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Genuine radicalism provides hope. It provokes through a scandalous insistence that life can be otherwise, that we aren't doomed to economic and environmental decline, and that we can make our future better than our past.' Why did politicians think an independent slave nation might emerge from northern Queensland? Should we clone thylacines? How did a sociopath spur the first European architecture in Australia? What was 'bicycle face' and how d...

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A polemic about global warming and the environmental crisis that 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 important issue of our times. It takes the familiar narrative about global warming - the one in which we are all to blame - and inverts it, to show how, again...

Explores the world of Lambics, Flanders red and Flanders brown beers as well as the many new American beers produced in the similar style.

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.

Outreach to current affairs publications Interviews with left-wing radio Co-op available Print and digital ARCs

In the aftermath of the Christchurch mosques massacre, Jeff Sparrow explores the dark potential of fascism today whereby isolated individuals can operate destructively and influence one another, in some cases weaponising the despair brought about by climate change.

The position of political correctness in the struggle of progressive politics against right wing populism is evaluated by "Guardian" journalist and Paul Robeson biographer Sparrow.

Donald Trump is the Thing-that-should-not-be.

Promising athlete and student turned itinerant activist and actor Paul Robeson advocated powerfully for African Americans and the international working class, before being brought down in the McCarthy hearings. Part biography, part travelogue, Jeff Sparrow traces Robeson's unique life and rich legacy.

Ninety years after the First World War, police in a Victorian country town uncovered, inside a velvet-lined display cabinet, the mummified head of a Turkish soldier. The macabre discovery launched the author on a quest to understand the nature of deadly violence. This book takes us up close to the ways society kills.

Film star. Singer. Athlete. Icon. Agitator. Martyr.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts

Money Shot: a journey into porn and censorship focuses on the 'hot button' issues in the censorship debate today, from the implications of the internet revolution to arguments about 'raunch culture' and its effects. Author from VU.

Quando il birraio utilizza organismi diversi dal lievito Saccharomyces per influenzare il gusto delle proprie birre, emerge una nuova famiglia di sapori. Nel terzo volume della trilogia sulle birre del Belgio, Jeff Sparrow esplora il mondo dei Lambic, delle Oud Bruin e delle Flemish Red. Gli appassionati di birra e i birrai scopriranno descrizioni dettagliate dei metodi produttivi e delle procedure di fermentazione per creare birre squisite e ...

Following the life of Guido Baracchi, the playboy and dilettante whose love affair with Marxism and the Communist Party took him from his father's astronomical observatory to Stalin's Russia--and across the world--this story explores the life of an idealist dedicated to Communism. Entwined with political intrigue, this study includes a series of tempestuous romances with poets, artists, and playwrights as the idealist searches the world for an...