Collection: Adult Non Fiction - Society and Beliefs

Revisionist in approach, global in scope, and a seminal contribution to scholarship, this original and thought-provoking book critiques traditional notions about Anglo-Indians, a mixed descent minority community from India.

Some of Australia's best political writing: a dazzling chronicle from the editor of The Saturday Paper. Drawn from the first ten years of The Saturday Paper, these editorials tell the story of a country in trouble. They are a penetrating account of the people who have led Australia, fusing charac...

"Since its original publication in 1975, this groundbreaking work has awakened millions of people to the existence of "speciesism." In Animal Liberation Now, Singer exposes the chilling realities of today's "factory farms" and product-testing procedures, destroying the spurious justifications beh...

As a medium, Gordon Smith always gets asked questions about the nature of life and death - is there really an afterlife? Can we commune with our deceased loved ones? Yet some of the most interesting questions he receives are not about human loved ones - many people ask about their pets, too. Peop...

A ground-breaking work - and a call to arms - that exposes the ongoing colonial violence experienced by First Nations people. In this collection of deeply insightful and powerful essays, Chelsea Watego examines the ongoing and daily racism faced by First Nations peoples in so-called Australia. Ra...

Imagine if Occupy and Extinction Rebellion actually won. In Another Now world-famous economist Yanis Varoufakis shows us what such a world would look like. Far from being a fantasy, he describes how it could have come about - and might yet. But would we really want it? Varoufakis's boundary-break...

A deeply moving and insightful collection of personal essays from #1 bestselling author John Green, adapted from his critically acclaimed podcast. The Anthropocene is the current geological age, in which human activity has profoundly shaped the planet and its biodiversity. In this remarkable symp...