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Affluenza: When too much is never enough by Clive Hamilton, Richard Denniss
29.99 NZD
Category: Business | 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 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
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
Earthmasters: Playing God with the Climate by Clive Hamilton
29.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
While Washington, London and Canberra fiddle, the planet burns. It has become painfully clear that the big democracies won't take the hard decisions to halt climate change. Climate scientists now expect the worst, and they're considering a response which sounds like science fiction: climate engineering. ...Show more
Freedom Paradox: Towards a Post-secular Ethics by Clive Hamilton
35.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
Why is it so many of us lack contentment, despite all the wealth and freedoms we enjoy? The past two centuries delivered individual and political freedoms that promised unprecedented opportunities for personal fulfilment. Yet citizens of affluent countries are encouraged to pursue lives of consumerism, ...Show more
Growth Fetish by Clive Hamilton (Executive Direction, Australia Insitute, Australian National University, Australia)
29.99 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
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
36.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & 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
Requiem for a Species: Why We Resist the Truth About Climate Change by Clive Hamilton
29.99 NZD
Category: Environment
We know how dire the future looks. We know how little time we have left to act. Yet we continue to ignore the warnings . One of Australia's sharpest thinkers explores the reasons why and offers his vison of our new future.
Scorcher: The Dirty Politics of Climate Change by Clive Hamilton
35.00 NZD
37.99 (7% off)
Category: Current Affairs & Politics | 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
The Freedom Paradox : Towards A Post-Secular Ethics by Clive Hamilton
39.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics | 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
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