Who Gets to Be Smart: Privilege, Power and Knowledge by Bri Lee
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
In 2018 Bri Lee's brilliant young friend Damian is named a Rhodes Scholar, an apex of academic achievement. When she goes to visit him and takes a tour of Oxford and Rhodes House, she begins questioning her belief in a system she has previously revered, as she learns the truth behind what Virginia Woolf ...Show more
There's a War Going On But No One Can See It by Huib Modderkolk
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
'In the old days, anyone wanting to understand the world read the Bible. Anyone wanting to understand the world today should read this book.' Arjan Lubach' This is even better than John le Carre, because it's true.' Matthijs van Nieuwkerk Summer 2017- computer screens go blank in 150 countries. The NH ...Show more
Well Hello: Meanderings from the world of Chat 10 Looks 3 by Leigh Sales
$39.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
From the hit podcast Chat 10 Looks 3 comes a smart, hilarious and heartfelt book about friendship, the vagaries of life and culture, and everything in between. In 2014, two of Australia's most high-profile journalists sat at a kitchen table, hit record on a phone and started a rambling conversation tha ...Show more
Mission: Essays, Speeches & Ideas by Noel Pearson
$49.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Mission traces a life of politics, ideas and inspiring words. Whether he is evoking his early life among the Guugu Yimithirr Aboriginal people at Hope Vale, Queensland, or making an eloquent case for Indigenous recognition, or outlining his vision of a reconciled, multicultural Australia, Noel Pearson c ...Show more
Revolt: The Worldwide Uprising Against Globalization by Nadav Eyal
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
'A well-written and thought-provoking account of the current crisis of globalization. Not everyone will agree with Eyal's interpretation, but few will remain indifferent.' —Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens Revolt is an eloquent and provocative challenge to the prevailing wisdom about the rise of na ...Show more
We Can Do Better Than This: 35 Voices on the Future of LGBTQ+ Rights by Amelia Abraham (External Editor)
$35.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
We talk about LGBTQ+ equality. But what does it actually mean? And how do we get there? In this powerful and thought-provoking essay collection, 35 people - from actors, pop stars and athletes to scientists, writers and activists - set out to answer these vital questions. We Can Do Better Than This meet ...Show more
The Truth About China: Propaganda, patriotism and the search for answers by Bill Birtles
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
'People abroad always thought things were much scarier in China than they really were. What threw me, though, was the urgency of the diplomats in Beijing. They live it, they get it. And they wanted me out.'Bill Birtles was rushed out of China in September 2020, forced to seek refuge in the Australian Em ...Show more
Women in the Picture: Women, Art and the Power of Looking by Catherine McCormack
$27.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A bold reconsideration of women in art - from the 'Old Masters' to the posts of Instagram influencers. A perfect pin-up, a damsel in distress, a saintly mother, a femme fatale... Women's identity has long been stifled by a limited set of archetypes, found everywhere in pictures from art history's classi ...Show more
Surviving Autocracy by Masha Gessen
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
"When Gessen speaks about autocracy, you listen." --The New York Times "A reckoning with what has been lost in the past few years and a map forward with our beliefs intact." --InterviewAs seen on MSNBC's Morning Joe and heard on NPR's All Things Considered the bestselling, National Book Award-winning jo ...Show more
The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good? by Michael J. Sandel
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
One of the world's leading philosophers on how we can restore social solidarity and overcome our rancorous politicsThese are dangerous times for democracy. We live in an age of winners and losers, where the odds are stacked in favour of the already fortunate. Stalled social mobility and entrenched inequ ...Show more
Taking A Long Look: Essays on Culture, Literature and Feminism in Our Time by Vivian Gornick
$39.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
One of our most vital and incisive writers on literature, feminism, and knowing one’s self For nearly fifty years, Vivian Gornick’s essays, written with her characteristic clarity of perception and vibrant prose, have explored feminism and writing, literature and culture, politics and personal ex ...Show more
Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power by Daniel Yergin
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
"The Prize" recounts the panoramic history of oil - and the struggle for wealth and power that has always surrounded oil. This struggle has shaken the world economy, dictated the outcome of wars, and transformed the destiny of men and nations. "The Prize" is as much a history of the twentieth century as ...Show more