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The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide **LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 PEN/JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH AWARD FOR NONFICTION****LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDALS FOR EXCELLENCE****WINNER OF THE 2022 POZ...

The origins of Australian Aboriginal activism Opposition to the British colonisation of Australia did not spring from the Mabo decision or the Native Title Act, nor was it born in...

Reclaim Your Unruly Beauty An act of rebellion and a reclamation of beauty An unmissable, radical essay from Emma Dabiri, bestselling author of Don't Touch My Hair and What White...

An eye-opening reckoning with the care economy, from its roots in racial capitalism to its exponential growth as a new site of profit and extraction. Since the earliest days of...

Marcia Langton: Welcome to Country is a curated guidebook to Indigenous Australia and the Torres Strait Islands. In its pages, respected scholar and author Professor Marcia Langton offers fascinating insights...

The Last Years of the LTTE De-Facto State Little is known about the Tamil liberation cause and struggle, as it has been widely dismissed by global powers of all persuasions...

Postcolonial Literature and Radical Universalism The World in a Grain of Sand offers a framework for reading literature from the global South that goes against the grain of dominant theories...

'These stories form part of our collective history, the way we speak of and live culture still today, and the importance of passing on such stories to younger generations.' —Dr....

A brilliant look at colonialism and its effects in Antigua — by the author of Annie John. If you go to Antigua as a tourist, this is what you will...

The paradigm-shifting classic that connected the dots between transatlantic slavery, capitalism and racismArguing that the slave trade was at the heart of Britain's economic progress, Eric Williams's landmark 1944 study...

Aboriginal Identity & the Fight for Rights What does reconciliation and truth-telling look like, and how do we as a nation find justice for Indigenous people? In this deeply personal...

We leave base camp and start our trek across this vast country. We invite you to walk with us in a movement of the Australian people for a better future....

A Black Woman’s Story The incredible memoir of Elaine Brown — the first female leader of the Black Panthers "I have all the guns and all the money. I can...

A Manifesto Against a Heartless World Now is the time for the new, the beautiful and the humane.In Together, award-winning political thinker, author and poet Ece Temelkuran provides an inspiring manifesto...

Takatāpui, Two-Spirit, and Indigenous LGBTQI+ well-being In these rigorous and challenging essays, writers from Aotearoa and Turtle Island (Canada and the United States of America) explore the well-being of takatāpui,...

Shortlisted for the 2024 ABIA Social Impact Book of the Year Award Longlisted for the 2023 Australian Political Book of the Year, the 2024 Indie Book Awards and the 2024...

In 2018, Palestinians mark the 70th anniversary of the Nakba, when over 750,000 people were uprooted and forced to flee their homes in the early days of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict....

Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market How oil greases the wheels of global capitalism This expansive history traces the hidden connections between oil and capitalism from...

'Lyrical and uncompromising - Suhaiymah writes to disrupt' - gal-dem Islamophobia is everywhere. It is a narrative and history woven so deeply into our everyday lives that we don't even notice...

“A must read for anyone who wants to learn more about the history of the Islamic world” (San Francisco Chronicle)               We in the West share a common narrative of world history....

Creating Work That Transforms Communities A historical and philosophical exploration of the impact of design on underserved communities, examining the field’s shortcomings as well as its potential to create positive...

A powerful and important reckoning with Britain's imperial legacy and contemporary systemic racismFrom the 1500s to the mid-twentieth century, the events that took place in the Caribbean - from conquest,...

A unique exploration into Indigenous ways of knowing, being and relating, with an in-depth focus on kinship systems and how their cyclical nature foiled attempts by missionaries to destroy them.Part...

In this frank, funny and meticulous book, a leading social scientist lays out the striking facts we know about racism, how we have uncovered them, and how we can start...

Why We Fall for White Feminism and How We Can Stop For readers of Hood Feminism and Against White Feminism An incisive examination of why the pillars of feminism have...

On Race, Space, and Time A radical new treatise on time, quantum physics, and racial justice from world-renowned artist and advocate Rasheedah Phillips of Black Quantum Futurism. Why do some...

Experiments in Living with Marion Milner Two women ninety years apart ask themselves the same question- What is the difference between living, and feeling truly alive? We all want more...

Translated by Kate Nash, Gary Wilder This book is the long-overdue publication in English of Aimé Césaire’s account of Toussaint Louverture, the legendary leader of the revolution in Saint-Domingue –...

A history of how humans have created monsters out of one another—from our deepest fears—and what these monsters tell us about humanity's present and future. Monsters are central to how we...

Autobiography of the Black Pasionaria Revolutionary black feminist Andree Blouin's memoir of Africa's liberation struggles “We who have been colonized can never forget” Andrée Blouin—once called the most dangerous woman...

INDEPENDENT BEST TRAVEL BOOK OF 2024Good Housekeeping Travel Book of the MonthA LoveReading Best Book of 2024Smithsonian Magazine Top Ten Best Travel Books 2024 "Travel at its best - life...

Challenging the view that globalization signifies a 'clash' of cultures, this book here develops friction in its place as a metaphor for the conflicting social interactions that make up our...

'Sally's book is an exemplar of the best in the genre' Krishnan Srinivasan, The Statesman A blend of travel writing, memoir, history and current affairs that tells the story of Sri...

Aboriginal land rights in New South Wales, today and always Aboriginal land rights recognition in 1983 came after nearly 200 years of violent colonial dispossession and the near complete loss...

A moving, eye-opening journey through the world of contemporary art from one of the most innovative voices in the fieldAt a moment in which working as a professional artist is...

Negotiating Islamic Law and Gender An insightful study of the role of gender in establishing the limits of interpretation and flexibility in the Islamic tradition The Islamic tradition has always...

A Pop Culture Inquiry Into Why We Love Korean Television From the Emmy Award-winning Squid Game to streaming sensations like The Glory and Crash Landing on You, Korean television has...

The inside story of the 2023 Voice Referendum, from Yes to No In late 2023, Australians voted No to recognising Indigenous peoples through a constitutional Voice. Broken Heart unpacks the...

So-called Australia is built upon a lie: that 97% of the population are human, and the others simply 'Indigenous', devoid of the same basic rights.  Human? is the story of...

 'A talented writer with much to say' BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE 'Witty and accessible' ANGELA SAINI 'A vital piece of work in our challenging times' ROMA AGRAWAL 'Stunning' DAN HICKS Western civilisation is a powerful...

Collected Talks and Interviews on Indigenous Resurgence Illuminating the First Nations struggles against the Canadian state, It's All about the Land exposes how racism underpins and shapes Indigenous-settler relationships. Renowned Kahnawà:ke...

This is the first book to define and explore Black fatigue, the intergenerational impact of systemic racism on the physical and psychological health of Black people — and explain why...

The Twelve Strangest Women in Music Raucous, sensual and sublime — how twelve pioneering female artists rewrote the rules of pop. From Kate Bush to Nicki Minaj, from Janet Jackson...

'Far from being the pious injunction of a Utopian dreamer, the command to love one's enemy is an absolute necessity for our survival.' Advocating love as strength and non-violence as...

The International Deradicalisation AgendaExplores and compares different international approaches to countering violent extremismTerrorism, radicalization and violent extremism dominate sociological, political and cultural concerns in today's polarized social and political world....

Drawing on centuries of history and science, a prize-winning journalist upends our assumptions about migration revealing it not to be the story of our time, but an ancient, essential response...

Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear From one of the world's foremost experts on the subject, a powerful argument that the greatest damage from drugs flows from their being...

Tamil Women and Work in Postwar Sri Lanka Beyond nostalgic tea industry ads romanticizing colonial Ceylon and the impoverished conditions that beleaguer Tamil tea workers are the stories of the...

The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture The definitive modern biography of the great slave leader, military genius and revolutionary hero The Haitian Revolution began in the French Caribbean colony of...

Chinese Australian Voices South Flows the Pearl is a fascinating journey through the history of Chinese Australia. Taking the reader from Shanghai and the Pearl River Delta to Sydney, Perth,...