye-opening reckoning with the care economy, from its roots in racial capitalism to its exponential growth as a new site of profit and extraction. Since the earliest days of the pandemic, care work has been thrust into the national spotlight. The notion of care seems simple enough. Care is about nur ...Show more
Climate Change Is Racist: Race, Privilege and the Struggle for Climate Justice by Jeremy Williams
$19.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
'Will open the minds of even the most ardent denier of climate change and/or systemic racism. If there's one book that will help you to be an effective activist for climate justice, it's this one.' - Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu, author of This is Why I Resist
Crossing the Line: The explosive inside story behind the Ben Roberts-Smith headlines by Nick McKenzie
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
An explosive expose and testament to the power of investigative journalism. In mid-2017, whispers from Australia's most secretive and elite military unit reached Walkley Award-winning journalist Nick McKenzie. McKenzie and veteran reporter Chris Masters began an investigation that would not only reveal ...Show more
Data Grab: The new Colonialism of Big Tech and how to fight back by Ulises A. Mejias, Nick Couldry
$36.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
If you're not paying for the product, then you are the product. In the past, colonialism was a landgrab of natural resources, exploitative labour and private property from developing countries. It made shiny promises to modernise and civilise, but actually sought to control. It made native populations s ...Show more
Defying Displacement - Urban Recomposition and Social War by Andrew Lee
$34.95 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: Anarchist Interventions Ser.
A revolutionary new study of gentrification ... and how to stop it.Cities around the world are in the midst of a profound transformation as the wealthy price out the remnants of the urban working class, especially people of color. Displacement is neither accidental or inevitable. It happens because a wh ...Show more
Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein
$36.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Reading Level: near fine
A personal trip into the uncanny Mirror World of our polarised culture, from the international bestselling author of The Shock Doctrine. What if you woke up one morning and found you'd acquired a double? Someone almost like you, and yet not you at all? When Naomi Klein discovered that a woman who share ...Show more
Drugs 2.0 - The Web Revolution That's Changing How the World Gets High by Mike Power
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A few years ago, deals were done in dimly-lit side streets or on the phone via a friend of a friend. Today, you can order every conceivable pill or powder with the click of a mouse. But the online market in narcotics isn't just changing the way drugs are bought and sold; it's changing the nature of drug ...Show more
Energy Revolution - Your Guide to Repowering the Energy System by Howard Johns
$44.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
We need a global energy revolution. In developed nations we are wasting massive quantities of energy providing heat and light to our homes and businesses while one and a half billion people have no access to electricity at all. The existing central-power-station model is based on old technology that spe ...Show more
Eurowhiteness - Culture, Empire and Race in the European Project by Hans Kundnani
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
The European Union is often seen as a cosmopolitan rejection of violent nationalism. Yet the idea of Europe has a long, problematic history--in medieval times, it was synonymous with Christianity; in the modern era, it became associated with "whiteness." Eurowhiteness exposes the EU as a vehicle for im ...Show more
Everest, Inc.: The Renegades and Rogues Who Built an Industry at the Top of the World by Will Cockrell
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Featuring original interviews with mountain guides and climbers—including Jimmy Chin and Conrad Anker—this vivid and authoritative adventure history chronicles one of the least likely industries on Earth: guided climbing on Mount Everest. Anyone who has read Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air or has seen a r ...Show more