By: Richard Denniss
Format: 134 pages, Kindle Edition
How did the big banks get away with so much for so long? Why are so many aged-care residents malnou…
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By: Robert Hughes
Format: 688 pages, Paperback
The history of the birth of Australia which came out of the suffering and brutality of England's in… read more
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"He had been always escaping, always rebelling, always fighting against authority, and always being flogged. There had been a whole lifetime of torment such as this; forty-two years of it; and there h…"-Robert Hughes, The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding
By: Paul Kriwaczek
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
Civilization was born eight thousand years ago, between the floodplains of the Tigris and Euphrates… read more
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"A hugely complicated, centrally planned, social and economic system can only be kept on the rails for as long as people believe in it."-Paul Kriwaczek, Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization
"But belief in a system cannot be sustained for ever. Empires based solely on power and domination, while allowing their subjects to do as they will, can last for centuries. Those that try to control …"-Paul Kriwaczek, Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization
"Assyria soon discovered a painful truth: empires are like Ponzi schemes: financial frauds in which previous investors are paid returns out of new investors' deposits. The costs of holding imperial te…"-Paul Kriwaczek, Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization
"Anyone who has ever watched children amuse themselves will recognize that the scientific and technological face of civilization is precisely the result of play in its purest form. Just as children ar…"-Paul Kriwaczek, Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization
By: Tom Holland
Format: 418 pages, Hardcover
In the fifth century BC, a global superpower was determined to bring truth and order to what it reg… read more
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By: Andrew Leigh , Andrew Leigh
Format: 370 pages,
Is Australia fair enough? And why does inequality matter anyway? In Battlers and Billionaires, Andr… read more
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By: Tim Flannery , Peter Wohlleben , Jane Billinghurst , Suzanne Simard
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben shares his deep love of woods and forests and explains… read more
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"A tree’s most important means of staying connected to other trees is a “wood wide web"-Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
"Trees could solve the problems if people trying to improve things would only allow them to takeover"-Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
"So many questions remain unanswered. Perhaps we are poorer for having lost a possible explanation or richer for having gained a mystery. But aren't both possibilities equally intriguing?"-Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
By: Jason Hickel
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
For decades we have been told a story about the divide between rich countries and poor countries. … read more
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By: Carl Sagan , Ann Druyan
Format: 459 pages, Paperback
How can we make intelligent decisions about our increasingly technology-driven lives if we don’t un… read more
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"Gullibility kills."-Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
"Occasionally, I get a letter from someone who is in “contact"-Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
"Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality."-Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
"Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you're in love, you want to tell the world."-Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
By: Thomas Piketty , Arthur Goldhammer
Format: 313 pages, Hardcover
What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions abou… read more
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By: Arthur Miller
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
'For a salesman, there is no rock bottom to life. He don't put a bolt to a nut, he don't tell you t… read more
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"I’m tired to the death."-Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
"LINDA [with infinite patience]"-Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
"Be liked and you will never want."-Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
"I'm losing weight, you notice, Pop?"-Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
By: Mark Fisher
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
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By: Joseph Heller
Format: 453 pages, Paperback
Fifty years after its original publication, Catch-22 remains a cornerstone of American literature a… read more
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"Nately had a bad start. He came from a good family."-Joseph Heller, Catch-22
"When people disagreed with him he urged them to be objective."-Joseph Heller, Catch-22
"Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you."-Joseph Heller, Catch-22
"They’re not going to send a crazy man out to be killed, are they?"-Joseph Heller, Catch-22
By: David Graeber
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling writer David Graeber, a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfi… read more
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"Economies around the world have, increasingly, become vast engines for producing nonsense."-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
"Bullshit jobs regularly induce feelings of hopelessness, depression, and self-loathing. They are forms of spiritual violence directed at the essence of what it means to be a human being."-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
"What we are witnessing is the rise of those forms of popular culture that office workers can produce and consume during the scattered, furtive shards of time they have at their disposal in workplaces…"-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
"A fact-finding commission is a way of telling the public that the government is doing something it is not. But a large corporations will behave exactly the same way, if, say, there are revealed to be…"-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
By: Barbara W. Tuchman
Format: 658 pages, Kindle Edition
The Proud Tower, the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Guns of August, and The Zimmerman Telegram comprise… read more
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"Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general."-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
"Now according to German logic, a declaration of war was found to be unnecessary because of imaginary bombings"-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
"Human beings, like plans, prove fallible in the presence of those ingredients that are missing in maneuvers - danger, death, and live ammunition."-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
"To think meant to give room for freedom of initiative, for the imponderable to win over the material, for will to demonstrate its power over circumstance."-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
By: David Mitchell
Format: 433 pages, ebook
A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive behe… read more
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"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
By: William Dalrymple
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
The story of how the East India Company took over large swaths of Asia, and the devastating results… read more
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By: Anna Funder
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
This is the story of the marriage behind some of the most famous literary works of the 20th century… read more
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By: Jonathan Clements
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
This fascinating history tells the story of the people of Japan, from ancient teenage priest-queens… read more
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By: Stephanie Kelton
Format: 327 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times Bestseller The leading thinker and most visible public advocate of modern monetary… read more
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By: Yanis Varoufakis
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
The #1 bestselling economist shows how capitalism has been replaced by a more exploitative system, … read more
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"Il profitto è vulnerabile alla competizione di mercato, mentre la rendita non lo è."-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
"Se non è un mercato capitalista, in cosa entriamo, buon Dio, quando andiamo su amazon.com ?"-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
"Oltre ad avvertirci che ogni nuova epoca forgiata da qualche tecnologia rivoluzionaria produce una generazione che “mai passerà un giorno immune da fatica e dolore, struggendosi anche di notte"-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
"La rivoluzione digitale potrebbe consistere nel trasformare i lavoratori salariati in proletari del cloud, che vivono una vita sempre più precaria e stressante sotto il controllo invisibile di capi a…"-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
By: Yanis Varoufakis
Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition
In Talking to My Daughter About the Economy, activist Yanis Varoufakis, Greece’s former finance min… read more
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"The Matrix is a reflection of our times, or at least our anxieties. It reveals our fear of a mechanization so complete, of a commodification of our bodies and enslavement of our minds so successful, …"-Yanis Varoufakis, Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails
"...a cynical person is someone who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing. Our societies tend to make us all cynics. And no one is more cynical than the economist who sees exchange va…"-Yanis Varoufakis, Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails
"Bürokrasi, Ordu ve Ruhban Sınıfı Borç, para, inanç ve devlet el ele yürür. Borç olmadan tarımsal fazlalığı yönetmenin kolay yolu yoktur. Borcun ortaya çıkışıyla paranın yıldızı parlamaya başladı. Anc…"-Yanis Varoufakis, Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails
"Like any ecosystem, a modern economy cannot survive without recycling. Just as animals and plants are continually recycling the oxygen and carbon dioxide that the other provides, so too must workers …"-Yanis Varoufakis, Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails
By: David Attenborough
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
See the world. Then make it better. I am 94. I've had an extraordinary life. It's only now that … read more
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"Give and take, that is the essence of what balance is all about."-David Attenborough, A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future
"It seems that, however grave our mistakes, nature will be able to overcome them, given the chance."-David Attenborough, A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future
"We often talk of saving the planet, but the truth is that we must do these things to save ourselves."-David Attenborough, A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future
"We often talk of saving the planet, but the truth is that we must do these things to save ourselves. With or without us, the wild will return."-David Attenborough, A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future
By: Simon Sinek
Format: 251 pages, Hardcover
Do you know how to play the game you're in? In finite games, like football or chess, the players a… read more
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"In any game, there are always two currencies required to play - will and resources."-Simon Sinek, The Infinite Game
"And like all infinite games, in the game of life, the goal is not to win, it is to perpetuate the game."-Simon Sinek, The Infinite Game
"The best way to drive performance in an organization is to create an environment in which information can flow freely, mistakes can be highlighted and help can be offered and received."-Simon Sinek, The Infinite Game
"Traditional competition forces us to take on an attitude of winning. A worthy rival inspires us to take an attitude of improvement. The former focuses our attention on the outcome, the latter focuses…"-Simon Sinek, The Infinite Game
By: Clementine Ford
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
Incendiary feminist and bestselling author Clementine Ford presents the inarguable case against mar… read more
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By: Mehdi Hasan
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Win Every Argument shows how anyone can communicate with confidence, r… read more
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By: Mary L. Trump
Format: 236 pages, Kindle Edition
In this revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him, M… read more
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By: Jason Hickel
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
The world has finally awoken to the reality of climate breakdown and ecological collapse. Now we mu… read more
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"Individuality is an illusion. Life on this planet is an interwoven mesh of relational becoming."-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
"We will find ourselves plunging into ecological collapse well before we run into the limits to growth."-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
"It is politically easier to rev up GDP and hope some of it trickles down to the poor than it is to distribute existing income more fairly."-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
"Atmospheric carbon concentration should not breach 350ppm if the climate is to remain stable (we crossed that boundary in 1990, and hit 415ppm in 2020)."-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
By: Kate Manne
Format: 269 pages, Kindle Edition
An urgent exploration of men’s entitlement and how it serves to police and punish women, from the a… read more
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"by] torture for the rest of their slutty lives."-Kate Manne, Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women
"厌女症不应该被理解为一种对女性根深蒂固的强烈仇恨心理,而应该理解成父权制(patriarchy)在“执法"-Kate Manne, Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women
"function. In my previous book, Down Girl, I argued that misogyny should not be understood as a monolithic, deep-seated psychological hatred of girls and women. Instead, it’s best conceptualized as th…"-Kate Manne, Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women
"Studies show there is but one circumstance in which men’s and women’s household work will tend to approach parity: when she works full-time and he is unemployed. And even then, the operative word is …"-Kate Manne, Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women
By: Lydia Khalil
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A detailed examination of the right-wing extremism Australia is facing right now, from the Lowy Ins… read more
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By: Thomas Mayo
Format: 104 pages, Kindle Edition
The Voice to Parliament Handbook is an easy-to-follow guide for the millions of Australians who hav… read more
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By: Bruce Wolpe
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Trump (or a Trumpist) could well win the 2024 US presidential election, and if he does, American de… read more
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By: Richard Denniss
Format: 134 pages, Kindle Edition
How did the big banks get away with so much for so long? Why are so many aged-care residents malnou… read more
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