Bite Back: Feminism, media, politics, and our power to change it all by Hannah Ferguson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
Articulating sharp, progressive perspectives on the social and political issues that matter, Bite Back offers constructive talking points to provoke and inspire meaningful change. The Co-Founder of Cheek Media Co. delivers the conversations we've been missing on everything from diet culture to the futur ...Show more
The Locked-up Country: Learning the Lessons from Australia's Covid-19 Response by Tom Chodor, Shahar Hameiri
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
A timely analysis of Australia's response to the pandemic, which asks what have we learned?Donald Horne famously called Australia 'the lucky country'. So how did we become the locked-up country and how might the future look different?Australia has changed enormously since Horne's 1960s, but its response ...Show more
Faking It: Artificial Intelligence in a Human World by Toby Walsh
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
A prescient analysis of what makes artificial intelligence so ... artificial Artificially intelligent machines are set to play an increasingly important role in our lives. They will take the dirty tasks of life off our hands, as well as the dull, the difficult and the dangerous - which is a good thing. ...Show more
Anglophobia - The Unrecognised Hatred by Harry Richardson; Frank Salter
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
"The white race is the biggest murderer, rapist, pillager, and thief of the modern world." So said journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones.Had she said this about any other race, it is unlikely that she would ever have found employment with a mainstream media outlet. Yet not only was Nikole Hannah-Jones hired by ...Show more
A War Made in Russia by Sergei Medvedev
$30.95 AUD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
In this timely and incisive book, Sergei Medvedev argues that Russia's war in Ukraine was not merely a whim of Putin's obsession: rather, it was the result of two decades of authoritarian degradation and post-imperial ressentiment, a culmination of Putin's regime and of Russia's entire imperial history. ...Show more
The World According to China by Elizabeth C. Economy
$36.95 AUD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
An economic and military superpower with twenty percent of the world's population, China has the wherewithal to transform the international system. Xi Jinping's bold calls for China to "lead in the reform of the global governance system" suggest that he has just such an ambition. But how does he plan to ...Show more
Heat: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet by Jeff Goodell
$37.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
A searing examination of the impact that temperature rise will have on our lives and what we can do to stop it, by the author of The Water Will Come.'When heat comes, it's invisible. It doesn't bend tree branches or blow hair across your face to let you know it's arrived ... The sun feels like the barre ...Show more
After the Tampa by Abbas Nazari
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
When the Taliban were at the height of their power in 2001, Abbas Nazari's parents were faced with a choice: stay and face persecution in their homeland, or seek security for their young children elsewhere. The family's desperate search for safety took them on a harrowing journey from the mountains of A ...Show more
Beatles: Fab but True: Remarkable Stories Revealed by DOUG WOLFBERG
$70.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
The interest in The Beatles has spawned countless books, articles, shows, movies, and other media-and the public appetite for all things Beatles has never waned. since the early 1960s. The Beatles: Fab but True examines 16 discrete stories about the Beatles that range from the merely unreal to the cosmi ...Show more
The Fall of Boris Johnson: The Full Story by Sebastian Payne
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
The Fall of Boris Johnson is the explosive inside account of how a prime minister lost his hold on power. From Sebastian Payne, Director of Onward and former Whitehall Editor for the Financial Times.Winner at the 2022 Parlimentary Book AwardsA New Statesman, The Times, Daily Mail and FT Book of the Year ...Show more
Our Fragile Moment - How lessons from Earth's past can help us survive the climate crisis by Michael Mann
$35.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics | Reading Level: ear fine
In this sweeping work of science and history, the renowned climate scientist and author of The New Climate War shows us the conditions on Earth that allowed humans not only to exist but thrive, and how they are imperilled if we veer off course. For the vast majority of its 4.54 billion years, Earth has ...Show more
Australia's Pivot to India by Andrew Charlton
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
A thoroughly absorbing, must-read examination of why Australia's relationship with India might hold the key to our future, by federal MP Andrew Charlton The time has come for Australia and India to forge closer ties - and reap the benefits. But will Australia seize the opportunity? India is on the rise ...Show more