Winston Churchill - A Brilliantly Concise Account of One of History's Most Famous Men by Paul Addison
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Category: Current Affairs | Series: All You Need to Know Ser.
In his day Winston Churchill was one of the most famous human beings who ever lived. In 1945 most people in the world would have seen his name in the headlines, heard the latest news of him on the radio or seen his face beaming or glowering in the newsreels. His funeral in 1965 is said to have been watc ...Show more
America Second: How America's Elites Are Making China Stronger by Isaac Stone Fish
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Category: Current Affairs
A timely, provocative expose of the US's political and business leadership's deep ties to China- a network of people who believe they are doing the right thing - at a profound and often hidden cost to American and Western interests.The past few years have seen a shift in the relations between China and ...Show more
Triple Helix: My donor-conceived story by Lauren Burns
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Category: Current Affairs
The compelling story of one woman's journey to find out the truth about her paternity-and to come to grips with the rewriting of her own history and sense of identity.'Now you're over twenty-one and back from overseas, I've decided it's time to tell you something.'When Lauren Burns learns she is donor c ...Show more
The Cost of Labour: How we are all trapped by the politics of pregnancy and parenting by Natalie Kon-Yu
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Category: Current Affairs
Natalie Kon-yu was nine weeks pregnant when the trembling began. Two weeks later she checked herself into a mental health unit. Rather than a woman with a health concern, the GPs, nurses and psychiatrists saw Natalie as a vessel carrying precious cargo. The loss of agency carried on through her pregnanc ...Show more
Post Corona: From Crisis to Opportunity by Scott Galloway
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Category: Current Affairs
The New York Times bestselling author of The Four and NYU Business School professor delivers an insightful, urgent analysis of who stands to win and who's at risk to lose in a post-pandemic world. The Covid-19 outbreak has turned bedrooms into offices, pitted young against old and widened the gaps betwe ...Show more
Secondhand - Travels in the New Global Garage Sale by Adam Minter
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Revelatory, terrifying, but, ultimately, hopeful. --Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of THE SIXTH EXTINCTION From the author of Junkyard Planet, a journey into the surprising afterlives of our former possessions. Downsizing. Decluttering. Discarding. Sooner or later, all of us are faced ...Show more
The Raqqa Diaries: Escape from Islamic State by Mohammed Samer
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Category: Current Affairs
The Raqqa Diaries began as a series of short broadcasts on the Radio 4's Today Programme. Now one of the most isolated and fear ridden cities on earth, no-one is allowed to speak to western journalists or leave Raqqa, without IS' permission. Those caught breaking the rules face death by beheading. Despi ...Show more
The Health Gap: The Challenge of an Unequal World by Michael Marmot
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Category: Current Affairs
There are dramatic differences in health between countries and within countries. But this is not a simple matter of rich and poor. A poor man in Glasgow is rich compared to the average Indian, but the Glaswegian's life expectancy is 8 years shorter. The Indian is dying of infectious disease linked to hi ...Show more
Fractured Lands by Scott Anderson
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Category: Current Affairs
In 2011, a series of anti-government uprisings shook the Middle East and North Africa in what would become known as the Arab Spring. Few could predict that these convulsions, initially hailed in the West as a triumph of democracy, would give way to brutal civil war, the terrors of the Islamic State, and ...Show more
From Russia with Blood by Heidi Blake
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Category: Current Affairs
Orwell Prize-nominated journalist Heidi Blake uncovers exclusive details of Vladimir Putin's worldwide meddling with dissident voices. This is the explosive and true story of how Russia operates in our cities, right under the noses of the most powerful nations in the world, and why even they can't stop ...Show more
Team of Vipers - My 500 Extraordinary Days in the Trump White House by Cliff Sims
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Category: Current Affairs
The first honest insider's account of the Trump administration. After standing at Donald Trump's side on Election Night, Cliff Sims joined him in the West Wing as Special Assistant to the President and Director of White House Message Strategy. He soon found himself pulled into the President's inner ci ...Show more
A Bit Of A Stretch by Chris Atkins
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Where can a tin of tuna buy you clean clothes? Which British education system struggles with 50 percent illiteracy? Where do teetotal Muslims attend AA meetings? Where is it easier to get 'spice' than paracetamol? Where does self-harm barely raise an eyebrow? Welcome to Her Majesty's Prison Service, a ...Show more