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Perspectives eBook Series

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  • Why Fight Poverty?

    by Julia Unwin ...
    Series series Perspectives
    Poverty, and calls to end it, date back centuries. Even in prosperous modern times, despite the huge transformation of society, poverty has persisted. This book looks back at the struggle to end poverty and asks if it is worth it. ... Read more

    $12.14 CAD

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  • Quarterly Essay 49 Not Dead Yet

    Labor's Post-Left Future

    by Mark Latham ...
    Series Book 49 - Quarterly Essay
    With an election looming and criticism of the ALP now a national pastime, Mark Latham considers the future for Labor. The nation has changed, but can the party?With wit and insight, Latham reveals an organisation top-heavy with factional bosses protecting their turf. At the same time Labor’s traditional working-class base has long been eroding. People who grew up in fibro shacks now live in double ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Out of the Wreckage

    A New Politics for an Age of Crisis

    by George Monbiot ...
    A leading environmental and political commentator draws a roadmap towards new politics—offering a rallying cry for a new vision of what a ‘good’ society can be—in this “dazzling command of science and relentless faith in people” (Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine)What does the good life—and the good society—look like in the 21st century?A toxic ideology of extreme competition and ... Read more

    $17.27 CAD

  • Ruth, Roger and Me

    Debts and Legacies

    by Andrew Dean ...
    Series series BWB Texts
    A time of major upheaval now stands between young and old in New Zealand. In 'Ruth, Roger and Me', Andrew Dean explores the lives of the generation of young people brought up in the shadow of the economic reforms of the 1980s and 1990s, those whom he calls ‘the children of the Mother of All Budgets’. Drawing together memoir, history and interviews, he explores the experiences of ‘discomfort’ and ... Read more

    $3.67 CAD

  • Red Tory

    How Left and Right have Broken Britain and How we can Fix It

    by Phillip Blond ...
    Conventional politics is at a crossroads. Amid recession, depression, poverty, increasing violence and rising inequality, our current politics is exhausted and inadequate. In Red Tory, Phillip Blond argues that only a radical new political settlement can tackle the problems we face.Red Toryism combines economic egalitarianism with social conservatism, calling for an end to the monopolisation of ... Read more

    $11.51 CAD

  • The New Zealand Project

    by Max Harris ...
    By any measure, New Zealand must confront monumental issues in the years ahead. From the future of work to climate change, wealth inequality to new populism these challenges are complex and even unprecedented. Yet why does New Zealand’s political discussion seem so diminished, and our political imagination unequal to the enormity of these issues? And why is this gulf particularly apparent to young ... Read more

    $11.78 CAD

  • Don't Panic, Organise!

    by Mute Publishing ...
    the inability for capital, and therefore the state, to pay for the costs of producing a well educated workforce or to guarantee that investment in education will result in a more vigorous economy and increased living standards for those with qualifications. This breakdown, and the dogmatism of free market economics which seeks to alleviate it, has seen the imposition of a business rationale onto ... Read more

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  • Quarterly Essay 21 What's Left?

    The Death of Social Democracy

    by Clive Hamilton ...
    Series Book 21 - Quarterly Essay
    In the first Quarterly Essay of 2006, Clive Hamilton throws out a challenge to Australia’s party of social democracy – to both its true believers and right-wing machine men. Will it be business-as-usual and creeping atrophy, or will the Labor Party find a new way of talking to individualistic, affluent Australia?According to Hamilton, Labor and the Left must acknowledge that the social democracy ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • The Myth of Meritocracy

    Why Working-Class Kids Still Get Working-Class Jobs (Provocations Series)

    by James Bloodworth ...
    The best jobs in Britain today are overwhelmingly done by the children of the wealthy. Meanwhile, it is increasingly difficult for bright but poor kids to transcend their circumstances. This state of affairs should not only worry the less well-off. It hurts the middle classes too, who are increasingly locked out of the top professions by those from affluent backgrounds.Hitherto, Labour and ... Read more

    $5.48 CAD

  • Them And Us

    Changing Britain - Why We Need a Fair Society

    by Will Hutton ...
    The suddenness and depth of the recession has raised questions about the workability of capitalism not seen since the 1930s. One of the constraints on recovery is the growing belief that if the old model did not work there is no new one on offer. This book sets out to provide one, arguing that reconstructing a bust financial system is not just a technical question. It cannot be done without a ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • The Pinch

    How the Baby Boomers Took Their Children's Future - and Why They Should Give it Back

    by David Willetts ...
    The baby boom of 1945-65 produced the biggest, richest generation that Britain has ever known. Today, at the peak of their power and wealth, baby boomers now run the country; by virtue of their sheer demographic power, they have fashioned the world around them in a way that meets all of their housing, healthcare, and financial needs. In this original and provocative book, David Willetts shows how ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Quarterly Essay 36 Australian Story

    Kevin Rudd and the Lucky Country

    by Mungo MacCallum ...
    Series Book 36 - Quarterly Essay
    In Australian Story, Mungo MacCallum investigates the political success of Kevin Rudd. What does he know about Australia that his opponents don’t? This is a characteristically barbed and perceptive look at the challenges facing the government and the country. MacCallum argues that the things we used to rely on are not there anymore. On the Right, the blind faith in markets has recently collapsed. ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD