The Physics of Climate Change by Lawrence Krauss
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
'Brilliant and fundamental, this is the necessary book about our prime global emergency' Ian McEwan The news is full of hotly debated and divergent claims about the impacts and risks of climate change. Lawrence Krauss, one of the world's most respected physicists and science popularizers, cuts through ...Show more
More: The 10,000-Year Rise of the World Economy by Philip Coggan
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
'A majestic must-read' - Andy Haldane, chief economist at the Bank of England. There are 17 ingredients in a typical tube of toothpaste, from titanium dioxide to xanthum gum, and that's not counting the tube. Everything had to come from somewhere and someone had to bring it all together. The humblest ho ...Show more
Coming of Age in the War on Terror: Longlisted for the Stella Prize 2022 by Randa Abdel-Fattah
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
'One minute you're a 15-year old girl who loves Netflix and music and the next minute you're looked at as maybe ISIS.' The generation born at the time of the 9/11 attacks are turning 18. What has our changed world meant for them? We now have a generation - Muslim and non-Muslim - who have grown up only ...Show more
The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000-2020 by Rachel Kushner
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Category: Current Affairs
A wildly original first essay collection from the bestselling, Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Mars Room In her twenties Rachel Kushner went to Mexico in pursuit of her first love - motorbikes - to compete in the notorious and deadly race, Cabo 1000. As fellow racers died on the roadside, bikes w ...Show more
Axiomatic by Maria Tumarkin
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
From the winner of the Windham Campbell Prize Winner of the Melbourne Prize for Literature’s Best Writing Award Shortlisted for the 2019 Stella Prize Shortlisted for the Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction in the 2019 NSW Premier's Literary Awards Longlisted for the 2019 Indie Book Awards for Non-Fict ...Show more
The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green
$35.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: GREEN JOHN
A deeply moving and mind-expanding collection of personal essays in the first ever work of non-fiction from #1 internationally bestselling author John GreenThe Anthropocene is the current geological age, in which human activity has profoundly shaped the planet and its biodiversity. In this remarkable sy ...Show more
How Do We Know We're Doing It Right? and other thoughts on modern life by Pandora Sykes
$19.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Modern life is full of choices. We're told that happiness lies within and we can be whoever we want to be. But with endless possibility comes a feeling of restlessness; like we're somehow failing to live our best life. What does doing it right even look like? And why do so many women feel like they're g ...Show more
The Chaser Guide to Bad Parenting: 2nd Edition: Chaser Quarterly 20
$32.95 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Topics IncludeThe DecisionWhy you definitely shouldn't become a parent in the first placeWhy you're making a huge mistakeWhat were you thinkingPractical Tips Before BirthHow to get pregnant; turning sex into something dull and lifelessPregnancy Wine Guide9 months of bliss; one woman's infuriatingly unre ...Show more
The Digital Revolution: A Survival Guide (In the National Interest) by Simon Wilkie
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Category: Current Affairs | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
The Fourth Industrial Revolution, the digital disruption of business by the information and communications sectors, is well underway in Australia and around the globe. The COVID-19 pandemic has only accelerated the pace of change. We are witnessing a proliferation of new platforms and new markets, with ...Show more
Men Who Hate Women: From incels to pickup artists, the truth about extreme misogyny and how it affects us all by Laura Bates
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Imagine a world in which a vast network of incels and other misogynists are able to operate, virtually undetected. These extremists commit deliberate terrorist acts against women. Vulnerable teenage boys are groomed and radicalised. You don't have to imagine that world. You already live in it. Perhaps ...Show more
The Case for Courage (In the National Interest) by Kevin Rudd
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Category: Current Affairs | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
For some time, Australia's democracy has been slowly sliding into disrepair. The nation's major policy challenges go unaddressed, our economic future is uncertain and political corruption is becoming normalised. It's tempting, but distracting, to point to the usual list of reasons, from the declining ca ...Show more
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women White Feminists Forgot by Mikki Kendall
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Category: Current Affairs
'It is absolutely brilliant, I think every woman should read it' PANDORA SYKES, THE HIGH LOW'My wish is that every white woman who calls herself a feminist will read this book in a state of hushed and humble respect ... Essential reading' ELIZABETH GILBERTAll too often the focus of mainstream feminism i ...Show more