Rise of the Right by Greg Barns
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
To most of us, liberal values mean respect for openness, progress, tolerance and the rule of law. But in Australia, these values are increasingly under threat. It is not just on the fringes of our community or body politic that we find liberal values challenged. The decline of liberal values in this nat ...Show more
The Future Is Asian: Global Order in the Twenty-First Century by Parag Khanna
$35.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Five billion people, two-thirds of the world's mega-cities, one-third of the global economy, two-thirds of global economic growth, thirty of the Fortune 100, six of the ten largest banks, eight of the ten largest armies, five nuclear powers, massive technological innovation, the newest crop of top-ranke ...Show more
Too Much And Never Enough - How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man by Mary L. Trump
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
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
Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present by Yanis Varoufakis
$29.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
What would a fair and equal society look like? Imagine it is now 2025 and that years earlier, in the wake of the world financial crisis of 2008, a new post-Capitalist society had been born. In this ingenious book, world-famous economist Yanis Varoufakis draws on the greatest thinkers in European cultur ...Show more
A Secret Australia: Revealed by the WikiLeaks Exposés by Felicity Ruby + Peter Cronau Eds.
$29.95 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
In A Secret Australia, nineteen prominent Australians discuss what Australia has learnt about itself from the WikiLeaks revelations - revelations about a secret Australia of hidden rules and loyalty to hidden agendas. However Australians may perceive their nation's place in the world - as battling sport ...Show more
Upheaval: Disrupted Lives in Journalism by Andrew Dodd (Editor); Matthew Ricketson (Editor)
$39.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
‘Journalism was a trade you could go into and if you were any good at it you were a reasonably prosperous member of the community ... that’s just no longer the case.’ — David MarrJournalists make a living out of telling other people's stories. Rarely are we shown a glimpse of their doubts and vulnerabil ...Show more
Backstage Politics: Fifty Years of Political Memories by Phillip Adams
$32.95 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Phillip Adams has been close to governments of various persuasions for over fifty years. Having been a confidant - or a fierce opponent - of many of Australia's most influential figures over that time, he has built up an unparalleled collection of anecdotes about our political and cultural leaders. Back ...Show more
End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economics Reality by Richard Heinberg
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Economists insist that recovery is at hand, yet unemployment remains high, real estate values continue to sink, and governments stagger under record deficits. "The End of Growth" proposes a startling diagnosis: humanity has reached a fundamental turning point in its economic history. The expansionary tr ...Show more
Go Figure And Other Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know: The Economist Explains by Tom Standage
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Want to know how a tattoo affects your job prospects, which James Bond drinks the most martinis, or how to make an invisibility cloak? We have the answers. The news cycle moves fast, and as one story is swiftly replaced by another, underlying causes and bigger (and smaller) questions often go unexplored ...Show more
The Legacy: An Elder's Vision for Our Sustainable Future by David Suzuki
$19.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Now available in paperback, The Legacy represents the culmination of David Suzuki's knowledge and wisdom and his legacy for generations to come. If he had to sum up all that he has learned in one last lecture, what would David Suzuki say? In this expanded version of the lecture that he delivered in Dec ...Show more
Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal by George Packer
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A short, sharp nonfiction modern classic on the political and societal state of America - how America got into this mess, and how it might get out of it - by one of the world's greatest nonfiction writersAcclaimed National Book Award-winning author George Packer diagnoses America's descent into a failed ...Show more
The Playbook: How to Deny Science, Sell Lies, and Make a Killing in the Corporate World by Jennifer Jacquet
$35.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A biting satire of corporate power - how it works, how it harms us and what we can do about it. Knowledge is power. Which is why the rich and powerful don't want you to have it. The Playbook is an expose of the extraordinary lengths that corporations will go to in order to deny the scientific facts - ar ...Show more