Full Catastrophe Living, Revised Edition: How to cope with stress, pain and illness using mindfulness meditation by Jon Kabat-Zinn
$39.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs Politics
This authoritative and accessible book provides meditation techniques, a detailed 8-week practice schedule, case histories and latest research findings on how mindfulness meditation is related to physical and mental health.
Nomadland by Jessica Bruder
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs Politics
The inspiration for the film 'Nomadland' starring Frances McDormand. From the beet fields of North Dakota to the campgrounds of California to Amazon's CamperForce program in Texas, employers have discovered a new, low-cost labour pool, made up largely of transient older adults. These invisible casualti ...Show more
How Do We Know We're Doing It Right? Essays on Modern Life by Pandora Sykes
$35.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs Politics
'Pandora is my personal guru on all things relating to the zeitgeist. How lucky you are that she can now be yours too.' - Dolly Alderton Modern life is full of choices. We're told that happiness lies within and we can be whoever we want to be. But with endless possibility comes a feeling of restlessnes ...Show more
The Rare Metals War by Guillaume Pitron
$35.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs Politics
The resources race is on. Powering our digital lives and green technologies are some of the Earth's most precious metals - but they are running out. And what will happen when they do?The green-tech revolution has been lauded as the silver bullet to a new world. One that is at last free of oil, pollution ...Show more
Looming Tower: Al Qaeda's Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs Politics
Brilliantly written, compelling and highly original, The Looming Toweris the first book to tell the full story of Al Qaeda from its roots up to 9/11. Drawing on astonishing interviews and first-hand sources, it investigates the extraordinary group of idealogues behind this organization - and those who t ...Show more
Radical Regeneration: - Birthing the New Human in the Age of Extinction by Carolyn Baker; Andrew Harvey
$35.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs Politics
This is a demanding book-but our times are demanding. It is an honest book-and our times demand truth. -Matthew Fox, American priest, theologian, and author The genius of this book is the knowledge that this catastrophe is a necessary precursor to a radical transformation that we are co-creating with th ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 80: The High Road: What Australia Can Learn From New Zealand by Laura Tingle
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs Politics
In a tumultuous year, Australia and New Zealand have never been closer, as we move towards a shared travel zone. But why, despite being so close, do we seem to know so little about each other? And is there such a thing as national character? In this wise and illuminating essay, Laura Tingle looks at lea ...Show more
Oneness vs the 1% Shattering Illusions, Seeding Freedom by Vandana Shiva with Kartikey Shiva
$24.95 AUD
Category: Current Affairs Politics
Widespread poverty and malnutrition, an alarming refugee crisis, social unrest, economic polarisation... have become our lived reality as the top 1% of the world’s seven-billion-plus population pushes the planet – and all its people – to the social and ecological brink. In Oneness vs The 1%, Vandana Sh ...Show more
Un-cook Yourself: A Ratbag's Rules for Life by Nat's What I Reckon
$32.99 AUD
Category: Health | Reading Level: very good
Nat’s What I Reckon was the tattooed lockdown saviour we didn’t know we needed, rescuing us from packet food, jar sauce and total boredom with his hilarious viral recipe videos that got us cooking at home like champions again. Now that we’ve cooked our way out of lockdown and are wondering what the hell ...Show more
What Is at Stake Now: My Appeal for Peace and Freedom by Mikhail Gorbachev; Jessica Spengler (Translator)
$26.95 AUD
Category: Current Affairs Politics
Thirty years after the end of the Cold War, world peace is at risk again. The President of the United States has withdrawn from the disarmament treaty with Russia, Europe is disintegrating, China is surging forward and a wave of nationalism and populism is destabilizing established political institution ...Show more
Truth Is Trouble: The strange case of Israel Folau, or How Free Speech Became So Complicated by Malcolm Knox
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs Politics
Why did the sacking of rugby player Israel Folau over his social media posts become one of the nation's most polarizing controversies? How could one man's religious views activate so many people in modern Australia? And what does the sides people found themselves on tell us about the kind of country we' ...Show more
China's Grand Strategy and Australia's Future in the New Global Order by Geoff Raby
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs Politics
Disruption has blown the old world apart. The rise of China, Trump's America First policies, division within Europe and successful defiance by authoritarian states are affecting the shape of the emerging new order. Human rights, rule of law, free media and longstanding global institutions all seem set t ...Show more