Economics in America by Angus Deaton
$39.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
From the Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times bestselling co-author of Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism, candid reflections on the economist's craft. When economist Angus Deaton immigrated to the United States from Britain in the early 1980s, he was awed by America's strengths ...Show more
AND THEN WHAT?: Inside Stories of 21st-Century Diplomacy by Catherine Ashton
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
What does a diplomat actually do? Ashton takes us behind the scenes of major crises in Ukraine, Iran and more to reveal how modern- day diplomacy really works.So much of modern-day diplomacy still takes place behind closed doors, away from cameras and prying eyes. So what does this vital role really loo ...Show more
Engaging China: How Australia Can Lead the Way Again by Jamie Reilly (Editor); Jingdong Yuan (Editor); Gareth Evans (Foreword by)
$50.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: Public and Social Policy Ser.
As the strategic rivalry between the United States and China rapidly deepens, growing distrust and fears of China are once again shaping Australian media coverage and public discourse, with potent implications for Australia's China policy. At this crucial historical moment, Engaging China offers a full ...Show more
Alan Joyce and Qantas: The Trials and Transformation of an Australian Icon by Peter Harbison; Derek Sadubin
$36.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Alan Joyce & Qantas - The Trials and Transformation of an Australian Icon is the fascinating, unauthorised story of Alan Joyce's meteoric rise and turbulent 15-year tenure as the CEO of Qantas. The twists and turns of the last 15 years of the Qantas story contains all the ingredients of a corporate ...Show more
The Divider - Trump in the White House, 2017-2021 by Peter Baker; Susan Glasser
$36.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "The most comprehensive and detailed account of the Trump presidency yet published."--The Washington Post * A Best Book of the Year: The New Yorker and Financial Times"A sumptuous feast of astonishing tales...The more one reads, the more one wishes to read."--NPR.comThe insid ...Show more
Bloodbath Nation by Paul Auster
$49.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A stunning examination - through words and images - of the epidemic of mass shootings in America today. Among its victims are men, women, teenagers, children, and even babies. The massacres have taken place in churches, schools, movie theatres, and at rock concerts. Auster establishes how America’s lov ...Show more
Climate Capitalism: Winning the Global Race to Zero Emissions by Akshat Rathi
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
What if the solution to the climate crisis is . . . capitalism? Our age will be defined by the climate emergency. But contrary to the doomist narrative that's taken hold, the world has already begun deploying the solutions needed to deal with it. On a journey across five continents, Climate Capitalism ...Show more
Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia by Anita Heiss
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: Growing Up
Childhood stories of family, country and belonging What is it like to grow up Aboriginal in Australia? This anthology, compiled by award-winning author Anita Heiss, showcases many diverse voices, experiences and stories in order to answer that question. Accounts from well-known authors and high-profile ...Show more
WOMXN: Sticks and Stones: Acrostics and Poems to Reclaim the Words that Have Hurt Us by Lexy Wren-Sillevis
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
"There are so many words, insults, labels and boxes for women to be packaged and packed off in. Often, but not always, they're words coined by men. Why that is, is a bigger conversation that is starting to be had by women everywhere. We're slowly, but oh-so-surely, making it clear that there is no man i ...Show more
Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong by Louisa Lim
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
An award-winning journalist takes to the protest-riven streets of Hong Kong to write this startling landmark account of the island city's complex past and precarious future. The story of Hong Kong has long been obscured by competing myths- to Britain, a 'barren rock' with no appreciable history; to Chin ...Show more
The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths by Mariana Mazzucato
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
In this sharp and controversial expos , Mariana Mazzucato debunks the pervasive myth that the state is a laggard, bureaucratic apparatus at odds with a dynamic private sector. She reveals in detailed case studies, including a riveting chapter on the iPhone, that the opposite is true: the state is, and h ...Show more
Infectious Generosity: The Ultimate Idea Worth Spreading by Chris Anderson
$36.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
From the bestselling author, technology pioneer, and curator of TED Chris Anderson, an inspiring, revelatory book about the urgent and world-changing potential of one of humankind's defining but forgotten impulses- generosity. Perhaps the simplest, most powerful moral question you can ask of your life i ...Show more