Broken Code: Inside Facebook and the Fight to Expose Its Toxic Secrets by Jeff Horwitz
$36.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
The inside story of a band of hackers who were hired to fix Facebook - and came to question whether it was beyond saving.Facebook knew it had a problem. The company had been humiliated by headlines, painted as complicit in the election of Trump and in an assault on the global social fabric. Their stated ...Show more
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, 3rd Edition by John Perkins
$37.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
How do we stop the unrelenting evolution of the economic hit man strategy and China's takeover? The riveting third edition of this New York Times bestseller blows the whistle on China's economic hit man (EHM) strategy, exposes corruption on an international scale, and offers much-needed solutions fo ...Show more
The Dissident - Alexey Navalny Profile of a Political Prisoner by David Herszenhorn
$42.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A news-driven biography of Vladimir Putin's nemesis Alexey Navalny-- lawyer, blogger, anti-corruption crusader, protest organizer, political opposition leader, mayoral and presidential candidate, campaign strategist, provocateur, poisoning victim, dissident, and now, prisoner of conscience and anti-war ...Show more
It's OK To Be Angry About Capitalism by Bernie Sanders
$35.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A takedown of the status quo that has enriched a few billionaires at the expense of the rest of us - and a blueprint for real change. It's OK to be angry about capitalism. It's OK to want something better. Bernie Sanders takes on the 1% and speaks blunt truths about a system that is fuelled by uncontro ...Show more
The New World Disorder: How the West Is Destroying Itself by Peter R. Neumann
$36.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A coruscating analysis of current international relations, setting out the dangers the world will face if the West does not succeed in reinventing itself. The West is facing an unprecedented crisis. Russia has launched a war of aggression against Ukraine - just months after the USA suffered a foreign po ...Show more
Divided Isles: Solomon Islands and the China Switch by Edward Acton Cavanough
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A pacy must-read analysis of one of the most consequential geopolitical events in Australia's region.In 2019, Solomon Islands made international headlines when the country severed its decades-old alliance with Taiwan in exchange for a partnership with Beijing. The decision prompted international condemn ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 61: Balancing Act: Australia Between Recession and Renewal. by George Megalogenis
$22.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
Australia is in transition. Saying it is easy. The panic kicks in when we are compelled to describe what the future might look like. There is no complacent middle to aim at. We will either catch the next wave of prosperity, or finally succumb to the Great Recession. What has gone wrong with our politics ...Show more
How to Think Like a Coder Without Even Trying by Jim Christian
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: Without Even Trying!
A back-to-basics guide on coding for absolute beginners, whether adults or children - no prior experience required! Coding is set to change the way we work and the skills we will need in the future. For those who know nothing about coding, getting to grips with the basics is daunting. Too many of the be ...Show more
Make Australia Slightly Better Than Average Again by Mark Swivel
$20.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Making Australia Slightly Better Than Average Again(TM) is Mark Swivel's soundbite manifesto as he embarks on a bid for the senate in 2019. Swivel argues our political class detached from the rest of us a long time ago and has no real purpose beyond preserving itself. He advocates a new populism that's ...Show more
Equal: A Story of Women, Men & Money by Carrie Gracie
$32.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
Equal is an inspiring, personal and campaigning book about how we should and can fight for equal pay and other kinds of equality in the workplace, by former BBC China editor Carrie Gracie. Gracie joined a group of high-profile BBC women who challenged the national broadcaster over equal pay after enforc ...Show more
Engaging China: How Australia Can Lead the Way Again by Jamie Reilly (Editor); Jingdong Yuan (Editor); Gareth Evans (Foreword by)
$50.00 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: Public and Social Policy Ser.
As the strategic rivalry between the United States and China rapidly deepens, growing distrust and fears of China are once again shaping Australian media coverage and public discourse, with potent implications for Australia's China policy. At this crucial historical moment, Engaging China offers a full ...Show more
Dumb Money: The Major Motion Picture, based on the bestselling novel previously published as The Antisocial Network [Film tie-in edition] by Ben Mezrich
$24.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
This is definitive take on the wildest story of the year-- the David-vs.-Goliath GameStop short squeeze, a tale of fortunes won and lost overnight that may end up changing Wall Street forever.Bestselling author Ben Mezrich offers a gripping, beat-by-beat account of how a loosely affiliate group of priva ...Show more