Critic Swallows Book: Ten Years of the Sydney Review of Books by Catriona Menzies-Pike (Editor)
$34.95 AUD
Category: Magazines
In 2023 the Sydney Review of Books celebrates a decade online and the publication of more than a thousand essays and longform reviews of Australian and international literature. Over these ten years the SRB has cleared a unique space for serious reflection on literature and for critical thinking about o ...Show more
Burning Down the House: Reconstructing Modern Politics by Jo Dyer
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Category: Magazines | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
The Morrison government’s moral decline happened first slowly and then all at once. We suffered through ‘Sports rorts’ and ‘Watergate’ and an MIA PM, before the dissembling response to allegations of sexual abuse at the very heart of federal politics threw into stark relief the cynicism and moral bankru ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 85: Not Waving, Drowning: Mental Illness and Vulnerability in Australia by Sarah Krasnostein
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Category: Magazines
How can we mend Australia's broken mental health system? Around one-fifth of Australians will suffer from mental illness in any given year. And the pandemic is making things worse, especially in schools. Our mental health system is under stress and not fit for purpose. What is to be done? In this brilli ...Show more
Good International Citizenship: The Case for Decency by Gareth Evans
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Category: Magazines | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
Why should we in Australia, or any country, care about poverty, human rights atrocities, health epidemics, environmental catastrophes, weapons proliferation or any other problems afflicting faraway countries, when they don’t, as is often the case, have any direct or immediate impact on our own safety or ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 89: The Wires That Bind: Electrification and Community Renewal by Saul Griffith
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Category: Magazines
A compelling vision of green energy at a local level. In this inspiring essay, inventor, engineer and visionary Saul Griffith looks at the wires that bind us. He reveals the world that awaits if we make the most of Australia's energy future. Griffith paints an inspiring yet practical picture of empower ...Show more
Time to Reboot : Feminism in the Algorithm Age by Carla Wilshire
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Category: Magazines | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
Technology is radically transforming society. From social media to artificial intelligence, our world is now governed by algorithms, powerful tools that not only predict human behaviour but affect how we look at each other, and ourselves. At the same time, we are seeing hard-fought-for women’s rights be ...Show more
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference by Greta Thunberg
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Category: Magazines | Series: Penguin Green Ideas
The groundbreaking speeches of Greta Thunberg, the young climate activist who has become the voice of a generation, including her history-making address to the United Nations Everything needs to change. And it has to start today. In August 2018 a fifteen-year-old Swedish girl, Greta Thunberg, decided no ...Show more
This Can't Be Happening by George Monbiot
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Category: Magazines | Series: Penguin Green Ideas
In these galvanising speeches and essays, he calls on humanity to stop averting its gaze from the destruction of the living planet, and wake up to the greatest predicament we have ever faced.
On Politics and Stuff (On Series) by Mark Humphries
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Category: Magazines | Series: On Ser.
If you love iambic pentameter, then look away because this book about Australian politics is pure prose, baby!This book is quite possibly the most comprehensive book on Australian politics ever written. That's right, it covers both houses of parliament.We'll take you inside the halls of power. And if we ...Show more
Gladys: A Leader's Undoing by Paul Farrell
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Category: Magazines | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
Gladys Berejiklian was one of Australia's most popular premiers. Forging a path for New South Wales through the difficult early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, she seemed unstoppable. But it all came crashing down. In one of the most staggering falls from grace in Australian political history, Berejiklia ...Show more
Food Rules: An Eater's Manual (Penguin Green Ideas series) by Michael Pollan
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Category: Magazines | Series: Penguin Green Ideas
Eat food. Mostly plants. Not too much. Using those seven words as his guide, Michael Pollan offers this indispensable handbook for anyone concerned about health and food. Simple, sensible and easy to use, Food Rules is a set of memorable adages or 'personal policies' for eating wisely, gathered from a w ...Show more
Ivrit: The Language That Makes a People: Jewish Quarterly 253 by Jonathan Pearlman
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Category: Magazines
This issue of The Jewish Quarterly explores the remarkable evolution and revival of Hebrew - a language whose trajectory charts the recent history of the Jewish people. In this ground-breaking essay, award-winning writer Ben Judah explores the crucial role of modern Hebrew in defining and reshaping the ...Show more