No Enemies, No Hatred: Selected Essays and Poems by Xiaobo Liu
$52.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
When the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded on December 10, 2010, its recipient, Liu Xiaobo, was in Jinzhou Prison, serving an eleven-year sentence for what Beijing called "incitement to subvert state power." In Oslo, actress Liv Ullmann read a long statement the activist had prepared for his 2009 trial. It ...Show more
Friendly Fire: How Israel Became Its Own Worst Enemy by Ami Ayalon; Anthony David (As told to); Dennis Ross (Foreword by)
$35.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A highly decorated Israeli military officer, leader, and former director of the internal security service, Shin Bet, sees the light on what his country must do to achieve a lasting peace between Israel and the Palestinians. In this deeply personal journey of discovery, Ami Ayalon seeks input and perspe ...Show more
Reconstruction: Australia after COVID by John Edwards
$12.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
What kind of future do Australians have? Until the coronavirus pandemic, nearly two-thirds of Australians had never experienced an economic slump in their working lives. Indeed, nearly half were not yet born when the Australian economy last tipped into recession. Creating a path for Australia through th ...Show more
A Banquet of Consequences, Reloaded: How we got into the mess we're in, and why we need to act now by Satyajit Das
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Essential reading for anyone concerned about the dire future of the global economy, the deepening environmental crisis the alarming deterioration of our social fabric, A Banquet of Consequences incisively explains the problems confronting us, how we're making those problems worse, and what the real solu ...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
Trendyville: The Battle for Australia's Inner Cities by Graeme Davison; Renate Howe; David Nichols
$34.95 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: Australian Studies
In the 1960s and 70s, Australia's inner cities experienced an upheaval which left them changed forever. People from all walks of life who valued their suburbs - places like Balmain, Battery Point, Carlton, Indooropilly, North Adelaide, or Subiaco - resisted large-scale development projects for freeways, ...Show more
Breaking the Social Media Prism: How to Make Our Platforms Less Polarizing by Christopher A. Bail
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: Princeton ANZ Paperbacks Ser.
A revealing look at how user behaviour is powering deep social divisions online — and how we might yet defeat political tribalism on social mediaIn an era of increasing social isolation, platforms like Facebook and Twitter are among the most important tools we have to understand each other. We use socia ...Show more
Enough is Enough (In the National Interest) by Kate Thwaites, Jenny Macklin
$19.95 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
What is it about the culture and structure of Parliament House that has allowed sexual violence and harassment to flourish? Since the mid-1990s, the number of women in the Australian Parliament has increased, but unfortunately, they are still not being heard. And tragically, they are not always safe. As ...Show more
Why We Kneel How We Rise by Michael Holding
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
To say I was surprised at the volume of positive feedback I received from around the world after my comments on Sky Sports is an understatement. I came to realise I couldn't just stop there; I had to take it forward – hence the book, as I believe education is the way forward.' Michael Holding Rarely ca ...Show more
On Mother by Sarah Ferguson
$16.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: On Series
A mother's love over decades and across continents. The sudden death of Sarah's mother reveals their relationship with poignant clarity and shows her the individual who existed beyond motherhood. A reflection on mothers and daughters.
India Rising?: Asia's Huge Question: Australian Foreign Affairs 13 by Jonathan Pearlman
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Could India, an emerging giant and growing geopolitical player, change the balance of power in the Indo-Pacific?The latest issue of Australian Foreign Affairs examines the future of India, a rising giant whose unsteady growth and unpredictable political turns raise lingering questions about its role and ...Show more
Tomorrow is Today Australia in the Psychedelic Era 1966 1970 by Mcintyre Iain
$9.95 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Extensively illustrated and featuring year by year accounts of developments in music, fashion and society at large, Tomorrow is Today is the definitive guide on the evolution of Australian youth culture during the heady period of the mid to late 1960s. '...this is an Aussie psychedelic music trip of a ...Show more