How We Live Now - Scenes from the Pandemic by Bill Hayes
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
From the beloved author of Insomniac City, a poignant and profound tribute in stories and images to a city amidst a pandemic. A bookstore where readers shout their orders from the street. A neighborhood restaurant turned to-go place where one has a shared drink--on either end of a bar--with the owner. ...Show more
On Identity by Stan Grant
$16.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: On Series
Stan Grant asks why when it comes to identity he is asked to choose between black and white. Is identity a myth? A constructed story we tell ourselves? Tribalism, nationalism and sectarianism are dividing the world into us and them. Communities are a tinderbox of anger and resentment. He passionately ho ...Show more
Not Just Lucky by Jamila Rizvi
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
'Feisty and inquisitive - a fresh take on modern feminist issues.? Julia GillardAustralian women are suffering from a crisis of confidence about work. Accustomed to being overlooked and undervalued, even when women do get to the top, they explain their success away as 'luck?. But it?s not.Not Just Lucky ...Show more
The War Below: Lithium, copper, and the global battle to power our lives by Ernest Scheyder
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
An unprecedented look inside the global battle to power our lives from acclaimed Reuters reporter Ernest Scheyder. A new economic war for critical minerals has begun, and The War Below is an urgent dispatch from its front lines. To build electric vehicles, solar panels, cell phones, and millions of othe ...Show more
Value(s): Building a Better World for All by Mark Carney
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Our world is full of fault lines – growing inequality in income and opportunity; systemic racism; health and economic crises from a global pandemic; mistrust of experts; the existential threat of climate change; deep threats to employment in a digital economy with robotics on the rise. These fundamental ...Show more
Radicals: Remembering the Sixties by Meredith Burgmann, Nadia Wheatley
$39.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
The Sixties -- an era of protest,free love, civil disobedience, duffel coats, flower power, giant afros and desert boots, all recorded on grainy black and white footage -- marked a turning point for change. A time when radicals found their voices and used them. While the initial trigger for protest was ...Show more
Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man by Mary L. Ph.D. Trump
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
In this revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him, Mary L. Trump, a trained clinical psychologist and Donald's only niece, shines a bright light on the dark history of their family in order to explain how her uncle became the man who now threatens the world ...Show more
Am I Black Enough For You?: 10 Years On by Anita Heiss
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
The story of an urban-based high achieving Wiradyuri woman working to break down stereotypes and build bridges between black and white Australia. I'm Aboriginal. I'm just not the Aboriginal person a lot of people want or expect me to be. What does it mean to be Aboriginal? Why is Australia so obsessed ...Show more
The Thinking Woman by Julienne Van Loon
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
One of the age-old questions of philosophy is whatdoes it mean to live a good life? In this extraordinary book, scholar and writer, Julienne van Loon, applies a range of philosophical ideas to her own experience. Van Loon engages with the work of six leading contemporary thinkers and writers -- Rosi Bra ...Show more
Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men Who Stole the World by Nicholas Shaxson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Billionaire Warren Buffet, currently the third wealthiest man in the world, paid the lowest rate of tax among his office staff, including his receptionist. In 2006 the world's three biggest banana companies did nearly GBP400 million worth of business in Britain but paid just GBP128,000 in tax between th ...Show more
The Light That Failed: A Reckoning by Ivan Krastev; Stephen Holmes; Anon
$45.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A landmark book that completely transforms our understanding of the crisis of liberalism from two pre-eminent intellectuals Why did the West, after winning the Cold War, lose its political balance? In the early 1990s, hopes for the eastward spread of liberal democracy were high. And yet the transformati ...Show more
Redfern: Aboriginal activism in the 1970s by Johanna Perheentupa
$39.95 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
In the 1970s the run-down inner-city suburb of Redfern was a gathering place for Aboriginal intellectuals and ambitious young radicals. Having fled poverty and segregation in rural Australia in the 1950s and 60s, they set about fulfilling their vision – a new way of living, where Aboriginal people could ...Show more