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The Weight of Witness The Experience of Australian & New Zealand Medics in Gaza cover image
Bushra Othman

The Weight of Witness

$29.99
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Our Arab: On Longing, Belonging and Hope
Zaina Arafat

Our Arab: On Longing, Belonging and Hope

$32.99
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On Witness and Respair
Jesmyn Ward

On Witness and Respair

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Nothing About Us, Without Us cover image
Tristan Kennedy

Nothing About Us, Without Us

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Care Work
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Care Work

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What Now: On Palestine, Freedom, and Our Global Future
Tareq Baconi

What Now: On Palestine, Freedom, and Our Global Future

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Flyboy in the Buttermilk cover image
Greg Tate

Flyboy in the Buttermilk

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Overland No. 260
Overland

Overland No. 260

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How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
Walter Rodney

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

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Lady No cover image
Kim Hyesoon

Lady No

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Medium Hot: Images in the Age of Heat cover image
Hito Steyerl

Medium Hot: Images in the Age of Heat

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Backlash: The Global Rise of the Radical Right cover image
Don Kalb, Walden Bello

Backlash: The Global Rise of the Radical Right

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Foreign Return: On art and inhabitation cover image
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Neha Kale

Foreign Return: On art and inhabitation

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Salt: Selected Stories and Essays
Bruce Pascoe

Salt: Selected Stories and Essays

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The Site of Memory
Toni Morrison

The Site of Memory

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James Nguyen: Làm Chó Bò / Making Trouble cover image
James Nguyen

Làm Chó Bò / Making Trouble

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Palestine is Everywhere cover image
Skye Arundhati Thomas (ed.)

Palestine is Everywhere

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Your Silence Will Not Protect You
Audre Lorde

Your Silence Will Not Protect You

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Close to Home
Alice Pung

Close to Home

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The Message: Writing and the World (PL)
Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Message: Writing and the World (PL)

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Authority: Essays on Being Right (PL)
Andrea Long Chu

Authority: Essays on Being Right (PL)

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Love in the Afternoon, and Evening: Essays and Conversations on Soap Operas cover image
Charlotte Druckman, Mayukh Sen

Love in the Afternoon, and Evening

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The Tonality of Thought
Byung-Chul Han

The Tonality of Thought

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Rising for Palestine: Africans in Solidarity for Decolonisation and Liberation cover image
Raouf Farrah, Suraya Dadoo

Rising for Palestine: Africans in Solidarity for Decolonisation and Liberation

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Parramatta: A Dictionary of Place and Memory
Yumna Kassab

Parramatta: A Dictionary of Place and Memory

$34.99
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Manifesto Without Borders
Ai Weiwei

Manifesto Without Borders

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I'll Love You Forever: Notes from a K-Pop Fan cover image
Giaae Kwon

I'll Love You Forever: Notes from a K-Pop Fan

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In My Remaining Years cover image
Jean Grae

In My Remaining Years

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The Man Who Made Plants Write: Essays by Jagadish Chandra Bose cover image
Jagadish Chandra Bose

The Man Who Made Plants Write

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Good Woman: A Reckoning cover image
Savala Nolan

Good Woman: A Reckoning

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Crip Stories: An anthology of disabled writers cover image
Beau Windon, Laura Pettenuzzo, Misbah Wolf, Katie Hansord

Crip Stories: An anthology of disabled writers

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BFFs: The Radical Potential of Female Friendship (Inklings) cover image
Anahit Behrooz

BFFs: The Radical Potential of Female Friendship

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In Praise of Shadows and Other Essays
Jun'ichiro Tanizaki

In Praise of Shadows and Other Essays

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Freud and the Non-European
Edward W. Said

Freud and the Non-European

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Representations of the Intellectual
Edward W. Said

Representations of the Intellectual

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Book cover of 'Changing My Mind' by Zadie Smith with decorative text and minimal background
Zadie Smith

Changing My Mind

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How I Know White People are Crazy and Other Stories: Notes from a Frustrated Black Psychologist cover image
Dr. Jonathan Lassiter

How I Know White People are Crazy and Other Stories

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Ai Weiwei on Censorship
Ai Weiwei

Ai Weiwei on Censorship

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In Good Taste cover image
Mallika Basu

In Good Taste

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Black Thoughts Matter
Chelsea Watego

Black Thoughts Matter

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What We Owe the Water: It's Time for a Fossil Fuel Treaty: Vantage Point Issue 4 cover image
Kumi Naidoo

What We Owe the Water

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Nation of Strangers
Ece Temelkuran

Nation of Strangers

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We Will Rise Again: Speculative Stories and Essays on Protest, Resistance, and Hope cover image
Annalee Newitz, Karen Lord, Malka Older

We Will Rise Again

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Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work
Edwidge Danticat

Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work

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We See Things They’ll Never See: Love, Hope, and Neurodiversity cover image
Chantelle Jessica Lewis, Jason Arday

We See Things They’ll Never See: Love, Hope, and Neurodiversity

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The Big Payback
Marcus Ryder and Lenny Henry

The Big Payback

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Until Our Lungs Give Out: Conversations on Race, Justice, and the Future cover image
George Yancy

Until Our Lungs Give Out: Conversations on Race, Justice, and the Future

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Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle The cover image
Audre Lorde

The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

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