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This is a handbook for change. Because we all know ways in which life could be better. And it can be better. We can make it better. We don't need to wait for a leader or savior. We don't need to limit ourselves to comments and clicks. In this stunningly original comic-book tour of a serious topic, J... Read More about 12 Rules for Strife

Traces the global spread of white nationalist and far-right terrorism, from the US to New Zealand to Norway. The massacre of more than fifty worshippers at mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, shocked the world. The alleged perpetrator expressed a particular ideology described as "fascism," but wha... Read More about Fascists Among Us: Online Hate and the Christchurch Massacre

A polemic about global warming and the environmental crisis, which argues that ordinary people have consistently opposed the destruction of nature and so provide an untapped constituency for climate action. Crimes Against Nature uses fresh material to offer a very different take on the most importan... Read More about Crimes Against Nature: Capitalism and Global Heating

Film star. Singer. Athlete. Icon. Agitator. Martyr. A compelling biography of Paul Robeson, a life marked by triumph and tragedy. Paul Robeson was a brilliant student and champion athlete who abandoned a career in law to find worldwide fame as a performer and activist. He was undoubtedly the most fa... Read More about No Way But This: In Search of Paul Robeson

Donald Trump is the Thing-that-should-not-be. The man lives, quite literally, in a building serviced by a golden elevator. Somehow, he presented himself as the scourge of the elites. For decades, he built a persona based on the most conspicuous consumption and the crassest of excess--and then he won... Read More about Trigger Warnings: Political Correctness and the Rise of the Right

An anthology of winning entries in the 2020 Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary Writing, with categories for short story and creative non-fiction across open, local and youth entrants. Also features judges reports and information about the inaugural Mayor's Prize.... Read More about Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary Writing 2020 Anthology