Hungry City: How Food Shapes Our Lives by Carolyn Steel
$34.95 AUD
Category: Politics
Cities cover just 2 per cent of the world's surface, but consume 75 per cent of the world's resources. Global food production increased by 145 per cent in the last 4 decades of the 20th century - yet an estimated 800 million people are still hungry. In 2005 British supermarkets sent half a million tonne ...Show more
Cradle to Cradle - Re-making the way we make things by Michael Braungart; William McDonough
$24.95 AUD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: very good
"Reduce, reuse, recycle' urge environmentalists; in other words, do more with less in order to minimize damage. But as architect William McDonough and chemist Michael Braungart point out in this provocative, visionary book, this approach only perpetuates the one-way, 'cradle to grave' manufacturing mode ...Show more
How to Cure a Fanatic by Amos Oz
$12.95 AUD
Category: Politics
In "How To Cure a Fanatic" Amos Oz analyses the historical roots of violence and confronts truths about the extremism nurtured throughout society. By bringing us face to face with fanaticism he suggests ways in which we can all respond. In "Help Us to Divorce" he convinces irrefutably that the Israel-Pa ...Show more
Dark Market: How Hackers Became the New Mafia by Misha Glenny
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics
This title is shortlisted for the "Orwell Prize 2012". We live our lives online - banking, shopping, working, dating - but have we become complacent? We share our personal details, our thoughts and movements with a faceless screen, with no real idea what lies behind it. "DarkMarket" exposes the shocking ...Show more
American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America by Chris Hedges
$29.95 AUD
Category: Politics
They disseminate their ideas on the alternative broadcast networks and through their own publishers and schools. Their intellectual leaders demand the complete dismantling of the secular state; their followers have been roused to a fever pitch of resentment and despair. Describing themselves as true pat ...Show more
The Accidental Billionaires : Sex, Money, Betrayal and the Founding of Facebook by Ben Mezrich
$24.95 AUD
Category: Politics
Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg - an awkward maths prodigy and a painfully shy computer genius - were never going to fit in at elite, polished Harvard. Yet that all changed when master-hacker Mark crashed the university's entire computer system by creating a rateable database of female students. Nar ...Show more
American Caesars: Lives of the US Presidents, from Franklin D. Roosevelt to George W. Bush by Nigel Hamilton
$24.95 AUD
Category: Politics
A group biography of the twelve caesars of our time: American Presidents from Roosevelt to George W. Bush. The twentieth century has been called 'the American Century'. Not since the days of the Roman emperors has there been such a succession of rulers holding the fate of the world in their hands. Now, ...Show more
Shake Hands With the Devil : The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda by Lieutenant-General Romeo Dallaire with Major Brent Beardsley
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics
When Lt. General Romeo Dallaire received the call to serve as force commander of the UN mission to Rwanda, he thought he was heading off to Africa to help two warring parties achieve a peace both sides wanted. Instead, he and members of his small international force were caught up in a vortex of civil w ...Show more
See No Evil (Syriana) by Robert Baer
$24.95 AUD
Category: Politics
"Robert Baer was considered perhaps the best on-the-ground field officer in the Middle East." --Seymour M. Hersh, The New Yorker "Robert Baer [was] one of the most talented Middle East case officers of the past twenty years." --Reuel Marc Gerecht, The Atlantic Monthly In See No Evil, one of the CIA''s ...Show more
Nonviolence - The History of a Dangerous Idea by Mark Kurlansky
$24.95 AUD
Category: Politics | Reading Level: very good
The conventional history of nations, even continents, is a history of warfare. According to this view, all the important ideas and significant changes of humankind occurred as part of an effort to win one violent, bloody conflict or another. This approach to history is only one of many examples of how s ...Show more
Our Final Century? Will civilisation survive the twenty-first century by Martin Rees
$27.95 AUD
Category: Politics
Our planet may be insignificant on a cosmic scale, but the evolution of intelligent life here makes it unusual, it is likely to be unique in our galaxy. Yet we may be on the verge of destroying it, of destroying ourselves - over the next century the future of life in the cosmos could be either jeopardis ...Show more