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Goodbye to All That?: On the Failure of Neo-liberalism and the Urgency of Change by Robert Manne
32.95 AUD
Category: Politics
Explores what the global financial crisis means for Australia. Looks past 'neo-liberalism' and 'economic rationalism' and asks what kind of social democracy we might hope for in the future. Are the heady days of deregulation and privatisation over? How might we rethink the challenge of climate change, o ...Show more
Making Trouble: Essays Against the New Australian Complacency by Robert Manne
34.95 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
As this eloquent and important book shows, no one in Australia makes a better argument than Robert Manne. This is a book that will enlighten and provoke. It covers much ground from Howard to Gillard by way of Rudd, from Victoria's bushfires to the Apology, from Wilfred Burchett to Primo Levi.
On Borrowed Time by Robert Manne
34.99 AUD
Category: Politics
A stunning new collection of essays from Australia's leading public intellectual. In On Borrowed Time, Manne applies his brilliant mind to the topics that have shaped our world over the last five years, including climate change, the media, Australia's asylum seeker policy and Wikileaks. This provocative ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 43: Bad News: Murdoch's Australian and the Shaping of the Nation by Robert Manne
19.95 AUD
Category: Australian Studies | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
This year has seen unprecedented scrutiny of Rupert Murdoch's empire in Britain. But what about in Australia, where he owns 70 per cent of the press? In Bad News, Robert Manne investigates Murdoch's lead political voice here, the Australian newspaper, and how it shapes debate. Since 2002, under the edi ...Show more
Robert Manne: A Political Memoir: Intellectual Combat in the Cold War and the Culture Wars by Robert Manne
59.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The recollections of Australia's leading public intellectual Robert Manne is one of Australia's most profound political analysts. His memoir traces his intellectual roots, revealing how his family background and early years informed the questions he would spend his life trying to answer. It also provide ...Show more
The Mind of the Islamic State: Milestones Along the Road by Robert Manne
22.99 AUD
Category: History
"'A deep dive into how the ideologues behind Salafi jihadism shaped the global menace that we now know as Islamic State. If you want to understand how it all began, this is an essential read.' - Martin Chulov, Middle East correspondent for theGuardian, winner of the 2015 Orwell Prize for journalism So o ...Show more
The Words That Made Australia - How a Nation Came to Know Itself by Manne Robert
29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies | Reading Level: good
This is not a book of documents, snippets or worthy speeches. Instead it presents the original essays and the moments of insight that told us what Australia is and could be. These are the essential statements - from historians, reporters, novelists, mavericks and visionaries - that take us from federati ...Show more
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