Women and Leadership: Real Lives, Real Lessons (PB) by Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Julia Gillard
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
An inspirational and practical book written by two high-achieving women, sharing the experience and advice of some of our most extraordinary women leaders, in their own words. As a result of their broad experience on the world stage in politics, economics and global not-for-profits, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala ...Show more
TAXTOPIA: How I Discovered the Injustices, Scams and Guilty Secrets of the Tax Evasion Game by The Rebel Accountant
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Category: Current Affairs
'A shocking, enraging, sometimes hilarious expose of a tax system that lives down to all our worst fears of further enriching the wealthy at the expense of the little guys.' - Piers Morgan'Very funny (and furious)... By the end of the book you may be spluttering with rage at the injustice of it all. Pag ...Show more
It's OK To Be Angry About Capitalism by Bernie Sanders
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Category: Current Affairs
A takedown of the status quo that has enriched a few billionaires at the expense of the rest of us - and a blueprint for real change It's OK to be angry about capitalism. It's OK to want something better. Bernie Sanders takes on the 1% and speaks blunt truths about a system that is rigged against ordina ...Show more
Angry at Breakfast: Ten Years of Editorials from The Saturday Paper by Erik Jensen
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Category: Current Affairs
Some of Australia's best political writing- a dazzling chronicle from the editor of The Saturday Paper Drawn from the first ten years of The Saturday Paper, these editorials tell the story of a country in trouble. They are a penetrating account of the people who have led Australia, fusing character stu ...Show more
A Brief History of Equality by Thomas Piketty
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Category: Current Affairs
A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA Public Books Best Book of the Year "A profound and optimistic call to action and reflection. For Piketty, the arc of history is long, but it does bend toward equality. There is nothing automatic about it, however: as citizens, we must be ready to fight f ...Show more
Politics On the Edge: The instant #1 Sunday Times bestseller from the host of hit podcast The Rest Is Politics by Rory Stewart
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Category: Current Affairs
A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabinet minister and co-presenter of breakout hit podcast The Rest Is Politics'An instant classic' MARINA HYDE'At last a politician who can write' SEBASTIAN FAULKS'Candid, angry, funny, and self-revelatory' JO ...Show more
We Are Not Alone - The Extraordinary History of UFOs and Aliens Invading Our Hopes, Fears, and Fantasies by Marc Hartzman
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Category: Current Affairs
Do you want to believe? Explore our fascination with UFOs and extraterrestrial intelligence through exclusive interviews, archival photos, and strange but true stories from history. After decades of cover-ups and denials, in a June 2021 report, the US government finally admitted what many people al ...Show more
A Long View From the Left: From the CPA to the ALP, a lifetimes of fighting for Australian workers' rights by Max Ogden
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Category: Current Affairs
A Long View From the Left is a memoir by Max Odgen, a longtime Australian Communist Party member, Unionist and, from 1985, ALP member. The memoir traces Maxs 60 years as a union and political activist, as well as the changing social and cultural values of Australian society over this time, and reveals m ...Show more
Recessional - The Death of Free Speech and the Cost of a Free Lunch by David Mamet
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Category: Current Affairs
"Savagery appeased can only grow. Once you give in to it, it must escalate, like a fire searching for air." The man who won the Pulitzer Prize for Glengarry Glen Ross, who wrote the classic films The Verdict and Wag the Dog sounds his alarm about the Visigoths at our gates. In Recessional he calls out, ...Show more
The World in 2050: How to Think About the Future by Hamish McRae
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Category: Current Affairs
'A dazzling history of the future - Hamish McRae has given us a tour de force' - Tim Harford_______________A bold and illuminating vision of the future, from one of Europe's foremost speakers on global trends in economics, business and societyWhat will the world look like in 2050? How will complex force ...Show more
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller
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Category: Current Affairs
The Financial Times Business Book of the Year, this epic account of the decades-long battle to control one of the world's most critical resources--microchip technology--with the United States and China increasingly in fierce competition is "pulse quickening...a nonfiction thriller" (The New York Times). ...Show more
The Locked-up Country: Learning the Lessons from Australia's Covid-19 Response by Tom Chodor, Shahar Hameiri
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Category: Current Affairs
A timely analysis of Australia's response to the pandemic, which asks what have we learned?Donald Horne famously called Australia 'the lucky country'. So how did we become the locked-up country and how might the future look different?Australia has changed enormously since Horne's 1960s, but its response ...Show more