Kara Nicholson
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Blog post — 8 Dec 2013
10 Gift Ideas for Ethical and Socially Responsible Shoppers
Bookseller Kara Nicholson has compiled a list of ten gift ideas for shoppers aspiring to be ethical and socially responsible consumers this Christmas.
1. People & Planet Calendar 2014 ($24.95)
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Review — 28 Jul 2013
Profits of Doom by Antony Loewenstein
Australian journalist Antony Loewenstein has travelled to Papua New Guinea, Afghanistan, Haiti and around Australia to report on a growing trend of ‘vulture capitalism’ where the political and economic culture…
Review — 27 Aug 2013
Boom by Malcolm Knox
Just as I finished reading Malcolm Knox’s comprehensive history of mining in Australia, the High Court dismissed a challenge by Fortescue Metals Group to the validity of the mining tax…
Review — 26 May 2013
The Misogyny Factor by Anne Summers
In August 2012, Anne Summers delivered a speech at the University of Newcastle titled ‘Her Rights at Work: The Political Persecution of Australia’s First Female Prime Minister’. The speech detailed…
Review — 1 Apr 2013
Political Animal by David Marr
This updated and expanded edition of David Marr’s 2012 Quarterly Essay of the same name includes a more in-depth account of Tony Abbott’s time at Oxford University, as well as…
Blog post — 7 Mar 2013
What I loved: It’s Raining in Mango by Thea Astley
As 2013 will see the introduction of the inaugural Stella Prize, the first literary prize for Australian women writers, I feel compelled to revisit one of my favourite Australian…
Review — 24 Feb 2013
Heretics by Will Storr
The subtitle of this book is ‘adventures with the enemies of science’, which is perhaps slightly misleading because not only does Will Storr interview a creationist, a UFO expert and…
Review — 30 Jan 2013
Return of a King by William Dalrymple
William Dalrymple’s talents as an academic historian and travel writer come together in this captivating narration of the First Anglo-Afghan War (1839-1842). Inspired by the failings of the ‘latest western…
Review — 23 Jan 2013
konkretion by Marion May Campbell
This is Marion May Campbell’s fifth work of fiction and, although she may not be a household name, her writing has won several awards and received much critical acclaim. konkretion…
Review — 25 Nov 2012
Futurevision by Richard Watson & Oliver Freeman
Futurevision describes four alternative scenarios for how the world might look in 2040 and provides a methodology for dealing with change.
The first future envisages a society transformed by science…