Coders - Who They Are, What They Think and How They Are Changing Our World by Clive Thompson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
'Masterful . . . [Thompson] illuminates both the fascinating coders and the bewildering technological forces that are transforming the world in which we live.' David Grann, author of The Lost City of Z Facebook's algorithms shaping the news. Uber's cars flocking the streets. Revolution on Twitter and r ...Show more
Is Technology Making Us Sick? by Ian Douglas; Matthew Taylor
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: The\Big Idea Ser.
Modern technology has undoubtedly enhanced our lives in numerous, powerful ways--we can now communicate in real time with friends and colleagues around the world, and do mundane tasks such as shopping or banking at a touch. But has there been a detrimental effect on our health and happiness? Is Technolo ...Show more
No Visible Bruises: What We Don't Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us by Rachel Louise Snyder
$35.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
AN ESQUIREAND NEW YORK TIMESBOOK OF THE YEAR An award-winning journalist's exploration of the domestic violence epidemic, and how to combat it. An average of 137 women are killed by familial violence across the globe every day. In the UK alone, two women die each week at the hands of their partners, and ...Show more
Mothers: An Essay on Love and Cruelty by Jacqueline Rose
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A simple argument guides this book: motherhood is the place in our culture where we lodge, or rather bury, the reality of our own conflicts. By making mothers the objects of both licensed idealization and cruelty, we blind ourselves to the world's iniquities and shut down the portals of the heart. Mothe ...Show more
The Pink Line - The World's Queer Frontiers by Mark Gevisser
$49.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Eye-opening, moving, and crafted with expert research, this is a vital journey of epic scope, across the world's most challenging new frontiers. Six years in the making, The Pink Line follows protagonists from nine countries all over the globe to tell the story of how "LGBT Rights" become one of the wor ...Show more
Reconstruction: Australia after COVID by John Edwards
$12.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
What kind of future do Australians have? Until the coronavirus pandemic, nearly two-thirds of Australians had never experienced an economic slump in their working lives. Indeed, nearly half were not yet born when the Australian economy last tipped into recession. Creating a path for Australia through th ...Show more
Nomadland by Jessica Bruder
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
The inspiration for the film 'Nomadland' starring Frances McDormand. From the beet fields of North Dakota to the campgrounds of California to Amazon's CamperForce program in Texas, employers have discovered a new, low-cost labour pool, made up largely of transient older adults. These invisible casualti ...Show more
Econobabble: How to Decode Political Spin and Economic Nonsense by Richard Denniss
$27.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
'Economics is like a tyre lever- it can be used to solve a problem, or to beat someone over the head.'What is econobabble? We hear it every day, when politicians and commentators use incomprehensible economic jargon to dress up their self-interest as the national interest, to make the absurd seem inevit ...Show more
Pharma - Greed, Lies, and the Poisoning of America by Gerald Posner
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author Gerald Posner reveals the heroes and villains of the trillion-dollar-a-year pharmaceutical industry and delivers "a withering and encyclopedic indictment of a drug industry that often seems to prioritize profits over patients (The New York T ...Show more
Broken: Children, Parents and Family Courts by Camilla Nelson, Catharine Lumby
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A devastating account of how Australia's family courts fail children, families and victims of domestic abuseThe family courts intimately affect the lives of those who come before them. Judges can decide where you are allowed to live and work, which school your child can attend and whether you are even p ...Show more
The Right to Sex by Amia Srinivasan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
We still do not know how to talk about sex. The current debate about sexual entitlement, objectification, rape culture or pornography fixates on the idea of consent as an objective frame through which to view our sexual encounters. Yet stripped of morality and ethics, consent is a blunt tool, of limited ...Show more
The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis by Amitav Ghosh
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
'Do not miss this book' NAOMI KLEIN, author of This Changes EverythingThe history of the nutmeg is one of conquest and exploitation - of both human life and the natural environment - and the origin of our contemporary climate crisis.Tracing the threats to our future to the discovery of the New World and ...Show more