Controligarchs: Exposing the Billionaire Class, their Secret Deals, and the Globalist Plot to Dominate Your Life by Seamus Bruner
$72.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
"Controligarchs peers into the future and provides a haunting and revelatory exposé of the globalist elite's playbook for the next five years."- Peter Schweizer, author of Red-Handed, Clinton Cash, and Profiles in CorruptionImagine a world in which you own nothing and rent everything. Most of the protei ...Show more
Men Explain Things to Me - And Other Essays by Rebecca Solnit
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
In her comic, scathing essay "Men Explain Things to Me," Rebecca Solnit takes on what often goes wrong in conversations between men and women. She writes about men who wrongly assume they know things and wrongly assume women don't, about why this arises, and how this aspect of the gender wars works, air ...Show more
The Women's Atlas by Joni Seager
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
is is not just an atlas about women. It's a feminist remapping of the world.' - Joni Seager Joni Seager's award-winning The Women's Atlas illustrates the status of women worldwide today. Through cutting-edge infographics, the atlas portrays how women are living across continents and cultures: * Gender E ...Show more
What Is Populism? by Jan-Werner Muller
$19.98 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
'An essential book' Washington Post Donald Trump, Silvio Berlusconi, Marine Le Pen, Hugo Chavez - populists are on the rise across the globe. But what exactly is populism? Should everyone who criticizes Wall Street or Washington be called a populist? What precisely is the difference between right-wing a ...Show more
Mythomania by Peter Conrad
$17.98 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Despite a proclaimed respect for scientific reason, humans are still as intrigued by myth as their remote ancestors. Laptops and smartphones are sold under a logo that invokes the forbidden fruit of the Garden of Eden; skimpily clad classical nymphs cavort in TV reality shows; Narcissus makes a comeback ...Show more
Rescue: Refugees and the Political Crisis of Our Time by David Miliband
$19.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: Ted 2 Ser.
'A THOUGHTFUL, CAREFULLY ARGUED AND MORALLY PERSUASIVE CASE FOR DOING MORE' FINANCIAL TIMES 'PART CALL TO ARMS, PART COLLECTION OF STORIES (INCLUDING HIS OWN), IT IS A POWERFUL INVITATION TO CARE ABOUT REFUGEES, TO SEE THEM AS HUMANS, JUST LIKE YOU OR ME, WHO DESPERATELY NEED OUR HELP' REDWe are in the ...Show more
Women & Power - A Manifesto by Mary Beard
$19.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Britain's best-known classicist Mary Beard, is also a committed and vocal feminist. With wry wit, she revisits the gender agenda and shows how history has treated powerful women. Her examples range from the classical world to the modern day, from Medusa and Athena to Theresa May and Hillary Clinton. Bea ...Show more
Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
All leaders are constrained by geography. Their choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas and concrete. Yes, to follow world events you need to understand people, ideas and movements - but if you don't know geography, you'll never have the full picture. If you've ever wondered why Putin is so obses ...Show more
Abbott's Right by Damien Freeman
$27.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Tony Abbott may have been a Rhodes Scholar, but some commentators are convinced that he offered nothing more than three-word slogans. Abbott's Right challenges this perception, and presents Abbott as someone who rejoices in the political battle of ideas. It looks at how the contemporary conservative voi ...Show more
Who Cares?: Life on Welfare in Australia by Eve Vincent
$33.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
The welfare state meets the 2020s in AustraliaThe twentieth-century Australian welfare state made the bold promise to care for its citizens. But since the 1990s, social security has become increasingly conditional and punitive in its provision of this so-called care. Who Cares? outlines the perspectives ...Show more
Gen F'd?: How Young Australians Can Reclaim Their Uncertain Futures by Alison Pennington
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: The\Crikey Read Ser.
In Gen F-d?, economist Alison Pennington shows how the most educated generation in Australia's history stands to be the first generation worse off than their parents, and gives young people the tools to create the change we need. This is the fifth book in The Crikey Read series from Crikey and Hardie G ...Show more
The Indi Way: how a rural community sparked a social and political movement by Voices for Indi
$36.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A behind-the-scenes account of how a rural community found its own voice, elected its own independent representatives, and inspired a national movement that is transforming Australian politics. Twelve people met for the first time at their local library in the rural and regional electorate of Indi in n ...Show more