Abortion Care is Health Care by Barbara Baird
$40.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A history of the challenges facing medical abortion provision in Australia and the people trying to overcome them.In Abortion Care is Health Care Barbara Baird tells the history of the provision of abortion care in Australia since 1990. Against the backdrop of a reticent public sector Baird describes a ...Show more
All Our Relations: Indigenous trauma in the shadow of colonialism by Tanya Talaga
$27.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
The world's Indigenous communities are fighting to live and dying too young. In this vital and incisive work, Tanya Talaga explores intergenerational trauma and the alarming rise of youth suicide. From Northern Ontario to Nunavut, Norway, Brazil, Australia, and the United States, the Indigenous experien ...Show more
At a Turning Point: Work, Care and Family Policies in Australia
$50.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
At the Table - The Chef's Guide to Advocacy by Katherine Miller
$65.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
When Katherine Miller was first asked to train chefs to be advocates, she thought the idea was ludicrous. This was a group known for short tempers and tattoos, not for saving the world. But she quickly learned that chefs and other leaders in the restaurant industry are some of the most powerful forces f ...Show more
Banzeiro Òkòtó by Eliane Brum
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A confrontation with the destruction of the Amazon by a writer who moved her life into the heart of the forest. Eliane Brum reveals the direct links between structural inequities rooted in gender, race, class, and even species, and the suffering that capitalism and climate breakdown wreak on those who a ...Show more
Best Wishes by Richard Glover
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Making the world a better, less annoying place one wish at a time.Do you hate noisy restaurants, pre-ripped jeans and pedestrians who walk five abreast? Do you also have a problem with plastic-wrapped fruit, climate-change deniers and take-away sandwiches priced at $14.95? And, most of all, do you thin ...Show more
Black Earth Wisdom - Soulful Conversations with Black Environmentalists by Leah Penniman (ed.)
$49.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
A soulful collection of illuminating essays and interviews that explore Black people's spiritual and scientific connection to the land, waters, and climate, curated by the acclaimed author of Farming While Black Author of Farming While Black and co-founder of Soul Fire Farm, Leah Penniman reminds us tha ...Show more
Black Lives, White Law: Locked Up and Locked Out in Australia by Russell Marks
$36.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
How and why Australia's legal system fails Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people Indigenous Australians are the most incarcerated people on the planet. Indigenous men are fifteen times more likely to be locked up than their non-Indigenous counterparts; Indigenous women are twenty-one times more ...Show more
Breaking Twitter: Elon Musk and the Most Controversial Corporate Takeover in History by Ben Mezrich
$36.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Gripping and darkly comic, Breaking Twitter takes readers inside the battle between one of the most intriguing, polarizing, influential men of our time – Elon Musk – and the company that owns our world’s best hope for a shared global conversation. From employee accounts within Twitter headquarters to t ...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