Cuckooland: Where the Rich Own the Truth by Tom Burgis
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
"It was easy for Vladimir Putin. He could erase the past by hurling secret files into his KGB station’s furnace at the end of the Cold War. In the era of globalised corruption he has since helped to create, destroying the past is not so simple. Every bribe, every kickback to a crony, every transfer of d ...Show more
Abandon Every Hope: Essays for the Dead by Hayley Singer
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Abandon Every Hope mournfully investigates the literatures of the slaughterhouse and a world motivated by profitable death, to ultimately ask- where does this horror begin and how can it end?;Can anyone smell the suffering of souls? Of sadness, of hell on earth? Hell, I imagine, has a smell that bloats ...Show more
Somebody Told Me: One Man's Unexpected Journey Down the Rabbit Hole of Lies, Trolls and Conspiracies by Danny Wallace
$36.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
The million-copy bestselling author of Yes Man and Join Me immerses himself in the contagious, dangerous world of disinformation, everyday lies, trolls, conspiracy theories and those trying to fight back. 'Danny Wallace lightens this dark topic about lies and propaganda with his trademark humour and ge ...Show more
Kin: Family in the 21st century by Marina Kamenev
$36.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Written by journalist Marina Kamenev, Kin: Family in the 21st century is an incisive and powerful look at how families are created today, and how they might be created in the future. Here’s an exercise: take a piece of paper. Grab a pen, pencil, crayon — any drawing utensil within reach. Now, draw a ty ...Show more
Our Home in Myanmar: Four years in Yangon by Jessica Mudditt
$27.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Myanmar - shrouded in mystery, misunderstood and isolated for half a century.After a whirlwind romance in Bangladesh, Australian journalist Jessica Mudditt and her Bangladeshi husband Sherpa arrive in Yangon in 2012 - just as the military junta is beginning to relax its ironclad grip on power. It is a h ...Show more
POWER: A woman's guide to living and leading without apology by Kemi Nekvapil
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
'This book is a miraculous event.' - Elizabeth Gilbert, from the foreword A transformative path for women to reclaim their power in a world all too eager to strip it away Women know what it's like to feel powerless. We have had power diminished, taken from us and used over us. Yet the strongest, most en ...Show more
We Need To Talk About Xi: What we need to know about the world's most powerful leader by Michael Dillon
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A short, urgent book that sorts the fact from the fiction about Xi Jinping - one of the world's most powerful political leaders - to truly understand how he came to power, his hold on China and why we should care. Meet the most powerful leader in the world. Chinese premier Xi Jinping graces our televisi ...Show more
Human?: A Lie That's Been Killing Us Since 1788 by Ziggy Ramo
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
So-called Australia is built upon a lie- that 97% of the population are human, and the others simply 'Indigenous', devoid of the same basic rights. Human? is the story of Ziggy Ramo's experience growing up under the weight of this lie. We've had 235 years of continued destruction in the name of 'civilis ...Show more
Time to Reboot : Feminism in the Algorithm Age by Carla Wilshire
$19.95 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
Technology is radically transforming society. From social media to artificial intelligence, our world is now governed by algorithms, powerful tools that not only predict human behaviour but affect how we look at each other, and ourselves. At the same time, we are seeing hard-fought-for women’s rights be ...Show more
If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution by Vincent Bevins
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
From 2010 to 2020, more people took part in protests than at any other point in human history. Why has success been so elusive? From the so-called Arab Spring to Gezi Park in Turkey, from Ukraine's Euromaidan to student rebellions in Chile and Hong Kong, the second decade of the twenty-first century wa ...Show more
Dead in the Water: The AUKUS Delusion (Australian Foreign Affairs 20) by Jonathan Pearlman
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
The latest issue of Australian Foreign Affairs examines Australia's momentous decision to form a security pact with the United States and the United Kingdom that includes an ambitious, expensive and risky plan to acquire nuclear-power submarines - a move that will have far-reaching military and strategi ...Show more
Toast - Climate Change Is Doing Enormous Harm. Why Do Many Australians Deny It? Can We Avoid the Worst Effects? by Ralph Evans
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
In eight chapters, Toast: describes the huge threat climate change poses to the world and to Australia in particular; explains why it is difficult to perceive; goes through the evidence that shows the scientists are right; describes the "war" of influence and ideas that has promoted climate science deni ...Show more