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Affluenza: When too much is never enough by Clive Hamilton, Richard Denniss
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian History / Politics/Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
Anyone concerned about the level of their personal debt or frustrated by the rat race of aspiring to an affluent lifestyle will appreciate this critique of the effects of over-consumption. This analysis pulls no punches as it describes both the problem and what can be done to stop it. Analyzing the incr ...Show more
Defiant Earth: The fate of humans in the anthropocene by Clive Hamilton
$32.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science/Environment
Forget everything you know. Nature is no longer nature. Humans are no longer humans. We have entered a new era - the Anthropocene. Everything has changed. Humans have become so powerful that we have disrupted the functioning of the Earth, bringing on a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene. The stable ...Show more
Growth Fetish by Clive Hamilton (Executive Direction, Australia Insitute, Australian National University, Australia)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian History / Politics/Current Affairs
On both right and left, all major political parties in the Western world share the same belief: that the first objective of government should be to raise the rate of economic growth. Politicians and opinion makers all agree this is the way to a better future, yet after decades of sustained economic grow ...Show more
Hidden Hand: Exposing How the Chinese Communist Party Is Reshaping the World by Clive Hamilton; Mareike Ohlberg
$32.99 AUD
Category: World History/Politics
In this landmark follow-up to the bestselling Silent Invasion, Hidden Hand exposes the Chinese Communist Party’s global program of influence and subversion, and the threat it poses to democracy. With its enormous economic power, China is now a global political and military force engaged in an ideologic ...Show more
Provocateur: A Life of Ideas in Action by Clive Hamilton
$34.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
Clive Hamilton has spent a life asking why. In his unique memoir, Provocateur, he shows us why questioning the status quo matters, how powerful arguments can change the country, and how the life of ideas in action actually works. From why climate change matters to how we understand ourselves as Austral ...Show more
Scorcher: The Dirty Politics of Climate Change by Clive Hamilton
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian History / Politics/Current Affairs | Series: Black Inc. Agenda Ser.
This is the book that blows the whistle on the politics of global warming in Australia. Why have our political leaders been so slow to act? Which are the fossil-fuel lobby groups that still set the policy agenda? How many different ways can one spin, deceive, lie and obfuscate instead of facing facts an ...Show more
Silencing Dissent: How the Australian Government is Controlling Public Opinion and Stifling Debate by Clive Hamilton
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian History / Politics/Current Affairs
Silencing Dissent is a timely, disturbing and unnerving book' from the foreword by Robert Manne For over a decade, the Howard government has found ways to silence its critics, one by one. Like the proverbial frog in boiling water, Australians have become accustomed to repeated attacks on respected indiv ...Show more
Silent Invasion : China's Influence in Australia by Clive Hamilton
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian History / Politics/Current Affairs
Respected academic Clive Hamilton realised something big was happening when, in 2016, it was revealed that wealthy Chinese businessmen linked to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) had become the largest donors to both major Australian political parties. Hamilton began to investigate the Chinese governmen ...Show more
The Freedom Paradox : Towards A Post-Secular Ethics by Clive Hamilton
$35.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: good - very good
The Freedom Paradox is a radical reconsideration of the meaning of freedom in the modern world. Despite all the freedoms we now enjoy, the citizens of rich countries do not appear to be the contented, creative and flourishing individuals that were envisaged by the liberation movements of the 1960s and 1 ...Show more
The Privileged Few by Clive Hamilton, Myra Hamilton
$39.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
Male and white privilege are on the decline, yet elite privilege has gone from strength to strength. The privileges enjoyed by the rich and powerful are not only unfair but cause widespread harm, from the everyday slights and humiliations visited on those lower down to the distortions in the labour mark ...Show more
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