We Have Been Harmonised - Life in China.. by Kai Strttmatter
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Category: Current Affairs
War in the Age of Trump - The Defeat of ISIS, the Fall of the Kurds, the Conflict with Iran by Patrick Cockburn
$39.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Is the fall of ISIS the end of the perpetual war in the Middle East? In this urgent and timely book, Patrick Cockburn writes the first draft of the history of the current crisis in the Middle East. Here he charts the period from the recapture of Mosul in 2017 to Turkey's attack on Kurdish territory in ...Show more
Outraged: Why Everyone Is Shouting and No One Is Talking by Ashley 'Dotty' Charles
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Category: Current Affairs
Presenter and DJ Ashley Dotty Charles explores our age of outrage, and how it's debasing civil discourse.'Funny, nuanced and wonderful' Jon Ronson We're living in a post-modern utopia of sorts, where thanks to our resolute predecessors, we've checked a bunch of items off our outrage shopping list. Slav ...Show more
Courage to Care by Christie WATSON
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Category: Current Affairs
At our most vulnerable, at our most scared, we need others. We need compassion. Nowhere is this clearer than in nursing. Christie Watson was a nurse for over twenty years. Looking back at the nurses she has met then and since from different specialisms, she brings us stories of bravery, wisdom and kindn ...Show more
Spinning the Secrets of State - Politics and Intelligence in Australia by Justin T. McPhee
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Category: Current Affairs | Series: Investigating Power Ser.
What is the purpose of an intelligence organisation? The short answer is to transform disparate and ambiguous information into a product that clarifies national security decision-making. Ideally, that process ought to be politically neutral and detached from the policy objectives of the government it se ...Show more
Rebel Without A Clause by Sue Butler
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Category: Current Affairs
The English language is changing constantly. We invent new words and phrases, we mash up idioms, we mispronounce, misuse, misappropriate. Sue Butler has heard it all and is ready to defend and disagree with common usage. Veering from tolerance to outrage, she examines how the word sheila took a nose-div ...Show more
Pussy Riot - Speaking Punk to Power by Eliot Borenstein; Eugene M. Avrutin (Series edited by); Stephen M. Norris (Series edited by)
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Category: Current Affairs | Series: Russian Shorts Ser.
Both more and less than a band, Pussy Riot is continually misunderstood by the Western media. This book sets the record straight. After their scandalous performance of an anti-Putin protest song in Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Savior and the imprisonment of two of its members, the punk feminist ar ...Show more
A Cry From The Far Middle by P. J. O'Rourke
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Category: Current Affairs
P.J. O'Rourke says we've worked ourselves into a state of anger and perplexity, and it's no surprise because perplexed and angry is what America has always been all about. This uproarious look at the current state of the United States includes essays like 'The New Puritanism - and Welcome to It,' about ...Show more
Griffith Review 70: Generosities of Spirit by Hay Ashley
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Category: Current Affairs
Is empathy, like water, in increasingly short supply?Now more than ever we need empathy, and Griffith Review 70: Generosities of Spirit explores and celebrates generosities and kindnesses, those uplifting and memorable experiences that illuminate our lives. Featuring inspiring despatches from the frontl ...Show more
Pain Killer - An Empire of Deceit and the Origins of America's Opioid Epidemic by Barry Meier
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Category: Current Affairs
Every catastrophe has a beginning. For the opioid crisis in America, the seed was a drug called OxyContin.First hailed as a miracle drug for severe pain in the early 1990s, OxyContin went on to ignite a plague of addiction and death across America, fuelled by the aggressive marketing of its maker, Purdu ...Show more
Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 2001-2016 by Steve Coll
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Category: Current Affairs
From the Pulitzer Prize winning of the acclaimed Ghost Wars, this is the full story of America's grim involvement in the affairs of Afghanistan from 2001 to 2016'The CIA itself would be hard put to beat his grasp of global events' New York Review of BooksIn the wake of the terrible shock of 9/11, the C. ...Show more
Please Explain: The Rise, Fall and Rise Again of Pauline Hanson by Anna Broinowski
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Category: Current Affairs
In 1996, Pauline Hanson gave a speech that changed Australia. Attacking Asian and Indigenous people and foreign aid, Hanson unleashed a Pandora's box of violence and division on the progressive country Prime Minister Keating had positioned as 'part of Asia'. After her famous defeat in 1998, her politica ...Show more