With insight, passion, and a great sense of urgency Chris Bonnor and Jane Caro show how government, anxious parents, the church, and ideology are combining to undermine public schools. The Stupid Country is not a one-sided defence of public education. But it challenges readers to consider whether the current path risks the health of public schools and everything they have created--prosperity, unity, stability--even, perhaps, democracy.

When it comes to the work/life balance, modern women continually find themselves in a no-win situation where they are criticised regardless of the path they choose. The F Word: Why Feminism is not F****ed argues that the pervasive idea that women will never be able to effectively combine work or interests outside the home with marriage, a social life and parenting is a furphy. In their lively and topical new book, Caro and Fox combine both personal experience and the stories of a range of women with the big picture, and provide practical suggestions for forgiving ourselves, having fun and not...